skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the article, the primary reason landlords are holding inventory back is because some of the predatory practices they were incentivized to use to deregulate their apartments got revoked and they are hoping court cases work in their favor.

It’s also important to remember that rent stabilization is not rent control - landlords are free to raise the rent by an amount set annually by a board of landlord and tenant representatives. As a practical matter, that means that the rent increases track closely to inflation and consumer prices.

What it protects isn’t rising rent, it protects tenants from landlords jacking up the rent to kick them out, and then lowering it back again to get tenants of a different age or ethnicity, or saddling tenants with the risk that if they advocate for their rights as tenants that their lease may not be renewed next year.

It’s easy to say “price controls don’t work” while ignoring that the landlord / tenant relationship is so skewed from a power dynamic that there needs to be some sort of protection from abuse.
Building more houses is just like building roads. It increases demand for that housing. Higher population means more demand, which outstrips how fast you can build, which leads to higher prices.

There's your "somehow". Being intentionally obtuse just makes you look stupid at best.
Easy solution. Rent the units or the city takes them.
A woman I know in her early thirties experienced severe, sudden hair loss in the two weeks she had covid (the original strain). She'd never had hair loss before. It did grow back but it scared her half to death. She's had covid twice now, but not long covid.
Very neat. I bought a cheap Bt848 card in '99. I used my BeOS machine to watch TV in my first college dorm. Thanks for all of the memories!
The “everything is perfect” crowd isn’t organizing this way.
1. Social Security

This may not be a functioning program in the next 30-50 years, or will have extended the minimum ages for payout that they won't be viable.

2,3,4.

All examples of the replacements for traditional Pension programs, which are what we should have. Putting the onus to not only save hard, but to invest wisely in the time horizons necessary for something like retirement in the market is, in my opinion, not workable and combined with the complete lack of education around money management in public schools makes it, again imho, just down right cruel.

I'd like to see the return of heavily regulated pension programs and unions for many, if not most professions.
I've heard it for 40 years now about long term mj use, and simply googled it for a link.

If you want to take the risk, feel free. I voted for mj legalization, even though I don't use it myself.
Taking a bath on a home sale isn't the only solution. Make it easier for people to build houses. The majority of old houses were built by the first owner. They bought land and built a house the way they wanted not following thousands of regulations dictating how a home must be built. If you build a shitty house, well, good luck selling it. If it falls down thats your own damn fault. All of the ways we have learned over time that houses can be built better should just be shared knowledge and recommendations for somebody wanting to build a house. Every requirement a builder must follow means it costs more to build and less people are capable of following all the rules. Where I live if you build something that doesn't follow code you get fined for every infraction. That's a disincentive for people to build.

Remove costly regulations and you get more houses.
My understanding is that socialized healthcare isn't cheaper because it's subsidized, it's cheaper because it has a monopsony buying power when negotiating.

And to a lesser extent, I bet it can be marginally cheaper because of a reduction in redundant administration costs across multiple providers. But that, and all other of those facets are dwarfed by the single payer negotiating.
Price controls are useful if you want to ensure a supply or demand surplus, not if you're interested in absolute efficiency.

Artificially lowering prices is a good way to lower supply of housing, if that's what you're going for. Since people generally aren't interesting in lowering supply of housing and making the market less efficient, it's not a good approach.

The other thing rent control specifically does is give you are larger incentive to live where you've already been living, so if everybody did it, everybody would figure out it was irrational to ever move from the first home they ever rented. This doesn't actually stop "gentrification", it merely slows it, by simply making it hard to move to a new home in general. It also makes the existing residents more wealthy than newcomers, and the existing residents don't consider themselves the "Gentry" no matter how valuable the NY real estate they sit on is.

I feel there is a huge mismatch between what rent control actually does and what people are trying to accomplish by implementing it.
> And so we [SpaceX] have to focus completely on staying out of bankruptcy. We cannot afford any distractions.”

Looks like Elon got them to build it for free.
I don’t think this is as much of a slam dunk as you think it is: keeping properties empty is a timeless tradition among NY realtors, and applies equally to commercial and uncontrolled residential properties as well. You just don’t hear about it because they aren’t tracked.

Real estate, as far as markets go, is exceptionally prone to profiteering via reduced supply. It’s unlikely that these 60k units would be unprofitable for their owners; the owners have simply determined that they’re not profitable enough.
It does hold, just remove healthcare regulation and remove all patents altogether.
If we build more housing, existing land owners are best positioned to buy more housing.

I've certainly been told by a corporate landlord "we checked nearby rentals, and decided that we should match their rent increases" so I guess A is the proper option?

