skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The data shows that rent control regulations can slightly decrease the number of rental units. If that's all there was, then rental control is clearly bad.

However, rent control is fundamentally about providing stability and security for existing tenants. I've yet to see any study try to account for that, perhaps because it's very difficult to quantify. But without accounting for this benefit then empirical studies can only ever show the downsides.

There exist the same stability and security concerns with property taxes. Oddly, few economists seem to seriously promote Georgist land value taxes, notwithstanding lay enthusiasm. Probably because they intuitively understand that it's politically untenable, regardless of how economically efficient it is, to tax people out of their homes just because the world around them has changed. And indeed, if you look at every example in the United States where LVTs have been attempted, you see that LVT rules and their administration invariably succumbed, often almost immediately, to myriad exceptions and loopholes in the face of political pressure, especially from residential property owners.

Is it impossible to avoid rental controls in large, high-demand cities, or impossible to institute rigorous LVTs? I don't think so. But it's much more difficult in some political-economic contexts than in others. Many things need to align to make it tenable, not the least of which is the capacity to deal with the disruption for existing residents and ensuring that the security and stability needs for future such residents can be met in other ways.

Don't forget that for an economist you can solve problems by, for example, packing housing insecure people into box cars and shipping them off to the desert where you've built beautiful bungalows for them to live out the rest of their lives, so long as the cost of those bungalows is less than the efficiencies unleashed by opening up the market for people of more means. Or maybe less cynically, give them monthly stipends that they could (and hopefully would) use to relocate. But suffice it to say, such solutions are often, to varying extents, contrary to normative economics--i.e. what we're fundamentally trying to achieve or are capable of achieving socially.

To my mind, the question of whether rental control is bad or good seems misplaced and impossible to answer without more context. And rent control policies can always be tailored to the local situation. Loosely speaking, pretty much the entirety of the U.S. is already subject to some kind of rental control in the sense that there are almost always laws, for example, that provide tenants the benefit of long notice periods before eviction, or which nullify directly or indirectly damages for early lease termination. These impose real costs that get baked into rents, but the benefits to tenants are generally considered worthwhile.
when you're working you can always toss it off as "exploring my options". I had a period of 4 years where I traded jobs every 1.5 years. This strategy works well if you're starting at a company with a low bar and are working towards a top firm. Companies don't usually question it as long as you are moving up with each switch.

Once you cross the 5-7 years of experience mark companies will start to ask the question more pointedly as 1.5 years roughly corresponds with a performance review cycle. We all know engineers who have failed upwards or outwards for years but are competent enough to pass an interview and personable enough not to be fired. Senior level positions also tend to involve multi-year commitments that the company needs to know you're onboard for.
The OP asked for candid feedback, and told us not to hold back. I myself added a caveat to my post to address your very concern. Is there something more that you think I should have done?

(BTW I agree I'm reading a lot into his post, Sherlock Holmes style, but without confirmation one way or the other, its hard to say if I'm on target. In any event, I do not believe that the OP would share your umbrage, given his post.)
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This person is correct in that:

You MUST show your programming skills.

How?

* Github. I spent 4 months programming a project in NodeJS, ReactJS, Postgres, (+ html/css of course) on Linux. I posted the code on Github for the world to see. Within 2 weeks I was hired to my first 100% programming job: $80k, on 1099 contract. Two months later, I was hired on salary at $105k by a different company. Once I had those on my resume, plus the github code, and the two next bullet points, recruiters began contacting me. Sure, no one paid me for those 4 months, and it was a grind, but now they certainly do pay me.

* A web portfolio. Web Dev is my bread and butter. How could I call myself a Web Dev without my own website?

* LinkedIn presence + LinkedIn Connections

To build skills:

* Udemy.com , Youtube, other video sites (google "sites like udemy" for more)

* IRC --> Google "nodejs community" and you'll find there's an IRC chatroom filled with hundreds of Node devs, many of whom are experts & work at major tech companies. There are also chatrooms on Discord and Slack, besides IRC. And they offer chatrooms in many languages & frameworks

* eBooks. Free ones.
My. Stocks. Worth. So. Much.

No point to work anymore.
Anecdote: A friend of mine chalked his roof. It got his interior temperatures down by almost 4C. This was after shading all windows and doing the obvious things.
From Twitter [1]

Shopify only had 54 developers in 2015 and 4000 at the end of 2021? They recently announced they will double the engineering work force, so I assume 2020 they had 2000 developers.

I thought Shopify has been here for long time so 54 developers in 2015 was a surprising small number. But 4000 Developers by 2021 is a surprisingly big number.

I am cautiously optimistic, never heard a single bad thing from Shopify. Although there are Shopify App developers [1] with a fair amount of criticism.

