skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Blaming foreigners is the trick local politicians love to use, but - at least in Portugal - very few properties are foreign-owned. Instead, people are reluctant to rent properties out in general. Real estate agents struggle to convince owners to put their properties on the market in a first place. Usually a family member dies or moves abroad and their relatives simply keep the place unoccupied. Often to convince them to rent out you have to play a match-making game: you have to know both lenders and prospective tenants for years and be a guarantor of their good character. The more contacts the two parties have in common the better. Portuguese society is very socially conservative, often connections matter a lot more than money, and rent market is one area of the economy where it is very noticeable.

To sidestep the whole "can we trust each other?" issue the owners may want to sell the property instead of dealing with tenants. Properties go to the market at inflated prices, because every house owner in the country hopes to sell to mythical "rich foreigners"* they hear so much on TV and online. Local buyers are essentially priced out of the market because the price-wage gap is simply too wide, one of the widest in the world. An average Portuguese family with two incomes can't afford a two-bedroom apartment even at a 30-year mortgage, even if we're talking about cities other than Lisbon or Porto.

So, properties stay listed for sale for years and years, owners do not maintain them in hopes of making a sale "soon", and buildings slowly degrade. Eventually owners realize they need to invest a lot of money to keep the house presentable, the money they usually don't have, and they start to lower the price way down. As a result, the market is split in two big distinct categories: something livable at exorbitant prices and places that need a lot of investment to even start living there. Like a GP comment said you can walk on a street and more than half of places are clearly unoccupied, with many of them slowly turning into ruins. If you want to describe a Portuguese urban landscape in one word the word would be "decay".

Meanwhile rent marked is under-served. All this is further worsened by the internal migration pressure. Lisbon, Porto and all towns on a narrow shore strip between the two are growing rapidly in past 30 years while the interior areas are getting deserted. Portuguese move to places where jobs are and developers can't meet the evergrowing demand.

*I recall I saw a stat that foreigner buyers account for only about 0.2% of sales each year.
What do you suppose happens to all of the people renting from landlords with multiple properties?
You keep them for the next trip to Disneyland or a Disney Cruise or share them with friends who are doing the same.

I only charge mine about four times a year, so I doubt the batteries will last too long, but I’ve been surprised so far.

Note that they have at least two models and they haven’t always interchangeable, so check before you go.
It looks like the museum was dragged to do something thanks to Mr. Gradel's determination.
I’m an Aussie who’s lived in the US for 10+ years - you are spot on. Every time I go back all everyone can talk about is property investment and house prices and buying rentals. It was starting when I left 15 years ago but has reached fever pitch now. Play a little game with yourself - see if you can get through any group social event without the subject of property coming up.

It’s very sad. Australia used to have a somewhat egalitarian mindset, but this is creating such a massive generational wealth and class divide that gets wider and wider every year. No one seems to understand the damage their quest for parasitic income is doing to society.
Back in the 80's and 90's NASA built a National Aerodynamic Simulator, which was a big Cray or similar that could crunch FEA simulations (probably a low-range graphics card nowadays). IIRC they found that the queue for that was as long or longer than it took to run jobs on cheaper hardware; MPP systems such as Beowulf grew out of those efforts.
>My primary use case for Neovide (vs neovim running in Wezterm/kitty/Alacritty) is simply so I can Alt/Cmd-TAB to it quickly as I usually run with many terminal windows open and it's somewhat of a chore to locate the one with nvim in it, whereas with Neovide I have a separate app with an icon in the dock/sysmenu to switch to.

In Sway I have long (across three different terminal emulators) had a setup where I launch specially named terminals on session start, e.g. term-editor, term-local, term-remote, and then use the custom titles (I guess it's an appid actually) in my Sway config to make keybinds to focus those specific windows. I also focus my other always-used programs via their default appid (wayland) or class (xwayland), terminals just have the issue you mentioned of dealing with multiple, so had to use something more specific.

