skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The explanation is that there isn't enough housing to meet demand. That's it. Until there is, prices will keep going up even when building more units.

Landlords wouldn't be buying up a ton of units and renting them out at a profit if there was a glut of inventory, because it would be a terrible investment.
How does a residential proxy work? Do people rent out their internet connections to commercial services?
Yes, because it's trying to make your business as legally necessary as a tax. It's to do with regulation, not renting things.
There is a housing shortage.

That's it.

Fix it by building more housing.

Nothing else is gonna do anything.
Dude billing never a problem. People wanting to pay you is the point of a business
> we have not had a plane blow up into buildings since, so something must be working

Yeah, 10 minutes after the event every person on earth now knows the best strategy is to rush the cockpit, not sit calmly and wait for the hijackers to ask for a ransom, which was the previous norm.

Between that and reinforced concrete doors flying planes into buildings is no longer a viable strategy.
> printed a boatload of cash and gave it out as furlough for waiters and nurses and construction workers … US printed 10 trillion dollars

Well, I don’t think 10 trillion was paid to waiters and nurses and construction workers, etc. I’m curious what that actual number was. I’d be surprised if it touched 1 trillion. Something like 250 billion sounds more plausible to me, but if anyone has a source that would be interesting.

10 trillion was added to the money supply, but I believe the vast majority of it went somewhere else and never passed through the sort of people you mention.

The money supply expansion did juice the stock market and avoided a recession on paper, while shifting real value from savers and earners over to asset holders. Working as intended, I suppose.

I think the biggest BS aspect of inflation is that wages are set in USD basically universally and are therefore subject to inflation.

You can choose to move your savings out of USD and into something more stable, but if you are a worker you can’t move your comp into anything else.

The second most BS part is being taxed on inflation whenever you sell assets. Even if the asset doesn’t have any real appreciation, you get to pay tax on whatever the government decided to inflate the currency by. Absolute nonsense.
You mean that the packets go through a router? They would do that regardless though?
Do people really fall for scam like that?

First, I assume the author knows the email came from github, as the screenshot does not show this very clearly. If that's the case:

Red flag #1: email links to a variation of real domain. If you don't have information on who github-scanner.com is, it is pretty safe to assume it's a scam , just because it sounds like a real website.

GIANT Enormous Huge Red Flag #2: captcha asks you to types command in shell. I have no comment on how naive one must be to do this.
I saw him perform twice in Los Angeles. Despite being over 70, he performed over 3 hours. It was outstanding. Outside of seeing U2 at the Sphere, it was the best live events I've ever attended.
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> You can't get away from IPv4 as long as you have users who can't access IPv6-only servers.

That depends on your definition of "can't get away from". Your users can live on a IPv6 only lan and have the IPv4 world available to them. IPv6 supports 4 in 6 - ie you can embed IPv4 addresses in IPv6, so all you need is a gateway that translates IPv4 to IPv6 for them.

I've done it. At a conference, to unsuspecting users. All phones support IPv6 well, so they didn't notice. Not one complaint - I was blown away by how well it all worked.

It was done because some noisy attendees insisted on being assigned routable IP addresses. That can be difficult to provide with IPv4 for obvious reasons, whereas ISP's will happily hand you thousands of billions of IP{v6 routable addresses, for free.

I set up the gateway myself, rolling my own using a linux box I had lying around. Adding the 4 in 6 capabilities is maybe an hours work on top of all the other setup you have to do on the box, and that includes googling to find what tools you need and how to configure them. It's not hard.
Fair enough, I just happened to have an E92 and one day I read all about its systems when it had some major electrical issues :) (Turned out they were due to someone forgetting to clip a piece of harness back in place after some work, and as a result the harness rubbed against something in a wheel arch, eroding the insulation and letting water in intermittently screwing up the CAN bus!)
> Real page is doing nothing amazing - collating price information and telling landlords “hey a flat like this is renting for 20% on the next street”.

