skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author actually spends a long time arguing the opposite:

> I think it is clear from this that we can’t expect new luxury development to have the same impact on rents at the bottom of the market as it does at the top. But how much less impact is not clear. In technical terms, there is no good recent data on the cross-price elasticity of demand between luxury housing and lower-cost housing. A large group of urbanists have taken to talking about the housing market as if these elasticities were close to 1 (increases in luxury supply have a big impact on the low-end rent). But it’s just as likely that the elasticity is closer to 0 (the rent at the bottom of the market is very insensitive to the level of supply at the top of the market).
And that’s just something we tell ourselves to assuage our embarrassment of being cynical and too powerless to help.
https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/1109617564186001408
OP here. I guess you caught me there. The SSL feature is actually still in beta, primed to ship this Monday.

Being fairly new to Lets Encrypt and the eco system around it Checkly is mostly being cautious. Having a none SSL encrypted dash for the trial is probably fine.

If this whole process runs super smoothly, we will lift this blockade.

Also, I come from the days where I had to call Verisign in Switzerland and fax in my passport details...
Serious question, why should they ban more housing and not ban more jobs instead?

I’ve never heard anyone suggest restricting job growth when a place is “overcrowded,” but why else do people move there?
True, but a yaw dampener is sort of like a steady cam, it isn't going to over-rule a pilot's rudder input.

Put yourself in the seat of a pilot who has flown an electro-hydraulic 737 for years. Something "funny" seems to be going on with the trim, so you take control and the trim seems to be working perfectly while you manually toggle it, but then the MCAS kicks back in after 5 seconds and tries to push the nose down again. This kind of behavior is coming from a system Boeing did not tell the pilots about.
Having come to the US with a few dollars behind me, I totally understand the circumstances of being poor. having said that, there is no way you need to be homeless in the US. There is more social help here than in a lot of places in the world. subsidized living support is real, food stamps and church support, among other things. I cannot judge the people in the article, I dont know them but I think when two people work, are not disabled, they do not have to live on the streets in the US, unless they have some kind of a psychological disorder. yes, life is tough, but there is no way it is tougher than in a lot of other places where people in worse conditions monetarily make do. if they are not on social security or not in subsidized housing, then they make enough to not be on it. homelessness in the US is a very odd state of affairs to anyone to was truly poor before.
And here is three documents/issues that all related to synapse breaking systems in the federation, despite repeated extensive technical feedback.

And to this day, despite people that keep on reporting about the issue, nothing is done to actually solve the problem.

https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/issues/1194
https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4540
https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/1915

If interoperability and federation is important, why push changes that break those, and do nothing for >6 months?
Is social status a factor in marginal utility?

If it is, is there a better term to reflect the value of comfortable shelter and diminishing returns to increasing square footage per occupant? That sort of thing.
If you look at the video I posted at least one professor seems to think otherwise and I kind of find his arguments at least worthy to consider. Corporations will by nature have place an emphasis on pleasing owners, which in the case of coops are the workers. So, it doesn’t dispense with competition in general but aligns interests better with workers which should have a profound effect on “coercive economic relations”.

If you just mean that coops just cannot really compete, I would say that’s a myth. Look at Mondragon for example [1] or some large German coops. They also run successful competitors to walmart at leasr in europe. I think that one reason that they are just not as common is a general need to raise capital quickly, general availability of capital and a lack of education. But you are right that none of that is likely to counter an existing monopoly with access to huge capital baring some kind of legislative changes. There is certainly a place for unions.

1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Corporation
A330 has fewer total fatalities over its 27 years of service (339 deaths) than the MAX does in a year and a half (346 deaths).
> That said, in some urban areas, renters are the majority. For example, in 2010, 52% of housing units in the City of Seattle were occupied by renters[1], and that’s not counting townhouse/condo owners and supportive home owners.

The problem with this is that it costs approximately the same amount to rent as it does to own, by the time you take into account interest, taxes, insurance, maintenance, etc. So the people who rent in the expensive area are already the people who can afford to live there, they're just the people who prefer to rent. If you tell them increasing the housing supply will reduce purchasing costs, what do they care? They're not looking to buy.

Increasing the housing supply would also tend to reduce rents, but this discussion is usually framed as "people can't afford to buy a home" so many renters may tune out at that point and not comprehend the relationship to rents. Especially when people see propaganda about new developments increasing rents, which only happens if other neighborhoods aren't building enough new housing, because then higher density is valuable when it's scarce. The whole point is to build enough to make it less scarce.

Moreover, one of the major reasons people prefer to rent is for mobility, i.e. they expect not to be there in ten years.

