skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly it doesn't really matter. The title is even factually incorrect, rent control worked in Sweden for much of the 20th century producing a better standard of living at a lower cost and very likely contributing to probably the most successful startup scene in Europe. Vienna would probably be another example, regularly ranking as the most livable city in the world. But the economist is a political publication. They are in support of free markets and against government intervention. That is why they see no problem with foreign investments, cheap credit or private interests. They don't mention the relation between rents and property values, or anything to do with how to actually lower rent. That you can't keep up with rapidly increasing demand by supplying a hard to come by resource like housing isn't weird from an economic perspective. Which is exactly what we have seen repeatedly in the cities that have tried. But it is of course from a political one where markets can never be free enough. So that is what their anonymous author is going to tell us. They should really call themselves the ideologist at this point.
Tibet used to be a feudal serfdom with the Lamas lording over everyone else. Most Dalai Lamas were murdered by their rivals for control over the country. So yeah, of course the Lamas are upset that they're no longer in power.
If the user has to download the whole webassembly binary at the beginning of every session, it seems unlikely that Adobe would save money on CDNs.
Is it? Put your liquor in a thermos or a water bottle or a soda bottle and you look like any other innocent teen having a legitimate beverage. Hell, you can do it while talking to an authority figure. Vaping seems much harder to disguise than this.
> new features

..."add value"

My theory is MVP is what they ship, then it's about the monetizing.
No, according to the video gamma ray burst means increase in UV potentially damaging DNA of phytoplankton, global cooling due to NO2 solar energy reflection.

It'll be pretty slow, but at a large scale.
Former boss: software is done when nobody is willing to work on it anymore.
Who is going to build an apartment building aside from an investor?
Information asymmetry is also a problem. The $50 blender might be trading on a beloved brand name... but with the metal gears replaced by plastic and glue in place of the fasteners. How can the average person tell?

What you really want to read is reviews from 3 years in the future but you can’t. So you buy the $30 blender because it’s too hard to assess whether the $50 one is worth it.

I really liked the hn article the other day on assessing garment quality. The first step in stemming the tide of garbage is being informed.

In the software world SaaS tends to optimise for growth and customer retention, which is probably better aligned to meet people’s needs than optimising for first sale.
Since the company is never going to actually conduct business in California I wonder if you could register in another state like Massachusetts and skip the foreign qualification in CA?
The producer price index should be roughly capped by consumer prices, if it were rising faster than CPI mid-long term then all the businesses would obviously go bust. The money is going into financial assets.

> when Amazon's market cap goes from a hundred billion to two hundred billion that doesn't mean that it has absorbed a hundred billion dollars from the economy

Totally on board with that, but it does mean ~100 billion dollars of control have been transferred from persons unknown to someone who knows how to borrow money; because lending is the mechanism for creating new money.

I consider myself an asset owner. This is all great for me short term, I'm getting wealthier relative to many of my peers because I own assets and they do not. I'm just completely mystified why anyone thinks this is a good outcome, because obviously in the long term economic control is going to transfer from capitalists who know how to make things work to financiers who found their way in front of the money hose.

I don't want the reward structure to favour giving control to entities who borrow vast sums of money, I want the reward structure to favour people who manage capital responsibly. The current reward structure is obviously going to cause crises and crashes. And I don't see it as responsible for creating real wealth, so I don't think it is a good system.

I mean, I understand why we do it. But that understanding hinges on the assumption that people don't trust the ability of numbers and incentives to predict the future.
From [0]:

> Only seven weeks later, on July 12, 1989, three blueberry collectors discovered their bodies. [...] They went to the forester to let the police know. On the way, they met a brown-haired, well-built, about 40 years old man with a bag on his hand. The Kriminalpolizei assumes that this was the perpetrator, who sought exactly on this day and this time more victims in the Göhrde.

> On July 12, 1989, the day of the discovery of the second murder, the 46-year-old housewife Ingrid Warmbier from Uelzen and a 43-year-old district manager [...] drove together to the Göhrde.

> Two weeks later, on July 27, 1989, police officers from the requested police unit in the context of a nationwide search for clues discovered the victims of the second double murder by chance. The date of death could certainly be dated July 12, 1989, the day the police began their investigation into the location of the first murdered couple. The scene was located 800 meters from the site of the first double murder.

