skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> of course we need to build a ton of new housing

To build a ton of new housing, you need investors willing to do so. If you have a million dollars, would you invest to build in a rent control city, or in a city where you can raise the rent as you wish? Most people would choose option 2, thus creating shortages in rent control cities, which in turn make the housing more expensive than it would be if the rents would be free-market.
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Hehe, yeah, I sometimes show up in random places when people mention qutebrowser thanks to https://f5bot.com/ :)

Thanks for the nice words, much appreciated too!
Misread ‘overreliance’ as ‘orwelliance’, what a suitable neologism for such topics!
Are they also raising prices of CPUs? Arm chips? Your argument is based on an assertion that sounds like it could be right, but is it? Hasn't every country in the world been injecting cash stimulus into people's hands in an epic attempt to boost demand across all industries? Also why are miners the target here. Are there not deep learning, gamers, anything else who also want to use these monsterous compute units? (GPUs specifically). Raising the price is temporary because someday another chip maker can be born. Every day the lithography tech is getting cheaper and cheaper is just a matter of time till this resolves itself. And let me ask, are chips a human right like water and food? We're getting close but honestly life can go on without GPUs can't it?
That's because there's a thing called the social contract, which makes it clear to anyone who can parse situations like a mature adult that all policy has wider social consequences, and short term gimme gimme can have disastrous long term results.

And also because "consensual agreements" rarely are. Typically one party has more power than the other and can force terms.

By definition, you only get truly consensual agreements when the balance of power is equal - which it very much isn't in rental markets with deliberately restricted stock.
There is Whisperfish Signal client available on OpenRepos.net, if you don't want to install Android subsystem (I don't):

https://openrepos.net/content/rubdos/whisperfish
There's a fantastic video essay from an economist that breaks down the issues that are frequently hand waved by saying "X doesnt work, that's just basic economics" https://youtu.be/4epQSbu2gYQ
No offense, but 9gag and its comments are by far the very worst, stupidest, most toxic "community" I've ever seen, and yes this includes youtube comments.
One thing to understand about Sweden is that mortgage rates are lower and mortgage terms are much longer, up to over 100 years.

Sweden and a few other EU nations have their own Central Bank and can do distortions greater than the European Union Central Bank, while garnering even less publicity, let alone less local knowledge that these are strange actions.
Google and Facebook also don't sell data. They keep the data and charge advertisers to take advantage of their ability to target using the data.
> > what this guy is pissed off

>Please don't assume everyone is a "guy". In this case, Ariadne is not a "he" (she uses "she"), so a male-coded word like "guy" is ill-fitting.

Please do not mince words, people have a tenancy to refer to their own gender identity when referring to people who's gender identity they do not know. You knew what they meant.

from the hn guidelines:

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.
I've personally found that the only people in suits you can trust are suit salesmen.
Disclaimer: I'm the one who made the change in [1] so I'm biased but...

IMHO the argument on the blog mischaracterizes the situation - Chrome didn't break these properties but changed how they're interpreted under pinch-zoom. This was done precisely to keep backwards compatibility (on desktop browsers): at the time, the vast majority of pages assumed pinch-zoom can't happen on desktop (something that was becoming more common). The status quo meant zooming in on a desktop page would cause it to "swim" as various "fixed" elements shifted around, JS drop-down menus appeared in the wrong place, etc. This happened virtually everywhere one looked: facebook, twitter, apple.com, etc.

The blog basically argues for "make pages fix themselves" which, even if major sites do, is unrealistic in the long tail.

> They might pull the “proposal” only to just do it again later

It's not nefarious, this often happens in response to feedback and real world experience to try and minimize disruption. In this case, developers convincingly argued that there should be an API to better react to pinch-zoom before making the change.
In ways we are already seeing tangible benefits:
supply missions and passenger missions to the ISS,
Commercial and military satellite launches,
Starlink.
Future benefits this tech would potentially support:
asteroid mining, colonising other planets.

The other company I reference have not made a commercially viable rocket that will get you into orbit.
In my opinion we need both. Just building more won't help me.

If I'm going to live in Stockholm (or any other large city really), I want to live in the city center. I want to walk or bike to the office, and have all the restaurants near by etc. It's very unlikely that the housing stock in the central parts of town will ever increase substantially.

I'm willing (and honestly lucky enough to be able) to pay the premium for living downtown, if market rates were imposed.

(There's an argument to be made about how abolished rent controls can increase interest by companies to build rental properties and get municipalities to issue building permits. Also that a non-negligible share of attractive rent-controlled housing is under-utilised, e.g people who don't live in them full-time but keep the contract because it's nice to have every once in a while).

But yes, we definitely need a lot more housing overall. Cheap and close/with good connections to places where people work.
To who?
The key here is considering housing a consumable with 20-year lifespan tops, as opposed to multigenerational investment vessel.
Your game has wasted so much of my time...

