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by deepGem | 2025-09-09 19:05:33+00:00
This means there's a certain inertia: it can be better to handle the interim reports the same, even if they've been biased one way for several years, than to introduce a change that makes the numbers not comparable to history.

This is a very interesting point. So if BLS suddenly became more accurate, all the agencies have to re-tune their own biases and corrections => Could lead to short term discrepancies.

What one sees as inefficiency is actually efficient from a totally different lens.
by sfblah | 2025-09-09 19:05:36+00:00
What I would like is an iphone for like $200 with a stable set of features that I don't have to buy off the used market. I don't care if it's 2 generations behind, because these new phones don't offer anything I care about.

As far as I can tell from the announcement, they're focusing on content creators. Since I don't stream and am not an Instagrammer, it's irrelevant to me. Selling me one of these cameras is just a waste. I don't even know how to make the phone use the second (or third) camera.
by bitpush | 2025-09-09 19:05:38+00:00
> If we're ever in a world where podcast hosts and advertisers need to rethink their business model, we've already won.

Who's we? Nobody makes things for charity. Even you, who built something out of passion, is charging users for the product. You're here 'advertising' and spreading the word.

It is marketing, and it is the same thing that Coca Cola and others are doing as well. No need to get all judgemental.
by ant6n | 2025-09-09 19:06:01+00:00
It’s a very cool accomplishment. As a nerd of early shooters, I do wonder whether it’s fair to call it Doom-like. It’s clearly more untextured Wolfenstein 3d.

Are we sufficiently far from 1993 to just “round” it all to being Doom-like? certainly it’s better for eyeballs.
by bombcar | 2025-09-09 19:06:09+00:00
The stories about "companies buying houses way over value" were around for awhile; IIRC there were some "AI powered home buying" things related to Zillow, etc that would get in fights with each other and themselves.

Zero interest rate certainly made it much more possible; buying a $500k house and having nearly no holding costs, and worst case scenario selling it for $500k is way different than buying the same $500k house, paying $2k a month in carrying costs (interest alone) and then having to sell it for $450k? That hurts, and hurts hard.
by coffeemug | 2025-09-09 19:06:11+00:00
More importantly it would give parents options: - stay home with your child and take the income - hire a babysitter - hire a better babysitter by adding a little cash - take your child to daycare - take your child to better daycare by adding a little cash

If the government also runs daycare centers that adds another option of taking your child to gov daycare. It also forces the gov and private daycares to compete.

The current policy penalizes people on the margin-- maybe an extra $500/mo would get your child much better daycare, but you're stuck between (likely) low quality government care, or losing a huge chunk of income to solve the problem yourself.
by lazide | 2025-09-09 19:06:34+00:00
This is true literally everywhere, in every country (and under every gov’t) I’ve ever seen. And I’ve seen a lot. If you think US property prices are nuts, look in Europe, Asia (especially East Asia), etc.

Most people take crazy risks to buy the most/nicest house they can get a loan for because where you live is a huge factor for a number of other things in people’s lives.

If people will give them loans for more than they can afford, many people will still do it. So easy credit? Housing market goes up. Tough credit? Housing market goes down. All things considered anyway. Eventually.

Owners have a very, very strong incentive to stop it from going down, so unless they have to move, the market can stay locked up for a long time.
by TZubiri | 2025-09-09 19:06:41+00:00
Here's the actual root cause of the issue:

1- As a professional, installing free dependencies to save on working time.

There's no such thing as a free lunch, you can't have your cake and eat it too that is, download dependencies that solve your problems, without paying, without ads, without propaganda (for example to lure you into maintaining such projects for THE CAUSE), without vendor lockin or without malware.

It's really silly to want to pile up mountains of super secure technology like webauthn, when the solution is just to stop downloading random code from the internet.
by rootusrootus | 2025-09-09 19:07:00+00:00
> there's only half a dozen stations around NYC with 100+ kW chargers

That seems low. Even looking only at Tesla Superchargers, there are something like a dozen just right around NYC itself. Not including EA or any other providers.

