skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I completely agree with this. I have been working remotely for different companies for about a decade.

A couple of years back, I had a year-long contract on a remote team and the team leader was a horrible communicator.

It got to the point where I had to almost beg him for information. He would leave things out (not sure if it was intentional) and then make snide, passive-aggressive comments.

The rest of the team (2 people) were also fairly passive and it was extremely difficult to feel any kind of team cohesion.

Daily standups were painful.

I finally gave up and quit.

Managers as well as non-managers need to be excellent communicators for a remote team to work.
You read the part where they say things are not really comparable because different nations use different definitions, right?

E.g. if you scroll in the article you will find that Germany reports as homeless: "Living temporarily with family and friends due to lack of housing", "Living in institutions"

"Living in institutions" is clarified as: "Including people who stay longer than needed in health institutions needed due to lack of housing; and people in penal institutions with no housing available prior to release".

The US does not count these categories.

Now, it would be interesting to see how the numbers would change if the US actually counted all the millennials who moved back in with their parents because they could not find an affordable place, and all the prisoners and parolees who stay with relatives.
I don't think by any measurements the NY State/City gov'ts and/or New York Times can be called conservative.
Don't be naive. Think of key debates on economic issues: Deregulation, monetary policy, minimum wage, rent control, taxation, etc.

People's opinions on these is overwhelmingly driven by their political values.

Trump doesn't love the Laffer Curve for its abstract mathematical beauty or essential truth - it's merely a rhetorical device for justifying the policies that he and other wealthy interests prefer.
Because housing is a vital human necessity, so much like healthcare, the price ceiling for it is effectively infinite, because almost no-one can reasonably opt-out of purchasing it. (And due to how it's financed, it's not even really capped by people's income, since all of society is built with the requirement that everyone spend more than they could afford, just to get basic essential housing)

Saying "new (for-profit rental) housing construction will fill the shortage" is like saying, "Yes, Nestle charges an obscene amount for our water, but if we just let Nestle pump more water from the ground, they'll voluntarily sell that water to us for less".
It must have been the move to mirrorless that forced a mount change. Even Nikon abandoned their F mount line (which started in 1959) and introduced Z mount for their mirrorless.

Also given how often Sony is churning out new cameras these days, going secondhand will save you serious dough.
> the only thing that makes financial sense to build is luxury apartment

Exactly! That's the problem with housing as a market commodity -- developers will only build luxury housing or slums. A deregulated housing market looks like this: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/slum#/media/File:Mumbai_03-20...

Affordable housing requires public investment, public housing. There is no other solution.
I don't buy it. Even with strong rent control or tenant rights laws, there's still a glut of profit to be extracted as a landlord. I understand the arguments, and somewhat agree with the purported models of behavior that say rent control will make things worse or at best maintain the status quo.

The whinging about rent control strikes me as misunderstanding the differences between modern rent control legislation and the policies of the 20th century, and also pure libertarian whinging. The arguments against rent control are econ 101 mealy mouth crap that is not even representative of all econ theory.

I own four houses outright and rent three of them out to families, and I'm currently invested in a quadplex whose rents I use to pay the loan off; and I'm about to leverage all of these properties to invest in a 20 unit apartment complex. Even considering taxes, maintenance, legal expenses, etc. I am pulling in so much raw cash that I foresee that I will be able to expand my business indefinitely -- even with Oregon's new rent control and tenant rights law.
My business partner worked at an education-related company you've almost certainly heard of about six or seven years ago. When he started he ask where the defect tracking system was. The guy he was talking to pointed and said, "Go ask Susan. She has a spreadsheet." It was, as you can imagine, pretty much all downhill from there.
> By that logic, private schools should also be made illegal.

I used to think this too, actually. But now I think that Finland’s approach satisfies the goal while being a bit less drastic. Private schools are still allowed, but are not allowed to charge tuition fees (they are funded by a state grant if approved), are not allowed to have a selective admission process, and must offer the same educational and social services as the municipal schools.

