skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you report the sublet, that tenant is likely getting kicked out. So now someone has to find a new place to live.

Yes, subletting for more than main tenants rent is illegal, but considering how hard it is to find apartments, most subletters just let it be.
> Traditional contractor relationships, on the other hand, use the power of the market (that is, the contractor ability to either easily switch clients or maintain multiple clients) to keep things fair.

There's a lot fewer clients to choose from but doesn't driving for Uber and Lyft simultaneously satisfy this to some extent?
California has also been creating high paying jobs at a fast pace, could that be a coincidence?
It is possible for regulation to lower the cost of some things. For example, currently the regulatory environment in many California real estate market lowers the cost of holding rental property. In a more competitive, less regulated market, the opportunity cost of buildin developing now housing would be lower, so landlords would have more cost (indirectly through decreased rent or directly through more frequent renovations).

Hopefully this move leads relaxed zoning laws and regulations, allowing new development... People who want such things will gain political clout because capital will want return on investment, and rent control shifts the calculus for good ROI in the real estate market toward new development (marginally).

I'm sure hundreds of economists have written thousands of papers about this subject, each going its own idiosyncratic way, so maybe I've actually been proven wrong in this particular case, I don't know, but I have to say that the idea that regulation only ever increases costs is silly.
- If the dollar gets devalued, other things will drop in price as well

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

- 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).

"deregulate and let the market compete" is the right answer. It's the owners that don't allow for it.
Which ecosystem are human-biting mosquitoes a primary food source in?
Why wouldn't the price of food plummet in an automated world? The cost of labor is priced into everything you buy. I still think we're a few decades from these scenarios, but I am not willing to solve a theoretical problem (permanent unemployment) until it becomes a problem in reality. Right now we've got 3.7% unemployment despite all this tech. So I remain very skeptical of this theory playing out and UBI being necessary.
What Lessig's piece seemed to completely ignore (and what this seems to touch on but never quite state plainly) is that under the conditions of anonymity where someone can't use their donations to launder their reputation, someone like Epstein would have never made the sort of donation he made. The only thing that anonymity did here was to shield MIT from accountability; Epstein still got the benefits of such a large donation.
No, I'm not sure what that would suggest - how would that need to be accounted for? Maybe some fraction of light speed would need to be the upper bound, low enough that mass increase wouldn't have a material impact? I'm having trouble understanding what impact the mass increase would have in the first place.
They can log unencrypted DNS queries coming from Cloudflare, yes. But they can't correlate those with the incoming encrypted queries, not when the amount of traffic coming in is as vast as it will be. It doesn't help much to know "some Firefox user somewhere tried to resolve such-and-such domain".
They may not be some grand cabal, but if biggerpockets.com posts are anything to go by, I have no qualms with any pernicious attacks against them.

Ruthless capitalism and fundamental human needs do not mix well.
Having spent 15 years in finance, I've never seen C used for perfomance critical code. It's always been C++. Some shops use Java or C# with GC effectively disabled, but those are rare. If you can preallocate all of the memory you need, this may be fine, but not all trading systems have that luxury.
Yes. Chess and Go are that different.
Thoughts on Amazon Photos vs Google Photos?
The market is level two chaotic system, meaning it reacts to predictions about it.

The predictions may have been correct if it weren't for the fact that the predictions themselves perturbed the system.
That's quite an oversimplification of the problem, copying stack/heap/etc. Anyways, check out CRIU as a starting point.
What do you expect, they are playing the political money game that is U.S. politics.
In which universe is inflation 10%?

https://www.bls.gov/regions/west/news-release/consumerpricei...
Both are possible at any point.
Science says liberals, not conservatives, are psychotic
If you make doorknobs out of brass, they might still get poop on them, but many types of bacteria and viruses can’t survive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimicrobial_properties_of_co...