Kurt-Werner Wichmann committed a double murder in a remote forest, met the discoverers of the bodies on their way back to notify the police, and killed another couple a few hours later while the police was investigating the original bodies 800 meters away.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6hrde_murders
The author completely ignores the part where the customers want the changes. This entire post is incredibly entitled and terribly egocentric, as well as being wrong-headed on several counts.
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The city does not have to totally fail for its housing policies to be a failure.
Yes, e.g., https://thelibrary.org/about/compcard.pdf
Okay, before I continue this conversation further I just want to note that I understand your concern for the optics of an educated doctor appearing to condescend to a large group of young people, but I think yes, he does have much more insight than the average person on tattoos, and I think it's made in jest with a little cultural misunderstanding on humor.

I have a tattoo but I acknowledge I'm not an expert. I did take a class on the psychological and social constructs behind body modifications and clothing, but most people with strong opinions on a subject believe their factual knowledge is "above average," including myself. In return, I'd like you to consider the limits of your knowledge on the topic as well.

Okay, so continuing...

>> Neither. I'm just not interested in unsubstantiated personal opinions. So the author doesn't like tattoos but decided to write an article anyway?

I'm just going to restate the first sentence of the essay here: "When I started as a prison doctor in 1990, I was both fascinated and horrified by the tattoos inscribed on the skins of the prisoners." I'd say he's more than qualified to write an op-ed on this topic. This is also not a scientific topic, so if you're looking for facts, then yes it's not the right article.

On the other hand, I think you've pointed out your chief objection clearly: People should not write about topics they don't have nice things to say about. I think this is the implicit position people take, and I appreciate you being explicit about it. As a matter of principle, I don't just disagree, but disagree very strongly with this statement.

>> That's not a novel observation for me. What's subtle or funny about it?

Ask anyone with tattoos, and while everyone "knows" that tattoos fade, it's much different when it's your tattoo. Tattoos are consistently listed at the top of the list of regrets young people make, that's a fact. I don't think it's obvious to a lot of them how it's going to look later, even really nice, expensive pieces. And that's what he's noting there. It's not just aging, it's fading and bleeding of colors. Ink on skin does not age the same way as on other media, and I seriously doubt anyone without a piece or working with clients can actually can predict what the tattoo will look like ten to twenty years later.
I remember the fanfare & hoopla around the introduction of the IBM PS/2 featuring square pixels. Made computing shapes much easier.
Why would anyone be opposed to free trade in this day and age?
> Hopefully we get self driving cars you don't need a license for ASAP, so the expectation of every adult constantly carrying around an ID decreases.

I'm sorry but how would I get into a self-driving car? I'd probably not own one. I'd ride in a Waymo, Uber, or some other provider's self-driving car which would mean they'd need to be authenticate who I am and check to see if I am authorized to get in the car...
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> Required by: Sections 214-216 PATRIOT Act of 2001

I looked at these sections, and they do not require the states do anything, nor contain any sort of reference to library cards.

Besides, I don't think they have the authority to order states to collect library users' information, and then compel them to divulge this information to federal authorities, in a blanket manner.

There is a limited set of enumerated powers listed Constitution (and the Tenth Amendment restricts all power to these enumerated ones), and nothing in the Constitution grants the sort of authority that would allow such interference in state-owned state-run public libraries.
I liked how he raised his staff's pay to $15/hour and then cut their hours.
Not if you want to buy cold medicine, get a library card, get some beers, buy some legal pot, air b&b, zip car, U-Haul , getting a job, etc. So, you will still need to carry it --unless you want to risk having to go back home in order to do any of the above.
1031 is for profits.

As far as I know, you can still take a loss, then re-purchase at FMV, and claim the loss, even though you end up with the same assets in your portfolio.
That's a terrible idea. We've seen many cases where companies failed and pensioners had to rely on reduced payments from the PBGC. Sometimes pension liabilities even drive otherwise viable businesses into bankruptcy, which benefits no one. Pension funds also usually assume unrealistic rates of return.

By contrast 401(k) plans are very safe. Once the money is in my account it's mine and can't be taken away without a court order. Even if my employer or the brokerage holding my account go bankrupt I won't lose anything.
Some of those are required for national security (ex: a vibrant, diverse agriculture industry) but most would be better off without an extra thumb on a scale.
Incorporation requires a bunch of info, plus the step of registering the company. The claim in the headline is wrong as far as I’m able to tell.

