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by tguvot | 2025-11-05 03:55:15+00:00
i used multiple dishwashers in multiple countries. blomberg, ge, bosch, miele, lg. used pods for as long as they exist (with exception of miele that has detergent cartridge that is good for two dozens of cycles). the only times when I had problem with dishwasher performance it's when either dishwasher had physical malfunction, dishwasher arms were blocked by some object or when i forgot to put pod.

is my experience of dishwashers extraordinary ?
by Spooky23 | 2025-11-05 03:55:44+00:00
Obama took a mea culpa on parts of implementation, namely the federal marketplace website (they weren’t expected as many states to opt out of the marketplace) and the “keep your plan” narrative.

It was a compromise law that was in alignment with Bush era mainstream conservatives. The fatal flaw of Obama and Biden is they underestimated the power of the nutcase wing of the Republican Party. (Along with the institutional GOP folks)
by actsasbuffoon | 2025-11-05 03:56:47+00:00
Before the ACA, insurance companies were allowed to have these things called “lifetime limits.”

Basically, once your healthcare got expensive, they could just cut you off and say they wouldn’t cover you any further. And because of pre-existing conditions (which the ACA also eliminated), you couldn’t get new health insurance. You were basically fucked.

My mom got cancer a few years before the ACA passed. So far as I’m concerned, the old insurance system killed my mom when she was only 40 years old. I lost my only surviving parent, and my little brother lost his mom when he was only 10 years old. So forgive the utterly flabbergasted look on my face as I read your comment.
Show HN: Generate custom MTA Subway displays
by theryangeary | 2025-11-05 03:57:33+00:00
Last week while sitting on the subway I noticed the displays in the newer (R211 maybe but I don't really know my trains models) display what are essentially captions of the overhead announcements. As it was flashing "ALCOHOL" on the screen I started pondering what else one could display on these screens, just for fun. I ended up creating a generator and now I hope you'll enjoy it, and maybe leave a message in the gallery a la guestbooks of the early internet.
by DannyBee | 2025-11-05 03:57:41+00:00
Also quoting Paul Krugman -

"“The growth of the Internet will slow drastically, as the flaw in ‘Metcalfe’s law’—which states that the number of potential connections in a network is proportional to the square of the number of participants—becomes apparent: most people have nothing to say to each other! By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet’s impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine’s.”"

So you know, take what he says with a grain of salt, as with all economists, who pretend to be rigorous when in fact they are anything but.
by smbullet | 2025-11-05 03:58:43+00:00
Unfortunately that's kind of the reality for NYC. Since Bloomberg left it's been a one party city and ranked choice voting is implemented in the primary but not the general election. That means Democrats can feel comfortable voting for the most radical candidate in the primary without fear they might flop in the general election. Until we get ranked choice in the general election moderates and non-democrats don't really have a voice. This is especially true if multiple candidates run against the democratic nominee like in this election.
by eru | 2025-11-05 03:58:53+00:00
Oh, GMail is definitely a cloud offering---even if they have some offline functionality.

I was just probing the 'content _streaming_' term. As you demonstrate, you'd have to squint really hard to describe GMail as content streaming.

'Offline' vs 'content streaming' is a false dichotomy. There's more different types of products and services.

(Which reminds me a bit of crypto-folks calling everything software that's not in crypto "web2", as if working on stodgy backends in a bank or making Nintendo Switch games has anything to do with the web at all.)
by subject4056 | 2025-11-05 03:59:05+00:00
I don't think so. Primarily because if you can ask that question instead of just being dead, then it's not the fast takeoff.

On a less drastic note, if AI were autonomously cannibalizing the economy, you'd run into more things and go "huh I guess that's run by AI now" instead of "ah godammit why did they shove an LLM in this workflow".
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-11-05 03:59:17+00:00
> Mamdani's and by extension, his voters', ignorance about the effects of price controls

Mamdani isn’t pitching widespread price controls, but rent control over a small section of New York housing twinned with abundance-style new development.