Maybe we can start making public touchscreens out of brass...
It all depends if tenants can afford it. On a scale this could be "happy with rent"->"rent too high but can afford"->"cannot afford rent, in arrears".

Are average renters getting 7% pay raises every year in perpetuity?
Weirdly niche, but I love James Hoffman for coffee stuff. He's extremely thorough (he has a 12 minute video on the best V60 technique!) and has a great sense of style. Plus he's very careful about buying the products he reviews with his own money (well, Patreon) or disclosing if they've been sent.

If you want film stuff, Criterion's Observations on Film Art is fantastic but not on YouTube. They have short excerpts but the whole videos are far better. I do love Criterion's channel though for its closet series where famous film people pick out Blu-rays and DVDs to take home. Seeing what filmmakers pick and say about their picks is super interesting.
I use docker all the time when doing side projects by myself. It's nice because I don't know ahead of time what the dependencies will be but I don't really care. I just pull in all the container images via docker compose and suddenly everything is there and talking to each other.

I find it very ergonomic outside the need to run docker system prune from time to time.

I also value it highly when some open source project I want to play with has docker compose in its readme. Super easy just to spin it up.
Go and C# are pretty much neck and neck until the batch size gets large. Rust is always ahead of C#.
In Montreal we've had universal rent control all my life, and it actually works quite well. The rents are comparatively low. We have a decent tech scene, but it's still an affordable, left-leaning city, where even struggling artists can scrape by if they want to dedicate themselves to artistic work. I'm sure some people would argue that apartments in Montreal are less well-maintained as a result of universal rent control, but I've lived in the bay area, been to San Francisco many times, and uh, a two-bedroom San Francisco shithole which rents for over 3000 USD/month would rent for about 700 CAD here (~550 USD). If you go to the 800USD/month+ range, you can find very nice apartments.

Funnily enough though, I would say that Montreal has less of a supply problem, despite being on an island with no room to expand into an infinite suburban sprawl like the bay area has. Construction still seems to happen here. People are bitching that too many condos are being built, but I think more supply is good.

Anyway, I think rent control can work pretty well, as exemplified by this Canadian city. At the very least measures to prevent surprise rent tripling while someone is renting an apartment are very much a good thing. Sidenote: I think that rent control can also help prevent property price explosions. It makes no sense to buy an apartment for over a million dollars when its rental value is only 1000/month.
From what I've seen, most people treat the university as a prerequisite to getting a decent job. Only a very small percentage actually treat all classes in a serious way. Most just skate by in a majority of classes that they deem to be filler.
This is incredibly out of touch. I moved to the Bay Area on a $120k household income, lived in Menlo Park and did fine. We were never going to be able to buy a house, but I wouldn’t describe our situation as “barely scraping by”
> What else will be in Synergon besides our workspace?

> There will be a Jamba Juice.

This was so ridiculously on point.
I've always dreamed of a magic wand device that I could point at things and give commands. For example, point it at the window and say "close blinds". You could even add gestures to do it silently. With this UWB tech, accelerometers, a mic, and voice recognition, it seems like a viable product. Of course, I think Apple intends the phone to be the magic wand.
Let's see. Commodore Basic, Borland Pascal, Borland C++, MS Access, Delphi/Oracle, Java/MUMPS (don't ask), C#/.Net/MSSQL, C#/Net Core, Postgres. Those are the big chunks, Postgres being the newest. Across DOS, Windows, Solaris, HPUX and Linux. I get bored with stuff after a few years and just want to build systems with something different. I personally don't go for the new hotness, I go for the hotness that has been around a while.

This was the same discussion around 2001. You had people who got into tech for the money and people who just like it. Many people who did it for the money didn't survive past the dot bomb in 2001.
the 1st humanity king, we should remember!
No, it assumes you start and end at whatever that maximum velocity is that we've been able to achieve.

