skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you consider liking/appreciating the MCU films as 'underdeveloped taste', then that's pretty close to being elitist. Not everyone goes to the cinema for the same type of content, so everyone's "taste" will be subjective. In that same respect, I don't think OP can ask for "evidence" that the MCU has lowered the quality of content across the board - the only thing we can see is that many other media companies want to mimic the money-printing machine that is the MCU, only to fail by outputting (unanimously) subpar films. The poster child is DC, but there are other examples, like how Universal tried to make a 'Dark Universe' and has effectively canned that[0]. That might mean more movie budget is used to poorly mimic a formula you dislike instead of movies you would like.

0: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/27/movies/the-invisible-man-...
It's the understood predictable nature of the stuff we're built out of - chemicals - that precludes free will. If animals were continually overriding the laws of chemistry in their brains, then it'd have been seen in some rat's brain in the lab by now!!

What those brain/psychological studies do prove is that our subjective experience is misleading. Our experience and internal narrative of what we're doing, and why, are really just after-the-fact rationalizations of what our brain+body are doing.
We hit peak cell phone back around 2015. Indeed, the older phones have a nice privacy feature the new ones don't: they are too old for Apple and Google to bother quietly rolling out their 'think of the children' spyware on, which, once installed, will be used to determine who photographed police brutality at protests, who photographed a senator with a young intern, who photographed Chinese PLA soldiers hauling those with 'low social credit scores' to Re-education Through Labor camps.

Unless you crack the phone's screen and the battery is shot, there's no point in buying a new one. I'll buy another used one on Amazon, eBay, or Craigslist when I must.

I use a 2014 mobile phone. It has a good camera with Optical Image Stabilization, just like brand new $1000+ phones. It has a high density retina display that displays razer sharp text, just like new phones. It can load all the web pages people read and all the most popular apps, just like new phones.
I don't really see it affecting say Atherton or Los Altos Hills much - the people who live there are rich enough that splitting a lot and putting up duplexes isn't going to make a measurable economic difference to them, at least not one worth giving up their prime estate. The hillside communities (mid-peninsula, Oakland/Berkeley hills, Saratoga/Portola/Woodside) likely also won't see much adoption, just because the geology & topography doesn't really support the types of construction & road access to build multi-family housing.

I could see it making a huge difference in "affluent suburbia" - places like Sunnyvale, Cupertino, San Jose, the SFH parts of Mountain View and San Francisco, etc. The lots there are generally wide enough to support a lot split, and you have a lot of homeowners that just spent $3M because you need to in order to own property, carrying a massive mortgage. The lot split would immediately let them pay back a good chunk of that principal, and a duplex would give you rental income to cover most of the payment. A lot of homeowners would go from being financially stretched on 2 FAANG incomes to being comfortably able to live on one salary, while still maintaining ownership of a duplex.

Many of these neighborhoods are precisely the ones that need it most - they're close to jobs, they're flat, they could support a lot more population, and they already have significant pro-housing contingents. Traffic on 85 is going to suck even more than it already does, though.
Do you know any website like MAL for books, comicbooks and or TV shows
Regardless of whether or not it "solves" the housing crisis, it's still the right thing to do. If you own a large-enough plot of land, why should you be barred from building an in-law unit, or adding a second floor that functions as a separate housing unit?

This just gives people some of their property rights back.

700k isn't nothing, either. I agree that it's not a ton, and it isn't going to solve the housing crisis, but it's a step in the right direction, and is a bonus for doing the right thing with regard to making zoning less restrictive.
No I don't, that's why I'm asking.
You have the causality wrong.

- Builders build because if high demand.

- Landlords raise rent because of high demand.

- High demand is based on the localities productivity. Places that are in high demand have lots of jobs that pay high wages.