The article says B is also true, and the evil landlords are aiming to coerce policy change by making people homeless
How dare some people put up the money long-term to provide housing on a short-term basis to others who need it; what assholes!
There is a claim that getting caught is bad for the attacker, but it seems like creating a few fake accounts that get caught probably would help increase the level of distrust quite a bit.
I'll point out that transistors were invented in 1947 and the computer industry made the switch from vacuum tubes to transistors around 1958. Integrated circuits were invented in 1958 and the computer industry switched to them around 1965. My point is that historically the computer industry has been able to switch to a completely new technology a decade after it's invented. HP's memristors have been around for 15 years and haven't made much impact.
Has it been observed in housing?
Everything you stated is based on emotional stances and conclusions. Medicine doesn't work that way. This was a pretty good study with a very large sample size.

The cohort included 486 149 people with confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection who were not admitted to hospital, matched with a control group of 1.9 million people with no recorded evidence of coronavirus infection.
> Clearly they need a LVT or tax on empty living space to make them play ball.

Yeah we need to send Vinny and Sal over there to get those assholes to play ball. Whose city do they think this is! /s

The mafia and the government operate on the same concepts. Coercion and violence to take your property.
In the past, civilisation has been held together by the threat of violence on the landed classes. Now that is essentially no longer possible, corruption and inequality have grown unchecked.

It is a solution - "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
This is exactly right. The only way to lower housing prices is to start demolishing housing. The more apartments we convert to office space, the lower prices will go.
Expropriation, it always works /sarcasm
> The guy had a vision that seems unparalleled.

Yet, he asked a group of software developers to paint a data center rack mount because "it wasn't acceptable" and made people work until 3am (even though numerous studies state that this doesn't make people more productive). One can call him "visionary" all they want, but the work environment he created doesn't sound exactly utopian. Do the ends really justify the means?
Having run a forum hosting service back then, I can tell you that these things were applied.

The more interesting post (considering it talks about both sides) would include the counter-measures that moderators and platform providers do. Although, truth be told, obscurity of these things was (and is) very effective on most.
> This is ISPs hijacking DNS for their customers, which DNSSEC doesn't prevent

It does if you run a local caching resolver with DNSSEC validation which is what I mentioned in the post you replied to.

This caching resolver works as your system resolver, i.e., it sits on your machine and acts as an intermediary between your local apps and the upstream ISP DNS servers to cache responses and also rejects any spoofed DNS response from the upstream ISP as long as the domain has DNSSEC enabled.

You are only considering DNSSEC from the point of view of a stub resolver, which nowadays is more appropriate for a microcontroller-based system rather than a modern system (including things like smartphones, home routers and cheap Raspberry Pi-like machines).

Note that many modern Linux systems and home routers already have caching resolvers, it's just that most of them are not DNSSEC-validating (by default, at least).
I heard many years ago that Irvine has/had the highest police to citizen ratio in the US. Not sure how true was/is though.
I remember the last time this came up and vacancy rate was mostly a combination of units that were being given away free to family/friends, normal cyclical turnover, and renovation projects. We had crazy low interest rates - it would make sense to see a lot of ownership shuffle.

But it's kind of ironic to me that one of the known negative externalities of rent-stabilization is a loss of inventory. I'm not so sure how shocked I should be to see ... a loss of inventory.
I think there is a slight tension here between what you can ethically test and what an attacker is likely to do. I've worked for a company where armed forces stormed one of the offices and made the workers perform certain actions at gunpoint. A good security audit should be able to find out which people have unfettered access to systems, and should be able to report on how to prevent that access being abused.

But, as the post says, you can't really simulate blackmailing a staff member into committing a crime.

I'm reminded of this bizarre story about an "active shooter drill" which ended up traumatising staff and getting the "trainer" arrested

https://omaha.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/gunman-in-omah...
It's my honestly held belief that private landlords (both private individuals and even more so corporate) are systemically pushed to provide the least amount of maintenance, repair, and amenities for the most amount of money. Having a market based system for a necessity, especially when the market is allowed to get as incredibly distorted as it has (in the US and Western Europe), is a moral travesty.

I have just given up trying to be nice about this, despite HN's capitalist slant
Taking land from landowners, and giving it out to whoever wants it has also worked to reduce housing costs -- you can see it in action by how the US took land from the natives to dole out
There are many modern, developed, market economy countries where the government enacts controls to ensure access to affordable housing. The US is somewhat of an outlier in that regard.
Ha ha, and Harper is a fucking rock star. He's a quiet guy but I recall chatting with him once about music — I thought it was awesome that he was into Elliott Smith.
Prices going down is a prerequisite for induced demand, so no.
Go is also cited in the article but first appeared in 2009.
If you start with an initial (blank) canvas, each layer blending can be thought of as transforming that canvas into new state, making this a monad, and blending an unitary operation within that monad
> The Great Forgetting, yet again.

