skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolutely. My areas is in one of the highest appreciating parts of the country, and has a housing shortage. The city started exploring "the missing middle" - medium density housing - we are either single family, or apartments.

Commissioned studies, and the worst case of those showed year-over-year appreciation decreasing, from 12% to 9.5% per year.

To be clear, people's property values were still going to be increasing nearly 10% a year, if fully implemented, and "worst case", but holy hell.

You'd think the city was talking about taking people's grandmothers into the street and executing them, the screeching was so fierce about "protecting my investment".

Never knew there was a constitutional right to double digit "returns" on property ownership, but to these people, apparently there is.
I wrote about this recently, mostly through the lens of the sentimentally important things like videos and photos https://joshvince.site/blog/20230903_little_metal_boxes
I don't believe that low frequency would have adverse affects but I would like them to _really_ look into higher frequencies (as we approach microwave) just so, you know, we actually know if it's bad or not.

None of this "oops arsenic wallpaper is actually bad" "oops asbestos is actually bad" "oops lead in fuel is actually bad" "oops microplastics could actually be bad" stuff.

And we do care about walking in sunlight, it's called sunblock/suncream. People that spend their lives in a lot of sunlight are at higher risk for skin cancer, have you never seen what someone's skin looks like after a career of working outdoors?

As a Kiwi I guess I'm just more aware of the Sun; thanks to the rest of the world we have a huge ozone hole above us so our UV levels can get pretty mad around 11:00-13:00 in Summer.
I dunno. When they built a bunch of cottages that rented for $1300 a month down the road from me that made me reconsider the $750 /month that I rent a unit in my other house for.

That is, I think seeing high prices for new developments being advertised on signs all over the place has a powerful psychological effect of creating a "level set" and even if it doesn't really drive prices up, I think many people believe that it drives prices up through that mechanism. It might be the triumph of pataphysics (e.g. in my mind the "physics" of the imagination) over economics but in the hyperreal world, pataphysics wins.
Bummer. I don't like the company but the logo was really easy on the eyes. Although when I was a kid I had the same kind of problem with it as I had with Disney's - for the latter I always read it as "Disnep"
> they all resigned together but the company couldn't find anyone to replace them on linkedin. doesn't correlate with my experiences.

Yeah this was a clear sign the post was fake. Even entry level posts on LinkedIn will get a few hundred applicants in day. Leave it up for a week and you might have over 1,000. This is the case for anywhere in the US. Could be the smallest most rural town in the US. If you make a job post requiring in office work there you’ll still get hundreds of applicants.
Of course you can switch databases, but in practice it is extremely expensive. That's a big reason why it is pretty rare. Why use a closed source tool and take on that risk when great open source ones exist?
That answer doesn't make sense, because surely, companies want to increase their profits regardless of whether inflation is happening or not.

The real answer is that when inflation is happening, it provides an easy excuse for raising prices far beyond the cost of your inputs. Everyone expects prices to go up, so they don't balk at yours going up faster than inflation.
The old one is 195 loads and the new one is *supposedly* 200 loads. I never really paid attention to those load numbers because in the end, I just use the measure cup (that comes with the container).

Thanks for raising this subtle point though. :)
Getting Feedback from Engineering Teams
>> Even ten years ago, I would never have dreamed that we would have such accurate machine translation so soon.

We already did. I did my MSc in 2014 and, in an Natural Language Understanding course we talked about machine translation and looked at some results of translating between English and French. It was difficult to find any fault with the translation. Machine translation capabilities haven't changed much since then. And I remember Microsoft advertising the bright future of kids without a common language using Skype (!) to communicate and play together, something that still isn't possible. Well, certainly not with Skype.
So this happened to be my experience too, but with a slight twist.

In 2020, I was hearing strange sounds and went to the doctor - turns out it was earwax pressed against my ear drum and a bit of infection.

In 2021, I had similar sounding noises and went to the doctor - turns out it wasn't earwax and he couldn't pinpoint on what the reason could be.

It is 2023, I am still having that sound :(
Even tech jobs aren't really like that. I spend at least 1/3-1/2 of my day discussing the best way to do things, training people up, managing priorities, negotiating over openapi schemas, etc.

I did have one job where we only spent 20 minutes a day doing that and the results were not impressive.
> we may unintentionally consume other developers' time by using their libraries without giving back

Absolutely incorrect, and I have given away much code as open source for free. Nobody who uses my software consumes more of my time just by using it. I already spent that time building it for myself, and I have no idea when someone types "git clone"

What does take my time are things that bridge the gap between what works for me on my machine and what works for others on theirs: packaging, documentation, requests for features, bug fixes, etc.
Lately, I've come to the conclusion that WFH tends to benefit older devs with more experience at the expense of their younger colleagues. If you are established/experienced and already have a strong network in your field, working from home is great because it gives you more flexibility and less distractions from your work. If you're a junior dev however, working from home creates a higher barrier to asking questions/learning from more experienced folks on your team and also negatively impacts your ability to network/meet people in your field.