“In a 2022 paper, the political scientists Anselm Hager, Hanno Hilbig, and Robert Vief used the introduction of a 2019 rent-control law in Berlin to study how access to rent-controlled apartments influenced local attitudes toward housing development. The fact that the new law included an arbitrary cutoff date (it applied only to buildings constructed before January 1, 2014) allowed the authors to create a natural experiment, comparing otherwise-similar tenants in otherwise-similar buildings.

Heading into the experiment, the authors hypothesized that having access to a rent-controlled apartment would keep tenants in their existing units longer and therefore make them more resistant to neighborhood change. Instead, they found the opposite: Residents who lived in rent-controlled apartments were 37 percent more likely to support new local-housing construction than those living in noncontrolled units” [1].

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/economy/archive/2025/11/mamdani-...
by abduhl | 2025-11-05 03:59:23+00:00
I don’t think these are ad hominem attacks. The article seems to just state the (perhaps biased) facts: people are calling it a clown show, Prasad was ousted, Prasad did gain popularity on social media as a COVID-skeptic. It doesn’t become an ad hominem just because you don’t like the way the facts are stated or the inferences your own brain makes.
by bigbadfeline | 2025-11-05 04:00:14+00:00
> It manages to go up a bit, so it's fast enough to get airborne. The normal looking rotation kills too much energy.

Yes, it did get airborne for a few seconds but from the video below, it looks like the left wing was damaged by the fire and could not provide enough lift, then the right wing rolled the plane to the left causing the crash.

https://bsky.app/profile/shipwreck75.bsky.social/post/3m4tvh...
by donohoe | 2025-11-05 04:00:15+00:00
The city already has a crime problem

The city does not have a crime problem. It exists, but its down, and its lower than most comparable (and smaller cities). NYC is safe.

Socialism has a bad track record for a reason

Only because people confuse it with "communism", otherwise it has a great track record.

This isnt even getting into hos antisemitism

Yeah, thats why Brad Landers, the most prominent elected Jewish member of the NYC political scene endorsed him and campaigned with him?

Perhaps you don't know what you are talking about?
by myko | 2025-11-05 04:00:19+00:00
This is fantasy. Obamacare slowed the rising cost of healthcare, fullstop. It helped people get coverage who could not before. It was kneecapped and could have been better, but acting like it wasn't an improvement is so far from reality it is ridiculous.

Yes, a single payer system would be better, but this was better than doing nothing.
by FabHK | 2025-11-05 04:00:32+00:00
V1 is the speed at which you can still stop the plane before the end of the runway. (It is computed for each takeoff based on runway length, aircraft mass, takeoff engine power setting, flaps, wind, runway condition, etc.)

When the plane reaches V1, pilots take the hand off the throttle: they're committed to takeoff, even if an engine fails. It is better to take off and fix the problem or land again, than to smash into whatever is beyond the end of the runway.
by tinyhouse | 2025-11-05 04:00:41+00:00
Actually demand has being going down and rents have been trending down as a result. The main reason is less immigration and international students. I recall years ago every open house I would go to ended up selling above market value for cash from someone from overseas who "invests" their money on the back of locals trying to buy a house to live in for their family. The billionaires were not the ones to blame for this.
by voidhorse | 2025-11-05 04:00:56+00:00
Mamdani has said basically none of the things you claim here. These are all clearly mischaracterizations of what he's actually said aimed and convincing someone like you to think he's a bad choice. In particular Mamdani has been extremely clear that he has no plans to defund the police in any fashion. In fact, he wants to enable NYPD to get back to solving crimes rather than incidents better handled by mental health professionals (e.g. people tweaking, by themselves, all alone, on the subway platform)

How about watch some actual interviews in which Mamdani states what he wants to do rather than only get your information from third parties who clearly want to emphasize particular angles?
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-11-05 04:01:01+00:00
The fact that I was seeing Sliwa favourably speaks to the candidate quality in this race.

