skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
until they need a two bedroom for a kid. rent control works great if you have your shit together and have no life changes coming up. If you're settled in your life and you already have a place, rent control is great, if you're going thought the life change stage of your life, rent control doesn't help to much. Rent goes up to market when you move out to go to college, then it goes back to market after you leave college to get that first job, then when you want to move into a place by your self or with a significant other, back to market. Need something bigger to start a family? Back to market. Once you finally get your shit together and ease into a stable part of life (if you haven't bought a house) your rent is stable. But it's not a big help until you're stable. So while most people are renters in the younger demographic, rent pretty much stays at market for the majority of the time through 20's and 30's. The answer is still more housing to lower the overall price of housing.
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Our Open-Plan Office Failed, So We’re Moving to a Towering Panopticon (2017)
Is there a feature by feature comparison of wasmer to docker? I don't think Wasmer, while interesting, is a container system. It looks more like a bytecode vm.

Things I use and love from docker that to me feel "container"-y:

1. OSs as a library (FROM alpine:3.9)

2. Network namespaces so all applications think they are running on a machine with port 80 available

3. Service discovery through DNS

4. CPU and memory share allocation

5. Volumes (bind, temporary, remote)

6. docker-compose for single-command & single-tool development environments (all you need is docker and an internet connection)
Ah, gotcha I see what you are saying.

I think what OP was saying was that in an unrestricted market they have wider range (due to discretion) but given this shackle on hikes, they are going to max it out. Maxing it out means there will not be downward adjustments when warranted (economic trends) and will instead ride it out (not make it avail at lower price) because when the economy picks up they’ll more than make the loss up.
Started with web, was impressed by what flash could do and learned that. Worked in advertising and we really pushed Flash to the limit (FWA, etc). I mean actual Flash apps, close to the structure of today’s React apps. Software 3D back then, but Stage3D arrived too late. Adobe AIR had potential but Adobe didn’t push enough for this tech. Then I went back to web app development and today I work at an investment bank making trading apps.
An undergrad degree is only 18months (2 yetas minus summer) in a major, not 4years. And some of that is not-particularly-relevant electives. And if you already have a college degree you might have some overlap with the major.
Well,

It's not entirely unreasonable to think landlords somewhere in the state will take this "5% + inflation" as automatically what's called-for. Conceivably a few landlords who otherwise would have held the line will do this. But given this was more or less already standard for the large landlords and given the landlords who have been really, really gouging, this sad collateral.
So does this bill automatically expire at some point? If not, why not? Not many laws are easily repealed as the side effects they create work to entrench them in society. A bad person is a person that think they can engineer other people's lives for the better through legislation.
Deployment doesn't overlap. Erlang releases bundle up your code but you still need libraries like openssl, to have a nice bundle that can actually just run anywhere Docker is the way to go.

And horizontal scaling between the two do not overlap either, not sure what you mean. Packing containers (processes) efficiently into a cluster of nodes is not something Erlang does.

Edit: Erlang/OTP does offer fail over for what it calls "distributed applications" but based on a static set of nodes -- not horizontal scaling, anymore than other languages/frameworks do by letting you spawn new instances...
What part of "different computer" is confusing to you?
> In fact, a global system daemon should not be needed. Either users should be able to run their own daemons or container management should avoid having a daemon at all, by storing container state in a shared database.

Absolutely love Podman. You can even define registries to work with docker hub, easily.

https://podman.io
Where can you invest that would still recognize those funds as yours after 222 years?
A few reasons:

~ Many people using phone as their only connected device (i.e., no computer at home)

~ Increased video and image consumption

~ More and more women buying smartphones (women tend not to be inconvenienced by large screens since they often store their phone in their purse)
> Why should we support a system where people can own many properties, each feeding them 1/2 of someone else's paycheck?

That doesn't make much sense to me. 1/2 of the paycheck is only true for a few places with limited housing supply, which is the root cause of the problem. One could apply the same logic of "x% of the paycheck" to other spending items such as food and conclude that the state should also produce our food.

> Public-owned housing is the future. It works in Europe and it can work here.

Public housing in European countries accounts for less than 10% of the overall market and is mainly aimed at poor people. I do not see how this would be a general solution to the shortage of housing.

> Treating housing as an investment vehicle is fundamentally incompatible with the ideal of housing being affordable. How can you possibly have affordable housing in a system where housing increases in value (cost) at 5% a year?

True, but here, too, the cause is a lack of supply due to zoning, minimum parking requirements, minimum lot sizes and other restrictions.
I've read of many cases of folks losing access to their personal Google account through no fault of their own, and winding up helpless to get it back. Almost happened to me after I was victim of a SIM Swap.