Relevant config lines:

```

exec --no-startup-id "sh -c 'sleep 10; exec foot --app-id=term-editor'"

bindsym ctrl+$mod+e [class="Emacs"] focus ; [app_id="term-editor"] focus

assign [app_id="term-editor"] 1

```

That last one makes the editor terminal always launch on workspace 1 which makes it a bit easier to get things where I'm used to having them after a restart.

The bind looks for emacs before my special term as I was using emacs (with evil) for a bit and had the bind set up to focus that. I left it in because this way if I just have one or the other open at some point, the bind works as expected without me having to change the config back and forth. Though with both open my focus ends up on the terminal.

Most terminal emulators should support a similar argument for launching with a custom id/title/whatever, and even if you're not using i3 or Sway, I think there are other programs such as wmctrl which can do something similar.
I think it depends. If it's difficult to move up the ladder AND move to a new company, and you want the $$$ for whatever reason, then getting two jobs makes perfect sense.

I'm actually considering the option because I don't have the confidence to move into a job I love, so getting better paid and retire earlier is the next best thing. Maybe one full-time job with one contractor job to minimize the risk. I could take home $250K+ pre-tax which is pretty lucrative for Canadians, plus I can expense my laptop and other minor stuffs.

But I have never done that so not sure if I could handle the pressure. It would be nice if both jobs require minimum guidance and meetings.
You can set that up pretty easily with something like Automate. https://llamalab.com/automate/
Surely you can see the difference between giving away a significant portion of your income to your landlord, or paying towards your mortgage.

In one case you can sell your property and get your money back, so you can decide to do whatever you want with it (like index fund if you so chose). And in the other it's your landlord who's either paying their mortgage with your money, or placing it in said index fund...
> If you only had to update the software for a new IP version and a longer address

By 2005 all the major 'software' (read: general purpose network operating systems) had the software for IPv6 already.

If your application is hardcoded to use IPv4 addresses then you need to rewrite it anyway and no amount of IPv5 would change that.

More so, if the software just didn't bother with hardcoding and just used the OS primitives for it's network activity (read: sockets and OS provided name resolution) then you don't even need to update it, it would just work.

But the most important part here is what were (and I can bet my pumpkin latte - still are) incapable of anything of not IPv4 - because it's the hardware, which routed, NATed, checksummed all that traffic.

You just couldn't slap your IPv5 there by exactly the same reason you couldn't slap IPv6 there - you needed to replace the hardware.

> As it is, virtually everything about networking is different in the IPv6 world

Sorry, but no.

The basics, ie the networking, is exactly the same. Yes, there are some nuances, like using link-local addresses for the gateways, which absolutely, totally, makes sense after a 15 minute reading. But overall it's just another technology, not harder then everything else out there, including IPv4 itself.

> That has significantly complicated adoption for everyone, arguably needlessly

sigh At this point I need to conclude what the network guys are... just dumb. Like, come on, I needed to learn every year from the time I touched my first 286. Every year there is something new and you need to learn it[0]. Sometimes to abandon and forget it after a couple of years.[1]
IPv6 is not a rocket-neuroscience, just another set of RFC's and guides. If anything, IPSec with it's idiosyncrasies is way, way more convoluted both to learn and implement.[2]

> And not everyone who says they support IPv6 even actually supports everything that the designers expect

Now you argue what with 'IPv5' this wouldn't happen.

> Also, plenty of software that interacts with networking will sometimes be subtly broken if running on an IPv6 host, because of assumptions like one IP per interface.

I wrote about it - it's the problem of the software. I had multiple IPv4 addresses on the same interface many, many times. If that software breaks with multiple IPv6 addresses on the one interface then it would break the same with mulltiple addresses of IPv4 and 'IPv5'.

