skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So if you're renting an apartment, you need someone to advertise that it's available, you need someone to pick up the phone and answer questions about it, and you need someone to unlock it and show it to prospective tenants. In many cities, the landlord pays this person and passes the cost on to you in monthly rent. In NYC, the tenant that rents the apartment pays these fees up front. It's kind of like the airlines, you sort by price ascending, pick the cheapest flight, and then are outraged when they charge you a non-middle-seat fee, a carry-on fee, an I-didn't-print-my-boarding-pass-at-home fee, etc. People search for apartments in the same way, so it makes sense that the market would remove anything other than the monthly carrying cost from the listed price.

In the end, I'm not sure it's that bad. I moved to NYC in early 2012. I found a rent-stabilized apartment with the help of a broker, and paid about $600 less per month than a market rate apartment. I paid $3000 to my broker, and conservatively saved about $79,200 over the lifetime of the apartment lease relative to equivalent market-rate apartments.
Tell that to Tahoe or any of the many mountainous regions of CA. :)
Ha, did not expect this to be on the front page of HN today! Some quick context: in January I was in London for a few days, and while I was there we had a Svelte Society London event.

This document is a text version of a talk I gave there, which expands on some of these ideas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eswNQiq4T2w&t=5211s

It's deliberately brief and vague in parts, because it's designed to spur conversation. It's not set in stone, nor is it an Official Statement on behalf of the Svelte team — it's an attempt to articulate the way that the maintainers tend to find ourselves thinking about some of these topics, as viewed through my personal lens. If it helps explain why you like Svelte, great! If it helps explain why you hate it, that's great too — that's the whole point. Have fun with it, and if there are parts you disagree with then your homework is to think through what kind of tenets would describe your ideal framework.

Also, it's Saturday — get off Hacker News :)
The word "ban" is doing a lot of work here. As I read (and commented)
earlier it's merely an informal decision by the village mayor that
smombies are to be discouraged.

The headmaster of a school who says no to phones probably has more
clout.

What amused me in that article was the kid who said he needed GPS to
find his way around... in a village of 2000 people.
I use baking powder for this. It works about as well (although you need more of it), but it minimizes the risk of localized areas of too much baking soda, which tastes quite nasty.
When you grow up and need to drop $20k of your hard-earned cash on a new HVAC, it'll be funny to see if you decide to take a chance when people you know that have heat pumps are bitching about them not working, or if you decide you want to be warm and not deal with the hassle.
market churn (which is in part informed by time) matter with affordability.

I don’t propose what you’re saying either. A land value tax is more than sufficient, by any research I’ve seen on this topic. It doesn’t in any sense mean what you’re saying here. Only that under utilized land (usually classified as unbuilt or vacant) is taxed more heavily. Thats one facet. The other is that it shifts the property tax off of building values and onto land values can make both buildings and land less expensive. This has a knock off affect of reducing the value of real estate holdings to varying degrees in terms of value in the short term but stabilizes in the medium and long term.

That would be better in my view but as it exists today, we instead have to rely on building more housing or putting more existing supply in the market, neither of which in broad strokes are happening in a way that keeps pace with demand unfortunately

Also: not everyone who can afford to buy a home can buy a home built from scratch. There are different classes of home buyers and the vast majority aren’t moving into custom homes like that. Its unreasonable to think that it’s common place in aggregate
I would rather have my home than a bag of cash. I’m not even old, but I did grow up here and it has immense sentimental value to me. My grandma lived in her house for over 65 years, and died in it. I doubt she would have moved for anything short of multigenerational wealth.
People over here needs education

A simple word on media and propaganda is enough to get you "flagged"

Take a short break and lecture yourself: https://www.amazon.com/Social-History-Media-Gutenberg-Intern...
Don't forget the world-class higher education system, with the two of the top universities in the world.
I have a specific firefox container group for github and a few other applications so that it's not leaking cookies. No need to relogin.
Right but it doesn't seem like their intent was to do so
You could make the same argument about any law.

