skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Prefabricated easily moveable homes are already a thing. You can go on https://factorydirectmobilehomes.com/ right now and buy a home larger than a shipping container for less than $30k.

Modular apartment buildings also exist and can be thrown together quickly and affordably.

Not to be rude, but the problem is likely going to take a bit more to solve than throwing shipping containers at it..
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Well, looks like I will be forced to increase the rent next year to a maximum so I can decrease long term risk.
Do you know how well the Dhyana or Zhaoxin processors are doing?
But if they really needed the money, they would've gone through the hoops. Making rent and have food to eat tends to motivate people.
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Nothing like firing up google to search for where you might find the chat for the server you happened to connect to so you can see what you missed while you were away or disconnected while waiting for someone in a different timezone to respond.
Seems like the Swift slowness comes from ARC.

> Unfortunately, the performance analysis shows, that the retain and release introduce a big performance hit, with little information on why exactly so many calls are necessary.

https://github.com/ixy-languages/ixy.swift/blob/master/perfo...
Interesting!

Are there management tools like Portainer available? Or would, even better, Portainer work with Podman?
D.C. is probably a better example here. California is 1/6th of the US economy. It's not really creating "good" jobs relative to its size.

And D.C. is only doing that because it's just one city. Cities are the winners in the current economy. They happen to be liberal. Cities in Texas and Tenesee happen to be conservative, and they're doing swimmingly also.

Despite how much people get worked up, policy doesn't have a huge macroeconomic effect.
As somebody who's been working for internet security over 20 years, we strongly believe that applications should not choose the DNS server. The operating system is designed to manage DNS and network settings for all applications.

This is nonsense.
It's a single example. Generalize the comment, and you'll take away that there are many employers of low-skilled labor.
>how to solve TSP with dynamic programming.

Impressive. (TSP is NP-hard. Not even NP-complete because you can't verify the solution in polynomial time... or at least, I don't know how to do it and would love to see a solution with dynamic programming)
Huh? 600,000 people in the Bay Area's 7,000 square miles -- I don't see how the Seattle comparison of "83.94" square miles is related.

No residential neighborhood in the Bay Area needs to turn into "Manhattan" to house 600,000 extra people. If every block added a house we'd have extra housing to spare. Zoning prevents a ton of development, and everyone pretends they're fighting "Manhattan".

At Manhattan densities, the Bay Area would house 468 million people. That's not what's happening, and no one is advocating for that.

We don't need to build Seattle in the Bay to house everyone. We just need cities to stop dragging permits out years and every planning committee to stop saying "no" to any small increases in density.

How much construction it is isn't super relevant -- if it's profitable, it will happen!
Shoot, I remembered wrong, I thought they used Gambit as their Scheme. Anyway, rewrite the UI in Scheme!
There is discussion about C# and Java being faster than Go, but one interesting thing to note is that both C# and Java have to use C to interface with the kernel.

Java: https://github.com/ixy-languages/ixy.java/blob/master/ixy/sr...

C#: https://github.com/ixy-languages/ixy.cs/blob/master/src/ixy_...

Java needs a bit more C to make it work. C# only seems to need it for DMA access. But when you look at the Go code, they got away with being pure Go and using the syscall and unsafe package. So that's at least one plus for Go.

(the main readme calls this out, but at least one thing worth mentioning here too).

As a Java coder for my day-job, I do like the breakdown they have of the performance of the different GCs for their Java implementation. https://github.com/ixy-languages/ixy-languages/blob/master/J...
They become managers?
No, and traveling near lightspeed is likely hardly possible. However, fusion will likely become a reality within our lifetimes, and if we can build fusion powered spaceships, we could likely reach a fraction of the speed of light, say, 0.2c. I don't think it's that crazy to think we could do that a few centuries from now. That still means it would take over 1000 years to reach that planet.

Personally, I think that if humanity progresses that far technologically, without destroying itself, we probably won't care that much about habitable planets or planets with water. We'll just live in space and harvest the energy and resources that are available nearby. There are a lot of other planets much closer to us than K2-18b. We could just build bases in orbit around those stars, harvest asteroids for minerals and hydrogen for fusion power.

Alpha Centauri would "only" take 22 years to reach at 0.2c (plus some time for acceleration and deceleration). You could leave earth and live to see that solar system, and you could travel there on a ship that is basically a large city that will just park itself in orbit around the star on arrival, acquire resources, and start building something bigger.
> Economists from both the left and the right have a well-established aversion to rent control, arguing that such policies ignore the message of rising prices, which is to build more housing.

