skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If I have a friend that owns a rental property, and I tell her: "you're only charging $1k for rent? you could get $2k easily". Am I helping her exploit her tenant? Now what if she owns 10 rentals? 1,000? 10,000?

> ...

> Now if there is actual price fixing or collusion going on, that's another matter.

If your friend owns 10,000 rentals and sets prices unilaterally, thats blatantly anti-consumer if not monopolistic. Shelter is a basic need and people will pay as much as they can to keep a roof over their heads, until they reach the breaking point.

If you have several friends that control a sizable amount of the housing supply in an area and they agree to charge a certain amount and artificially limit the availabile supply, that seems like price fixing to me. Doesn't matter if you have three friends or three hundred friends.

) When competitors collude, prices are inflated and the customer is cheated.

https://www.justice.gov/atr/file/810261/download#:~:text=Whe....

In either case, the prices are inflated and people are being cheated.
>one major factor is that the one child policy was very successful and lead to a drastic hollowing out of their younger workforce and consumer base

IMO just the opposite. One child policy was also "very successful" in concentrating wealth and is largely responsible for why PRC is spitting out 11M STEM graduates a year, around all OECD combined. There will be generation wealth transfers once old folks start dying (many in tier1/2 own homes + have enough savings) and analysts are predicting increasing consumption when multiple inheritances get concentrated in the one-child gen households.

> improbable

11M STEM grads per year = PRC has the LARGEST demographic divident of SKILLED LABOUR in human history trying to capture high tech supply chains by itself. They just started moving up Academic + S+T + R&D over last few years, will take another 5-10 years to filter way through industry. The chances are not only good PRC will succeed but it's likely PRC will eclipse west in medium term. As for internal market share, the point of moving up value chain is to produce wealthier consumers. Shedding 600M lower income who buys $1000 rmb phones while gaining 60M upper income who buys 10000rmb will increase the value of the consumer base. Meanwhile we're still looking at PRC with ~700M until 2100s, which is still a stupid large market to serve. It's the kind of scale that enables PRC to drive down costs in any industry state decides to focus on.

> thwart its progress.

Once PRC starts reaching parity, it will start to thwart back. Not only will western high tech lose 1/3 of PRC revenue, they'll start losing market share from emerging economies, meanwhile PRC could turn on that industrial policy valve to ensure western high-tech become permenantly loss making unless supported by huge industrial policy.
That’s wild! Where I live In Australia, I have access to a huge local farmers market community. Nothing wrong with the raw milk I can buy. Actually I have pretty bad intolerance to dairy from the super market or heavy processed dairy. But I can say the goods at my local dairy farmer.

I buy almost nothing from the shops.
I'm more worried that this is unsurprising to me now rather than it being an issue. The sheer amount of fragmentation, poor engineering, poor commercial decisions and quality issues that surround the Microsoft ecosystem is quite frankly at this point inexcusable.

They really need to get themselves together on the Windows front. Actually all fronts. Even Office is a fucking shit show these days and that was the last bastion of common sense on the platform.

As a former MS dev dating all the way back to the early 1990s, I don't own or work with their platforms as of 2021. My pain threshold isn't high enough. I implore the shareholders to kick the entire board out and install some people with good intentions and clue sticks.

Until then I will be doing my absolute best to steer everyone I know away from the pain.
Right...we turn up here every few months. Always grateful for the PR, of course :)
Same here. When I see these ads (x speakers, Dolby whatever for cars) I always think that's for people without a decent home. I use cars to drive and listen to hifi at home ...
He has the initiative, just needs to get better at taking credit for others' accomplishments and he could be famous.
Hey,

Not targeted at the API crowd really no, more client side applications, but it seems similar principles have been applied in various places / frameworks as spoken about in other comments here.

> Maybe this isn’t targeted for the API crowd, but anybody who has spent even a few months learning modern client-server programming understands this, and web dev is pretty common these days

Yes, I'm sure your right, but there are a huge number of people who are not web devs who have not been exposed to these fundamental principles and how they may apply in other operating environments :)
That’s a great question that definitely doesn’t deserve downvotes.

It appears the test method did start to change in 2020 [1], but it doesn’t seem that these changes would obviously affect performance. Perhaps many/most have moved to the computer based testing, and there could be some disadvantage there?

1. https://www.winwardacademy.com/act-announces-big-changes-ret...
And yet people love it and want to call it home, and are willing to make sacrifices to do so. I know I have here in the Seattle area. Mind ya own business!
Like, come on. How it's can be back-doored if it can work just fine in offline VM?

Also there are only small percent of specialists who even know this tool exist let alone have know-how to use it. And since it heavily used for mailware reverse engineering it's gonna be laughtable to put any "secret backdoors and exploits" in it.

