skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reqwireless I have certainly heard. Don't remember in which context. If you tell me they had this "browser frontend" midlet, it's probably the one I used. 2002ish I would guess.
A part of me really wants to push this and see how far it would go. Why stop at AM? Add in shortwave radio and let us listen to stations on the other side of the earth.
The way the ruling was made, it will be a case by case basis. If a republican FCC does it, that will be fine and normal but if a democrat does it, it's out of the legislative authority.

Either way, the 5th circuit will stop the rules from going into effect.
In NYC I can tell you that the metropolitan area lost about 500,000 people since 2020, added ~20-30k housing units per year in that same time. The vacancy rate somehow dropped dramatically despite this and rents also rose dramatically. I've yet to see any good explanation for this, yet you'll still see people advocate for building more housing as the solution.

Simply using the rental vacancy rate as a proxy for supply and demand does not work, since there are lots of factors that can affect vacancies. One of then, as outlined in the article, is landlords keep units off the market to drive up prices.
The modern way is to have a handyman (just like you have a gardner or cleaner). The handyman has a list of gutters to empty, squeaky hinges to oil, HVAC filters to clean, etc.

Keep adding these small tasks to the list, and when the list gets long or something urgent comes up, call the handyman out for a half-day.
Previously unknown Mozart music discovered in German library
Thank you for your long explanation. Without your elucidating comments, I never could have imagined that multiple (its hardly a single person or you didn't bother to look at the very short set of links) accounts of trans-medium high acceleration UAPs didn't directly mean extra-terrestrial intelligence.

Thank you for your quick beacon of reason vs my wild speculation while reading accounts of the last 5 years. I'm glad we can easily offhandedly establish this sounds like a conspiracy.
It’s not realpage causing inflation. Come on

Look, the first most important totally big thing is that at the beginning of covid governments around the world printed a boatload of cash and gave it out as furlough for waiters and nurses and construction workers. And that was a Good Thing. People could eat and pay rent. But that took a boatload of cash - US printed 10 trillion dollars - the UK a trillion. 27 European nations all did something similar - the Middle East. Noone knows how much but it’s tens of trillions - perhaps let’s say 50 trillion. With a T.

Then that money went to the landlords and the supermarkets and the. Went up to the supermarket shareholders and the owners of the office buildings and eventually the wealthy - those who can live without salary - they got almost all of it. And they have to spend that money on something - property, stocks, gold, land

It’s inflation because there is an extra fifty trillion floating around.

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”. Well that’s because some part of that fifty trillion just got invested in a company that hired a guy who moved into the neighbourhood- it’s going to chnage the character of the neighbourhood and those who are unlucky get squeezed out the bottom and sleep in a park looking over the Golden Gate.

Look at any article in MMT. This is something we solve with 1. Taxation (equal tax treatments for capital gains etc) and 2. Sane social policies (education, health etc)

The DOJ is looking for a culprit who is breaking a system that otherwise would work - that’s the point of anti-cartel laws. Ut the system is broken - and it has a simple fix. Tax the rich - we did it for Russian Olivarchs, now spread the love
I used to have some machines with Fanuc 6 controllers circa 1981 - 1983. They had variables, macros, branching, etc. I haven't been able to find what processors were in those old controllers, but I'm certain the single board computers of the last decade have more ram, more flash, and way more processing power. If GRBL can't do it, it is a software issue, not hardware.
This is a very fair point.

I'm not trying to replace desktops with mobile here. I think database administration is still going to be easier with a big monitor and a keyboard, and that's not going to change.

Rather I'm trying to open up database administration to people who don't have desktops, or who are more comfortable working on their phones.
> happens more at runtime

Bingo, that's the difference. That's why I said "compile-time memory safety". This is what Rust gives you for your trouble, zero (runtime) cost for memory safety.
I'm sure your dog will come back when hungry.
> Say tomorrow we outlawed being a landlord. Every multi-family and apartment unit would be demolished and turned into SFH, or sold off as condos.

> And everyone would have to live with parents or friends until they could afford a down payment. That sounds like a worse world than the one we live in.

You are using a logical fallacy known as false dichotomy. We have many other possibilities such as commie blocks and even denser privately owned residential housing with fair competition and pricing. Maybe hard to achieve fair pricing but not impossible.
The old EE in me got excited for a second there, thinking someone had made a Rust port of [SPICE](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPICE).
Can someone please start a car company that is the equivalent of Framework for laptops.. or even better, just a "safe dumb car".