It’s important to remember, the current system we have is heavy-handed and authoritarian too. It traps lots of people in an underfunded system and then tells them that system is hopeless and they are bad for using it. And parents do not “give up authority over their children” by sending them to public school. By fearing and vilifying any state action whatsoever, what you end up doing is vilifying, fearing (and eventually crippling) democracy. Instead of doing this, consider looking at measures that have been tried, proven to work, and have high satisfaction where they have been done, and join me in advocating an evidence-based approach to improving life for normal people!
Valve can no longer stop French users from reselling games
I agree with you on the first point but not sure I understand the second. People had to pay to build or buy the property. For example, my uncle built a 12 unit apartment building. He paid the mortgage on it, maintained it, and took care of it for 30 years until the mortgaged was paid off. Was he victimizing the people that paid him to live there?
When local rule kills the creation of new supply, it doesn't seem far fetched to cap rents to inflation + N%.
Stripe "sells shovels". People want to exchange money, that will always be a basic tenet of commerce, and Stripe facilitates that. Bravo Stripe.
Victory Ruling in HiQ vs. Linkedin Protects Scraping of Public Data
For a short time AT&T GigaFiber was charging $30/month to opt out of surveillance and I thought they can't possibly be selling my data for that much. I wonder if this new law will also lead to some unrealistically high prices.
Isn't that the same thing as "not producing useful models"? Like, sure, some of the models may work, but unless you know which ones you can't make use of them.
Hey all! OP here, loving the discussion of hyperinflation theory.

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It sounds like these statistics are utterly useless for national comparisons

> About half of the surveyed countries also cover people living in non-conventional dwellings and people living temporarily with family and friends due to lack of housing,

> In Sweden the official figure given by the National Board of Health and Welfare includes lots of people who don’t have a permanent home but aren’t living in shelters or on the streets. For instance, Sweden includes people set to be released from jail within three months and have nowhere to go
Franklin Delano Roosevelt's family fortune was built from his grandfather Warren Delano Jr's opium smuggling business.

https://www.nytimes.com/1997/06/28/opinion/the-opium-war-s-s...
That's equally genious and stupid. WeWork has to be successful to be able to pay the lease. If WeWork is successful then he can continue to make money from WeWork via being a CEO. He should have 'diversified'.
LinkedIn loses appeal over access to user profiles
How about, if housing isn't allowed in an area, then rent and sales price isn't allowed to increase?
How does everyone deal with sales tax/VAT collection with Stripe? If selling software licenses for example. It seems like you have to use a third-party solution [1] and wondering why Stripe doesn't provide such a service themselves.

[1] https://stripe.com/docs/orders/tax-integration
See my answer above. Shoes factoring is efficient because period finding mod N is exactly discrete log.

To attack ECC it is directly discrete log, where quantum is exponentially faster than classical.

Grover reduces unstructured search from O(N) to O(sort N), only a quadratic speedup, insufficient to weaken crypto more than 1 bit out of a key length, which is too weak to be a threat.

Page 2 of your link does not state how QC attacks problems; it dies say ECC is discrete log, though.

Both systems break precisely because QC solve DLP in these cases exponentially faster than classical, and this is all that’s needed.
What does that have to do with the US having the resources to do something about it, and not doing anything?
Many cities are actually regulating/pushing regulations against short-term rentals.
It doesn’t have to be totally public, just publicly provided supply with eventual private ownership, as is the case in Singapore. The problem is that the USA is a country (many cities/towns to live in, some more desirable than others), while Singapore is a city state.
Which housing crisis are you referring to? Is it the one created by the unregulated free market which will never provide housing to people? Or, is it the one where regulations have not created enough affordable public housing?
If he evicted any of them, refused reasonable accommodations, or made a profit off it in excess of the labor and services he provided.

This is an old joke, but why should we show any deference to a person we literally call Lord?
I think this is true if the prototype is known to be possible. It's not in the case.
If I have a billion dollars, and start a country that consists of me in my palace and 2000 other people living in abject poverty, we are now the "richest nation on earth" by this definition. Big whoop.
Somehow I'm the one deflecting?
I see this conventional wisdom posted a lot here on hacker news and other forums, but is it really true? There are plenty of high density cities with high housing costs.
Good landlords provide vital public service, and should be able to charge a slight premium as compensation.

This is different than speculators who boot out tenants to take advantage of market swings.
I'm genuinely curious where the seemingly new faith in federal government has come from, while criticism of local government (police action, city and town policies, county actions) seem to be on the rise. I'm neither Democrat nor Republican. Both parties have become too corrupted to support in any legitimate way, and I tend to only look at what policies any candidate supports, which is getting more and more difficult, as everything is in 20 second sound bites. But broad federal government as opposed to local government always seemed far more disconnected and I'm curious as to why the boost in popularity of this centralization in federal power on "both" sides, seemingly.
I live in Canada, and have been to many US states. This doesn't reflect what I've seen in the least. Even if it is true, it still doesn't change the fact that if the poorest 20% is richer than Europe's middle class that you have more than enough resources to do something about it.
That’s pretty funny. FYI, object order in JavaScript is a bit complicated, but in practice these days it will maintain the order of key declaration and insertion.
This is a long way from my expertise but I think that what you are referring to ('Chinese') is actually a large group of varying cultural and ethnic people that has seen a huge amount of change over millennia. I think this is significantly different to what the parent was referring to.
Housing is a resource. If you have a magic wand to make resources exempt from economic forces, please wave it over food prices for the rest of us.

