skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Money invested from abroad is money coming inside the economy - whether the person lives there or not. That money goes to the seller, who'll then get taxed on it, spend it somewhere else... Or that money could be used, as I said, to build new buildings and rehabilitate old ones, thus creating jobs in the process. If the system was well set up for it, foreigners investing in a country is usually a good thing. The US is super foreign-investment friendly for example, doesn't hurt them.

Besides, if foreigners are investing solely to speculate - if they did fix the supply constraints, the opportunity for speculation would greatly decrease. It's only an attractive investment because the supply is so finite.
Part of the problem here is that while there's a set of social and political attitudes that really do exist, a lot of the people who practice them are very reticent to label themselves, preferring to claim either that they occupy the whole space of compassionate legitimate political practice, or that they have nothing in common with other groups who are (from an outside eye) very similar.

I like Freddie deBoer's 2023 definition, which at least is framed from a left-wing point-of-view rather than the aggressive and weaponised right-wing framing:

https://web.archive.org/web/20230404013504/https://freddiede...
I'd be curious by how much they downplay downtime. Wouldn't be too hard to put together an honest status page that pulls & pushes something new to main every 5 minutes, creates an issue, comments on it etc. Very basic high level checks.
Incredible article, thank you for sharing. The parallels to unwelcome and unsolicited religious proselytizing is something I've been calling out for years, and ironically have often been met with extreme hatred and condemnation in response.

Never in my life did I think that nearly every institution, company, corporation, (you name it), would compel and coerce people into following a narrow set of societal rules that appeared seemingly out of nowhere, and grated firmly against a functional, albeit imperfect, status quo -- most of which was accepted and even celebrated by most people in Western nations.

What's terrifying to me is how acceptable it became to write and defend academic literature around these manufactured problems, specifically for "prigs" to justify their abhorrent behavior towards other people.

I'm glad more people are finally willing to have an honest discussion about this, without immediately labeling it a "right-wing talking piece", as too many so lazily love to do.
> every foreigner buying a house still results in 1 less house for Spaniards

In a very limited scope, sure. What that foreign capital also does is lower risk and thus capital costs for development and improvement. (In the event of a limited crisis, for lenders as well.) Whether the net effect goes one way or another is more complicated than what you describe.

Put another way, if foreigners could only buy unbuilt units, would you still say they're resulting in fewer houses for Spaniards? Do the countries shunned by foreign investors have affordable housing?
My political agenda? Its an article from your country that implied it and I called it out for being bad. If you think my comment is pushing that agenda you have poor reading skills, it was very clearly strongly the opposite.
I would say that software is meant to be chopped up and glued together much more flexibly than the parts of a car. It is more like saying "all LEGO pieces have studs 5mm apart center to center".
> no need for a server, no need to be online, just do `git init` in any old directory

svn doesn’t require a server and there is no need to be online. It works perfectly fine over the file:// protocol.
interesting, it it only for product management or also managing other productivity flows? i've been using phidata and o-mega.ai, are those similar? i like the idea of a more general agent platform for managing my productivity workflows (autonomously)
I didn't know that happened to Python. It happened to NixOS.
This is a valid point but lacks proportionality.

If some high% of people have a life improvement, a smaller % don’t, and an even smaller % end up obese.. that’s an overall improvement - even though some lives are worse than they’d have been without the “improvement”.

Of course if the majority became obese or otherwise became worse off, that’s a bad thing overall. But from what is reported it sounds like opening the Chinese economy has been net good, ie. good for most people.

In both situations one obesity case is too many. But it needs to be proportionally considered alongside the benefit it hitched a ride with and never in isolation.

It takes having numbers to know how much weight (sic) to place on that counterpoint of “some obesity happened”.
But "regular syrup" is just corn syrup with added flavors and colorings? At least, here in the USA it is. I've not sure I've seen any pancake syrup that's made with cane sugar. Besides real maple syrup, of course, but I'm not sure I've seen any thickened maple strup products either?
First pay a consultancy a fortune to tell you which SaaS you are able to use based on compliance requirements. Then run your own IdP, use service providers that have a data takeout mechanism, take regular backups, and use standards-based technology. Line up a self-hosted fallback for each non-self-hosted option for if you're forced to exit them. Basically you line up the exit strategy for the auditors but hope you never have to use it.
Snow is dirty, and getting dirty water into a high pressure steam engine is an awful idea, even in the short term.
I donno if it entirely wrong to blame foreigners. If you have a bunch of silicon valley digital nomads flying to Spain and buing and selling houses to each other I can see how that could easily leave locals out of the housing market. That seems like something that government should control against if locals can't affording housing.

I imagine that if a bunch of rich people decided to treat Spanish homes like stocks (holding and flipping) it would be pretty easy to get high prices and bubbles. Doesn't it follow from suppy and demand?

