skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My extreme political opinion is that no one should be allowed to own more than one property in which they do not reside.
Yup just "build more housing" simplistic to point of stupidity.
I have recently paid literally for that. In the mountain village where I was spending my holidays they charged me tax because of the air I was breathing. They called it 'climate tax' but the better translation is 'environmental tax'. And fun fact, unfortunately the air was not that clean neither because the place is very popular..
"Disclaimer: None of the sites discussed in this study have been the subject of geological, hydrological, environmental, heritage and other studies, and it is not known whether any particular site would be suitable. The commercial feasibility of developing these sites is unknown. As with all major engineering projects, diligent attention to quality assurance would be required for safety and efficacy. There has been no investigation of land tenure apart from exclusion of some environmental areas and urban areas, and no discussions with land owners and managers. Nothing in this list of potential site locations implies any rights for development of these locations."

That's a whole lot of important things that they didn't even bother to check before pushing out a nice impressive press release for the media to latch on to. Also, from what I can tell even finding that many potential candidates required changing the very definition of a suitable site away from the type actually used by existing real-world pumped hydro projects.
The tipping point has come and gone as far as the climate trajectory goes, although actions taken today will reduce the slope of the trajectory say 50 years from now. When you throw the rudder over on the Titanic too late, you must prepare for the impact. Hence this kind of messaging is rather futile:

> "Many young people are depressed because they feel climate change cannot be stopped. We want to offer them hope by showing that our world can get all its energy needs from renewables at a price below that of fossil fuels. When we first proposed this, we were ridiculed, but this paper shows our ideas are now scientific mainstream", says Auke Hoekstra from the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands."

The one (going to 100% renewables) no longer implies the other (stabilizing the climate system within the lifetime of anyone alive today). Hugely expensive steps must be taken - retreat from flood plains that will be experiencing 500-year floods every 5 years, securing water supplies to survive epic droughts (with the additional loss of much of the seasonal snowpack in many regions), building termite-mound like architecture to handle the record heat waves, moving critical infrastructure back from the coastlines to deal with rising sea levels and saltwater intrusion, dealing with insects that love these new warm conditions, etc.

On top of that, replacing the existing fossil fuel infrastructure is going to cost trillions and require a complete reorganization of the global economic system - just look at all the oil tankers, pipelines, internal combustion engines, gas-and-coal fired power plants. No time to watch TikTok videos, it's going to be work, work, work. Scaling up industrial production of wind turbines, solar panels and batteries by a factor of what, 100X? Better get busy, humans.

Think of it more as an exciting challenge, adapting to these frightening new conditions - interesting times!. Of course, we'll have to raid the wealth of the fossil fuel sector and their investors to pay for all this adaptation and industrial development. Sticking the major producers with the bill makes optional sense. Implementing a ban on the global trade in fossil fuels would also be reasonable under these conditions (note that this was the first major step in eliminating the practice of chattel slavery, for comparison).
The tax the poster proposed was a de facto ban which was my point. But even then it wouldn’t work because some land is more desirable than others and by encumbering land ownership you encourage those that own the more desirable land to extract as much value as possible.

The thing we are dancing around in this thread is do landlords largely determine the housing prices. I think not. I think it’s supply constraints and government subsidized mortgages. These are largely issues driven by regular home owners not landlords.
Outstanding blogs, really enjoyed reading them. Someone talented actually performing a hack, rare these days.
Do you have an example city? I'm curious because when there is lots of supply to meet demand why would prices go up?
As others have mentioned the solution is to build more affordable housing… but where?! More unaffordable houses won’t solve the issue.

I think decentralization of work (WFH) will counter it in the long term. If you can work from anywhere then your housing options become limitless. I’ve lived in the country the last 15 years - absolutely no way I’ll live in pricy cities.

That said, people in the service industry will continue to suffer - I’ve heard of people commuting hours each way for work! Service industry and cities for that matter will have to get into real estate to provide community (I hope not dorms or projects) for workers.
I would start by making property taxes substantially higher for non-owner-occupied property. If you are rent-seeking rather than residing on the property you should pay way more, maybe 4x or higher, in taxes.

Housing prices would crash and that would be the point; but everyone who owns property would be against it because they don't want to see their assets drop in value.

The counter-argument people make is "that would de-incentivize investment which would reduce the future housing supply". But I call b.s. on that. Residents would be able to afford new construction and maintenance if those things had lower price pressure.

