skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a renter myself, I have tremendous sympathy for the tenants affected by this. But there is a way to frame this whole saga that makes it much more innocuous:

By maximizing individual profit, the software rapidly finds the real fair market value of rentals. It turns out that the fair market value for rentals is much higher than people thought! This should make sense: housing supply is low, housing demand is high, and housing demand is extremely inelastic. It is a situation where egregious profits should be expected! Landlords simply hadn't realized that they could charge more.

There is one seemingly illogical result, which is that some units go vacant despite the huge demand. But unsold goods are a normal part price discovery, and we are not talking about a huge change: occupancy rates only drop a few percent.

It's a brutal result for tenants, but the alternative is incorrect pricing, which has its own negative implications for the whole market.
what vacancy numbers are we talking about exactly? and how high are they, and how did they change over time?
X1 Carbon running Arch and DWM. Works great, except I haven't configured it to suspend without draining the battery yet.

Love the computer. Can't stand a laptop without a pointing stick. :)
Simulations of ww3 are usually China vs USA... and directly between them is Hawaii... not smart. Zuckerberg and Benioff should be buying Patagonia or something.
Well, I would have called infrared microwaves because the wavelengths are in micrometers, but I believe that ship sailed over a century ago. (P.S. they're using them to cause chemical reactions, not ionize atoms or scatter off electrons, which is definitely more of a UV thing than an X-ray thing.)
>IMHO

As opposed to your dishonest opinion?
This looks excellent, thank you. I'm iterating a lot of startups at the moment, and sort of home-growing a framework, but each new product I want to replace bits of it with off-the-shelf tooling, and this is an excellent selection of components.
Just yesterday the cops apparently showed up at a house 5 doors down from me and shot someone's dog right in front of their family.

Not sure if we have shotspotter, but at least I know the police responded!

(I say apparently because, while I heard the gunshots, and I later saw a heavy police presence and animal control hauling away what appeared to be a dead small animal, I don't ACTUALLY know what happened because I wasn't present at the time. All I know is what a resident of the house told me).
Yeah but that's rarely the case, you can't offer that as a generic "solution" to the problem at hand. It's just Mithril's choice to both publish to npm and to officially link to unpkg. Packages can make different choices, like publishing to GitHub releases or just to include the file in the GitHub repo.

The reality is that only frameworks and very popular browser-specific packages do that.
"If there's anything you could change, what would it be and why?"
Quickly and cheaply validating ideas.
"somnocide"
This is wrong — an entire spectrum of early modern variants starting from _vuestra merced_ to _vuesasted_ to _vusted_ to _usted_ has been demonstrated in written and printed matter across the centuries. It helps that written Spanish has been particularly well documented from the Age of Discovery onwards.
Dell Precision 5570 is what work buys all Linux users at the moment. Dual Intel/nvidia GPU, but I only use the Intel. Works flawlessly that way but no clue how awful nvidia support is. I think coworkers use it.

I do have to enable power management on the nvidia GPU to prevent it from eating my battery in 45 minutes or less, but that’s my only issue.
my impression was that the final race was slower due to the wet track. they also didn't show speed as in the first race. still very impressive.
Oh I didn’t catch that part. It makes sense that wouldn’t be available by default as a focus option.
I wonder what generates the power for this air conditioning?

Do we also air condition the farms?
Please, one of these billionaires, take on the mobile os market. The internet was way more weird and fun back in the day when variety existed.
I don't understand how this justifies writing off the work of security professionals as not real work or not difficult. Is the author talking about people who run security scanner scripts and call it a day? If so, why are those people relevant to discussions of memory safety and why generalize the entire discipline based on them? Are we supposed to generalize the traits/experiences of the average PHP developer and apply that to Haskell and C++ experts too? Every field has lazy people or unskilled hacks in it.