I'm sure that this is super situational dependent but on the whole I think it negatively impacts junior devs but I would love to hear some other people's thoughts.
Is it actually a simple solution? Most places only have a small portion of their housing that's empty. That won't explain a 3x increase over 10 years. Here is a simpler solution: build high density housing, and use public money if you need to. That way we aren't unnecessarily rationing housing, but more importantly it will crash the local market and deliver divine retribution to speculators both large and small.
Moving the goalposts. Dawkins is doing neither of those in the above article.
Looks almost like a typical "good better best" upsell to me, trying to get you to go for the "better" option. But they turned it into a variation to get you to accidentally subscribe to the "better" option by also having a cheap trial ($1 for 4 weeks).
I have to say, I have been very impressed with the management of Godot. I wish many other open-source projects were as on the ball as Godot seems to be.
Or suing for a nice pay check - I am not the most Covid-conscious person, but if I had time tracking AND a potentially illegal activity I’d sue
I totally understand the rationale. My problem is that I don't see it happen in real life. Where I live, quite a lot of new high-end housing has been built, but it hasn't seemed to reduce housing costs at all. The people moving into the new housing aren't vacating lower-cost housing to do so. They're mostly people moving into the area for the first time.

So housing costs for everybody, but mostly at the more affordable end, continue to rise faster than inflation.
> Consumer groups say shrinkflation is a widespread practice, which supermarkets like Carrefour are also guilty of in their own-label products.

No reason to doubt this, given:

> “Obviously, the aim in stigmatising these products is to be able to tell manufacturers to rethink their pricing policy,” Stefen Bompais, the director of client communications at Carrefour, said in an interview.

Long story short, Carrefour doesn't actually give a shit about the deception of customers, except to the extent that their natural rage can be redirected against its suppliers in order to soften negotiating positions. Shrinking their margins either helps maintain total sales revenue, or shifts a larger share of the operating margin to Carrefour.

Carrefour cares about volume pricing, not the size of the packages.
This kind of email+phone registration was common in the 90s and earlier. Oh, wait, it's 2023.
An emergency descent for pressurization stops at 9,000~10,000 feet or minimum safe altitude. You shouldn't be low enough to see license plates.
thats gonna be dope af
it may be too difficult for non-tech people

It might not.

And if you can make it exist, that's better than a perfect thing that does not exist.

Good luck.
I was a passenger on AC549 several years ago when this happened. In our case, the oxygen masks were deployed because the cabin had actually lost pressure. From the standpoint of mechanical safety, I have no doubt that these planes are built to safely withstand these rates of descent, and likely a multiple of them. Having said that, I can also say that when the plane began its (sudden and unannounced, understandably) descent, you could feel your guts up in your throat much like when the roller coaster drops over the top of the first hill. From there on down it was calmer, but nonetheless harrowing. It's hard to describe how exactly, but it sure felt like we were coming down in a hell of a hurry.

Only once we had levelled off were the flight crew able to inform us what had happened. Those intervening 6 or 8 minutes, however, were decidedly Type 3 fun.

https://globalnews.ca/news/2487158/breaking-vancouver-bound-...
It blows my mind that companies are still following this boring, plain sans-serif trend. You throw out a 130 years of branding because of the current en vogue trend, which is actually probably on its way out at this point?

This is a great way for me to never recognize their products.
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I'll just quote myself.

>Do not buy into that narrative.

Would you mind sharing the data? I've done a quick search, but I can't confirm what you said.

I found this, which contradicts what you said, but Statista is not super reliable:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1116200/australia-net-pr...

But even if it's true, and they recorded the largest profits, the catalyst still is the monetary policy. If businesses could just price gauge their clients, they would have already done it before. The goal of a corporation has always been to maximize utility, and this hasn't suddenly changed; so ask yourself, why are they raising prices now.
that, or people running rumour accounts throw everything at the wall to claim victory when something sticks
I've been saying this for ages. There are so many second-order benefits. For example in Japan, books are virtually all a standard size, and so bookshelves are built to match. Lets you fit more books in a small home.

When packages are random sizes and always varying, it's impossible for anyone in adjacent industries to develop synergies.
For practical purposes, it will be largely the same chip as the M3, which will be used in general purpose computers.
Without any snark, I suggest consuming more data. What you consider "pretty good" is the bar now [1]. Wages have been stagnant for decades. Combined with recent aggressive inflation, your idea of reasonable might simply be out of touch with the labor market. To note, there was surplus labor that made these demands untenable until COVID generated ~2-3M excess deaths over a short window of time, pulling forward reduced labor supply from structural demographic compression [2] [3]. Tangentially, 55+ who are clinging for life to labor participation are what is holding up the participation rate. Anything that causes those folks to exit the labor force more rapidly than retirement (3.6M Boomers retire per year) or death (~1.8M/year for 55+ cohort) is going to cause labor supply to dip deeper than the current forecasted curve [4].