>Increase the supply, and the prices will go down.

what's wrong with tackling both demand and supply. Why shouldn't spain do both - build more homes to tackle supply while also curbing foreign home ownership to tackle infalted demand
> The speaker is Nobel Peace Laureate Norman Borlaug, in his acceptance speech for that award. For those unfamiliar, it was his work developing high-output agricultural staple variants, the heart of the Green Revolution, which was the basis of that award.

Right so he went out and improved things.

> It's a depressingly common trope, and not only on HN, to deride such concerns as misguided and laughable, but the truth is that the trends at the time were quite dire

I'd say its sadly not common enough. If anything I'd say that the reason it can't be written off as laughable is not because they had a point but because it helped cause a lot of violations of peoples rights with not fully informed consent sterilization and the one child policy.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/book-incited-world...

Sure they didnt have knowledge we have now but we do. We know that birth rates fall when poverty falls and more women get educated and that coercive methods are not necessary. We also know that the capacity to grow food was much larger.

Ehrlichs predictions were wrong. He predicted

> “nothing can prevent a substantial increase in the world death rate.”

And from my understanding hasn't admitted being wrong (and trying to be figure out how he became so sure of something that was incorrect) implying that it may still happen someday(when he predicted it would have happened long ago).

Mass famine isn't exactly the same thing as expensive food although obviously it can lead to higher levels of starvation. Fundamentally famine and even high levels of starvation are due to bad government and or economic systems. Its no suprise the Arab spring started with a fruit seller who set himself on fire in response to corrupt policeman preventing him from making a living/stealing his wares.
OK, first of all what criminalization of homelessness?
Second, if I go to work every day and don’t smoke crack and pay taxes I would like my kids to be able to go to the park down the street so can someone please take a bulldozer and take all the tents and put them in the garbage. This is actually what normal mainstream people think in their minds and everyone that thinks I’m a monster is a a woke idiot.
Been waiting for someone to build this
If you have extra supply of houses needing renovation, as in the comment, and renovations require labor and/or materials to complete, having foreigners pay to renovate houses to be livable will decrease the ability of Spaniards to renovate houses to be livable.

For example, let's assume renovations are 100% completed by local crews. Any crew working for a foreigner is working for them because A) the foreigner is paying more than a local for the work B) the foreigner is paying enough to make a profit and the local isn't (which is a subset of A). There is no situation in which adding foreign money results in more houses for locals. If you eliminate the ability for foreigners to renovate, the renovation crews will take the money that the locals can pay. There will be fewer renovation crews, because some crew will not be profitable at the lower rate, but more crews working to renovate houses for Spaniards.

Similarly, for materials, given supply and demand curves (and assuming that the marginal units added won't cause economies of scale) eliminating the ability for foreigners to buy materials for renovations will move the curve intersection down to a lower price and volume.
You aren't using the same rhetorical devices, you're assuming a lot and pretending to be helpless.

Exactly what term would you use for the groups of terminally online people who dig through decades of social media posts looking for something like a mildly offensive tweet to blow out of proportion?
/H/Slackernews
write(2) is POSIX. That's not "directly calling into a system call"; it's a normal C API from the POSIX header <unistd.h>.
> I never called any vegans assholes.

I know, I didn’t say you did. In my first reply I said:

> Some people are assholes and brag about anything

And it’s that narrow definition I’ve been using throughout.

> I guess the thing I’m getting from you is I shouldn’t comment on my own observations

No, of course that’s not it. We can all comment on our own observations, but it’s also important to differentiate from what we each observe as individuals and what we believe the world to be. We shouldn’t let our limited view of the world cloud our understanding of how it is.

> Is there an acceptable threshold for situational humor short of a scientific study?

Were you doing situational humour? I reread your comments and can’t find the joke¹. Judging from the grey colour in the original comment, it doesn’t look like I was the only one to miss it if that was the intention.

Though I will say unambiguously that I don’t think you’re arguing in bad faith. From my perspective, this has been a cordial chat.

¹ I guess the newspaper comment was a joke, but calling that situational seems like a stretch.
Obviously they are different chemicals.
Instead of downvoting, please construct a list of male and a list of female characters, and prove me wrong.

The females rank even lower than the Tintin's dog, in heroic exploits.
And I'm sure they'll continue to feel that way right up until the first time they experience "the" internet from a minority partition for more than a few days. I just hope that the distributed stuff is easy enough to limp along with if/when that happens.
Glad to see this here. I have a couple sonos speakers in my kitchen and I am still scared to update to the latest app. I was fortunate enough to check the sub-reddit prior to updating.
wow, yeah, that sucks. https://www.digitaltrends.com/home-theater/wiim-ultra-not-ge...

i had been considering an ultra to replace my tv soundbar, but no airplay is probably a dealbreaker for me.
From a purely technical definition of bias (difference in expected value of the estimator and the true value), MAB is not biased because "changing the experiment parameters" is just dynamically allocating a different sample size to each of the estimators, so the estimator still converges to the correct value.

