skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From an "outside the black box" PoV of the rental market, there is very little difference between:

(1) 95% (say) of landlords secretly meet somewhere, conspire, then set their new rent rates together

(2) 95% of landlords secretly meet somewhere, conspire, then all set their new rent rates based on the "individualized" advice of Rent, Loot, & Pillage Consulting Co.

(3) 95% of landlords listen to marketing pitches from RealPage, understand the between-the-lines message that using RealPage's software would be a great "all the added profits, but none of the legal exposure" alternative to a price-fixing conspiracy, and decide to buy & use the software.
That all sounds obvious and inevitable, but it also relies on the return from capital out-earning the return from labor by quite a lot. This hasn’t always been true, but it does seem likely to continue.
The vendor wouldn't have been able to afford the price of the business with the land in the deal, it would have massively complicated chapter 11 if they needed to enter it (they did), given were the company was, reducing tax burden was important (sale was done at near breakeven). Sale+Rent back is a very traditional move in clearing up a business that has very little value and is leaning heavily on a real estate portfolio (not it's core business). You can read all the court filings and disclosures over the years, it paints a different story.

I understand the media told a story, but the story isn't the whole story, in fact it's just that: a story.
The problem is they can't give the owner an adequate price when they're paying for the owner to grow more equity in the property while also needing to save at a faster rate to afford a downpayment on a mortgage.
Ugh. Digital wallets are unbelievably nice. Almost at the point where taking an actual wallet places is completely unnecessary and that feels very nice. Sucks to see issues like this regarding them. Hopefully this gets patched asap.
Yes, and I don’t see them moving away any time soon. It’s too much on their balance sheets (Europe is a bigger market than China for Apple, and the other two are deeply embedded with the local administrations and companies). All of them are following the legislative frameworks and adapting.
Doprax.com is built on top of hetzner/digitalocean/ovh/vultr and has nice auto-deploy functions from github ! And accepts lots of payments options
Yeah, that's really good advice.
I don't know about Australia, but in my jurisdiction any illegal contractual clauses are unenforceable.

If the law says "X is forbidden" and the contract says "employee agrees to do X" then the employer has no legal recourse to force employee to do X.

Point 2. is the usual on-call, and it's still regulated (in my jurisdiction) by mandatory rest periods during which a person is legally mandated to not work.
I have 40 years of C muscle memory and it took me many tries and a real investment to get into Rust, but I don’t do any C anymore (even for maintenance- I’d rather rewrite it in Rust first).

Rust isn’t in a difference class from C, it’s a different universe!
> How many CEOs did France judicial arrest for OVH fires?

OVH were sued and found liable for damages due to their backups being by default on the same site. But they weren't criminally liable, unless you know something the French magistrates don't?
That depends entirely on if you ask permission before you interrupt another person.
And/or: Have separate work and personal devices and never cross the streams. When I'm done working on Friday, I put my work laptop and work phone in a soundproof drawer and don't open the drawer until Monday morning.

At the very least don't install work Slack on your personal phone!!
Self-hosted solutions are the way.

No one will be stealing your data as the big corps do.

Less chances to overrun your budget because of how cloud platforms conveniently have no breaks on utilisation of resources.
My development doesn’t have above ground wiring.

All the Frontier fiber options in my area are not available to me.

Comcast xfinity is the only option.
I recommend reading the filing since the DOJ isn't saying this.

The main differences is that RealPage collects and digests nonpublic information among competitors.

The DOJ also has a lot of evidence that RealPage knew that this would increase prices and prevent competition.

RealPage itself is also a monopoly. There are strong network effects with the service, and RealPage's willingness to allegedly anticompetitively raise prices means a another more scrupulous competitor is unlikely to succeed.
I agree on all points you're making, but you can't standardize on hashing when the data being hashed will vary due to business reasons. I just can't see any way that this can be realistically standardized outside of a single business, maybe even business-unit depending on the kind of company.

Perhaps you mean something like "standardized hash of all columnar data for the table row," but then you're just reinventing elasticsearch/lucene, with all its pros and cons. The power of foreign keys for a RDBS is that they are pointers, and as pointers, the mutability of their underlying data is what makes them powerful. I think I get what you're asking for, but I also think there can be no possible standard that is reasonable unless you have the technology to take a total snapshot of the universe, at which point, why not just measure the universe itself as your database? Perfect storage system.
Thank you for your thoughtful feedback! You’ve highlighted some critical challenges, and I’d like to address them:

Engagement and Traction for Educational Products: I do recognise the challenge of maintaining user engagement with educational products. To tackle this, the platform can focus on immediate and measurable outcomes closely tied to career advancement. My idea is to offer projects aligned with specific job roles and certifications, similar to the approach used by LeetCode for interview prep. Additionally, I can integrate gamification, rewards, and real-world portfolio-building to motivate learners and demonstrate tangible progress.