From the article, even the Twitter CEO has this problem:

While he has managed to get back his social media accounts, he has not regained access to two Google email accounts that held years of communications.

If anyone with directional authority at Google is out there: It would be really decent of you to provide some means of customer service for consumers stuck in this catch-22.

I can't accept there's no reasonable way to perform an identity confirmation beyond the laughably limited self-help measures currently in place. If it's a matter of economics, make it pay-per-use.
The real solution is to decommodify housing.

>The landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for the natural produce of the earth.

-Adam Smith
To me that just says he agreed with some good ideas and was influential in their community, which is good. Doesn't read as "hero" though, it just tells me he maybe wanted to do good things. And good intentions are fine and all, but it seems like he got himself pretty dirty trying to further them. Good deeds don't always follow from good intentions.
Hey there. I was in your shoes, as well. I was fired from the first organization where I'd been employed in a particular technical role, the one in which I intended to make my career. I was good at it technically but had a number of personality conflicts, partly out of frustration with things that were happening at the company and partly from personal shortcomings of my own in dealing with those frustrations. They fired me for "performance" which - take heart - can basically mean anything and nothing, and is much, much easier to deal with than having been fired "for cause".

It was scary, and I wondered exactly the same things you did. I can offer you this advice FWIW. I found another job within 6 weeks of being let go, and I had two other offers on the table.

* Be honest. If the web form asks you if you left the company voluntarily, say no. If you left on bad terms, they'll generally ask you whether they can contact your last employer for a reference, and you can say no. They'll get the picture.

* That said, you don't exactly have to lead off every interview with it. Honestly, I don't think any of the interviewers I talked with even asked me about it. They're interested in their own impressions of you and the work you've done.

* You should prepare a short explanation that - and this is important - doesn't blame or denigrate your prior employer. I mean it. Swallow whatever feelings you have about the situation and be professional about it. A new employer may not care about the circumstances of your leaving your last gig, but they WILL certainly care about the bitter, angry guy they just interviewed for this position. Something along the lines of "My leadership and I agreed that I was no longer a good fit for the position." It sounds gross, I know, but it's not really meant to be believed, and allows everyone to save a little face.

* If they press you, you might frame it as "personality conflicts" or "communications issues". However you decide to frame it, rehearse the explanation and maybe a quick followup. You don't want to start to ramble when you're on the spot, because that'll make you nervous and you may stumble into saying something you regret.

I know exactly what you're going through. We had just bought a house, we had a nine-month-old baby, and we didn't have much in the way of savings. It was scary as hell. But you square yourself up, set your jaw, and do what you have to do. You'll get through it, and one day you'll laugh about it. I promise you you're not the first person who's been fired. Hang in there.
Tesla Installs First Customer Upgrade to Full Self Driving Hardware
There are two kinds of software: software no one uses, and software people complain about.
> That's a number where some "1% of 1% of 1%" kinda filter quickly ends up in a scenario where a planet fitting all our criteria might simply never be in reach.

It might cheer you up to think that's the only reason the human race happens to be the one in our neighborhood that made it into space, without being stepped on by an Old One.
This is not a ridiculous approach. Forget about crashing into it. Instead, imagine a very large, very stretchy net. Large meaning many, many kilometers long.

On impact, only the nearly massless front bit of the net needs to accelerate instantly. The acceleration gradually spreads back to the probe, which is then accelerated gradually to match the object.

After it matches, there is still a great deal of energy in the stretched-out net, which in principle could accelerate your probe to be as much faster than the object as it started out slower than.

Another way to think of this is with a non-stretchy tether perpendicular to the object's path. The object hits one end, and the probe swings around behind it, gaining 2x before it gets to the other side. It could let go at various other points to head off in some other direction at less than 2x.

This is not too different from what we do when we fly probes past planets to give them a speed boost. In that case, the tether is gravity.
I wonder if mcdonalds records/retains the audio from its drive through systems. Seems like a goldmine of validation data thats already labelled (with the order the employee entered).

Voice with some minor interaction seems like a much better solution for the kiosks as well. "Large Big mac meal" is a lot quicker than clicking through a kiosk.
Renters are paying for services though - that’s part of what the rent they are paying to their landlord is for. But landlords currently aren’t paying that so the burden has been shifted to tenants income. So tenants are currently having to pay market rates for rent, and increased income tax to subsidize their landlord.
Students don't study CS for 4 years full-time. They study CS modules for 18 months, some of which are things like chemistry and physics and pretty unrelated to CS (though valuable things to learn generally) and only a part of a day in each. You're not actually going 8,000 hours on CS - nowhere close to it.

