skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Parent's point is that the message is propaganda aimed at fostering measures that will result in increased availability, hence reducing price.
You could say the same about adblock then, so lets not open that can of worms
The fake shortage is an illusion, but it results in a real increase in supply, which decreases price.
But he actually could have been talking primarily about Kazakhs in Kazakhstan, so nothing wrong there.
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What do you do for sites that complain each session you're using an "unrecognized browser" and require additional forms of authentication? Just deal with it every single session?
Looks like OpenBCI hardware: https://shop.openbci.com/collections/frontpage/eeg
So, I probably drastically misunderstanding how rent control works, but I don’t see how it is going to help. I would argue it will push house prices even higher as you will have less people trying to rent places. Why?

I was reading a bit about renting as a business (plus I have 1 house in Bay Area I rent) and there is so-called rule of 1%, which means for cash flow to be positive you should rent your house for at least 1% of its market price. But it is just not the case in the SF area, you can get 0.3-0.4% at best. House with 1M price can be rented for 4K, which can’t even cover mortgage + tax, I’m not talking about repairs. Based on rule it should be 10k to make it interesting for the investors (buy and rent to make some profit). The only reason I didn’t sell it is the hope that prices will go up in x years, but right now I technically subsidizing people living there + waiting on possible rent increase in couple years. With rent control in place I would’ve been pressured to sell or live there myself. And as I moved out for an interesting opportunity, in a different market I would’ve just stayed in Bay Area.
Which will not lead to drop in prices, But to decrease of available housing.

In supply/demand problem, the only way to decrease price is by increasing supply, not caping the price.

And the reason I would’ve stayed in Bay Area is cause I can’t afford to rent a place for a true market price.
I’m right now paying 5k for the house which is around 1.5M (should be 15k, right?), which is mind blowing. The only reason it is possible is that the owner bought it long time ago and had the opportunity to pay it off. Buying it right now would require 300k in cash + 5.7k mortgage + 1.5k for taxes. + maintenance

So, to me, market rent control already there. And it is already on the verge of what financially feasible.
The thing is, their is a reason they say "modern day slavery" and not "slavery." The implication here is that just because there are no actual whips, no literal rape, and no families torn apart forever doesn't mean we should think this is acceptable. It's the modern equivalent of slavery. No, it's not slavery with whips and rape. It's a different type of slavery. Hence the qualifier.

Anyways, I did you the service of explaining why you would get voted down. If you aren't going to read something, and you have nothing useful to add, don't bother commenting. Comments like yours don't contribute anything useful and only harm HN.
I live in fancy expensive luxury housing, next to mine there's even fancier, almost twice as expensive housing.

Is it bad that every time I have visitors, every time I go home, every time I get the post I see the wonderful infinity pools which I'm not allowed to use?

I'm not sure if there's a significant difference between my story and the one in the article.

Sure, I feel a tiny bit jealous every time I look out of the window. But that's just a reminder that I should work harder.
I see remarkable similarity in Bolsonaro's response on a national scale to nearly every American's response when choosing between making money and the environment.

Suggest to an American to fly less and over 99% will say, "But my job. . ." as humans fly more than ever. Not to dwell on flying, we could talk of miles driven, plastic discarded, air conditioning empty rooms, eating more beef than ever.

The scale is different, but the emotional response is similar.

An alternative: we could see ourselves as part of something greater than ourselves that benefits us all including ourselves. We want Bolsonaro to feel that way. We can do it ourselves and reduce our waste each by a good 75 to 90 percent.

As Frankl said, "We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way."
I believe this applies specifically to the Signal brand.
It's only a crash because we say it is.

What if it's a healthy reaction to bad conditions or overpopulation?
Now note the child bearing rates in second degree immigrants (naturalized) to see how true it is.
Do you consider that a crash of their population?
A crash is when population actually shrinks which it has not to date. It's stabilizing thus far.

The more important crash part is of the ill-conceived social and capital programmes expecting forever exponential growth. Guess what, that's wrong.
No because GPL does not require you to open your network to anyone.

My understanding is you can distribute Signal binaries but you'd have to connect it to your own servers so it is not Signal anymore... It is something based on Signal like whatsapp (which nobody wants)
Netflix and the other monster apps might have a lot of influence and bargaining power with Apple and Google, but at the end of the day, Netflix needs Apple far more than Apple needs Netflix.
Getting caught in the air seems nigh impossible, since by using this trick you aren't giving them any way to identify you.
Microsoft ie growing because they do the unglamorous work better than the others. They may not be hip and trendy with the cool kids but they know how to make money from established markets.
Also they develop the Android platform.
In the early 90s, George Csicsery made a film about Erdős called "N is a Number" which is worth watching. You can find information on that video, along with a few lectures by Erdős and a film about his 100th birthday at zalafilms.com.