Might be worth it as hacker contest for finding good hiring candidates, but certainly not at spying attempt. No sane person who able to use this software gonna run it on PC containing some important secrets.
I do not quite get it: seL4 is verified. Is the rest of the code as well? I understand that verification of Rust is just starting to gain traction (compared to C, Java or Ada), or did they make major progress here?
If that ends up being vaporware I’ll eat my hat.
My partner worked as a waitress and had to kick out sales people all the time. It's amazing how many people want to sell stuff to restaurants and show up to "talk to the boss". Of course the boss had work to do and didn't want to see any salespeople...
Who want overclocking the ECC RAM? You choose ECC because of the stability over performance. Why do you want to reduce the stability?
Digging through the link the other commentator posted, Apple complied with 88% of Russia's requests for information and 94% of China's with over 1000 requests from each of those nations...

Versus Google which has avoided giving information to or censoring search results in both countries and as a result is mostly banned.
It would be pretty nice for a group call to have each voice from a different direction...

It would also be nice for a callers voice and other sounds in the call, like for example music or background sound, to be audibly separated - the fact they aren't separated is part of what makes background sounds on voice calls so annoying compared to say background sounds when talking to someone on the street..
As I said, I do agree to "pay this price", because I am literally fed up to pay the other price of dependency on very few grotesquely and absurdely massive compilers and the never ending planned obsolescence of computer language syntax.

And high level script interpreters (python-like/swift-like/lua-like/javascript-like/etc-like) written themselve in assembly would be around.

In the interim, I would still code plain and simple C (probably "stuck" at c89 with benign bits of c99/c11), but using the most idiotic small and simple compilers out there, and never ever use gcc or clang to compile it.

And with risc-v, even ultra-small risc-v SOCs offer at least a 64bits core, so I would stick to 64bits.
I'm surprised that page on Session even exists. The only articles are news outlets (itsfoss, Fossbytes, etc.) that are all about showcasing various small projects. Also some random blog post as reference? Really? Compare with Signal that has been covered on big newspapers and mentioned by big organizations. (Let alone having countries block them.)
"I think it's pretty clear they were looking for just an extra stream of income without really doing much work." - Davis Bell

Aren't we all? But seriously, I don't understand these companies that pay for hours and not results.

Manager: I'll pay you a 100 dollars if you get this done in a day

Engineer later that day: It's done. It took me 4 hours

Manager: Cool, then I'm only going to pay you 50 dollars
This article makes a lot more sense when you know that Singlestore/MemSQL gifted Jack Ellis shares.
Prompt-to-Prompt: Latent Diffusion and Stable Diffusion Implementation
Could also just be driven because of the zoning. For example a 2-bed unit usually requires two parking spots. So its better to build two 1-bed units. Same amount of parking but more rental income because usually 2-bed units aren’t double the rent of a 1-bed units. Its actually not even a choice because whoever sold the land to the developer will have done this calculation already and priced the land accordingly to the maximum financial payout based on the zoning rules.

We are building a smaller apartment building in Dallas and everything from unit numbers, to sizes and shape of building is driven by the zoning rules. And because the land is sold based on those rules you can’t really make it different otherwise the project isn’t viable anymore. Thats why everyone is currently building townhomes and not small apartments buildings in places like Old East Dallas or Bishop Arts District.
I have a personal, non proven, theory about Salmonella. I think it used to be a in a lot of food, but we didn't care most of the time as we were used to it. With things getting cleaner, we got sensitive to it, and it's now a problem because our immune system can't fight it as well and people get very sick out of it.

I remember we used to get eggs from an old lady in my mothers village when I was a kid. Dirty eggs, full of chicken crap, very cheap (5 francs a dozen).

They had a rich and flavorful taste, texture was full and round, and you felt like eating a ray of sunshine at breakfast.

One day friends from the city that ate only supermarket stuff came by, and ate the eggs. They loved it.

And they also got very sick.
BOSE in-car sound systems existed some decades before I was born
I totally agree. Apple makes $300 billion in revenue a year, they are barely keeping their shirt!
I'm also thinking of the interactive room built by Bret Victor, where placing physical pieces of paper into the environment would add software functionality (mostly with input via cameras reading barcodes, and output via projectors).