If you spent time looking at how much time students spent (in and out of class) on CS and math topics, it's way less than you'd assume.
Is there really a performance cost from RAII? Presumably whatever a destructor has to do to release resources, C code would also have to do.
Market solutions in action in these last 2 posts!
“Database Administration” is a bullet point for most companies not a complete job. Specializing in it definitely doesn’t give you the optionality of a wider range skillset like a developer who also knows about database administration.

How many companies need someone who specializes in “image processing”? Soon, if it’s not already a commodity library that any company can leverage.
> Being in the “habitable zone” doesn’t mean a planet is habitable

True. Being a spooky near twin of Earth isn't necessarily enough.

The air inside popcorn factories is basically identical to the Earth's atmosphere, but breathing in diacetyl, a butter flavor you'll find in that air, will kill you a few months or years later.

Popcorn lung really undermined my naive view that we would one day be able to run a scan or a sniff test on a planet and then just breathe without assistance.

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

You have an identical twin to Earth with slightly different dust composition and it could shred our lungs. We are highly, highly tuned to our home.

Which doesn't mean we can't go anywhere. But it won't just be advances in travel speed that will get us off world. It may also require drastic modifications to the human organism.
Please Help If You Can – My Brother Needs Brain Surgery
I know none of you know me, or have any reason to help out - but I recently discovered my brother has a life-threatening tumor and needs brain surgery as soon as they can.

If you can spare even a dollar towards helping him have this operation, it would be greatly appreciated.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/helpalexsbrain

Thank you.
That makes me smile, people used to say Jackie Chan was the Hong Kong Buster Keaton.
As far as I understand it, that only applies to Windows-based containers running on Win 10 Pro/Enterprise or Win Server 2016.
If it's true what you say that "the result will be more profitable for landlords, and hurtful to tenants," then it seems odd that landlords are not universally applauding rent control.
Maybe Mozilla can put its weight behind Matrix and create a decent client that grandparents can use.
What's wrong with booting a VM off a standardized base image (e.g. an AMI), and then applying simple deployment scripts for each application you need to run? You could probably replicate 90% of the justification for using docker with some basic scripting.

git clone https://github.com/myprofile/my-cool-app
cd my-cool-app
chmod +x deploy.sh
./deploy.sh

That's it. The above script would be responsible for getting your application runtime environment up and then getting the application running as a persistent service with reasonable defaults. Most cloud vendors let you put something like that in your VM startup configuration. All you would need from this point is to ensure that any sort of desired management functions are built into the app itself. Perhaps having a central management service it communicates with across the public internet would be a good place to start. You don't need a lot of tooling to make a huge impact here. If you own the codebase behind it, and have a fundamental understanding of your deployment techniques, you can easily pivot and embrace radical new approaches. If you are stuck on Docker, this doesn't seem as optimistic from where I am standing.
> If rent control artificially reduces the price of housing, more people will want to live in CA.

There were two other comments in this same subthread pointing out that people are in fact moving out of California. (One of them has been deleted.)

It's almost as if f(california_net_migration) is multivariate.

> Less houses will be built, as less profit is being made.

Residential construction in California has been approximately steadily climbing since 2008 [1]. Even if I believed your premise -- which I don't -- reality disagrees with it. The conditions surrounding new residential construction are so much more complex than merely "omg rent control".

A San Jose Mercury News article published last year discussed some of the influences in new residential construction: https://extras.mercurynews.com/blame/

Strangely absent from that article though is that people don't want to just "live in California"; they want to live in the same places where everyone else is already living. There is plenty of affordable land in the central valley, in Kern County, and lots of other places with stagnant economies and depressing downtowns. But if you want to live in San Francisco, expect to pay a stupid amount of money for a vacant lot [2]. Again: this is not a situation that rent control is going to have any effect on whatsoever.

> Therefore, prices will be lower for those already housed, yet more people will be unable to purchase a home.

Funny, this sounds quite a bit like the situation that Proposition 13 created back in 1978 [3].

And yet, proposition 13 is rarely cited as a significant contributor to California's housing issues, especially by the "this is simple supply and demand" crowd. Personally, while I suspect proposition 13 has contributed, there are lots of other factors, including foreign investment [4].

But maybe we'll soon see just how much of an effect that particular factor has had in housing costs [5].

Sure though, rent control is gonna have a huge impact on California's housing prices. Totally.

[1]: https://journal.firsttuesday.us/the-rising-trend-in-californ...

[2]: https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2016/10/21/san-francisco-v...

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978_California_Proposition_13

[4]: https://calmatters.org/housing/2018/03/data-dig-are-foreign-...

[5]: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/17/foreign-purchases-of-america...
switch to podman?

https://podman.io/
Interesting. This came in at ~30 km/sec. And Oumuamua came in at ~26 km/sec.

It seems that "the Sun moves through the Milky Way at about 20 km/s faster than the local average", or "local standard of rest (LSR)".[0] With the components being ...

