MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Tiktaalik | 2025-12-01 19:15:11+00:00
Vancouver has rent control and rents are going down.

Though I think the likely dynamic that you're seeing here is rent growth of new build apartments is stalling and reversing, and on renewal with new tenants rents are being revised downward as there is more competition.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/rent-prices-falling...

I expect that amongst apartments with long term tenants rents are still creeping upward. But that's fine. The point of rent control is to smooth out volatility. Rents can still go up, but the goal is to avoid sudden 150% increases etc.
by xpe | 2025-12-01 19:15:18+00:00
A nicely done article by Robby, given that arguing definitions is too often a thankless waste of time. Some selections from [1] ...

> Arguing about definitions is a garden path; people wouldn’t go down the path if they saw at the outset where it led.

See [1] for some tips on moving past the fruitless arguments:

> Personally I’d say that if the issue arises, both sides should switch to describing the event in unambiguous lower-level constituents ...

> ... Or each side could designate a new word, like ‘alberzle’ and ‘bargulum,’

> ... and then both sides could use the new words consistently. That way neither side has to back down or lose face, but they can still communicate.

> And of course you should try to keep track, at all times, of some testable proposition that the argument is actually about.

> Does that sound right to you?

[1]: https://www.readthesequences.com/Disputing-Definitions
by saaaaaam | 2025-12-01 19:15:30+00:00
The log of events in that document is absolutely hilarious/pitiful. It’s like something lifted directly from an episode of In The Thick Of It.

A honest-to-goodness proper fucking omnishambles.

11:52 - senior OBR and Treasury officials telephoned each other to discuss the breach. These Treasury officials made OBR staff aware of the URL leading to the PDF of the EFO that was accessible.

11:53 - OBR staff and the web developer attempted to pull the PDF from the website, and also to pull the entire website (e.g. via password protection), but struggled to do so initially due to the website being overloaded with traffic.

11:58 - an email was received to the OBR press inbox from a Reuters journalist confirming that Reuters had published details of the EFO and asking for comment.

12:07 - the EFO PDF was renamed by the web developer.

12:07 - the EFO PDF appeared on the Internet Archive. This means it was, at that precise time, visible entirely generally on the open internet via search engines. It is assumed that this happened very briefly in the rush to remove it.
by reactordev | 2025-12-01 19:15:33+00:00
So you have two options. One, you can change your habits and save your money. Two, you can get a higher paying job and save your money.

Both options require effort and discipline. If someone working two jobs can’t make rent, then who is to blame for it not working out? Society? The government? Your landlord? Who? Who do you be angry towards if not yourself?

It’s out of touch because they are out of touch. I was out of touch. We all go through this and realize this is it. This is all there is. This is life. Welcome to being fully grown.

As I’ve said before - I’m here for the revolution if that’s what it takes. I’ll be on the front. I’m not rich. I’m not a home owner. I just know there’s only one path carved and they’re at the bottom of the slide hoarding it, taxing us more for each body down.

Capitalism is a disease but it’s been that way for multiple millennia. Humans vs humans. Survival of the fittest. Stuff they don’t teach in private school. Only the school of hard knocks. So, again, who do we blame, if not ourselves? Why do we buy the boomer products? Why do we subscribe to the boomer media? Why do we put up with it?
by ASalazarMX | 2025-12-01 19:15:38+00:00
Reading cryptography was that advanced at that time, I'm even more surprised that the venerable Norton Utilities for MS-DOS required a password, that was simply XORed with some constant and embedded in the executables. If the reserved space was zeroes, it considered it a fresh install and demanded a new password.

If it had been properly encrypted my young cracker self would have had no opportunity.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-12-01 19:16:06+00:00
I did not invent the definition of "IP theft" or the laws around it.

But I suppose strictly speaking, theft is not the same word as stealing. I was not smart enough to get that. You're right, and I apologize.

Not that ad-blocking is illegal, it's not, but it does bypass payment to creators for content they provide. Which functionally acts the same as theft.
by chaos_emergent | 2025-12-01 19:16:09+00:00
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by qball | 2025-12-01 19:16:43+00:00
No, you just happened to build appropriately because a certain subfaction of the population weren't able to pass the typical laws that would stop building.

The housing shortage was created by regulation and it's foolish or selfish to pretend otherwise.

Austin is unique in that most of the harmful self-serving conservatism-as-in-block-and-deny-all-development that city people usually to do is constrained by the rest of the state, and as an obvious result arguably has the highest standard of living in the entire world.
by crooked-v | 2025-12-01 19:16:46+00:00
And for some hard data, here's a meta-study on the subject: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S105113772...