Meanwhile the people who do want to buy there but can't afford it are the people who currently live somewhere else, which means they don't get a vote.
> Therefore, Knuth line breaking cannot be used on the Web.

> It might be possible to use Knuth line breaking in specific circumstances, such as when paragraphs have no floats. But not in general.

If the CSS specification was updated to add vastly improved line-breaking to all text, would it really be that big a deal to add a few new exceptions to go with it? E.g. make floats behave differently when different line-breaking is used.

There's already plenty of cases in CSS of "oh, that doesn't work there because you're using inline/absolute/float/overflow". It's not like the rules are particular minimal or intuitive right now.
I did this kind of thing in college. It's more involved than you think. If you want good results, you're going to need at minimum a professional VCR (We used the Panasonic AG-7350), a timebase corrector, and a professional grade digitizer. Luckily, the equipment is much cheaper than it used to be. You'll probably need a food dehydrator to bake sticky tapes for one last playback. And since tape that old is probably falling apart, you'll need to get good at cleaning heads with cotton tech wipes and ethanol.
From what has been told to me by my fellow architecture / urban design studying friends, American urban design is not looked upon very favorably around the world.
Per the same link all forms of injury have also dropped, from serious to minor. They’ve been dropping for decades, despite rising population, car ownership, and traffic rates (with the exception of 2010).
And what if `god_exists` returns something other than a bool? Another way of asking this might be: what if `god_exists` is a black box with poorly understood/defined behavior?
Because that’s basically the situation we’re in.

Also consider: in the absence of theism, the word “atheist” wouldn’t mean anything at all.
Others have downvoted you, so I want to add some ideas why you may not be right here.

From an economist's view, it is clear that such "market behavior" may be efficient in allocation of ressources, but not morally or ethically efficient. There are many "pareto efficient" equilibria, for example, but the subset of those which are socially desireable is small.
Since we are not aware of a good regulatory mechanism that ensures both allocative and distributive efficiency, it is certainly commendable for individuals with wealth to throw their weight into making society better for more people.
Another sense of how this may be desirable is that the more we look toward the long term, the more important social incentives should become - while we as humans often think very myopically.
This is a view of efficiency.

From a sociologist's perspective, one may say that social norms - for example how much we can and should help other people - are driven by both the behavior around us, and what we observed in the past. So, being able to help people and improve society is something that can move us, collectively, to a better path. And not doing so, may cement a system that is not really desirable, yet binding for individuals.

So indeed, doing things like this may not only feel meaningful, but they are meaningful.
And meaning in our actions is important for personal happiness.
The waste and cost of putting even a small percentage of road miles underground is truly astounding. This isn't comparable to going to the moon. It's comparable to turning every single family home into a thirty story skyscraper.
It also has very questionable choices towards respect of Privacy: https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4540
> I think you have to provide a stronger framework why this thing is okay and that thing isn't.

I don't think this is abstract ethical argument, but practical argument about policy. So we don't have to provide any stronger framework. Whoever wishes to argue that something is not OK has to provide detailed arguments backed by evidence about harm that is being produced and demonstrate that someone non-consenting is actually suffering from that harm (even if the effects are second-order). And the burden of proof needs to be significant.

Starting from "allowed by default" would already be a big improvement.

> applying this rigorously would mean e.g. legalizing all drugs, which is a difficult sell

Homosexuality was also a difficult sell. That doesn't mean anything.
For Linux Desktop, I have mostly enjoyed Focus Writer. It was available in my package manager (Gentoo, Portage), so I gave it a try. It's pretty good for distraction-free writing.
> if websites like Twitter and Youtube didn't self-censor ISIS propaganda like they did in 2014

People posted ISIS beheading videos to YouTube and caused a policy crisis (within YouTube). YouTube responded by deciding that the beheading videos should stay up because they were newsworthy. As shocking as one of those videos is, it notionally shows why ISIS is bad.

Or at least, that's what they said. YouTube simultaneously took down murder videos from South American gangs, on the theory that the gangs uploaded those videos themselves and whatever they wanted, YouTube wanted the opposite.

I can't reconcile the two policies. The video shows what it shows. ISIS is, presumably, proud to have its propaganda videos displayed to the world, even if the uploader's accompanying commentary is "how horrible".

And by the same token, when a gang uploads one of their own propaganda videos, that video illustrates how horrible the gang is in exactly the same way that ISIS's videos illustrate how horrible ISIS is. They are equally newsworthy. But policy was that uploads of ISIS propaganda videos for the purpose of criticizing ISIS were good, and uploads of gang propaganda videos for the purpose of scaring the local citizenry were bad. The fact that ISIS's local populace might be scared or attracted by propaganda videos, or that people outside of South America might be repulsed by publicly-available gang murder videos, apparently doesn't enter into it -- it's all about whether the uploader is pure of heart.
The Jeffrey Lewis talk was incredible, thank you for sharing.
Maybe just a few bricks short of a load. All their points have been refuted but they still don’t get it.
There are people who currently live in "middle class housing" even though they have more than middle class money because all housing is scarce. If you build more luxury housing then those people move out of the middle class housing into the new housing and then middle class people can move into the middle class housing.