11.1 km/s toward the galactic center
12.24 km/s extra in the direction of galactic rotation
7.25 km/s toward the north galactic pole

Some ~nearby stars are coming through the galactic plane at 150 km/sec or so relative to LSR.

These objects probably came from stars with relatively low velocities relative to LSR. There might be some moving a lot faster, but the detection window would be much smaller.

0) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_kinematics
If I'm not mistaken, the VAT is a consumption tax that is paid for by the consumer and collected by the companies for the government. It's not a tax paid by companies.

I assume such a tax would replace the local state based sales taxes?

Having said that when I was in the US, it was very frustrating to never know how much something would cost me based on the advertised price.
yes, this. : )
Here's a friendly Python library that is ideal for this: https://github.com/tomquirk/linkedin-api
>decommodify housing

genuinely curious what would that entail, in practical steps
This article doesn’t resonate with me (~10 years in industry). Familiarity with or “knowledge of” a particular piece of technology is not a significant factor in the way I choose jobs or the way employers choose me, nor my success on the job.
yea, vacancy rates in SF are 2 - 3%, way way below the national median, and way below the california median as well
Between this and prop 13 it might be easier to just build a wall around the state.
Why not just provide both options to drivers? They can choose to be full-time employees, with whatever conditions that demands (e.g. exclusivity, hours, wages), or they can choose to take the independent contractor route, choosing their own hours, having control but being subject to whatever fares Uber wants to levy.
does this take into consideration that you would need to start slowing down halfway there?
It’s probably the case in CA now. Just want to mention that rent control in Switzerland extends to future tenants. It can be implemented so that it gives protections.
The practical limits are the structural integrity of the craft or its payload package(s). In most cases, that's somewhere on the order of 10-100,000 Gs acceleration.

(If my maths are right, and the rail of the US Navy's 2km/s railgun is 10m, the projectile has an initial accelleration of about 20,000 gs. Though its internal complexity is fairly low.)

Keep in mind that if you manage to harpoon your extrasolar whale, you haven't landed, you've only attached yourself to it. If you thought ahead and packed a bungee cord, rather than a completely inelastic cable, you could take up the initial acceleration, but would then find yourself dealing with the elastic rebound. You'd eventually contact at twice the original negative delta, assuming elastic limits on the cord weren't exceeded.

(Keep in mind that you were initially travelling faster, slower, or with some relative motion to the interstellar whale, and hence are implicitly counting on your harpoon cord to take up the difference. Unlike Ahab, you don't have the medium of water to supply friction or shock absorption.)

You could carry airbags to cushion the impacts. This was actually done for the Mars Pathfinder mission. The critical differences between Pathfinder and Extrasolar Ahab is that Pathfinder had an aeroshell and parachutes, all of which reduced the terminal impact eleasticity accelleration to well below Mars escape velocity, as well as a substantial surface gravity to deal with, while Extrasolar Ahab has the cold hard vacuum of space and a microgravity measured in single-digit metres/s^2. Rather than bounce and come to a rest, you'll bank off. Instead of Ahab, you're now "Fast Eddie" Felton, and your balls are no longer on the felt.

The problem in both these cases is elasticity, so what you're looking for is something that's deformable rather than elastic, probably at both the 'poon cord and crash buffer side. The longer you can stretch out (so to speak) the accelleration and impact, the softer your ultimate kiss.

https://invidio.us/watch?v=E65F86kMu48

At which you've probably got one more question:

https://invidio.us/watch?v=uJixQ16L5zc

To which I can only reply: as you wish.
Well, more bad and broken policy coming out of the state that has a long history of borking its housing policy.

This does nothing to fix the problem. They need to build more housing. A lot more housing.

But, no, we can't do that. That makes too much sense or something.

For people looking for solutions, here is a link to a supposedly suppressed Housing Development Toolkit put out by the White House in 2016:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/whitehouse.gov/files/images...
> a super cool place and most researchers didn't have any clue what was going on with the funding.

I don't know. I think witnessing the lab director giving tours to an old man accompanied by very young foreign women who raise suspicions that they might be victims of human trafficking, should make people at least consider that there is something shady going on with the funding.
> She would sublet the place for a year or two and then come back.

That's generally illegal, unless the subtenant is paying no more than the tenant is in rent. Every tenant who does this in San Francisco can be, and ought to be, immediately evicted. There is zero economic/social justification for abuse of rent control.
Confiscation, it is not, anymore than negative reports are confiscation of stock. You can liquidate and acquire a different asset. Personal preference has rarely been rewarded (re: eminent domain). There are windows of opportunity, timing and strategy inherent to capitalism. Sell before it passes (or the market adjusts) to maximize your realized asset value.