Relevance of Project-Based Skills: I believe project-based learning is valuable because it demonstrates hands-on experience and problem-solving skills. This platform will focus on creative and open-ended challenges rather than step-by-step tutorials, emphasising critical thinking and real-world scenarios. This approach ensures projects remain relevant and credible to employers, showcasing the learner's ability to tackle complex, real-world problems.

Consider a simple project like building a To-Do List application. In a traditional tutorial, learners might be guided through a linear set of instructions, such as:

Step-by-Step Instructions: "First, create an HTML file with an input field and a button. Next, add JavaScript to capture the input and append it to a list. Finally, style the application using CSS."

Pre-Defined Code: Learners are typically given all the code snippets they need to copy and paste.

In contrast, on this platform, learners can be given a more open-ended task:

Problem Statement: "Create a To-Do List application where users can add, delete, and mark tasks as complete. Consider how to handle data storage, user interactions, and performance optimisation."

Guided Problem Solving: Instead of providing specific code snippets, learners are given prompts to encourage independent thinking. For example:

Prompt: "Now, implement a function in script.js to add new tasks to the list. Try to think about how you might dynamically create new list items and append them to the task list."
Interactive Hints and Mini-Challenges: If learners struggle, the platform provides hints or offers mini-challenges to guide them toward the solution. For example:

Hint: "How would you select the input value using JavaScript?"

Mini-Challenge: "What happens if you enter an empty task? How can you prevent adding empty tasks to the list?"

hey aren't just copying and pasting code; they're learning to think like developers, considering edge cases, making design decisions, and troubleshooting errors.

Incentives for Community-Driven Content: To overcome the chicken-and-egg problem, we can start with high-quality seed content created by a chosen team of experts. For community contributions, we’ll offer incentives such as monetary rewards, revenue sharing, increased visibility, and professional recognition. We can also implement a robust quality control system to maintain high content standards and ensure valuable learning experiences.

I would greatly appreciate your opinion on all the points I mentioned!
VC accused of 'hostile takeover' of S.F. neighborhood
Market competition is essential for a functioning market. Eliminating software whose purpose is to prevent the market from competing on price is a huge win.

We won't miss them.
We are talking about the program that deliberately advises leaving apartments empty to decrease supply and increase rents?

For would be tenants the choice is paying through the nose, or homelessness. The option to delay homelessness by getting stuck in a debt trap does not make it tenant friendly.
It's almost like piracy has a useful purpose.
At least for user space usage, I'm not sure a new kernel thing is needed. Quite a while ago I have implemented a user space (single producer / single consumer) ring buffer, which uses an eventfd to mimic pipe behavior and functionality quite closely (i.e. being able to sleep & poll for ring buffer full/empty situations), but otherwise operates lockless and without syscall overhead.
Borges had some interesting thoughts on translation, including this great line:

"The original was unfaithful to the translation."

BORGES AFFIRMED, in earnest, that an original can be unfaithful to a translation. He vehemently objected to claims that certain translations he admired are “true to the original” and derided the presuppositions of purists for whom all translations are necessarily deceitful in one way or another. Borges would often pro- test, with various degrees of irony, against the assumption – ingrained in the Italian adage traduttore traditore – that a translator is a traitor to an original. He referred to it alternatively as a superstition or pun. For Borges the Italian expression, unfairly prejudiced in favor of the original, is an erroneous generalization that conflates differ- ence with treachery. The idea that literary translations are inherently inferior to their originals is, for Borges, based on the false assumption that some works of literature must be assumed definitive. But for Borges, no such thing as a definitive work exists, and therefore, a translator’s inevitable transformation of the original is not necessarily to the detriment of the work. Difference, for Borges, is not a sufficient criterion for the superiority of the original.

https://open.unive.it/hitrade/books/KristalBorges.pdf
How anyone can be blind to the presence and downright prevalence of misinformation online is beyond me.
The 6 reliable sources provided, which I trust you read in the 30 minutes between their posting and your reply, speak for themselves.

If you can convince all 6 reliable sources I linked, to correct their story, such that it reflects your own personal narrative of what happened, I will believe you.

Alternatively, you could provide 6+ equally-reliable sources which explicitly point out that the 6 reliable sources I cited are wrong (rather than just reframing the issue, or attempting to predict what would have happened had reality been different than what it was).