Not true and not what RealPage is being charged with.

What RealPage actually did was:

- Provide a suggested rent
- Set their default at "use suggested rent"
- Promise landlords that suggested rent would always increase
- Pressure landorders who rented under the suggested price
- Connect landlords, so they could talk about pricing
I have gone through 10 final rounds… I feel there are so many candidates that small things are getting called into question. I’ve gotten dinged for being too verbose, for being too terse, for being nervous, for having to debug, for not debugging enough… I just had one where I got knocked for having the right time complexity, but using two more methods than needed.
Would it end up in the waste water eventually even if it was only going around in birds?
Thank you for this wonderful and detailed answer (of which I only understood maybe ~20% of, but still learned a lot)!
Sure it is: https://peergos.org/posts/decentralized-social-media

It is social media where only the end users' devices can decrypt the posts and comments. Then surveillance is not possible. Targeted ads are not possible.
> The important question is whether what is built provides a benefit, i.e., some gain in a prospective customer’s life.

"The important question is whether it can goad people into playing yet another game of the prisoner's dilemma to introduce even more technology into their lives with relatively little actual benefit"

There, fixed that for you.
Cool.

How did you build so many integrations so fast?

Selfishly, would love to see Streak (CRM) integration as well.
Why not we just have a system like the beacons of Gondor?
If the FCC can't enforce the prevention of interference with radio broadcasts it is not the FCC. I'm not sure what ruling you're referencing but I doubt it nulls out the core idea of what the FCC does.
No, it's to do with being a useless middleman who extracts wealth without serving any productive economic purpose. Regulation isn't required in the slightest.
Sure but many groups of people work to service debt, such as the purchase of a house, education, medical expense or a small business loan. Demonstrating that landlords are not all of the leisure class is insufficient to imply they are equally living hard scrabble working lives compared to the population writ large.
Never mind it's taboo to talk about how the pandemic made you wealthy. The divide is real, and I feel for the people who thought a $2000 stimulus check was a win. If only they knew about assets and broker margin.
If everyone's saving up to buy then the prices will go up. This is a demand problem, not a landlord problem. Too much demand vs supply makes prices go up. Far, far too much demand vs supply means landlords step in and invest, and divide properties into smaller pieces to rebalance supply to demand, or as much as is in each one's power.
I received one of these notifications this morning and promptly ignored it. I had to laugh because it was about this repo specifically: https://github.com/kyledrake/theftcoinjs
AM transmissions have a far greater range than FM transmissions, up to thousands of miles. This matters in a common emergency scenario, a nuclear bomb blast (or all out nuclear war), when EMPs will take out most electronics. Cars are Faraday cages and their electronics will likely survive an EMP. In this case, an AM radio in a car is likely the last surviving broadcast medium people will have access to.
I’m interested to know how your residential connections are sourced.

It says they’re “ethically sourced”, but it seems like malware/botnet like behavior.

Are these residential users aware their traffic is siphoned off for this purpose?
You'd have to outline how the current system isn't fair, or even what fair is.
Mostly Fivetran, a little Airbyte, and a few custom integrations. Would love to add Streak (can you get it into Fivetran? We can usually crank those integrations out within an hour.)
I've always heard owner occupied apartments called condos. Is there a difference I'm not aware of?

You're paying the landlord for the cost of capital and the property management. And a 400k house in the stock market would on average generate 40k a year in appreciation. Most apartments in functional markets aren't anywhere near that appreciative.
Once they introduce that, the texts will become more varied, and links, possibly, too.

There are more possible next steps, which would make creating accounts for spamming more expensive, but they will also inconvenience well-meaning new users.

