skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am all for big businesses moving into buy to rent. There are far too many amatuer landlords in the UK making a living by renting out poor quality housing.

My office landlord also has two small flats above (think glorified bedsits) and his partner also rents out a tiny cottage. This is their living (aprox. £3k a month), neither works or has any other business, all from a 'portfolio' of properties that maybe cost £150k twelve to fifteen years ago.

As an example of market inefficiency, multiply this across the country and it's not hard to argue that the housing market is severely broken.
As someone who has ridden 125cc scooters a fair bit at that speed the car would probably be much safer than the scooter. At least it won't fall over if you hit a bit of oil on the road.
Your company promotes directly from tech lead to director?
Berlin is also super unevenly populated and includes several forests. If you compare the density of the actually populated areas, like Mitte, you are still under Manhattan, sure, but only by a factor of 4 - which is extra impressive given the near complete lack of tall buildings in Berlin. Neukölln (which borders the area in question) is even more dense - about half as much as Manhattan [1].

Its unfair to compare Manhattan which apart from Central Park is nearly 100% urban to Berlin, which is significantly larger and includes many areas with widely distanced houses and forests.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitte_(locality)
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuk%C3%B6lln_(locality)
From the Article, there's this:

> In May, hundreds of employees signed a letter urging Apple to publicly support Palestinians during a recent conflict with Israel. And a corporate Slack channel that was set up to organize efforts to push Apple to be more flexible about remote-work arrangements once the pandemic ended now has about 7,500 employees on it.

and there's this:

> On Friday, Tim Cook, Apple’s chief executive, answered questions from workers in an all-staff meeting for the first time since the public surfacing of employee concerns over topics ranging from pay equity to whether the company should assert itself more on political matters like Texas’ restrictive abortion law.

I wonder how many names are involved in both actions. Because:

https://foreignpolicy.com/2015/12/04/palestines-abortion-pro...

(Hint: I had someone inside check. And there are many names in common. That means none of this is sincere. I don't know what drives it.)
This is an interesting comment because it reveals a philosophical disagreement: is good/bad mostly about moral character or mostly about power?
This is one of the reasons why all new housing is in the luxury category in Germany as well.

Building codes have become so strict that it's not worthwhile to build affordable housing for private investors. Especially since the government pays incentives (or rather gives out very low interest loans) to build houses of the highest energy standard.

Why build a "cheap" house when you can build a more expensive house with subsidies that has a lot higher resale value later?
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Maybe this is just me being a filthy capitalist, but it also seems somewhat fair? If cities are instituting rent controls on properties that were previously market rate, that is a targeted form of wealth expropriation. To be clear, I'm not one of these "taxes are theft" people -- we do have to pay shared costs. But there's a continuum of acceptability: it would clearly be wrong to pass a law that raises taxes on one person by name. And it's clearly ok to raise taxes on everyone.

For me, instituting rent controls is towards the less acceptable end of this spectrum. If the city believes it ought to be able to set prices on an apartment, it should own that apartment first. Just my unenlightened gut feeling on this issue.
The code uses program synthesis, which I imagine is unreadable unless you're versed in that field.
This seems to pop all around the world, regulation is needed when companies act like this
Is this is someone who is either looking for an angle to litigate with a rich company or has completely unrealistic expectations or both? I feel like if you had a real conversation with this person and got to the root of how they feel they would know their ask is unreasonable. I’m sure they may also feel like they have been dealt a bad hand and want to find a way to be compensated. While this route may make a few lawyers happy I really doubt that winning a lawsuit against Apple for not hiring a sign language interpreter will bring them any peace.
What I have been noticing and I could be completely wrong and or biased here is that we have a large population of folks in the US that are struggling with mental health issues and that manifests in a lot of odd ways. This seems to be one of them.
This is awesome! I've been looking for something that could be a link between PDFs and Instapaper[0] for a while. This looks like it'll be perfect to build such a tool with.

[0] https://www.instapaper.com
I also use Duckduckgo as a default and only have to use Google maybe once per week, and then I use the !g shortcut from Duckduckgo.
And in other breaks news rain is wet
There's nothing preventing them from building now, yet they are not.

What would incentivize the building of low or medium income housing, when higher profits can be made from high income housing.
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> the real story is about how to capitalize on 40k Twitter followers.

As is pretty much every tech blog post on “I’ve made <significant amount of money> in <short amount of time>”. Most fail to mention step zero of having an established audience.

