skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like exactly what's happening basically everywhere in the USA.

Here in New England, I see a lot more short term rentals (AirBnB, mostly, but in places like Burlington, they're switching to "furnished rentals for travelling nurses" to dodge regulation). But the effect is the same: it's nearly impossible to find a livable starter home beneath 400k. Property taxes, let alone interest rates, let alone deposits, make that out of reach of all but the highest earning renters.

I frequently see claims that we "just need to build more," but when I see hundreds of AirBnBs available in every small town, no rentals, and only the most expensive houses for sale, I start to wonder if we need to address some systemic issue first.

This article says that 1 out of every 3 houses sold between July 2021 and July 2022 were purchased by corporations. Obviously that's going to skew the market (particularly when those corporations have access to cheaper rates and more tax loopholes than individuals). But it's interesting to think that that's just corporate purchases. Around here, it's common to see individuals who own 2-5 "investment properties" personally, rented out on AirBnB for $200+ a night. I suspect not all of those investors show up as corporate purchases, even if some of them use LLCs and such for tax avoidance.

This really pisses me off. I want to buy a home. There are millions of people in the USA living on the street, with cities and states spending hundreds of billions of dollars a year to provide crappy shelters and clean trash of sidewalks. And when I walk around my town at night, I see so many houses with no lights on, that only occasionally host a single car with out-of-state or rental plates. This behaviour cannot be allowed to continue, it's pulling the rug out from under anyone who isn't making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year and rotting out our communities.

But what can we do? Our government seems completely powerless to stop it. Even when cities try to clamp down on investment properties and short term rentals, it takes so long -- and so much NIMBY combat -- to put laws in place, the bad actors just find a loophole to keep things going. To quote 1990s infomercials, there has to be a better way.
People can choose to use Go or they can choose not to use Go. They can choose to disable telemetry if they do use Go. Nothing is forced upon anyone. Rape is. You do not choose to not get raped. The entire premise of rape is that any choice is taken away.

You can write long philosophical stories about it and none of that matters anyway. The accusation is pretty clear, and it should be pretty obvious to everyone that going off on a rant about "this is as dirty as rape!" is unconstructive and inappropriate.

Furthermore there are countless things that happen to everyone every day without their explicit consent and it's far less valued than you think it is. It would be unworkable if we did. Did I consent to air pollution? Noise pollution? Billboards next to the road? The laws of my society? Having a passport of the country where I happened to have been born? You replying to my comment? People emailing me? In practice consent is often either implied and assumed, or doesn't operate at the individual level (e.g. it operates via voting).
Embrace Teams for video conferencing, Extend Teams to day-to-day collaboration, Extinguish Slack. That's not how Embrace-Extend-Extinquish worked traditionally but it still fits.
I'm not sure how that works in Germany, but these fees are "seen". It's not like you're not legally agreeing to them. The trouble is they're only seen when you're, say, at the last screen of checking out. How do they avoid that in Germany?
If taxes are substantially higher - that will get passed down to the renter.

Should renting be a privilege only for the rich?

What happens when you're <30 and moving around for school & to get your first few years of experience?

What happens when your credit is awful and no one will lend you money for a house even if housing is 3% cheaper because there's less investors elbowing you out?
The recent manufactured outrage and conspiracy theories over 15-minute cities is astounding though. From where did it come? Why? I used to live in a 15-minute city. It was awesome! People from all over the world gush at how great it is when they visit. And it's supposed to be a bad thing? Wow.
Nobody tell him what the underlying technology of Teams calling is.
this already happened to some extent. the “blessed” way to develop github is in vscode (from ms), using codespaces (from ms), running on azure (from ms). vim/emacs users can use the terminal (although the codespace and port forwarding, at first, had to be done via vscode exclusively) but your entire toolstack needs to be installed each time you launch a new one.

collaborating with anyone at ms already meant you were using teams to some extent.

(former github developer)
> Why would the command line tool not have the option of an interactive setup?

Typically because (at least if it's already shipped) there are hard expectations about what it will do. E.g. that it shouldn't block waiting for input.

That might screw headless/CI uses. A shipped product probably also doesn't have the luxury of using a /noninteractive or /noTelemetry or requiring an env car or similar to block it, because the CI scripts are already written.

You can have it ask the user (block waiting for input) if its given a NEW command line option. But you can't do it in the absence of that option. That's why, for a shipped product, it's so much easier to make it opt out. The alternative would be to make it opt in via command line switch or env var - which would obviously be so rare that there is no point in doing it at all.
This is one of those third rail topics that gets stuffed under the rug. Even meta discussion of the topics or the flagging abuse itself is verboten.
This would be comical considering Acrobat's infamous swiss cheese security record and long, very publically documented history of serving as entry point into all kinds of breakins from mundane to espionage headlines. (Not necessarily untrue of course, lots of things in the area have this kind of tragicomic air to them)
What if there are no apartments in your area? Or you have a large family but can’t get a mortgage at the moment?