Why don't we just make murder and rape also legal to better track it?
Presumably the power was on—else the FM translator would've been in violation if it was transmitting. Also the owner never mentioned any monitoring of the AM signal, but most radio stations have at least one if not two or three different means to monitor their signals (and the FM is supposed to be integrated into that since it's not its own station).

If the tower disappeared overnight... it would not be able to be done without a trace, and if any listeners were listening, for almost any station I've heard of, at least one listener would call into the station.
US at least has one of the tightest labor markets in history right now.
Totally agree. When taxes are the highest in the country and take almost 40% of your income and the only people who own houses are the ones that bought them 20-50 years ago that is very employee unfriendly.
I will be switching over to Tuta. Their new subscriptions let you setup unlimited aliases if you are using a custom domain. So, I'll be able to keep all my same email addresses and still have strong encryption.
Oh, we're at the extinguish phase.
I really appreciate how Android made the “graphical shell” a user-replaceable component of the OS.

Back in the day, I used Nova Launcher and an icon pack to completely re-theme my home screen. I felt so cool.

I encourage anyone curious to take a look at the following subreddit for some neat themes that users have created for themselves over the years using custom launchers: https://www.reddit.com/r/androidthemes/top/?t=all
I remember the newton and the palm pilot, would be nice if someone could make a modern implementation of the tech.
This may be a noob question - but why not use Github Projects instead of Linear or Jita?

You're staying within an ecosystem you know and it seems to offer almost all of the necessary functionality
Everything turned out fine, thank you. I do get why in an emergency context doctors want to do as many tests as possible in parallel, and have very little context to guide them otherwise. But also I don't have much sympathy for things "only" being a certain way because of some other thing. The medical industry is a whole set of self-reinforcing terrible dynamics, which is why we need sweeping reform.

I've also got to wonder how much this narrative bemoaning MRIs for "headaches" is because doctors have rightfully moved to doing less harmful MRIs instead of less expensive X-ray CTs.
One of the theories I'm seeing is that the owner dismantled the item because they didn't want to maintain the AM station, just their FM translator. The alleged theft is just a cover store to cover their actions.

The AM station was fairly small at 1KW, and only had a 200 foot tower which is also rather small. Some folks looking into it found public records from the FCC showing that the owner has be fined or found to be out of compliance for only using the FM translator with the AM station off air in the past, so this points to possible motivation.
Oh yeah, and spectacular public schooling - the state schools are top notch, as are many of the lower education public schools.
For a custom domain, Tuta is offering unlimited aliases for 3 bucks a month. That's not too bad and there are a slew of other features.
Did you try baking with it?
What is an optimum in a two-objective (time, space) problem?

Also, how exactly does time help to save space? Is this about some sophisticated hash functions? Handling collisions?
Roads in California are good? We must live in different states.
That whole text sounds like he gave up.

Like, Svelte isn't better than any alternative in a meaningful way, he's just doing it because he wants to.
I found an awesome-awk[1] page on github and is seems to be a little empty.
Maybe we should contribute to it and bring some examples like subj of this HN post
or ahrf[2], dedicated markup language for static site generators based on awk.
I've started with adding one true awk and bioawk implementations.

[1]: https://github.com/freznicek/awesome-awk
[2]: https://github.com/Ypnose/ahrf
Kind of harsh without context? I worked for a team that did this - putting your birthday on the spreadsheet was entirely optional, as well as attending any celebratory hallway things. Nobody was forcing anybody to do anything. If you had a conflict or was busy working, or just plain didn't want to participate, everybody understood and wouldn't mind.

FWIW I usually didn't participate nor did I let anybody know my birthday and I never felt excluded.
I tried the Microsoft Launcher and loved its functionality but hated the way they pushed Bing and other MS services and Android apps.