I enjoy watching Csicsery's works. For example, his film "Hard Problems" shows a respect for the IMO competition and its participants that I feel the similar BBC documentary "Beautiful Young Minds" does not.
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We had to rent our former home for 4 years after we moved, but couldn't sell because the market value was too low after the real estate crash. It's really hard to find tenants that aren't total deadbeats. Raise your rent and it's almost impossible to fill the vacancy. Lower the rent and get nothing but unqualified applicants with terrible credit and criminal records. So sure, maybe I could lower the rent to get someone in there, but that means there's a high chance they'll either a) not pay their rent, b) damage the property, or c) both.
You go, girl!
The store fee. They are still in the app store.

2nd paragraph:
> The online dating site launched a new default payment process that skips Google Play and forces users to enter their credit card details straight into Tinder’s app, according to new research by Macquarie analyst Ben Schachter.
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> 1. Is a piece of paper torn in half really cryptography?

Cryptography is not just about confidentiality, ensuring authenticity is also cryptography.

> If you matched the public half the note exactly

The point is that it is hard to duplicate even the "public half" of the note.
They're loss leaders though which builds the brand. Microsoft is everywhere which is what matters to the marketing dept.
> there already exists an open source platform
> to do what he's describing

Namely?
Are you asking for a way to make money without a bunch of job-search and ramp-up time?

https://codementor.io would let you offer your expertise to get other developers un-stuck or to give them design advice.
you understand that shortage increases wages ?
My favorite self-quote: technology development is applied philosophy. Wittgenstein taught it; we're the people living it.

When philosophy and science existed mostly as words handed from one generation to the next in written form, it was possible to amass enough of a web of meaning for any one general field for a body of practitioners to gain useful applicable knowledge for the rest of humanity. But as philosophers found out early enough, and the sciences are learning too, it's also possible to create not only webs but islands of meaning, such that localized progress can appear to be made without having any impact, positive or negative, on mankind as a whole. We mind our knitting so well that nothing ever gets knitted.

We technology developers have this problem; but we not only have it, we have had it over and over again with each new domain we absorb. We start with (spoken) languages, jargon, and cultural knowledge, combine various tribes together, create a mezzanine language among ourselves, then translate all of that into math. Hopefully it's provable, rock-solid math. But however we do it, we deal with mapping ideas to bits.

In the history of mankind, nobody else has ever had the job of doing that over and over again across dozens or hundreds of domains. Instead, the typical approach was to become good in one domain, then continue to specialize. In this sense, technology solution development is applied polymathematics.

Because of that, it's been really interesting watching the tech community interact with the academy. I don't think there's much love lost on either side most days, but both groups have important things to offer the other. I've seen several attempts to formally bridge the gap, but it's usually done through some quasi-formal symbolic system such as UML. The light hasn't come on yet. We are getting close, though, as it's a hoot to watch.

History nerd note: when Wittgenstein first began down this road and realized the impact of what he was doing, he announced that he had "solved philosophy". Philosophy was no longer something that needed work. This had to have driven Russell bananas; as he was trying to "solve" it by going down an almost diametrically-opposite path.
Ulbricht was grossly incompetent, they didn't need a special attack on Tor to unmask someone who asks questions about connecting to Tor from a public StackOverflow account in their real name.
Controlling rent is the surest way to discourage new housing capacity addition. If your profits are capped fewer people will be interested in entering the market.
That was once said about lithium and batteries. Typically once the market demand is there we suddenly find a bunch of viable reserves to tap. This is tragically happening with petroleum where we're tapping incredibly difficult reserves via deep sea drilling and fracking.
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and how that did work so far? All I can see wages are going upward for a years
>Why do hourly employees care how long your lunch break is

Because you have a ten hour shift of difficult labor and twenty minutes of your thirty minute break is taken up with walking. And if you're in a FC with robots the time it takes for the Kivas to arrive at your station counts against you because you're expected to start working thirty minutes after your break starts, so on top of everything else you have to end your break early to make that time up.

>I don't see why they'd care if it's 30m or 2hr, since people could just make up the hours by working later.

I'm not aware of any business that allows its employees to take arbitrarily long breaks or to work arbitrary extra hours to "make it up." If such a company exists, Amazon is definitely not one of them.
What's the over-under on how much longer Amazon will employ people for warehouse jobs? 10 years?
Maybe its not an education problem. Maybe the idea that everyone can be an engineer/coder is just as ridiculous as everyone can be a musician.
It gets more complicated once you statify by age or income. Birth control is not free, intoxicants and general carefreeness limit how successfully birth control measures are applied.
> Erdős himself has Erdős number 1. People who co-authored a paper with Erdős have Erdős number 2. People who co-authored a paper with someone of Erdős number 2 have Erdős number 3 and so on.