Nonetheless while it doesn't fix the underlying economics, I can see how it could be good to have a damper on the volatility of real estate prices, so that prices swing over the course of many years rather than violently.
Did you really resort to scavenging OP's online presence in an attempt to discredit his anecdote against Apple?

To me this behavior reinforces OP's point.
Montreal has a large supply of old housing stock. Its population growth has also been much slower than Vancouver and Toronto's over the last few decades:

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/how-does-montr...

>>Montreal is not shrinking, but it is growing slower than other big Canadian cities – driving down rental demand in the process. From 2013 to 2014, despite gaining nearly 43,000 immigrants from other parts of the world, Montreal tallied a net loss of 10,000 residents to other provinces.

If either Vancouver or Toronto had had more stringent rent control in place over the last few decades, the housing situation in these cities would be much worse than it is right now.

The effects of rent control have been heavily studied and are well-known:

https://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/RentControl.html
They probably meant, like everyone else who says that STL is a perf hit, "using STL containers is a perf hit"
The point is if people knew that they would get v.d. Leyen they never would have voted for EVP. The voter has apparently zero control over who gets the most powerful position in the EU. Note that commissioners not only have exectuive power but also legistlive power. Hence the EU is inherently undemocratic, a blatant power grap by the elites that needs to be abolished entirely ASAP.
I don't know where to stand on this issue. I wish everyone could afford basic living spaces, but if they could, there would be way more people, and the planet clearly cannot sustain that.
Picture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidio_Modelo#/media/File:Pr...
I was under the impression we did know that Voyager left our solar system -- could you clarify what you mean by this to someone not familiar with these concepts?

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/13/science/in-a-breathtaking...
Aren’t the effects of rent control well-studied and well-understood phenomena at this point? Won’t this cause the rental market to become effectively deadlocked? i.e. people staying put for very long amounts of time due to not wanting to lose their low rents, landlords refusing to maintain their properties due to lack of incentives, inefficient allocation of rental properties (one person living in a 2 bedroom merely because the rent is low), and so on?

This seems like a bad solution to a problem (housing shortage @ current market prices) with an obvious solution (allow more housing to be built).

It’s almost like the politicians pushing for this policy don’t value the input of experts and the application of research, but instead are only interested in solutions that sound good at the most superficial level. Golly!
> DoH by default uses cloudflare's DNS, and so won't (need to) comply with the UK's filter laws.

I'm assuming the DoH servers used by British users are physically in the UK. (I believe they anycast the service from all of their edge locations, and they have several in the UK.)

So the fact that Cloudflare doesn't have to comply with this law is precarious. Is it because only ISPs are required to comply? If so, it seems like a matter of time before Parliament amends the law to require any public DNS operator to implement the filters as well.
If there weren't rent control, market rents would certainly be much lower, so it's really hard to say whether your aunt and uncle could afford it or not. Surely you weren't basing your statement on the current market rent in their neighborhood? On what basis are you making that claim?
Agreed, it's a great feeling to see the number of major cases where I felt her team and her and thus the European Competition Comission was in line with what I wished would happened and protected our interests as citizen of the EU.

It also sometimes has large ramification outside the EU (like the Apple / Qualcomm case), but unlike what I often see from american commenters in thread about these I genuinely don't feel like the position has been used to give more advantage to the EU, only to ensure fair competitive practice (and if anything, they've been even harder on stricly EU companies they come against).
Anything in the Culture series by Iain M. Banks;

The Expanse series by James S. A. Corey;

The Commonwealth and Void trilogies by Peter F. Hamilton, and the Night’s Dawn trilogy also by Peter F. Hamilton;

The Dune saga by Frank Herbert.
An interstellar object cannot be captured into a stable orbit unless some other force (such as Jupiter's gravity) acts on it.

Orbits are time-symmetric, so an interstellar object being captured into a stable elliptical orbit would be equivalent to an object in a stable elliptical orbit escaping the Solar System (again, ignoring other influences).
There are some other excellent explanations in this thread, but it boils down to the idea that if drivers are employees, the company starts to care about how much they work. For example, if they work more than 40 hours in a single week, they need overtime pay. That means that a driver today who decides to work 80 hours one week and take a vacation the next would (if classified as an employee) be costing Uber a lot of money, so they will probably need to ban that behavior to stay competitive. From an employees perspective, this means they have less flexibility in their work schedule.
Any chance you could release the patches?
> If the dollar gets devalued, other things will drop in price as well

When a currency is devalued, the price of things denominated in that currency increases.

> Laws can change in this case, as they have here. laws are a dynamic system

If you're going to pass a law allowing a rent increase every time the market would cause there to be a rent increase, I can suggest a much simpler alternative.