> [A]ccording to the studies examined here, as a rule, rent control leads to higher rents for uncontrolled dwellings. The imposition of rent ceilings amplifies the shortage of housing. Therefore, the waiting queues become longer and would-be tenants must spend more time looking for a dwelling. If they are impatient or have no place to stay (e.g., in the houses of their friends or relatives) while looking for their own dwelling, they turn to the segment that is not subject to regulations. The demand for unregulated housing increases and so do the rents.
by JohnFen | 2025-12-01 19:16:58+00:00
> There's some kind of a "evidence problem" where we rely on a single-source for "evidence" (the government), while discounting "evidence" from testimony/imagery from rando people (even before AI).

Real evidence isn't dependent on the source. It can be evaluated objectively.

> if you don't have experience yourself, no matter what external "proof", you may not believe it. Which is fine, and valid I think.

I disagree, really. This, along with the opposite (believing in things despite the lack of evidence) are both positions rooted in fantasy rather than reality.
by observationist | 2025-12-01 19:17:23+00:00
The network effects of using consistently behaving models and maintaining API coverage between updates is valuable, too - presumably the big labs are including their own domains of competence in the training, so Claude is likely to remain being very good at coding, and behave in similar ways, informed and constrained by their prompt frameworks, so that interactions will continue to work in predictable ways even after major new releases occur, and upgrades can be clean.

It'll probably be a few years before all that stuff becomes as smooth as people need, but OAI and Anthropic are already doing a good job on that front.

Each new Chinese model requires a lot of testing and bespoke conformance to every task you want to use it for. There's a lot of activity and shared prompt engineering, and some really competent people doing things out in the open, but it's generally going to take a lot more expert work getting the new Chinese models up to snuff than working with the big US labs. Their product and testing teams do a lot of valuable work.
by Tiktaalik | 2025-12-01 19:17:58+00:00
This is the economist theoretical consensus justification though in real life tbh I dunno if I've noticed any real difference when looking at housing development patterns across Canada where there are many jurisdictions with rent control, many without, and many with some sort of blend (ie. no rent control on new builds).

If there is some incentive toward development in non-rent control jurisdictions I suspect it's strongly dominated by other factors.

(ie. Montreal probably has the most restrictive rent control in Canada but it's also seeing the strongest apartment development growth)
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-12-01 19:18:03+00:00
> Apple need India though. They’re moving a lot of their manufacturing there to derisk from a China

That creates obligations both ways. Put another way, Apple is an increasingly-major employer in India.

The real carrot New Delhi has is its growing middle class. The real carrot Apple has is its aspirational branding.

> they gave in to the CCP and always say ‘we obey the laws of the countries in which we operate'

Apple regularly negotiates and occasionally openly fights laws its disagrees with. This would be no different. Cupertino is anything but lazy and nihilistic. Mandated installation opens a door they've fought hard to keep shut because it carries global precedent.
by matsemann | 2025-12-01 19:18:23+00:00
What we've seen in Oslo, Norway, is mostly that the market slows down. Those that get lower offers than what it previously was "worth" don't sell. So in the prices graphs it's mostly flat, but then with lower sales total. So it kinda "hides" that things are worth less as it's no transaction. And people don't dare buying before selling, so lead times are quite long.

And then they stop building new stuff while prices are low, so demand will keep prices stable, and when the interest gets lower again prices will probably skyrocket since it's not been built enough in the meantime.
by stomczyk09 | 2025-12-01 19:18:42+00:00
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by menaerus | 2025-12-01 19:18:49+00:00
Ok, it obviously doesn't increase the number of ISA registers. What I am suggesting is something else - imagine a situation in which the compiler understands that the spill over will take place, and therefore rearranges the code such that it reduces the pressure on the registers. It can do that if it can break the data dependencies between the variables for instance. Or it can do that by unrolling the loops or by moving the initialization closer to where the variable is being used, no? I am pretty certain that compilers are already doing these kind of transformations, and in a sense this is taking advantage of register renaming but indirectly.
by jijijijij | 2025-12-01 19:18:55+00:00
Jeez, this feels bad.

> As part of the multiyear partnership, Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Synopsys will use Nvidia technology to improve its compute-intensive applications and the companies will collaborate to advance agentic artificial-intelligence engineering.

Is this worth $2,0000,000,000 in shares? If there was synergy wouldn't you do it for free?

