skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know about the entire state, but with regards to the ski towns discussed in the article, 8-10 buildings per town would make a significant difference, as that would represent a rough increase of 9-11% of housing. If done efficiently, this would take-up roughly the same amount of space as one home depot. The point is that extremely little is needed to help resolve this situation, but the realistic solutions are illegal.
Why would I go to trade school for a few years to make $60k forever?
Nah, we used and paid for Unity because the licensing structure we signed on with made sense. They’re literally changing the terms on us in a way we cannot push back against. Games made years ago are subject to this new fee structure. Games which are no longer sold at the same nominal price and a massive existing install base who anytime they reinstall our game we get the privilege of paying Unity each time forever.
Totally. I'm just remembering back in the late-2000s when it was possible to get a room for $350/mo and a job for $9-10/hr in places like Durango. It wasn't luxury living, but it was viable to NOT live in a car, ski every day, and still have some fun money.
I’m not saying it doesn’t support existing standards, I’m saying that they debuted MagSafe as a proprietary but superior version of the technology.

The non-proprietary Qi2 version of this technology came out multiple years after Apple already sold millions of proprietary MagSafe accessories and built up a brand name around it.
Good, 40 hours is too much. They should be living their lives, not toiling away enriching others. Let the shareholders be a little bit less rich and let the workers have more time to be with their friends and families.
I love how apple considers my skin part of the cooling solution. If it wasn't for legal limits, they would absolutely just burn people, sell a laptop cooling mat for $100, and tell people they are using laptops wrong.
Solving a simple JavaScript challenge with sandboxing
‘Non consensual porn’ is vague and could be used to describe violent rape vids, which was likely the intent. Fabricated images of public figures is not the same thing.
https://archive.ph/bzHWo
But the instructions weren't "it's not okay to crush the competition", they were "it's not okay to talk about crushing the competition".
There is something offputting about paying more for the same.

Paying more for less...yeesh.

Insert some clever parallel between RTO mandates and shrinkflation.
Ok yeah I get it now! Thanks for clarifying.

So, I guess it would require a lot more research to make a real argument about this, but to me, this just sounds like an application that isn't very good, but I don't think is the same phenomenon described by the article. I definitely don't think charging money is any kind of guarantee of quality. Software is hard to make and lots of software sucks just because it sucks.

But the difference I see is that I think Navionics Boating has an incentive to make that app better. That if they make improvements for users like you, that will likely impact their bottom line positively, because they'll attract and retain more users like you.

But free mass-market consumer apps have the opposite incentive. They are incentivized to dumb things down to the lowest common denominator, because there will always be > 1 user that they attract with that approach for every 1 user like you that they alienate.

Basically: I think free business models can ignore retention, whereas for-pay subscription models can't, and that's why I prefer them.
Well no, the demand is so high that your proposal makes no sense:

1. High demand on labor and materials from builders makes the cost of labor and materials go up

2. If the demand for the actual home reduces, and the cost of labor does not go down because those workers are now offered better prices as a Walmart worker, material costs may go down, but since materials are about 25% of the cost, it will make the price of the house go down very little.

3. The airbnb/landlord/second-and-third homes from Google stock holders demand seems to be insatiable. If that changes, the entire thing may then finally collapse. However that collapse is much more likely than builders being able to supply the housing with labor and material costs so high right now.
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I don't see how "they have increased prices more than inflation" is blaming them for inflation.

Though that assumes the "everything" in the post is an exaggeration because I think the price of "everything" is inflation.
Yep. I like working in an office. I prefer it! Just the working part, though.

I don’t like it as much as I like not: having an extra 30-60 minutes of (risky-to-life-and-limb!) driving 5 days a week, thousands in gas and wear & tear on a car, having to own more than one car (more expenses, takes up more of the garage), getting sick more often, not being home when my kids get home from school, not being able to do any part of starting dinner until 5:30 or later, not being nearby if a kid gets sick at school and needs to be picked up, not being able to listen to my own music without headphones, having a shared bathroom, and a billion other things that come with working at an office but are purely bad.
Ours didn’t used to, but when we hired someone to watch them while on vacation we realized it was a good idea. They could get out due to carelessness, or a broken window screen. They could also end up out and alone in the confusion of something like a house fire.

A lot of people with indoor cats also leash train them.
> which is slashed from bottom left to top right

interesting way to describe this in that it is described in reverse order of how i've always seen it. my first thought is that's because it is also opposite of how i would draw it when writing by hand.
I would prefer not to be tied to a commute distance of an office with a commitment to waste that commute time and energy every week. What works for you personally is very different from a hard requirement for everybody.
Show HN: Shello – Wrangle environment variables
A lightweight mac app for managing environment variables locally. No auth, no network requests, no usage tracking... just files on your machine.
As far as I know, where I live, you can do this if the old non-conforming use was destroyed due to a disaster. Otherwise maybe you can ask nicely and get lucky.
The fundamental issue is that we allowed housing to be abused as an object of speculation.