Edit: In my original comment I added some links.
Ask HN: Do conference talks enhance chances of passing resume screening?
Do recruiters/hiring managers give big points to tech talks on a SWE's resume? And does it enhance your chances of passing resume screening?
How do you participate in the market without initial resources? Even if you have some minimal initial resource, how do you act efficiently in the market when you do not have the resources to buy the information that lets you act efficiently?

If there is no regulation, rather just the most efficient trading, how do you compete with the gigantic entities that hoard inelastic goods to manipulate the price. It takes a lot of capital to efficiently counter their maneuvers. The problem is that 1) you are not in the market to exploit arbitrage opportunities, you are there to buy something you need 2) you do not have the capital to exploit that type of arbitrage opportunities and remain solvent.

You know that silly saying "The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent"? What is a rational market for a large entity with capital is very different from what is rational for a small entity with little resources.
If we're going to go by these types of correlations, let's add another market with rent control, San Francisco, and you have the two most expensive rental markets in the U.S. Amsterdam, Paris, and Berlin are the top 3 out of 4 on this list of cities with the fastest growing rent prices in Europe: https://www.businessinsider.com/the-7-european-cities-where-.... It seems that a stringent rent control law was only imposed in Barcelona this year.
> Also very common was the belief that Singapore is a city in China.

Yeah, that does not surprise me. Americans are not always that great at global geography.

I'm not sure why that is. Of course the country is huge, and American culture is such a dominant force that it is not so hard to live your entire life and never learn much (anything?) about a relatively small city-state far away in Asia. If you've never met anyone from Singapore, this doesn't surprise me at all.

It still feels like something that the US should be better at as a nation, though.
Is it really that much of an evil scheme? Isn't it just dating back to sugar tariffs? Wasn't sugar the first tariff in the history of the US?

It seems more like it's just an entrenched industry. Corn especially now that it's tied up in gassoline and Trump's trade war.
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UI is surface area. Having 2 UIs vastly increases the surface area of the application, which means tons of testing. It also means all of your developers have to dedicate resources to remembering 2 or 3 versions of the UI, and to an extent the history of those changes.

There are also degrees to which it's more difficult to memorize two loosely related things than it is to memorize two completely separate ones, because your brain keeps trying to treat them as similar even when they are not.
A solution to a problem that shouldn't exist, in my opinion. That's fine if you want to try and sell TouchBars, but still give me the option to buy a laptop without one.

I'm still holding out hope for a good keyboard and a proper row of keys along the top. In the meantime, I'm typing this on a 2012 MacBook Pro.
Preface: I keyword searched for 'county' & 'counties' on this page & didn't see my point raised.

The article compares library cards state by state.
However, I've never heard of a state issued library card, only county, city or other local municipality.

My point is I'm not clear where the researchers found 50 sets of state library card requirements.

There's ~3000 counties and at least 4000 cities in the US. Somewhere in those numbers ought to be how many different sets of library card requirements, there are in the US.
> “These recordings are accompanied by user data showing location, contact details, and app data.”

This should be in the title.

Media was focusing on contractors listening to Google Assistant snippets not long ago — and those were anonymized. Private and identifying information was in the snippets, not metadata (the article mentioned this).
I would like you to be able to buy a laptop with the TouchBar. However, I would like to be able to buy a laptop without one.
On the contrary, I claim there is no causal relationship. In particular, no actual evidence that it hurts a city.

For example: on what evidence would we say NYC was hurt by rent control? Rent control started in the 1920s and was quite strong for decades, yet NYC continued to out grow dozens of potential competitor cities without it. Therefore at worst, rent control had no measurable effect on growth.
If you are interested in seeing what Tibet is like today (literally) this vlogger is currently travelling through it (some of the farthest corners) in a camper: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJPCo6WJCb0aXShfcDDUffg/vid...

