skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know NYC rent control policies but my experience with it in Berkeley was excellent. I negotiated down (in 2010) to $945/mo. After 5 years of rent controlled increases I was still paying less than $1,050/mo. In the same time, the identical next door apartment (new tenant) rented for $2150. When I left, my unit was rented out for $2,500/mo. Professional management company, owner lived on other side of the country, old but everything worked and they always fixed anything that came up. I'm realizing now that you are talking about affordable housing while this was open market but wanted to comment on the power and usefulness of rent control.
We often also use "Breakbone Fever" to try to communicate just how painful a case of Dengue can be to those who haven't had it.
Why is questioning the CPI methodology FUD?
Baffert: Ointment could have caused Medina Spirit's positive drug test
But how many politicians actually follow through on such promises? Do they ever get in trouble for failing to do so? In the United States at least, none of them ever get punished by losing their seat when they fail to cut spending.
Ah, understood.

I see you’ve studied this topic extensively. Therefore I bow to your superior wisdom and I shall say no more about it.
Not in Montreal. Rents and house prices are up up to 50% since COVID started.
Here is a tweet where he literally says "crypto should be outright banned":
https://twitter.com/smdiehl/status/1391655510760431617

There, can you stop being so obtuse now? You are wrong. My point is that the author is calling for a ban and that nobody was putting words in his mouth, as you suggested.
If all energy is information, then this would lead to a cosmology such that perception is the lazy evaluation of a functional universe. Unfortunately this doesn't necessarily bridge classical and quantum.
The issue is just a bottleneck at the sawmills, likely due to labor shortage or covid restrictions.

There's still an oversupply of trees, and (unfortunately) tree farmers have not seen any increase in price for the raw lumber.

Similar things happened with the meat processing plants and food/vegetable packaging.
Axiom set to send first private mission to the International Space Station
From some commentaries I read, China has a near 100% chance of winning in war with Taiwan even if US and allies join. This is mostly to do with mainland China's relative proximity to Taiwan and the few relative number of air bases US has on Japan and how far away Hawaii is.
I work in infosec and agree with the point that a lot of companies are overly lax, ignorant, and negligent about security. But I could probably write like a 10 page essay disputing all of those points. For a summarized version, I wrote some semi-relevant comments about this in another ransomware thread from the other day, so this is a lazy answer but you could Ctrl+F my username in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27096137

Basically, I agree in general that a large percentage of the industry is a massive joke, but at the same time, I think in many cases there's more victim-blaming than is warranted. Ransomware isn't what it used to be. Being hit or ruined by a ransomware attack doesn't necessarily imply negligence or lack of care (even if a high percentage of the victims probably are negligent simply due to the high base rate of such companies).
Cobol, brainf*ck, Ada come to mind
Usually, but that's usually a 2x current yearly pay rate and it's usually capped at 100k.

A 5 million dollar life insurance is a "key person" policy... if it's some important to the business that I be on site during a health emergency, they can keep half of the max 10 million and my family can get the rest.
Thx for the suggestion. I've just added it. It's a pwa so close all tabs and refresh a couple times to make sure the changes take effect.
Then they should have built a better safety net. Monetary policy just leads to consumer or asset price inflation, and the legislature did a very poor job with fiscal stimulus when it was most necessary (early in the pandemic). They just wrote blank checks to businesses and people. They could have done so much more (expanded SNAP benefits or more incentives for first time homebuyers, for example). Instead wealth inequality is higher than it was before the stimulus.
> Top DSs will manage to host a max of 2 archetypes in them.

This ignores experience. Top DSs will manage to have maybe one archetype per some number of years on the job. You can find unicorns, but they all have many many years experience and you're going to have to pay for them.
The LLC trick doesn't work because you get reappraised when ownership changes at 50%. I am sure there are schemes to work around this but I think California is cracking down on it.