I wonder what percentage is disingenuous (trick you into thinking anyone can do it, to hook new followers) versus delusional (honestly don’t realise the prior audience is what made the difference). Maybe the perception flips after a given number of followers.
Or just have a simple X% per year no matter who owns it
> I'm guessing less of the former, and more of the latter.

Nice guess, but what's the problem with rabble-rousing? People fight actual violent battles with their employers, perhaps not so much in this country anymore. But that doesn't mean all the work to improve labor is finished. Apple and Google were fined for fixing wages only seven years ago (perhaps an eon in SV time, I wouldn't know). I'm sure I could walk into any multinational corporation and find a distasteful practice worth fixing, to pretend otherwise is the height of naivety.
> Complex jobs cannot be accomplished effectively with transients. Therefore, a manager must make the work challenging and rewarding so that his people will remain with the organization for many years. This allows it to benefit fully from their knowledge, experience, and corporate memory.

I wonder what he would say about today’s corporate environment.
I too have no issues with large business getting involved with rentals. As long as it is clear for everyone involved that housing should be low margin business. That is very low, but relatively safe returns and mostly not from appreciation of assets.
You talk about US and I, as an Indian, realized during this pandemic that you must have a car no matter what. In last 12 years I never felt the need to buy a car so strongly as I did in last year.
At the level of Google, Facebook, Amazon, Instagram, Twitter? No, it hasn't. But there are apps like Paytm, Ola Cabs which work in few other countries than India (It's fine if you haven't heard of these apps, because AFAIK they aren't in the US, or most of Western Europe for that matter. But some apps did get big enough to be implemented in other countries).

Also if we're going by that then there are hardly 5 countries out of 195 whose apps are used worldwide.
The amount of new apts would be dramatically high to curb prices and make them realistic again. And Berlin is probably also not able to magically create as much new living space as is needed in that short of a time frame especially given the developers unwillingness to build affordable housing. I think where we probably fundamentally don't agree is that not all things need to be provided through a market. (or I think my point is more so that we've at least observed it not reall working here, so we could at least try a different strategy or multitudes and see how far those take us)
Just a note, before Slack a lot of the company was just using iMessage - nobody wants that, 30+ people group chats with messages at all hours of the day was the worst digital communication experience I've ever seen at a company.
Author here. I don't think many of my followers ended up being purchasers directly. The vast majority of sales I can attribute to the collection finding its way to various private discords and Telegram groups for folks interested in NFTs.
Speculators generally want to constrain supply as much as possible. That's good for their investment.
Why would they put things in environment variables instead of having new imported functions to grab various values?
The whippet was around 8MPH and the tanks for plan 1919 where designed for 15-20
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I, as a taxpayer, refuse to finance a few lucky grandfathered-in people that want to live in a highly sought-after district but cannot afford the rent.

There is no human right to an apartment in the city center of a megapolis.
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Robrenz is the favorite machinist of all the YouTube machinists. He might be one of the best in the US.
https://archive.is/glidN
You might be alone in that. Flash Fill saves me from doing so much manual work that I consider it a killer feature of Excel. I will never try another spreadsheet software until they get flash fill functionality (and I believe the feature is encumbered by patents, and hard to replicate anyways unless you are versed in program synthesis).
Interesting. What about web sockets?
I got hit with a bunch of paid content from fake cryptocurrency ICOs. “Amazon Coin” for instance, claimed that it was created by Jeff Bezos and offered some special deal. They also seem to actively promote blatant phishing through cute little quizzes.

This is direct harm. I am so sick of this issue being framed in terms of “oh no, people sharing an opinion I disagree with”. And if you want to open that can of worms, how about the “foreign influence” funding and investing in manufactured consent by every major push media outlet that doesn’t give Americans any voice at all to respond, or the same money funding one-sided moderation on once-free forums? Apparently not an issue. But organic shared content, oh that’s so terrible.

In every facet of life now, it seems that thought crime is actively persecuted while real violence and theft is dismissed as irrelevant. That’s an unsustainable social doctrine.
I checked a recent deployment and every combat aircraft on that US carrier is an F-18.

Using one multi-purpose aircraft has some fantastic advantages if you can pull it off.

A carrier can use all its combat aircraft to fight enemy aircraft (effectively double the number of anti-air aircraft on board), then after the enemy Air Force is the destroyed, switch around to using all the F-18's to attack ground targets.

With specialized aircraft types, some combat losses focused in a particular role can cripple the entire air wing, whereas with multi-role aircraft, you can keep right on operating.

