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by tptacek | 2025-08-01 03:02:04+00:00
I live and am politically active in a front-line municipality for these issues (Oak Park, IL --- the actual redlining bastion of the western suburbs, a 4.5 square mile gravity well for Cook County school funding so egregious it was one of the first examples in Johnny Harris's NYT "Blue States, You're The Problem video) and I'm telling you, straight out, leftist defenses of existing zoning rules are a very real thing. In fact, where I live, they are the entire defense of those zoning rules: progressives have a supermajority of the board.

Leftists are not solely or distinctively responsible for exclusionary zoning and housing restriction in the US. Nationally, they're not even the biggest problem. But in many jurisdictions, places that should be the vanguards and test cases for housing reform, they are the controlling factor.

Which is why Derek Thompson addresses them so directly. What would be the point of aiming these criticisms at Republican-controlled municipalities? They don't share these values to begin with! They're not listening!

Right now, we have two parties actively propping up home values and the interests of the upper middle class. Klein and Thompson propose: what if on this issue we had two parties?
by fragmede | 2025-08-01 03:02:25+00:00
Okay but what does that have to do with enshittification, as defined by Cory Doctorow, which refers to the decline in quality of online platforms and services over time, often driven by the pursuit of increased profits. This degradation is characterized by a shift in focus from user experience to maximizing revenue, typically through tactics like increased advertising, higher costs, or changes that favor business customers at the expense of users.

Or do you just like how the word has shit in the middle of it and are using it incorrectly?
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-08-01 03:02:57+00:00
Works when/where archive.is is blocked

No Javascript required

echo url=https://www.economist.com/international/2025/07/29/how-spy-agencies-are-experimenting-with-the-newest-ai-models \ |curl -K/dev/stdin -A "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 14) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/127.0.6533.103 Mobile Safari/537.36 Lamarr" > 1.htm firefox ./1.htm
by energy123 | 2025-08-01 03:03:17+00:00
Here's the political solution: Do both public housing and zoning reform.

Unlike zero-sum political disputes where there is a winner and loser, this is a rare issue where both camps can win without impacting the other camp.

What we should not do is give the left their worst ideas, like rent control or stopping AirBNB. Give them their best idea, which is public housing.
by zmmmmm | 2025-08-01 03:03:51+00:00
It's a good analysis.

For me the big concern is really the level of detachment from reality that I'm seeing around time scales. People in the startup world seem to utterly fail to appreciate the complexity of changing business processes - for any type of change, let alone for an immature tech where there are still fundamental unsolved problems. The only way for the value of AI to be realised is for large scape business adoption to happen, and that is simply not achievable in the 2 years of runway most of these companies seem to be on.
by SR2Z | 2025-08-01 03:04:58+00:00
How much demand do you think CAN be induced? Colorado has 2.6M housing units for ~6M people. If Denver builds 20k units a year for the next 5 years, that would represent the entire state growing by 4% (230k people) off the back of one city alone. I guess that's not terribly unreasonable - if Denver was the only city in the country.

Except, it's not. Where would all of these extra people come from?

More to the point, Denver is already quite expensive. Where are you going to find another 230k people capable of paying even higher rents than folks do today?
by tlogan | 2025-08-01 03:08:17+00:00
> Rents are high because landlords are greedy

I understand the frustration, but it’s probably unfair to single out landlords specifically. Greed isn’t unique to landlords: it’s a universal human trait. We’re all greedy.

History reminds us of at least one person who famously preached against greed, and humanity’s reaction was to nail him to a cross.
by mindslight | 2025-08-01 03:08:18+00:00
> What do you think you need an MD for, in your primary care visit, that an NP can’t do?

I guess not much at this point where PCPs don't seem to do much beyond use rubrics, prescribe, and refer. Which is why I used the word enshittification - it's part of a continual gradual march down in quality/services to a captive customer base. Basically the opposite environment of innovation aiming to serve customers.

> How much time, in a day, do you think doctors are spending on “insurance”,

I'd say at least half their time, if not much more. They certainly aren't scheduling these 10-15 minute appointments back to back all day. By "insurance" I am of course including all of the extra documentation and runaround they have to do simply to satisfy the third party beancounters' demands. I'd say this even includes a good number of patient visits themselves.