While I respect you as a person, and as a valuable contributor to this forum, your personal narrative simply isn't as reliable as the 6 reliable sources I provided.
I would agree that having a price enforcement mechanism crosses the line, but I can’t find evidence that they do.
Agreed, this feature is on our todo list. Another big problem we're aiming to tackle is the tribal knowledge that builds up on teams in part due to a lack of documentation. We want to make it easy to build new runbooks and keep existing runbooks up to date

And thanks for the bug report, I'll take a look
At $309/month, something tells me the plan is only going to be of interest to the technically savvy.
They also (as I understand it) have landlords sign an agreement that they will charge RealPage's suggested rent and not undercut it. This is the collusion part. It's not just a market research service, they are manipulating prices.
> Why would it make people poorer?

Because people buying something means they no longer have the money, and are thus, poorer. If you have $20, and you buy lunch for $10, you now are $10 poorer.

> Were you under the impression that colleges burn the money?

(looking around at my alma mater, which has tripled the size of administration and built like four new sports stadiums, while the wages of professors have remained flat for ten years and cost-per-credit-hour has tripled) -- um, yes? Are there colleges that don't just burn the money, or dump it into stocks/bonds/trusts/etc?
In this case I'd recommend you to reject everyone who speaks English fluently, since he might be from NSA.
I know a bit of AMD GPU machine code, and it seems based on what I heard that RISC-V has only support for 'GPU vector' instructions, not 'GPU scalar' instructions, namely no "hardware thread mask" definition.

And I heard that RISC-V GPU ISA was already extended with raytracing hardware instructions.

For sure, 3D pipeline programing will be specific to one implementation, but since vulkan/dx12, it would have to be hardware command ring buffers (like for AMD GPUs).
A lot of old people in red states straight up voted for the day of the pillow and gleefully accepted it.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/texas-lt-governor-thinks-old...

These comments from the lt governor and trump were extremely popular with their base and with the population of Texas.

What do you do when the people being murdered vote for their own murder?
“… and Kibana for metrics logging”

I love the ELK stack. Very much; but last I worked with it at a well-oiled company 7ish(?) years ago, we had one full time employee’s worth of time dedicated to keeping it stable, not to mention the infra costs.

Was this really a savings when you now you have to manage your own SLA and have an on-call rotation for it?
Swift Macros at Scale
The hype curve of transportation climate solutions
> But why does that matter? Help me understand.

It doesn't really.

ZMacs and the Listener on the Lisp Machine is just as single threaded as GNU Emacs. One ZMacs frame cannot run the above code without locking up, one Listener instance cannot run the above code without locking up, if you open a file in ZMacs it will lock up while reading up the file.

The only difference is that when the ZMacs background process is working, you can still talk to the Lisp Machine in other ways.

The closest you might get with GNU Emacs is running multiple versions, one for each "program" (Emacs, mail, web browser, ...) -- still not exactly the same thing since you can't easily poke into the mail program from another instance.

At the end of the day .. none of this matters much, as we can evidently see since nobody has really tried to fix this.
> That is unfair. The developers felt there is a gap between fully imperative state-modifying mudball and fully declarative purity-land, which is true, and decided to try their hand at it. How well they did is yet to be seen.

What I meant was: the thesis has to be crystal clear rather than building into the aether "organically" by hope and wishes rather than practical need. This is a similar failure of coding away on a "startup" without sales only to discover no one needs or wants to buy the result.

Time and time again, Linux distros create messy, commingled system with user dependencies that increase system entropy and footgun stability. Even Alpine isn't immutable or really self-contained. The major, novel departure in this area was Core OS.

As an example under-served category in the marketplace: If one wanted to create a more resilient server OS, I would evaluate bringing together aspects of the following:

- Qubes - app isolation

- RHEL - kernel

- Rocky/Alma - governance

- Core OS - system isolation

- NixOS - package management

- FreeBSD - development, integration, and QA as a system

- (N/A) - fleet management (missing in 99.999% of Linux distros)
The First Pancake
The Texas Heart Institute Implants BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart [video]
Why stop there? Why not just remove all pricing completely, and let your clients contact sales for the shake down? That model seems to work great for many SaaS companies.
What books last and (mostly) don't last
I've exclusively used Awesomewm for the past 15ish years (with a brief attempt at Sway, but that's a story for another time). I don't understand what OP is talking about. Do they want more integration between the WM and the DE? If so, I don't understand why? AwesomeWM does everything I need it to do, without getting in my way.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding OP?

Edit: the comments on the blog post talk about integrations with things like volume management and network management, apparently that's (a|their) defintion of DE vs a WM. Those are not features I care about at all, so maybe I'm not the target audience here. AwesomeWM has plenty of widgets for volume or wifi or whatnot, but I mostly use a terminal.
[dupe]

More discussion on official release last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41330007
Still some weaknesses with cloth but that's really impressive
Coolify has enabled me as a technical marketer to self-host with ease. Much cheaper than putting something on Railway too!
Olivetti was amazing but they got screwed by the Italian government. Basically executive positions were imposed by Italian politics so you ended up with an amazing company with a bunch of scumbags at the top siphoning up all the profits.
That’s why you need domain experts and clear explanations and hypotheses before you experiment, otherwise you’re throwing shit at a wall to see what sticks.