[1] https://twitter.com/jmwind/status/1382376878460264449/photo/...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26514612
For sure, but this person is asking for help and it’s worth pointing out that there is a lot of socially unacceptable behavior going on here. If he/she doesn’t understand that, it’s probably coming through in the interviews and would explain the ghosting. This is not a diagnosis, it’s a suggestion to get one.
What if hashes of known-bad content are stored locally on the device, and sending content that matches against those hashes is not allowed. Or, the user could appeal if they think there's a false positive. This can be used for CP but also for known-bad fake news or inflammatory content. Clearly, the content hash DB needs to be scope down, and what goes in there should be chosen with democratic principles, and stand scrutiny in the courts. If done thoughtfully, it seems like a feasible solution.
Don't know about him but I used to do it at a time when I felt obsessed with making information correct. It was a bit compulsive.

But on the bright side, that's how I knew Bloomberg News was bullshit and that despite HN's frothy comments about how they always knew SMCI was backdooring chips I just grabbed some long options on the cheap and partied it up.
ChaN has some great source code for minimal, bare-metal microcontroller-based audio projects:
http://elm-chan.org/he_a_e.html
Do you seriously think we actually do this "dramatic action" in the next couple of decades?

If we manage to get it started, what if another Trump gets elected and sabotage it from the top?
About 8: this habit might make your docs sound a bit monotonous, but it also helps with 'grepping' through them.
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I really liked the presentation of the blog, it is actually making me uncomfortable and guilty.
It's ironic how the very expertise that makes us technologists able to solve these problem for laypeople, can blind us to the issues that come with having this technical world-view. We shouldn't expect computing to be at the top of people's minds, because they often, rightly, have more dear things to worry about.
Housing prices spiraling out of control, bubbles in the stock market and crypto, this crazy V-L recovery we just had out of the covid recession, insane art prices, bubbles in baseball cards, the declining tax burden on the wealthy. The people who are rich and "close to the king" are able to capture all the effects of monetary stimulus. That is leading to asset bubbles and dramatic increases in prices of the things those people throw their money at.
Cant we just spam google with random flocIDs?
You can waive the prediction too if you allowed people to swipe on those keys too akin to a modern Japanese mobile input method.

For latin script you can combine them: 1 for a or b or c, swipe left for a, swipe up for b, swipe right for c, etc.
Excluding a page is a manual process however, requiring to set the header mentioned in the blog post. So website owners have to explicitly opt-out of FLoC.
Waiting for google to make this a ranking factor for SEO like they did with amp.
So, are you saying that new technologies must be considered wasteful if they don't wholly replace existing technologies and instead create new usages of their own?

For example would you say that smartphones are wasteful because they allow us to communicate more frequently than we could before, thus they don't strictly replace an existing consumption of energy?

That seems like a silly interpretation to me. Of course our energy demands rise as we develop and use new technologies. It's because we are doing more things with them!

Also, as I mentioned in another part of the thread, I don't think it's obvious that cryptocurrencies won't replace any existing usages of energy.
I guess it's a combination of people following earlier example, and that it sounds funny.

In economics textbooks, companies always produce 'widgets'. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widget_(economics)
What’s the tech behind this? Have they worked with Microsoft to implement this? Does Microsoft offer some something that enables these kind of bridges?
It is not chutzpah. It sounds like that when people tell stories from own point of view they can frame as they wish. They sound cool when you listen to it as uninvolved poison. They are not cool at all when you are there in real life or in receiving end of it.

It is the fantasy vs reality difference. As much as you imagine yourself creative when doing these, other people see blinking red flags and boundary pusher that will cause trouble.

It is like those funny and cool characters on movies, that in reality you would cut out because they are assholes.
Or kill all people.

Both are effective at fixing the emissions problem. Both are also extremely oppressive and unjust.
See also https://phenomenalworld.org/sources/political-sun which links to a few things including J.W. Mason piece.

If doubting the mainstream economic consensus still seems a bit edgy, consider that much of it is still bound up in the supply-side scarcity-based thinking this forum loves to disdain. In this case, the lack of the urban growth we could have dwarfs other sins.
> he current interpretation of the rule appears to take "level with" the 2nd to last defender to be a zone of infinitesimal width. So having your body lined up with the defender's isn't enough to be level with if a pinky finger is extended beyond them. A player could have his entire torso behind the defender and be offside if his arm or toe extends beyond the defender. The defender could literally (by any reasonable definition) be between the forward and the goal and it would still be offside.

Only parts of the body that can score goal are used to judge offside. So, pinkies or arms don’t count.