There are parent-child exclusions though and some weird rules with trusts.
A few months into the pandemic. a Texas manufacturer of N95 masks offered to ramp up capacity and start cranking out millions of N95 masks so long as hospitals and the government were willing to sign a multiyear contract to continue to buy masks from him at pre-pandemic prices after the pandemic ended. No one took him up on his offer. He said without a long term contract there would eventually be a supply glut and all of the buyers would just go right back to the offshore suppliers who would undercut him by a few cents per mask. At the time, I thought he was crazy, but it looks like he was exactly right.
Key to a negotiation is understanding what the other party wants (and what you want, of course).

WHY do they want you to work on premise? Wanting your presence is just a means to an end. There could be many reasons, like:

* They think it's easier to control how much somebody works if it's on premise

* it might be easier to manage

* it might be inertia

* they think it's more efficient

* somebody is trying to exert control, or demonstrate to a higher-up that they can do so

... and so on. You should first try to understand where they are coming from, and then you can try to argue your case, framing it in a way that they can get most of their underlying motivation.

Also, it helps to know in advance what you are willing to give up and what not (are you willing to walk away if you don't reach an agreement? what compromises would be acceptable to you?)
This is one on the list that genuinely confuses me - Cholera is still very much in use as a medical and epidemiological term.

There are several others. "Dengue" is something we're currently developing vaccines for, not some Olde Tyme Plague.
Both can be correct, and likely are.

HN doesn't live in "America" - we live in a bunch of different cities with different economies.

This is actually a key problem with the Fed's tools -- they're national in scale. Inflation can be low in Acron, OH, but very high in San Francisco.
Swift Playgrounds can only exist because Apple has specifically designated permissions for themselves to run Swift code, and other developers are not allowed to have access to these permissions.
Show HN: macOS (command line) QRCode reader
> They are examples of how Apple's policy decisions stifle competition and result in a worse product for consumers.

No they aren’t. They are just statements about iOS’s design. You don’t make any case for how they make a anything worse.

> Apple's devices cannot adequately protect my privacy, because of their efforts to prevent competitors from making products in any of the markets that they participate in.

This paragraph is gibberish. You might want to edit it.
But given the nature of the internet, isn’t that the whole problem? Because, anyone in Germany can go to any website outside of Germany.

That’s the way it used to be, I’m not sure that’s going to be the way it’s going to be in the future.

Uh oh. He might be right.
In other news, humans make pretty animals their pets, eat the ugly ones.
If it’s not for dang, this place would turn into a 4chan. Thank you, dang!
The Anecdotal Price Index is historically less accurate than CPI.
I am using arduino to teach newbies no older than 16yo. PlatformIO/VSCode/CLI are a terrible idea in that case.
25 years of speech technology innovation
Consoles have existed for decades applying similar rules to software distribution, no?
Isn't that one of the things that fall out of relativity? that i could never be able to say if i'm the one at rest or if you are at rest?
Now the public has more recommendations from another source, and it also will cause people to doubt the CDC's other advice. That doesn't reduce the complexity or confusion, it adds to it - like the old XKCD about adding another standard to existing standards.

That will hurt people. Wearing a mask too often outdoors will not. It's really major news requiring a special article to say the number of outdoor transmissions may be overstated from 1% to 10%? So what?

> C.D.C. officials have placed such a high priority on caution that many Americans are bewildered by the agency’s long list of recommendations. Zeynep Tufekci of the University of North Carolina, writing in The Atlantic, called those recommendations “simultaneously too timid and too complicated.”

What basis is there for this claim? I find them straightforward, and I find the CDC website clear and well-designed. I just wear a mask when I'll be near other people, and I avoid being near them.