It should raise the bar on an investor attempting to profit by owning property. They should need to do a substantially better job at maintaining and increasing the value of real estate to justify owning it instead of a resident.
There's something dehumanizing about seeing most others on your commute as large metal fortresses instead of actual human beings.
Here are some of the guidelines for participating here:

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Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

Eschew flamebait. Avoid unrelated controversies, generic tangents, and internet tropes.

Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.
When your in an event the person running TOWARDS the police being chased by a mob is generally not the criminal, just saying...

I do not believe that the people who attacked Rittenhouse believed that he was an active shooter they needed to stop, not for a moment do I believe that, nor did the jury, nor did anyone else that has a rational mind

Active shooters do not run toward police with their hands up
Would you like 90% of the posts on this site to be in languages you don't understand?
I live in Buenos Aires, Argentina and it got really tiresome to hear the same people complaining about rent costs and lack of housing also complaining about high buildings, new apartments in their neighbourhood, etc. It's so annoying, they want all the cakes and eat them too.
Not really. You have to click "join" and then additional hyperlink appears which you have to click once again. Yes, not super-obvious, but you don't need to click many times. I agree that this feature is not well presented, but hopefully word of mouth would help here.
In terms of quality, I mean, how many people have bad bosses who can't even manage a team of 5? In my experience, it's not always easy to find qualified people for those roles.

Now imagine some large company and I'm not that shocked that the pool of people who can effectively lead large (>10,000 employee) organizations is relatively small. It's basically a small subset of those who can lead small organizations.

And not to say unqualified people don't end up in those roles, they do. But generally I'd argue the qualifications of a CEO are likely as scarce as say the qualifications of a neurosurgeon or some other hyper-specialized technical role.
Craig is the one writer and photographer I know who captures the beautiful aspects of quotidian life in Japan.
The more a company insists that I must use their native app the more I am convinced that I should stick with the safe web-app.

Also to make the join via web easier you can try something like https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/zoom-redirect...
What a politician says on the record and what they truly feel are not necessarily identical.
Land is for renters house is for renters. Basically a deeply ingrained class conflict despite all the irrelevant comments here confusing and obscuring some people are intended to be poor renters.
The NIMBYs are usually the ones owning the property and possibly charging $4k/month. They might say publicly how they want affordable housing but behind the scenes they’ll always vote against it.

Case in point Marc Andressen’s family as we discussed recently https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32350657
The contract may state it

It's unenforceable, according to everyone I've interacted with in the state :)
Can you explain how making housing even more costly houses the extra 50 people?
Free speech absolutism is not practical. Platforms like HN, Twitter, Facebook or Reddit would be quite hostile, it's like letting people out in the streets doing whatever they want. That's not practical.

The irony is that mainstream platforms tend to censor responsibly (even if false positives tend to occur due to the use of bots), while free speech absolutist platforms like Parler would ban you for merely having a different opinion.

The other irony is that free speech absolutists are responsible for nearly all the terror attacks in the United States. The harmful ideas of these absolutists are rejected by society for a reason, but this was the case even before the internet. Freedom of speech is not freedom of consequences.
It's funny because during the windows 11 insider period, Microsoft had official documentation that told the user to use Rufus (though the screenshots matched the really old version 2)
I also use the word “retarded” without reservations, so can’t answer. To me it has nothing to do with clinically ill people. Rather, those who are retarded by choice.
> because city governments zoned everything wrong for the actual demand

This is the core problem. Commoditization, or rather, people cornering the market is secondary.

City government is doing this because it is elected by those who own single family units. This is self-stabilizing.

If the majority would live in multi residential highrises, there wouldn't be an incentive to artificially create scarcity. Instead, there would be an incentive to drop housing costs even further by increasing supply.

The problem is that nobody wants to invest in a city with a falling housing market. There needs to be some profit sharing between those who build the housing and those who own the real estate in the city center whose value increases when the city grows.
The thing about mob programming is that it tends to lead to GroupThink. Mob programming feels good because you're not alone in facing this problem, which is a very human response. However, feeling good is not a reliable indicator of progress. In fact, I would argue that discomfort is a sign of potential growth. As long as you're not harming yourself or others, discomfort can be a sign telling you you're headed in the right direction.

Either way, it's just a job and as long as you're behaving lawfully, there are no real consequences for you if you make poor decisions as a group. The project may or may not succeed, but at least you had fun, right?
Plenty of people rent single family units.
Incidentally implementing prolog in Common Lisp is, while not trivial, quite natural[1].

[1] https://github.com/norvig/paip-lisp/blob/main/lisp/prolog.li...
Yes, except the broken window fallacy doesn't quite work here for a few reasons:

First, the current technology is already breaking. It needs to be updated and maintained. So why not invest the same money in the newer tech.