Kidding. This is the only mobile game I ever play. I had to remove it from my phone and keep it iPad only.
Samsung says they can disable their TVs remotely using ‘Serial Code’
I don't claim to, but I am sure your overwhelmingly superior experience negates anything I could possibly write.
I agree with you. I like Discord, but the messages felt very forced. "Hello fellow kids" style. Forced fun, if you will. I loathe forced fun. heh
Yep. You can also search by genres including their ridiculously detailed sub genres or cross-over genres.

From what I’ve observed, though, normals consider TV such a “lean back” they won’t even go to the trouble to pick Movies or TV before browsing thumbnails for 1.8 seconds each…
I'm not a property developer, so I don't know how many flats they are forced to rent out as first-hand contracts when building new blocks.

You can definitely buy apartments from new blocks though, and then you're just paying the normal market price.

Second-hand contracts and commercial rentals also aren't covered by the rent controls, but I imagine the property developers can't rent them like that directly (only by selling them).
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Well known effect of the spike protein itself made by the mRNA. It causes damage to any endothelia cell type including in the blood vessels. This triggers a lymphocytic reaction that attacks the damage (the blood vessel walls that once expressing the mRNA now look like viruses to be destroyed) which induces clots and more cell damage.

Look up "microclots" and "Dimer D tests".

The COVID spike protein IS cytotoxic when expressed by any cell in the body (which happens with the mRNA "vaccine"). People who say otherwise are simply lying or so ignorant of basic molecular biology as to be irrelevant to the discussion.
It is actually ignored. But thanks for the comment, I'll fix the code to at least compile :)
They can probably recruit plenty of subjects from longtime residents of Old Lyme, Connecticut, USA, and Ipswich, MA, USA, where the disease started to take hold. This is good stuff. I hope they make it through efficacy (Phase 2) and safety (Phase 3) trials with good results.
They should use a different name then, because "discord" doesn't exactly conjure up images of handshakes and smiling people sitting in meeting rooms in stock photos.
Electron is not native
I saw my get kid prompted to pay $59.99 usd to buy in-game achievements for the hill climb racing game on Android. That's a f-ton of money to be soliciting from anyone, yet alone a kid. He's not quite at reading age and just clicks things. The game design and characters is clearly targeting kids. In my opinion, these aren't games any more, they are gambling.
It's almost as if this utopian techno-ararchism is a naive fantasy. And it simply creates digital societies with all of the downsides of their real world equivalents, and none of the checks to power and even more susceptible to manipulation.

And yet it's only a matter of time until another 20 something will announce that they can solve the problems of the world and human nature by creating yet another digital environment free from the rules (and responsibilities) of the real world. And we'll all act shocked when it somehow backfires into unintended consequences and recreates a worse version of the thing it was trying to replace.
The transition over to the Spotify platform was a decrease in user experience.

Downgrade with video integration.
Downgrade with search ability on audio.
Buggy resume feature for both AV.

I get why he did it. YouTube was doing some weird speech shit at the height of Trump and COVID. It's wasn't like the minions at Spotify didn't try. Seems like the higher ups at Spotify is giving Joe more freedom.

I definitely consume less of Rogan's podcasts since the switch. But I do seek him out whenever a clip on YouTube pops up and strikes my interest.
"politically-allocated housing"?
I do something similar, I have my main profile where I watch everything and then a "Random" profile that I regularly clear all viewing history from (if I watch something there instead of switching back to my main profile).

The problem is, as annoying as Netflix's algorithm is on my main profile, the algorithm to shovel shit to users it knows nothing about is even worse.

I honestly don't understand why Netflix had to get rid of the ability to literally just scan the full list of titles, optionally filtered by genre. The home screen is an utter failure, I can never find "My List" or "Continue Watching" because it's a heterogeneous mess and they jump around all the time.
This is your chance to break free. Please consider switching to an opensource OS. Our freedom depends on it.
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Remember when he was winning and then there was a "software failure"
I've been using Sailfish for years as my daily driver including the the new 4.1 version. Support for Android apps is great. They don't officially sell a license in the US but I am using it in the US. Up until recently it has been fine but with mobile carries now turning off 3G, I can't use for SMS or phone calls in the US anymore (I have AT&T).

I am hoping the next version, which is coming out soon, will support VoLTE, but until it does, Sailfish is useless as an actual phone in the USA in the very near future.

