skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's the only potential downside i can see: because the landlord company is big, it will by nature become very conservative with the (working for hire) bosses being too cautious as to not goof up their jobs, with a huge bias on preventing failures as opposed to enabling success. So they may indeed tend to ban more and more "unsafe" or "morally objectionable" activities to please everyone, eventually making the place too boring to stay in.
No it doesn’t. If I give you my phone or you are reading my screen over my shoulder my apps aren’t leaking.

This title is inflammatory.
In my experience, that's more likely to happen if the team lead _doesn't_ take an active role in defending the team's ability to do "interesting" work. I think the "do it all yourself" fallacy was covered in the article (which I found to be very well-written on the whole).
You can not simply charge "ever-increasing rent". You can only charge what people are willing to pay. More people are pouring into the city every day who are prepared to pay more. Simple as that.

Those companies owning 150K apartments are also shareholder companies, so "small people" and their pension plans will still be affected.
Not to be confused with Mina: blazing fast application deployment tool (https://github.com/mina-deploy/mina)
Yea but helicopters have their own advantages. So you’re trading some things like payload for maneuverability. Helicopters also don’t need a runway. Etc.
These are common myths. First, the WW1 post-inflation was due to an intentional German decision to inflate payments it could have easily paid (and losing actually more money in the process).

Second, the WW2 settlement was far more punishing to Germany than the WW1 settlement. The country was conquered, lost more territory than in WW1, split up and multiple diaspora populations were then pushed in.
Nice illustrations but I find it actually harder to understand even though I’m completely familiar with the concepts
The lack of healthy skepticism in these comments is somewhat concerning. I guess most here haven’t lived through the last 50+ years of climate and population growth catastrophic warnings. If you are really concerned about CO2 pollution, talk to China, Brazil, and Africa. The States is a net CO2 sink. Or you could simply quit listening to politicians and bureaucrats, who at the end of the day simply want power, control, and your money.
LSD and other psychadelics: after use, very few people feel as if they are the same.
/anecdata
I wonder how much time and testing has gone into deployment operations vs science operations in the development of the JWST. It's entirely possible that in this case we would still do it the same way again, but in hindsight it seems there is a point where developing a new spacecraft that minimizes that complexity might be an option that should remain on the table for these missions.
It does and the author states he is a fan
The gun on the A-10 can't hit anything accurately

I had a cousin who was in Afghanistan that would disagree. It was quite accurate in putting bullets into a trench near them. He said, with the A-10 providing cover, it was the first sleep he got in days. Sustainable CAS and the troops view matter.

Tanks?!? It has missiles too, but we don't face tanks.
You could just as well argue NYC should start to use Central Park for new housing...
The simple fact is that the people who complain about their homes they rent from those companies are unable to find other accommodation for a comparable rent. Which in turn implies that it is not really the fault of those companies, otherwise somebody else would be able to provide better housing for the same price.
> Barium Sulphate is nothing new (…) It is not the easiest thing to work with, and is not at all durable

I only read the abstract, but it seems like they’ve considered your stated limitations.

“we experimentally demonstrate remarkable full-daytime subambient cooling performance with both BaSO4 nanoparticle films and BaSO4 nanocomposite paints”

“providing great reliability, convenient paint form, ease of use, and compatibility with the commercial paint fabrication process.”

Also, you can always get commercial licenses for restricted substances like ethanol; that’s not an actual problem for house paint jobs.
If they build luxury apts rich people take those freeing up crappier apts for middle income people and so on. Silicon valley millionaires dont want to spend 2.5 million on shitty 50yr old homes, but they cant get new ones built
> you could simply allow private entities to build housing.

London is the poster boy for exactly why you don't do this.

The result is builders and landlords buying up land, "delaying" (often indefinitely) building the homes to artificially drive up the prices of existing housing, or building tiny, tiny, apartments in huge hive-like blocks and towers, with insane prices.
Now that they’ve done it once, would building a second copy easier? (And less costly?)
‘Just Get Me a Box’: Inside the Brutal Realities of Supply Chain Hell
Impossible Escape?
> We also view joining the military more as a job and less as a duty to our country.

That isn’t a good thing. See the former Afghan National Army (ANA)
I couldn't agree more. Also, this is not micromanagement, quote the opposite IMHO. For a manager, especially those from larger orgs, this approach is just hard so. Larger orgs tend to be very political, and thus policy heavy.
Housing in Berlin is not unaffordable, else the occupancy of those houses wouldnt be so high.
> spending public money on overpriced real estate

What gave you that idea? The transaction is explicitly budget neutral, this is entirely financed by loans that will be covered by rental income.
Posted in another thread, but there is a very interesting theory about why Germany has stable housing prices compared to other nations. This funding model may also explain why local municipalities are against multi-family housing, which is driving sprawl and unwalkable zoning policy in the US.