The reason economists get so excited about abstract issues of market efficiency is because if supply and demand don't balance naturally there will either be too much or not enough of something (effectively). Introducing rent controls will push the market towards the not-enough end of the spectrum and shortages will get worse.

> The unregulated market has never and will never provide affordable housing to all on its own.

That is a huge claim. If people could use their land as they like there probably wouldn't be a housing shortage. Developers make large fortunes out of install dense blocks of apartments; and doing that isn't going to make housing more expensive.
I'm a landlord too and would love rent control in my area. No where else is a 8-10% increase year over year tolerable, but in rent controlled areas, it's the norm.
That's quite nonsensical, what you say.

If she was there of her own volition, there would be no need for guards, and doors, and locks, and for people who took her away to have taken her away.

She would just walked into the prison when she wanted on her own terms. (unlikely)
That fluorescence will kill you (depending on how you handled it).
If your car gets twice the mpg and you’re consuming half as much gas do you consider that a bad thing? You’re deriving the same amount of utility at half the resource cost.
That’s what the ACA is for! For people up to 400% of the poverty line, the ACA caps premiums at 10% of income. That’s what you’d pay in health insurance taxes in France.
Sure. I mean, you can sell pretty much any kind of car, as long as it fulfills all the safety regulations. That's why the free market only builds Lamborghinis and utter rust buckets.

Trust me, if developers could freely serve every sector of the market there was demand, without being choked by zoning, land supply, etc, we would see the whole housing range from the Toyotas to the Testarossas.
You claim that supply and demand is nonsense Econ 101 then humble brag about your burgeoning rental income empire? So you want the government to take your money?
Can't be any more porous than borders in Asia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Triangle_(Southeast_Asi...

China is right next to a major drug smuggling region. The jungles and mountains southwest of the country aren't exactly easy places to build border fences.
How about rent increase matches property tax increase + inflation. If a property owner isn't paying fair taxes on its property value then rent isn't getting increased as well.
I disagree. In the U.S., "deep state" is a deliberate reframing of the permanent bureaucracy to suggest that there's a faction of civil servants that make up a clandestine network working behind the scenes to manipulate or subvert democracy for their own ends without any accountability.

It's not a new idea, but the use in the U.S. is pretty new, and has seen seen a resurgence in popularity since Trump — a populist whose campaign was partly based on the premise of a deep state — was elected, partly in thanks to books like "Killing the Deep state" [1].

There have existed, and there still exist, "true" deep state systems, such as the intelligence services and FSB (and related obligarch axis) in Russia, that we should be wary of. Co-opting the phrase to refer to any permanent bureaucratic structure as a deep state is needlessly reductive (and historically incorrect), and also normalizes something we should consider a dangerous aberration.

It is a conspiracy theory, but it's taken very seriously by the people who use it.

I recommend this [2] video for some historians' perspective.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Killing-Deep-State-Fight-President/dp...

[2] https://www.c-span.org/video/?461976-2/deep-state-american-h...
I would call them a mixture of conservative and liberal. They share in common an interest in preserving the power of capital and private property. I am not a liberal, but am a leftist.

I used the word conservative not because it's 100% accurate (liberals are conservative compared to leftists though so it still is accurate), but because it's the word that people more immediately understand.

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/11/public-housing-social-wel...
That's correct -- there is no contradiction here. A totally unregulated housing market would be an unmitigated disaster. And some regulations are certainly counter-productive (e.g. exclusionary zoning). The problem isn't "more regulation" or "less regulation" -- it's making affordable housing a priority and crafting policy that is consistent with that goal. The problem isn't that the people in charge are stupid and bad at economics, it's that landlords and developers (and to some extent, homeowners) have a tremendous amount of power and resist the political changes that need to occur in order for housing to become affordable.
The two are interconnected. There's less willingness to reduce communities' ability to block housing construction and approve of higher density limits because a large segment of renters have price-controlled housing.
Especially at the time, it was really unclear whether Manning was "The good guys."

It's honestly still a controversial opinion. Lots of people died from an Arab Spring that was kicked off by Libyans learning the State Dept's opinion of their government. The resulting revolutions wave left a trail of bodies but didn't make much change.