Just like Outlook for Android is one of the best mail clients but the only way to get rid of ads is to subscribe to Office 365.

I long for the days when apps were one-off purchases.

Edit: I'm a happy Niagara user, bought the forever license two years ago.
> The reason for the poor view of the NH community (outside NH) is clear from the opinions expressed here.

Where does HN have a poor reputation? Whenever I've seen it mentioned, its either been by other users of the site or people who generally view it favorably (largely due to the post quality).

The only place I've come across that has a particular disdain for it is /g/, but they hate everyone so thats to be expected.
I haven’t been to NYC recently but I read that the public transport has become filthier. Homelessness has become a major issue too.
If I'm considering reporting a bug I came across in a free-software project while at work, that's already something I probably couldn't justify with a strict cost-benefit calculation for my employer.

In practice my employer would be happy for me to spend my time doing it anyway, because it's the right thing to do. But asking them to pay Github for the privilege is pushing it.
for python: 90/100 times, I just run the code/tests/debugger, 8/100 times I'll pull out the code and step through it with my own inputs, 2/100 use a repl and break on areas of interest to debug because the debugger just isn't cooperating. It's just too easy to use the debugger in something like vscode to run a module, especially in python since you can just right click run any old module a lot of the time just make a __main__ and feed some parameters, step through it, unlike with a static language.
Not sure I do agree. During ownership, it should appreciate as assets do. Then things like taxes get reset for the next owner based on whatever they pay. In this way, things reset transparently and still often enough as the normal duration of mortgage is something like 8 years. Not everyone is a buy and hold generation of ownership, people move for jobs and a million other reasons, but people that do choose to live in a house for 50 years shouldn't get penalized for it.
There are institutions for public safety outside of Amazon, such as regulatory bodies and laws, to which it is subject. Amazon is not yet a sovereign country, so the alleged robustness of its suspiciously self-serving internal safety procedures is not relevant here, since there can and should be such a thing as whistleblowing, in the civil society within which Amazon awkwardly sits prior to its secession.
Not the most interesting of questions I have here, but is this indentation style on function definitions a thing or is it just accidental? It's in a few places, mostly before the first arg but sometimes before others.

eg:

function run_command( c, shortopts, longopts, quiet, directory, path, errors)

Just asking as this project has kind of resparked my interest in awk.
having the time to read is such an incredible luxury in these economic times. I haven't done that in 5 years at least. Too busy trying to think of ways to prevent me from living under a bridge when I'm 60
hmm, i think generally criminals are considered scoundrels rather than creepy? obviously it depends on the crime and the culture
Noob here - all these are great... but why can't I just use Heroku to radically not have to deal with a large prt if these things?
Don't need any of it. Start simple. Some may be useful though. The list makes good points. Keep it around and if you find yourself suffering from the lack of something, look through the list and see if anything there would be good ROI. But don't adopt something just because this list says you should.

One thing though, I'd start with go. It's no more complex than python, more efficient, and most importantly IMO since it compiles down to binary it's easier to build, deploy, share, etc. And there's less divergence in the ecosystem; generally one simple way to do things like building and packaging, etc. I've not had to deal with versions or tooling or environmental stuff nearly as much since switching.
Moving doesn't tend to change much.
Yes housing prices go down but so do wages.
Also you'll have the added expense of a car (and all the stress that brings along with it).
People move to dense areas because that's where job opportunities are. It's a vicious cycle.

For software devs tho, you are right. Just get a remote job.
While I love ECS you're not giving k8s enough credit. Nearly every COTS (common off the self) app has a helm chart, hardly any provide direct ECS support. If I want a simple kafka cluster or zookeeper cluster there's a supported helm chart for that, nothing is provided for ECS, you have to make that yourself.
Once a year around black Friday I start a new prime trial, order a bunch of heavily discounted stuff and cancel the membership. I'm pretty sure there aren't sufficient margins and they are losing money on my order (with the hope most people will keep buying/keep the prime membership).
Where are you from? To be fair, I mean relative to other states. Not that they’re perfect.
Why would people pay hundred a month for complicated broadband internet? All you need is a modem and AOL.