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/what-your-doctor-spends-80-...

https://siderea.dreamwidth.org/1182366.html

Observations in my personal experience line up with this:

- Number of signs at my primary care office about their procedures for providing/processing referrals, like this is the majority of their work

- The numerous questionnaires every office makes you fill out ahead of every appointment, that they themselves never actually read

- Experience with a not-terribly-large specialist office who employed an entire full time "nurse navigator" whose job it was to help doctors prepare documentation for "prior approvals"

- The multiple times I've seen a doctor personally step in to grease the system for something way way below their pay grade, because it was the only way to provide appropriate health care

I'm sure I'm forgetting plenty too. Frankly I don't know how one could step into any moderately sized medical provider and not perceive the entrenched corporate government tentacles in every facet.
by mindslight | 2025-08-01 03:08:43+00:00
What an oddly personal reaction. Did you get bored of infosec or something?

Being HN, we're talking about systems and cohorts, not individuals. I've had some great individual NPs that were more actively engaged than most doctors. PAs as well. And I've had plenty of crappy MDs just phoning it in. But none of that is really relevant to the system meeting higher demand by simply lowering its standards rather than actually being reformed.
by sugarpimpdorsey | 2025-08-01 03:09:18+00:00
> users of an OS with a built-in file permissions system

Lot of good that will do you when Linux users will curl | bash most any garbage.

The Windows NT file permission system is far more advanced (and I'm not even including AppLocker or software whitelisting).

> thinking about whom to trust and primarily sourcing their software from the distro package manager

So "app store" is the wave of the future?

The days of Linux users using magic healing crystals to protect themselves from malware are long over. Most malware these days targets Linux servers. If you think chmod u+x is what is preventing your computer from catching digital AIDS I have news for you.
by HDThoreaun | 2025-08-01 03:09:40+00:00
Collusion on housing only works when there is a shortage. As soon as the shortage ends units go unfilled and landlords defect. Collusion works in industries where supply can change in the short run, tough to do that in real estate. Real estate elasticity is so high though that small collusion can work, but only if there is already a shortage. Yet, again the solution is just build more.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-08-01 03:10:05+00:00
Works if/when archive.is is blocked

No Javascript required

echo url=https://www.ft.com/content/047b7cc9-c57f-4385-b4b4-acc76f408a47 \ |curl -K/dev/stdin -A "Mozilla/5.0 (Java) outbrain" > 1.htm firefox ./1.htm
by jordanb | 2025-08-01 03:10:26+00:00
I guarantee you all your Oak Park neighbors are the type who were With Hillary in 2016 (probably calling Bernie a sexist) and voted for Biden and against progressive income tax in 2020. They are not leftists. You seem to be having some trouble understanding the difference between democrats, liberals, and leftists.

T&K are fundamentally dishonest about the role of euclidean zoning in american cities, who supports it and why it's so powerful. Their basic project is to strip environmental and labor protections by tying them to euclidean zoning and saying "it's all the same."

And by the way, they may get their way (Newsom is already forcing repeals of environmental protections in California while toasting Klein) but at the end of the day euclidean zoning will still be around, because it is supported by people who are way too powerful.

Another by the way: I remember fighting the big Chicago rezoning in 2004. They had us chasing our tails by trying to double the parking requirements and letting us fight to get them back down to where they were in the old code, feeling like we won a big victory.
by woooooo | 2025-08-01 03:11:14+00:00
Its about the message. Centering the message on something that has indirect, timelagged effects and isnt even actionable at the federal level is terrible messaging strategy for the national party.

"The dairy industry ran ads saying milk was good for you for 20 years and sales went down. Then they tried 'got milk' and sales went up" https://youtu.be/keCwRdbwNQY?si=kc14Ms7ECxglNgbl
by kalleboo | 2025-08-01 03:11:25+00:00
Yeah when I got 10 Gbit internet at home, all the options for a router looked really expensive so I bought a Lenovo ThinkCentre Tiny for $80 + $20 for the riser+NIC, and installed OpenWRT on it. Runs like a charm, power draw is a the same as the ISP's monthly rental router.
by gsf_emergency_2 | 2025-08-01 03:13:02+00:00
Sorry to derail this thread on journalistic merit..