I suspect that unless the problem of malicious spam from GitHub comments becomes rather serious, acting on the case by case basis may be the correct solution.
Why? They may not want the responsibility.
It's always great to see new mobile apps that are text first/structured text interfaces/ide's on mobile, UI considerations in the space are still woefully underexplored.
p.s. I was a massive Streak user at a previous (sales-driven) startup. Big fan!
Or, accounting and tax law makes it less painful to keep units vacant than reprice them at lower rents.

Which is a thing we could change via something like Vancouver's vacancy tax.

Make it more in landlords' interest to reprice units lower, if the market has excess inventory.
It was a little unclear, but my reading is that the professor didn't actually care if it was submitted, but the school did. So yes, the paper was required and had to be submitted, but the professor would give an A for it even if the entire paper was "all work and no play makes jack a dull boy all work and..."
> I wish there wasn't so much conflict but sometimes the people resorting to violence have been essentially left with no other meaningful solution.

They've been trying to kill each other for years, even when they had other solutions and when Israel was the underdog. The difference in power now is huge, but it's always the same story... if some on both sides had their way, the other side would be wiped without a thought.
Can I ask why? I personally have been coding with LLMs since the davinci-003 days and don't see myself going back.

Granted I am biased, I am the co-founder of Double which is an extension for VS Code. But that's also why I'm curious to hear why are you against extensions (maybe we can learn from your experience).
This highlights the malicious, but most of the tech described is the far more mundane everyday aspect of what modern batteries are and how they work. Of the technical theory, like 5% or less is about "fabricat[ing] a battery bomb".

Shading this as being a blog post about weapons is a deep misservice & actively deeply harmful to the author & discussion. It is about this weapons topic, I cannot deny, but 95% of the technical content is providing background contexts on what batteries are, how they are made: knowledgeable depth which again shows who Bunnie is & what Bunnie does. There's only a tiny semi-obvious bit of conjecture & malevolent device creation attached. 'Just point this transistor that way'.

People who know their shit & can share are amazing, but I want to stress a care in emphasizing what is known & talked about here, because most of it is mundane as hell (we just didn't know it), and knowing it ought not be a risk or questionable in terms of motives. Focusing on the weapons part seems not the point of the article to me & shades a bad light/gives the wrong impression.
I think privacy violations are a harm in themselves, but you seem to have already dismissed this issue, so I'll move on. How about behavioral manipulation via microtargeting, economic harm via price discrimination, reselling of the data via monetization to unscrupulous aggregators or third parties, general security reduction (data and metadata sets could be used for APT, etc), or the chilling effect of being tracked all the time in this way?
To quote Seinfeld, "It's all pipes!"

I guess it depends which wastewater stream was monitored, and if the municipality has different pipes for rainwater drainage Vs home sewage.
I'm assuming that would be somewhat unusual, I doubt that any of the water that gets in contact with farm animals is supposed to drain into the municipal water system.
What would probably happen is following. It depends on many things, but assuming it is done near instantly and there aren't side effects.

For some time house values would drop, they will be sold to largest possible buyers. This isn't small buyers but probably banks, since they have lots of capital. Because of price drops, demand will be lessened and house construction industry will experience layoffs.

Many people will be without a house to rent, so banks or large money interests will offer their stockpile of houses under strict terms i.e. rent without renting (timeshare/leasing/house borrowing).

You'll get landlords but with deeper pockets.
Very unlikely, this is a very small operation with a tiny customer base.
I have a question about black holes, HN.

Let’s say you have a black hole. You fire a laser beam straight into it. Just by symmetry, shouldn’t it blueshift on the way in, gain some preposterous amount of energy — enough that it can escape?
FM radio bands are in fact used for various emergency services, but they are more specialized in usage
https://strykerradios.com/ham-radios/ham-radio-emergency-fre...

AM radio travels farther for the same energy consumption, as a feature of the lower frequencies used. That means they can provide emergency information to a much larger area for a given power supply. AM radio also doesn't rely on huge towers since the waves can bounce off the ionosphere and travel as ground waves.