Two, the current technology is way better. We will be able to get more bang for our buck with the newer technologies AND they have the benefit of not poisoning our sky.
Yes and no.

I think you're right about the number of people who could effectively do those things. I think you're missing a key skill that a CEO can have that can make them effective if they're lacking in one or two key areas if the company is big enough: delegation.

I'm a generalist and have some leadership skills (nothing like what would be needed to CEO a company of a thousand employees, but I could do a decent job with a dozen or two), and one of the first things I do in team situations is figure out who in the group is good at things I am weakest in and whether or not I can trust their judgement/work ethic/etc. For example, if I'm working on/helping to manage a tech project, it's probably not a good use of my time to do get into the technical weeds even though I can do so, because that is something that a good, trustworthy CTO can do for me, and it's easier to find someone with technical acumen whose judgement I trust than to find someone with communication acumen whose judgment I trust.

Team and bench-building is a key component to managing big companies well, particularly given part of reducing risk is reducing single points of failure, including making the company overly reliant on one person to function.

This is also why somebody's network/reputation is a big deal - it signals what 'bench' they might have available if you choose them as a leader.

So while it's very true few people can solo lead, there are a decent amount of people with ~80% of the skills needed and a network that can cover the 20%, so it's not completely dire.
The US is a very big place, with lots of land that isn't in high demand. What's the vacancy rate in NYC or similar?
Doctors voluntarily take an oath to that effect. No government needed. Perhaps we need a, “Hestian” oath for home builders.
Wind has higher average output in winter and at night, but even in winter and at night, it has lulls which last for many days. Look at the wind and solar generation numbers for Germany for a month last winter:

https://www.energy-charts.info/charts/power/chart.htm?l=en&c...

If you connect wind production across regions the lulls can be averaged out, but I want to know how reliable that is and what distances are required.
The differences between Go and Rust error handling is that Go doesn’t force you to handle its errors. Nothing bad happens if you just forget or don’t handle the error.

In Rust if you just unwrap it’s going to panic and in exception based languages it’s going to propagate until someone handles the error.

I personally don’t think Go error handling is going to go down in history as good.
Because this one spreads more though sexual contact. It's already been confirmed this is not the same variant that made it out of Africa before.
Yes, banks do this. If you are an expert in analyzing financial fraud, this skill is useful to both the FBI and banks.
> Airbnb is also a deeply harmful influence on housing prices.

It's simply unimaginable what it's done in cities across Europe too. I lived in a few places like Barcelona, Dublin and Berlin, and it's pretty much destroyed any rental opportunities for young people and artists. I'm all for regulation, including taxing them to make longer term rentals more profitable for owners.
> You do not have a basic human right to the labor of the people who build and maintain these houses.

Correct! However, a significant portion of housing costs is not due to the stuff that's built on them -- something produced by labor -- but by the LAND that lies underneath it. Nobody built the land, it was already there. Someone just acquired it one day, and as it exchanges hands the prices have been progressively bid up, sucking money out of the productive economy and redirecting it towards those that own land.

Land is a really big deal, and we need to stop conflating land with capital if we want to fix the problems with the housing market:

http://gameofrent.com/content/is-land-a-big-deal
This is a weird definition of 'fixed infrastructure' that includes rails, but not roads, gas stations etc.?

There's definately shades of gray, but any time you get high density or high throughput you're going to want infrastructure that leans more towards the "fixed" end of things. But with battery vehicles (from skateboards up) and automonous driving coming in, it'll make less sense in the middle areas.
Food and shelter are basic human needs, but food is one of the oldest commodities, and the financialisation of food has real advantages in ensuring an adequate supply of food, stable prices, etc. There's extensive empircal and theoretcial evidence here.

There are issues with housing markets in many areas of many countries. There may also be issues with the trend you've identified. But if so, you need to identify a much better argument, because I think you've got it exactly backwards - that is, the real problem with housing is that it's not a commodity. (Specifically, housing is not fungible, and there is no liquid market in housing. Houses are not like bushels of wheat!)

> Aren't startups like this just adding oil to the fire which is the real estate market?

I mean....are they? Offhand, the problem appears to be a limited supply, and some of the companies buying houses (like BlackRock) have been very, very clear about this - they analyse markets to find places where housing is in short supply, and buy houses there, because they don't think market forces will be able to impact prices.

In a normal market, money flowing in to a commodoity that's in short supply would quickly lead to an increase in capacity, but it doesn't here. That's a problem!