No wonder the people with tons of money started to buy up homes, only to rent them out to people who are then not able to buy a home for themselves.

The rich get richer

The poor get poorer

If you’re young, what future is there to look forward to, I wonder.
>But I think about all of it. nginx, haproxy, redis, postgresql, nodejs, python. I don't think I could even write out all of the open source I am using in my projects within the confines of a Hacker News comment.

That seems contradictory to your opening sentence though, no? Eventually an open source project will get to the point that it's so good (or even good enough) that a commercial product is simply uncompetitive. That will happen with game engines to. Decisions like this will only accelerate it.
thanks for sharing this monospace version, i've been using atkinson as my browser's sans-serif font
Nope. Exploiting a loophole in the current system is an essential ingredient.

Once the loophole is closed, your hack will be grandfathered in, creating an automatic moat.
> Repeat after me - the private housing sector is not going to build sufficient housing stock to tank prices in... the private housing sector.

This. In the UK in particular there are so few housebuilders working at scale that they effectively have an oligopoly. And they turn off the tap as quickly as OPEC do.
I will. I will work equally for someone who has my back as someone who does not.

I’m too cynical to believe you do have my back, so having it does not matter.

I am an IC, so most of my decisions have been about screwing customers. I’ve never had to directly deal with them as that is customer support’s problem. I’ve also hurt salespeople, but again, only had to hear about it through channels.
Running out of ammo and instant payment sounds a lot like an arcade, which is how video games became commercially successful in the first place.
Valve doesn't do it that way. Instead of some crummy asset store with generic and terrible looking assets they literally just let you use the assets from their games. See Garry's Mod, Sven Co-op and Insurgency for an example of this.
Russia has given each and every excuse that you could possibly come up with in 2014 and again in 2022. If you're a defense industry consultant I'd expect you to be more than conversant with the run-up to the second episode of this war and not to swallow such things hook, line and sinker.

Note that nowhere in that article does it say that the Ukrainian side did that. For all we know this was a provocation, as Russia is won't to do. Alternative explanations have been present many times and none of them have stuck.

Also note that there was an endless build-up prior to the second phase of this invasion which had absolutely nothing to do with that particular incident even if it was done by the Ukrainian side, which I highly doubt given the fact that it was one of the pretexts used.

Finally: in that region there have been many actions by either side and no matter what: the Ukrainians are well within their right to kick out an invader, the myth of the separatists has been debunked solidly, until the little green men showed up there was no meaningful separatist activity.
Tunisia and Libya are not part of the EU.
There are 20 different burger restaurants within 10 miles of me. Some are chains, some are local. Some use major beef suppliers, some use local organic ones. All of their prices have gone way up.

There is no collusion here and this has jack shit to do with mergers. If those were the causes, inflation would have been a crisis 10 years ago.
How to store a chess position in 26 bytes using bit-level magic (2022)
> > > And when has someone like an elementary teacher made a child better at using a computer..? It feels like a joke just asking that question.

You're quoting this again as if it isn't critically damning to the position you're trying to convey. As though you actually believe the existence of ignorance is a logical excuse to continue perpetuating ignorance.

If only some facility had existed in that elementary school teacher's life that had instilled those skills in a way that it wouldn't be a joke?

I don't know, maybe like some sort of centralized institution where you can go to gain knowledge about basic concepts you might encounter when interacting with society. Some sort of... societal mechanism for ensuring people are competent enough to interact with their world.

Can you think of something like that?

> By obliquely and sarcastically referring to the teaching institution you have convinced me. Well played.

Well, having it stated plainly for you clearly hasn't done the trick. Sometimes different approaches are needed!
my wife's also.

After SSRIS, and ketamine IV's, 3 2-3.5g shroom doses carefully spaced, dosed, and ensuring a safe sane environment did wonders.

I'm thankful
builders would always prefer to build more and sell more, if a home costs me 200k to build and it currently sells for 500k but current regulations only allow me to build 100 of them then that's $3m profit (actual margins aren't this high).

if a law comes along that suddenly gives me the power to build 200 but the asking price drops to 400k i'd rather build 200 homes and net $4m
> i guess europeans are used to losing out

This is a naive take. I wish we Americans had "lost out" on Facebook, because the world would be a better place if we had.
I mean, imagine what housing in Toronto would cost if they didn't build those 100K+ condos? Pricing is composed of supply and demand, and the article is saying that holding demand constant, increasing supply lowers prices. Adding a marginal unit to the housing stock kinda has to result in lower or equal prices in the static case.

