skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is a very typical problem in the US, but it's not really the only issue. Go look at Spain, a country that has, historically, had little issue building housing: Very dense housing too by most standards.

After you liberalize housing, you still run into the trouble of economic forces trying to turn housing into a sensible investment: Buy an apartment, pay your mortgage for 20 years, and then you have a pile of leveraged money on top of the basic savings! But then you run into current housing in Spain: Said primary housing has huge tax savings over anything else. Taxes at sale time overwhelm property taxes (which are very good, yet seen as unfair by owners, so they stay low), so it's also better to keep the housing underused. So ultimately you end up with a situation where the building that before had an average of 5 or 6 occupants per flat in the 1980s, is now sitting at one and a half. So you end up having to massively overbuild, as to make sure nobody that bought in a good location does anything but make money on their "investment"

The US could build more, thanks to so many inner suburbs that should really be filled to the brim and 8 stories tall, but ultimately it's just kicking the can down the road until residential investment is not so important, and the price of housing lines up with its utility, not the ever-growing value of the land it sits on top of.

The Georgists that want to just LVT as the one tax in the world are going too far, but I don't see long term solutions to all the problems downstream from housing if, along of making it easy to build, we don't make sure that speculating on the value of the land is actually risky.
Remember team america, world police...

How everyone in the world wanted usa to stay out of other countries 20 years ago...

https://youtu.be/LasrD6SZkZk?si=qbP5t6WNVY7hq0p9

Seams alot of people want to bring that back.
There are reasons why the EU should support the Ukraine, but access to the Ukrainian market isn't one of them.

The Ukrainian GDP is 179 billion USD (https://tradingeconomics.com/country-list/gdp?continent=euro...); they're a market smaller than Greece (244 billion USD) or Hungary (212 billion USD). If they succeed in driving the Russians out, they'll have to rebuild their country and will probably be in debt for decades.

Democracy in Russia is a pipe dream; they have nuclear weapons and Putin isn't about to give up power. I guess it's possible that his successor could hold elections, but that's highly unlikely at best.
There's probably a program in /usr/bin on your machine that does that.
Selling ads isn't even the problem. They could do that and still truthfully, legally claim they never sell your data.

Mozilla is helping perpetuate the illusion that online advertising necessarily includes collecting and selling data about the users who are shown the ads.
Nope. The government could own all land and have the same system for withdrawing leases as is currently employed for eminent domain. You might say the government could change that system, but it can also change eminent domain. This is not an inherent difference of the two systems. One could even envision a system where the government has no ability at all to withdraw a lease and thus occupants are more safe than they would be under eminent domain. On a practical level, the Georgist system might even be more likely to turf people out than a social land system, because presumably the land tax would increase to price people out at the market rate, where a lease agreement is more likely to have controlled increases.
The past three years we have been with propaganda from both sides of this conflict. It’s a war. To point to one side and say that’s the side that’s lying is just more propaganda, it’s not a serious breakdown.
This. We've used GCP Appengine for years and it is rock solid. Their SRE game is top level, and when there is an outage, they do a serious investigation and make it fully public, even if they screwed up badly. Including the vital "this is how we're going to stop this ever happening again". The last outage (that we noticed) was several years ago.
In the folk tale, the villagers give stuff they own, willingly. The soup chefs do not go sneakily pick stuff up.

Oh but the villagers were kind of fooled into giving.

OK, but it benefits everyone. No mention of soup costing money later.
Avoided what exactly? If the emperor wants to show the world he has no clothes, why stop him?

They've been "negotiating" with Ukraine's invader behind Ukraine's back. Concocting mineral right "deals" that they believe Ukraine _must_ accept; without their involvement and without security guarantees. Voting "against" them in the UN. Making false statements about who invaded who. Etc.

And he's gonna not, rather politely, push back and ask questions instead of getting steamrolled? They started this off with Brian Glenn grilling him over his lack of suite and accusing him of disrespect while they snickered and sneered. Let's not forgot that those "jokes", and this entire presser, are in the context of an ongoing war with nearly 1,000,000 dead and wounded now.

If anything I think Zelensky smoked them out for all of the US public and Europe to see. Why would he avoid that?!
When I worked at Jet, a shopping website trying to compete with Amazon, we obviously did not want to give money to Amazon, so we used Azure.

For the most part it was just fine, until we started using CosmosDB (then called DocumentDB).

DocumentDB, in its first incarnation, was utterly terrible. The pricing was extremely hard to predict, so we would end up with ridiculous bills at the end of the week, the provided .NET SDK for it was buggy and horrible, but the very worst part was the WebUI appeared to be directly tied to your particular instance of CosmosDB.

