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bluesnewson The number of new apartments is at a 50-year high, but states expect a slowdown

States generally set the regulations that cities must follow. So they can constrain cities or choose not to.

For instance Washington State forces cities to make zoning plans that align with state housing needs. Similarly they set rules near public transit in some cases.

bluesnewson ChatGPT now performs well at GeoGuesser

It might train off of street view

bluesnewson Fintech founder charged with fraud; AI app found to be humans in the Philippines

It is a public company, so someone could be investing on the basis of that technology

bluesnewson Show HN: Comparing product rankings by OpenAI, Anthropic, and Perplexity

The results are very different than what Gemini deep research returns

bluesnewson LeetCode but You Can Force People to Code in Light Mode

That seems a bit silly to call an achievement that pays you money superficial. Also no matter where you are in life, it is feels good to reach goals you aspire to.

bluesnewson TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users

They aren't demanding a sale. They are just saying they can't operate in the country if they don't sell.

They have a choice to leave the country or follow the rules.

bluesnewson I got OpenTelemetry to work. But why was it so complicated?

From the user side, a spec isn't helpful unless it has implementations. And the official implementations are complicated compared to prometheus.

bluesnewson Nearly Half of US Unicorns Have Foreign-Born Founders

My understanding is that even in private universities, the magnitude of financial aid available is much less for international students because of the lack of government financing in many cases

bluesnewson NYC Congestion Pricing Tracker

Pedestrians outside of cars don't have agency to prevent injury to themselves from cars.

bluesnewson Y2K

Watched it today and it was fun! Not a "great" movie but enjoyable.

bluesnewson US approves plan to impose $9 Manhattan congestion fee

Even just reducing traffic, noise and pollution is a pro.

bluesnewson U.S. women are outpacing men in college completion in every major group

Pay for women is on the rise and exceeds men in many metropolitan areas already. I don't really buy the worthless college degree topic argument.

bluesnewson Constraints in Go

Could you expand on this?

I don't like ORM because in my experience you inevitably want full SQL features at some point but not sure if you have the same issues in mind or not

bluesnewson Trump wins presidency for second time

He generates doubt around the election result "if I lost, it is because of fraud" and provoked a group of people to attempt the overturn the previous election. Plus more subtle things like election rule changes that reduce democracy in the background.

bluesnewson PouchDB: The Database That Syncs

How does this deal with auth for the backend db when running in the browser?

bluesnewson Waymo closes $5.6B investment round

I wish this wasn't private investment. Would be great if smaller investors had more opportunities to get involved

bluesnewson All political ads running on Google in the US

There have been attempts but when corporations are considered people limitations on their "speech" all eventually fail

bluesnewson Show HN: Mdx – Execute your Markdown code blocks, now in Go

This idea isn't just from one source but that doesn't mean another implementation isn't worthy.

We did similar at a company I worked for 15 yrs ago