It's great from a maintenance, logistics, and training as well.
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ayyy spa for a static content site
is this necessarily a bad deal? Governments can normally raise capital at significantly lower interest rates than the private sector, so if the private sector was making a profit on this, then the public should be able to do too, and then re-invest that into public services
How are voters being suppressed? That link was... lacking in detail. Yes it says voters rights are suppressed, but doesn't actually explain why or how.

Do you even know?

Because I've heard this racist story before.

https://youtu.be/yW2LpFkVfYk
See also her sketch notes on other topics (https://girliemac.com/doodles/):

- Introduction to Programming & Tools

- Machine Learning Regression

- Notes from Presenting Data & Information course by Edward Tufte

- Notes from The State of Web Platform

And her list of other Tech Doodlers & Sketchnote artists to follow (https://girliemac.com/blog/2021/07/12/microsoft-beginners-sk...).
There is nothing they can do. Users have voted that speed is more important than any privacy, and Firefox will never get faster than chrome.
Indeed. Some may realize they are more than the sum of their parts. Not a popular position here on HN where most find us comparable to CPU memory architecture.

The assumption is that all
memory is stored in the brain and body, for where else could it be stored?

The materialists do not believe in a ghost in the machine. /anecdata
I have no idea what you're talking about. I could be wrong, but I'd venture that most readers here are also not familiar with it. For readers such as us, this is a little difficult to make sense of. It's hard to understand why anyone would be flagged for naming examples.
It’s not unreasonable at all. The person is deaf, Apple should provide any resources the employee needs to do their job.

1. It’s the right thing to do.

2. If Apple can afford multi-billion dollar toilet shaped offices, they can hire interpreters.
Everything I'm seeing indicates there's a "hump" starting at minimum wage and increasing to an amount around $20 an hour, where it begins dropping again, but I've only found state-wide graphs such as https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/bulletin/2018/sep/images... (Australian)

I guess a minimum of 15 and a hump at 20 would be "at or just above" but 25% is a decent amount.
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> They range from mentally ill homeless men who desperately need our help, to the I’m-doing-just-fine-thank-you-very-much, retired early, and former Silicon Valley coder.

Yes sir. Going great so far, about 6 months in. Took that job and shoved it.
Yes, they have to live somewhere. Not necessarily in central Berlin, or central San Francisco. There are plenty of places with cheap housing in Germany.

Also just because people need something, doesn't imply they have to be given those things for free. That's not usually how it works.
Software is the antithesis of that philosophy. The word I hear most from developers when evaluating an approach: easy. Not simple, but easy. Then comes all the memorized patterns, a laundry list of tools, thousands of dependencies, and their favorite pet framework they cannot live without. You take any of that bullshit away the immediate response is some form of crying or hostility.

Most things in software are never that challenging, but then that is a matter of perspective. Everything is challenging the moment an adult comes in and cuts off the nonsense.
Further, most people will have some sort of temporary or permanent disability at some point in their life. People break their legs, get older and become deaf, or blind, etc.

Interacting with people with disabilities gives us an opportunity to think about how we can make society a little better not just for them, but for ourselves in the case that we become sick, or injured, or just live to be elderly enough that parts of our bodies have fulfilled their expected useful life and stop working.
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> A good tenet is unambiguous in application and interpretation

Are tenet and non-functional requirement about the same thing?
Well it's not the most hygienic thing, items are hardly sanitisable
I think you’ve misunderstood. I interpreted her stance as Apple’s efforts not actually making a change, and being more about posturing.

This is often the case with corporate green-washing.
In this case Apple has all of the power and none of the moral character.
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pretty sure you can expect most politicians to be evil.

if you understand german, Rezo [1] did an interesting video last month about similar corruption

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIj3qskDAZM
You can also see something interesting - at least in my state it shows a four bedroom as being about twice a "zero bedroom" - hence roommates likely are occurring.
More brands means higher likelihood of a used item however. Normally I'll just put in a max price or click the used link.

So the $29 kettle is $21. I've never bought a "used" item from Amazon that was unsatisfactory cause it was "used".
>This is like if you're in a wheelchair and you get a job to hang drywall.

You could view it as a full employment plan.

The next logical step is to have a deaf man who only signs in Irish Sign Language. The first interpreter converts that to ASL, the second into spoken English.
I think France should stop overtly complaining in this anglosphere world that's useless it's like whining and just do what is best for France in foreign policy without thinking too much to past obsolete alliances.
> What does that have to do with anything?