That'd be fun to add, though. I'm not really sure what human-safe acceleration is - people here assume it's in the 1g-3g range. (That seems like a lot to me though, particularly for a long period of time - I think anything more than a fraction of g would be wildly uncomfortable.)
Eh, they got hired by Criterion to do similar videos^[1]. That's not exactly a failure. Plus they no longer have to conform to the YouTube algorithm, play the subscribers game or deal with YouTube comments. I'd call that a success.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ND_xkQ9j_A0
doesn't it also use an older fork of LLVM rather than branching/rebasing off of master? That could account for losing out on optimizations.
Thanks, taxes!
Political Diversity in Social and Personality Psychology (2012)
The stated problem is that there are few providers, as for the offending party - Firefox, it's they've defaulted to a company based in the US or a 14 Eyes member.

It doesn't feel right to address the issue by blaming the DoH, or Firefox, as they are not defaulting to the prime evil - Google.

I believe the better suggestion here to say is to set up own DoH servers, urge related parties to opensource their own implementation if there's none.
If our drug prices are higher than in other countries it can only be because of how things are regulated. Otherwise we could buy the same thing from their market for the cost of shipping.
That’s a good start. I like to work offline so I am always following up on conversations, never having one. BBSs are a ton more friendly to people who log on occasionally.

Being corporate owned, with lots of obnoxious GAMERZZZ branding doesn’t help either. Oh and it being a web app that ships with it’s own memory-hungry and cpu-chewing browser is a nice touch too. Using Ripcord helps all but the “real-time chats suck” and “corporate owned fora suck” but those are still some pretty big sources of suck.
It's a department, and it's dedicated to the creation of media. Doing "cool nerd stuff" is strictly to support that mission.

Very postmodern and advanced if you think about it-- Most actual scientists are measured by how they produce papers (e.g. media). Which is also how the "replication crisis" and "p hacking" came to be. The Media Lab just recognizes it explicitly
Cool to see C# being up there close to C and before Golang.

I haven't used C# much over the last year due to job change but always felt like one of the most mature languages out there. Now working in Go and it's a bit frustrating in comparison.
Indeed, Firefox is prioritizing the interests of users over the interests of sysadmins. Personally, I'm fine with that.

> The basic IT mantra has been 'If it aint broke, don't fix it.'

An unencrypted protocol that compromises privacy may not be "broke" for sysadmins, but it is for users.
And for regular DNS, their ISP/employer/school will be the service provider for 99.9999% of users. Regular DNS is not exactly easy to find (on Windows, it's under Settings -> Network -> Change Adapter Options -> Adapter Name -> IPv4 -> Properties), which is arguably as hard as going to about:config. And there is no menu of providers listed--nor does it explain who would choose the "automatic" DNS server options (the one that uses DHCP).

So the status quo is no better than this, and at least this is encrypted and protected by a privacy guarantee.

Now I agree that ideally a user-visible preference should be created for the DoH resolver, but I don't think that's a blocking issue. Just like the accounts features uses a mozilla server, and chrome uses google accounts, and both use google safe browsing lists, browsers have always made the decision to hardcode various external service providers.
The cost of being a landlord is much more than just property taxes.
On Android, Google Maps can orient itself using the camera. https://mashable.com/article/google-maps-augmented-reality-w...
big news - i'm gonna repost this...
"The childcare figures are actually pretty in-line" with one of the most expensive and unrepresentative cities in the US.
I've read this sentiment before, but could never understand why. Is something about this question that is fundamentally different from normal questions in number theory?
>Landlords who choose to increase rents at the maximum rate permitted each year do so at the risk that they will be undercut by competing property owners who do not do so.

Price ceilings (even non-binding ones) can create market power for suppliers by providing a focal point for tacit collusion.

[0] Knittel and Stango (2003), Price Ceilings as Focal Points for Tacit Collusion: Evidence from Credit Cards
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/3848/b5c04ae02c17c0b5135841...