You are correct that this setup can potentially mislead you, but this is because you might end up getting estimators with high variance. So, you might mistakenly see some early promising results for experiment group A and greedily assign all the requests to that group, even though it is not guaranteed that A is actually better than B.

This is the famous exploration-exploitation dilemma—should you maximize conversions by diverting everyone to group A or still try to collect more data from group B?
This is one of those arguments that at face value seems quantitatively sound but doesn't survive first contact with reality
See also:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32137336 - Ask HN: Is having a personal blog/brand worth it for you? (2022-07-18, 309 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35164819 - Ask HN: What has your personal website/blog done for you? (2023-03-17, 451 comments)

HN really like these personal blog threads because a lot of us have blogs, and we all appreciate people showing interest in our blogs.

I have a blog because a bit of reflection lets me get more out of whatever experience I just had, and I get a sense of joy if some other human shared my experience through those writings.
We have wealth tax in Norway and I think that's cool.

I don't see why every country should have it though.

I think it's nice that different countries have different rules.

I don't see any point in having every country be exactly like every other.
The benefit is that more people can afford to buy houses? Really surprising to see a country taking care of their people, and not just the wealthy ones!

All the hypotheses claiming that "the market pressure will improve things for all" have been proven false at this point. We have decades of data, and this is only widening the inequality gap.
Foreigner purchase effects are complex.

While a unit sold does immediately reduce the supply by 1 unit, new demand and foreign funds can also stimulate more building and, especially important, can prevent areas falling into disrepair and becoming ghost towns. It really depends on the specific area and situation. My 2c.
No, they'll continue to feel like that even after that. GitHub being down once in a blue moon is more acceptable to the vast majority of users than having to cobble together your own nerdy distributed version of everything.
Your engineers cost <$1/hr and understand journal papers?
> He'll also admit it's not just the Russians but many others also

Limassol is friendly to Russians. If you're American, the go-to is Ireland, though Luxembourg is trying to eat their lunch. (If you're Chinese, Hungary and Poland.)
Basically you rent space and machines in datacenters that are geographically distributed and designed to resist natural disasters
> they use it consistently to refer to a very specific type of behaviour they see as bad

I disagree that their use is consistent and specific.

Their usage is constant and is malleable enough to encompass "whatever i don't like right now".
High Fructose Corn Syrup GI is 87 and sucrose's GI is 60, these larger spikes to your blood sugar over time leads to insulin resistance and diabetes...
For votes: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/the-premise-poll-li... (“Among Democratic voters, Biden leads Cheney 61% to 39%.”).

My historically red county in Maryland went 55-41 for Harris, but 55-43 for Larry Hogan. It’s full of woke Romney 2012 voters.
Person A sets up a company in foreign country.

Company buys a building in the country.

Company rents out the building to Person A.
Ok - I'm not Canadian, idk what ALR is - I'm just saying what's disagreed with up-thread isn't what, in my experience, is the common claim (whether it's correct or not).
Someone else lamenting the delayed status page updates almost 2 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35887213
> They're not expected to have predicted the next pandemic; rather, they're expected to come up with novel ideas of how to do business

Do you have a single example of a CEO being fired or even chastised for this?
Why, where and how is snow dirty?

The much bigger issue that steam is massively less dense that liquid water: roughly a 1:10 ratio. Loading up 10x more snow than you need water is no small task.
It's already being replaced by "DEI". I hear my more conservative coworkers spitting the term with a "hard R" these days.
Karen Wynn Fonstad, Who Mapped Tolkien's Middle-Earth
People on the left don't like to admit it, but a lot of the left wing activism we see today growing out from the 1960s was directly influenced by the Soviet Union and it's "active measures" programs

According to the KGB defector Yuri Alexandrovich Bezmenov, the Soviets actively encouraged colleges to focus on studies away from science and engineering, and also encouraged the "break down" of things like "religion" and "family" to make for more fertile soil for the inevitable communist takeover. At best such measures were focused on encouraging anti-nuclear activism to reduce the US capacity for nuclear retaliation in the event of a total war. At worst it led to Cultural Revolution style critiques of college faculty. Despite the Soviet Union being gone, the cultural aspects of these efforts live on (mostly in Sociology departments)

People on the right don't like to admit it, but a ton of the right wing "activism" we see TODAY is from modern Russian efforts to try the same sort of interference on the right (and still to a lesser extent on the left). There was no one from the 80s more disallusioned by the old Soviet tactics using left wing actors than Putin (who was in contact with left wing Red Army Faction terrorist groups in Germany). He's sought to try the same tactics out on the right which has been incredibly receptive to conspiracy theories of all kinds.