> Few things have been proven as resoundingly as "price controls don't work", or more accurately "are very net negative".

I don't see how this follows. NYC has had rent stabilization for over 50 years, and the story here is: "the number of rent-stabilized homes reported vacant on annual apartment registrations rose to over 61,000 in 2021 — nearly doubling from less than 34,000 in just a year as the city emerged from COVID lockdown."

In other words, a very recent problem.

If price controls don't work, then wouldn't they have failed in the year 1971 rather than the year 2021?
I don't understand this. Doesn't Walmart just need to support contactless payments?

As an example, I used Apple Pay over in Australia before it was launched over there. Since almost every credit card already supported contactless, and the vast majority of terminals supported contactless, it just worked.

Walmart seem to simply be avoiding contactless altogether.
I learned that one with the clauses reversed, which I incorporated into a haiku format:

I’m a lasagna

hog, go hang a salami.

This sentence no verb.

Edited: to add superfluous line breaks not that they could have been anywhere else.
I mean what can be more obvious that artificial price controls will limit supply? This is like 9th grade Economics.

It’s not an “opinion” the law is bad. It is a well understood part of capitalism.
Looks like not everyone knows his is all a lie, in reality $150m was a settlement in a lawsuit going after Microsoft, Intel and third party contractor. Microsoft got caught conspiring with Intel, paying third party contractor to steal QuickTime code https://www.theregister.com/1998/10/29/microsoft_paid_apple_...

>David Boies, attorney for the DoJ, noted that John Warden, for Microsoft, had omitted to quote part of a handwritten note by Fred Anderson, Apple's CFO, in which Anderson wrote that "the [QuickTime] patent dispute was resolved with cross-licence and significant payment to Apple." The payment was $150 million.

>It a great business lesson.

that stealing is bad?
Twenty-Five Rules of Disinformation = you can see this at work with NAFO
Is it not just a matter of supporting contactless NFC payment, such as most physical cards these days?
Houses do come as flat pack. You just fail to realize what a miracle the 2x4 is, and all the other standard parts. Walls could come as a unit, but that makes shipping harder and since people (for good reason) don't like identical houses there isn't even any savings possible doing it in a factory.
This is the real answer.

You don't have a real market unless there is a bit of slack.
Have been using Snapdrop (https://snapdrop.net), but product demo on the homepage of ubidrop looks compelling.
If you tell the optimal algorithm to only think 3 moves ahead, it's too easy, and if you let it think 4 ahead it becomes very difficult (but not quite impossible).
It is absolutely a rent control and price control policy. You are literally preventing rents from rising.

Landlords abusing tenants is totally irrelevant because rent control doesn't address that problem at all, it just shifts that abuse to new tenants for the benefit of long term residents, since the entire policy is a wealth transfer to people who never move from where they live.
At least in the NYC subreddit, we have a consistent group of a few dozen people who blame Alvin Bragg for every single thing that happens in the city. Never mind the fact that he’s only the Manhattan DA; you’ll see the same handles blame him for random crimes that happen in other boroughs.
On at least one occasion an employee posted on an internal discussion board that they were offended and quit out of what they considered basic defense of dignity and protocol. In terms of the whole group being gone in a week? Sure, at least one of those people were probably fired. I was really busy at this time so this is a highly subjective recollection based on my point of view and my interactions with others in person and on the highly active employee message boards.
I prefer the subscription model, as long as the total expected cost is not too far out of line for the service. $5/mo for every tiny utility is too much.

However, before the rise of subscriptions developers still needed income. What often happened were releases with big changes (sometimes completely changing the ui) for the sake of justifying an upgrade cost. Even worse, incompatibility between versions to force an upgrade.

Perpetual license of an older version included with the subscription does seem like a good middle ground here.
Also, how so ever it is calculated by the market, is not that the value of the company right now and back then? I mean if Microsoft were some commodity, that’s what you would need to buy it outright.
They dont need to organize. The government hides the crime statistics and the politicians make many crimes legal.
What determines the legal rent? There's gotta be something about rent stabilization which causes landlords to leave apartments vacant.
I doubt it. Safari has 3rd party extensions on iOS and WebKit has all of the important web platform features… in fact, it has pulled ahead of Chrome.