Why is it so hard to find a car with roll up windows that is also safe... I want to be able to easily repare my own dang window.
I'm guessing the reward was 50btc per block back then, so they might have mined a single or double digit number of blocks, so somewhere between 50 and 4999 btc.
In a rent-controlled area like in parts of Canada, it's not unusual for the tenant to improve the apartment they are renting with the consent of the landlord. This is ultimately to the tenants' benefit. Imagine investing $1200 into new flooring. Spread over 3/4 years of rent controlled rent, it comes out to $25 a month.
Well, that sounds easier said than done. Do you have any advice or tutorials on how to do that effectively?

We did try, casually at first over the years, then intensely as a focused effort over several weeks, to little effect. We tried blocklists, fail2ban, firewall rules, heuristics, CDNs, other non-Cloudflare services, etc. It cost us dozens of hours of labor and thousands of dollars of other service provider fees, but the spam didn't abate much. It was causing excessive server load, many credit card authorization attempts (they didn't go through, thankfully), sometimes fake PO orders, screwing up our analytics, etc.

Then out of desperation, we found Cloudflare. It took maybe half an hour to set up, cost $20/mo at the time, and overnight all our spam problems stopped. For a small business, it was a godsend, freeing up our devs to work on actual features instead of fighting bots all the time, and saving us thousands of dollars in hosting fees.

> By filtering, you've become unreachable by much of the world, spammers or not.

But... that's the whole point! We weren't some huge enterprise SaaS trying to advertise to the whole world, just a small US-only business. We had no business in China, Russia, India, etc., where most of the spam was from. We tried in vain to block that traffic on purpose, but couldn't easily do it until Cloudflare.

Then Cloudflare let us flip a toggle... and it all magically worked. Our staff was much happier, our actual customers never noticed (they were all US/Canada based, or rarely Europe), nobody ever complained, and we saved thousands of dollars a year.

It's not just about DDoS (which we did get on occasion, and our host did help us with) but the consistent drive-by bot scraping, pen testing, port scanning, etc.

Cloudflare sometimes gets a lot of hate here, but for small website operators, they are a HUGE lifesaver. I've never actually heard a complaint from a real customer about this, but even if we hypothetically lost a handful, the time and money saved not dealing with spammers is worth it to many businesses.

The internet has long since stopped being the open wonderland where everyone is nice and contributes positively. The overwhelming majority of it is worthless bot traffic, and you could make an entire career out of trying to prevent it... or just give Cloudflare a few dollars and a few minutes. Sorry, I don't see them as evil, just... practical? Useful?
It sounds to me like you convince yourself there was no other way. It's an interesting dilemma - lie to yourself that it was fate and live a happy life, or torture yourself with the consequences of the truth.

I like the advice of the article better - approach every decision knowing not all of them will work out. It's what I ended up in the last couple years and it has worked ot out for me. Fear of failure can paralyze you and this will cause even more regrets. The advice doesn't help with old regrets though - for this it boils down to, for me: dwell and die slowly or forgive yourself for making a mistake and move on with your life. Can't change the past, but you can change the future.
This is trivially false.
The sum of the rents of the tenants of the property is enough to cover the landlord's purchase of the building, any interest on any loan used to secure that purchase, hire upkeep for the building, and still have money left over for profit in the landlord's pocket.

Therefore, the sum of the rents of the tenants of the property is enough to cover the purchase of the building, which is a subset of those costs.
I think the biggest culprit behind rent inflation isn't companies like RealPage (evil as they may be), nor landlords, but homeowners. Who vote for laws that make housing harder to build.
Interesting! Thanks, hadn't seen that yet. (For anyone else curious, the RFC is here: https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/blob/master/rfcs/0092-plan-dyn...)
It's a problem whether the occupier is a renter or homeowner. The landlord is, in my experience, just going to call a handyman anyway. May as well cut out the middleman as thats something I can do myself.
Well the classic route for electronics manufacturing is chips get fabricated in Taiwan/Japan/SK/America -> the PCB and other mechanical elements get integrated in China -> the finished product gets exported to the West. So you could certainly have the explosives adding process be done in step 2 regardless of if step 2 occurs in Europe or China.
They weren't a random shipment of pagers to Lebanon, they were specifically ordered and used by Hesbollah.
This is nonsense. The vast majority of landlords have to work a day job in order to finance the property in the first place.
There are lots of different explosives. High concentrations of nitrogen you can also find in the air for example. And metal all around in an airport. Carbon as well.
You could say the same about prices in general increasing due to credit card fees ($.30 per transaction + 3%).
Free Software is designed to solve this problem.
>I don't understand. Your professor said the paper wasn't due, then bumped up the date, told you about it last minute, said you didn't have to turn the paper in, but you did anyway?

