skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is true, they are reliable. But we shouldn't go overboard with that.

It used to their claim to fame was 'we launch on time reliably'. The 'we launch on time' is now no longer true, they had lots of issue with that recently. Arianespace had such issues too, Ariane 5
was actually grounded for most of last year.

SpaceX is a far more reliable on time to launch by now.

SpaceX has insurance cost as low or lower and they are certified for all military and NASA payloads. Including bieng certified for humans before Atlas 5 was.

In terms of reliability the newest version of Falcon 9 that has the human rating is rapidly approaching 100 flights and never had a failure. Even if you account for all Falcon 9 launches, their reliability is still very good.

Atlas 5 recently had a shutdown of the first stage engine and only because the 2nd stage was overpowered it was able to barley compensate. Had the payload been just a little heavier it would have been a launch failure.

Arianespace also had reliability issues, they recently launched a payload somewhat in the wrong direction because they had the wrong software on the rocket.
If you only ever have 1 database server and 1 application server, then SQLite is deterministically faster in the embedded single-server scenario. This is our configuration model for our application. I acknowledge this is not everyone's configuration model (today), but if you entertain the insanity for a moment you might find the performance uplift of a single-machine app to be staggering.

Query execution latency for SQLite on the same machine running on NVMe disk can be measured in microseconds. You will never see this kind of performance across the network, or even loopback. Thus, there is literally no way from an information theory perspective, that Postgres, SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, MongoDB, Dynamo, Aurora, et. al. could ever hope to beat the throughput of (properly-configured) SQLite operating embedded in the application itself.
I would prefer location where my chance to find female mate is greater than 0, and where I will not be on the hook for saying, writing, or doing something trivial and then persecuted under pretext of consuming alcohol.
Thanks for putting it nicely. This sums it really well.
I live outside the US and still use Coinbase because they have created an image of trust, and so far they deliver on that.

Personally i don't care if they're not the cheapest as long as they don't screw me when i need them the most.
Do they encrypt the data end-to-end? Are they private and privacy friendly? If the answer is no, then they don't message 'just fine' but are an obvious liablity.
At some level you always have to trust whomever is vending the software you use.

If you don't audit and re-audit every bit of code in the whole stack for only alternative, as flawed as it is, is doing calculus based upon the reputation and character of the people producing the code. We differ in that I stopped using keybase when the stellar airdrop occurred. That company is now an appendage of Zoom, another company I've watched closely from a security point of view. I imagine you are also a happy user of that, whereas I'm a begruding/throw-away-laptop-under-duress user. I haven't seen the code from either product but have made a judgement based upon their behaviour.

This is the topic of this debate. If you find it exhausting reading comments from people trying to explain why they might be losing trust in a piece of trusted software, you are free to not read the comments and spend more time auditing code.

ps. There are literally thousands of encrypted messaging apps. That Signal claims to be another is a small differentiator. How does it back up the claim? These lines of reasoning always lead back to the people running the show and how they behave. Short of a State actor using gagging orders to insert back-doors, which is way outside at least my thread model, I moved to Signal because of its claims plus its aggregate reputation.
A rent cap is a clear sign that the capitalist system is broken and we need a better system to match the housing needs and supply without feeding into heartless vampires who'd rather have empty apartments than rent them at a reasonable price.
And (2) means that privacy oriented persons no longer can get an apartment in Germany.

BTW, 10% of these data collecting advertisements on the real estate websites are from identity thieves.
Berlin is a weird place. If you're an art student working as a barista, I don't think you can expect to live in a hip neighbourhood. Certainly not 15 minutes away from Alexanderplatz(city centre). And you certainly can't expect that if the city is a self-proclaimed "startup capital", with thousands of tech workers who enjoy 80k+ salaries.
The focus on AI risk is because it seems to be the #1 long-term existential risk, so it has essentially an infinite payoff.

But we have idea how to solve it (it's not tractable) and future concerns should be discounted, so most people in EA I've met don't think it's the best use of effort.
It’s 2021 and I don’t know Flexbox
I moved over to duckduckgo too, but what I've found is that when I'm searching for some esoteric bug Google is way more likely to give me a decent result, to the point that I'll literally switch back to google for those types of issues.
Most software fails differently: in 95% cases it works 100% of the time, in 5% cases it always fails. You can't use two identical pieces of software for redundancy.

So this kind of redundancy only makes sense in rare cases:

1. There are two different pieces of software that do the same thing.

2. They are interchangeable enough, you don't need a fat adapter for each one.

3. The fault is not in one of their shared dependencies.

1 and 3 are rare because we try to reuse as much software as we can.