> If you are making money from rental properties only, that means you own properties (as well as your own house in theory). Not only are you more well off than almost all the population, but you have goods that are worth a lot of money that you can sell (maybe at a loss but you still have a roof over your own head).

That is not a valid assumption. Many small time landlords "own" the apartment building that they live in, but really the bank owns most of it and the rent is only enough to pay the mortgage and their own salary for managing the building. Require the rent to be capped at a level that causes the building to be worth less than the amount that you owe on the mortgage and there isn't anything for you to sell while you "still having a roof over your own head" -- you're just going to file for bankruptcy and have nothing.
You can also add frequency of words like 'recession', 'downturn', etc. You may count them on different news sites. I did it like 15 years ago, it was a lot of fun.
Over any timeframe, the rate of progress between the beginning and ending of the timeframe can be phrased as exponential for some exponent. It's just a matter of accurately estimating what that exponent is.

I take your point though - hypergrowth cannot be sustained - and estimating that exponent is fairly valueless if volatility is too high. This is all just math fun that won't be valuable if we bump along for hundreds of years and then all of sudden make a massive discovery.
Malaria is such a big part of life there that you can literally get medication over the counter. Mosquito nets are everywhere, shops have sizeable sections of mosquito repellent, windows have shutters with mosquito nets on the outside. People are supposed to take the malaria preventative pill but sometimes stocks run out and sometimes people are just people and stop taking the pills. As soon as someone doesn't feel well malaria is usually one of the suspects. Sometimes people just take a fall course of malaria treatment without even going to see a doctor. Then life moves on. There are some deaths, hard to quantify but it is usually the deadlier form of malaria that affects the brain and the sick person takes too long to see a doctor.
We were faced with the same dilemma. Even with a cross platform framework like React Native, you have to make a decision about which platform to target first.

Considering the demographics of India, and our limited development team (a single founder), we decided to focus our efforts on Android.
I use it with the excellent USB Audio Player Pro. It uses its own driver for external DACs, I guess because the Android one is not fit for purpose.
You must be living in an entirely different universe because everyone I know uses tons of usb-c all day.

How about the most popular noise cancelling headphones, the Sony 1000XM3 (usb-c). I see them everywhere.

Some laptops? More like all laptops. Find me one being sold now without usb-c. They would be a joke. The best tablet, the iPad Pro is usb-c (though yes I know the lower end ones are lightning).

What about the best video gear. All the best mirrorless video cameras like the Panasonic GH5, Sony A7iii, Nikon Z7, Fuji T-X3, BlackMagic Pocket Cinema Camera, all with usb-c. The best webcam out there, the Logitech Brio with usb-c.

Let's talk about specialty gear. The most popular external disk, Sandisk Portable Extreme with usb-c. The most popular mobile hotspot, the Nighthawk mobile router has usb-c. The most popular audio interface, Focusrite, uses usb-c pretty much for all their products now. The best presentation remote, the Logitech Spotlight is usb-c charging.

Me and my friends have flashlights, shavers, toothbrushes, VR headsets and remotes, all with usb-c. Great for travel.

Basically, any good product being released now is usb-c, and has been for the past couple years.
Yep. Michel Weststrate is a genius, and also an all-around nice guy. I hope to have a chance to meet him in person.

(For reference, I'm a Redux maintainer. We now recommend Immer as the best way to write immutable update logic in Redux apps, and use it in our Redux Starter kit package.)
No. That's called the balance. "Coins" are not a thing. That term is not in any of the bitcoin glossaries or used on any exchange.
Could it not be an educational tool to the person asked that when they write a statement of a certain kind a source citation should really accompany it?
That JavaScript and Swift have essentially the same performance here is extremely telling: there are essentially four performance regimes (five if you count Python, but clearly from the graphs you should not ;P), and what would really be interesting--and which this page isn't bothering to even examine?! :(--is what is causing each of these four regimes. I want to know what is so similar about C# and Go that is causing them to have about the same performance, and yet much more performance (at higher batch sizes) than the regime of Java/OCaml/Haskell (a group which can't be explained by their garbage collectors as one of the garbage collectors tested for Java was "don't collect garbage" and it had the same performance). It frankly makes me expect there to be some algorithmic difference between those two regimes that is causing the difference, and it has nothing to do with language/runtime/fundamental performance.
Except they aren’t employees. They are something else. Make a new classification for them.
Despite Brexit, UK startups can compete with Silicon Valley to win tech talent
> It allows me to be a purely 'casual' chatter, I can close and open slack anytime. I don't have to keep irssi running in a screen in the background. I don't have to have a bouncer.