> No dirt. Other that some stupid stuff he said while he was young

Stupid stuff he credibly disavowed.

I’m still blown away that after De Blasio he was the only one, when asked a foreign policy question, who said he’d put city priorities first.
by nialv7 | 2025-11-05 04:02:51+00:00
I kinda feel Obama is more of a Trojan horse. It was not he tried and failed to get what he campaigned for implemented, it was more like he did a U turn after he got elected. e.g. he called for universal health care but once he was elected he started saying it was "too radical".

I hope the same doesn't happen with Zohran. If he was going to fail after all, I wish that will at least be after he had fought as hard as he can.
by Forgeties79 | 2025-11-05 04:03:16+00:00
My only counter point to your resolution argument is that 1440p is where I’m happy because of 2 words: real estate. Also 120hz for sure. Above that meh.

I edit video for a tech startup. High high high volume. I need 2-3 27+”1440p screens to really feel like I’ve got the desktop layout I need. I’m running an NLE (which ideally has 2 monitors on its own but I can live on 1), slack, several browser windows with HubSpot and Trello et al., system monitoring, maybe a DAW or audacity, several drives/file windows opens, a text editor for note taking, a PDF/email window with notes for an edit, terminal, the list goes on.

At home I can’t live without my 3440x1440p WS + 1440p second monitor for gaming and discord + whatever else I’ve got going. It’s ridiculous but one monitor, especially 1080p, is so confining. I had this wonderful 900p gateway I held on to until about 2 years ago. It was basically a tv screen, which was nice but just became unnecessary once I got yet another free 1080p IPS monitor from someone doing spring cleaning. I couldn’t go back. It was so cramped!

This is a bit extreme: but our livestream computer is 3 monitors plus a 4th technically: a 70” TV we use for multiview out of OBS.

I need space lol
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-11-05 04:04:16+00:00
> Pragmatism without principles is still no principles. Mamdani has principles

Ex ante versus ex post facto.

New Yorkers aren’t idiots who vote in pie in the sky absolutist lunatics. I’m hopeful Mamdani can show new ideas are electable, even if his particular pitch is finely tuned to the deep blue.
by vacuity | 2025-11-05 04:05:02+00:00
But who is "they"? What does it mean to be "on the same side as Rust"? What if Rust maintainers disagree? Being on a side suggests an unwillingness to part ways, which is more commitment than merely agreeing to a set of beliefs at some time. If Rust is a worthy rock in the political sphere for the moment, then there is no trouble in believing alike, but only for the moment. Every actor should prove themselves constantly, not to be orbited.
by keeda | 2025-11-05 04:05:08+00:00
Sure, let's put some numbers on the thought experiment. Oversimplifying everything: say before AI, 100% of the world's energy enabled 100 units of productivity. Now, adding 2% more power for AI (which includes the training!), 102% buys us 105 units of productivity at the lower end? That's a good deal!

Of course, realistically speaking, the 5-30% boost is only across certain domains in knowledge work, not all work ever, so we're not gonna see a 105% boost globally. To get a fairer comparison, let's look at the US in 2024 where we have some broad data about AI power usage for and its overall productivity impact.

For power [1] indicates datacenters accounted for about 4.4% of all US power demand in 2024. From [2] it seems upto 20% of that was for AI workloads. That gives us 0.88% of total US power consumed by AI in 2024.

Now look at [2]. This is a St. Louis Fed study based on broad survey data which finds similar ~25% productivity boosts across multiple industries, which is comparable to other randomized studies on empirical data (some included in my previous links.) They estimate that current levels of AI usage in only the industries and roles exposed to it may already be improving total US labor productivity by upto 1.2%!

So we are probably already a bit better than breakeven!

Now consider that productivity will only keep increasing as people and companies learn to harness AI properly. As anecdotal evidence, notice how the sentiments about AI-based coding have shifted on this very forum; you see way more converts than skeptics.