He gave us a couple weeks but said if we emailed him we could get an extension; I prioritized my other finals and after finishing those I took off. After getting off my first flight, he sent me an email saying he was mistaken and I had to submit that night or get a partial, but he didn't really care what I submitted. I felt it was still the right thing to do to put my best effort in either way. And I wanted it off my mind for my trip.
Yeah, a system with implied equity from renting (something like 2-3% per year) would go a long way.

Switzerland also has an interesting system that seems designed to somewhat equalize renting vs. owning.
Doesn't that indicate we should be building more and cheaper housing?

The other components of the market aren't fixed and immutable.

If state governments wanted to mandate denser rezoning and smaller minimum unit sizes once unaffordability reached a certain level... they could.

Pointing at expensive housing and saying "We therefore have to make it cheaper by forcing more people into bargains in which they receive none of the gains" seems like the tail wagging the dog.
>Is it litigious if they're enforcing their own patents?

In most cases, probably yeah. Patent trolls and malicious actors make such easy money off of frivolous patents that the default assumption in cases like these is that it's just a litigious action to make a quick buck. We're at the stage where it's very rare for a patent to actually aid innovation rather than stifle it.
This was passed 45-2, from a committee with 29 Republicans and 23 Democrats, so it's interesting to see a bunch of comments here acting like this is just a Republican thing.
In samples from March-July. Wonder why they just published this now?
I wonder if addressing price fixing in rent prices will ease the regulations around short-term rentals (which have shown to also increase rents by about 3%).
I wonder if we will ever reach a point where implementing a land value tax will be politically feasible. All other solutions look like bandaids to me.
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I’m not buying your argument. I doubt you can devise and pass legislation that’ll cause more people to have emergency kits with hand cranked AM radios than cars, even if you distributed them for free, and there are scenarios that require emergency communication that don’t involve all cars being destroyed.

That said I’m not saying that the public safety argument is genuine, but you can’t just propose something else you prefer to discredit it.
In an actual emergency, cell towers may not function.
AM has significantly further range too and is pretty easy to standup as a backup for an area.

It’s also incredibly common for road conditions to still be shared over AM - you see this a lot while driving with all the “advisory - tune to …. AM” signs everywhere.
I understand car manufacturers want to ditch AM radios to reduce their part count, or so they can cheap out and use noisier electronics in the rest of the car, or whatever.

What I find a bit odder is the vehemence with which some online commenters also want them gone. I don't use either radio in my car, but their presence doesn't get me hot under my collar either. People say AM radio is useless and obsolete, but the same could probably be said for FM too, since everybody pairs their phones for music anyway. Why does AM have a target painted on it when nobody online seems to have an axe to grind with the equally useless FM radio? Is it just because there are a lot of conservative talk shows on AM? Is that the angle here? The bill to keep AM radios evidently has bipartisan support in Congress, and yet for some reason these discussions usually have people complaining about Republicans.
You seem to have me confused with someone else (such as the author, maybe—i.e. the person who injected the comparison to Google Books and wrote the part I quoted in my previous comment); except for the first two words in your comment, your reply doesn't make sense as a response to what I wrote here.
I've seen way too many people wrecking the place they rent for that to be true.
Whether or not it started that way, yes, it makes sense to recommend brands that New York Times subscribers are familiar and comfortable with. I'll buy a GE Profile refrigerator or Bosch dishwasher. Not some Chinese brand I've never heard of and have no idea what the service situation will be with. Makes perfect sense to me and I'm in that demographic. Especially with major appliances and things I can buy at the local big box store seems to make perfect sense to not buy things you have to go to Alibaba to obtain.

It's not about being price insensitive but recommending things that are relatively mainstream and that don't seem risky, especially for major purchases that have to be installed and potentially serviced.

(Did have a service issue on my recent GE Profile refrigerator but it took one phone call and was a no-brainer.)

But you're probably right in general. Wirecutter mostly doesn't recommend unknowns it thinks are potentially bargains. Which I probably wouldn't do in its position either.
Wonder if any of these electronics passed modern airport security, someone must have travelled with 1000s of devices out there for months.
The construction industry would collapse as buying confidence would disappear. Buildings with large amounts of renters would likely fall into disarray over the long term.
Why would they be demolished(a debit) when they could be sold(a credit)? 34% of people live in rental housing. If those units flooded the market, it'd be much easier to save up to buy while living with parents or friends.
> The sum of the rents of the tenants of the property is enough to cover the landlord's purchase of the building, any interest on any loan used to secure that purchase, hire upkeep for the building, and still have money left over for profit in the landlord's pocket.