'Local German officials, like local leaders everywhere, seek bigger budgets to provide more and better services to their constituents. What’s different about Germany is that the way to get bigger budgets is to increase local populations. And, as Professor Buettner says, “Ultimately, to get people, municipalities will need to support housing.”

The result is a system of incentives that is the opposite of “fiscal zoning”—the US practice of zoning land in ways that maximize local governments’ income and minimize their costs. In places with high sales taxes, such as Washington State, leaders zone more land for shopping centers. In places where residential property taxes are capped, such as California, they zone less land for homes and more for offices. In affluent suburbs, they often zone land for houses on large lots, excluding low-income people.

Maximizing property values is such a central concern of local government in the United States that Dartmouth economist William Fischel developed the notion into an entire political theory. His “homevoter hypothesis” holds that local governments are almost single-mindedly focused on maximizing real estate values, because homeowners typically vote their home values in local elections. German jurisdictions gain financially by maximizing population, not house values, and because renters outnumber homeowners in the country, homevoters are not the dominant electoral force in local German elections. Renters are.'

https://www.sightline.org/2021/05/27/yes-other-countries-do-...
It's common in my city as well. The reason is tenants can stop paying and are protected by law enforcement from being evicted. That's not even talking about straight up squatters. This makes renting out often non-economically viable, when adjusting for risk.
It would surprise me if Berlin is permissive with respect to permitting new housing. It would be quite unique among desirable western cities if it did. When the amount of new housing allowed is insufficient to keep up with growth in demand, obviously developers are going to tackle the most lucrative segment of the market, since they can essentially pick their buyers. If there were ten people who want new cars but you have one import permit, and your cut is 10%, are you going to import the luxury car or the econobox?
What was the top speed of tanks towards the end of WW1? Did it improve much from the 1 to 3mph I've read from some quick Googling?

I can't imagine how supremely frustrating the ever-evolving trench stalemate was to tacticians. Each time you think you've got a break, you encounter situations like running naked into a field of barbed wire!

Does anyone know of a good source regarding that leap-frogging tactical evolution in WW1? I saw the field of barbed wire and immediately thought: What if we had a big roll of connected-by-chains railway sleepers, that we could push over the barbed wire? I'm sure there's some huge hole in my extremely poor 21st century viewpoint there, but the idea of smart commanders fighting against each other's innovations is very intriguing.
Why the silent downvotes? This is the most basic economy 101.
> we could make great hardware and the software guys would just piss it away

my #1 annoyance with web dev at-large.

you load any web page and your CPU spends 90% of its capacity rendering inefficient, shitty, injected ad code. (speaking as someone who tries to squeeze the most out of modern JS JITs and web platform APIs)
you forgot as a millionaire part.
No, I meant tax rates in general. Berlin levies lower business taxes compared to other German cities, complains that it has less tax income and gets subsidized by the other German states while still complaining about being poor. It's an act, they could just raise taxes, but prefer not to.

> I said high quality housing, not crappy housing.

Okay, so what services should be cut to pay for high quality housing and then rent it out below cost? Schools? Fire fighters? Social programs?

And since zoning should not be a concern, do they just build over parks?
If anyone from team youtube is reading this, by god, please let me hide youtube short recommendations in the android app. They all started filling with incredibly gross pimple popping videos with horrendous thumbnails which cannot be hidden.
> I don’t know why I hate them.

Do I need to read further?
In the military, there is a practical justification for this constant rotation: it prevents officers from establishing fiefdoms that can undermine the unconditional adherence to orders from above.

Of course, this idea is firmly rooted in the operational demands of military organizations, which is not really the same kind of work as, say, developing new weapons systems.
> Instead of buying what they sold two decades ago for practically nothing, they should have built more supply.

"Instead"? It's not an either-or choice.
They got 3x what they expected and still it didn’t dawn on them that they were missing something. At first sight this goes off the stupidity chart into evil territory.
In the first scenario the housing supply is fixed. in your hypothetical housing supply is increasing
This is a device shared by members of a household. It leaks.
To me it means existing code. If it has been accepted by the PO it is now legacy. The new code that was just accepted now influences any decision involving it going forward. Legacy.
> Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous impatience.

I really like that phrase: courageous impatience.
I really don't have time to read the whole article. One of my closest friends worked right down the hall from Jobs and knew him on a first name basis. He said, and I quote, "he fucked up the raising of my kids with his reality distortion field. If I saw him coming down the hall I'd turn around and go the other way thinking "I don't want to talk to that mother fucker today, he's just going to mess up my life". Another one of my good friends, a Stanford Masters ME, has a daughter that briefly worked for Apple (Stanford grad as well). She left when she got shit for going home for dinner when she had the flu.