Heck, even sleeping Portland, Oregon has 10 Tesla Superchargers in the metro area.
by bluGill | 2025-09-09 19:07:02+00:00
Most people are investing in houses wrong. If you want to invest as most people think of investments you really need several houses and rent them out. Owning your own home as well makes sense, but your own house is not an investment in the same terms even though it is one of the houses you own!

A house falling in value is still a great investment for many, but it is a very different type of investment from what most people mean by investment. By owning a house you have a place to live for the same price even as inflation increases you income. By owning a house you have a place to live after it is paid for when you are retired and have a much smaller income (even if you have more money you have more time to enjoy/spend that money when you are not working 40 hours per week) - retirement savings are limited and houses are a great place to store money that doesn't falling into traditional accounts. These are great things to have long term, but none of them are about the increase in value. The house you live in is an investment in future rent, but you should only think of the value in terms of paying for your nursing home if/when you need one (even then you should have long term care insurance despite all the fraud and near-fraud in this area)

The idea that rents fall and property values stagnate is short term thinking. Over any 5 year period is can be true, but over 10+ years inflation tends to catch up. Unless you are buying in a very rural area nobody wants to live in - Austin doesn't qualify. Sure prices will fall, but builders have a lot of fixed costs and so that limits supply and in turn ensures prices will need to go up as population expands, or just the old houses start wearing out (houses last for a long time with maintenance, but eventually)

I'm not blindly advocating everybody buy a house. Buying vs renting is a complex question, and many people have proven they can do well in life with both. You need to make your own decisions based on your life situation. If you buy be careful not to think of your house in terms of any other investments you make - it needs very different accounting.
by jus3sixty | 2025-09-09 19:07:08+00:00
It's surprising to see the iPhone 17 Pro Max specs compared to those of the Galaxy S25 Ultra.

Comparisons show the S25 Ultra leading in several areas, especially the cameras. The difference in megapixel count is significant.

For years, Apple's flagships were considered superior, but Samsung appears to be pushing boundaries with the S25 Ultra.

Is Apple truly behind, or does their optimization and ecosystem integration make up for it?
by SilverElfin | 2025-09-09 19:07:33+00:00
How are you defining ‘dangerous’? Are you counting deaths? Or also things like assault, robbery, sexual harassment, drug abuse (second hand smoke or needles), etc? What about crimes that take place around transit but not on transit itself, like crimes near a train station or whatever? I think it’s easy to construct narratives that are misleading both with data and without data. My point is simply that for many people, they feel safer in private transit and would prefer it. I see some other people here talking about some shuttle network Microsoft runs - presumably that is also a private option and it likely exists because public transit isn’t something many Microsoft employees want to deal with.
by gardnr | 2025-09-09 19:07:48+00:00
Yeah! You can have many eSIMs, but the iPhone only has two radios, so only two SIMs can be "active" (connected to towers) at any time.

Signal doesn't support multiple phone numbers on the same device. I have two phones:

1. Old iPhone: +55-555-5555

2. New iPhone: +1-867-5309

I would prefer to have the numbers swapped on the devices. There isn't a way to do this without "transferring"[1] the messages to a 3rd iOS device.

This is an awkward edge-case that would be ameliorated by allowing local file backup / restore.

https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007059752-Ba...
by mrweasel | 2025-09-09 19:07:48+00:00
The cheapest of the new phones is 7500DKK ~ 1175USD. That is just insane. I get that I can get an older models and that Apple is a "luxury" brand, but at $1000+ I don't get who buys new iPhones anymore.