No, the Erdős number is the "distance" to Erdős, so he himself has Erdős number 0, his collaborators have 1, etc.
I get that those opposed to density claim this is one of the reasons they oppose it, but is there any evidence of it?

Usually an increase in density in an area will increase land values rather then depress them.
If that assumption isn't safe, then neither is the plane.

Having ANY access AT ALL whether via "hidden" backdoor or authorized login to plane instrumentation from the WiFi would be an insane setup. Just because they're both invisible to you doesn't mean they're connected in some way.
Could you imagine the attack surface?
We'd be hearing about terrorist attacks leveraging that design flaw.
FWIW, I went to a public middle school in rural Michigan in the 90s (not exactly a liberal bastion), and we learned how to differentiate between untrustworthy/legitimate sources on the internet. It may have just been a one or two computer lab sessions, but it has stuck with me.

So, while I’d support a policy from high that guarantees everyone this type of education, a single computer lab teacher can have a major impact on their own.
"the only state to eliminate single-family-only zoning in many of its residential neighborhoods." - this is the silver bullet. Minneapolis has done the same, I hope this becomes a nation-wide trend.
Inverse: question you have a big key, in the home row.
That is a very valuable keyboard position.

What is a function in your programs deserve such a prominent position??

In my case as an emacs user bloq mayus, get's remaped to CTRL.

Vin users need ESC.
> The first 15 years of a new building are free from rent control, and after that they can increase rent at 7% above CPI, meaning in real terms rents can still double circa every 10 years. And if a tenant moves out, landlords can raise rents as much as they like.

There are two possibilities here. One is that the maximum rent control rate is above the market rate of housing cost increases, in which case those rent control laws do nothing. This is better than most other rent control, but still no better than no rent control. The other option is that it isn't, and then the rent control laws do something bad, i.e. reduce the incentive to build more housing to fight the expanding market rate rents, and screw new renters a lot to benefit older renters a little. There is still no circumstance where they cause good.

Also, since which possibility happens isn't known ahead of time, they reduce the incentive to build housing today by landlords who expect rents to increase by a lot in the future, even if they turn out to be wrong.
It depends on whether it causes harm and degree thereof. Some people love black and white thinking...
I doubt a Drop cares enough about $1 to repeatedly engage in suspicious behavior with a bank
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This machine made ingenious, economical use of the technology available in the mid 1950s. Only 16 instructions. The ALU used all diode logic. The CPU only used a few tubes for flipflops to store control state.

The rotating magnetic drum provided all memory -- including CPU registers.
A tiny oscilloscope on the front panel showed register contents as they rolled by the read heads!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indenture

> The term comes from the medieval English "indenture of retainer"[1] — a legal contract written in duplicate on the same sheet, with the copies separated by cutting along a jagged (toothed, hence the term "indenture") line so that the teeth of the two parts could later be refitted to confirm authenticity

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chirograph

> A chirograph is a medieval document, which has been written in duplicate, triplicate or very occasionally quadruplicate (four copies) on a single piece of parchment, with the Latin word chirographum (occasionally replaced by some other term) written across the middle, and then cut through to separate the parts.
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> Archaea always struck me as more of a "junk drawer" than a genuine grouping.

Why do you say that? They emerged from the large scale structure of 16S rRNA trees, which is what defined them as separate from bacteria.
>Yasha Levine

"Yasha Levine is a Russian-American investigative journalist and author. Levine, who was born in the Soviet Union, is a former editor of Moscow-based satirical newspaper The eXile."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasha_Levine
I am Greek and we don't use that many commas. Definitely not in this way. I think the Greek language is also not as flexible with comma placement as perhaps English is.