I'm embedded in the Apple universe, but I hate the company and what it has done to Silicon Valley.
It's not about lack of utility, it's about lack of privacy. There are many great use cases for voice control at home.
I'd love to have voice control at home but I want something that's private and stays within my network, I refuse to install spyware inside my own house
From the article:

> Caturano, who is immunocompromised, said he is refusing to get vaccinated because of natural immunity and religious beliefs.

From the linked company announcement via CNBC:

> Employees with medical conditions or “sincerely held” religious beliefs will be eligible for exemption, the union said.

Sounds like Disney has already covered all their non-discrimination bases here, and is free to decide ways to improve the safety of their guests and colleagues that do not interfere with a person’s religious beliefs.
TrackerZapper Mac app silently removes tracking parameters from links you copy
Uk … ICL mainframe … a must.
People have to live somewhere, if someone's forced to choose between picking up an extra job to afford rent or living on the streets, they're gunna choose the first. I'd argue this is a bad thing and people deserve places to live.
Oh, in the US it's 'air conditioning' or 'air conditioners'. Surprised to hear so many people affirm it!
My two key lessons (or advice) learned for new tech leads:

1. Find your shortcomings, and fix them. An individual contributor is great is because of his/her strength; a tech lead is great is because of he/she is well balanced. OP's list is a very good start: if you're not delegating enough, try delegate more; if you don't have a clear vision, try spend time working on it. You'll get better at them over time, to be a well balanced tech lead. prioritize on fixing shortcomings before reinforce strengths.

2. You have some authority, use it. More specifically, consider asking for resources instead of exhaust you and your team in reaching of local maximum. You're the brigade commander, you probably can't decide which battlefield you and your team are marching in, but you can try ask for more shells and airstrikes.
> for about 8,500€ each to Goldman Sachs.

The article you linked mentions debt in height of 2.7 billion EUR. Means that the actual purchase price was about 3̶7̶5̶k̶ 37.5k per apartment.
I’m talking Chevy Tahoe/suburban SUV fwiw. The biggest things you can rent.
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That's very condescending. I use Google Home and I am very well aware of the privacy implications, thank you.
There is an open source iOS app called Overland[0] that can continuously track your location history in the background and upload the data to an arbitrary endpoint as GeoJSON.

The "protocol" consists of a single HTTP request and response, so you can easily write your own server software to store the data however you want, which is what I did.

If you don't want to write your own backend, you can also just use the server software[1] the author of the app uses, which is also open source.

[0]: https://github.com/aaronpk/Overland-iOS
[1]: https://github.com/aaronpk/Compass
Admittedly it's a pretty trivial usecase for such an expensive device, but one thing it is brilliant at is setting timers, hands free, while cooking.
If the government owns all housing, you have no recourse.

With multiple small private cities, you can change cities.

Actually, with governments, you could also try to switch countries.

That is why I am opposed to mega states like EU wants become, so that people still have some choices left.
Snap with one package works on many distros.

For TSC platform game https://secretchronicles.org/en/ , how can I get all .deb packages I made to official repos?

https://secretchronicles.org/en/download/

For those .deb packages, I had to compile for CPU architecture and distro separately, because of all the different versions of dependencies.
Then society should pay for it directly.
How is that anything other than NIMBYISM?
Culpability of relatives for unrelated crimes exists in North Korea. Does anyone else have an example of countries that do this.
Don’t use your personal account for a device that is shared by many people.
Getting more work and/or a UBI.

Indefinite royalties certainly aren't it.
The A-10 seems to be the AK-47 of the air, though. Meaning it’s designed to work and be maintained in harsh and sub-optimal battle conditions.

Not to mention it’s battle proven.

Other than the AF wanting to retire it, there’s no reason why it couldn’t be modernized to some degree (like the guns).

So you may be right, but if the Army is willing to take it from the Airforce then the question is “why”.
There are contracts. If your contract forbids doubling over night, you are good. If not, it was your choice to agree to it anyway.
Are you claiming that if America's housing supply literally doubled overnight prices wouldn't change?
I agree and that's why I think the problem cannot be solved in private hands but with communal ownership.
After 97% of asic miners never producing a block in their lifetime in bitcoin, this takes second place in term of energy wasted per utility produced :p
These evil bogeymen are something people believe are very common, but I can't find any solid data on their prevalence in London. People also claim these guys are ruining NYC real estate, but our vacancy rates are below 5%, and most of the places that are vacant are not long term vacant.
That's why Vienna mixes subsidized housing and regular housing, often in the same building. They also allow families to stay in their housing or purchase it as long as they pay the higher rate related to their rising income.[1]

The problem in the US is that there is no gray area for subsidized housing. As soon as you hit some magic number, you lose all of your benefits. The people who game the system to stay under this number are not stupid, but acting rationally because they know their new job may not stick around. They would rather have housing security than take a chance at losing everything and living in the street until their tax return shows that they are poor again.