I am currently tethering my Sony Xperia 10 II with another cheap android phone so I can keep using it outside my house. Yes, I don't want to use iOS or Android that desperately. I enjoy using Sailfish that much.
I guess no one knows the relationship of Kissinger to China.
The way I see it is not an indictment of that CEO: Their company survived to get a big mess going and then they hired a great person who solved it. That senior leader is describing a positive thing they did for the company, and describing how the CEO saw and then solved the right problem there.
"Shortage" is a technical term to describe a situation where outside influence is preventing supply from meeting demand at the market clearing price. I do think crypto falls into this category, as well as numerous government policies (every tax creates a shortage).
It is a universal and fractal problem: toolmakers make tools they don't use. They include a manual in the box because your intuition alone won't be enough to understand and use the tool (see React, especially React hooks where several blog posts later no one is finding them easy to use). The unhappy users make even more bad tools they don't use (and, mind you, the badness is exponential from one layer to the next).

The first toolmaker in the chain will be a user of the final product. They'll see all the badness in the product and rage about it. But they won't see their contribution. They don't make bad tools; it's their users who refuse to MTFM (master the [scrubbed] manual), they think.

The reward of doing the job is the money. Ergo, focus on what brings more of it, as patio11 advised. This is the natural destination of the "Profit Center" advise. Bad experience for the user, yes, but Excel is having a great time.
You don’t need to understand the workings of a car to get that 0-60 in 10s is worse than 0-60 in 5s.

Likewise, you don’t need to understand the workings of an SSD to get that 10s to copy 1GB of data is worse than 5s to copy 1GB of data.

Implementation details are irrelevant here.
5 years + 3 years of queues + 1 year to a decision = 9 years.
Unless you marry a citizen, that speeds up the process.
I think the cookie popups "normalized deviance". Since that is something required, maybe even thought of as virtuous, why not pop up two different boxes asking for the user's email address before they've had a chance to read the content?
There are some tropical fast-growing trees that are denser than water. In Costa Rica, there are rivers with logs on the bottom as a result of poorly-planned logging expeditions. The trees are so heavy partially because they take up silica from the soil - which is why they're also difficult to cut down.
So the difference between with and without rent control is just a matter of who gets excluded?

With rent control, basically those who were there first get the housing, those who come later are out of luck.

Without rent control, those who are more wealthy can afford the housing, those who are poorer are out of luck.

If that was the only oversimplified way to see the effects of rent control, I'm sincerely not sure of what would sound better (or less worse) to me. I like when a city keeps its soul and doesn't slowly become a theme park for rich people (which is what I see in mine over the decades).
My friend's been running LineageOS with Microg[0], I'm waiting on a Pixel so I can run CalyxOS (with Microg) because I'm not keen on the security downsides of Lineage. He says it's been an incredibly stable set up. GrapheneOS is a great alternative to Calyx from what I've read, if you rely less on play store apps that require google Android APIs (that Microg also implements). GrapheneOS vs CalyxOS is a trade between convience+pretty good privacy (Calyx) and better security+privacy (GrapheneOS, as when you do use proprietary apps relying on Gapps it's all sandboxed).

[0] https://microg.org/
This would be a far more convincing comment if you could hint at these other directions, otherwise it's just extremely condescending.

I'm a big supporter of rent control. But I also think the problem here is supply and demand. I've never met a supply-and-demand skeptic that would do anything except deny its applicability. They could ever explain why themselves or point to somebody else's explanation. And I've met a fair number of such folks.

I'm left thinking that they just don't want to see new homes or new people. But if you have an explanation, I'm all ears.
Alpine is free to provide a solution to the problem then.

Complaining about the problem isn't going to be productive, and until they publicize a way to convey you are a fork of the alpine project they will have this issue.

Welcome to FOSS.

xchat solved this with ychat.
> Any treatment with the opposite character - works in humans but not mice - gets discarded by your process and never tested in humans

Which actually seems suboptimal in a case like this. We know the risks and side effects of steroids in the human body pretty well at this point, and they're not not too bad. If I had muscular dystrophy I'd probably be willing to give them a shot, even if they didn't work in mice.
> the fastest period of homebuilding in NYC was in the 50s when rent control was at its strictest.

A lot of things happened in the 1950s. How am I supposed to untangle cause and effect? I'd more likely credit the return of American troops from the war, the baby boom, home loans as part of the GI Bill, and the economic power of a country still ramped up for wartime industrial output, but existing in a world in which every other industrial power had been reduced to rubble.
Thank you.

I recently had a conversation with someone about Canadian Federal climate policies and I found it very interesting that they seemed to think consumers should bear no sacrifice to solve the climate issue.

The two most popular parties have plans aiming to reduce emissions. The Liberal party has implemented a progressive and revenue neutral carbon tax, and the Conservatives have a regulatory approach that sees consumers receiving a monthly refund into a special savings account when they buy things like fuel so that they need not bear as much of the increased costs of petroleum products due to the regulatory approach.

The latter policy really emphasizes to me that that there are a large number of people who do not want to change their behaviour in any way, and would much rather have a corporate scapegoat to point at.