I just thought that this other thread on housing microeconomics is worth pointing out, to anyone who might be excited about the prospects of enlightened tax policy

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44750961

>This is most clear in insurance data where replacement cost is isolated from land value.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-08-01 03:13:02+00:00
Works if/when archive.md is blocked

No Javascript required

echo url=https://www.ft.com/content/83250c1a-18f0-47fb-9748-257e9c848aa1 \ |curl -K/dev/stdin -A "Mozilla/5.0 (Java) outbrain" > 1.htm firefox ./1.htm
by general1726 | 2025-08-01 03:13:22+00:00
As somebody who runs a company, I would be more worried about people relentlessly copying my product. If AI will become widely available, then we are not talking about a jerk copying 1:1 what I am doing once in a blue moon and I can sue the guy no problem. I am talking about hundreds of jerks with AI instantly reversing my product and creating copy of what I am doing in mere hours. You can see that suing makes no sense, law has ceased to exist because there are no resources to apply it.

I believe that in the age of AI, being a purely software company will be impossible. All your ideas instantly stolen. Why would I pay for your software product when hundreds of copies are instantly available for free/open sourced?
by igrunert | 2025-08-01 03:13:32+00:00
WebKit runs on Windows, the Windows port just needs work to bring it up to the level of the Linux port. I got every JIT tier enabled in JavaScriptCore [1] and enabled libpas (the memory allocator). The Windows port is moving to Skia in line with the Linux port.

Really just needs more people (and companies) pushing it forward. Hopefully Kagi will be contributing improvements to the Windows port upstream.

[1] https://iangrunert.com/2024/10/07/every-jit-tier-enabled-jsc...
by conditionnumber | 2025-08-01 03:14:21+00:00
Cool, EDGAR is an amazing public service. I think they use Akamai as their CDN so the downloads are remarkably fast.

A few years ago I wrote an SGML parser for the full SEC PDS specification (super tedious). But I have trouble leveraging my own efforts for independent research because I don't have a reliable securities master to link against. I can't take a historical CUSIP from 13F filings and associate it to a historical ticker/return. Or my returns are wrong because of data errors so I can't fit a factor model to run an event study using Form 4 data.

I think what's missing is a serious open source effort to integrate/cleanse the various cheapo data vendors into something reasonably approximating the quality you get out of a CRSP/Compustat.
by didibus | 2025-08-01 03:14:24+00:00
Most interesting proposal I heard on this topic, is that the solution to housing prices is to ban renting altogether.

It's so radical that it's almost impossible to predict if it would be better or worse. But at least it had the moral ground that rent is one of the last remnant of pre-capitalist lords and barons economies.

The idea being it would commoditize housing. Millions of units would now be for sale, prices would drop, tons of people would now be able to afford buying. Home builders would be incentivize to build nicer, cheaper, as the competition would move entirely to the selling/buying market.

It's radical for sure, but I've always found the thought experiment fascinating.
by piperswe | 2025-08-01 03:15:25+00:00
> The type of kid who was setting up Outlook betas in 6th grade to try the new features.

Oh man, this brings up memories of me being inordinately excited about Office 2007 when it was in beta. I was in elementary school.

And memories of staying up late reading my collection of outdated tech books (Borland C++, UNIX SVR4, HTML 4, and the MS-DOS 6.22 manual were the big ones). Initially learning about programming and UNIX from those books were extremely formative for how I view programming today, and I suspect that's given me quite a different perspective on a lot of things (especially things like HTML & CGI) than a lot of other folks in my age cohort.
by ycombiredd | 2025-08-01 03:16:40+00:00
OP here. I need to update the readme, but running it with --help will show you all of the alternate tunings and such. The mapper algorithm is nearly 100% tunable.

As I said, I'll put this info in the README, but last night I made a medium post that shows some of this (--bass, etc).

https://medium.com/@scott.vr/about-seven-months-ago-via-hack...
by ants_everywhere | 2025-08-01 03:16:41+00:00
Cloud companies also provide globe-scale cronjobs that work a lot like a Unix cronjob. Arguably less mental overhead than adopting a separate framework.