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/21/american-workers-are-demandi... ("American workers are demanding almost $80,000 a year to take a new job")

[2] https://www.axios.com/2023/05/08/us-labor-shortage-older-wor... ("Why labor shortages could be here to stay")

[3] https://www.marketplace.org/2022/01/24/how-much-labor-force-... ("How much of our labor force has been lost to COVID-19?")

[4] https://archive.ph/sKeyE | https://seekingalpha.com/article/4531829-older-workers-propp... ("Are Older Workers Propping Up The U.S. Economy?")

(scholar of systems)
https://archive.is/rEiga
I saw a reddit comment from a Unity developer that alleged that Unity told them not to worry about the changes because this dev used ironSource for their ads. ironSource merged with Unity last year and other commenters were speculating that this whole thing is a play to try to coerce the huge amount of mobile games that are made with Unity to switch to ironSource.
Lawyer here; my office is a paradise and working outside of it is a huge drag. Who is going to teach me stuff or make my binders at my house? Am I supposed to be meeting with clients in my kitchen? Where am I supposed to keep all my case materials? Am I supposed to provide my own food?

I really think the key here is that VC has spent twenty years convincing you IT people that “the office” is a floor in a skyscraper with 400 cubicles and no walls or doors or services. If your office actually had any of the redeeming factors of an office, you might feel a little differently, no?
The C suite and MBAs will be the last to be outsourced to ChatGPT. What we need is more new companies entering the fray. The problem is why would you enter this industry with its terrible margins when you could start a tech company instead?
None of this has to do with rent-seeking.

Weird survey. Say you've got two middle class kids. Both have their parents pay for college. Both get business degrees. Both work hard and save. Both save 2 million dollars in preparation for retirement. One of them gets a 300K inheritance at 60 years old, and, just like magic, he is no longer self-made? It's amazing what you can find in a survey so long as you design the survey with that outcome in mind!

> The wealthiest 10% of Americans own a record 89% of all U.S. stocks

Owning equity in a company isn't rent-seeking.
I don't know how much of this is shrinkflation and how much is companies adjusting to modern preferences.

Lots and lots of people prefer candy in small packages.
From the bill:

> This bill would provide that a data broker that fails to comply with the requirements pertaining to the accessible deletion mechanism described above is liable for civil penalties, administrative fines, fees, and costs, as specified, and would raise the amount of the existing civil penalty provisions described above. The bill would require that moneys collected or received by the agency and the Department of Justice under these provisions be deposited in the Data Brokers’ Registry Fund, which the bill would require to be administered by the agency, instead of the Consumer Privacy Fund and would expand the specified uses of moneys in the Data Brokers’ Registry Fund to include the costs incurred by the state courts and the agency in connection with enforcing these provisions and the costs of establishing, maintaining, and providing access to the accessible deletion mechanism described above.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...
Efficient Text-to-Image Training (16x cheaper than Stable Diffusion) [video]
I dont think anybody really likes zoom meetings more. They just like the perks of WFH 10x more than they dislike zoom meetings.
Some cats have multiple houses. Lots of people love cats, and if a cat starts frequenting their houses, they will start feeding them and kind of adopting them. Cat lives in the new house for a few days, then go back to original house, stay for a while, and go to the second house, and so on.
I have been through multiple natural disasters in the Houston Texas area over some years and I have seen first hand that these price caps cause shortages resulting in people that need supplies not being able to obtain them. The people wanted price caps in the name of preventing price gouging and the state state obliged: the majority of people get nothing and everyone is happy.
interesting! I have had my thyroid tested and it's within range so nothing was offered, but I should ask my psych about it, thanks :)
What it takes to go mass-market
One of the most sensitive topics in startups is differentiation. Everyone seems to care about how different you are from your competitors, and investors always want to be certain how unique and special your product is before writing a check.

Still, differentiation remains one of the most widely misunderstood concepts in startups. When it comes to the CPG industry, what often happens is that in an attempt to build a differentiated brand, many founders end up creating a niche product that will never scale.

In this article, we discuss how you can build a differentiated brand while still going after the mass market.
> no one ever said you’re entitled to only having to play guitar in coffee shops to support themselves

Actually, no one ever said you’re entitled to only having to play guitar in coffee shops to support yourself in the town you chose.
> building any new homes increases housing costs anywhere anyone on HN wants to live

I don't want to live in any of those places.
I think a 3 strike against the CxO as a person will be more effective.