Why is this bad? Because if you under-provisioned stuff for your database, it might start going slow, and it would actually lag the web interface you would use to increase the resources! We got into situations where we had to turn off the entire application, just to bump up the resources for Cosmos. It felt like it was a complete amateur hour from Microsoft.

My understanding is that Cosmos has gotten a lot better, but man that left a sour taste in my mouth. If I end up getting some free credits or something, maybe I'll give Azure another go but I would definitely not recommend it right now.
> While I think that resigning is stupid here, asserting that "punishment doesn't deter crime" is just absurd. It does!

Punishment does not deter crime. The threat of punishment does to a degree.

IOW, most people will be unaware of a person being sent to prison for years until and unless they have committed a similar offense. But everyone is aware of repercussions possible should they violate known criminal laws.
You won't find that in major cloud providers.
Why would you expect nuance from a set of commenters that generally defer to their country's media class to do the thinking about any complex issues—so as to boil them down to a Star Wars-tier “good vs. evil” distillation—for them?
Exactly. Right wingers fundamentally misunderstand the source of American power. China might have a bigger navy that the US, very soon. Russia has more nukes. But those countries don't have voluntary military alliances. The US had (past tense) the largest and most effective set of voluntary military alliances in the world, and that was the heart of American power that Donald Trump is dismantling.

The why is an interesting question. I personally don't believe it's all ideology and idiocy. There has to be a level of compromise.
You can aspire to control minerals because you need them, or you can aspire to control minerals because you don't want others to have them.
Errrr .. 'yes' .. but it was then justified by asserting that omelettes would follow.

The eggs being broken today aren't as cheap as they once were.
Because you might need 20,000 of those "servers" immediately, and not have the up front capital to for an investment like that. And maybe it doesn't work out and you just needed those servers for 2yrs vs $your_depreciation rate
Looking at the README for Red Alert specifically and the various requirements, how is it possible that these run on modern Windows?

OFC they're distributed via Steam as binaries + libs etc, but are they including these ancient versions of DirectX and the other dependencies with the downloads? Are these still compatible?

I know Windows has/had for years remarkable backwards compatibility, but that's always been a source of confusion for me.

Is there some monstrous "compatibility shim" somewhere for old DirectX APIs or something? What makes this possible?

Edit: Wait was this a re-release at some point more recently? If so, I suppose that specific question is addressed, but that still pertains to other old games. How does Half-Life (or whatever) still work? Same story?
> It seems to me he wants the war over with as quickly as possible

He wants the war to end right away on Russia's terms. Guess who else wants that?
Microservices, Where Did It All Go Wrong • Ian Cooper [video]
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The NIMBY people know what they're doing. They know that restricting the supply of housing is bad for society. They don't care because it is good for their own personal financial position.

I'm sick of these posts thinking that these people are stupid and if we could just explain to them the consequences of their actions this would all be fixed. No. They KNOW. It is intentional.
Is this a serious reply? The poor may not have much, but every dime they do have is spent on necessities… rent, food, healthcare. So where does that money go? Who are the actual recipients of those dimes?
Because both Ukraine and Russia have changed? Ukraine is war torn, deeply in debt, and no longer provides the strategic benefit to Russia it might’ve in ‘22. Russia’s economy and populace needs to recover from being war-oriented.

They have their land bridge to Crimea now, and if I had to speculate, they’d be happy with a neutered neighbor that can’t join NATO, essentially a populated DMZ. I can’t see what benefit in wanting to take Ukraine on again after the dragged out meat grinder it was this time around.
Exactly this. And that is such an important intellectual tool, the ability to extrapolate second and third order decisions and match them to people’s incentives lets you create accurate mental models of multiparty negotiations and interactions and predict how people will act in future situations. It’s really powerful.

Applying here, I would expect trump moves to lift sanctions and normalize trade with Russia. Europe, if it has a spine will sanction the US.
The overwhelming majority of evidence suggests otherwise.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/crime-and-punishment...

https://www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/news/2020/07/do-harsher-pun...

https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/nij/247350.pdf

https://www.helsinki.fi/en/news/economics/do-harsh-punishmen...
It's interesting, but not entirely surprising, that Trump is kowtowing to Putin and giving Putin everything he wants. Could it be something to do with the Kompromat the Kremlin reportedly has on him?

