skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IIRC, the 90% estimate is based on how often searches encounter previously cataloged objects.
Why is it rent-control OR building new apartments?

Houses don't appear immediately and isn't it a good idea to keep people in their homes while the supply grows (building new houses) and the economy stabilizes?
To the contrary: There were only four known cases of voter fraud in the 2016 elections[0]; more stringent voting requirements suppresses voting, especially by poor, black and/or Latinx voters.[1]

It certainly seems the case that more damage has been done to society via corporations to which no human person can be associated than by voter fraud.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/12/01/0-...

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/02/1...
Pretty sure this is not the case. I recently had mine serviced and I'm almost positive I was told by the Genius that they were swapping in the latest gen keyboard.
California housing discussions are common here. Plenty has been said about it in yesterday's Approaching Peak Housing Dysfunction in California thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20527867

If you want a simple answer, carapace's comment stood out to me:

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It's because we're hella young out here. Relative to the East Coast anyway (I mean, London has Roman ruins...)
Do an image search for old timey SF and you'll see: the Sunset was sand dunes until about last Tuesday, etc. Dudes used to pan for gold out by Lake Merced.

Also, this was the weirdo town. Bohemia on the Bay. Serious folk didn't really come here to be serious and sane. The old line was, "All the crazy people move to California, and all the crazy people in California move to San Francisco." To which residents add, "And all the people too crazy for San Francisco move to Berkeley."

So yeah, you've got a young town full of nuts and flakes that no one really paid much attention to until the last ~50 years or so, whadda ya expect, eh?

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Before Web 2.0, only the weird Ivy League graduates would consider moving out to the Bay Area. Now the secret's out and everyone wants to move here.
It seems like you need to allow cookies for player.vimeo.com to get past that dialog.
That "devastating blow" was an undesired side effect.

By reopening the investigation, the FBI was able to seize control of Anthony Weiner's laptop, which was being held by the NYPD.

Had info about that been released, as it was going to be, it would have been immediately devastating. Reopening the investigation must have seemed less harmful to Clinton.
I don't want to be dismissive of either side of the debate, but this specifically seems to be a very weak argument.

If Japan had just approved involuntary human experimentation on political prisoners, and it eventually lead to a breakthrough on cancer research, every person who argued against it would still immediately use that research to save their kids.

People are (broadly speaking) usually hypocritical when their individual needs conflict with their social ideals. Productive discussions about social moral standards should usually ignore that hypocrisy.
I don't see the problem with this.

With a library card, a person can act irresponsibly with public property.

With a corporation, a person can act irresponsibly with private property.
Which places did you visit, and observed this?

I bet it's characteristic for large cities where the amount of produce consumed is large, and prices are higher.
populism: "a political approach that strives to appeal to ordinary people who feel that their concerns are disregarded by established elite groups."

ordinary people = renters

elite groups = rentier class

democracy = mob rule

When more than 50% of the populace are renters they have the power to enact rent control in democracies.
Creating companies should be as frictionless as possible. You shouldn't need to provide much information at all, and it should be extremely cheap. Some states do this pretty well, others not so much.

I'd rather a library card take almost no information as well, but you could run into issues with stealing, so it makes sense that it would take more.
Connected to the logic board? On mine they just replaced the whole top case assembly. My understanding is that the replacement swapped out everything other than the display and the logic board, including the battery.
Sounds like sarcasm to me...
The start of what? There's no reason to assume non-Europeans would prefer British, French, or EU jurisdiction over the current situation.
No, because rent-control disincentives new development.
my dude why're you talking in latin this ain't pompeii
I personally think that a lot of it is because, other than preventing all development there is no way to insure that the building next to your house won't be some soulless, concrete eyesore or something else that lowers property value.

I'd like to see less efforts to demonize NIMBYism and more efforts to eliminate the factors that make NIMBYism necessary.
The author's post came off the same way you've described (to my ears), while targeting design without any concrete examples so it's all conjecture as far as I'm concerned. Designers and developers should work closely together, I depend on them for their technical feasibility/performance subject matter expertise.

"Reddit redesign [...] it’s still slow, unnecessary, and buggy."

I agree Reddit's redesign is a mess and it's largely the implementation and development by the hands of developers whose job it is to code and otherwise discuss performance tradeoffs with product team/design stakeholders for exactly all the items you describe.