It might be counterintuitive to use that kind of environment to teach people about traditional keyboard / text-based programming but it might also be fun.
Mushroom advice you get on the internet should only be used by people who also get legal advice on the Internet.
Can you say more? What do you mean by "how to relate to thoughts?" Seems similar to mindfulness, but I am not sure.
>given the supply & demand

Not if the company keeps apartments empty as mentioned in the article. With such an arrangement between landlords you can increase rent not matter the supply&demand.
Go to places where those business owners hang out, and simply get to know them. Try your local Chamber of Commerce for a start. Local CPAs will know a lot of local business owners, and would be another good place to start. One way to get to know a CPA is to hire one to do your business taxes. Then take him to lunch, and talk about your business, and ask for his help.
The romans used these systems extensively as well...
The photo at the bottom appears to be some small ergonomic keyboard (maybe an Atreus?) built into stained wood along with a screen. Perhaps it is a cyberdeck? Curious to know more.
I agree. As an exercise, consider who has more impact over your life: Joseph Biden or Jay Powell?
The source is freely available on Github. Show us where the backdoor is.
Wildfires don't burn all cars if firefighters are in the town putting the fires out. I imagine approaching a car on fire in that situation is pretty dicey.
There's an interesting opposite effect at the university level: undergraduate institutions have been dropping SAT requirements, and then their average score goes up, as students who did or would do relatively badly on it don't submit it.
Almost nothing in “spatial audio” is actually mastered for spatial audio. The fake surround filter absolutely destroys stereo mixes, it’s really despicable how this is being pushed.
Agreed on all counts. Mobile seems also not padded enough. Feels like the text is going to run off the right side, if that makes any sense.
Sure. It's kind of a sensational article, though, without much information in it, so I'm not sure it's a great fit for HN. It's possible that users will continue to flag it for that reason.
It has “lang” in its name!
2011-2015 SF jobs increased 23% and housing increased 3% [0]. During this time, my own rent increased about 10% per year.

California legislature is passing some housing good laws, but the state's attorney is not enforcing them. The non-profit CaRLA is doing the enforcement and having success [1]. Their wins in court have set precedent and unblocked a lot of building permits.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19679440

[1] https://carlaef.org
Mine is my startup : https://atomictessellator.com

When I'm not doing core product, I'm gardening - Importing new datasets, trying out "growing" new neural nets, exploring niche areas not related to the core product, improving the speed of execution, making the interfaces cleaner.

All of these tasks are like gardening in that they are not product critical, but it's a relaxing activity at the end of the day to "potter in the digital garden"
> DO NOT PITCH them.

+1. Try to pitch me and I will use every skill i know to get away. DO NOT PITCH before you are 100% sure you know me.
Chris Delikat presented iirc mostly practical reasons for open sourcing Ghidra, like interoperability with other agencies or non-government groups, at Black Hat 2019: https://youtu.be/kx2xp7IQNSc?t=1838

If the reasons presented were actually decisive can of course be questioned.
I assume this didn't get as high a level of scrutiny because it still fundamentally requires you admin-elevate the running of code from a questionable source. Sure a bad driver might claim it's from Dell, but it wasn't one you downloaded from dell.com so you probably shouldn't be trusting it.

Raymond Chen has largely pointed out the position of Microsoft that if you authorize code to run with elevated permissions and it does things it can do with elevated permissions, it's not really a security flaw.
If you don't want to drink raw milk but would like to enjoy a fresher, more plain milk taste, I strongly recommend whole microfiltred milk.

I don't know if it's available everywhere, but it's a process that is legal in France as an alternative to pasteurization, and it preserves some of the milk original qualities, albeit not all of them.
You might like my Digital Vegan [1] Though I suspect you really don't
need to read it. Maybe suggest or review it for others stuck in the
same trap of "convenience uber alles". Regards.

[1] https://digitalvegan.net
> That the control electronics in that thing seemed like space age for the car industry.

Part of this is that a car contains quite a lot of electronics (there are a lot of things to control!), but cars are super cost sensitive. That pretty much means the car industry is barred from using any remotely modern tech, because they need to be buying CPU's and microprocessors that are in the $1 range, not the $100 range.

Obviously, the other half of it is just that the car industry is now very conservative with designs - today a big innovation is something like having an app, whereas back in the 60's, a big innovation would be adding a jet engine or making a flying car.
I wonder if this (road building) was not one of the Roman's secret sauces to be such a dominant military power. Dispatching a legion from point A to point B is probably a much easier logistical affair if you have really good roads than if you don't.
Satellites in low orbit automatically fall back to earth because of air resistance.

So the debris does not build up over time.

< 500km -> 25 years
800km -> 100-150 years
1200km -> 2000 years
I'm afraid so. :-)
I briefly worked at a company that sold to restaurants. Just to emphasize this: they are hammered by people dialing for dollars. So OP is competing with SDR teams running sequences through outreach.io or similar.

Realistically, OP has to develop a different sales channel. Which is both intimidating and probably more intimidating than it needs to be, because OP (likely?) isn't trying to be a billion dollar business, so doesn't need enormous scale.

One (obvious?) suggestion to investigate is conventions or the local chamber of commerce.
Ah yes. My understanding is more that we have to make gravity fit within QM as opposed to the other way around, but perhaps a unified theory would require changes to QM also?
For which we thank you very much for your help!!
Previous, massive discussion from 6 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12690842
The Philosopher's Toolkit: A Compendium of Philosophical Concepts and Methods by Baggini and Fosl. Mathematical logic, fallacies, etc. written by two famous philosophers. It's a great textbook for undergrads.