AM radio receivers are also very simple to make--check out the crystal radio!
In my high school, the harder the class, the less homework was assigned. Such a great incentive. I took AP everything because it had so much less busy work. Rock the test, that’s all that mattered.
Conversely, the money that was redeployed into higher margin industries had a net benefit for innovation.

AMD EPYC would not have existed if AMD was stuck in the fabrication and packaging space because they wouldn't have had the money to spend building a dedicated design team, and Nvida's breakthroughs in GPUs would have never happened if Nvidia had to also fabricate and package.

A company cannot have every single subsegment of an industry - it's unrealistic and a bad use of capital.

And high capex low margins industries are bad for workers from a salary perspective. This is why CS became so popular in comparison to EE/CE - the starting salaries are easily 2x as a SWE compared to working as a Fab Engineer.

And it's not a simple question of raising salaries. Becuase margins are very low (within the low double digits at most), a foreign competitor like TSMC, Samsung, and UMC can win by paying peanuts - which is what they did. Engineering salaries at those companies in Taiwan and SK are around $40-70k with 996 hours de facto enforced (and why Samsung employees globally are on strike right now)
Nice to see Windows support. We/I are working on that with upstream Nix too.

Also I hope we can keep the store layer compatible. It would be good to replace ATerm with JSON, for example. We should coordinate that!
The article suggests it's likely from cattle. A small number of people exposed to cattle have been reported as having gotten sick with it but the opinion in the article is there isn't evidence of substantial numbers of people being sick with it.

Absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence. It's an inconclusive piece that seems to be trying to reassure the public that "Everything's fine!" even though no one knows if it's fine or not.
They are never ethically sourced. Ethically for them means placing a phrase in a 10k word TOS when victims installs app X, game y which loads their sdk. Ethically here means "we warned them in a TOS"
There’s not a lot of solid state nitrogen or metallic powders in an airport. The rest of the high explosives that I’m aware of are all rather dense organics. Possessing those things is how you get yourself selected for secondary screening.

Again, I’m not an expert in how these things work, so I’m happy to be corrected. That to me just seems like the most obvious way the new dual energy scanners would be put to use.
Raping and killing innocent civilians is an abhorrent crime. So we both agree that what Israel has done in Gaza (40,000 killed) and the systemic rape of Palestinian prisoners is abhorrent as well? What say you, Ben?

[1] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/longform/2023/10/9/israel-ham...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sde_Teiman_detention_camp#Sexu...
Bombs in toys: A brief history of Israeli booby traps in Lebanon
Archived version: http://web.archive.org/web/20240919224838/https://www.middle...
Looking up "United Nations Internet Fund" all I found was this: https://www.un.org/technologybank/new-partnership-will-boost...
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Calculators are pretty useless for pure math once you get beyond calculus.
As if landlords clean the drains, provide a decent paint job.

Maybe in an apartment, a maintenance person might; but smaller rentals; at most the landlord charges the tenant and calls a plumber;

in reality the tenant is often responsible for calling and paying the plumber;

At worst, the landlord has never had the plumbing cleaned or inspected, the tenant or landlord hires a plumber, the plumber finds an object stuck at the tree roots in the pipe, and the landlord charges the tenant for the whole job, threatens the security deposit, and when the tenant refuses to pay, the landlord evicts them.
I mean to be really, truly Marxist about it, it's not the occupation of landlord but the rentier social relation that's problematic.

The theory is it extracts productive capital which could have a better multiplier effect allocated elsewhere such as education, research, public infrastructure, etc.

I'm sure there's some economic wonks that have long academic papers on this to support or refute this 170 or so year old idea, but I'm merely an amateur.

There was an economic movement after Henry George that very adamantly advocated for redoing this social relationship if you're curious. It was (most likely) the inspiration for the original version of Monopoly among other things. It might be regarded as a form of Economic Populism if you look at the adjacent beliefs of the prominent early 20th c. Georgists, but that'd probably be a 5,000+ word article.
To my knowledge, this has only ever been done successfully during ww2. The mechanism used was semi-forced lending via war bonds. The war bonds were predominantly purchased by wealthy individuals and the rate of return was lower than all alternatives.

