skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be fair, it's not he people in power it's the construction companies. The amount of workers on a building site in Germany is way lower than in other places. And then you get the ones where they put 2-3 people for 2-3 weeks every 6 months.
I think it's the opposite. The rent cap (at least in the way it was implemented) achieved nothing to solve the problems that exist in the Berlin rental market. It led to a huge decrease in rental supply. Yes, rent may have been cheap for the few people who managed to get a place, but it was a lottery with dozens of applicants for each flat. This mismatch of supply and demand is exactly the kind of thing that would be solved through pricing in normal markets.

And rents rising as a city becomes a more desirable place to live just makes perfect sense. If you are convinced that this will happen in your city maybe now would be a great time to buy a place?
Not OP, but I've met people that seemed to sort of lost their agency and ambition, because their psychedelic insight was that the universe will sort everything out on its own. Though maybe the causality is the other way round here - they were not ambitious in the first place and psychedelic insight helped rationalise that.

Also disclaimer: I'm not trying to discourage or encourage people from psychedelics. Personally I believe they should not be criminalised, but people should be cautious using them.
The factory is located somewhere in Brandenburg. There is a difference in building a factory on farmland vs. a house block in a large city.
The Lisperati1000 Is a Cyberdeck Terminal Dedicated to Lisp Programming
Setting is definitely important, as is choice. One of the big problems with illegal psychedelics is that people aren't sure what they are getting. For instance, DOB and MDMA both come in pill form, but have wildly different effects.

Some of the worst outcomes I've seen have come when one drug is believed to be another, and this is something that decriminalisation would definitely help with.

That being said, psychedelics have traditionally been combined with ritual, and the lack of said rituals can be a big impediment to useful results.
Just speaking personally as a native English speaker, I don't remember ever having expended any effort to get over that incongruity.
I wanted to know the same as well. Our requirement is for building cross platform apps for windows OS, Mac OS and code/components that works on tablets + mobile.

Isn't react-native an option ?
https://microsoft.github.io/react-native-windows/

Does anyone have experience on the same ?
Hows the support for hardware interaction like access to printers, bluetooth apis?
Welcome to my world!

I'm a pretty intelligent and talented at what I do guy. But I've never been able to make a success at anything I've tried. I'm in my mid fifties now and still just scraping by on the poverty line. Meantime I see people earning obscene amounts of money for things like opening boxes on YouTube or selling appallingly shit pixel art on the Blockchain.

I don't [often] get depressed about it. I've come to accept the fact that luck is one virus to which I am completely immune and, if "all the world's a stage" then I've been assigned the part of 'third donkey from the left' rather than one of the starring roles my agent promised me.

Who cares. We'll all be dead in 100 years time anyway. Even Jess Bezos, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerburg et al's billions won't buy their way out of that one!

Or, to put it another way:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJUhlRoBL8M
I used to live in Dubai - i got there at almost peak rent/real estate... I look at rents now, and they're just under half what i was paying. Sometimes tides turn the other way too.
You just need to not be a confrontational jerk about it, honestly.
In Prague we have a comparable housing problem to Berlin but all the politicians tend to balme AirBnB and real estate investors and they all focus on some kind of market regulation. Mostly just talking about it because they know any strict regulation would be unconstitutional. From the technical perspective the solution is simple. We should just build more houses in big projects like we did 40 years ago which will drive down the unit price and also provide all the necessary infrastructure like public transport and schools. Pretty big portion (tens of percent) of Prague's housing capacity was build during the 40 years communist era. If we could successfully build huge housing projects like Jižní Město (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ji%C5%BEn%C3%AD_M%C4%9Bsto) during this awful regime whit very limited economic resources then it's surely doable now and in much higher standard. We just lack the political will to think longer then next 4 years till the next elections and to solve the problems instead of just talking about it and blaming someone else.
The new boat will apparently still be called Perle, though Royal Navy precedent would have it be called Sarle, or perhaps Pephir...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Zubian
> Why not make it a multistory building with apartments on top of the supermarket and skip the parking space or put it underground?

That's exactly what they are doing at a few places in my city (also with a massive housing problem).

We recently found a new apartment here, the process was as follows:

(1) We found the apartment online. It was online for exactly 6 hours, listed by an estate agent.

(2) Inside the listing (hidden deep in the description) was a short sentence saying that any contact made through the listing website contact form would be ignored and that a secret mail address had to be used. You had to email an application letter (preferably with photos), copies of your latest 3 salary statements, copies of your identity card, proof of your credit-worthiness ("Schufa-Auskunft" in Germany), proof that you had liability insurance, and contact information of previous landlords. This had to be mailed until a deadline the next morning. If any of this was missing, the application would be ignored.

(3) A week later, we received an email telling us that we were eligible for an appointment to visit the apartment. But we had to confirm this until the same evening by sending an SMS to a secret number.