Also Statistical Models: Theory and Practice by Freedman. I refer you to Taleb's review: https://www.amazon.com/Statistical-Models-Practice-David-Fre...

"[...] This book is outstanding in the following two aspects: 1) It is of immense clarity, embedding everything in real situations, 2) It uses the real-life situation to critique the statistical model and show you the limit of statistic."

Both cover most of what you need to know to think rigorously using logic and its extension to account for uncertainty, probability.
The product that Chiat/Day wrote the copy and put the images together for wasn't though. That is what I took the GP to mean.
I believe SF would need way more central planning and not less if we want more housing supply. The transportation issue in SF is crazy at the moment and parking is expensive in both time and money.

A city needs to upgrade multiple infrastructural elements simultaneously if it wants to make a successful leap into higher densities. In a democratic culture this means getting enough parties on board to accept a big jump in taxes for huge civic works projects like subways. To make all of this coherent this will take a massive and sustained political momentum which can exercise eminent domain in a very big way.
What's scary/techie about servers communicating? How to change that and make federation fearless?
innuendos without elaborating? Really? Even a 6 year old kid can do that.
Are there any self-proclaimed digital farmers on the loose?
Ironically it works if your internet or the servers are legitimately offline. So just block the domain. But if the servers are having trouble and return an error status code, it revokes your license until it gets an OK status again.
I’m the author actually :) I certainly don’t identify as a PHP developer, but it’s the one language I use relatively often that gets an intense amount of condescending hate in the US.

I also was referring to users of a language more so than communities, although I am certainly part of php channels and entire php slacks, just as I am part of devops slacks or common lisp and rust and react discords. These certainly feel like communities.

The situations I am referring to more broadly is say, the inevitable onslaught of “PHP is hot garbage” comments on anything mentioning PHP. How does that make people write PHP for a living feel? What’s the point? The only thing I can do as a user is to ignore the troll and feel slightly worse for my day. I wager that people writing those comments don’t lead the most fulfilled lives either.

Please, criticize the latest language RFCs and the performance of the interpreter and the use of globals, criticize the proliferation of copy-paste wordpress plugins, how you dislike a certain CSS style. Show how clojure tackles things differently and what there is to be gained. That is very different, it shows respect to other people, and it opens up a dialogue where both sides can gain something.

If anything, I would say that writing such comments is the author defining their identity as “not a PHP user”, since that is about the entire information contained in such a statement.
Off-topic, but you may want to chill on the emojis in the README. That's a marketing smell.
I am incredibly thrilled that this exists and incredibly dissapointed I didnt create it. I love everything about it and am eager to learn more about this project. I have been interested in Nim for quite some time and see this is built with it. It even has a net package in the standard library! I would love to see some benchmark comparisons to other languages like Go and Rust, just for fun.
One practical example: if you have a union of A|B, and you decide to add a third shape C to it, your program won't compile until logic for C is written in all the places where A and B are already being matched against. Refactoring often means changing data models, then letting the errors walk you through the actual implementation details.
Same here! Surely they could release it as open source?
Nothing? Autosave + undo supercedes "save". The "save" operation needed to be explicit on 1980s computers because nursing the floppy controller was a stop the world operation -- a long solved problem.
> The 6.0.2, 5.19.16, 5.15.74, 5.10.148, and 5.4.218 stable kernel updates have all been released. Among other things, these updates contain the fixes for the recently disclosed WiFi vulnerabilities. ~~ LWN.net
I would assume that NSA could totally do targeted surveillance on anyone as even if we assume that NSA couldn't do anything, they clearly have money and contact to buy everything from Israel, which has proven technology to hack phones with 0 click.

For mass surveillance, the problem is not technical but more legal. It is almost plain and clear illegal for any agency to do in US to do it on all data so they have to come up with loopholes for things like metadata or risk the agency.
You can enable bound checking when calling the compiler. I don't remember the actual command line flags, though.
When a wildfire is ripping through town, firefighters don't focus on putting out individual car fires. Any car that gets caught up in the wildfire will burn; any building too. It doesn't matter what kind of car it is, whether it's fueled or charged; it will burn up regardless.

And in the general case of a car fire, the basic approach is the same: they spray the car with water from a distance. Unless there's somebody in the car the firefighters won't get up and personal with a burning car. The pertinent danger is not to the firefighters, but the effect of tying up the attention of firefighters on one car for six hours when there are other matters that demand their attention.
To what end? The risk of it being discovered is high and would only cause scandal.
Yeah "talk to the boss" is how spam worked before email

Thanks but no thanks
Interference is things like preventing new construction. Other things are unreasonable burdens local government tends to put on landlords, which always result in higher rents.

For example, in Seattle, the landlord cannot charge a tenant for damage to the unit if the damage is the result of domestic violence.