...but it doesn't seem like one created by BlackRock, nor is it being exacerbated by them. It's not clear they're making things worse. But sure, let's sock it to them and drive the price of housing down. :)

> I do not understand how will someone expect for future generations to achieve their own personal freedom and living inside their own four walls.

Also something to consider - there's no shortage of housing. There's a shortage of housing where people want to live. We could change one side of the equation (build more hosuing) or we could change the other (live other places).

It's very easy to see how we can expect future generations to have shelter; the world is full of empty land and the materials needed to create shelter; given modern technology, shelter is technically cheaper to provide that at any time in history. It just happens to be illegal to build that shelter in the places people want it.

Can we expect future generations to be able to live in the tiny, tiny scraps of land we've decided are incredibly desirable to live in (SF, NYC, London...)? Maybe not.
Even if the vacancy rate is 10%, that hardly seems likely to cause a "crash."
> No privileges, no special installation

It still has way, way more privileges than a webapp. And arguably, if you have all your valuable information in a single user account, it has the crown jewels already, no admin needed.
Sorry you must suffer like this.

Bathes in Rust's warming glowing warming glow...
It may actually be a negative sign for security if the maintainers of the Great Firewall regard an application as safe.
Ah, that's a separate discussion. As it stands, financially responsible persons' savings were devalued, and whether or not you agree such a heavy hammer was justified, simply from a game theoretic standpoint, per the current thread of discussion, you might expect similar policies in the future to also affect the value of your 401(k) savings and might reconsider whether locking up the prime earnings of your labor in a stagnant account until you are 65 years of age is an optimal strategy for retirement when hedging against ever-increasing prices of everyday necessities. That's just being rational.
One of these days I'm gonna make something this cool I can show HN.
I am on arch for over 10 years and I had issues with audio. They could hear me, but I couldn't here them. Not on speakers, not on headphones.

We even tried X11, just to make sure... No idea why I mentioned wayland, I blame it on the temperature, sorry!
>but everyone who owns property would be against it because they don't want to see their net-worth drop.

They would be against it because it would mean they can never move, since they are now underwater on their mortgages.

Most people who only own one property don’t care about its impact on their net worth unless they are planning on downsizing, since they can’t just liquidate the house to purchase other things as they can with other assets.
I feel bad for his family — he abandoned them, too.
The big problem with energy storage technology is figuring out which of the many different options will win the competition.
Why must maintainers be “full stack”?
I was replying more to the original claim that people should support this because it creates jobs. In general I support green energy anyway.
>Agree with him, VSCode is THE IDE.

Lol, he said Visual Studio is THE IDE, not VSCode. Compared with VS, VSCode is a toy.
It could. Right now, they've got about the same amount of support, so it wouldn't even matter much. (Though the caniuse stat is kind of misleading, since you wouldn't see the scrollbar on mobile anyways, and a large part of the non-support is coming from Safari on iOs)
I actually only have cast iron and inox steel cookware. I inherited some Teflon (“non-stick”) ones that I don’t see the use for, and will dispose of after learning it’s toxic. I can cook eggs and omelette just fine without those.

https://amp.dw.com/en/pfas-forever-toxins-teflon/a-57756695
I wish there was a CLI editor with a zellij-like UI. I'm a nano guy, but I think the menu bar could be made much richer.

Discoverability is #1 on my list of any new app. I don't want to spend weeks learning commands or referring to the manual to use functionality that I know is there. Over time, recurring patterns I'll memorize the shortcuts for. The rarer stuff I can go through the menu, explore my options and get tentative result using my own data.
The illusion of group productivity: A reduction of failures explanation
Sad to see small browsers go. They are very convenient for a quick read of simple HTML websites, as they start instantly and are very fast, as they usually do not support JavaScript. Good that NetSurf seems to be chugging along with minor updates in git, albeit there were no release for two years...
That sounded surprisingly high so I looked it up. Rental vacancy was 5.6% and homeowner vacancy was 0.8% in 2022Q2. Vacancy hasn’t been near 10% in about a decade.

How much rental vacancy is needed for there to be enough space for people to move around? 3-5%? Too low and you have gridlock.

https://www.census.gov/housing/hvs/files/currenthvspress.pdf
This assumes that the speculators are correct. That is not a good assumption to make.
It’s property value + land value. Even if I make 0 improvements to my property my tax seems to go up every year. It’s because the property value has gone up even if the improvements haven’t.
Easy.

Stop using javascript.

Pick any language you like, and wasm.
If their lawyer is an employee of them, no extra cost.