1st strike blocks you from working as CxO for 5 years, 2nd strike for 10 years, 3rd strike is forever.

Right now too many bad CxO jump from one ship to the next again and again.
I don't know if the introverts would have done any better, but it's clear people are no longer content with the status quo.
Induced demand is real. Building a desirable house may cause somebody to move to a city that they wouldn't otherwise move to.

But the article is more than its headline. It comes armed with data that shows that the induced demand effect is not significant in the markets studied.
Ethereum would have consumed 0.2% of global electricity this year
> This is a fascinating topic that doesn't get the attention it deserves.

Agreed. Documents and Photos are the bane of my existence. To the point that I don't like taking photos on trips and events because I know what's to follow.
The $340 million is from the last quarter, you were probably looking at yearly revenue.
It depends on how you define failure.

Fogbugz didn't dominate the market like Jira did, but it had a dedicated customer base. It's revenue was used to fund the development of Trello in the early days, and to fund the first 2~ years of development on Glitch.

When FogBugz was sold off, it was still a modestly profitable business that a better acquirer could have stewarded into a better performer but the bug/issue tracking market is/was really tough.

Source: I used to work at Fogcreek, did some light dev/design work for FogBugz, and was the co-creator of Glitch.
The point is that housing costs would have gone up more if that housing wasn't built, not that some amount of built housing automatically means prices grow slower than inflation.
My psych was against it, saying he's tried it with a couple of patients but 'the effects/benefits just go away'. Sadly I live in Canada so it looks like that one's out :(

It does sound interesting though.. maybe I should poke him a bit more about it.. thanks :)
This was just CA. There was a similar lawsuit by other states last year settled for $300-400 million.
https://archive.is/nPyF5
I’d much rather the free market figure this out. If I want to change my company from being remote to in office I should have that power. Employees should have the power to quit, which they already do.
Induced demand, the same mechanism by which building more and wider roads doesn’t always mean less traffic. There’s still only so much land and space in a given area, and even in high density areas there are more and less desirable spots (e.g. a penthouse suite vs a basement apartment next to the furnace). As more people move into an area, more competition for those desirable spots has an increased pressure on the prices for those spots, which in turn increases prices for other less lucrative spots because the whole market window is shifted.
From the bill:

> The bill would, beginning January 1, 2028, and every 3 years thereafter, require a data broker to undergo an audit by an independent third party to determine compliance with these provisions and would require the data broker to submit an audit report to the agency upon the agency’s written request, as specified.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...
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"Free Speech Absolutism" at it's finest
> or chug when opening a fat codebase in WebStorm.

It'd be worth checking that you're not using an Intel version of WebStorm. I've personally found IntelliJ (largely the same thing as WebStorm) on the M1 to be _extremely_ fast, certainly leaps and bounds ahead of the old Intel Macs. That's the native version, though; via Rosetta it is absolutely painful (the JVM is close to a worst-case for Rosetta).
I was going to suggest they confused MFi and e-marking for the USB-C cables, but it appears you only need e-marking for above 60 watt applications, which the iPhone 15 isn't going to require. Good news all round.
it's a typical reddit creative fiction
When you move into one place, you move out of a different place.
I am old enough to still know how to use a slide rule, but I have not used one in decades. I can also scribble in cursive, but I have not done that in years either.

At some point, I noticed that I rarely wrote down something, and when I did, it became instantly unsearchable and therefore as good as lost. For a while, I scanned my written notes, but as soon as swipe keyboards on smartphones became a thing, I just switched over to 100% digital notes.

So, yes, it is hard to imagine a use for cursive anymore. Good riddance.
I'm not sure what to think. I can't read anything about Max Schrems and his team forcing them to enforce the law... Curious, for Ireland.

So either they've woken up to the same reality the rest of us inhabit, or their inhibition to do their job doesn't apply to Chinese companies...
On the risk of sounding ridiculously entitled, I'm not sure that helps. As someone kinda sensitive to being disturbed by people talking, the only solution would be an office with a door for every person, or maybe 2 people. Four is too much already and the others can't be pairing or it will distract. But four is not really better than 10, but I suppose the actual noise level would differ for every person. Also unrelatedly I find screensharing so much better than looking over someone's shoulder, or sitting in the same room as someone in the same virtual meeting. I guess I should use noice canceling headphones?

That said, I've never seen single offices for normal software developers here in Germany at any company I ever worked at, so the point is kinda moot. I'm also not sure I'd like it, because where's the benefit if I am walling myself off?

And then it's the question of equipment. Companies are either too stingy or too homogenized. Either I have better screens/chair at home because the company is skimping in general or I have better stuff because I chose what I want and not what was decided to be good.