Moreover, there is no structural difference between "luxury housing" and "middle class housing". A building is a building. You take 10 units of "luxury housing" and add some walls and appliances and now it's 20 units of "middle class housing". The problem isn't what they're building, it's the zoning that prevents it from being subdivided that way.
Right, if we only measure what's "natural" by what exists in the broader animal kingdom than anything uniquely human (commerce, religion, science, a written language, morality, philosophy, etc.) would appear to be "unnatural".
Texas also has a law about that for retired people. But they only defer the taxes until death.
Unfortunately I can't show you my code since it's closed. Just looking at the two codebases, about half of the erlang implementation is static typechecking hints, and I don't know if GitHub counts the documentation HTML as LOC.

As an example of convenient concurrency, in Erlang vm gives you process node id translation. What that means is that if you're sending a message between threads in two instances in a cluster of VMs, you can send your the mailbox address of your local thread and have it converted on transmit to the equivalent remote thread address on the remote machine. Literally one less thing you don't have to worry about, and clustering is a first class citizen in the language, no libraries necessary.

Basically, the dev process was, I wrote my raft implementation, tested it locally and extensively (including property tests) using multiple local threads, and did almost nothing (three lines of code to provide a mailbox Oracle) and had a solution that worked across the network.

If you're curious about BEAM languages, I wouldn't worry about type systems. If anything I think hypercorrectness in the languages leads to a false sense of comfort about the quality of your code that can get in the way of building resilient, designed to fail gracefully systems. Typechecking can catch errors early and save you dev and debug time, but static typechecking is probably enough for about 80% of those concerns.

Erlang languages come with static typechecking. It's kind of a pain in the butt out of the box. I don't know about erlang, but if you code in vscode, the elixir_ls plugin engages the static typechecking in such a transparent fashion that I've forgotten to install the makes-static-typechecker-easier library and it's caught code problems for my junior dev (who I haven't taught typechecking yet). Despite it being optional in the language, the vscode plugin makes it ever so ugly to not annotate types that my very minor obsessive tendencies lead me to annotate everything.
> Of course places such as the Northeast (USA) are also the worst candidates for the SF dream of bike dominance

I would say the opposite.

Apart from the weather (which is a big part, but still), they are perfectly poised for biking.

North eastern cities dense, relatively flat and have no way of building more roads or accommodating new cars / parking spaces. Cycles also work very well in tandem with public transport ( when allowed on it).

On the other hand, I think SF and SV are not suited for bikes at all. Apart from last mile connectivity, everyone is still dependent on cars for every other task.
Everyone's different, but something that helps me is deliberately testing myself after reading a passage or chapter that taught me something I didn't already know. Literally take your eye gaze away from the page and try to recall, summarize, and answer a question about what you just read.

It's one of those things that sounds too simple to be effective, but it works for me.
Usually I love the Economist, but this seems like head-in-the-sand reasoning. "Oh good, the declines are only happening where we're measuring!"
Is this a surprise? I stayed at places in Vancouver and Seattle 2 years ago that had prominent signs in the lobby straight up stating the building did not allow Airbnb and the hosts had instructions about ‘community guidelines’ that were really designed to keep renters from being noticed by other residents.
Yes, mass transit is one answer because it warps geography of time. It is also why it is so political: route of mass transit has massive impact on nearby housing market.
> If it does turn out to be the faulty AOA indicator causing the electric trim to go nose-down, there are still a number of other obvious contributing factors in addition to the faulty sensor.

There's no serious argument here. It isn't airworthy on an airliner to have a system with flight control capability using one sensor with no redundancy. It doesn't happen anywhere else and there are regulations that forbid it. Airbus uses AoA for autopilot and therefore puts three AoA sensors on the plane with majority voting.

It appears that Boeing (during certification) either lied about the severity of MCAS failure, or lied and said they were using two sensors when they weren't.
Hmmm...while there is definitely a difference between owners and renters, the article is talking in large part about the attitudes of renters:
"But, among renters, attitudes toward affordable housing were quite different. While renters were less likely to support market-rate housing the closer it was located to their house, for affordable housing the result was reversed."

The question is why renters did not support more upscale housing being built, and rejected the argument that any increase in housing would ultimately result in an increase in housing supply and thus (theoretically) a reduction in rent. The answer is, they don't believe that's the way it really happens, and they're correct not to believe it.
"I think capturing..."