Ranting at an easy target, a government institution, is commonplace, senseless entertainment. It's often harmless - but not in this case.
Construction related stuff is way up right now everywhere due to the housing / renovation boom.
Could you please expand on how keeping interest rates artificially depressed, causing the prices of homes to skyrocket, advances the goal of preventing homelessness?
Absolute vs. Relative Values
Salesforce is having a system wide outage, status page also down
Twitter search link: https://twitter.com/search?q=salesforce&src=typed_query&f=live

Status page is down: https://status.salesforce.com/
Or maybe everyone who has been having this experience is posting about it, because otherwise there's nothing to post about.
When moved, any AirTag separated for a period of time from the person who registered it will make a sound to alert those nearby. If you find an AirTag after hearing it make a sound, you can use any device that has NFC, such as an iPhone or Android phone, to see if its owner marked it as lost and help return it.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212227
Email is not a webpage. Keep your web skills for the web, please.
About those prices: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei14ks5ggGo

That explains what's going on.
I'm all for having both govt and private structures to support on-shore manufacturing. The outsourcing of the USA's manufacturing core is a strategic blunder of historic scale. While we thought we were exploiting cheap Chinese labor, the CCP was actually thinking in 5-, 100- and 500-year plans to exploit our quarterly-profits myopia. and we fell for it.

But here, I find it particularly ironic that these companies want all the protection of govt regs like Section 230, insulating them from responsibility of content they host and platform, but now want the govt to step in, far too late, and fix the shortage that is harming them.

They are all "libertarian" scolds about govt interference, until they could use some.

Since they collectively have something on the scale of more money than the USG, and they think the USG is a waste of time, they should implement such a consortium themselves.

I say that not merely out of annoyance at the hypocrisy, but I really think that such a consortium of FAANG, Intel MS, Tesla, Micron, and others could much more rapidly and effectively setup such an innovative chip fab co-op or some other structure, and could really kick ass in global manufacturing.

If they really believe their patter, they should just do it.

The best time was 10 years ago, the second best time is now.
Oh, that explains it. They should also offer subsidized housing then, because their employees will quickly figure that the non-negotiation policy doesn't work on the housing market.
damn. Apparently its not advised for your dog-tracking: https://www.imore.com/why-doesnt-apple-want-you-track-your-d...
People doing nafarious things don't cash out using exchanges. They use things like localbitcoins to make a trade in person (or through an intermediary), and obviously lose a percent of the value in doing so. At that point it basically becomes a cash transaction.
So it is. The gilded cage will never rival the open field.
From my experience with TP-LINK software, you don't need to worry about this attack. The attack demonstrated is complex, requires physical proximity and a lot of knowledge about the target.

Meanwhile, your router will probably give any attacker root if they ask it nicely. TP-Link doesn't seem to care about device security at all if you're already paid for the device, so don't expect any updates and expect a whole range of vulnerabilities to be exploitable against your router.

Now, it must be said, TP-Link is no D-Link, a company that almost seems to add security problems to their software intentionally with their awful software quality, but if you're conscious about security, any consumer device will probably have a whole bunch of exploits that would work easier and more reliably.

EDIT: replaced the word "access" with "proximity" to avoid confusion.
It's all about epistemology. How do we know what we think we know? How do we come to know things we didn't know before? And how can we trust those conclusions?

Even if the math is basic, it's really, really easy to draw bad conclusions, look at the wrong problems, not realize that your data is more incomplete than you might think, etc etc etc. Guarding against these bad results - figuring out how to actually manufacture new knowledge - is the heart of the problem.
I think this will make for an excellent litmus test for companies that make wifi products. Is this a critical fix? No. Is it important, if not critical? Yes.

Some vendors aren't going to care about this in the least and won't offer any updates.

Some will only fix this in new and future devices.

And perhaps some will update all their devices going back several years.

Currently I buy used 802.11ac Airport Extremes for wireless for people because they're simple, they stay out of the way, and the last time there was a major update, Apple updated every Airport model all the way back to the Airport Express from 2008.