The only way to relieve the pressure is to build faster than existing demand or to lower the productivity of the region.
I was tempted to buy one but the hassle to go though to do this from Australia was the reason I opted for a second hand OnePlus 7T one from the neighbourhood. Pretty happy with it
I have a pair of custom hiking boots, hand made in the US to fit my feet, that I bought 45 years ago for $300. Last time I checked, the price was $700. They are still in great condition. (I know how to care for them.)

I fully expect they will last me the rest of my life. That’s very expensive, you may say - but consider how many pairs of $150 boots I would have gone through in that time.

I also have several pairs of high quality English dress shoes that are decades old. They look better than ever. They don’t crack and the stitching doesn’t fall apart. The biggest problem is finding a cobbler who can do a full high quality resole without damaging the uppers. They are all rapidly dying off.

Modern cloth and rubber shoes don’t last. The rubber deteriorates, the stitching and glues fail, and the cloth frays. They can’t be repaired. It’s not worth trying to make long-lasting, custom shoes from materials like that. Thus, the throwaway culture.
Of course this is antidotal, but in my circle the android users generally keep their phones for 4+ years. I'm on a pixel 3 I bought new right now. Whereas, the iPhone users are more interested in the latest iPhone, and the apple keynote hype.

The only reason I ditched my old Android was the battery couldn't make it half a day.
Americans Haven’t Been This Down on Housing Market Since 1982
>But how to build an executable I can wrap in a systemd process running on a different machine?

by far the most frustrating thing when I started out programming learning python was the point at which I'd made something I wanted to show my friends and I got to the 'How do I produce a standalone executable' point.

Not only an issue with advanced deployment, even for very mainstream languages the tooling story is still often not great. When I taught a CS intro class in uni this kind of stuff dominated student questions.
>I only order things from Amazon.

So because it hasn't happened to you, yet, you assume everyone else is making it up?

>People will go elsewhere.

Where is the disconnect? You are complaining about people telling you they are leaving because it differs from your experience, yet you then say you don't think people are going elsewhere.
The long, ongoing farce of a UI for .NET continues. Why they decided to double down on Xamarin is anybody's guess but it is sure is looking like a massive mistake.
This raises three questions.

Why isn't the 5 dollar African made shoe adding enough value to be a player in a more expensive market?

Are we sure the market has settled for $50 or is made in America worth and extra $10/15 dollars?

The supply chain with additional transportation and others costs would push the price to $20 per hour in China compared to $30 an hour. A tariff of $10 on imports would equalize the price. Would that push the market price to $60 for the shoes from China and would that push the American price to $75? Or would the Chinese shoes sell still sell for $50 forcing profit down or would they need to drop to $40 to set the market lower?
Perhaps, in the spirit of "hacker" "news", one could write a script to check for replies and then notify us via email or something.

You could even possibly add in functionality to respond via email...
> I still haven't found a way to sign a pdf with a smartcard on Linux yet, which is literally the only reason I still need Windows

<nerdsnipe>oooooooo, Interesting™</nerdsnipe>

I toyed around with smart cards a little while back after discovering a reader in an old laptop's PCMCIA slot (yes, I said old, shhh :P). A truly fascinating and horrendously broken/fragmented ecosystem.

Taking a look around, apparently LibreOffice can sign PDFs if the rest of the system is configured correctly (https://forum.manjaro.org/t/linux-pdf-signing-software/28519..., https://vmiklos.hu/blog/pdf-sign.html), the Arch Wiki has some interesting country-specific notes on electronic ID (https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Electronic_identification), and the CAcert wiki which you've probably already seen was updated in March this year to add a mention of LibreOffice (https://web.archive.org/web/diff/20210506235206/202001250246...).

This honestly sounds fun to figure out... but that's almost certainly cuz I haven't repeatedly banged my head against the wall for however many hours/days/weeks ;)
I'm ever so glad that my Windows machines are still running Win 7 with auto updates nuked.

That's the way it'll remain until the hardware fails. Of course, newer hardware runs Linux and replacements will also run Linux.