(4) A few days later, we indeed got a date and time for visiting the apartment (via SMS). It was a 15-minute slot, but there were at least 10 other families there, and they did visits the entire day. When the agent asked us, we indicated strong interest, told him we could rent the place beginning tomorrow and left.

(5) A week later, we got the apartment (of course we now have to pay 2 rents for 3 months). When we asked him why the process was so complicated, he told us that they were only 4 people in the agency, and they didn't have the capacity to read (not answer!) > 1000 mails of people interested in the apartment. So they gradually came up with various hoops and obstacles to get this number down to something manageable (they got it down to around 50 families who indicated final interest).
So here in the UK, our councils used to build social housing. 300,000 per year. And then Thatcher made it illegal and said privately owned housing associations would fill the gap.

In the 30 years since then, the most they've ever managed is 30,000.

It's not in private landowner's interest to build cheap social housing. It reduces rents, it suppresses property values. So they don't get built.

If they do build anything, it's in their interests to build luxury apartments. They make the most money out of those. I know little about Berlin's housing, but by any chance would there be a lot of expensive apartments being built?

Did something similar happen in German history? You'll probably find all the big landowners in Berlin and Germany lobbying very hard to make sure nothing like this ever happens.
From sec. 22.6 (temporal databases):

“Classical logics augmented with a temporal coordinate have been studied extensively, mostly geared toward specification and verification of concurrent programs. Such logics are usually referred to as temporal logics. There is a wealth of mathematical machinery developed around temporal logics; unfortunately, little of it seems to apply directly to databases.

“Although the view of a temporal database as a sequence of instances is conceptually clean, it is extremely inefficient to represent a temporal database in this manner. In practice, this information is summarized in a single database in which data is timestamped to indicate the time of validity. The timestamps can be placed at the tuple level or at the at- tribute level. Typically, timestamps are unions of intervals of the temporal domain. Such representations naturally lead to nested structures, as in the nested relation, semantic, and object-oriented data models.”

I couldn’t find any instances of the words “epoch”, “epochal”, not even “mvcc”. As of 1995, MVCC at least must have been known fairly widely in academia, no? Wikipedia has Starkey’s VAX Rdb/ELN as first commercial MVCC database (and VAXLEN first release in 1981).

So their take on ‘time’ and data seems to be a bit narrow and literal. At the same time, searching the web for temporal logic + epoch also doesn’t turn up anything.

I find this curious. Anyone can shed light on this?
I don't know the details of the Berlin situation, but as long as someone lives in those new apartments (who would have lived in Berlin anyway), it helps with the housing shortage and prices. 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.

This is a constant discussion in Helsinki, too. I think it's better to build expensive if that translates to good locations and high quality.
Don't worry, the printer is just out of ink. They're coming soon!
I setup my life such that I had two thirty minute blocks without interruption every day at the same time. No internet, no calls, nothing. I ensured that I could not easily skip this block. Then I gave myself a task: write something, anything for that time. Maybe a book, a blog, a personal programming task, homework for a course, a journal, etc. Then as soon as the time was up, I'd slap the laptop shut and walk away. I'd repeat this again later in the day. Over a year, I found myself able to snap into focus instantly, as if I'd never stopped from the previous session. Meanwhile I wrote 100k words of public blogs, two books, an open source product still used today by a local school, took two university courses, finished the exercises in SICP, and kept up a github streak over 1000 days long. If I choose, I can "flex" that muscle and be 100% focused on a task within a few seconds.

How I implemented this was to find a job that required me to take a train into work. This train was light commuter rail, only about 25 minutes. I brought a laptop with me and would sit with it balanced on my lap in a shaking (sometimes quite loud) train. At first it was very difficult to get into focus, but over a year I just found it easier and easier.

I think if I was to do it again, I'd probably find some dumb reason to leave the house every day. Perhaps I'd never keep breakfast food in the house and have to go walk or drive to the store every day for that day's breakfast, then sit in the parking lot or store cafe for thirty minutes. Perhaps I'd make a daily Starbucks routine, ensuring I'm there thirty minutes early every day. Or I'd convince myself to get to work early to beat the traffic, but then sit in the parking lot for 30 minutes.

It doesn't much matter how, all that matters is outcome.
" I move somewhere, I discover that all the land in that area is already owned by someone else. "

Why do you think that for a moment you have a right to 'go over there' and posses land currently owned by people over there?
Hey, wouldn't it be cool if someone connected this to youtube or Spotify or something?
Lisk. Though it's Delegated PoS.
1-3 books a month. Exposed to different ideas and new insights
In Italy it’s a “squillino”, a little ring.
Perhaps my tech stack is simpler and requires less maintenance than yours.