Putin would like to restore the former Soviet union, he said that the collapse of the Soviet union was a catastrophe. The war in Ukraine is the beginning of Putin trying to rectify this. So if he wins the war in Ukraine, about half of Europe will likely be next. He will likely want to move fast, not waiting 4 years for Trump to be possibly voted out and possible US opposition after that.
It's interesting to me the uphill battle Kagi is fighting to get people to pay for ad-free search and browsing. I wish them all the best because I think it's a fight worth having. https://help.kagi.com/kagi/why-kagi/why-pay-for-search.html
That would have been nice, AWS kept sending me bills for $0.00, and after multiple tickets over a couple years, I finally deleted my entire account due to how pathetic their support was (they never figured out which service was active, and I couldn't find a way to figure it out using their UI).
"Having studied the Russian language and culture extensively" seems relatively modest compared to having negotiated the withdrawal of Russian forces from Europe (Bildt) or having led the MI6 (Younger). It's like taking programming advice from someone who has only read biographies of famous computer scientists and never actually worked on a software project with others.
I'm going to look for a book about how to do just that, then watch a YouTube series on it, and then see if anyone has interesting blog posts so I get more unique perspectives on the matter. At that point, I'll know enough to finally clean up my information diet.
If they've had any non-code projects that had costs in the millions, they were catastrophic failures, so they shouldn't have had such a mission.
> why terrified

I'm terrified some colleague is going to vibe-code a product and use it to get promoted, then move to another team and dump the project on me to maintain.
I feel the same way. The in-depth and nuanced discussions are what drew me to HN in the first place. You can still find it on purely technical posts, but anything remotely political and it feels like Reddit.

I used to come to HN to learn about different viewpoints and find blindspots. But, that is no longer the case here with anything political. The majority of comments on political posts here are skin deep and anything against the grain gets silenced.
Membership of NZ's domain registry suddenly triples, not entirely welcomed
You are onto something but I would suggest a slightly different conclusion: that the best and brightest STEM students are attracted to the shiniest jobs, which right now involve programming computers to trade money (HFT) and teaching computers to do advertising (ML-backed ads). Neither of those are fundamentally useful.
Thank you :) I'm here just slow at typing.
> Mozilla is stopping claiming they’re never selling your data because they’ve been selling your data for the last few years.

If that's true then it sounds to me like there's some liability to sue for in California courts against Mozilla. I wonder if EFF would be interested
She was actually mentored and funded by real life Pro Gun Ownership guys in Russia. mass civilian gun ownership is not a thing in Russia, but they were inspired by the NRA's example and were trying.
That's not the point. The point is making Ukraine pay off the defense contractors rather than the American taxpayers. Trump made a campaign promise to end the war, and was overwhelmingly reelected on those promises, and has so far kept them.
Didn't he dox his enemies and smear Ubiquiti's reputation by believing a criminal's version of events without verifying anything, resulting in a lawsuit, settlement and retraction?
> which should help prevent Russia from further invasion

How will that prevent further agression? There are many US companies that still operate in Russia and even on Russian occupied teritories?

> which will only bring Russia closer to countries like China and a much faster takeover of Taiwan

Russia has nothing to give to China in their Taiwan takeover anymore. What the whole situation does it gives China a clear signal that US doesn't give a fuck about allies and previous promises. They make a move tommorow and that administration will even praise each other for giving up Taiwan because "it's the same nation" and "look we prevented ww3"

> There needs to be more strategic ways of dealing with Russia.

Yes, they are. Russia made it clear that it has no ways for further escalation, had severe problems with its army (DPRK troops and ammo, donkeys and horses on the frontline) and economy (interest rate is 20%+). Tighten sanctions, provide more aid to Ukraine (even in the way of loan), etc. It's not a fast answer though. And requires to have some balls.
the OP is referring to a different study about Board not USMLE
spot on. I am continually shocked by the number of people I work with who will actively contribute to ends that are ultimately against their own best interests just because they are intrigued by the technical aspects of a problem
"God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference."
There are requirements for throughput and latency that must be met for ~10yr regardless of the technology used.
Like IIS running some part of the code in the kernel? ( http.sys ) :x
Half of those games you win if the Chiefs don't get ridiculously beneficial calls.
what do you mean it doesn't sound possible?
Yes. Even biological cells do this. It is called cancer.
Speed would enable some kind of search algorithm (maybe like genetic programming). But that would probably only be useful if you have encoded your expectations in a carefully crafted test suite. Otherwise speed just seems like a recipe for more long winded broken garbage to wade through and fix.
I don’t think there is a contract here in most parts of the world. But maybe there’s an argument to be made for promissory estoppel e.g. by a company who moved from IE to Firefox based on these promises and spent $x moving to Firefox and now have to spend $x moving to something else in response to new information?

In reality there’ll probably be nothing from this, though I’d love to see companies get punished for walking back statements like these.
Yes. Any software you installed including your operating system can turn evil and copy anything off your drive.

This doomsday scenario thinking really doesn’t help the discussion.
I suggest reading one or two of Sydney Dekker’s books, which are a pretty comprehensive takedown of this idea. If an organization punishes mistakes, mistakes get hidden, covered up, and no less frequent.
Oracle Cloud was (and possibly still is) deleting random accounts (it was all over their subreddit at the time).