But I want to be able to buy new wifi devices, and how vendors handle this will inform me about which ones I'll buy going forward.
Or has the CPI been fudging the numbers for a very long time?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/perianneboring/2014/02/03/if-yo...
with-the-cpi/

And this article is 7 years old, I can't imagine Perianne's reaction to the current M2 money supply of 20 trillion, almost double the 10 trillion when she wrote it in 2014.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2SL

Seems like yet another example of Goodhart's Law. "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."

I own many homes, I see their value go up much more than 2.6%. Yes anecdotal but it is very obvious to anyone that has tried to buy anything recently.
The alert will just trigger if the tag is away from your own devices. If the tag is in another location than you, then it should indeed trigger the alert and make a sound after three days, no matter what.
I mean, XCode is not only proprietary, but it's also horribly designed. Installing it is a nightmare that will use more than half of your Macs storage, and updating it takes longer than updating your own OS. What the original commentor is complaining about is how Apple stood on the shoulders of giants without giving back, only to turn around and wow the world with a product that is only 20-30% theirs. It's been a practice for as long as capitalism has existed, but for a company that operates on such blatantly wide profit margins and runs a socially conscious ad campaign, it seems a little stupid to at least not pay homage to the people who helped make your product. It's a bit of tragic irony that you can't even use the tools that Apple used to make MacOS on a Mac.
Playing devil's advocate: as a business/employer why would I continue to pay you your current first-world salary rather than find someone top-notch for 1/3 your salary in India, or any other English speaking country with a lower cost of living?
Just this morning, I read this newsletter about lumber prices that seems to provide a very plausible explanation -https://constructionphysics.substack.com/p/lumber-price-faq
“The real cost of goods is observably higher”?

I don’t get how anecdotal evidence trumps repeatedly buying and measuring the cost of a vast cross section of products everyday people consume?

Help me understand the conspiracy here? Who is doing the rigging and how?
And everyone cringed.

Your are either profoundly gullible, or completely out of your area of expertise.
I am not sure.

If this was some random small company you could imagine that the regulators have bigger fish to fry, but in this case this is the #1 offender worldwide when it comes to privacy - if there are "fish to fry", this is the biggest fish, and the regulator's lack of serious action (such as the million-dollar fines everyone is fear-mongering about) suggests they're either incompetent or complicit.

Maybe suing your local privacy regulator in local court is the next step? Open Rights Group is taking that approach in the UK: https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/privacy-organ...
Outlook not showing email content – temporary workaround
I’d be wary of comparing models across such a long time period, car makers have a habit of gradually drifting up each model (because it’s hard to release a smaller/simpler model than the preceding one)

To take a European example, a 1990s VW golf is smaller and slower than a 2020 polo.
It’s not possible to use entanglement to send information faster than the speed of light.
Ask HN: Most Beautiful Desktop Apps?
I've been searching but haven't found any great topics on the question. Curious to hear from HN what the best examples of beautiful desktop UI/UX are?
Is the inflation rate transitory or is the price level fluctuation transitory? Makes a big difference...
Congrats on the launch, this is fun :)
I think this requires not just a GPS fix but also fairly accurate heading information from an electronic compass and tilt information from the camera's accelerometer, because shifting the sensor in the right direction requires knowing which part of the sky the camera is pointed at. (I haven't bought the astrotracer add-on for my Pentax because it's crazy expensive for what it is, but it should be at least a bit more than just a GPS receiver.)
Minimalist illustrations of old Nintendo games
Reasonably anticipated future consumer harm sounds like a good model to me, IMO.

For instance, if we can reasonably assume an acquisition will lead to the potential for future harm through accumulation of power, influence, data, etc, that should be sufficient to block it.

Mergers are in and of themselves simply recognizing an efficiency of scale. It should be possible for a business to achieve success without that shortcut, broadly speaking. Once they're big enough already, that is.