[1] DeYoung and Phillips (2009), Payday Loan Pricing
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/c587/58d243ad0653b052b1c77a...
In what way can “STL” be considered a performance hit? It looks like you just threw out every C++-related word you know.
Except rent control means less housing!
Then it's a good thing that if you use DNS over HTTPS, none of those countries will have the info, since the connection is encrypted to Cloudflare and they will not be logging queries.
> Both C# and Java are faster than golang.

In this case Golang outperforms (in terms of throughput) Java on batch sizes > 4 and does so by nearly 2x at batch size of 256.
Wouldn't 1g be perfect? I've been enjoying it for a few years now on this planet.
UWB was repeated 39 times in the article. At that point, the "did you read" question(with the assumption he didnt read) become legit
San Francisco has some self-cleaning public bathrooms that work like that. Locks between each person and cleans the whole thing including the floors. Pretty cool.
"Science" paid for by conservative think tanks?
A good satire of dystopian, anti-human 'design' ideology but... the sidebar promoting something that features HumansOfFlat design (visual newspeak)... is part of the satire right? 'iLLUSTORiA' is reading material in the Cells?
I'm looking for constructors that return immutable objects. Is there something in C++ that can help me?
Running crap on cloud works great until you’re above the cloud or really below the cloud. Powerful edge devices will always be valuable. iPhone is prolly one of the most powerful edge devices out there
> thought experiment: if raising 5% every year with the law made sense, why would it not make sense to raise it 5% every year without the law?

If you don't raise it now then you can no longer do it later in the event that taxes or mortgage interest rates or some other cost increases. That creates a major risk for the landlord, which most of them would prefer to mitigate by raising rents even if it means apartments going vacant longer. And when they're all similarly situated, they all do the same thing, which means the tenants can't avoid the rent increases by moving to another apartment, which allows for more of the landlords to get in on the rent increase without incurring vacancies.
At many fast food restaurants, especially the less busy one, the person taking drive through orders is multitasking. I've seen people run the front register and the drive through ordering at the same time.

It's very impressive, and it also means this won't cost quite as many jobs as it could.
I Prepared for and Passed the Oracle Database SQL Certification (1Z0-071)
In zoning-restricted markets like the Bay Area, housing supply is extremely price inelastic. The coefficient is at least 2.0 if not higher.

If cheap, abundant, shipping containers pull 25% of the demand out of the low-end multi-family segment, that's a 50% drop in prices. Low-end housing is a substitute good with mid-end housing for at least some of the demand.

The prime example are people who live with roommates in mid-end housing, who with cheap enough low-end prices, would get their own place. A 50% price shock to low-end multi-family at the very least would pull 10% of the demand out of the mid-end. That would lead to a 20% drop in mid-end multi-family prices.

Just the same there's at least some substitutability between mid-end multi-family and mid-to-high-end single family. A prime example are empty-nesters looking to downsize. With a 20% price shock to multi-family, that would suck at least 5% of the demand out of the single-family segment. That's a minimum of a 10% price reduction.

Hence a positive supply shock in the form of cheap, abundant shipping container homes would reduce the price of mid-high-end single family homes by at least 10%. This is all micro-econ 101.
AWS announces Kubernetes IAM role switching for pods
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/09/amazon-eks-adds-support-to-assign-iam-permissions-to-kubernetes-service-accounts/

Reposted from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20879225 that got no comments (cept mine lol).

This is pretty big news. Most people that need this use kube2iam or kiam, both of which are quite flakey to be honest as they rely on intercepting requests to the AWS Instance Metadata service.
Announcing the Urban Institute Data Catalog
That's a tragic story but I don't see how it's relevant to Uber. There's absolutely no coercion going on. People are free to join and leave as they wish. I still believe that having the ability to drive for Uber is always better than not having that opportunity.
> you can throw out everything you learned in class and start over by Googling it and following the best practices of today, like we do for everything else

Yep, everything newer is automatically better. No need to have any grounding in objective utility as long as you're up-to-date on the latest web framework!