Microsoft Windows is now so out of kilter with users' actual realworld needs that I don't fully understand why people haven't migrated away from it droves.
This used to be exactly what I used Amazon for before the listings became polluted. Since then I've switched to Costco for the reason the other commenter mentions: They pick solid products for everyday things and I can trust their incentives on some level. I have no confidence in any of the products on Amazon anymore that aren't big brands and even then I'm uneasy.
> But I doubt the Apple investors will ever vote for that as an option as that's planning to move away from sales numbers and reenter the repair business.

Well, at least one institutional Apple investor has raised a proposal for the right to repair recently. [1]

[1]: https://www.greencentury.com/green-century-shareholder-propo...
I'm not comparing them in capabilities. I'm comparing them in leadership.
Agreed. In that case, maybe we just have to make sure to schedule dedicated time for HN usage. Probably better for us to keep things like this manual :-).

Also, it gives us time to edit/delete our comments like a ninja!
Command Palette is really useful. However, there are some UI quirks with text layers, selecting layers, etc that I never quite got the hang of.
There are still lot-size restrictions as to how many units you can build.

But if a lot is large enough, and the owner of a SFH wants to sell to a developer that wants to build a 4- or 8- or whatever-is-allowed-unit building, IMO they should be allowed to do so.

And maybe that will reduce property values in some places like that ritzy neighborhood down the street. It may also increase property values in others. That's just life. Buying property shouldn't give you an immutable ticket to guaranteed value improvement. If you're lucky, it might, but as a property owner in CA myself, I would certainly give up value appreciation if it meant homes became affordable again. I get that some people wouldn't make that choice, but... tough luck; that's life. Your "right" to make money off of your primary residence shouldn't trump someone else's right to have a stable place to live.
Disney invested in video games... but they got Square Enix to do an Avengers game just last year, and it's pretty sub-par experience with bugs and generally unfun, repetitive gameplay. It supposedly costed just under $200 million to make[0].

Disney probably got a better deal when they licensed Epic to put the characters in Fortnite with an entire 3-month season (Chapter 2 Season 4) dedicated to Marvel and Galactus[1].

0: https://www.gamesradar.com/marvels-avengers-still-needs-to-r....

1: https://fortnite.fandom.com/wiki/Chapter_2:_Season_4#Rewards
I know someone who recently visited an allergist to investigate a similar response to beer, and testing suggested his issue was sulfites which are a common beer additive
Purdue record for the whitest paint appears in the Guinness World Records
It's not going to bring home prices down - it actually reduces the number of SFHs on the market, and the new units created are duplexes where they'll be a landlord (probably an occupant) and a tenant.

It's likely going to bring rents down, or at least keep them from climbing much higher. But that's already a huge win. A 2BR duplex in Sunnyvale rents for about $3500/month, which is pretty insane. Bring that down to $2K/month and you might have families living in their own unit again (instead of 3 families sharing a 3BR, each getting one room), or young people that can afford to found startups.
That is disingenuous. A lot of SFH owners like driving cars, dislike transit, and therefore are of the mindset that more housing = more traffic. Density of course needs mass transit if it is going to be feasible (you don't build a 30 story apartment building away from transit and expect that to end well).
In Canada, many people got Pfizer as first dose and Moderna as 2nd. I'm curious to see the data on that. We also got our 2nd dose 2-4month after the first.
Respectfully, I think you are.

I asked a question about the potential impact of this change on prices, and speculated about what might happen if single family homes become a rare (or rarer) commodity. I’m sorry that places like SF are managed so terribly, but it might have something to do with how hostile people there get when this issue comes up.
Why are fruit and vegetables so expensive in Japan?
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml...

Many, many rules. That ones that stood out to me are:

* Do not demolish more than 25% of existing house's exterior walls.

* Each sub-lot must be at least 2,400 square feet.

* Each sub-lot must be at least 40% of the original lot.

* Each housing unit must be at least 800 square feet.

I didn't read it closely enough to see how you can turn an existing single-family into a duplex.
First, there's no need to run a script to add keys on demand. Just enable "AddKeysToAgent yes" in your .ssh/config and have openssh > 7.2.