Companies can continue to monitor cohorts to compare retention to check the potential outcomes you highlighted.
I use Firefox primarily to support an independent rendering engine. I also like the extensions offered by Firefox more than any other browser. But I would love to see a better managed, user focused fork of it. Time will tell, but for now I am using Firefox until a better alternative comes along.
One of my friends says that the reason why this and several other important problems haven't been solved is because the problems themselves are just too valuable. Think of all the money flowing around...
That was my first introduction to C and I hacked a lot on that code. A very enjoyable time was had.

My only regret with Rust is that a “Small Rust Compiler” will be an order of magnitude larger.
Would you ask a blind person to pick between two colours for you? LLMs do not see the individual letters in the word, they work with tokens.
> Also, I'm a big fan of "contact us for pricing." It's annoying for users who are window-shopping and want a quickie ballpark

Don't underestimate those kinds of customers.

For example, an ad for custom tile showers showed up in my feed. I just wanted to "window shop" the price, so I could get an idea if it was something I wanted to do, and plan when to do it.

I filled in the form with a "I'm just looking for a ballpark number, please don't call me."

No response.

Salespeople just don't understand how irritating phone calls are when you're collecting data: Whatever I'm doing at any given moment significantly more important than dropping what I'm doing to answer the phone. This is especially important if all I need to know is a ballpark number to know if I'm interested in having such a phone call.
>It's like pointing out that Santa Claus isn't real.

Say what now?
I really don't mean to be pedantic, but that would already be interrupting someone right?
Only if this were untrue, i.e., I was motivated by the fact that it made my customers believe my product was better than a worse product.

For me the principle is based on not exploiting the gap between the consumer and a better informed version of themselves. (“What would they want if they knew?”) There’s a principle of double effect: I don’t have to expend unlimited resources to educate them, but I shouldn’t take active steps to reduce information, and I shouldn’t leave them worse off compared to me not being in the market.
I promise you that there is some objectivity in software architecture, and that you can indeed extract useful information from books.
> I live in a town where all the officials express politically popular laments about the affordability of housing, but every time a developer wants to build apartments or tear down some old run-down post-war cookie-cutter houses for modern duplexs or tri-levels these same officials run them through a gauntlet of demands and then often as not end up denying the permits.

Hah, in my town, the developers and officials are all best friends, posts all over Facebook, going to each other's kids soccer and football games, going on vacation together, going out fishing together...
A much more salient cause is the 0% (base) interest rates. Obviously you can afford the a larger mortgage at 3% than at 7%. This should eventually reverse itself with higher interest rates, but right now no one with a 3% mortgage is selling, because then they'd be stuck with a higher mortgage, so there are even fewer houses available for purchase, but roughly the same demand.

I also think AirBnB has increased housing prices, although I don't know how one would find evidence for that. But with AirBnB, now your house can also produce income, so the price of a home should rise to account for that. Plus it reduces supply, because some people rent out homes on AirBnB without even living in them.
Which is why the big cloud providers have European data centers that comply with all relevant European laws where many big European companies, including some banks, medical companies, etc. choose to host their stuff. You know, the type of companies that would actually care a lot about such things and let their lawyers make sure they are doing all the right things.

AWS actually joined Gaia-x years ago. I think MS and Google did as well. They want to be compliant. Keeping their European customers happy is important to them. They use European legal entities as well to do business here. Because that is indeed required. No need to switch cloud provider. Just make sure you use them correctly and do all the right things. Which in any case is 100% your responsibility as you will be on the spot if you get that wrong. This job doesn't change if you switch cloud provider.
Per your original link, 10 appeared after the two deaths. Let's give me a little bit of conspiratorial leeway

Boeing clearly knew they had a big organizational problem. So they tried to intimidate the first two to dissuade more whistleblowing

Unfortunately the opposite happened. You and I both know that they're not going to expedite the deaths of another 10 whistleblowers appearing after the first two die. Then the heat will seriously be on.

I'll even grant you the second death was good old medical incompetence

The first death however is a classic CIA suicide. Quick short note, gunshot to head, other associated evidence.

And yet, why did he repark to a more remote location? Maybe it's shame, but it also suspiciously aligns with an assassin moving the target to a less monitored location.
> Because people buying something means they no longer have the money, and are thus, poorer.

How does you, hypothetically, paying me $100,000 to teach you how to weave baskets under water make me poorer? By my math I gained $100,000. $100,000 more I now have to spend on a house that I wouldn't have had otherwise.

> Are there colleges that don't just burn the money?

Presumably all of them. At very least they pass a large portion of that money off to administrators, who then often buy houses with the money.