There's an active campaign to erode the public's faith in science (anti-vaccine movements, ivermectin being a cure-all for everything) and journalism. Spread through channels like Rogan's podcast, and perhaps even Mr. Musk himself who spreads propaganda about big lies like "Ukraine having some sort bioweapons program" unquestioningly. Gradually the goal is not to get people to believe in something, but rather to get them to not know what to believe.

The American left is too distracted by culture wars bullshit to counter blatant propaganda, and people like Paul Graham are too enamored by the success of Musk et al to see what is directly in front of them.
100:1 Is the Social Network Ratio
I have deduced that if you follow more than 100 people before you get at least 1 follower back you are 99% of the time a bot.

https://bsky.app/profile/bs-shitbot.bsky.social/lists/3lfikbvo2n52b
KenobiDB: Document based data store using SQLite as a back end
KenobiDB is a document-based data store abstraction built on Python’s sqlite3, offering a simple and efficient way to manage JSON-like data. Its API is highly similar to MongoDB’s, providing familiar operations for insertion, updates, and searches—without the need for a server connection.
Gemini-Exp-1206 got 2M context token, what's preventing Google from fine-tuning it with internal google PR etc ? So in the end you'll get a fine-tuned google llm dev and one finetuned for review, etc etc
Sorry - little sympathy here. I acknowledge the market is much worse this year and last year.

But I started at a lame crappy job 10 years ago after college. It’s not a big deal, it gets your foot in the door and then in 2-3 years you can move up to a better company. I did this a couple times and after 10 years i’m now working at a faang adjacent company (household name but not part of faang).

That’s what normal life looks like for a typical CS grad. The fact you think getting a job at faang is expected or normal right out of the gate shows you’re in a bubble. It happens, and i’ve worked with colleagues who did it, but it’s not the norm.

and nobody is changing the world with their code, unless you’re linus torvalds or similar. best to squash that naivety earlier than later lol. It’s a job, and a passion for some (like myself). that’s it. It’s also healthy to find additional hobbies outside of the computer - something i learned the hard way.
Bank of Mum and Dad: why we all now live in an 'inheritocracy' (2024)
If they want to pay lots of property taxes and contribute to payments for local infrastructure without actually using it, that’s probably a net good thing, IF there were enough additional homes to go around for others.
This scam is much older than the Internet or even computers. It was called a Spanish Prisoner scam in the 19th century but I would be surprised if it wasn't happening in the ancient world via cuneiform tablets.
> exceedingly unlikely to because your user-wide tools should be few.

Why "should"? I think it's the other way around - Python culture has shied away from user-wide tools because it's known that they cause problems if you have more than a handful of them, and so e.g. Python profilers remain very underdeveloped.
Speculative fiction is entertaining, but not based in reality...

"they are definitely not being silly", that sounds like something a silly person would say. =)

" I posit that that kind of myopia could leave one very under-prepared for the world one lands in." The numerous study data analysis results says otherwise... Thus, still speculative hype until proven otherwise.

Not worried... initially suckered into it as a kid too... then left the world of ML years later because it was always boring, lame, and slow to change. lol =3
The stat I've seen is even worse at 10:1.
I’m aware of the distinction. A/B testing is the killer app for feature flags from the perspective of business decision makers.
In my experience it's more like customer-facing people, sales and support, get to know the customers needs and pain points, while good technical people knows the limitations and possibilities of the systems involved. By working together the sum can be greater than the parts.

As a dev I strive to talk to sales and support for this reason. It's not seldom I can do a small change that drastically improves the user experience for one or more clients, be it existing or potential.
When your job is to cobble up disposable scripts - there is no place for “practices”, unit test for example. Thus there is nothing for a software engineer to pay special attention to. Therefore there is no value in suggesting that

While some may take that as “turn up your engineering knob” that leads to over engineering
Otoh, no-score sites mostly become either *chans or slow forums with lots of ceremony and zero feedback on anything. It turns out if you get rid of groupthink, you get rid of either group or think as well.

I really admire HN dynamics in this regard, as it has a few less obvious tricks in its sleeves, but let’s keep these observations to it.
Hours? And C was a better option for scripting than python?

I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt, this sounds very curious.
Except at that point the wealthy homeowners will ask for bailouts.
My problem with indentation as significant is when I paste a chunk of code inside some chunk that is indented differently. Some may say that a good text editor will deal with that for you, but it's rarely been the case for me. The most is when the code is longer than my screen height and I have to scroll down and figure out where the pasted chunk ends and indentation it all who knows how many times without scrolling back up to the top of the chunk.
I’m all for another team trying to build out another relay and prove atproto has the decentralized “juice”.

Might be more convinced to donate if there was a white paper with more details on the roadmap the funds will help drive.