It means that "legacy" is meaningless if it can be applied so so many other things.
I use Alfred on Mac for this. Targeted searches to any website/service you can think of (you can add your own). Such a time saver.
Yes all those journals are using readcube or a derivative which is a nightmare. They just don't want people to see the pdf as a first option. On many journals you need at least 3 clicks and 2 loading pages to get a pdf (unless you use a citation manager like zotero that would catch the pdf from the article page).
Oh right, my bad, it's been 38k per apt. I've edited the comment. Indeed that's very cheap. As for debt never existing, it's pretty common to leverage in the real estate world.
The government sold public housing and then bought (other) units that have appreciated in value.
I have a 16gb USB flash drive encrypted with LUKS[0]. In there are various lists that I don't want anyone to find, however mundane they actually are. Things like shopping lists and 'to buy' lists for Amazon etc. Always presume 'private' stuff you have in the cloud will be leaked via various means (Rogue employee, data breach, sloppy programming etc)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Unified_Key_Setup
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Society compensates Apple quite handsomely.
wsgi isnt inherently blocking. it is a protocol and it is up to the implementation on both sides if the interface as to how it is handled.

that said, according to the docs this seems to be cgi 1.1 which equates to a process per request, which afaik isnt so scalable.
“She said Apple had begun trying to reassign her after she complained”

You quoted this, but seem to have ignored it. This was not a role that got deprecated, rather she complained that her/Apple’s work in that role was ineffective.

This is a very valid complaint, and the sign of a valuable employee. However, most corporations respond by covering up ineffectivity, which is why it turned out badly for her.
A lot of people say that "more houses need to be build" to fix it.

The problem is less "not having apartments" but "not having affordable apartments".

A a lot of "housing" had been build in the recent years but hardly any of it increased the "supply of affordable housing".

Most had been very expensive "luxurious"(1) living spaces, from small one family houses to large "luxus" apartments.

At the same time a lot of affordable living space has been converted into non affordable ones or removed from the rental marked.

Reasons for this are many fold and include:

- Prices in Berlin had been unrealistic low, so once they started rising/people realized it they rose fast attracting a lot of speculative investments, speeding up the price rise and level above what it should have been.

- Stupid formulated laws around "energy" renovations turned out to be a perfect backdoor to circumvent existing limitations about how much rent can rise, especially if combined with little continues wide spread Illegal acting allowed massively bumping prices in short time.

- Certain tax changes done ~7 or so years ago increased renovation cost massively, and the price boom and building (of non affordable housing) boom made it hard to build/renovate affordable housing for people just owning a small number of apartments).

- Also maybe thinks like Aribnb had a bad effect, but I can't judge this.

So what should be changed IMHO:

1. Change the energy renovation law to not be trivially abusable.

2. Make regulations which favor affordable rentable living space over all other versions (also favor it over office space).

3. Change certain laws about tax handling of losses from "rent", i.e. there are people which but absurd prices on apartments with the intent of them to not ever be rented because they bought them for speculative investments and selling a unrelated one is easier/better. If a apartment is in a area with a deficit of (affordable) living space you should not be able to tax-deduct losses because you werent able to rent out an apartment. (Similar the kind of "buy to sell at a higher price later" behaviour should be illegal.).

4. Add a legal method the state can use to punish organizations which en-mass do a lot of systematic small illegal things which each on themself are not worth opening up a law suite and affect a different person, like systematically trying to increase rents slightly more then average every time.

5. Maybe (idk, only if it matter) auto-sync databases of platforms like Airbnb with residential databases to auto detect abuse.

6. Undo mistakes of the past where Berlin reduced affordable housing programs.

(1): Price wise, not necessarily quality wise.
Berlin is not a very dense city, maybe because of the backyards (almost every block has a backyard for trash containers and bikes, maybe an elevator) in most blocks and the green spaces.

In the last years I have seen also a lot of floors being added (to the last floor) of buildings that allow it, to gain one more floor.

Your comment about periphery made me think of something. Berlin is surrounded by Brandenburg, which is even less dense. So Berlin has space to expand, unlike other cities (like Barcelona, much denser).

In my mind the solution would be to build affordable housing in Brandenburg (there is space there) and on the edge of Berlin.
> The amount of new apts would be dramatically high to curb prices and make them realistic again

I'm fine with short term patches to help with the acute issues, but fundamentally unless a lot of housing is built, there are going to be some people suffering in the housing market. Either it will be poor people paying a lot for housing, or it will be poor people who are unable to win lotteries to get into public housing who then cannot afford housing at all. Whether the housing is publicly or privately owned is just pushing sand around the sandbox. It just changes exactly who the winners and losers are, but not the number of people losing.

> I think where we probably fundamentally don't agree is that not all things need to be provided through a market.

I don't hold this belief. There is no fundamental disagreement on this score between us.