There are plenty of legitimate reasons to rent a home.
Slack has video conferencing. Every redundant tool a company makes workers use makes work less pleasant.

I'd expect at some point they'll push them the rest of the way onto Teams, to reduce that redundancy. Which will be even worse, because Teams is so incredibly bad.
Most of your 5K “expenses” are not really expenses, you’re buying equity in your home, which is worth money. When you die or move, somebody will sell your house and get a bunch of cash

When the renter moves or dies, they’ll cross their fingers they get their security deposit back

Big difference
Making things very expensive is precisely how to motivate people to innovate.
Just an example of a large municipality doing this: In NYC food establishments must accept cash as of November 2020

https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/new-york-city-cash-law-...
It doesn't cost you anything to not collect my PII.
The way detractors are being treated and the unwillingness of the maintainers to accept "no" as an objection indicates that the decision has been made already and what we are seeing now is attempting to socialize it and hammer out the details.

You see this pattern in other "free in license only" software where the important decisions are made without community input.
I'm glad someone brought up BJJ. I'm ~4 years in, and it works exactly this way. The day to day doesn't seem like you're learning that much. In fact, I don't even feel like I know that much after 4 years. But, when I roll with high belts now many have to really work to get me. And like you said, if I go against someone who has never grappled before, I can gently fold them up without breathing hard.
The GitHub founders are long gone from the company. Most were gone before the MS acquisition even happened.
The immediate aftermath of a catastrophic failure of the regulatory state seems like an odd moment to take smug shots at opponents of the regulatory state.
After discovering this page, I changed Firefox's "network.http.referer.XOriginPolicy" config flag from 0 (always send referrer) to 1 (only send referrer when both URLs are on the same domain).
The related references don't appear to be real.
OK.

She detailed her point with the Higgs boson. There was an internal inconsistency and the Standard Model needed the Higgs boson.

There may be different point of views: your particle is random but mine is a great idea and cleans up the theory.

But I actually thought when listening to her talk: isn't it fine thinking about and looking for particles in the next energy range.

(we spend money for so many stupid things, 50 * 10^9 Euros (next accelerator) is not so much money related to 500 million people)
Same way Gitlab and countless other services are built on top of Git, which is definitely not owned by MS :)
Not sure, I dont work at Microsoft, but if my company did 70% of what slack does, sometimes significantly better (IAM). I would too, want my employees to use my software, and with that raise problems and make it better.

I understand the frustration of some people, but this is by no means something oppresive at all. A lot of companies use "X" office suite, and use zoom for calls , etc. It's okay for everything to not be centralized, always.
Most jurisdictions already do this don’t they?
Three words:

Land. Value. Tax.
Then we just need DIY testing kits for unintended byproducts
Ultimately some people do need a place to rent to live. I saw someone else suggest that rentals are only allowed in apartments, maybe that solves this, but rentals are a vital part of the housing equation.
Well I haven't been on reddit so I can't say what's being said there, but I would say that the reason people are getting so upset over this is because we don't believe anything meaningful will happen to punish those responsible or prevent it from happening again. Norfolk Southern spent $10b on stock buybacks last year, and so far they have only given $25k to the local red cross and are trying to buy people off with $1k to sign an NDA. It's a cover up.

Frankly I wouldn't care if the tankers were filled with water - they fucked up and should be punished in a way that hurts them.
This is one of the things that is weird when people insist on free bank accounts at their banks.

Yes sure as a secondary bank account with little usage, sure, but as your primary account? How do you expect your bank to stay around if they don't make money from the basic product they offer? They will try to upsell you, charge hidden fees and reduce interest rates, make risky loans and investments and all sorts of things that aren't aligned with your interests.
Small bugs overall, some of which the team already addressed. One Clojure specific that is outstanding is that dynamic variables are not rebound between electric and Clojure functions. Also, the compiler currently does not optimize the callstack so the whole app stream-renders in and out which has a cascading effect. None of these are deal breakers for me, they're being worked on and I'm glad the community can now help ship fixes and improvements.
Hence the second paragraph in the comment you're replying to. There's no question that this could be implemented legally but the ethical considerations are legitimate and warrant extensive discussion for an open source community. I think that the Go proposal has been derailed by a lot of hot takes based on scenarios far in excess of what's actually described, but I also think it's quite likely that many languages' core developers would look at that and agree that they don't want that information badly enough to spend time trying to negotiate those hazards.
And Slack isn't great compared to Zulip, but we make do.
I had a similar experience where I was able to pick up most of it just by tinkering around with it, but there were a few places where I expected it to behave in a certain way, but ended up tripping over a few places where the type system is a little too weak, or the syntax for some of the advanced types are too unique to guess how it works without some studying. I made a blanket statement about the curve too, since I feel like the community as a whole is still adopting it. Library authors adopted it early, but the average front-end dev (judging from podcast topics and documentation I see) seems to be really getting serious about learning it in depth. YMMV.
Alternate monetization strategies are: selling the page when it's big enough, paid posts, posting your own merch.