This seems to tie in nicely to the recent narrative that efficiency is the opposite of resiliency, and that maybe not all efficiencies are good.
That depends on what field one is a professional in surely?
> Either way, the original comment was arguing that the limitations in place are entirely arbitrary,

No, the original comment argued that the limitations are the only reason a class of professional software is not successful on iOS, which is certainly false.

> Apparently, the iPhone worked just fine as a code editor

Obviously it doesn’t work as well as a Mac.

Few people would choose to edit code on an iPhone where a Mac or Linux machine was available instead, so no it doesn’t ‘work just fine’.
Time zone differences are bad.
Cool, ok. So what is the term you'd use for the literal definition of e.g. Everything in ishkur's (old) guide?
The Honda Accord of 1990 is a different class of vehicle than the Honda Accord of 2021. In 2021, there are other entry level vehicles that can be purchased for much less than an Accord.
The housing boom is itself an effect of the current fiscal policy. Housing also tends to attract investment when inflation is happening.
“Car prices are not evaluated in a way I agree with” is a very different argument from “Cars prices aren’t evaluated at all”.
It shows a clear bias on the part of the author and a reason to believe they would argue in bad faith.

The author being a founder a company for which cryptocurrencies are competitors makes this doubly true.
I work for a very small company so when they start talking about coming back I give them some form of "not gonna happen from me" in a joking and light-hearted manner.

I've done this specifically to "anchor" my position. I've heard that others are saying "2-3 days at home" which seems foolish since that will be instantly whittled down to 2 days, and then fridays only, and then fridays only unless there is a big project (and there will always be a big project).

If we ever get to a serious "why aren't you coming back" then we can discuss the reasons:

1. I dont like the commute and you dont like it when i am late

2. I'm working more hours since I'm not taking an hour lunch each day. I'm also not watching the clock trying to beat the evening rush. (you should have the numbers to back this up)

3. "butts in seats" is dumb. You aren't dumb and I'm not done. We accomplished everything we set out to do in the last year with 0 butts in seat

4. The office has a ton of non-work related distractions. While I do enjoy the social aspects, I have a distraction free environment here which has allowed me to focus on some larger tasks such as completing project x and y.

5. Customers are never at our site. The only visitors we have are paper salesmen and dental hygienists (see #4) and i am tired of telling them, politely, to go fuck themselves

Unfortunately if they make employment conditional on in office you have to be willing to walk away. They might counter but you should be ready to leave if it gets to this point.

Good Luck
Klinger was seeking declaratory judgement that he could use the non-protected elements. Doyle estate was saying he couldn't. It was agreed by both parties that he couldn't use elements contained in the 10 stories.

From the case listed "And the claim is correct, for he acknowledges that those copyrights are valid and that the only copying he wants to include in his book is copying of the Holmes and Watson characters as they appear in the earlier stories and in the novels."

Mickey Mouse will most certainly not be in the public domain anymore than he is now. Disney can also fall back on trademark law to take care of Disney's use as well.
Which guideline does it go against? Can you name even one?

The Luddite "ooh this is scary" posts always do well on HN. People are allowed to disagree. When someone cites completely and utterly irrelevant authority on the topic, it just betrays that they're playing the crowd. Amazing, albeit sad, how well it works here.
6. Put and end to our data hording. Turns out I don't need to keep all the data we have because it's now a liability.
It would be better to have a beacon that simply broadcasts that you do not want to be tracked, with no further identifying features. There isn't really a good reason for identifying you to then look up that you don't want to be tracked. Make that legally binding and enforce it.

Or, better yet, make it totally opt in.
Reminders:

On the web, if you click "launch" 3x and kill the pop-up, Zoom will then present a link for its web-based client.

And https://meet.jit.si/ has been a great open source alternative that you can roll out on your own server if desired.
Racket is nice!

https://racket-lang.org/
Wild Idea: Intel Should Adopt RISC-V
Agreed, I would argue having a special editor one needs to use is a barrier to entry for beginners or even people like myself who don't want to switch over to a new editor.