Apple seems stuck in a mentality of subsidized phones, which might still be how the US does it, but it makes their product unreasonably expensive in other parts of the world. I can accept that Apple can't do a $200 phone, but that this point I'd be happy with a $500 phone.
by foofoo4u | 2025-09-09 19:07:57+00:00
Well shoot. I just ordered a Mudita Kompakt (minimalist smartphone) to help tackle my phone addiction. Seeing the Apple Configurator allows me to define what apps can be installed and the ability to remove official apps such as Safari or the App Store, now I'm wondering if I just want to stick to my iPhone and do this or use my Kompakt when it arrives.
by ben7799 | 2025-09-09 19:07:58+00:00
It's the left wing gaslighting everyone over all the issues caused by making it harder and harder to build anything. You blame landlords and PE when in actuality the government has stopped construction in it's tracks. This then feeds into the ultra-left agenda which tends towards socialism and "make landlords and private property illegal."

This is largely what the Abundance agenda and YIMBY is all about... getting the left to stop throwing up NIMBY road blocks.

The problems with not enough investment in new houses are not limited strictly to blue states but blue states seem to have the largest problem with it. Democrats love regulation so much that states like MA and CA have erected so many zoning and building regulations that new homes have become incredibly difficult and slow to build.

We struggle to even build apartment size condos in suburban MA that cost less than $1.1-1.5M per unit. We are rapidly heading towards new houses being $2M+ in lots of parts of the state. By the time a developer manages to buy a lot and go through all the red tape, possibly tear down an old house, go through environmental review, etc.. they can't make any money unless they build a $2M+ house. Any lot that doesn't have an old house on it in the eastern part of the state will have a long list of environmental gotchas a developer will have to fight through, possibly for years before they can even start building anything.

Housing construction is so far behind the demand that who owns the existing houses has little to do with it.

PE and Corporate landlords own more property in left leaning markets because Blue policies have made it more profitable to do so. The more new construction is slowed, the more valuable the rental properties become. Some of these companies won't want to go near red states where construction is easy. The property values and rents are just not high enough.
by roadside_picnic | 2025-09-09 19:08:01+00:00
What if a team member needs you at 12am?

If there's a need for "core business hours" those can be established. My most recent company was evenly distributed around the globe so needing someone at 2pm PST is not much different than needing someone at 12am PST.

The vast majority of companies I've worked at remote have a strong async culture and are better for it. With some obvious exceptions, if you need a response in 15 minutes there's something wrong with your planning.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-09-09 19:08:03+00:00
It’s also not in their best interest to give third party devs the signal to go hog wild on memory usage. Already a lot of cross platform shovelware eats 2x-3x RAM as much as it needs to, doesn’t respond to memory pressure notifications (apps are supposed to free up nonessential cache, etc when that happens), and push other backgrounded apps out of memory.
by naugtur | 2025-09-09 19:08:14+00:00
1. Control lifecycle scripts with @lavamoat/allow-scripts

2. Do local dev with https://github.com/lavamoat/kipuka installed (I'm working on it)

3. If you don't permit the APIs used for loading DLLs they won't load themselves, so runtime protections are valid too. But I recall the DLLs were loaded in lifecycle script.
by eagerpace | 2025-09-09 19:08:14+00:00
Faster horse situation. I'd take one that was slightly larger that could plug into a monitor and replace my desktop/laptop. But then that would be 1 or 2 less devices I would buy.

I don't understand the Air model. It's cool, but just a different price point. The thickness of a device means nothing to me anymore, they're all close enough.
by tinyhouse | 2025-09-09 19:08:23+00:00
I'm a fan of Dropbox but their leadership is lacking to say the least...

I recall on one earnings call Drew mentioned they launched Passwords. I checked it out and was shocked how completely broken and unusable it was. Never used it again and eventually it was discontinued.

The new thing they are pushing is Dash, their universal search. It makes a lot of sense, but their progress is very slow and I'm not sure they are able to compete, even though they have some distribution advantage.