There is a big unbalance, small creators have zero protection, while large right holders can steal your revenue with zero verification.

The internet was supposed to decentralize content creation, but it seems we are converging to the TV model again.
Vinyl chloride is a known human carcinogen that causes a rare cancer of the liver[0].

Livestock is dying and getting sick in the area[1], including fish in rivers[2].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinyl_chloride

[1] https://nypost.com/2023/02/10/animals-sick-dying-near-east-p...

[2] https://www.wkbn.com/news/local-news/east-palestine-train-de...
> How do they avoid that in Germany?

By requiring any listed price to be inclusive of fees. Australia does the same.

No "$100/night" in the search results if the checkout adds a $20/night resort fee.
I think the implication is that you do noise abatement on the AC units (i.e. earthen berms, better site planning, etc.).
You can still pin an extension to the toolbar and if it's already pinned Firefox will honor your setting in Fx 109+. IIRC, we can also in the extension manifest.json force the addon to show in the toolbar by default.
If we did that, people might realise they've been getting absolutely shafted since the 70s.
Not sign it.
>> I bought a 4br house last year. My monthly costs are $5k. Renting a comparable home is about $3k/mo.

1. Your rents will not be $3k/mo in 10yrs and almost definitely wont be in 20yrs. Your mortgage, assuming fixed rate, will be locked for 30yrs. After that, you'll still have property taxes, but no mortgage at all.

2. You'll be forced to save each month. Post interest, you are "building equity" though that is highly variable in the short term.

3. You'll get tax benefits on the mortgage payment that you do not get for rents

4. You'll get tax benefits on your property taxes (tenuous given SALT changes) that you would not get on renting

5. You're forced to form bonds locally since it isnt easy to move as a homeowner (txn costs eat thru a lot of $). You'll invest in your community, relationships, schools, Parent Teacher Organization, etc.

None of this is universal of course. If you own a house with huge issues that becomes a money pit, the equation turns against you.
Lightning is outdated and obsolete. Maximum transfer speed is not up to date.

MB/s |
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53 Lightning
53 USB 2.0

640 USB 3.0
1200 USB 3.0 Gen 2
1200 Thunderbolt

The physical connector was clearly the best 10 years ago, but in today's standards it's very similar to USB-C.

Apple uses Lighting to force users to wireless.
I'd be happy if they got rid of cleaning fee and chore requirement from AirBnB.
The problem is that what GitHub does is relatively reproducible (Gitlab, gitea, bitbucket? others do it) but the value GitHub provides is free hosting for so much content.

Anyone can make an image hosting site, making one profitable long term is always the problem. For now, GitHub is winning because of the free side of their toolset.
Application error: a client-side exception has occurred (see the browser console for more information).

I did get it to load something once - it's not super clear. Based on the dates you enter, and the stock ticker, it'd be nice if it looked up the offering price.

I'm not actually sure how useful of a tool it really is... is it for convincing people who aren't maxing out their ESPP that they should?
Reading the genome of a single person for the first time
It's one of the worst ways. But it is a way.
Owner occupied units don’t pay tax on imputed rent, and have untaxed capital gains up to 500k.

Owner occupied units also don’t pay 10% of revenue to a management firm.

It pencils out as a wash, otherwise people would simply buy their home as a corporation and rent it to themselves.
Nah, Zoom was wildly better than other options at first, but the rest these days are mostly OK enough to handle most day-to-day needs. And yeah, chat apps are pretty similar.

... except Teams, which manages to be possibly the single most confusing piece of software I've ever used. And I like Paradox games....
Just format that partition used by abusive corporate spyware by Microsoft and leave only free and open source GNU/Linux that actually respects your freedom, privacy and other basic digital/human rights.
You start by having the balls to say no. Then you hold a till-they-drop press conference explaining exactly why you're saying no and who is actually to blame for what is about to happen.

If the American people still decide to blame you and elect one of the saboteurs instead, well, they get what they deserve.