Second, you don't need a script to start the agent in your shell config, if you have systemd and logind. You can run one agent per session using systemd, with SSH_AUTH_SOCK set to a predictable path in /run/user/UID. Then you can include the predictable path as SSH_AUTH_SOCK in your .zshrc.
> If a founder took the money from a round and put half of it in a pile on a beach and set it on fire, it literally shouldn't matter to an investor because the investor now owns something better than cash, which is equity in something that is growing.

Come on now, do you really believe this? Investors absolutely should be extremely upset if the company is squandering the resources it purportedly requires in order to execute on strategy and grow.
It was a joke - there are self cleaning glass products on the market but I don't know how well the self-cleaning properties hold up on horizontal installations - you will still get some sediment buildup. The self-cleaning coatings may also change the heat reflective properties of the installation.
Discussed here 10 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28465898
> "There's really very little commercial reason for why you would make footwear in the U.S. today,"

Wolverine Shoe company dumped toxic waste from leather tanning operations into the ground water everywhere around their headquarters in Rockford, MI. Not surprisingly, there have been extremely high rates of cancer and various illnesses in the community.

It’s hard for me to read a quote about them making shoes anywhere else knowing what they’ve done in the US.
There is open source TV software, keep in mind- Android TV boxes, Linux PC sticks, Raspberry Pi running Kodi, etc.
Curious what are some of the top features GH has which GL doesn’t?
In general natural immunity is as good or sometimes better than a vaccine.

N=1 that natural immunity lasts long has to do with my 70+ year old dad who got covid Summer 2020 and has been doing blood donations ever since as he has type O blood. Every time he goes in they report back that his antibody count is still high. I can't offer you any studies on that, just a personal antidote.

Edit guess I'll get more minus points for my N=1 antidotes
Maybe send his address to Apple so they can send him a free machine. Or have Apple learn to have a system that we can build for without actually owning the physical hardware. It's not 1983 any more Apple. I am all for option (b)
I'm just assuming you meant $3k/month
This confuses correlation and causation. Increased demand causes new units with a price premium to be built and causes older units to rise in price. You see them concurrently because of the lease cycle, and sometimes secondarily because of weird municipal rent laws.
So it does! Seems I only thought I read to the end … wonder how often that happens on the olde smartphone.
Did you have any side effects from the Moderna shots? I did the same thing as you (originally got Pfizer, decided to get a Moderna booster based on Delta efficacy; I have a young child who can’t be vaxxed yet). However, I haven’t yet had the 2nd Moderna dose. I am still debating it. So far I have pushed it out to the recommended 42 day maximum interval in the US. The thing that is keeping me on the fence is that the 1st Moderna booster I got hit me like a truck. I had much more severe fatigue and discomfort (i.e., body aches, maybe chest pain) than with the 2nd Pfizer dose (I had no side effects with the 1st Pfizer). I usually feel like crap for a couple of days after flu shots, so none of this is too alarming to me.
Can confirm. The irony of the GP comment is, is this is the one rare time when healthcare access in the US doesn't differ between the rich and the poor, the vaccine is free for all.
> We hit peak cell phone back around 2015.

It depends on what you mean by “cell phone”, and no, we surely didn’t hit the peak in 2015. We’ve had tremendous improvements in cellular technology, data speeds, camera and many other features. If you include Android in this, privacy and good app permissions control was almost non-existent on it in 2015, and has only improved at a better pace in the years after it (incrementally).
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Reinfection/breakthrough is exactly in line with what the parent poster is claiming, which is that it is due to antibodies waning naturally, either from vaccines or from natural infection. However, the B-cells remain and continue to recognize SARS-CoV-2 antigens, causing a rapid production of neutralizing antibodies within hours, as opposed to close to a week in the natural infection case. This leads to greatly reduced hospitalizations.
> Some founders create structured equity that only pays out after the company’s stock appreciates significantly. Other CEOs have out-of-the-money options (Elon Musk is famous for this).