And such a service provides reliability guarantees.

If I have to do a reliable periodic service, my go-to is a kubernetes cronjob, which is like a baby version of a cloud cronjob. I'd be reluctant to adopt some sort of task queue framework because of the complexity of the mental model plus the complexity of keeping one more thing running reliably. K8s is already running reliably, I might as well use that.
by SkyPuncher | 2025-08-01 03:16:53+00:00
This was basically why I moved away from them.

I ended up with a bunch of mildly compatible products that were a totally pain to manage. It was _amazing_ when it worked well. It mostly does, but on occasional when things went wrong it was a totally pain pain to fix.

My Tp-link Deco system works just as well for my use case. It occasionally decides to use a terrible channel, but that’s fixed with a quick restart or a few clicks in the app.
by ATiredGoat | 2025-08-01 03:17:01+00:00
I've been working on a massive text adventure game, The Labyrinth of Time’s Edge, for over 30 years. No budget, no marketing team, and no 3D engine. Just a keyboard, a compiler, and a love for interactive fiction. This past week, I finished building out Map 4 of the Shadow Veil, an eerie stretch of the game that explores decay, silence, and forgotten civilizations. The tools? QBasic. Plain text. And the kind of logic any old DOS machine could run.

You don’t need RTX shaders to create atmosphere. A few lines of description, a haunting pause in the story, and the player’s imagination does the rest. That’s the power of the format. Text adventures aren’t just nostalgia. They’re lightweight, endlessly expandable, and surprisingly relevant in a world where everything else in gaming feels bloated. They boot fast. They run on a toaster. They engage the mind instead of flooding the screen.

In an age of 100GB downloads, there’s something almost rebellious about a game you can copy to a floppy. The Labyrinth of Time’s Edge is now over 2,800 hand-crafted rooms, and it’s still growing. You can walk through caves, haunted villages, ancient temples, and memory-scars from a forgotten war and it all loads in under a second.

This kind of project isn’t about selling copies. It’s about proving that the how of storytelling doesn’t need to be sacrificed on the altar of the latest GPU. Text adventures survived the fall of the CD-ROM boom. They'll survive whatever comes next.
by whoknowsidont | 2025-08-01 03:18:05+00:00
>Not surprising at all to hear that Matt Stoller got the economics of an antitrust issue wrong.

I mean he didn't. The article is legitimately straw-manning. All of his claims are not present in the source article.

It's a disgusting, sleazy piece of journalism.

So no, you didn't hear he got it wrong. You were lied to by the author.
by phendrenad2 | 2025-08-01 03:20:26+00:00
Okay let's see the proof... Bueller? Bueller? (Sorry you need to be Gen X to get that reference).

Boomer CEOs are "holding on" to their roles, and the board is apparently okay with this, but suddenly when it comes to pick a successor the board is going to flip 180 and value "youth" and pick a Gen Y over Gen X? Sure, Jan (another Gen X reference for ya).

The rest of the article is just more of the same. 9 of the last 10 presidents were Boomers, thanks to life-extending medical advancements, which we are going to throw in the trash as soon as the last Boomer dies, so ensure that Gen X never gets them (are you serious?)
by didibus | 2025-08-01 03:20:30+00:00
I assume I'm somewhat impartial, I don't know this author, it's the first time I hear of the "antitrust left" or of the argument that big monopoly builder purposely keep the market scarce to increase prices. And it's not an issue that I hold a strong opinion about.

The way the piece reads to me is a "He said, She Said". And I have to choose whose word I trust.

Two articles, both claim to have spoken to expert sources, both claim the expert have told them X and Y. One says the expert told them things that corroborates the idea of the "antitrust left", and the other claims the sources actually disagreed with it.