This episode https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2BtvivdbOw may be relevant to how "forced" is used in the original comment. The video shows villagers collecting trash off the sides of a remote highway to keep the land clean. On the face of it the video looks like a volunteer/community service outing but villagers are actually paid. It is not the most pleasant work, but they look happy to be doing it (and probably do not mind keeping their environment clean). The Quora answerer could have used "forced" to describe the same scene out of a sense of sarcasm (since everything is presumably "forced" there) and he would likely be tickled that this brings slavery into the discussion.
However, that's orthogonal to the issue; documentation of your right to vote is not one of the requirements of possessing that right. (as parent said, "A person's right to vote exists with or without documentation.") It is a dramatic improvement that the people with the right to vote has been expanded since the 1700s, but what you said doesn't actually speak against the basic idea that documentation is not relevant to the exercise of ones rights.

As an aside: once documentation is required, we enter a position where we do not have our rights until proven otherwise.
Only 1% of units in NYC are rent-controlled. It needs to have been built before 1947 and the tenant must have lived there continuously since 1971.
I think the words "free trade" are a bit overloaded, at least in the way OP used them. I am very much a globalist and think free trade between countries is very important. I am also very much against unregulated markets (which I assume is what OP meant by "free trade", i.e. free trade / unregulated market on the scale of a city and its housing market).
The United States Wind Turbine Database (USWTDB) provides the locations of land-based and offshore wind turbines in the United States, corresponding wind project information, and turbine technical specifications.

https://eerscmap.usgs.gov/uswtdb/viewer/
We don't know. The point at the moment is that it needs to be replaced - that government is not going to take adequate action. "What should we do" is the next question, and a very good one.

I guess, if I were to pick one thing, I might say "install solar everywhere you can". Not only do you use less fossil-generated power, but you also help manufacturers ride the cost curve down, which makes more people consider installing it.

And by "everywhere you can", I mean some places were you can't actually install it, but you can nudge people that way. Suggest to your boss that they should install it at work. Mention it to the minister at church, or to the manager at the bar (or even both, if you regularly go both places).

Disclaimer: I don't have solar on my house yet...
JPL Horizons is awesome for this.
You can easily obtain the information on your own using the ephemerides at https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/horizons.cgi#top :

- minimum distance of 71350 km (44,334 miles vs 45,360 in article)

- Speed around 24.5 km/s (15.2 miles/sec vs 15 in article)

- Closest on july 25 at 01:21 UTC

Here's a rendering of the trajectory of the asteroid and the moon in july to get an idea of how close it came (moon orbits around 384,000 km from earth):
https://imgur.com/a/3JaakFJ
Tattoos That Can Change Color Depending on Blood Glucose Levels
Why not sell or donate it if you have no use for it?
This feels like post hoc rationalization.

Read page 4 for an actual side by side comparison.

You’ll see that all you really need to get a library card is present a form of identification, and perhaps a utility bill to prove your current address. Whereas for registering a corporation:

” No state requires any information about the person(s) who directly or indirectly own or control the company (often referred to as a beneficial owner)”

... along with many other similarly surprising statements that establish not even a low bar, but the absence of a bar at all.

How does that make any sense when, as the report highlights, those shell corporations - that is corporations whose placeholder status is used in itself to realize some gain, and thus never have to meet “more stringent requirements” - can then be used for “tax evasion, shady campaign contributions, cigarette smuggling, and weapons dealing”?
extrapolating a small sample size will probably produce unreliable results.

also its possible that there are 3 sushi restaurants on the same street because of the Hotelling model of spatial location (good vid explaining that: https://youtu.be/jILgxeNBK_8)
This is incorrect. The fed announced a halt of their divestment when signs of instability began showing over the end of '18 into '19. [0] (Edit: I wanted to reconcile why your chart was still trending down; the halt starts in September. [2])

The lowering of rates now coupled with balance sheet stabilization, during the longest expansion, prior to any REAL sign of economic turmoil (backed by Powell's own statements earlier this year when he was advocating "patience", the fundamentals have not changed substantially since then although his tune has) is to many a bad sign that the fed is being driven by political/wall street forces to keep the party going despite losing leverage down the road and promoting asset inflation. (Housing is often discussed but to avoid the inevitable rebuttals to that, I'd also cite the average PE ratio [1] being far above the historical average.)

[0]https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-fed-powell/fed-to-sto...

[1] https://www.multpl.com/s-p-500-pe-ratio

[2] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-fed-balancesheet/fed-...