That said, this does happen a lot with web standards: if a standard exists as an upgrade over a previous standard, being able to fall back to the old standard is a common requirement.
Just curious, would you happen to have a reference for Paris handy?
This is also what I read in it, which I found a little strange of a stance given what we know works for the flu.
> Since then, we are trying to get in contact with them through every channel we could find: email, Twitter, LinkedIn, [..] They don't have a support number we can call.

Tons of platforms seem to operate like this, and this kinda thing happens all the time. HN is turning into a desperate last resort as a PleaForHelp-as-a-Service (hoping that bad PR or a company insider is the trigger).

But by now business decision-makers should really wake up and acknowledge the risk of choosing such platforms. Of course they should demand better service, but this is also something to research upfront ("is there a support desk and at least a phone number.") and then decide if they want to pay the extra money, or go somewhere else that addresses their needs.
> A second step would be, to make sure that rental housing is used for that instead of AirBNB or any other investment.

This is already in place. Berlin is very strict about apartment usage. Once a unit is designated as a living space, it's very difficult to get a permit to use it as an AirB&B. Also if you own an apartment, it's illegal to leave it without a tenant for an extended period - I think 90 days is the maximum.
The whole Anglosphere seems to have issues with housing, in addition to those places you mention. It seems to be a common cultural issue where people gamble on property like crazy. I'm from Ireland, and this is true there (in the desirable urban areas where semi-decent jobs exist), it's true in the UK[1], it's true in the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

New Zealand banned foreigners from buying property[2].

Among Brits, there's a (small) trend of retirees going off and buying a French Chateau and doing it up, because the cost of doing so will be the same or cheaper than buying a very modest place in many urban areas in the UK. This is spurred on by a popular TV show[3]

I'm not sure what the answer is. More construction, rent controls and banning foreigners from owning property, none of it seems to really fix the problem. Construction is often too slow, rent controls can put in place conditions for landlords neglecting properties, and banning foreigners will bring other problems too.

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/britishproblems/comments/lvx0xg/pro...

[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/16/new-zealand-bans-most-foreig...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_to_the_Chateau
I'd take them building more expensive housing (as long as it's not used purely as an empty investment vehicle as in London) over barely building anything at all. I know people who would've paid a bit more for a nicer place but their options were too limited, so I'd expect some trickle-up/down effect at least.
> The combination of large scale attacks and primitive agricultural technology was deadly.

The thing is, this depends a lot on which side of the attack you are on! In Scandinavia, the early middle ages (called the Viking Age) was a golden age in terms of political power and influence and also a high point of art and culture.

In history there are always many sides, and often they are glossed over in the overarching narrative. For example the fall of Rome was clearly a cultural setback for Italy (which is of course why the narrative of The Renaissance originated there). But was it also a setback for the subjugates areas like France, England which now became independent?

Rome continued to prosper centered in Constantinople, but had a large setback when it was plundered by the crusaders and Venice, leading to the balance of power tipping back to the Italian states - hence the "rebirth".

Saying early middle ages was "bad" or "good" really depends on how you anchor the narrative. Same with the renaissance(s).
> Someone moves to the new, most expensive apartment in the city, someone else moves to their now vacant slightly less expensive apartment, etc. At some point in the chain that means there's cheaper housing available.

In The Netherlands there are actually quite a few people that don't want to upgrade from cheaper social rent housing to more expensive private rent housing. These people are called "scheefwoners", which to a Dutch person's ears make it sound like it's almost a criminal activity:

> Scheefwonen is a term that is used in the Netherlands for the living of people in a rental home despite their income being too high for that. So the tenants have an income that is too high for their type of home, so that they actually pay too little rent. With a given housing stock, the downside is that there are people who live in a rented house whose rent is high in relation to their income, which is undesirable for the residents themselves and / or socially in connection with the housing allowance. It can also play a role that the rent is low compared to the characteristics of the home. The Key Publication on the Dutch Housing Survey “Living in Unusual Times”, published in April 2013, showed that the number of households in rental homes with a rent below the deregulation threshold and an income higher than € 33,000 in 2009 was approximately 790 thousand.

Of course these people might have pretty good reasons why they prefer to keep living in cheap social housing. Perhaps these people want to save/invest more of their income, perhaps they like their neighbourhood or perhaps private rent housing is just too expensive. Either way, I feel it's wrong to say that these people "pay too little rent based on their income". That almost seems to suggest a certain percentage of income should be spent on rent or mortgage, whether one chooses to or not.

Again, this problem could be easily solved by just building more houses, but this is also very difficult to achieve in The Netherlands, due to ground speculation by municipal governments and a plethora of rules that a builder has to conform to when building new houses. This, combined with an average immigration of around 400-500 migrants a week means that for the next 15 years or so I don't believe this problem will be fixed, maybe not even in 30 years, unless some major policy changes are introduced. This situation is good for rent-seekers though, they will be able to ask a premium for a very long time.