I looked up OTM options and it looks very similar to the first sentence. Basically, you (the founder) tie your compensation to the success of the company. You win big if the company wins big. Can anyone disambiguate the two situations in the quote further?
I think you have this wrong.

I know plenty of rich people that got their shots really early. They didn’t do that using money; they used their creativity. They printed up a fake letterhead for a non-existent medical company and just went for it.

That attitude of ‘just go for it’ has a propensity to make people rich as well.
This can also be done with Finicky and some configuration, and doesn’t require anything that observes the pasteboard.

Here’s the section of the config (~/.finicky.js) that sets it up; the actual tracker cleaning is the last item in that list and is based on the above.

https://github.com/halostatue/dotfiles/blob/main/private_dot...

https://github.com/johnste/finicky
The semantic is clear: If it is the copy mechanism, the old entity dies. It doesn't contradict itself like paradoxes (e.g., "Barber Paradox"[0]).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barber_paradox
One of my favorite books of all time is Organic Chemistry by Wade et al. Sadly, that book is a monster of a book.
I'm at the point where shows like the sopranos I would love to watch in their entirety in theaters. I could see an era where shows have their weekly premiers in theaters in their later seasons after achieving a certain level of success.
Companies like Allen Edmonds will rebuild their shoes if you send them in to the factory.
Yes that’s the econ 101 explanation but what seems to have actually happened is the existing demand wasn’t driving up prices in a neighborhood of old brownstones and some rental houses until after new large apartment complexes went up and the new places charged considerably higher rent than the existing supply. This is something I heard first hand more than once from small landlords saying they were increasing prices because the large buildings nearby were also expensive.

I.e. it wasn’t demand but normalizing higher prices that people willing to pay high prices.

What I am asking for is actual demonstrated evidence of changing policies leading to changing housing supply leading to lower prices.
Neo called and wants his phone back
You should be polling children, not HN. The older crowd grew up on fansubs and is either savvy or no longer watching anime. The producers are not making content for us either - they target the suggestible youth who are far more likely to drop money on swag and subscriptions.
Woolly mammoth resurrection project receives $15M boost
The Android calculator is indeed doing unbounded precision calculations[0.999999999999]. It was developed by Hans-J Boehm, also known for the Boehm-Weiser conservative garbage collector.

[0.999999999999]: https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2017/8/219594-small-data-comp...
That kind of sounds great -- for most things, you just want (a) good enough, and (b) not fake. Amazon has gotten really bad at both of those.

I recently needed to replace an air filter, and there were endless complaints about fakes on amazon. I ended up having to buy it directly from a specialty manufacturer which was a pain.
Yep! I have a domain on cloudflare (wg.<mydomain>.tld) that my OpenWRT router automatically updates when my IP changes.

I just point my peers at wg.<mydomain>.tld and i'm set! This effectively costs just the registration fee annually (about $7 on cloudflare currently) but could also be done with a free service like no-ip or similar.
It’s probably enough to house almost 10% of those people at 3 persons per unit, which is not insubstantial.
All i’ve seen so far is people explaining their preferred reasons for why things happen and their guesses for what new policy will do.

What I haven’t seen is a case study or anecdote of something actually resulting in lower prices. (besides tech busts and covid in SF)
Le Corbusier had the solutions long ago.
You were both savage and self-deprecating, well done!
Or rather people will buy one thing made in $HOMECOUNTRY, get their dopamine hit from supporting the motherland, and then proceed to buy everything else from China.
I needed to read the comments here to understand what I was looking at. Interesting way to present everything. I can't believe this is 11 years old.
I don't know whether this is a good or bad thing.

Might look up a YouTube video to explain without politicization.
Understood, I never really got why the Nazis left Sweden alone but did go after Norway and Denmark. And at the same time were so hell-bent on conquering the empty deserts in North Africa.

But those ball bearings and other parts helped kill a lot of allies.