PS I have a small fleet of PowerConnect 5500 and 8000 switches. They are old, so old 5500 has SSH bolted onto a Telnet server. Yet they did already support IPv6 by 2010. It's already passed more years since the release of 8000 (2010 - 2024) than between IPv6 IETF proposal and release of 8000 (1998 - 2010).

Slow adoption has nothing to do with IPv6 itself, and no IPv5 or whatever would made it faster.

[0] if anything it's slower now

[1] MS Exchange for example. Do you know X.400? I do not, anymore. But for some years I needed to know and I learned it.

[2] Take this from someone who did and does both.
I would've said "Pandas with Parquet files". If you're hiring a DS it's implied that you want to do some sort of aggregate or summary statistics, which is exactly what Pandas is good for, while awk + shell scripts would require a lot of clumsy number munging. And Parquet is an order of magnitude more storage efficient than CSV, and will let you query very quickly.
I've always heard ephedra called Mormon tea.
> In the happy case (no exception) how can the first version be harder to optimize than the second one?

If your runtime has to do extra work to support stack-unwinding, it could easily be slower. You're doing work in the happy path in that case just in case the sad path happens. My guess is adding function metadata to some sort of datastructure (linked list?) so that it can figure out whats happening when it long jumps to the handler. I'd bet that allocation has at least one conditional in it.

The alternative would be putting the metadata on the stack, letting the function complete normally, and then check a flag to see which path you're on (same overhead).

To be clear, I have no idea how various runtimes implement this, just that the extra magic could easily have the same, or more, overhead than a conditional check.
Configuring debugged, optimized software, with a shell script is orders of magnitude cheaper than developing novel software.
On the one hand, I mostly agree with you.

On the other hand, squint at pretty much any theory, and you can see a series of related theories. That are each the basic theory, plus another assumption or two about another thing that might be observed. Leading to a cascade of differences that result in distinct theories.

Therefore dark matter can be a theory, and there can also be many theories of dark matter. Just like evolution can be a theory, and there can also be many theories about how exactly evolution progresses. Exactly what we call a "theory" here becomes rather arbitrary.
I’m also thinking about the Jenin hospital raid[1] where the Israeli army stormed a hospital wearing civilian clothing (i.e. hiding among civilians) and extra-judicially killed three wounded (and as a result inactive; i.e. unprovoked) operatives.

I’m also thinking about the massacres during the great march of return[2], where Israeli soldiers fired indiscriminately at unarmed protestors. In the protests, and the ensuing conflict, Israel killed 223 people, by far majority of whom were unarmed civilians. You can argue that mass demonstration is provocative, but the response of indiscriminately killing unarmed protestors is not a proportionate response.

And finally, I’m also thinking about the flour massacre[3], where the Israeli army purposefully went, unprovoked, into a civilian area and started to shoot everyone. At least 118 civilians were killed and 760 were wounded when the Israeli army shot at people trying to gather food after having been deliberately starved by Israel the months before.

The parent (who I’m trying not to engage with) is also just wrong when they claim no international law is broken by Israel. They currently have one ICJ case ruled against them, that of the illegal border (or apartheid) wall in the west bank, which the ICJ ruled illegal in 2004[4] and demanded they take down (which Israel hasn’t). The have several condemnations by a pletora of international humanitarian organizations. There are two ongoing ICJ cases against them, one for genocide, and their leaders stand recommended for indictments at the ICC.

There are many more examples than the three above of Israel blatantly violating international humanitarian law. Which is why the UN general assembly overwhelmingly voted to press charges at the ICJ to find out what the consequences of these gross violations should be[5].

1: https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/30/middleeast/israel-undercover-...

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%E2%80%932019_Gaza_border_...

3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flour_massacre

4: https://www.icj-cij.org/case/131

5: https://www.icj-cij.org/case/186
If you need to evacuate 1000km as fast as possible without stopping, bring water and food and be prepared to die in a massive traffic jam. Or in the post apocalyptique world that will follow.