What I've noticed is that some people never learned how to use them. They just write a sentence (or a whole essay) and generously sprinkle some commas afterwards, normally wherever they would make a short pause. I've seen this with colleagues from Germany, Greece, Russia and the US.
But that's the point, you partook of some service without entering into any agreement that you were allowed to do so.
Is there a way to figure out poetry style of text on a text/markdown file?
Which is silly because it's better for the consumer to deal with individual companies rather than go through one provider for everything. Amex already protects me from fraudulent online purchases. If I get ripped off Apple by buying one of the apps they sell, charging back risks putting my entire account with them at risk.
Following Bolsonaro is another place to apply the Maddow Rule: ignore what they say, pay attention to what they do.
If you can't find a shop maybe try a local Mechanical Keyboards meetup. They happen all over (more than 400k members now) and you'd get excellent advice and the opportunity to test lots of models.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/
However they spend a considerable amount of money trying to stop those. It's fairly irrelevant to the preceding poster's point whether they succeed or not.
Ah but you didn't mention Clojure which is as near perfect as anything :)
Nobody with an ounce of intelligence can believe for one moment that the most powerful intelligence agencies in the most powerful country of the world will stand idly by and watch a protocol/network be completely opaque for them. Whether there is evidence or not (in such cases there may never be enough evidence), it is safe to assume that many if not most Tor exit nodes are govt run (various govts), and one or more of the top intelligence agencies of the world can break Tor by more than one method. The only form of safe communication is one that relies on old fashioned and proven methods, utilising code and algo that has been scrutinised by researchers from many nations. People really wanting to be anonymous will do well to be wary of heavily 'promoted' solutions.
Well that's a really nice way of you to describe what people use the app for!
> as ridiculous as everyone can be a musician.

Why is this ridiculous?
At this one company, the developers have pretty decent HP desktop machines on Windows with Intel eighth generation processors, 8 GB RAM, ... and a $19 500GB hard disk drive. Why? I am sure someone somewhere got a pat in the back for saving the company money while every single npm operation takes at least an order of magnitude of time more.
Then the question is if studying efficacy of harm reduction methods including bans or age limits or wide educational campaigns, monitoring of quality or other measures.

But moral panic wants none of that.
We are using it in production on Kubernetes. As a former MS SQLServer DBA here are some thoughts:

Firstly, if you're using SQLAlchemy as anything more than a query builder rethink your approach and act accordingly. That being said, maybe rethink the use of an ORM at all -- but that's my pet peeve it might not be yours. SQLAlchemy in particular at least in versions 2.x just doesn't like the retryable transaction approach that CRDB takes. We've had to move to modifying SQLAlchemy in our application to get it to co-operate. Had we been using stored procedures or raw sql this would not have been a problem.

We started with v2.1.x and are now on v19.1 with a commercial license and overall are happy with the support: we have direct access to the engineers via slack, a ticket escalation process with quick turnaround times, and monthly meetings -- all that help us with the edge cases one is likely to hit with a new database.

Even the smallest requests get heard: I had been using one of the betas to check out what would be coming in the admin UI and didn't like the SQL query plan at the time and mentioned it in passing and a product manager reached out and picked my brain and my input along with others made it into the shipping release. The turnaround and the professionalism was impressive.

Our ops team loves CRDB. We set it up in K8s and it just works. It heals itself if a node goes down and replication ( a huge pain the ass with MySQL) is seamless. That said, they have a managed CRDB option, which if we didn't insist on running our own infrastructure I would have signed our company up for instead of rolling it ourselves.

I'd say in our use case properly setup schemas with good indexes doing queries that are not OLAP like, but OLTP in nature, perform very well.

We went with CRDB about 6 months ago because it had the best Kubernetes support at the time and was much easier to get started with.

We recently did a Mysql 5.7 to CRDB migration (actually a number of them for our partners) and it went smoothly. We did many trial runs, but I wrote some MySQL dump and import scripts in python and we just waited for it to complete. The documentation helped there a lot.

It's not perfect, nothing is. We had hoped for a simple drop in replacement for a single node Postgres instance but one that could scale and be "cloud native". It is sort of like that. With more nodes you have the overhead of consensus but it scales with more nodes almost linearly in performance, and it's robust -- we can kill a node or two (depending on your replication factor you can determine how many nodes you want to allow loss of) and bring it back up again and it's fine. There's novel approaches with interleaving that help performance, the documentation is great, the support is as well.

Best thing to do is try it out -- you can play around with a paid license for free -- and try it on your data and workloads.
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What would 'modern day slavery' look like? And what would be the most appropriate phrase for the scenario described in the link?
It's not even the culture, it's 100% intentional. Everyone up to Jeff Bezos is fully aware of all of this and makes the decision to maintain these conditions in order to slightly raise profits.

Fulfillment center employees also searched for theft after their shift every day. Not only is this dehumanizing, but they don't hire enough security people. This results in 20+ minute lines. The employees are unpaid while waiting. There was a lawsuit about this that went all the way to the Supreme Court, and Amazon won.
It's so typical I'm almost laughing. Every workplace I've seen makes it just too hard to work at peak efficiency and invent all the wrong answers to the simplest of problems. Let's not buy pens, let's not buy a table, ...

Is there a formula for non adversarial job structures ?
Seems like they're being evaluated on their "items per time" rate, but that time also includes the lunch and bathroom breaks.