And I don’t understand what you mean about “level with.” What should level with mean in your mind? No more than x cm ahead? Something is either equal something else or it’s not.
> but do not care for them (which would be sociopathic)

No, disliking social norms is not sociopathic. The critical piece of being sociopathic is a lack of conscience.
You can still negotiate to what you're worth. If you're no better than the applicants they got without recruiters then good luck, but that's why companies are hiring from recruiters, they can't find the talent on their own.
Exactly what newspaper is worth a monthly subscription?

(I should have worded this differently. I did not mean it to be aggressive. I'm just wondering what news source is worth a monthly subscription at this point in history? And no on The Economist. My question is for every HN'er.)
They look at the resume. If you are not just OK, then your interview may fix your CV. If you are not the best candidate, just barely OK, your bad CV can fuel worries.
New renewables are cheaper than new fossil fuel plants.

https://ourworldindata.org/cheap-renewables-growth

That's enough to eliminate them over time, because the plants do get old eventually. And the trend is for renewables to get even cheaper - this means any study using current prices is going to be extremely pessimistic, it's going to get even cheaper and obsolete your results.
Redis and postgres are an apt install away. I can't imagine redis would throw you. Postgres use to require using a separate user to login through the shell.
It is not about what your previous job title was, but if you actually have the chops to do the new job.

There are many tricks you can use to get an interview. However nothing abut OPs past shows that he can actually be a productive programmer.

>Dev job at IBM

No details what he did or for how long. I've been in teams with fresh juniors who are amazing. They bring in new knowledge and new perspectives and over all crush the job. Then I've seen juniors who "work" on something for weeks and weeks and when we start for them to demo how far they are we find out that they haven't been able to produce anything working.

>QA at EA

While with normal software I'd say this requires at least scripting skills with games I don't know if that is necessarily true and again probably not a good skill set for getting hired as dev in FAANG

>Cybersecurity team at college

I immediately assume this is some kind of CTF team, which might teach you to use some tools, but again I've seen people in college just "pass through" without really learning anything

If the job OP could do and do well was Amazon help desk then he should aim somewhere between FAANG dev and that position and probably erring on the side of the help desk. The new job will teach them more and in a year or two they can apply for a higher position.
On their current trajectory, they will be an extinct race in about 50 years. Instead of being insular they should look outwards. Open up migration and stop being racial and maybe that will introduce some fresh ideas. You loose some but win in the long term.
I was asked about my previous internship work experience from my resume by Point72, Salesforce, Google, Addepar, Okta, Iterable, Visa, Veritas from my resume during my interviews.
That's what Linus Torvalds said too: ARM won't have a chance in the datacenter until it gets onto desktop computers of developers first. https://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=183440&curpost...

That moment is now here. Sure, it's only a subset of the market, but Mac devices are a significant percentage of developer computers (28%), way higher than in the general population (17%).

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2020#technology-de...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_syste...
Your point reminds me that you shouldn't think about documentation as a one-off thing you are doing for your project.

But in terms of a process. Eg how are you going to keep the docs up to date?
For lost cost Wordpress stuff sure, but for higher end senior type work I think it's worse than other languages.

While this is obviously location dependent, over the last year or so I've had dozens of calls from recruiters asking me to come work on PHP (mostly Symfony and Laravel) applications, and telling me they just can't find competent senior and lead devs.
Seems like the fact people already own BTC is a minus for future users, if there's exponential adoption nobody has any reason to value the early users' claim and might just use a new currency.
Oh that's brilliant, let's link a thread where OP details his personal struggles and shortcomings to his IRL identity.

Surely if the recruiters weren't all over him before, now they'll just be clamouring to hire him! Wow!
First, OP:

STOP CALLING YOURSELF UNHIREABLE.

STOP WITH THE SELF-PITY--

Why?

You can't simultaneously focus on two things: such as focusing pitying yourself while simultaneously focusing on building & completing your strategy.

_____________________

WHATS THAT YOU SAY OP?!, you say you want to CONQUER THE ROMAN EMPIRE, but you only have a dozen pals WITH NERF GUNS? Yeah, guess how that'll work out :P Doesn't sound like a reasonable strategy, does it?

Yes, you failed because YOU LACKED A REASONABLE STRATEGY.

ANYONE WILL FAIL when they LACK A REASONABLE STRATEGY REGARDING ANYTHING in life, that should be obvious.

The solution? Develop a reasonable strategy and fulfill the work involved in the strategy.

______________________________________

Now for the rest of my intended comment:

This.

PragmaticPulp is speaking about STRATEGY.

You need a reasonable strategy, OP.

Check out my recent comments for my lengthier reply of advice, but here I'll summarize:

* Make small pivots. Don't try to jump to the top, as Pragmatic mentions

* Market yourself. Want to be a programmer? Show the world you're a programmer then! How? You need to build an open source project with in-demand programming languages & frameworks. You need a Web Portfolio to show off your projects. A LinkedIn presence. And, put your resume up on job sites. This is basic marketing strategy, OP.