The one thing that seems to be working for them is being lean and more efficient. In the last few years they laid off people and improved their margins and cash flows. They couldn't innovate their product so went the other way of let's just squeeze as much money from what we already have.
by ndriscoll | 2025-09-09 19:08:29+00:00
No one said they're not going to pay taxes. They advocated for what they consider to be a better policy. What you're saying is like responding to someone who thinks we shouldn't start random wars with "we don't get to choose what we pay taxes for". Uh, yeah, we do get to advocate for and vote on how the government spends our money. We can and should point out that starting pointless wars is bad and we should encourage others to support a policy where we stop doing it. Arguing against specific uses and for other uses of taxes to build consensus for your point of view is exactly what people are supposed to do in a democracy.
by mandeepj | 2025-09-09 19:08:34+00:00
I recently started studying metal, so I was watching their metal choices with a bit of curiosity.

Apple switched iPhone 17 Pro from Titanium (used in earlier versions) to aerospace-grade Aluminium for Superior Heat Dissipation.

But for the iPhone Air, they are using Titanium because it's lightweight, strong, and durable.

Aluminum is definitely a softer metal, so using aerospace-grade aluminum makes sense. So, is Titanium not a good thermal conductor? If it is not, then why is it used in the iPhone Air?

Sorry! Their choice is not clear to me. Can someone throw light on it?
by homebrewer | 2025-09-09 19:09:25+00:00
Years ago, their desktop client was the only one among popular similar services that supported proper delta sync while also covering all major platforms. Absolutely indispensable if you used it with things like TrueCrypt containers, where changing one byte within would cause most sync clients to resend the whole 50 GB, or however large it was. Dropbox handled this fine and would finish in a couple of seconds (actually sending new data, not just pretending it did that).

I don't know how it is these days, wouldn't be surprised if other commercial services still haven't figured it out.
by RC_ITR | 2025-09-09 19:09:35+00:00
Not all 'normal income' is from a "job" as we think of it and assuming that does not even come close to passing any informed person's smell test.

Parsing tax or SS payments for what a "job" is would be a logistical nightmare, because that's not what the system is designed for (unlike the BLS's system, which is designed to count jobs).
by Tadpole9181 | 2025-09-09 19:10:06+00:00
No, it's really not. The Executive does not have these powers in the constitution. They made it up and assigned it to themselves by loosely interpreting things how they wanted.

Executive orders are memos, not laws. The President has no power for legislation or budget or tariffing. We're supposed to require legislative review of any emergency actions, like using the military.
by hellojesus | 2025-09-09 19:10:15+00:00
> Childcare has gone up 30% in the last few years alone and wages, as you have likely experienced, have not.

This is a major statement, and I don't think it's fully qualified.

Why have childcare expenses imcreased by 30% in the past few years? There should be an arbitrage opportunity if costs have stayed fixed. If costs have increased, is it due to general economic pressures or increased regulatory burden? If the former, wages should catch up (and flooding the market with additional labor likely will exert downward pressue market wages). If the latter, then why on earth are we passing such nonsense regulation?

In either case, moving out of a major metro is always an option.
by cheeseomlit | 2025-09-09 19:10:22+00:00
I agree that the 'housing as an investment' situation is awful but what are the prospects, realistically, for someone looking for a home right now? If it's a choice between renting or paying off a mortgage then to me it's a no brainer to go for the loan if you can get one on reasonable terms. Otherwise you're just throwing money away on rent, you'll never see those rent payments again. And that's what I don't want to see, private equity home ownership reaching a point where more and more people have no choice but to rent. Whatever the solution is to the housing crisis (probably building more homes, duh), I don't think it's relinquishing ownership to wall street and becoming a society of renters

And yes I know they don't own that many houses relatively speaking, right now, but I personally don't see any upside to allowing the practice at all.
by chrisco255 | 2025-09-09 19:10:23+00:00
No party's platform is based on ending or destroying social security, especially not the GOP who gets a broad base of support from retirees. That being said, I've never had much faith in it being around for myself, though I'm 30 years from eligibility). It's possible that productivity boosts from automation and AI could overtime make SS actually sustainable in spite of overwhelming boomer population to support.