Or maybe you can stop a few more minutes when it happens?
I am definitely going to continue the experiments. The ROI improvement from GPT-3.5 to GOT-4 is very encouraging. I also got better at prompting.
Worked with a rete engine in Tibco's CEP. This was used for utility events and deciding what if anything to be done with the event in the context of others and then route it. I've seen it similarly used with bank security and customer management. Another interesting use case was using it as a master data management platform for customer data across a company with a bunch of subsidiaries that had the same customers.

What we liked about it was the ability to contextualize events by keeping a history and relationship between objects and events that we could reference as part of our rules. Particularly when we get an event storm and putting more signal into situational awareness when there is a lot of noise.
A bit of a late reply, but it seems I misremembered the meme, the joke was his last name, not his middle name [0]

It's dated 2012, but I remember a resurgence in more recent years, which seems to coincide with the Interest Graph (Which shows the spike in 2022)
Even then it doesn't seem like it was too viral

I thought it'd be appropriate, the whole joke being acting as if the name isn't known, regardless of it literally being in the message, it seems like exactly the thing that would trip up an LLM

[0] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/obamas-last-name
Example:

House costs $100k

You buy house with $20k savings and $80k debt

In this example that $80k of debt is called "leverage".

Is this what you mean with your question or did you mean to ask something else?
You may be conflating Okta a bit here. SSO is one feature of Okta, which stands for Single Sign On. SSO is typically used to enable users to sign into their core work account and then that login is used for all applications where SSO is enabled for the organization. If Okta is conflating things on their end, that does not make SSO mean more than it should, just that some group of humans is misappropriating terms.
Both are band aids for the real problem. Housing can't both be an investment and a basic need. You need to pick one or find an opinionated middle ground.

If housing is an investment, then remove all protections and open up the supply. No height regulations, no minum parking regulations, no mandatory HOAs. No moratoriams or legal protections when loans default.

If housing is a need, then regulate it like a limited resource. Ration it on the lower end. Ban hoarding (vacancies, empty plots). Limited access to repeat consumers.

When the powerful talk about "finding balance", they usually mean having their cake (earn like an investment) and eat it too (protected like a need).

IMO, Georgism strikes the best opinionated middleground of housing as an investment vs housing as a need. Grounding taxation in land's economic value regulates hoarding. Grounding the value of land in its economic outcomes makes it a transparent investment, rather than the cartelized asset that it is today.

I'm personally opposed to too-much-regulation. It always ends up being a tool for the powerful. Rent control, Prop 13, affordable housing, stacks-of-paperwork and similar regulations always do more harm than good.
Nice write up!

I would also add that OP should spell out the text from the circuit board in their blog post, so that people who pick one apart and Google the text can also find this blog post.

Pixmob PALM V2.6r1

And even the date stamp

(c) 20230629

and also the part that says

Designed with ♥ (love) in Montréal
Beyond the upselling under duress, I've also seen complaints that Cloudflare protects the client-facing websites of DDoS-as-service operators. This enables them to sell their service, which then creates demand for Cloudflare's service from their targets.

Cloudflare describes that policy as a commitment to content neutrality rather than extortion, and I think that's more or less sincere (since they've protected many other unpopular sites that didn't give them such a benefit, with a few high-profile exceptions). It does work out very conveniently for them, though.
All of that gets removed if you have a bigger outlet. There are some people that mind that very little and won't bother to get the upgrade, but judging EVs in general based on the 120-volt situation is like judging pasta in general based on cups of instant ramen.
If they do it I'll cancel my subscription. I don't use it very often and my company pays for internal usages.
Most EVs can make the trip today? The most popular EV, the Model Y, has a stated range of 320 miles.
Google Cloud links to https://go.qwiklabs.com/qwiklabs-free which gives a 404
I can't imagine learning German or some similar language and complaining that their words aren't clear just because I don't speak German fluently enough.
I’m making such tool, you can both read and listen, although reader functionality is very simple right now

App is Listenly.io
Proliferation, like lactose and carbohydrate tolerance.
If you have the ability to fix this, you are getting bribed to not fix it (i.e. the subcontractor paid to handle this is pocketing the money and giving you a %). Rocking the boat means the gravy train ends, and you’ll probably be tortured to death if you’ve inconvenienced the cartel for “the sake of future generations”.