It’s as if they think that the oil industry just mines and drills for fun or something.
What you call dysfunction I would call the market reaching equilibrium. The market is working efficiently if pricing signals cause housing seekers to look elsewhere due to limited supply or market clearing prices beyond their means.

For example, not everyone can afford San Francisco, but there is a lot of buildable land besides SF in California (the Central Valley, for instance). Everyone should be housed, but it’s likely it might not be their first choice.
I said “never sell stock” is wrong. You read “never take loans against shares” which I didn’t say.
Number of apartments being built has increased by a multiple of five during the last 10 years (25 000 apartments per year now [1]). During this time, no rent control was removed. Newly built apartments already have (for most young swedes) a high rent (around 10k SEK / 1.15K USD for 50-60m2). If you can accept an apartment 45 min from Stockholms inner city it will be cheaper and easier to get, [2] is the housing queue filtered for newly built apartments.

I fail to see why removing rent control would lead to anything else than higher rents. If the housing companies can take a higher rent they will do it, and sure, perhaps build more apartments for a while. But from their perspective, wouldn't it be stupid to build cheap apartments for young swedes outside of the city center when that 1. would lead to less housing shortage (less demand in relation to supply) and 2. give less profit than fancy apartments closer the the city center.

In my opinion, the best way to solve the housing shortage is to build apartments, and if the apartments built by the private sector are too expensive for young people, the state has to either subsidize or build their own apartments.

[1] https://www.scb.se/hitta-statistik/statistik-efter-amne/boen...

[2] https://bostad.stockholm.se/Lista/?cookies=no&s=58.91071&n=5...
The proposed solution here is to prevent installation of the package, which is a valid solution. You can still set it up if you want, but Alpine isn't going to let you footgun yourself so easily.

Homebrew does the same: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/3476ca7b8ff889ef61e657...

Exclusions for compatibility and security reasons are not the same as "taking them down". It's linux after all.
I have lived in Florida for 49 years. There is nothing random about our situation. This was predictable and expected.

See https://mcculley.github.io/VisualizingObservedDeaths/ and https://mcculley.github.io/VisualizingObservedDeaths/Florida...
Yeah, got lyme disease one month ago and there was no rashes as well. Good idea is to send the tick to laboratory for testing, it will take quite some time (week or two) but better than nothing.
Isn't this one of those sneaky "we'll still harvest your data we just won't save it to your account activity viewer" type deals?
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You only have to remember two digits instead of the correct order of 10–18 letters. It’s probably also a lazy typist thing: four characters instead of 20.
I was commenting on the state of public debate, not his specific claims. I have no idea the accuracy of his claims. I do know that in most cases, such narrow solutions can't be applied to the population at large.

As far as trying it, I have no need. I eat a balanced diet and I feel, and look, great. Glad it worked for you, but I've heard the same about dozens of other diets.
Something less that 0.1% of users and the default cutoff is 0.5%.
That’s a really good point, there can exist a distinction where the goal should be to make it always accessible (archives, emulation, documentation, etc) but not necessarily always accessible in widely deployed web browsers.

So even if you have good reasons to remove an API or feature, you should also provide means or resources to those who wish to preserve and archive the data. And this is something that could be factored into the original design without committing the project to the technical overhead of supporting it forever.

Additionally reducing the problem to humans just chasing shiny new things is simply not true. There’s no denying that some implementations are just bad or dangerous security wise or the world has completely changed in some way.

Not letting things decay could risk the whole platform dying as a result, not just the feature. It could even get to the point where adding anything new is way too risky because of long term support obligations, so decay could be made worse because of efforts to prevent decay!

Obviously we can still make sure great consideration is made both before adding something new and before removing it.

There’s no getting away from the balancing act between change and conservation.
Last I had been hearing, the people complaining about costs were referring to universities (4 years +) and not the community college (2 years) type of school that I suggested.
Did you miss the part about sending user data internationally
That’s comparing apples to oranges.

Minimum wages reduce some of the exploitation that low quality employers will always engage in. If you travel to a state that has the lowest minimum wage for waitresses, you won’t find more waitstaff, lower prices or better quality. Just more misery. Any further erosion of worker rights in this gilded age is gross and unacceptable.
Thank you for taking the time to share this idea with us; it certainly made me think.
Who's paying for this? Banks? Schools? U.S. Treasury?
Not all. But these kinds of stories aren't as rare as they should be.

https://www.quora.com/What-is-your-worst-landlord-story

Of course some tenants are terrible too, but those stories seem to be rarer.
The rich countries should emulate China's Belt and Road initiative, but instead of building ports and highways they should build electric grids and renewables in developing nations. Ideally without predatory balloon financing that results in sticky situations down the line.
In the case of Youtube I've basically given up trying to get decent recommendations. At this point I just hope it keeps showing videos of the people I've subscribed to.