> You might have an idea how a basic OS kernel works from your OS class, or how...or maybe...None of that is useful at all, other than maybe to get you interacting with your machine, in the hopes that you'll learn how to use a computer (which is a completely different set of knowledge)

Any decent computer science program is both theoretical and hands-on. Projects where you get hands-on experience with the concepts you just learned. Not all of us can read Data Structures and Algorithms and implement a search algorithm as an 18 year-old. No, not everyone needs to know this. Yet, some people do. For those people who do need to know, their work wouldn't be possible without it.

> If you go into your CS degree as a young hacker, adept at nix with a penchant for assembly language, with enough experience to appreciate the CS concepts, you're going to be disappointed. There's a strong chance that you'll know more than the professors.

True, but (especially now) I'd be surprised if this is <2-3% of the CS undergrad freshmen population. I personally switched from pre-med to CS as a junior in college with only a single QBasic high school class under my belt.

Finally, as others have pointed out, (and as much as I hate admitting to this phrase that was so often spouted out by my college professors, perhaps I have drank the Kool-Aid), you're learning how to learn. That is, you're practicing juggling abstract concepts in your head, making connections and weighing solutions. I found my CS classes were 10x better at making me a general problem solver than my pre-med classes (mostly my discrete math/logic classes).
Full quote: The population of the nine-county region grew by over 600,000 people since 2010 — a nearly 8.5% increase — outpacing the growth rate in any other part of California, according to U.S. Census Bureau data released Thursday.

600k people is about as much as Seattle proper. Which happens to span 83.94 sq mi. In less than 10 years. That's _a lot_ of construction.
It used to be, with docker for Mac v2 it became fast for me. Problem is I don't wanna be wiping out dozens of images, figure out which ones I wanna keep etc. I want a configuration setting saying "keep X versions" and the rest will automatically get pruned.
Cloudflare has proven willing to refuse to use their own bandwidth to host particular websites. That's very different from censoring DNS requests, and there's no reason to think they would do the latter.
What is different this time is cloud computing / always connected devices. This enables easy collection and access to enormous amounts of training (and continuous retraining) data needed, as well as offloading processing to a single, central model that can be optimized for fat hardware for runtime.
Privacy policy is great, what about actual security?[1]

[1]:https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/09/apple...
A little tidbit, Intel still manages to sell 5(!) generations old CPUs in China, and those are not old stock.

The industry been screaming murder for the last year because Intel stopped selling low and mid-tier chips as such in China aside from "new old stock"

The new 10nm Atom line refresh has been delayed 4 times already, and will very likely be delayed for the 5th time.

AMD however does not seem too much interested in China's domestic industry at all. AMD's China reseller is a company in a tiny dusty office in Shanghai.
I suppose, but how many late-stage private companies (i.e. late enough that you're getting stocks instead of some kind of option or other you-aren't-technically-gaining-anything vehicle) are having wild downswings in stock price? I'm not aware of any, and while I could imagine there are some I would assume it's a relatively small number, but I could just not be in the loop.
Also certain countries (eg. Australia), have a metadata retention law.

That means that the ISP dns will 100% be logging all requests made.

The risk of Cloudflare doing it is far outweighed by ISPs legally being required to do it, at least in Australia.
New iPhone Hack Shock as China Blamed for Devastating Attack: Report
I don't think shipping container housing is the panacea the marketing makes it out to be. The savings aren't as crazy as you might think because of all the retrofitting involved to make them pleasant for human occupancy. Square feet are a nice shorthand for certain aspects of habitability, but floor area is not the only relevant factor.

This is mostly from an NYT article, so perhaps it's just one school if thought among many, but I found it convincing on the merits. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/14/opinion/shipping-containe...
Would you extend your reasoning to TAOCP as well? Not trying to put you in a spot: I would, and I agree. I wonder how much of the praise devoted to TAOCP is from people who have actually read the books.