That’s basically your argument. Living in a LCOL area is not comparable to living in NYC.

There is a reason millions want to live in NYC and almost no one actually wants to live in, say, Iowa.
Try turning on reader view in your browser. This puts the text into a much more readable column.
> Plus, someone’s got to pay for everything:

Bizarrely, even experts miss this obvious fact. If not income taxes, then how does government pay the bills? Income taxes are usually the most progressive tax, so no income tax usually means less wealthy people pay more. If government spends less, what services are cut?

No income tax != free lunch. Someone has to pay.
I’ve been coding on my couch instead of my home office with it. Especially with my small laptop, it makes for a relatively portable experience around the house.

Gives me a few advantages:

1. Can spend time with the family/pets easier even if I am working. They’ve gotten over the mild disconnect and the eyes are good enough for them to hold discussions.

2. Even with a small laptop I get a massive screen to work on now and it can be lifted up to a more ergonomic point of view.

3. It’s just better for viewing linear media. So I tend to have a movie or something in the background when family isn’t around.

4. Unlike other headsets I’ve had (Vive, quests, etc) I don’t have to take this off to do most things. Most of my phone apps just work, passthrough is good enough for the first time to get up and walk around the house. I can even just use my phone while wearing it (though I wish there was a FaceID override when wearing it)

Honestly, while I still prefer my dual monitors in my home office space, this is a really great solution for portability.
I go on enough work trips where I only take my small laptop, that this is a big game changer for how well I can work while not in my home office.
Exactly. And now it will be nearly impossible to remove.
Since young single women in urban areas earn more then single men, women should pay for dates.

Maybe a different rule for rural areas.
Power assist lets you turn a wheel with one finger at any ratio the manufacturer chooses... at most you'll get a lag in the assist but not in the mechanical movement (and I'd be amazed if that is perceptible with electric assist let alone hydraulic)

There isn't really any excuse for this.

It's hardly a performance car so perhaps it's not a big issue, but it really should not the there and should be fixed.
> The trick isn't starting a business, but starting a business with a viable business model.

This last sentence makes me think it’s not as easy as you were suggesting to this point.

Anyway, plenty of people start businesses and lose their life savings. I’ve seen it happen.
Yeah. I totally get why people conceptually hate the idea of paying taxes, even if my values lead me to a very different conclusion. That said, most of the arguments I've encountered about places with higher taxes being worse places to live strike me as either glib and uninformed, or in bad faith. That's not a partisan-specific folly by any measure, but it's a folly nonetheless.
> For people making SWE money, Texas is a LOT better tax-wise

How do the people of Texas pay for things, then, if not through income taxes?
Model Card and Evaluations for GOODY-2 [pdf]
> I will not know if the person I'm talking to is using the official Signal app or Tiktok, will I?

Well, if meta is going to sign an agreement with the app, it's probably going to show which app a user is using, especially to avoid username/phone number collisions between platforms.

> I think it was only a change in the ToS that was reflecting what they had already been doing in practice for years, right? Most people I know did not really care, they just got exposed to alternatives (Signal, Telegram, Threema), and then realized that WhatsApp was just fine for them.

Nope, it was much bigger than that, it also heavily widened the scope of the data they stored without encryption.

> I am not sure it will, for the same reason almost everybody uses Google Chrome (not a Chromium variant) or Safari even when there is no lock-in: people just use what they are exposed to.

Chromium isn't relevant here, Email is.
Even though Gmail and Outlook control like 90% of the market, it didn't stop competitors like Proton or Hey from existing, it allows others to innovate without hitting the same issue, lack of users on their platforms.