The "sum of the rents of the tenants" isn't relevant to a single tenant, the loan isn't used to "secure the purchase", and you're confusing cash flow for total equity.

A building owner puts down a deposit for some percentage (say, 20%) of the building's cost, gets 80% in debt, and pays down that debt over time with the cash flow from the tenants' rent payments. They make a small margin net of expenses, plus whatever equity accumulates over time.

Setting aside the (significant) question of whether or not a given tenant would have the credit necessary to do such a thing, a tenant is not necessarily able to do the same thing, just because they can afford to pay the rent.
You might be a little ahead of the times, but I think you're keyed into something with this.
So, you get to work a part time job while being richer than most working full time jobs. Not a bad gig, but it doesn't feel very fair to wage workers.
There are 2-3 very detailed articles on how only a few media companies that own top few hundred domains have spammed SEO and hijacked top spots in search results. I made a list of block-able domains (dot dash meredith sites only). I have roughly explained how I searched these domains.
https://gist.github.com/SMUsamaShah/6573b27441d99a0a0c792431...

Just copy paste this list to UBlacklist (or other tool). Need to sit down and search and add more sites including forbes someday.
That's not my impression. Some time ago, I tried to sort out why there was conflict in Gaza and there's a complex history going back at least a thousand years.

Saying conflict between Israel and Lebanon is wholly unrelated to conflict between Israel and Gaza is like saying stuff happening in the US state of Georgia has nothing to do with its neighbor Alabama.

I'm failing to readily find an online blurb that supports my understanding. But that detail fails to convince me my understanding is wholly in error.
The world has a lot of buildings. Buildings are valuable. Every building you see, unless it's been abandoned, is owned by someone or some entity that's responsible for acquiring, protecting, and maintaining it. Some do a better job than others.

Not that landlords do construction work themselves - that's a different industry. But someone has to arrange financing. Many renters are not trusted by banks enough to get a mortgage, often for good reasons. They still need a place to live, though.

Someone has to try to prevent people from damaging the buildings and repair them when they are damaged. Maybe that's the super, but someone has to hire them. The people who damage buildings are often pretty nasty.

In theory, the state could do this. In some countries, the state does a lot of it. But someone has to do it. It's an essential job, and if not a landlord, there will be a manager that does pretty much the same thing.

Just about everything can be outsourced, but it adds overhead. The labor doesn't go away, it just gets moved around.

Not everyone is ready and willing to be responsible for a building.
The hidden chain-of-though inside the process, from the official statement about it, I infer / suspect that it uses an unhobbled mode of the model, puts it in this special mode where it can use the whole training, avoiding the intrisic bias towards the aligned outcomes.

I think that, to put it in simple terms, "the sum of the good and the bad" is the secret sauce here, pumping the "IQ" of the model (every output in the hidden chain), to levels apparently a lot better than they could probably reach with just aligned hidden internal outputs.

Another way of looking at the "sum of good and bad" stuff, is that the model would have a potentially way bigger set of choices (probability space?), to look into for every given prompt.
If you have the option to extract rents by forming a cartel (without legal punishment), you'll do it regardless of the underlying value of the asset you're trying to control because it's free money (assuming you can trust the other members of the cartel)
Due to safety concerns and the ability to get the message out, every home, building, bridge, mountain top, or structure must maintain a a pile of logs on top and a flame at the ready in the event of a national emergency so that way word or warning may be spread like beacons of Gondor.
Rent is 36.1% of the CPI basket - so if inflation was distributed evenly - you'd expect 36.1% of the increase to come from rent / housing.

70% is really not that shocking. Rents only need to increase a little bit more than average with most other things increasing a little bit less than average to end up at 70%.

Vehicles and energy make up almost 14% of the basket - and those are negative.
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FM radio is line of sight because of it's high frequency. Because of AM's much longer wavelength it can bounce off the ionosphere and it drops off slower with distance than FM. The range of AM stations is much greater than a comparable FM station for a given height-above-terrain of the antenna.
Yeah. Don't go around wearing one of those Bitcoin tshirts.
Sorry to press but do you have evidence?

Maybe the number of bankruptcies of landlords versus other professions normalized for age (since many bankruptcies are health related and landlords tend to be older).

Is there some hard data somewhere that can be scrutinized rather than narratives and sentiment?

(see I told you I'm unpopular)
I don't understand why all my devices randomly assign themselves non-functional IPv6 addresses with no involvement from any router. Often it's even multiple non-functional IPv6 addresses.