Source: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=nl&tl=en&u=https:/...
> has it?

an anecdote but i think yes. pre-internet you wouldn't know what's happening outside of your community. Now, internet (IG, tiktok, fb, TechCrunch) surfaces the best of the world before your eyes.. it's a constant reminder there exist better people in whatever area you value (could be a skill, appearance, material things)
Yes. That's probably the analogous name from the english language sphere. In German, the rule is named "Bundesrecht bricht Landesrecht". I made a more direct translation to make it more similar to the original German name. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundesrecht_bricht_Landesrecht

The phrase "Bundesrecht bricht Landesrecht" is even part of the German constitution, as Article 31.
Sweden too. Not an expert either, but isn't the privatization of housing all over the industrialized world at the root of this, coupled with the currently ubiquitous need to crowd together in the cities? People have been able to buy properties in the city centers at fantasy prices, because of low interests and favorable mortgage arrangements and with the expectation that the prices will go on rising forever.

Which - spoiler ahead - they won't. Cities will within a decade or two have lost their luminosity, with the giant shift towards remote work that is about to take place, in parallel with the wiping out of brick-and-mortar businesses. Prices will reflect this, sooner or later.
How things have changed. I remember going to Berlin around 15 years ago and was surprised how cheap the property was there. At the time it was a city where the population wasn't growing for a very long time, but had good infrastructure and more supply and demand especially to the East. Large apartments in established neighbourhoods were the norm. There was also not much in the way of jobs going for working in tech, or else I would probably have moved there as soon as I landed an opportunity to do so.
The tech jobs and the young talent found each other there and the rest is history and this spike in demand keeps luring in more property speculators. It's a difficult situation to fix, the real fix here is a policy to increase housing supply dramatically. Unfortunately the financial incentives against this is very strong, because a critical mass of people have an interest in even higher prices. Putting controls on the trade of existing properties (e.g. making mortgages less accessible) or taxing landlords higher results in a shortage of rental properties and makes the prices rise even further. Rent control to try curb this leads to further shortages.
The op would have sublet presumably at the previous lower rate.
technically, yes.

but the reality is that the population is changing. I've only been here a few years but basically everybody who's been here longer says "it's not what it used to be" in that the vibe of the city has changed greatly with it's increasing attractiveness to foreign (tech?) workers.

The "original" inhabitants of the city are priced out in "favour" of expats. The "real market" itself is obviously both combined, but one segment can afford the higher prices, and there's an ever increasing number in that segment that is shifting it for everyone.

Obviously I see that I'm ironically part of the problem.
> 80k+ salaries.

Last time I intensively job searched in Berlin there was a clear salary ceiling at 70-75k EUR annually for software roles.
I wonder how they will name the frankensub. Saphle or Perir?
I know of some related things going on here:

* Typically in Germany, social housing is built with a time-limit built in: after X years, the house falls out of the social housing program and can be rented and sold freely. At the moment, a lot more houses leave the system then are added.

* Many cities sold their real estate after the financial crisis to give the money to the failing banks. I.e. Berlin is super-broke, in parts because of a big banking scandal of the previous government.

* In Munich they have a pretty decent system: anyone who develops land had to keep to a certain split of social housing, middle income housing and free market housing. They use the land they own and their powers over zoning to enforce that.
> Has Berlin built over all its brownfields? If so, very commendable.

Well having some undeveloped space is actually quite nice to enjoy in a city. We don't have to live packed narrowly on top of one another.

But more specifically, brownfields (previously-industrial spaces) are usually highly polluted. Some are full of heavy metals and chemicals that you really don't want to displace into the air by digging into the soil... Some people are doing it, but it either costs billions of euros in depollution, or greatly affects the health of nearby population, and often both.
One thing I haven't seen discussed is that staff nurses, instrument nurses, etc. spend much more time standing up in a stationary position (not walking or sitting) compared with other healthcare workers in a hospital setting.

Everyone is jumping to focus on young females/genetics but it could really just be occupation related, most of these nurses will have their vacine shot on-site and continue their daily shift afterwards (where they stand orthostatic for several hours).
You determine which is right and report a bug in the other. After that you add a type ignore statement to keep the wrong one happy until the issue is resolved. My current workplace I have two type checkers enabled (mypy/pyright) and that’s our way of dealing with it.
That sounds like the notorious "cut and shut" thing where criminals create a dangerous vehicle for the second-hand market, except that it's from a different era. Seeing as a 1965 Mercedes is built rather differently from a typical modern car, and safety standards have changed since then, too ... any comments on how hard it is to this without compromising safety?
>What's wrong with that?

...The high housing prices.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_competition#Idealizing...