What's the barrier to a SaaS IRC solution like irccloud?
I took it as 1g of acceleration. I don't know. Wouldn't plain old 1g mean no acceleration at all?

Edit: Oh... I guess not. :) I got confused with the extra g's we'd need to escape earth, but that's so short-term that it can be ignored. Yeah, I think 1g would be perfect.
We already have planning around how much housing should be built in popular cities; the plan is "as little as possible." The same stakeholders are not going to suddenly be okay with shadows, traffic and parking impacts, changes to neighborhood character, etc. because they come from a social housing agency. You still have to fight that fight.

If San Francisco's incumbents were okay with their city looking like Singapore, we wouldn't be having this conversation.
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Assuming that Uber has a competitive advantage because of their brand, and both Uber and Lyft are rational actors who want to maximize their profits, they will end up in a state where Uber has higher margins than Lyft.
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Ruthless capitalism and fundamental human needs do not mix well.

I dunno. I don't have much trouble finding reasonably priced, nutritious, and tasty food (cooked or as ingredients) anywhere I've visited in the world. Yet food is governed by ruthless capitalism, no? Surely we wouldn't argue that farm subsidies are all that's standing in the way between people getting a decent meal and chaos?

What about...petroleum? Like it or not, it's necessary for survival today. Absolutely ruthless capitalism at play, and at the hands of a lot of people we don't like. And yet...the system works pretty ok, I think? The last major oil shock we had was in the '70s -- not bad, considering how many financial crises we've had since then.

I don't get what is your proposed alternative to "ruthless capitalism" for housing. Are you proposing "single payer housing"? Or a "guaranteed public option"? Or is the idea to have more of a "centrally planned" housing market, where the means of production^W^W^Whousing stock is owned by The People but decisions about how to employ the housing stock is made by the government?
To be honest, I'm agnostic to the particular RSS reader I use as long as it gets the basics right - read later, save webpages in read later, basic organization and a decent search. My current poison of choice has been Feedly but I've had a great time with Inoreader as well.
The laws vary by country - in general the European Commission makes recommendations, then it's up to each country to implement them at a local level.
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> 2) "legalizing backyard cottages" is actually against Big Government, and I'm with you there.

The criticism is that big government (state level) is blocking smaller governments (cities) from making policies that fit the smaller community.
I find the performance of Java rather suspicious. It starts out fast for the smallest batch's sizes but then kind of falls flat for the rest.
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Even Quad9[1] or NextDNS[2]? Quad9 works well for me.

[1]: https://quad9.net/doh-quad9-dns-servers/
[2]: https://nextdns.io/
Another unintended consequence is likely to be a degradation in the average quality of the housing stock. Everything gets old and needs to be replaced / upgraded. With limited ability to pass on the cost of improvements, and less mobility for tenants, the best strategy for owners is to extract value from the property by neglecting repairs. The annual rent increase can be pegged at maximum, while the building itself moves "down market".
I wonder how much someone would charge for insurance to cover the difference between 5%+inflation and market rate?

It's effectively a option on future rent prices... it shouldn't be particularly hard to value numerically.
Having an actual number on the books shared by all creates an expectation. It's an anchor. If everyone agrees a 5% increase is reasonable, then everyone will do it. Now you don't need a reason, you're just keeping up with the market.
Boeing's travails show what's wrong with modern capitalism
That seems like a lot of money compared to existing prefab options. For the same or less money, why not use something designed to be a dwelling to begin with?
You mean, like the current Shitposter-in-Chief?
I agree with your final statement, even if zoning and build regs are revamped rent control restricts the potential profit of those new buildings which will cause developers to build elsewhere.
Google is not a consumer company. If your account is banned you will loose access to your Fi service with little to no chance to recover it. Cases of google abuse are well documented and numerous, appeal process is non existing and overall relying on Fi is just creating another vulnerability vector.
And that should surely be the default. What's Mozilla's intent to send DNS queries to Cloudflare by default, and require regular DNS resolution to be configured manually?
For Java it could be binary wrangling. You have to do some weird things to unpack binary blobs in Java due to the lack of unsigned types. So, for performance you have to wrangle things through native ByteBuffers correctly or you will get killed.
The long startup time is somehow what keeps me from really liking Docker. In the end (if I understood correctly), it is supposed to be the go-to tool for serverless architecture. If my serverless function needs more then a second to startup, it's not usable for me.

Even the hello-world container, which is only a few kB in size needs roughly a second to startup.
That would break the internet for many innocent souls behind firewalls.