The spending of war debt on the other hand went out to common individuals. As the war debt was never repaid, encumbants would spend the next 2 decades with lower rates of return compared to new market participants.
> Though I’d say it is more an indictment of the game than the players.

But these are specific people working extremely hard and spending extremely large amounts of money to make the game less and less "fair".
I think we are in basic agreement

>>> while shifting real value from savers and earners over to asset holders. Working as intended, I suppose.

No furlough directly did not receive all of that but the “cost of covid” (the amount spent by government without taxing it back) was on that order. I wish I had a better line accounting of it.

But the basic effect is the same - the owners of assets - the wealthiest in society, get a greater proportion of the “tokens that allocate future resource allocation” (dollars) than previously - and this means they put that money somewhere - and we see that as inflation everywhere.

The solution as I see it is taxing the assets (not a “wealth tax” but more same approaches).
There are many good extensions with somewhat similar features, the ideal extension might come down to personal preference but I've been building double.bot [0] after spending months using Github Copilot and running into the same bugs over and over (wrote about it here [1]) and I think we've done a good job at building the ideal extension for professional developers.

[0] - https://double.bot/

[1] - https://docs.double.bot/copilot
What would you define as 'suspicious'? How would you distinguish suspicious from not suspicious?
Ask HN: Any AWS S3 alternatives to reduce the PUT cost?
Please suggest AWS S3 alternatives to reduce the PUT cost and not impacting the latency.

Usecase: I want to store 1-1.5mn images (avg size 50kb). All images are deleted after 10 days. 98% of the images are not even viewed once - as a result, I have to save every image.

I have tried Wasabi, but the latency was too high (500ms to 2secs) for the upload from AWS Lambda.
Post title: I have a publishing deal!

Great to see this happen, looking forward to both books.
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The user is executing the script. They're pasting it in and hitting 'run' in the run dialog box.
Seems like the same problem results: now what if you're a new renter? You can't live anywhere, because there's no landlords. Does somebody just give you a house, in this scenario, and if so, who?
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ZFS. Snapshot the entire filesystem, ship it off somewhere. Done. At worst, Postgres is slow to startup from the snapshot because it thinks it’s recovering from a crash.
What or which "teams" are you taking about? Oh, the Microsoft Teams' teams.
Sure, but it wouldn't change anything, unless your plan is to make housing so cheap that it literally costs less than a month of rent to buy the whole place, I don't think you're going to have a lot of luck.
It's really hard to get a mortgage for multiple people that aren't married.

Basically if you and 3 friends want to buy a 4-plex for 400k you would assume the bank would just make sure each person could afford 100k, they don't. Instead the bank will ensure each person individually has sufficient financial resources to afford a 400k home.

That and converting a 4 plex into condos doesn't make financial sense when you could just demolish it and build townhomes.
That, and people who were born this century have no idea about the immensity of housing inflation.

In 2007, a 1-BR apartment in Hanover, NH was USD 750. With official inflation at 3 % that would be now something like USD 1325. Good luck finding anything below USD 2250 these days. That's 7 %, more than double headline inflation.

It's a complete policy failure, also because housing is about the most unproductive kind of investment there is.
Given that the site visit to Wuhan was delayed by over a year and given that the people involved in the visit were the same people who were suspected of causing a lab leak, like Peter Daszak, I just can never bring myself to trust any other cause as being the answer. There is just no way to go back and decisively investigate the origin now, thanks to a coordinated campaign to suppress speech about the lab leak theory - including the infamous lancet letter, social media censorship, the CCP’s refusal to cooperate, Fauci’s word games about gain of function, and the WHO’s willingness to parrot CCP propaganda.