Some subset of the industry having "bad opinions" also does not mean their work suddenly has no value or they're not trying hard. To me this approach to the hard work of real experts is immediately disqualifying for someone's opinions. They can think it, but if they want to say it they should be prepared to not be taken seriously.
How does one use this without an operating system?
My old laptop was a System 76 Gazelle with an Nvidia card, never had any problems with it. I am busy and just left the stock PopOS on there, worked fine.

My current is a Tuxedo Computers Pulse 15 II, with an AMD card. I love this laptop. I mainly bought to have something portable, more memory (64 GB) and quiet. The sold me on the quiet and battery life and it's fantastic.

Early on I had a couple of issues with the hardware suspend but they solved it through their tomte system. (I had an oddball setup I configured with two different drive manufacturers and it was messing with suspend. I found and applied config for my Samsung.)

The only issue I've had with the AMD card is that running Immersed to create virtual desktops for VR using inactive display imports crashes amdgpu. Pretty niche :). Apparently that's something you can do with Nvidia. I worked around it with an HDMI dongle.

Edit: most responses here seem to be the big manufacturers but you really avoid a lot of problems by buying from a Linux vendor. If you're busy, this is a real lifesaver.
Agreed, if you just need a box to run stuff on, Hetzner is hard to beat. I, too, have zero complaints about reliability.
well I can't speak for France but privacy does play a big role in Germany given that we have ample fairly recent history with surveillance regimes, just watch Das Leben der Anderen it's a great film and it's I think culturally a very German movie on this kind of topic.

We were also one of the last places were Firefox still held a majority of users for a surprisingly long time. I think it's still at about ~20%.
YouTube Music team laid off while workers testified about working conditions
HyperCard was late to the show, and confused by not being released as a programming/development tool (usually you had to make a special change to enable that), and it was weird, and it made "Stacks", not programs/applications.
In Brazil: vossa merce -> vosmecê -> você (you).
* political party, not government (in the us at least, up until you start selling internationally)
Counterpoint: Uber
How to Take the Perfect Nap
One thing I’ve been thinking about lately is whether there is the possibility of a frozen Denisovan or Neanderthal falling out of the permafrost somewhere in Siberia. The oldest mammoth found is around 30000 years old, so maybe a bit out of the ballpark.

It seems like it would answer so many questions.
While I don’t disagree with you, I think you have to be heavily plugged into tech news to even know they exist in the first place. I’d guess 99.9% of people have no idea such things exist even if they did want one.
Problem is, most people so want that also don’t want to pay for it, let alone pay more for hardware or software than they do for the spystuff. So the vicious cycle continues
An Apple district manager's Macintosh Portable in 1989-91
It’s not my daily driver but the ThinkPad X1 Nano Gen 1 I use for studying runs Fedora pretty well.

Only complaint is that its screen, while otherwise being excellent, requires 150% UI scaling and the only DE I’ve found that handles fractional scaling under Wayland almost fully competently is KDE, which isn’t quite my style. Have read that several Wayland tiling WMs handle fractional scaling well too but those are even less my thing.
This is valuable context for the post, so thank you for explaining who the author is. It makes his stance on his colleagues all the more confusing though and I can only interpret the post as trolling. At least they're informed opinions, so I can understand why it got posted here.
This doesn’t seem big. The guy doing it is open about who he is. He resides locally. When he starts building he’ll have to file for a permit, and presumably explain his intentions.

The guy has native spiritual advisors (plural!).
14" Asus Expertbook with a recent Intel CPU, 32 GB of Ram, and integrated graphics.

It's the lightest laptop I've ever used, yet still has good build quality and great battery life.

Everything worked out of the box with NixOS, Sway, and suspend-to-disk with full home directory and swap encryption.
I’d guess effectively no one knows they exist in the first place.
I was thinking the same thing. I had to double check that was an article on a .gov website.

I think it’s refreshingly well written and accessible. Not an 800 page blob of legalese.