I suppose with your 20 years of experience ( Github exists since 2008 as a reference), you can give me some actual examples that the cloud improves on workload?

Eg. I have a small member management saas that I haven't touched in the 6 years that it's running. I just realized that it's probably hosted on my test server ( my first VPS) and if it wasn't used, I wouldn't have been able to send the yearly invoice :)

The dogma is in thinking that the cloud makes everything simpler. It isn't. It makes difficult things more simple, but in a lot of cases, you don't need them in the first place.
That is EXACTLY what you get by building dense housing. You leave room for the important things that a city offers: services, events, jobs, greenery all in walkable or bikeable distance.

Otoh sprawl development leads to dead neighborhoods, car dependence and long commutes. It also uses space that could be left to nature instead.
Are you sure? Sounds like on here and on Reddit people were creating volumes outside of the affected devices or DSM and mounting them on the affected devices. For example, [1] "From my reading, you could never take new drives, stick them in a budget Synology NAS and get BTRFS. The thing is, you could set up those new drives in a higher end Synology NAS, then stick them into a budget Synology NAS and it would work with BTRFS enabled."

This type of comment seems repeated in various outlets.

Have you personally created a btrfs filesystem on one of these 5 affected devices?

I've bought Synology NAS for a long time. Each time I buy one for myself or others, I read the spec sheet and specifically buy one that supports btrfs. It's clearly listed for each model what it supports.

If it is as they state, this unintentional bug was allowing people to do things that are not validated to run reliably, then leaving the bug unfixed is also a bad idea.

Relying on bugs to do your work is a bad plan. This shows why.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/synology/comments/mqks2q/the_latest...
> Here's one example - I like to access my database from my IDE remotely - my understanding is that remote access is not possible with sqlite

Not sure exactly what you mean by 'remote access', but if it's to debug something on a remote DB from an SQL IDE, I do this quite often. I use sshfs to mount the remote filesystem and open the SQLITE file in DBeaver.

Even in case of Postgres, you would have to connect to a remote DB via SSH or via VPN. It's just that you will be using sshfs to connect to a remote SQLITE file.
Dude, the people booking those AirBnBs are not refugees but well-paid tech-bros and party tourists. Gimme a break.
> It's a multi paradigm language.

Being multi-paradigm is a different axis all around. Low-level (which is by the way not a well-defined concept, C is actually also high level, only assembly is low, but that usage is not that useful) means that low level details leak into your high level description of code, making the two coupled. You can’t make them invisible.

Also, as an example, think of Qt. A widget’s lifetime is absolutely not scope-based, nor is it living throughout the whole program. You have to explicitly destruct it somewhere. And there are plenty of other examples.

And as I said, I’m familiar with RAII, it’s really great when the given object is scope-based, but can’t do anything otherwise.

> C++ is a OOP language just like Java. You do it same way as you do in Java. Use inheritance.

And if the new subclass has some non-standard object life cycle you HAVE to handle that case somewhere else, modifying another aspect of the code. It is not invisible, unless you want leaking code/memory corruption.
Couldn't agree more. Being one of the skilled workers, I hate that development. That's why I also think the rent cap being overturned is a bad idea.
Also good for people who want to move to Berlin as mietendeckel made it much more difficult to get an apartment. Also good for people renting through the gray market of sublets as it makes it easier for them to get a real contract.
In Poland in mid 90's we had operator that had first 5 seconds of a call completely charge-free. So communication looked hilarious. Person who called, tried to yell as much as one could in 2-3 seconds, because after that charge-free seconds, you had to pay for the whole minute instantly.
Indeed. If I buy a magazine then ads are targeted at readers of the magazine but they don't track me, invade my privacy, follow me around wherever I go or occasionally try to hijack me.

If a newspaper or online magazine had traditional ads that were embedded in the page as static images (no distracting video please) then I'd leave my ad blocker off.
This is correct, but only if your rent contract included a higher "shadow rent".

I am very fortunate to have a rent contract that included lower rent frozen for 5 years, but without any conditions. In my case, I get to keep my cheap rent.

If your rent is about to go up, don't forget that the Mietpreisbremse is still in effect. You can still get your rent reduced this way, either alone, with a tenants' union, with Wenigermiete, or with a regular lawyer.
> The fraudster can setup a forward from a normal number to a premium one anyway. So checking number prefix is useless.

Would the forwarding party not have to pay the premium rate part in this case?
See my other comment above
I really love the fact that I can change profiles depending on CLI prompts. So, when I SSH into a server the background color of my terminal changes to blue. When I change to root but background changes to white. This, along with banner support, helps me keep track of where I am and what user I'm currently using.

This functionality may be available in other terms, but iTerm just seems to nail pretty much everything in one package. I just wish it was available for Linux.
This was a thing among my parent's friends and relatives when I was a child in the north of England in the seventies. People would say something like "give me two rings to let me know you got home safe". I have no idea what the cost of landline calls was back then.