> Synopsis shares were up 7.8%

Ah...

> The companies said the partnership would allow research and development teams to design and simulate products faster and at lower cost.

We haven't found a use case yet and things are already boiling, but sure let's go faster!
by loeg | 2025-12-01 19:18:57+00:00
> At one point the AMA did lobby Congress to restrict that funding but they reversed position several years back.

Yes, this is one of the cartel/union-like behaviors people complain about with the AMA.

There are more examples: https://petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2022/03/15/ama-scope-of-p...
by aaronblohowiak | 2025-12-01 19:19:27+00:00
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by DiogenesKynikos | 2025-12-01 19:19:30+00:00
At least in the world of chess (which has the OG matchmaking system, ELO), cheating is genuinely a problem.

The problem is that it doesn't matter how good you are. You will not beat a computer. Ever. Playing against someone who is using a computer is just completely meaningless. Without cheating control, cheaters would dominate the upper echelons of the ELO ladder, and good players would constantly be running into them.
by lukan | 2025-12-01 19:20:30+00:00
"It reminds me, in an encouraging way, of the way that German military planners regarded the Soviet Union in the lead-up to Operation Barbarossa. The Slavs are an obviously inferior race; ..."

Ideology played a role, but the data they worked with, was the finnish war, that was disastrous for the sowjet side. Hitler later famously said, it was all a intentionally distraction to make them believe the sowjet army was worth nothing. (Real reasons were more complex, like previous purging).
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by AnEro | 2025-12-01 19:20:33+00:00
I'm in a position where I've got to be managing people in my company. Not a strength of mine, especially the project management piece. Where I'm more of a founding engineer that knows the niche industry product _too_ well, so we can't hire around it, only train around it. While we are expanding, I'm the head of impossible amounts of projects. I'm in a constant make the best, worst choice to keep things moving situation. Everyone exec level knows all of this and is being very gracious as I learn on the fly. Still, I really want to improve but struggling as it feels like I never have time to even do project/people management the 'right way'.

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by kace91 | 2025-12-01 19:20:43+00:00
That’s a pretty judgemental statement out of nowhere - and completely ignored the ebook readers part, which are devices literally created for this purpose.

As for phones, screens nowadays are almost the same size as readers and with more resolution. E-ink is more comfortable for longer sessions, but if you find such a size unusable you might just have poor eyesight.
by MetaWhirledPeas | 2025-12-01 19:20:48+00:00
> can't give you the degree of competitive global ranking that players enjoy today

I'm curious to know how player stats and global rankings truly affect game adoption (not that you can accurately measure what I'm asking for). It seems to me the more popular the game the less it matters because everyone becomes a small fish in a big pond. Rank one billion out of a gajillion. The games where it matters more would be the smaller games, which have less of a cheating problem to begin with.

I do agree however that you won't get the adoption without centralization, if only because centralization is exactly where all the money resides, via DLC and other nonsense. Therefore centralization is exactly where all the marketing money goes. And without marketing you don't usually get blockbuster games. So expecting the rootkits to go away is a lost cause, until client-side rendering goes away, at least.

That may be the answer to playing these rootkit titles on Linux: just stream it. I know it's somewhat lame, and I know it adds latency, but I seem to recall a recent demonstrate of a service where the latency is very minimal. Clearly I'm a bit out of touch with the state of the art, heh.
by spagoop | 2025-12-01 19:21:22+00:00
Is it just me or is this article insanely confusing? With all due respect to the author, please be mindful of copy editing LLM-assisted writing.

There is a really interesting discussion underneath of this as to the limitations of JSON along with potential alternatives, but I can't help but distrust this writing due to how much it sounds like an LLM.
by troebr | 2025-12-01 19:21:25+00:00
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by deergomoo | 2025-12-01 19:21:27+00:00
> you won't get stuck because of a word you don't understand or a concept you've never heard of

I very much disagree here. To make any sort of progress in AoC, in my experience, you need at least:

- awareness of graphs and how to traverse them

- some knowledge of a pathfinding algorithm

- an understanding of memoisation and how it can be applied to make deeply recursive computations feasible

Those types of puzzle come up a lot, and it’s not anything close to what I’d expect someone with “just a little programming knowledge” to have.

Someone with just a little programming knowledge is probably good with branches and loops, some rudimentary OOP, and maybe knows when to use a list vs a map. They’re not gonna know much about other data structures or algorithms.

They could learn them on the go of course, but then that’s why I don’t think basic coding knowledge is enough.