So my personal take is that both appear untrustworthy and biased, pushing their own distorted narrative.
by arlort | 2025-08-01 03:22:36+00:00
Personally I'm skeptical it's been shot down because of "the public" so far

In fact I think all of these impending doom articles are particularly counter productive because they de-sensitize people before it even gets to the parliament which (1) has already expressed opposition to this and (2) is a bit more starving for approval and thus potentially more receptive to this kind of stuff

But that's beyond the point regarding the "keep trying" part because I really can't imagine a way to "fix" that which isn't going to negatively impact the quality of legislation in the long run

Also I'm fairly sure that if there was a limit on how many times it can be considered in committee it'd already have been approved by council, so be careful what you wish for
by __jochen__ | 2025-08-01 03:23:30+00:00
From a technical perspective there is so much you can do to secure things, including against theft. While it's hard to lock things down past 99.9% usage, it is not too hard to make token issuance secure enough for practical, wide-spread use (there are a plethora of crypto protocols out there to prove the point).

There's no guarantee that the government will pick the best standard, but one can hold out hope (e.g. when the US govt adopted Rijndael as the AES encryption standard).
by protocolture | 2025-08-01 03:23:58+00:00
>Terminally online types complain all day about how social media is terrible and needs to be regulated until the moment actual legislation is being passed then they complain about that instead.

Even if that were the case, demanding a solution doesn't mean accepting a bad solution.

"My dog is hungry" "Well I killed your dog and it no longer experiences hunger, please clap"
by subarctic | 2025-08-01 03:24:25+00:00
Maybe what'll happen is Google or Meta will use their control over the end user experience to show ads and provide free ad-supported access to sites that require micropayments, covering the cost themselves, and anyone running an agent will just pay the micropayments.

The other option is everything just keeps moving more and more into these walled gardens like Instagram where everyone uses the mobile app and watches ads, because the web versions of those apps just keep getting worse and worse by comparison.
by alblez | 2025-08-01 03:24:36+00:00
I think an app that schedules tasks around when you’re most energized could really boost productivity. But I get the concerns about tracking data. It might make sense to lean into some more passive methods for gathering info. Like, maybe use the sensors on our phones to keep tabs on activity, sleep, and location to figure out when we’re hitting our peaks. Also, it could be cool to add some gamification—like giving users points for checking in on their energy levels or for knocking out tasks when they’re firing on all cylinders. That could help keep people engaged with the app and make it more useful.
by vunderba | 2025-08-01 03:25:15+00:00
Nice release. Ran some preliminary tests using the 12b Txt2Img Krea model. Its biggest wins seems to be raw speed (and possibly realism) but perhaps unsurprisingly did not score any higher on the leaderboard for prompt adherence than the normal Flux.1D model.

https://genai-showdown.specr.net

On another note, there seem to be some indication that Wan 2.2+ future models might end up becoming significant players in the T2I space though you'll probably need a metric ton of LoRAs to cover some of the lack of image diversity.
by denimnerd42 | 2025-08-01 03:27:19+00:00
yes bigger houses to an extent are way more profitable because there is a somewhat linear relationship between sqft and value but houses have a lot of fixed cost. there's probably a sweet spot around 2500sqft in suburban/exurban Dallas Fort Worth to maximize the market for the house and still generate low $/sqft such that the guy building something bigger next tract over isn't crushing you on $/sqft.

that 2500sqft house is still $200-250/sqft way out in the middle of nowhere where the land doesn't really even factor in much.
by graeme | 2025-08-01 03:28:43+00:00
Hold on. Take the first claim. Derek Thompson called the author of the paper who effectively said "no my paper does not support the claims made".

So either:

1. Derek Thompson is flat out lying

2. The author is wrong and confused, or

3. The critics are wrong

The critics haven't claimed to speak from the author to confirm their interpretation is correct. So to think the critics are right you have to think the convo is a lie or the author is muddled and confused.
by mayneack | 2025-08-01 03:28:44+00:00
This is a very online oriented debate. Derek Thompson might hear mostly from left coded anti-trust types on twitter, but I really don't think that's the main opponent to abundance.

If you spend time in the individual communities where this battle happens, the voice of the classic NIMBY (worried about property values and crime) drowns out the left-NIMBYs that worry about "greedy developers" and gentrification. At least that's been my experience in West LA. Many of the less-online left critics eventually come around to realize that upzoning type solutions and public housing type solutions aren't actually in conflict with each other even if they disagree on relative priority and impact.