How are designers to blame for how it was coded? Devs should have voiced concern if they knew the proposed designs would be a performance disaster on the publicly facing front-end.
Even a 390 ft nickel-iron asteroid wouldn’t have enough energy to create a meaningful tsunami. We’re talking energy along the lines of Castle Bravo, not the asteroid that killed the dinos.
They don't even come with a three prong extension cord anymore.
It goes back to Roman times too, throughout the region, and widespread. The Mamluk armies were entirely non-muslim slave armies, mainly of European origin, and persisted for a thousand years until the arrival of Napoleon. Historically it was deeply entwined in the culture.

The first encounter for much of Europe with African slavery were the millions of Europeans who found themselves sold to the African and Arabic slavers or captured by the Barbary pirates. There were even slaving raids to parts of the European coasts in the early Middle Ages.

Which is not to downplay the effects of the trans Atlantic slave trade, just to put it in context a little.
Yeah, same. And the key presses on the new one feel noticeably different, too.
>, a policy that never works

This might seem a little more credible if it came from someone other than the economist.

The bastions of free capitalism aren't exactly doing great on affordable rent either...
I noticed a few months back that the Servo engine (upon which I was building a play/experimental browser) development had shifted significantly in the direction of Mixed Reality (it shifted more than a few months back, but I was not paying that close of attention). At that point I gave up on my browser project.

Some execs at Mozilla think MR is the wave of the future. I think it's mostly a party trick with a very niche market and will always only be a niche market, and wasting top talent on MR seriously detracts from a project that is a hundred-fold more important. But maybe that's just me.
> I mean, London has Roman ruins...

Wait until you hear what Rome has!
Voting is a constitutional right, forming a corporation or getting a library card is not.
As opposed to building more and denser housing.
I have a hard time believing browsing the Internet will ever be in a form like this unless we find an easier way to input information than typing on a keyboard. It's just too much energy.
Yeah I owned a drive, but never the lS120 disks. It read 1.44s faster though.
Being a shareholder of a company doesn't mean your interests align any more than being an employee, and probably less.

If you benefit from a company, as an employee, shareholder, customer, or whatever, that doesn't mean that it's in your interest for them to damage the rest of society.

If you have 100 shares of XYZ company, do you want them to be permitted to pollute the river where you live in order to get 0.02% more in dividends per year? Of course not. Neither do you want them to sabotage other companies that you might interact with, or the government that everyone relies on.
How so? Many rent control policies exclude new development from rent control.
Sometimes, you cannot build more housing, or denser housing, so you use rent control so tenants who do live there don't spend all of their income on housing, and some people don't get to live there (because of housing limits). If you turned San Francisco into Manhattan, and still had unquenched demand for housing while still maximizing every square meter of three dimensional space within desired geo bounds, what then?

"Build baby build" is not a silver bullet.
I've never bought a font before. These seem crazy expensive. Is this kind of pricing normal?

I'd expect to pay maybe a dollar or two for a font; it really doesn't seem like it would provide enough value to be worth more than that.
> brings nothing that I actually want

You might not want security updates, but you probably need them, and probably should have them.
Within of few years of enactment, every place without rent control and capitalism is doing better than every place with rent control and capitalism in terms of median rent.
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Isn't Europe kind of pessimistic/ economically stagnant? I mean, pets are happy on the way to the vet as well (but what about after?).
Did Chinese government ever mention liberty as a value?

Their story is peace, satiety, social harmony, collective achievement and glory — as long as subjects conform.
I mean that’d be near instant vaporization wouldn’t it? For some reason that makes me less scared about it since you wouldn’t really know what’s happening before it’s all over
>Sometimes, you cannot build more housing, or denser housing

A hypothetical possibility that doesn't hold true for any city that has enacted rent controls.

"Build baby build" is a silver bullet.
Pretty sure that was true when I was living there (unless 300 bps model dual up counts).
If the government feel that housing should be subsidized for a certain segment of the population (like workers employed locally in the city) then the government should implement direct subsidies in the form of cost reimbursements distributed to renters/owners without the knowledge of property managers - every other scheme for rent reduction that I've seen has been critically flawed.
The funny thing with US soy beans is that the majority of our edamame and fresh soy beans are frozen and imported from China or Thailand even though we literally have fields everywhere growing soy beans across the country.
>The story of the fossil formerly known as Scrotum humanum.

A name much funnier than it should be.
It's a well-known observation among behaviorists and economists that people usually act based on their selfish interests, as opposed to the best interests of society. If you stand to benefit personally from rent control, you're much more likely to be in favor of it, regardless of its negative net consequences. This is especially true if you're not impacted by those negative consequences.

A recent turning point is that the number of adult renters in major U.S. population centers is beginning to exceed the number of homeowners. As they age, they begin to participate more in the political process (despite the voting age being 18) and carry more clout. You end up with two major blocs of political power: (1) city council members vested in the status quo who want to strictly regulate new housing to preserve "neighborhood character" (i.e., property values); and (2) renters demanding rent control.