Toronto is growing insanely quickly, and supply can't meet demand. New cities are great, but a large number of people want to move to big and established population centres.
That's Carrefour, not the product manufacturers. In fact, the evidence you present is completely consistent with Carrefour's assertion that they have been doing what they can to absorb the price increases taken by the product manufacturers.
If the mass adoption of BEV passenger vehicles makes hydrogen fueling stations economically infeasible, then Toyota does live by the timeline of Tesla.

https://www.hydrogeninsight.com/transport/two-of-londons-thr...

Hydrogen in the US feels destined for trucking and heavy industry if it sees success anywhere, but hydrogen filling stations at truck stops aren't going to sell a lot of Mirais.
We build the world we want one decision at a time.
> Good news all round.

Maybe for people new to the ecosystem. Most existing users have had their existing inventory of cables suddenly rendered useless for future phones. When I eventually upgrade, I will have to buy at least 2-3 additional cables (I am not a fan of dongles). I will spend this money even though there is no tangible benefit to me as the only USB-C device I have is a Kindle.
Scaling data loading for ML training with Ray Data
Doesn't YAML have the unfortunate issue of ambiguity in the variety of parsing and versions? (Edit: I see you're advocating for a new subset... never mind. :) )

If you want a "language" for expressing data (like configuration data), you might be interesting in having a look at EDN. https://github.com/edn-format/edn
I think you've completely misunderstood the situation. This isn't people feeling entitled, rather it's people feeling vulnerable to the whims of a private, self-interested entity.

While it isn't my reason, I think most people advocating for open-source, actually see it simply as a way to keep such private actors honest, and prevent them from becoming corrupted. Like many people have said, this particular situation would have been received much differently had the changes not been applied retroactively.
https://softelvdm.com/Vault/softelvdm.com/documentation/SftM...
YouTube Premium is basically the answer to your hypothetical.

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7060016?hl=en
> What works for you personally is very different from a hard reqirement for everybody

Is that not implicit? You stated what works best for you, I stated what works best for me.
Regular timestamps can only be used reliably for ordering if all the timestamps come from a single system. Different systems have different clocks, so they'll never be precisely in sync. You can also have timestamp collisions, which makes ordering ambiguous.
The Flipper Zero may be a more problematic product than we first anticipated. Yesterday, on the Sec-T security conference in Stockholm Mikael Simovits presented [1] his research “FLIPPER ZERO – ZERO TRUST
or Beware of Geek Bearing Gifts” [2] into the companies and persons behind the Flipper Zero. Connections to GRU cannot be rules out.

[1]: https://youtu.be/TpGQY9qSigY?si=QBiQHQczlDYHchlK
[2]: https://simovits.com/flipper-zero-zero-trust/
>the cracks in the utopic vision of open source

what does unity, a proprietary engine that screwed over their customers, have to do with this?
Travel just sucks regardless. It feels like solving this problem is harder than putting people on Mars.

There are too many bad actors in the system, nothing is really standardized so customers can't compare or new businesses can't compete 1 to 1.

Its all scams at literally every level starting with "travel influencers" > booking sites > transportation to/from airports > the airports themselves > airlines > hotels and finally > the actual activities to do when you arrive. All layers are optimized to scrape as much as they can from your wallet.

As a CS person, this unoptimized situation really grinds my gears.
Even outside of the distributed aspect, discussions on improving git tend to be started by people who have never felt the need to express `HEAD~10` or `origin/main...main`, and.. I just don't have much sympathy for the naivety left in me.

It would be neat to have a GUI rebase -i style "commit reorganizer" that let you visually reorder & drag commits between branches etc. But that'd just be an app calling git, and once you're experienced enough write it, you no longer really need it. So nobody does.
Unity threats coming from within the company
The thin pc board inside the USB-C connector is prone to breaking. Angled insertion/removal also leverages the pins soldered to the mainboard and can eventually break them loose.

The Lightning connector was superior in many ways. I have no idea why everyone is celebrating this downgrade.

Now no one is ever able to improve on the connector reliability because the EU has frozen the design forever by enshrining it into law?
> The housing market is red hot right now

Sorry to be harsh, but what planet was this written from? The housing market in the US is largely frozen - many people bought at peak prices over the pandemic years at rock bottom interest rates, so now they basically can't move - they simply can't afford the same amount of house at today's rates, and many would have to lower their prices in an attempt to sell in this higher rate market. The fact that employment is still relatively high means most people aren't forced to sell, and thus prices remain unaffordably high in many cities.