The federal tax revenue as percentage of GDP is remarkably stable regardless of widely varying income tax rates over the decades (ranging 15-20% since the 1940s): https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=ockN. This holds up no matter which regime (D or R) is dominant, because the economy reorganizes itself around incentives or disincentives created by various tax policies.
by altruios | 2025-09-09 19:10:24+00:00
'Abolish rent' is a good read.

One thing we can do to drive down property prices without driving people out of their homes is to tax the ever-loving-bejebus out of second (or more) Single family homes, for individuals and corporations. Make it progressively worse the more SFM's corporations hold.

An example would be to tax a second home and onward at (land tax)^(10nn) where n is the number of total homes you have. The point is to make it financially absurd to own a second home, let alone 20.

This is only one particular point on a multi-prong approach.

Removing the ability of Private equity to eat up all the local contractors to make a little mini-monopoly is also something that 100% needs to be done.

The fastest way to remove 'your home is an investment to be reaped later' mentality is to limit the total sale price based on the last sale price (IE: only increasing the price of actually investment into the property, and legally allowing any sale price far below the estimated property value) which mostly removes all of the incentive of buying a house 'for investment'. That's extreme and would have downstream consequences, we still want to (financially) incentive people to improve their living conditions.

It's also extremely hard to build a home! Regulations and zoning laws aside, America lost a fair bit of knowledge after we practically stopped building homes after the 2008 collapse. There's no silver bullet solutions. No company is going to solve the immensely complicated task of building a home in a warehouse to reduce production costs via automation: that's a pipe dream sold to venture capitalists.

Any real solution would have consequences that would hurt some folks. Still: doing nothing hurts everyone (except for an extremely small subset of already wealthy individuals and corps) far more.

Homes should be for 'living in': not to 'make a living from'.
by creer | 2025-09-09 19:10:26+00:00
> Ads in public places, bus stops, etc. are kinda hard to avoid unfortunately.

These are very different - and largely interesting to me in their colorfulness and often whimsy. (The cities around here are otherwise NOT visually interesting).

This is something that web sites have always had at their disposal: use static locally-hosted images as ads and respect my screen real-estate, don't try to track me with 20-200 trackers, and I WILL allow them (and do). I will even allow some animation if it respects my bandwidth.

But no, very few web sites feel satisfied with this so multiple ad blockers they get. A few sites do small static image ads. I don't block these and even frequently follow their links.
by miloignis | 2025-09-09 19:10:46+00:00
This feels more like a proposal for whatever emoji-picker you're using than for Unicode - I don't use most of the scripts defined by Unicode, and I don't use most of the emoji either. No one is forcing me to use every Unicode codepoint.

Them being defined is only a benefit to me if I do happen to need to use them, say to copy-paste Sanskrit to translate it, or if I want to make a joke about bigfoot with an emoji punchline.
by dingnuts | 2025-09-09 19:10:53+00:00
> it just feels like a scam aimed at burning through more tokens.

IT IS A SCAM TO BURN MORE TOKENS. You will know when it is no longer a scam when you either:

1) pay a flat price with NO USAGE LIMITS

or

2) pay per token with the ability to mark a response as bullshit & get a refund for those wasted tokens.

Until then: the incentives are the same as a casino's which means IT IS A SCAM.
by phkahler | 2025-09-09 19:11:26+00:00
>> Through the years, imec has made considerable progress in assessing, understanding, and modeling reliability failure, paving the way to building reliable IGZO transistors with a target lifetime of five years

Five year lifetime isn't getting anywhere near my setup. Also notably absent was anything about read or write times. It sounded promising all the way up to that last paragraph.
by chlodwig | 2025-09-09 19:11:38+00:00
Yea, more dual-income families means:

- Bidding up the price of housing

- Fewer parents active in overseeing the schools, volunteering to fix up the community, etc.

- Less general slack for parents to help each other out

- Fewer mom friends around during the day, less social life for existing stay-at-home moms

- Peer pressure and implicit societal pressure to work a career

- Parents sending their kids to camps and aftercare, rather than having kids free-range around the neighborhood and play with friends, so fewer playmates for the non-camp/non-daycare kids.