Nice job to the authors.
In the referenced case a management company was pressuring/forcing participants to go with the recommended prices.
He controls ~81,967 times more wealth than an average American. (I am assuming the median wealth in the US is $122,000). I know that this is controversial but maybe there should be a cap on this metric. I don't know what it should be and how to implement it, but such concentration of wealth, and consequently power, can be dangerous.
> the software rapidly finds the real fair market value of rentals.

That's cool and all but the price should be somewhere between the supplier cost and the purchaser value, not pegged at the top.

> real fair market value

Only if there's strong competition.
I can't make much sense of your comment. It sounds like you're proposing that we air condition anywhere affected by warming. What about farmer's fields? Oceans? Do you know how many people work outside to keep you in air conditioned comfort?

Even if that were possible, humanity has shown that we will only do something worldwide when we're absolutely forced to. We will not be able to do that while dealing with the disasters that come with global climate catastrophe and ecological collapse.
Interesting how takes on ShotSpotter vary depending on the context and situation. In San Jose it was used to help enforce rules against firing guns in the air. In these cases there would usually be reports to police, but finding the shooter was extremely difficult. With ShotSpotter it became possible to identify locations on individual lots. Using this information enforcement became much more effective and there was a huge reduction in celebratory gunfire. In a large number of these cases no charges needed to be filed as gun owners were often uninformed, apologetic, and compliant. From the start of this program it was explicitly stated that ShotSpotter information would only be used by constables on patrol and would not be admitted as evidence in court. System coverage was based on where crimes were being reported. That such criteria overlap with race and class makes sense without necessarily being connected.

It would be interesting to know if there might be some reasonable bounds that could be used to enable ShotSpotter to be used without being considered intrusive surveillance. Having information about gunshots or possible gunshots can be extremely useful for responders who need to understand where events are happening. This does not necessarily mean that the system has to be open to other uses, especially recording and replay of audio.
Ah of course, silent pushes. I thought those also end up getting ignored after some time. Interesting to know they don't. Thanks for the explanation.
Ouch, yeah. I appreciate your topicality with this comment given the recent saga of tech layoffs. Much luck to you if you're in that experience right now!! Say you got fired form a S.Eng job at 350K yearly and some young grunt on 165K slid into your DMs and wanted to meet to chat. What would make you agree to that? I think it's unlikely, but perhaps if they reflected to you all the things you already thought were stupid about that company, and that you suffered with. You would want to help them as in their suffering, you could see your own, despite getting laid off. I think in that situation, there's a chance you might actually go over the codebase with them, in a conversation that mixed 1 part that, with 1 part self-commiserating and complaining/airing/venting about the org.

What at first seems an unlikely pairing, I think, given the right "relational config" in moment could actually end up working pretty well. Seems there's plenty opportunities for such a coupling to have many fruitful outputs for both parties.
Didn't the Chinese real estate market collapse recently, with several major bankruptcies?
Dell precision 5680 just moved from Precision 5500. Running Ubuntu mate 22.04 on the first and Ubuntu 22.04 on the latter.

Not many major issues, on the 5550 everything worked pretty great except using VMs slowed everything to a crawl and some weird networking issues where the connection would randomly drop to 2mb/s.

Just started with he 5680, and had to do some back and forth with the graphics driver to get it to work and am now running into a weird issue where an electron app will open and display blank for several minutes before loading and working fine. Still investigating.

Still not worth going to Windows even with the challenges.
thanks, i will fix that lol
Interesting. Portuguese (at least Brazilian, not sure how it is in Portugal) uses você for the 2nd person pronoun (and doesn't maintain a formal/informal distinction), and você came from vossa mercê. Since that's where usted, sumercé, and você came all come from, I'm guessing it must be a Latin thing?
Cellular watch + earbuds would do that for the basic phone part, and it shares the number with your full smartphone.
That's like saying people shouldn't invest in farms, or pharmacies, or water pumps because there are poor or mentally disabled people who have trouble securing and affording those products.
> Maybe at some point their culture changed again?