I wouldn't have believed it, but while testing out a server for a business, they deleted my account, and didn't reply when I emailed support about it.
I'll repeat:

> Investors would want a return on their investment soon.

This doesn't change the fact that Kagi is funded by VCs and the product will become a victim to product decay or "enshittification".

> Also, literally everything you use in daily life is made by companies who have investor backing.

Uh, No?

There are many 100% bootstrapped companies that don't succumb to this and are funded by just making money, even I have one.
Makes sense if you’re worth billions and billions yet still need to cheat at video games so you can pretend on a livestream that you are one of the best at some random video game.
That limitation should go away when Trusted Signing graduates from preview to GA. The current limitation is because the CA rules say you must perform identity validation of the requester for orgs younger than 3 years old, which Microsoft isn't set up for yet.
Oof, bad timing.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43200065

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43201869

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43194536

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43200065

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43187423

and more...

and more...
'Tesla just wrapped up its second-worst month'
Russia has their base in Syria but the US has been trying to destroy Syria through covert and non covert means since at least 1982. Russia is newcomer to Syria conflict.
> There are additional difficulties brought about by the economics of large scale production. Programmers have become "proletarianized". The elite expert programmer who crafted a system and stayed with it for many years, finely tuning it and adding new bells and whistles with ease, has by and large been superseeded by an entire generation of college graduates who were introduced to computing in their courses, and who are hired and fired by programming shops in accord with the winds of the market place.

> A radical approach to the complexity problem has been to suggest that the easiest way out is simply to make the machine do everything; i.e. automatic programming. [...] this approach does seem seductive, it is our estimate that it will not in the short run produce results of much value to the designer of [...] large scale programs

> the belief that man-machine interaction can be a symbiotic relationship in which the overall productivity is greater than the sum of the parts.

> how a knowledgeable computer could help an already competent programmer. It has been our
experience that we can produce better and cleaner code faster when working with a partner who shares our understanding of the intentions and goal structure of our program. We, therefore, believe that the appropriate metaphor for our work is that of creating a program with the capabilities of a junior colleague working on a joint project. The program should know the problem domain, implementation techniques, and the programming language being used fairly well. It need not know everything in advance; it can always ask its senior partner for advice or further information. Furthermore, this program might well be capable of paying more attention to details, of writing trivial parts of the code, of checking that certain constraints are satisfied, and even (in some cases) of cleaning up a large system after it has been put together.

> First Scenario: Initial Design > I'd like to build a hash table `O.K. youll need an insert, a lookup, an array, a hasher, and optionally a delete routine.` The P.A. knows the main parts of a hashing system.

> parallels [...] between understanding a program [...and...] natural language. In both cases, a key component in the understanding system is the background knowledge base, which establishes a context for understanding the semantics of the particular utterance in question. The huge problem in natural language understanding research is that if you try to advance beyond conversations in toy domains like the blocks world, this background knowledge quickly amounts to having a common-sense model of the whole world of human existence. Unfortunately, building such a representation of the world is exactly the central unsolved research project of the entire A.I. community.

> The transition from tab equipment systems to the modern day computer utility, exemplified by MULTICS, has taken little more than two decades.

Understanding LISP Programs: Towards a Programmer's Apprentice (1974) https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/41117
Australia values every single lot of land for rates (aka council tax). So it is possible with some good stats nerds to figure it out.

But these values take into consideration zoning. So if you are ona residential block it is valued as such. But it would not be hard to figure out what it would be worth as high density. So the valuation problem is easily doable.

Also in Australia each state does it independently.
This is exactly it. Notice for instance how homeowners will vote to allow ADUs but not to allow splitting off the ADU as a separate deed that would allow someone else a piece of competing ownership. They want all the upside of additional landlord opportunities but not the filthy peasant to own the Adu they live in.
And yet we took 100% of it, and forcibly relocated the survivors.
If I’m given exciting work to do, and management reduces beurocracies and other blockers, I’ll work 60, 70, 80 hour weeks. If my job is as a glorified paper pusher because of bad procrssses/management I won’t.

It’s a leaders job to motivate people to work those hours, and create an environment where it is worthwhile, to just say “work more” sounds like he thinks management doesn’t have a role to play.

In fact almost definition ally, if you’re people aren’t working enough, that’s a management failure. So who is he telling?
Polestar's 'Trade In Your Tesla' $20,000 Deal Is Already A Hit - https://insideevs.com/news/752184/polestar-3-tesla-lease-dea...
The same Gary Stevenson whose memoir claims Financial Times debunked?

https://archive.is/DguLm