Want a dev job? Well, how do you show the world you're a dev? Again, click my name to read my recent replies if you can't find 'em here on the first page of 300+ replies.

So, focus on crafting your strategy and then completing the strategy.

Keep your head up. Stay positive. Find motivational music & speeches on spotify & youtube-- that helped me get through 4 months of building my full stack app (no one paid me to make it, I simply built it b/c I knew I needed to show the world I had the skills)
Including buildings in urban areas and choosing a custom date to see how shadows change over the course of the year are next on the backlog. Contact info is in my profile if you want to keep in touch.
So if you drop the price a dollar the day before Christmas Eve, sales drop, you can't drop the price any lower?
I suspect you're right. I needed a cheap offsite host for running some monitoring a couple of years back, and deployed a small ARM host (via scaleway I think).

Running docker containers on it was OK, and cross-compiling my golang monitoring stuff was easy enough.

But over time I just wanted to use my existing pipelines and deploy x86 stuff. So in the end it was a novelty, and while cheaper than an amd64 host it was eventually replaced so that I had a consistent set of deployment targets.
If you're a miner considering this, can I suggest you investigate decommissioned mothballed plants in new zealand. I don't know whats happening with wye creek plant, but my understanding is that there are hydro plants in nz that were built to provide power to alcoa aluminium smelters that are now unused.
Not sure what you're implying. Additionally, issuing employee stock generally doesn't cost the company cash.
What if your server is also running an ARM CPU though? For example with AWS Graviton
Yes, because everyone should pay the "real" price stuff costs unless deliberately subsidized. If hospital bills go up because of it (doubt it), then subsidize hospitals. The incentives will be much better in that world. Hospitals can for example optimize for using less energy, which would be a win for the world.

Just look at Europe and the effect of the carbon tax there. I don't have links (sorry), but there are lots of studies "proving" that that makes for a more efficient and optimized market aligned with the desired outcome.
I’m sure this has its negatives . I lived in Seattle and have experienced the issues with the current system first hand , when moving I looked at houses in historically redlined parts of the city , some of the houses I looked at had abysmal options for internet 7mbps was the max I was getting . There’s only two companies that provide service Centurylink and Comcast , I tired calling and visiting offices of both companies to find out if there was any chance I could get better speeds in the future , there was none , each company said these areas were under the area of the other and refused to install upgrades . I’ve also moved around a lot in the city , each place had different broadband prices from Comcast , if there were other competing services you could get 1000 mbps for 70-100 $ but if there are no other competitors in the building you are in you are paying the same 70-100 for 45 mbps speeds . These companies have stopped innovating completely and are only doing rent-seeking . Any change is better than the status quo .
If you're outside of cellphone range - which is pretty feasible even in near-to-civilization outdoors areas - and you become immobilized, you're stuck until a) someone else happens across you - which could happen if you're actually on a fairly well traveled route, b) you don't return on time and your friends/family initiate a search - and hopefully you gave them an accurate trip plan and didn't deviate from the route, or c) press the SOS button on your PLB or satellite communicator.

Depending on your condition, any additional delay of hours or days means it'll probably end up as a body recovery instead of a rescue. If it were me, I'd want get get help ASAP if I needed it. (Even if you're experienced, trained, equipped, and prepared, things can happen...)
> add_header Permissions-Policy interest-cohort=();

what does that even do?
You'd be far better off building floating wind turbines in the deep ocean, say in the roaring 40s.
There are times of day that solar and wind farms produce more energy than the grid can use. This excess energy has no marginal value to the grid. You can also have off-grid solar bitcoin farms that don't need interconnectivity.
I homeschooled my sons.

Public school was created to train children to be good little factory workers. A lot of the culture of public school is stuff you also see in old timey factories, like everyone responding to a ring of a bell to end their lunch.

Instead of listening to a bunch of internet strangers tell you that you are some kind of sociopath, let me suggest you try to see yourself as a stranger in a stranger land. The world of paid work is like an alien culture.

Social stuff is always partly learned. It is highly dependent on context. It doesn't matter how talented you are at the social thing or how well adjusted you are, you can't readily fit into an alien culture where you don't know the rules and implicit expectations.

Someone on HN once told me that they had seen a number of "unhireable" people do volunteer work, such as working on open source, and have that ultimately turn into a real job that worked well for them.

I think that's worth a shot.

In the mean time, you might look for gig work to help you pay your bills in the short term. It's much, much easier to avoid homelessness than to get back into housing after landing on the street. (I know this fact all too well from firsthand experience.)

I run a number of things that might be pertinent to your needs. This link is probably the best TLDR of stuff I work on that might be of some use to you:

https://www.reddit.com/r/GigWorks/comments/e81eba/welcome/

Best of luck.