The State Department keeps its opinions secret for a reason.
It also apparently leaches out in contact with acidic foods.
As shortage is defined as a situation where an external mechanism prevents price from rising, technically it's a shortage where rent control is present, as rent control is the external mechanism that prevents price form rising. Economically, where price may freely increase, the price will rise until demand wanes to the point that there is no more need for additional housing. Socially, that is a problem as in the case of housing we want everyone to have the opportunity to have housing, which is why we bring in rent control, which then create shortages.
All too true. I love NPR but I feel like this whole piece was looking back with rose-colored glasses. It seemed EVERYONE who even knew who he was back then hated the absolute shit out of him,and not only had he earned the infamy, he reveled in it. I know it's bad form to speak ill of the dead, but he was the Fred Durst of the hacker community.
after it says in the absence of immigration, wages for US computer scientists would have been 2.6% to 5.1% higher in 2001 the NBER study's abstract continues US workers switch to other occupations, reducing the number of US born computer scientists by 6.1% to 10.8%

we can't really know the detailed impact of the immigration policy without also knowing how those occupation switchers fared. did they get jobs that paid the same, more or less? what were their new working conditions like? and, if their new careers are outside of STEM fields, would they have been better off majoring in something else in the first place?

it's possible that the economic efficiency gains of the corporations resulted in reduced efficiency in the individual lives of these job switchers. it's quite possible that these workers paid the price and corporations reaped the benefits.

anyway, economic, labor and immigration policy are determined by factors that go beyond corporate efficiency and profitability. and corporations advocate their own narrow interests, not just the interests of "the overall economy" or GDP maximization or some other umbrella. it seems reasonable that a sector's workers bear as little obligation to advocate for the "overall economy" as corporations bear.

workers who feel severely impacted by these changes are certainly free in a democracy to advocate for policies that benefit them. after all, that's precisely what corporations do. this is a political balancing act more than it is some sort of ethical argument.
Get out of California while you still can. Gavin Newsom is hell bent on completely destroying it.
Ask HN: Looking for people to critique my SOP for grad. school? (MS in CS)
Hello,

Unsure if requests for services are allowed on HN (please remove if I'm violating any rules), but I'm looking for others to review my Statement of Purpose for graduate school applications. I'm applying for my master's in Computer Science, coming from a state school with decent GPA and no research experience. Given that this community is centered around more technical folk, I thought it would make some sense to post here as there may be members with their MS (or even professors!) who can give advice.

Is there anyone willing to lend a hand, or know of others who can do so?
I believe empath means that unlike other prisoners, there's a clear and specific action she can take to leave prison any time she chooses to.
San Francisco has 100,000 vacant homes and 10,000 homeless people.

[1] https://sf.curbed.com/2019/3/21/18276227/vacancy-rate-san-jo...

[2] https://abc7news.com/society/homeless-population-history-in-...
I blame hot topic and the che guevara shirt trend. For some reason people have convinced themselves socialism is the solution to everything while at the same time complaining about surveillance states and corrupt/racist police.

It's bizarre to me.
I'm not sure I'm seeing the same comparisons that you are regarding travel distances. A Tesla Model 3 uses 24-29 kWh/100 miles (depends on drive/battery options) which would be 4-5 gallons of gasoline. That would be 20-25MPG assuming the 10kWh/gallon ICE which is pretty low for a mid-sized sedan. An Accord hybrid pulls around 48MPG, while a Dodge Charger Hellcat SRT manages an EPA combined 23MPG (hardly a typical ICE given that it puts out 707 horsepower).
If you want to be geographically technical about it, Stripe is not a Silicon Valley company, but rather a company in a nearby city called San Francisco. Both Stripe and WeWork do seem to follow the "silicon valley model", however.
This program is wonderful, I regularly use it for highlighting and annotating PDFs. Just imagine this with a SoundCloud-like "highlighter/annotator" for AV files thrown in the mix.
When Muammar Gaddafi spoke at the United Nations.
You're assuming that things can get worse for renters.

The housing market in California is already non-functional because supply is not allowed to meet demand, which puts renters at a tremendous disadvantage. Efforts to relax restrictions on new housing construction have failed.

Adding restrictions until the market breaks in ways that everyone hates might be the only way to get any momentum toward fixing things.
Could be a great source for fresh high-resolution Maps data.
Both nimbyism and rent-control are problems.
If you are a programming beginner or want a deep dive which teaches a bunch of unrelated topics, this is a great article!

But, it took me longer to skim this article than to setup my first action. This is making things way more complicated seeming than it actually is IMO. All you need is 3 small files :)
I thought bitcode backwards compat included that too. If it didn't, Apple's collecting bitcode for watch apps for transparent 64-bit support wouldn't work.
He's saying being able to "opt out" is absurd. It's equivalent to getting the product for free in most cases.

"Hey, I want to use your free service but I want to go ahead and opt out of the part that enables it to be free" You don't see a problem with that?

It would be like if there were a restaurant that gave free food in exchange for filling out surveys (data collection). So you eat the free meal and then "opt out" of doing the survey.