...I have learned that I have an above average capacity for spite, though.
Unless you are doing string interpolation to generate JSON, it is absolutely more resources... and how much will depend on the framework(s) in use. To/From JSON is a straight serialization/deserialization, where templates are a bit more involved.

It's not a crazy amount of overhead... and even then, it's a matter of how interactive the site/application is or needs to be. You can have a horrible or great UX in either direction in different use cases.
> Yea, so Rust it is then.

As much as I like both Go and Rust, the jump between the two is not that easy.
Yeah but if the current framework does not support, the next step is pretty obvious. Check how unions truly fought back in the day.

BTW same reason I believe the SWE "unions" people advocate here are going to be a laughing stock.
What it would take to bring back the dodo
You bought at the current peak. (and even still, very likely, though not 100% guaranteed, you'll be ahead in 5-10 years) Real estate is a long term play to come out on top. If you bought a house 20 years ago, you're sitting on a hefty profit right now. Maybe not generational wealth, but def 3-4X your original investment. And if you had the funds to purchase multiple properties between 2009-2011, you could very easily be sitting on enough wealth to comfortably retire and never work a day in your life again. Which is what was happening around that time. I remember trying to buy my first starter home and getting outbid for over a year straight by investors and all-cash buyers.
Government intervention and government regulation are not the same thing.
It seems like it’s only a proposal at this point?

Generics were also controversial and it took multiple iterations and years to get them done.

I wouldn’t call it “suddenly”.

Also, why do they need the
data “suddenly”? What do you suggest?
What do you expect them to do when they find out the flight is 1/3 full after you've already booked your ticket?
Pretty much, yes. If the fees are visible up front, there's no point in making them fees, they're just part of the price. By making them fees, they can be hidden until you've already made your choice and are about to pay, or hidden until some point in the future where you try to do something like stop using the service.

The problem isn't really the cost, it's the deception. It tricks consumers and prevents an efficient market for goods and services, and as the article states, creates a particularly bad experience for at least some consumers that the business can justify in the name of profit.
law and enforcement
I'm born in Norway, in what you might call an extremely rural area where parking is no problem at all. I now live in Munich, in the central part where suburbanites want to park and we who live here don't want them to. One size does not fit all.
I'm no expert in US pension schemes to be honest, but I quickly looked up - y'all pay 6.2% each (employer and employee) of your wage, here in Germany it's 9.3% each - and our wages tend to be lower than in the US as well.

And yet, we here don't really need private pension savings. It'd be interesting if someone with a better understanding of USSS could chime in for the reasons.
I called up comcast/xfinity to get internet service. They asked me if I'd like to add on basic cable for $10/month. I don't watch much TV, but I figured for $10/month I'd be willing to do it for the occasional live event. So I agreed to it on top of the $40/month internet. I figured I'll be paying $55ish/month when you factor the taxes I'll be paying to Uncle Sam. After 20 minutes on the phone, we get to the final payment authorization. "Do you authorize me to charge your credit card $68/month?" I asked why so much higher than the $40 + $10 amount?

Apparently, there was an $11 "content delivery fee" for the TV. As if buying the cable channels and having them "delivered" to my home are different freaking things. As if you can buy the rights to watch cable at the comcast store, but if you want it at home, you gotta pay an extra $11.

These companies are going to whine and scream about these changes, but they really brought this on themselves.
Just in time for "web4"/AI. Get ready to be barraged by these startups instead over the next year as the hype train moves on.
Slack's video conferencing is archaic compared to something like zoom (maybe not teams), but out of all of the video conferencing tools, slack is the worst.
There's no GUI though
Land value is actually enormously important in the economy -- it's 1/3 of the value of all real assets and probably represents a similar amount of bank loans (real estate itself is 2/3 or real assets and about 2/3 of bank loans).

http://gameofrent.com/content/is-land-a-big-deal#is-land-a-r...

Relaxing zoning laws and allowing for significantly more supply IS very important -- but it's not sufficient by itself. (For the record, neither are Land Value Taxes sufficient). The true solution is to enact both:

https://progressandpoverty.substack.com/p/land-and-the-liber...

If you want to be able to consistently decouple housing value from land value, you'll need both of these policies.
building your own nuke (at least from scratch) requires orders of magnitude more industrial might than biohacking
An Approach to Lazy Loading Custom Elements
What's the problem with "4 yr old laptops"? My colleagues and I use Teams on computers 1-5 years old and haven't heard about any issues.
Definitely not since we use Snowflake, not Databricks. I'd love to hear more about your solution though!
This is a serious problem. I have lost bids on many houses to cash investors that then turn around and list the property for rent. Investors are creating armies of rental properties and locking people out of affordable home ownership.