People can't live without housing so demand is not elastic. Plus the housing market is special regarding spatial location. Applying regular market rules as if the housing market behaved the same as, say, the screwdrivers market, does not make sense at all.
could just be placebo https://elifesciences.org/articles/62878
This is not the greatest example. There is still no final permit for the whole thing, only temporary ones. It is embarrassing and a textbook case of pointless German bureaucracy, misguided environmentalism and NIMBYism.
It isn't racist; the above commenter never mentioned race. Who are undocumented immigrants going to vote for (if allowed), people who campaign on giving them things or people who don't?
Not sure how it is in Germany, but in my country (UK) the housing problem seems to be completely artificial. If you are an individual you cannot just buy land and buy a house - it is impossible to go through all the red tape and even if you do, local council for reasons known to them will unlikely to approve. So the market is really in hands of a couple of huge development companies who mostly build shoeboxes that they call homes and don't build enough so that there is space for everyone and if they do it's too expensive for anyone anyway. These flats are more like a storage of value for foreign rich people.
I think this is because those millionaires can corrupt any politician and get their way, whereas average citizen cannot do anything.
I'm curious if anyone who knows about accounting/etc - could he have skirted trouble by going deeper on "illegal" activity? Money laundering maybe, or partnering with arms dealers or the like?

He had connections with the top 3%, that "access" was probably worth a good fortune alone.

I'm sure he'd have been found out eventually, for other crimes that "pro-longed" his fund, but I'm just curious what a better criminal mastermind could've done in his shoes lol.
For every olympic winner there are many losers, it’s how the game goes. Overthinking or quitting doesn’t get you anywhere.
The program is now online: https://webaudioconf2021.com/program/
Gitcoin recently raised 13M for this purpose. They are crypto-first, so for fiat it can be interesting to think about it, I have been thinking around building such a platform. https://decrypt.co/66541/ethereum-gitcoin-raises-11-million-...
This reminds me of the dispute on liberalizing parking space prices. An uber driver last week was super against it, saying it's not fair. His main argument? He has a price protected one. Meanwhile I do the 10 minute parking dance every evening, while going past paid, reserved and unused parking spots. (Bucharest btw, and they'll likely stay this way)
Without judging the outcome, here are a few things HN readers might not be aware of:

- The supply of rental apartments dropped by 40-60% after the Mietendeckel came in effect. It became even harder to find an apartment in Berlin. Landlords were holding their breaths.

- The supply of housing for sale also dwindled. If I'm not mistaken, sellers were waiting for the court judgement to rent/sell.

- The Mietendeckel also concerned furnished apartments, although it was largely ignored by landlords on short term furnished flat platforms like Wunderflats. The platforms turned a blind eye.

- I know many people who got significant reductions, sometimes exceeding 20%.

- In most cases, the new rent contracts with reduced rents had a shadow rent clause in case the Mietendeckel got repealed. Many people will have to pay the difference back within 14 days.

- The Mietpreisbremse, and earlier rent control measure, is still in effect. It does not include the rent freeze, but it does include significant rent reductions. Unfortunately, it's not automatic (no threat of a fine), and often needs to be enforced in court. The court judgement is retroactive to April 2020.

This is all I know/remember.
They might think it's more profitable to wait so that they can sell or rent the unit later at a higher price.
Basque here. I can relate to Zugarramurdi's witch hunting case, but compared to protestant countries' cases, that's nothing.

I'm tired of propaganda.

On the heretics, that happened across Europe... and the damn whole world.

But as I said, for its age, the Inquisition was born as a grant seeking institution, not the reverse.

Do you want something worse than the Inquisition? Search for the village idiocy generated mobs and trials, and you'll be "amazed" on how "kind" and "lovely" was that.
The only way to balance the market is to reduce demand and increase supply.

Build more.
You could do this by running your script pivot mounted into a namespace that mounts your "real" filesystem as readonly and layers with overlayfs to log changes. You can then terminate the script if the overlay diff gets too large (I assume on a 100GB disk you don't want 60GB of changes, and in any case you could tell it what to expect beforehand). That saves you having to do all this complicated analysing for files and folders and replaces it with something relatively foolproof.
I'm always baffled by stories like this. If there's indeed so much interest in an apartment, why not increase the price to the point where 90% of contenders lose interest? The owner must have been in a huge hurry, or doesn't care about money?
It's better that everything is explicit.

* If you want cheaper rents: build more housing.

* If you want more housing, zone more housing.

* If you want to keep "local vibrant culture" alive. Give direct cash transfers from the government. Don't try to sneak subsidy trough private housing.

* If local government needs more money, tax property.

Urban economics has real trickle down effect: It does not matter if you build apartments for the rich or poor, everyone gets affordable housing if you just keep building enough apartments.
Tried the DDG extension, it changed my default search engine without asking. Uninstalled.