Also consider that [3] found that people still use AI for a small part of their workday. As usage increases, so will productivity. Power consumption will go up too, but from all the above it looks very much like the tradeoff is very favorable to AI.

Yes we need more studies and data, but the ones we have so far are already sort of mind-blowing.

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/10/24/what-we-k...

[2] https://www.wired.com/story/new-research-energy-electricity-...

[3] https://s3.amazonaws.com/real.stlouisfed.org/wp/2024/2024-02...
by musicale | 2025-11-05 04:06:30+00:00
The original Mac mini was $499 in 2005.

But Apple had already released a $799 laptop - the eMate 300 in 1997.

Ahead of its time - ARM processor, 28-hour battery life, flash storage, wireless modem card. Its curved, translucent case design (with a handle!) was echoed in the iMac (1998) and iBook (1999).

It also appears to have come with a decent keyboard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMate_300
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-11-05 04:07:05+00:00
> he called for universal health care but once he was elected he started saying it was "too radical"

ACA was the most radical package that could have passed, and it still cost Democrats the Congress.

This line of argument reminds of the folks who complained about Sinema and Manchin. You know what we’d have with a few more Sinemas and Manchins in the party right now? A majority.

The bill that passes is better than the ideal that doesn’t.
by chasing | 2025-11-05 04:07:20+00:00
Young people get sick and have accidents, too.

If life was perfectly predictable then, yes, insurance wouldn't have much of a point. But alas.

We all pay in a bit and those of us unlucky enough to need a huge amount of help can have access to the resources they need. Hopefully that will never be you! But as they say: The reward for a long life is to get to experience the decay of your own body. Good health is temporary for all of us.

That said, you're right: Single-payer would be a huge improvement. Let's do that.
by TheAceOfHearts | 2025-11-05 04:08:05+00:00
I'm noticing that this election result has made a lot of people I know really hopeful. It's apparent that many people are fed up with the status quo so they're pushing towards more experimental candidates.

If anyone here is well-read on his policies and they have specific opinions I'd love to hear what you think.

Do you think Zohran will be successful with his agenda or will he get blocked by pushback from other political forces? I read some commentary that a few of his policy ideas are unfeasible without support from Albany, and I'm not sure how to evaluate that relationship.

Many online figures have become heavily invested on this mayoral election despite living hundreds or thousands of miles away, and I think that speaks to a real hunger for greater political experimentation.

As an aside, how do you evaluate the lessons that you learn or derive from what others are doing? Generalization sure is a tricky thing.
by tmvphil | 2025-11-05 04:08:31+00:00
Zohran isn't proposing putting any new units under rent control (really rent stabilization), only temporarily halting raises to rents for existing stabilized units. This will make it harder for the city to attract new buildings to join rent stabilization in the future, but will benefit existing habitants. It won't have any effect on the ability to profitably develop market rate units at all.
by voidhorse | 2025-11-05 04:08:37+00:00
lol, going down according to who? https://www.zillow.com/rental-manager/market-trends/new-york...

I don't doubt that immigration has probably marginally impacted the market, that doesn't change the fact that rent in NYC is still increasing YoY and is way too expensive.

And yes, the people extracting exorbitant rent cost are in fact the ones to blame. I don't understand people who seem to occupy a fairytale land in which they feel the need to defend billionaires as though they owe some fealty to them.
by mbesto | 2025-11-05 04:08:51+00:00
> Nothing, absolutely nothing, in the ACA brought down costs.

How it possible to calculate this theory when you don't have a control group? Said differently, if everyone is subject to ACA you can't compare it to a group of people that aren't subject to ACA. Also, insurance premiums are a direct result of how many people are in the pool.

If the control group was "just use the previous year before ACA" then there was absolutely scenarios where people got cheaper healthcare after ACA even without the subsidies. Like real estate markets, insurance markets aren't national, they're local.