Supposedly Tumblr has done the same. They crashed and burned so hard that they actually came out of the ordeal with a reverse eternal September effect, where miraculously most people act respectfully towards each other and are not just trying to exploit the platform.
I think I agree on Portal 2! Honestly, the rendering style may have been an unnecessary challenge. It was way harder to implement than I thought and caused me to almost abandon the whole thing.
Feels pretty incredibly prescient in the current era, hey.
maybe somewhere in the himalayas or the extended eurasian mountain range for the denisovans, they were closer to that area

siberia i doubt though, and probably not neanderthals
Why do increasing incomes support demand? I am not going to move to another place exactly the same just because I make more money. In order for prices to increase, I would have to be moving into a better place than I am in now, which means it would cost more anyway. Me moving laterally gives me no utility.
>> Screen time on iOS isn't enough

> Have more self control. ;-)

Focus modes are more powerful and customizable, sounds like what GP wants to me.

Change wallpapers, notification preferences, show/hide apps, all sorts of stuff.
You're over-emphasizing the methods by which these people are price-fixing, rather than the result. The result is a price higher than the market-clearing price that is low enough to find tenancy for all housing. Any scheme to generate excess profit by raising rent above this price is (or ought to be) illegal, whether it's colluding to do price fixing, using some algorithm to price-fix, or monopolizing the market.
Class action lawsuit over Apple's 5GB iCloud limit and iOS backup restrictions
They thought he deserved it, and voted to send him the money. Then this guy started stopping them.
China is not doing anything to the US, western countries were willing to hide the black money of countries before as it helped their economies. As China and other countries got richer the amount of money those people started bringing and putting into the real estate of western cities in the world exploded. The property market crash of 2008 and low interest rates made the situation worse. Now people in the west are crying about property prices but if they stopped allowing in black money from countries they would not face the problem they do. If they can find out about terror financing etc then they for sure can find all the corruption and black money coming into their countries/cities.
Allegedly. I’m skeptical though…
If "support demand" means people want better homes, then that's fine.

If people are spending more real money to get the same housing, something has gone wrong.
I'm under the impression that you work for a company that sells services related to FastAPI? https://github.com/Intility/fastapi-azure-auth

I maintain an open source library in my spare time for free, that you are welcome to ignore if you find better alternatives.
That's a whole long list of caveats you got there.
No, hadn't heard of that. Looks like it's doing a bit too much. I'm not sold on ORMs or auto-genned scaffolding apps. The tRPC lib they're using OTOH looks interesting. Kind of. Looks like I'd have to give up my server lib/router for theirs, but then it looks like they botched the client-side error formatting which is the one thing I haven't solved: https://trpc.io/docs/server/error-formatting How is this good UX?

<pre>Error: {JSON.stringify(mutation.error.data.zodError, null, 2)}</pre>

Formik (https://formik.org/docs/api/errormessage) does OK with the "touched" and "errors" objects, that helps you render out the error messages nicely, next to the inputs, but for my very first use-case I wanted to validate a File input and it seems to struggle with that a bit. Can't do it without suppressing some TS errors but maybe it's an edge case. And it of course doesn't handle the server half of the equation. So.. yeah.
> He wrote that AstraZeneca’s participation in the Medicare market is voluntary, so the company’s “desire” or even “expectation” to sell its drugs to the government “at the higher prices it once enjoyed does not create a protected property interest.”
Locally? Despite how powerful an iPad is I have no expectation you’re going to be able to do it anytime soon.
Here a formula for a class of business ideas that sounds great for anyone but the founder:

Given a company A that does B for C, create a company A' that does B++ for C--.
Main things, worked on Ken Griffey Major League Baseball, and I was lead developer on a dinosaur river ride VR project.
If even west aligned media says it’s for saving lives, I would trust that the information is indeed so. China already has nukes. I don’t think they need to wage bio warfare in which their own population is likely to suffer (see COVID)
> They also sold MS Fortran and MS Lisp.