Strange bedfellows they may seem, but the two kind of go hand in hand in the sense that they've already got a sweet deal and want to protect it.
So funny downvotes in this thread...
This model is cool, but also clinical: if you're interested in understanding what it was like to be an African kidnapped and sold via the Atlantic slave trade, consider reading Zora Neale Hurston's Barracoon[1] or Aley Haley's Roots[2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barracoon:_The_Story_of_the_La...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roots:_The_Saga_of_an_American...
FWIW, rent control is one of the few economic topics that everybody in the field agrees suppresses housing supply.
> Landlords who want to make renovations that would push up prices by more than €0.50 per square metre will have to seek approval.

So, basically any renovation then. €0.50 per square metre is 5¢/sq ft!
Manhattan uws has lower rents than comparable places in SF in my experience.
I can appreciate your point, but I think it'd be good to say why. I'm European, so for example I found the GFW to be a refreshing and ultimately beneficial contribution to the world, simply because it maintains diversity - a global monoculture would cause serious problems. This isn't to say that Chinese policies are right, but rather that going against the West does not automatically signify malign intent. Indeed it is perfectly reasonable to be skeptical of the West, it has so many problems. But what exactly is China's context for so confidently treading it's own path? Is it not wanting to repeat the mistakes of the West? How exactly can that be achieved? I think that is part of the PRC's direction, but not entirely. What are the nuances?

Edit: I feel obliged to point out that supporting the GFW is not that same as supporting Tiananmen Square. In the same way I'm sure supporting Google/Facebook etc does not imply support for the Opium Wars.
A library is loaning you property, usually collateral-free. A corporation is just a placeholder essentially for the activities it will perform, each of which will likely have far more stringent requirements than a library card.
The First Modern Organizational Chart Is a Thing of Beauty
> isn't it a good idea to keep people in their homes while the supply grows

Maybe, maybe not. It seems like a foregone conclusion among many people, but isn't backed by evidence or data.
It's interesting to me how we decide which price-control schemes we like and don't like.

In general, if you think price-controls are bad, you should dislike a wide arrange of programs: farm subsidies, minimum wage, medicare expansion, rent control, executive pay limits, etc.

But it's interesting that most people I talk to support some of those, but oppose the others.
Not difficult to imagine.

I drove from Illinois to Arizona just last week. In west Texas, steady winds were turning hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of energy converters. Below those turbines were enormous fields of corn rivaling anything seen in southern Illinois. Ethanol? When the wind farms ended the feed lots began. Thousands and thousands of head of cattle being fed from hay piles five hundred feet long and two stories tall. Beyond that, a thousand head of black angus free grazing next to man-made water resevoirs a thousand foot wide.

One thing you learn about Texans -- they know how to scale.
Transparent pricing and uniform unit metrics would work wonders

Market fragmentation and opaqueness helps keep prices higher

This can work in conjunction with building more and give more ways to curb excess
PayPal.me is really easy to integrate. By far the easiest of all, however, you get no callback. This is a showstopper for most and also recurring payments aren’t possible either. I used paypal.me for both my apps; gif.com.ai and 2fb.me just because it was the most direct way for a chance to be paid over the web.
>> I personally think that a lot of it is because, other than preventing all development there is no way to insure that the building next to your house won't be some soulless, concrete eyesore or something else that lowers property value.

This is the definition of NIMBYism.
Fair points, though the firm can manipulate trust and impressions through advertising.

Another alternative might be forced prominent disclosures of prosecutions or case findings of a sufficient magnitude, in all communications and advertising, for an extended period (5-10 years,say).

Microsoft, Google, and Facebook have all operated under consent decrees at times over the past 20 years. Awareness on that has not been widely established.

Imagine a consent decree site header or popup, say.
A Gaussian kernel will reduce ringing artifacts, but is much blurrier than alternative resampling kernels. https://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/filter/nicolas/