> An open API enables third-party apps, and that's cool. But forcing WhatsApp to support third-party protocols in their own app is just weird to me

I don't think they have to support anything, it's just an open API, the other app has to be compatible with WhatsApp to be able to send anything.
Also, why not? They have the capability to do so.

I find matrix's article on this very useful
https://matrix.org/blog/2022/02/03/digital-markets-act-and-i...
Don't save electricity. Switch to high efficiency electrical appliances (notably heat pump heating, cooling, water heating)

Add home battery to store electrical energy when cheap (potentially from your own solar panel) and use when expensive.

Then let your country / state lower the electricity carbon intensity.

We must electrify
Didn't this happen in the EU which is 5000 years ahead of the planet?
Ask HN: Which fountain pen ink do you use?
A recent HN thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39301948) got me thinking that I should try other inks. I use a fountain pen as my daily driver (Lamy Safari and now trying the Lamy CP1) but I haven’t ventured beyond the tried and tested inks. Growing up, I used Camlin Royal Blue (I grew up in India). I currently use Lamy ink cartridges, which work well, but don’t have the breadth of colors available in the fountain pen universe. So, please help me with recommendations of inks (colors and brands) I should try to enhance my experience.
GNU/Linux means Linux plus bash, coreutils, glibc, etc.

What do I need to make a video game? Input, sound, graphics. What use is a shell, a userland, or even a C library (if I'm not writing in C) for making a video game?

Android is _not_ GNU/Linux. It doesn't need to provide a shell or userland as part of the platform, and its C library is bionic not glibc. It also provides a lot of things GNU doesn't*, like input, sound, and graphics. It's also not designed to run on a desktop, and the differences between mobile and desktop are non-trivial and slowly growing.

Windows and macOS are full graphical operating systems. Linux is just a kernel. GNU/Linux is just a command-line operating system. Great for servers, terrible for video games.

Moreover, commercial video games are distributed in binary format, not source. Even if input, sound, and graphics were solved on Linux in a consistent way, the developers** can't help but break ABI compatibility every couple of years. Many apps from Windows 3.1 days can still run on Windows 11. What binary from Linux's early days can still run today, never mind with graphics or sound?

* = You could include GLib/GTK+/GNOME but then you're targeting a specific desktop environment and not simply "Linux" or even "GNU/Linux" anymore

** = Except for the kernel developers, upon whom Linus forces "never break userspace" as a hard rule
My guess is that there's an implied "/s", since it may remind iPhone users of what App Library looks like when they tap the search bar. https://imgur.com/a/nC2R0hG

The App Library is nice because it relieves iOS users from micromanaging app grouping/arrangement. I now have just one Home Screen of widgets (including contextual Siri app suggestions), then swipe left to use App Library when needed.
This ignores the prevalence of senior zoned housing and varying legal carve outs for senior housing that the state has.

In practice it’s not that cut and dry
You can have no sense of humor and still be miserable. Humor absolutely is a defense mechanism for people who are sad and depressed; I know because I have anxiety and depression and am funny, and I know why.

But that doesn’t mean everyone funny is miserable.
To earthwalker99: You got downvoted to death because you called out downvotes against you, but to explain more issues with your argument: Capitalism is a system of organizing society based on private ownership of the means of economic production. You're saying capitalism is about prioritizing the rights to capital accumulation by the current holders of capital, which is one specific form of capitalism, often called crony capitalism.

Private ownership of the means of production is more orthogonal to workers rights. There are capitalist economics in countries with very strong workers rights and unions, but where the means of production are still privately owned. Capitalism is fully compatible with strong family and medical leave protections, even though those who own the means of production are disincentived in the short term from giving workers rights. The fact that the US is worse on workers rights isn't a problem unique to capitalism.
Surging Business Formation in the Pandemic: Causes and Consequences? [pdf]
Jarvis was pretty upfront that he was "mad as hell" and wanted a "tax revolt".

Today yeah the marketing is 100% that it's a welfare program for seniors.