1980s Microsoft Lisp was just reselling Soft Warehouse muLISP, minus the compiler. In 1999, Soft Warehouse was purchased by Texas Instruments. Microsoft also resold their computer algebra system, muMATH which was built on top of muSIMP (muLISP with an Algol-like syntax)

MS Fortran, by contrast, I believe was always an in-house Microsoft-developed product. So originally was Microsoft COBOL versions 1 and 2, but version 3 onwards was rebadged MicroFocus COBOL
You could buy an older iPhone to use with it and just basically keep the phone at home in a drawer.

There is a mode for the watch that is designed to let you give them to family members who don’t have phones (think small children or maybe the elderly) but from what I’ve heard it’s a buggy hassle.
Good question, but I don’t remember.
Minetest is much more of a game engine.

I've heard from someone I know that played both extensively that minetest is less prone to losing everything for data corruption (never happened once in minetest, regularly in minecraft after a while. But sample size is 1).
I translated my README to your language with AI. Can you help check it?
I encourage anyone who believes this to check out both
Algorithmic Thinking (2nd Edition)
thinkpad t440p with ZorinOS
In Europe, my Austrian friend said: “If we were using ropes, you’d be fine to fall. Do not fall on via ferrata today, I have dinner plans“
Linux mainly since the end 90s. Most of it with i3. There is simply nothing more productive for me. It feels handicapped using anything else; it feels actually clunky when I see other people using something else.
minetest is open source for real though
Thank you so much for the rom hack link. I just started playing it; the graphics, music, and level design are excellent. I also really appreciate that it isn't too difficult, at least in the early levels I'm playing right now.

If you have any other SMW hack recommendations, please share!
> Real Estate is a free money machine, and it won’t stop until we adopt realistic government controlled system.

Real Estate will stop being a free money machine when the government stops artificially restricting housing supply with single-use, single-family zoning.
I don't think this is entirely true. If people who are currently renting move into homes then their apartments will be rented to people who are looking for housing.

It seems like if you add supply to one area of the housing market like the one above, there is a group of people ready to take advantage of that supply.
3bdroom apartment renters buy a home, then 2bdroom apartment renters get a bigger place that's affordable and meets their needs.

Assuming this works exactly like intended, that 1 family with two or three houses now only owns one and 2 other families get a house, then you're freeing up supply across the whole range of properties.
Suspend works and everything? I've ditched ubuntu due to stuff like snapd and installed debian instead. It seems whenever the GPU gets put into low power mode (suspend) it gets into an invalid state that not even a reboot can resolve. I have to power down, wait, and then turn the laptop back on.

I'm sure I messed something up when I installed everything and probably added a workaround that isn't meant for my driver version (systemd/persistenced scripts)
But that’s not how shotspotter is supposed to work. It’s supposed to detect gunshots, not be used for evidence of voice recordings. If that was the point they could just put microphones recording everyone and play them back whenever there was a crime.
I bought a ThinkPad T495s despite some of their warts because the Linux compatibility is generally good, and they can be found for cheap secondhand. Battery life is not great, but it's powerful enough for coding and spinning up test k8s clusters. I used to have an X1 Carbon 9th-Gen, but the thermals were so bad it would throttle after only 2 minutes under load. I could get a MacBook Pro and have a smoother experience, but the advantge of secondhand is that I don't care about the hardware. It gets destroyed who cares, just buy another one.
Game over for Roblox in my household.

Had enough with futzing around to get Windows working on the occasions they want to play it. Not to mention the 'Download and install Roblox' doom loop when you try and start a game (oh, you have to reboot a few times to make it work?).
Yeah external cables are a hard no from my SO due to aesthetics, which makes retrofitting PoE difficult.