FWIW - I'm neither advocating nor opposing the implementation of ACA, just stating it's not easy to conclude "healthcare costs more/less now".
by kmeisthax | 2025-11-05 04:09:02+00:00
I agree, but only in the sense that I think any amount of copyright protection for scientific papers is absolutely absurd. The creativity involved in papers is minimal and a good chunk of that research is funded by the government, so paywalling it is criminally unethical.

Also, if we're going to bin the entire concept of copyright, can we at least be equal about it? I'd rather not live in a world where humans labor for the remnants of their culture in the content mines while clankers[0] feast on an endless stream of training data.

[0] Fake racial slur for robots or other AI systems.
by rowanG077 | 2025-11-05 04:09:18+00:00
What is this ridiculous bait and switch. First you talk about a 12 TB dev databases and "How could I not use the cloud?". And you rightfully get challenged on that and then suddenly it's about the number of servers you have to manage and you don't have the energy to do that with your team. Those two have nothing to do with each other.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-11-05 04:09:36+00:00
> one way to say Mamdani is also a plant, just like AOC imo

He’s a candidate who won and can keep winning. I know a lot of dyed in wool democratic socialists. They’re nutjobs. Not only that, they’re clearly nutjobs from afar.

Every politician in a single-party jurisdiction has to pivot between the primary and general. Mamdani and AOC did it well. The hypothetical non-“plant” you’re looking for is a Democrat analog to Kari Lake.
by sublinear | 2025-11-05 04:10:11+00:00
Would you not admit the corporate world is full of people who probably should find something else to do?

I agree that hostility is not acceptable, but there are some people who take everything the wrong way when asked to perform. I get why it's threatening, but it is what it is.

I didn't take anything away that led me to believe the author was being hostile. He was asking for more effort than some might expect and they couldn't handle it. I don't really know who is right in that situation. What I do know is there are a lot of people who don't take work seriously enough and hide behind HR.
by testfoobar | 2025-11-05 04:10:40+00:00
My understanding is that he is proposing a 4 year freeze on about 1 million units.

https://www.curbed.com/article/zohran-mamdani-housing-rent-f... archive: https://archive.ph/hnK4Q

"The 34-year-old democratic socialist’s pledge for a four-year pause on any increases on the city’s 1 million or so stabilized units, effectively giving a reprieve to about 2 million stabilized tenants, was at the center of his campaign"

I'm not directly familiar with Berlin. But this story about shortages is the expected outcome:

https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/germany-must-build-32...

BERLIN, March 20 (Reuters) - Germany, lagging in its building goals to alleviate a housing shortage, needs to construct 320,000 new apartments each year by 2030, a study on Thursday showed.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-11-05 04:11:41+00:00
> 2019 law they passed limits the amount a unit can have its rent increased in the case of a capital improvement at a small fraction of the capital cost

Source? This sounds like it only applies to stabilised apartments.

> Now that interest rates are higher land lords are forced to keep units vacant

Rental vacancies are similar to what they were in 2019 [1].

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/NYRVAC
by julianozen | 2025-11-05 04:11:49+00:00
Hi

I don’t think I like several of his ideas or think he will get most of them passed. In fact I think a few like “freezing the rent” are actively bad

But I’m happy to finally have a politician who lives in and loves New York and is earnestly trying to my the city better. If he tries and fails, it will be better than our other politicians that have stopped trying
by Spooky23 | 2025-11-05 04:11:57+00:00
Fascinating, yet rents have increased faster than inflation even as rent control has waned in NYC.

The problem with citing studies from 1992 is that you’re missing the last 25 years of war inflation hidden through various schemes of quantitative easing and capitalization. We’ve made capital so easy to get everything is fungible and inflates as everyone from families to foreign rich people looking to exfiltrate cash from their country pumps dollars into real estate.

My parents recently passed and we sold their house in Queens for a ridiculous sum - representing a 8% CAGR. Most of that increase in value has been since 2000, and that’s driven by a surplus of capital looking for a return.