It also features in Iain Bank's novel Whit from 1995. The main character is a member of a Scottish religious cult, who mitigate their exposure to "ungodly" technology by using a message-passing code based on the number of rings before hanging up. Its a long time since I read the book, but I seem to recall some detail about it having to be error-tolerant because the ring-tones that the caller hears don't necessarily match those heard by the recipient.
> dii

ok, thanks for correcting me.
Under terms of an agreement, FF sends search bar queries to a "search engine that makes money from selling ads." The search engine belongs to an online ad services company. FF belongs to Mozilla Corporation. The agreement is between the ad services company and Mozilla Corporation. Mozilla Corporation pays the salaries of the developers who maintain FF. Almost all of Mozilla Corporation's income, certainly 100% of their profits, comes from the agreement with the online ad services company. Sadly, donations are not what keeps Mozilla and FF in business.

Sure, DDG might be robbing Peter to pay Paul, but so is Mozilla. They sell out every FF user who does not change default settings. This must be a significant number of users, because the online ad services company pays millions to Mozilla for that "service". That means heaps of queries coming from FF are "feeding the ecosystem".
People do make errors and have biases.

So do public health professionals. The passive death and disability from COVID19 is weighed far less than the active death of side-effects. Providing J&J to everyone in the US would obviously reduce spread and reduce the thousand-or-so deaths we're continuing to see in the US every day by far more than blood clots.

In general, doctors leave medical decision making to patients, is central to medical ethics. This even applies to patients with incomplete capacity.
The persecutions of the inquisition described in Name of the Rose is against heretics, not witches.

The witch craze happened later, and was just as widespread in protestant countries.
If salaries were so bad, people would stop moving to Berlin and rents would fall. The fact that housing is still under such high demand shows that Berlin is clearly still a desirable place to live.
If I remember correctly, I got told that it was rejected. Not sure what would happen if they didn't answer
Really? I can appreciate not wanting to use DDG for a number of reasons, but because they are pushing for financial legitimacy on the basis that there can be an ad industry but it shouldn't be an arms race?

Yes thank you, please make a market out of privacy!

edit: I should probably say, please prove that privacy respecting markets are viable, I'm not suggesting the commoditisation of everything, lol.
Why build more? There's plenty of abandoned/empty housing everywhere in big cities? Unfortunately i don't speak german so i can't give you stats about Berlin, but in Paris alone it's >200 000 empty housing units according to official statistics.

Building more is definitely the wrong solution to housing. Just remove the capitalist vampire landlords making a profit on basic human needs, and let everybody enjoy free housing for life!

EDIT: Corrected stat.

EDIT2: Funny to see people downvoting without argument. Are you all against Article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, stating "Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services" ?
You're right on most parts, I'm not as well informed as I thought I was, but I think you're going with assumption that all the freelance folk should have registered 'agencies' and worked with that. That wasn't an option for everyone.

Most of the freelancers I know only did occasional gigs (most were either students or designers) and having to pay for monthly tax wasn't really an option as they didn't make that much.

People with 'agencies' have no tax debts, so they aren't really the issue here.
The article kind of glosses over the lack of common column data types. I love SQLite and use it on everything, but parsing and formatting dates (for instance) gets really old after a while.
That’s kinda racist. Believe it or not, a lot of people from ethnic minorities actually vote Republican.
I've been protected by this rule. I live in the north of Berlin. It saved me roughly 100€ a month. I found it fair for the appartment I rent. I can't say much about other cases.

Since I have to pay back the cummulative savings to my landlord in case the law is overturned(which happened today), I saved 100€ extra each month.

It's likely that I'll now have to increase my rent payment by 100€ and pay back roughly 1000€ to my landlord.

I'm happy I prepared for this situation. It's OK for me. However, I'm worried about friends that may haven't prepared...
"Dense housing" is code for "chicken coops" with the only space people have for themselves being 40 m² for a family of four. Seriously, thanks but no thanks.

There is a middle way between US-level sprawl and Japan-style chicken coops - and I definitely hope we don't go the Japan route.
How is it that rents are so high and yet there are empty housing units? Don’t landlords want the money?
you should review the latest statistics, that article is from august 2020, the number of baugenehmigungs in 2020 went down in comparison to 2019. https://www.statistik-berlin-brandenburg.de/pms/2021/21-03-1...

and AFAIK MietenWoG didn't fund or support the new housing developments.
> The amount of unused space is Berlin is just so massive.

What's wrong with that? Enjoy the little green space you have left while it lasts. Have a BBQ with friends over there, maybe? The gentrifiers/developers won't be so long to remove every last bit of green and freedom in your neighborhood, as they did everywhere else.