This is a very American-centric view of slavery. Most cultures have participated in slavery at some point in history without the extraneous parts. Even if you treat your slave as family, the slavery is still immoral.

Similarly, your views on free speech are very narrow-minded. Many people have been murdered by oppressive governments for speaking out against injustice. Were they "idiots spout[ing] whatever crappy opinion happens to wander across what passes for their mind"?

If you are discouraged from saying something for _any_ reason, this is slavery of the mind. As for collective cultures, I don't think I know enough to effectively comment. I will note that many cultures that were okay at one time are now viewed with disgust as primitive, including your depiction of slavery in the Americas.
Which is pretty much anything outside of the STL library's basic usage.
They are not autonomous driving fatalities. They can’t be, because there is simply no autonomous driving. You are very confused. Autopilot is not autonomous driving.
SF considers ‘smart city’ installation of devices with cameras, microphones
That doesn't make any sense at all. No middle class person will be able to move into Boulder where the average home price is over $1 million. If someone moves out of there a middle class person wont be able to move in at that price point.
Isn't there a lot of crossover with infectious disease research due to prion disease similarities?
So what? That's true regardless of whether you add small numbers in before or after the big one. If you have a lot of small numbers that add to 1e-2, and a couple of big numbers that add to 1e+200, it is totally irrelevant what order you add the numbers in, because all of the small numbers together have exactly zero influence on the sum.

But we're talking about cases where the sum of the small numbers is large enough to be detectable when measured against the large numbers, even if no individual small number is that large.
Rents are super high in New York and Hong Kong and they are high density.
I would throw out SSX tricky for its game logic integration, the first two xenoblade games for just being great at capturing the expanse of it all, breath of the wild for having the guts to go ultra minimalist, and the first few silent hill games for its ambient industrial sound (and a few standout tracks that were simply pretty or cool normal songs).

Broadly speaking though, games are pretty conservative in their soundtracks. I think most are forgettable.
I don’t know who badgerigar is, but his comment was flagged and killed, even though it is scientifially correct.

Although animals have been observed to have same-sex coupling, they mix it up with males and females. In the animal kingdom the only species that have been observed to have exclusively homosexual sex are humans and domesticated sheep. One would think that a sexual organism never having heterosexual sex would be a huge evolutionary fitness disadvantage, and such a trait would be extremely uncommon. There are some caveats, for example: Sharks are able to reproduce asexually, and frogs can “switch” genders AFTER reproduction, during adverse conditions. But lifelong homosexuality has not been observed in species other than humans and domesticated sheep, which suggests that relaxed evolutionary pressures may be a necessary component.

From Wikipedia

Simon LeVay introduced caveat that "[a]lthough homosexual behavior is very common in the animal world, it seems to be very uncommon that individual animals have a long-lasting predisposition to engage in such behavior to the exclusion of heterosexual activities. Thus, a homosexual orientation, if one can speak of such thing in animals, seems to be a rarity."[8] One species in which exclusive homosexual orientation occurs, however, is that of domesticated sheep (Ovis aries).[9][10] "About 10% of rams (males), refuse to mate with ewes (females) but do readily mate with other rams."[10]
Slow internet speeds have not changed for all of America.

But the blame goes back to the cable companies there.
Ditto Larry Niven's "World of Ptavvs". Written in our Cold War, set within a future Cold War between Earth and Belt and a final act that is actually described as pure Dolphin.

And completely agree on Startide Rising. The first time I saw Dolphins in the wild I was could not help but think of ST's beautiful haiku-like Dolphin poetry
actions have consequences; whether those actions take place online or not. If what he did was hate speech, then it makes sense to charge him with it.

That he did it online, or didn't realise that saying vile things would have undesirable consequences shouldn't excuse the behaviour.

(N.B I think he should be charged with something, but I don't think prison time is a fair response to his actions).
To let you skip the ad before it's over. You typically have to wait a few seconds but it's less than the full wait.
Can you really hire NYC area devs for so little pay? Even with the mission to help win candidates over, that seems incredibly low. I would normally be more worried about finding contracts (unless you have contacts you haven't mentioned), but I don't think that's going to be the primary problem in your plan.
Madison WI is also a great city for getting around by bike. Things have improved a lot since I moved here a couple decades ago.

The winter does deter people, simply as evidenced by seeing fewer fellow cyclists during my commute. One nice perk is that the city clears the bike paths quite promptly.
Sort of with you, but I think once you're willing to admit that MCAS failure can be catastrophic, airworthiness regulations may require three AoA sensors (as Airbus planes have) so that you get error correction, rather than the two that should have been being used to detect disagreement (but weren't).