[1] https://www.newstatesman.com/spotlight/2019/09/housing-basic...
The prices are spiraling out of control everywhere that’s even moderately desirable. In a city in the BW part of Germany which has ~20k inhabitants and is nearby another city with ~200k inhabitants there’s new 3 room apartments for sale for around 400.000+ €.

The sales prices in BW and many other areas of Germany are simply ridiculous.

And they are building: a few dozen lots are being offered by the city and there’s dozens of takers per lot.
It can be difficult to communicate this way but I think there is a social benefit to making the extra effort for people with disabilities. Often you don’t choose to be disabled. What if you were unlucky to be disabled? Would you like your opportunities to be thoroughly reduced in life? I try to make an effort because I could have been in that employee’s shoes. I am lucky… this is the least I can do.
Anecdote wrapped in a non-sequitur:

It’s kinda funny to me, I had a job once full of leaders and managers who were constantly invoking Jocko, Simon Sinek and other leadership and management tomes and were just as frequently beating their chests for having read the right books on how to lead…

…meanwhile the rank and file at the company were openly (at least in multiple conversations in external chat and text message groups away from the eyes of said managers and leaders) sick of it because the same managers and leaders seemed to predictably and consistently do the exact opposite of whatever they’d gloat about reading from the Jockos and Simons during All Hands Zooms to the peril and resignation of much of the workforce this summer.

I curiously glanced at Glassdoor and chuckled seeing a few reviews bringing this up.
I'm an amateur electronic musician myself. You're not wrong, but I've found the gap between okay and good extremely hard to cross.

I think the idea that getting good at making, say, trance with, say, FL Studio is somehow easier than learning to play, say, a guitar and making good, say, metal to be ridiculous.

You can get pretty far in FL Studio with a four-to-the-floor kick-hihat-clap beat and some synths, just like you can get pretty far with four power chords on a cheap Stratocaster. It won't be good though, not really.
Tempelhofer Feld is for the most part an abandoned field, if half of it were used to build housing a problem would be solved and no damage would be done.

The issue there is the usual weird coalition between landlords that don’t want more residents (if they live there) or more competition (if they rent their flat) and the fringe of the green/left that is worried about urbanisation, gentrification economic activity.
I understand you point, but the USSR collapsed 30 years ago, and the Baltics joined the EU in 2004. Nobody uses that definition of "second world" anymore.
Great comment! After reading this, you may wonder: why didn't the armies try to bomb railroads to prevent reinforcement from being rushed to the front? It turns out, they tried very hard but the technology was just too rudimentary. The French made a bombing units of Voisins bombers but they could only carry light payload (130lbs for the Voisin 3). The Brits got the Handley in 1916, which was bigger and quite successful (this doc has a ton of details on British bombing: https://www.airuniversity.af.edu/Portals/10/AUPress/Books/B_...). If you squint hard enough, you can start seeing the emergence of patterns of WW2 warfare by the end of WW1. Fascinating.
My definition of "legacy system" is something like "you can't ask for help when you need it on specific parts of the system".
Manhattan's population density is already 17 times higher than the one in Berlin so no, I wouldn't suggest that.
Use https://www.dreamlist.com instead. It is completely private and ads free.

This is not the first time large companies with built in wishlists have ignored or abused their users. There were times when a retailer would direct your loved ones no to your list but to an “Idea” list in a tab right next to it when they went to your link. Most often they just index your list on Google and it becomes a top result when someone searches your name (great SEO for them, bad for you). Or suggest gift cards to stores that are 30% overpriced to your loved ones right at the top of your list, when you never wished for one. I built DreamList by hand over the past few years to prevent these and other abuses with family’s wishes and money and now it’s growing. I would love to get your feedback as well.
Tim Cook reaps what he sows. He started all this when he fired Antonio García Martínez in response to an employee petition. (Hint to Tim Cook: You should have fired each and every one of the employees who signed that petition.)

He made the wrong, worst people at the company feel "empowered" and now there's no stopping them.
Bullshit. Of course buying your own house is also an investment decision. You speculate that its future value minus your initial investment (and plus the "extra joy" you get out of being a homeowner) is worth more than what you would have paid in rent in the same time.
The hardest and most important mindset shift for me was when I realized almost every person who supports terrible policies/politicians does so thinking they do it because they care, and they do from their particular perspective. I can't usually bridge the gap with someone who commits or supports horrors out of "concern for souls[like mine!]," for example, but most situations aren't at such a timeless impasse.

Every family member who ever turned into a whiny baby while trying to do free IT for them saw themselves as the victim, or the person under threat. That's the kind of person with power in most organizations, and you have to find some way to meet them in the middle without compromising everything to get anything done. It's not enough to be right.