Does “diameter” here mean “twice the standard deviation”?
I oppose all of those as they all distort the market and make it less efficient. Price-controls have all sorts of second and third order effects that are never considered by those advocating for them.
"To get" makes it sound like a technical limitation. "To go" more accurately represents the manipulative choice I suspect is the actual limitation.
Life is short and problems are often immediate so in many cases people need short term solutions. I think what is really needed are approaches that provide short term relief while fixing the long term causes of problems.
For coal, maybe the focus on climate change and CO2 is the wrong way to fight this. Tell people to reduce coal to reduce CO2 for climate change and you will get a strong split along D and R lines. Tell people we need to reduce coal to reduce NOX, SO2, particulates, smog, things that people can see, breathe, and has universal agreement that it hurts lungs and health and suddenly D and R doesn't matter. Everyone can get behind that, who can argue against pollution you can see in the sky? Especially if there's a clean alternative that's cheaper. Why not focus on this point more? By winning the fight on these grounds, you also indirectly win the CO2 fight for climate change.
The problem with python is even if you do it well, you don't get very far above a script. As oweiler above mentions, this is where languages with a bit more comprehensive support for true incremental typing, structuring etc. work better. It's definitely one of the things I like about Groovy - that it's both a better first line scripting language AND cuts it as a first class structured application development language on a par with Java etc - and you can do incremental shades of gray all the way in between. Of course, you have to actually DO it which is where the real trap is. But its definitely a level above Python where the friction of transitioning from "this is fine as an ad hoc script" to "This really ought to be a proper library / module in a statically typed language" is high enough that it will basically never happen.
If I buy a property to rent out, the net present value to me is lessened due to rent control.

If (x = net present value) < (y = cost to develop) then I don't build.
I am of the strong opinion that governments should have a finger on the scale to a much higher degree than rent control, with the desired effect of making owning real estate somebody else uses a minimally attractive investment.

Control the rent by controlling the price of real estate by removing investors as competition for the purchase of land and buildings for home and business.
So based on this research, what reconstruction filter and gamma curve should I use to render text so it looks good over a range of fonts? :)

Or, perhaps a better posed question. What research-informed model will accurately predict the results of a user study that presents various renderings of antialiased lines on a modern LCD monitor and asks subjects to choose "which line is thicker" types of queries?
For all people love to talk about haptics, they miss the point: haptic feedback is feedback. As in, it happens after you do something.

Typing, unless you don't know how to type, is done entirely by feel. You have raised spots to align your hands, and then you work off muscle memory and the feel of the keys. Things you feel before you push the keys...
"Build baby build" is a pretty good silver bullet - assuming the city is willing to keep up with infrastructure spending to support the denser housing (absolutely possible economically, but politically difficult) _and_ assuming the local populace doesn't throw whoever advocates for it out of office. Too often new construction is killed by NIMBYism (though, it seems just as often new construction blames NIMBYism for legitimate complaints about land compensation)... if you live in a city and treasure your quiet off the beaten path neighborhood... too bad.
Explaining genetic drift (and bottleneck & founder effects) (2017) [video]
Also: The mouse operating system is quite different to the human operating system. Just because it works in a mouse, doesn't mean it will work in a human.
In Minnesota for example, all one needs is another registered voter to vouch for them.

My thoughts on this are old school. Like 1700's old school.

A person's right to vote exists with or without documentation. A piece of paper, an entry in a ledger, or a row in a database has no bearing on whether that right exists, or should be exercised.

In many of the states where I've lived (13 so far), all that was needed to vote in the absence of identification was to sign an affidavit stating that I am who I say I am. The people at the polling station could ask for ID, but they couldn't require it. It's up to the people who handle the vote (often the county clerk or county board of elections) to decide later if my vote was valid or not.

A lot of that is changing these days as the concept of being constantly tracked, monitored, and tabulated becomes normalized in America.

Just a generation ago we made fun of the Soviet Union and various totalitarian regimes for having police stop people for no reason and demanding, "papers, please." Now there are people who think it's perfectly OK to require domestic passports ("Real ID" and similar) just to walk down the street.

I wonder if two generations from now people will think we're old and crazy because we don't think it's OK for the government to require a chip be implanted in our brains so our thoughts can be monitored by bureaucratic minders.

It's sounds like tinfoil hat sci-fi slippery slopism, but so would today's facial recognition in airports to people just 50 years ago.
What about purchasing a firearm?
TBH, I'm very surprised (disheartened?) that your comment has been downvoted. Your last sentence is very true - economists on the most "conservative" and "liberal" sides of the profession all agree that rent control is counter productive.

You know where housing is still pretty affordable and you can make a decent living even if you're poor? Houston, which famously doesn't have zoning. Granted, this can cause lots of other problems (many attribute a lot of the flood damage caused by Hurricane Harvey to overbuilding), but it seems very clear that if you want to have affordable housing, you have to build an f-ton of housing, and Houston has done that, while all of these over-regulated housing-crisis cities clearly have not.
> ... those who have kids seem to change on a psychological level and cannot think the other way.

They do. It's like a switch gets flipped. Or like an ~instant ~unkickable addiction.
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