What Apple is avoiding is all of the security issues attempting to support multiple web engines.
Yes, government owned and managed housing. Across the more-left leaning parts of Europe this is not controversial at all. It's mostly a US/UK/Canada thing that "government housing" = "scary and full of drugs" because these governments only ever adopted policies for the very bottom of society, and then left these projects to rot over time.
> and the political shenanigans began

And a lot of coat-tail riding. Kind of the beginning of the end of the good times as an engineer (as far as I was concerned).
Is Ukraine forcing the Crimeans to rewrite their laws not bad? And is local leader not accurate?

I can see taking the word “slyly” in umbrage, but the rest are accurate accounting unless you have some extra information you’d like to share
I've done a little (very little) on Stump/contrib and it is on my list to look into. But I know nothing of Wayland (internals especially) and would prefer something that is at least a little usable to hack on while using it. I don't think this is far along, based on the readme at least. I'm also worried if I start down this path I won't (want to) do anything else at my computer besides work on that, so much do I love Lisp-y things :)

Have you? (I've taken your comment in good faith and ask you the same in return)
And it was released in 2002.
i made the opposite joke when Project M came out
Unexpected Antitumorigenic Effect of Fenbendazole When Combined with Vitamins
In a limited way I had a similar experience emailing Chomsky about some minor quote attribution and similarly trivial things, there are many things we disagree on (although much we do, etc.) but his intelligence and breath was clear.
It's the backbone of American society too, for land and housing.

The colonists certainly didn't pay the natives for their land, and the revolutionaries sure didn't pay Britain to take ownership

When land isn't being used effectively, it's moved to another owner with limited to no compensation
I like this explanation, but I might say abstractions are mutually translatable in a society. People having similar ideas is convenient but not necessary. I could imagine a society where everyone thought differently but used AI as a universal translator to make their ideas and personalities compatible.

Maybe you wouldn’t consider it a real society if they depended on machine translation, but we’re partially there already. It would still be a collection of minds with their own identities and intentions coordinating through an abstraction.
Believers in Everett may not end up being right. But believers in Copenhagen aren't more right than believers in Everett. In fact, they "aren't even wrong" either, because they refuse to even engage with the question. So I think it's like the situation with democracy. You have to go with Everett until you find something better, providing you want to be scientific at all.
I never understood this. Don't property rights operate on a similar principle? Lets say you own a home, live in it for many years, go on vacation for a week, come back and other people are living in it. Lets also say you live in libertarianstan and there is no state. What do you do? If you try to remove them from some place you believe to be rightfully yours you are using coercion and violence to remove them. Unless you are a pacifist you believe in the use of violence and coercion for some purposes. So saying that a state is illegitimate because it uses such tactics seems silly.
Gravity is very cool. Take some time to experiment with all the different visualization combinations.

https://sidequestvr.com/app/6172/gravity
I’ll talk about one: assume that there are a number of agitators, but they are still a small minority inside a forum. What we would do if things were getting out of hand, is make the forum require a login.

At this point, we know who is looking at the forum, and therefore we could present different views of content to different people for the same forum. (Rarely we would do this with a supercookie).

We went ahead and grouped all the agitators together, so that they would be able to communicate with each other, and not think that their posts were deleted. However, the main forum members would never see these messages or replies by these people, and the order of the messages would reflect that. Much better than sliding. But if they gained access under a different name, they would realize. This obscurity of the practice was important.

Nothing quiets an agitator more than silence from that they are trying to agitate.
I bought my apartment a decade ago. I needed to move to another area so I rented it out.

I regularly see these takes hn and I don't get what's so assholeish about my situation. I know that my tenant is on a temporary visa. Are we arguing that ethically he should have bought my property?
Well, I've definitely seen a lot of people claim (generally not word-for-word) that using a pointlessly-overlong encoding of newline that exists to cater to the design deficiencies of hardware from the nineteen-sixties is not bullshit, so... maybe? But only for rather mushy values of "need".
It is, for the most part. The replication crisis supports that statement. [1] Quite a few results you may have read about in "Thinking: Fast and Slow" probably won't replicate. [2]

There are at least two factors at play: what they are studying is quite complex, and people who tend to study it aren't the smartest. Take two PhD students, one in the psychology department, and one in physics. Make them switch roles. Who do you think is going to be in more trouble? [3]

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis

[2]: https://replicationindex.com/category/thinking-fast-and-slow...

[3]: http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html
We all know these children have no future
If it's that easy everyone would do it - just hire some people and write some tweets. There are 10's/100's of billions laying around on the floor for people who can create large profitable companies.

And if there is billions of easy money to be made in carbon credits everyone would be doing that too.

It's crazy difficult to do what he's done. That's why there are so few companies worth so much money.
It’s disappointing when things are accidentally banned - pope barns and post frame are similar in some aspects but entirely different in others.

Regulations should define the desired goals, not how they’re reached.