Quite frankly unless there is a US intervention in Mexico (never gonna happen as the US would lose) or a large scale revolt this will probably never change meaningfully.
You are mixing up a few things somewhere.

Wants are infinite.

Home ownership is effectively enshrined as a value in most economies. The emotion is part of society’s design. Conforming to this incentive or belief is not unusually irrational,
I had the exact same thoughts as you when reading the article. It seems that many people are irrationaly fixated on home ownership as some kind of magical pathway for wealth. When you ask these people to put some numbers on paper, that magic goes POOF pretty fast.
That’s interesting, I’ve never noticed them used. Do they still do this? I’m aware of the bands but I never noticed the magic moments stuff.
I'm not talking about just senior living or senior care places. I'm talking about total independent just 55+ or 62+ senior apartments that have affordable rents available. There are very few of these and waiting lists are usually completely closed off and take 10+ years if your name is called at all.
Oh, I didn't realize that the design also has a database of revocations. In that case, you can just query that directly :P
I wonder how people checked in on their kids in the 90s, before smartphones were a thing?

/s
Everyone should use the terminology I prefer.
"Thinking about gas" for 99% of people means either glancing at the fuel gauge when you get in the car and making a 15 minute detour + pit stop if you think it looks a bit low for your trip, or just ignoring it and making the 15 minute detour once the low fuel indicator comes on.

Electric is on the whole better & cheaper, but insisting the downsides around charging and endurance do not exist isn't going to help convince anyone
It's a bit like when a big chain goes bankrupt - the profitable restaurants don't close another buyer comes in and takes over. Like Red Lobster and the staff in the profitable restaurants stay the same the renters stay in the same apartments or houses paying the same rent.
That isn't reality. It effectively never happens. Maybe once in your lifetime might see it happen to someone else, if you frequent stations with old pumps.
I intentionally disable IPv6. It provides no advantage whatsoever (every user will be able to connect via IPv6) and it adds complexity and security risks, because you need separate firewall rules, dns records, etc for each stack.

In addition, rate limiting with IPv6 is much harder (because IPs aren't scarce), so you risk DoS or other kind of abuse.
itertools (iterators) and collections (data structures) are both underrated modules in stdlib.
Saudi support of some 9/11 terrorists was widely discussed as proven 20 years ago.

Is this "revelation" a politically timed article?
Why are you spit-balling bizarre and dangerous fixes to an already solved problem?

A certified electrician will know how to cable up a higher-capacity appliance such as an electric oven or level 2 home EV charger.
That is exactly the problem. These services are constantly at war with each other and are attacked by competitors. Cloudflare provides DDoS protection to the DDoS providers so they can keep their services online, which directly benefits Cloudflare by DDoS being a bigger problem than if they were all busy attacking each other.

This is a sampling of currently available services and who they use for DDoS protection:

stresslab.app - Cloudflare
maxstresser.com - Cloudflare
sunnystress.com - Cloudflare
tresser.io - Cloudflare
ip-stresser.net - Cloudflare
hardstresser.com - DDoSGuard
zdstresser.net - Cloudflare
starkstresser.net - Cloudflare
stresserhub.org - Cloudflare
nightmarestresser.net - DDoSGuard

Just for fun head over to Cloudflare's abuse reporting site and try to figure out how to get one of these taken down. https://abuse.cloudflare.com/
Nvidia Denies Copyright Infringement Claims in Authors' AI Lawsuit
The insecurities and joy of writing software
The lazer meme (2006) predates LOIC (~2010) by years https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/shoop-da-whoop