Edit: And rent control? Virtually every economist of all ideological stripes agrees that rent control is ultimately self defeating in the long term. And just look what happens with people that live in rent-controlled cities. Families hang on to those apartments like they're diamonds, and all it does is create a world of "haves vs. have nots", where it's like a big lottery to get a rent controlled apartment, but meanwhile you've disincentivized builders from building any new stock.
Never every game needs to have insane graphics. For a lot of games, “good enough” graphics is fine.
That's a fair point -- justice would require admitting alternate forms of evidence of residence. Maybe receipts from over-the-counter credit card transactions at local businesses could serve.
They are only record profits when you don’t adjust for inflation. Companies in Zimbabwe were making record profits every year, what a booming economy!!!
> I feel the vast majority of people complaining about these kind of situations are people who want the benefit of the tremendous engineering accomplishment of a game engine like Unity without contributing or paying in any way.

I just want to point out that the biggest non-contributors to open-source are the enterprise companies you either never or barely heard about, whose entire stacks run on tons of open source and yet it's those end user enterprise shops that are making millions.

In many ways, this probably includes Unity themselves.
Visa: A Deep Dive on Solana
> If you build a $5 million dollar house, and a multimillionaire buys it as their fourth house, this does not reduce housing costs for anyone.

That’s not necessarily true. If you build a $5m house where there was previously no house, and the multimillionaire buys it, then they’re not buying some other $4m house, and someone could buy that instead of something else, etc.

For this to work, you need a situation where building n houses does not create demand for approximately n houses.
I think they already lost. I've been following cryptocurrency since 2014 and it feels no more widely-accepted today than it was a decade ago. If anything, people realized that there's no regulatory body and started the process of exploiting that en-masse. Now you don't know which public chain or L2 network to trust, since half of them rely on $MONEY_CORP and their proprietary bridge software.

The crypto dream is dead. If you didn't sell out at the peak of the bubble a couple years ago, I do feel sorry for you.
You characterize the private sector as a monolithic decision-making entity, like the government. That’s a fundamental misunderstanding and mischaracterization. There is a collection of fiercely competing interests that balances. Right now, everyone who is able to build a new house is doing so, at significant profit interest. There’s an entire subsector of the economy that is “developers and home builders.” Do you presume these people somehow sit on their hands at the command of some other group?
It's 10 years (was 8 until recently) of OS updates. Google (and Microsoft and Apple to be fair) rarely listen to users, even megacorps b2b, about new features or UX bugs. Ask me how I know. :)
It's the "sell a binary" bit that introduces the need for a license.
I was going to suggest @Nullable Partners Contact[], but Integer with a default value of 0 is probably simpler.
I'm confused. What's the connection?
> I was really expecting better comments from hackernews.

You really shouldn't on topics related to the EU. There is an incredible amount of misinformation peddled, and asking for sources or actual analysis beyond simple statements that keep being repeated is usually met with either silence or insults.
I understand why there isn't a Mac version, but it's still a bit disappointing.
more housing does decrease prices. the price went up, but not as much as it would have. for us to see a.price decrease, we would have to see new buildings out pace new people to the area for a sustained period of time. and what is more likely to happen is that they won't decrease but stay flat.

staying flat is still a price decrease each year it does it.
I would also be curious to learn how it impacts Early Warning Services which collects/reports data on bank accounts and transactions.

The Privacy, Security, & OSINT Show did a podcast on it.[0]

0. https://inteltechniques.com/blog/2022/04/15/the-privacy-secu...
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/ej1Su
I'm privileged enough to have worked with one of the people mentioned in the article - Tim Thompson, the author of Stevie.
> This article is even an example -- I scroll down just to be interrupted by a call to action modal requesting my email and making me find the "continue reading" button just to read the content.

That substack popup drove me insane until I had enough and just turned js off for them. Very pleasant now
That link is only related to the EU in so far as that those people were probably trying to enter it, illegally.
Wages by definition also increase with inflation. (Inflation is a general increase in prices and wages are a price.) Though you can have both unemployment and inflation at once, called stagflation.

Also in the US, the lowest 10% of real wages has grown significantly since 2020, lowering income inequality vs the middle class.
“The first order of business is to blame everything on the guy before me.”
A reminder to all that 80% of Singapore's population lives in housing built by the government [0]

That's right, business-friendly small-government Singapore came to this realization decades ago.

[0]https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-08/behind-th...
To me, meetings day implies a rule that everybody attached to that office is required to be in to have meetings with, but I apologize if I read to much into it.
Anywhere I've been in the US, getting a certified birth certificate (fancy paper with an embossed seal) will cost some money and take a week or more. The fireproof bag is just a convenient place to keep papers for which a scan is no substitute.
>Good research

No. All I did was opening enforcement tracker, click on France, and look for familiar names. It was faster than writing my previous comment. I knew about one of the Carrefour cases, and the Criteo case though.

>The authoritarianism and the insanity of the laws in the first place is/are a far bigger problem

What is authoritarian or insane in GDPR? Or its previous iteration, the DPD (from 1995)? Oh no, we expect companies to handle personal data with care, the horror.