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jfindperon How private equity is changing housing

>Why isn't a carefully-regulated market of institutional single-family-home lenders a good thing?

Is there a good example of this?

Every corporation I've rented from have all fought me tooth and nail when I needed maintenance and did basically everything possible to ignore any and all complaints (because it costs them money, obviously). I have had to have a lawyer send a letter on my behalf more than once.

But that's just my experience, which has jaded me. Perhaps you can show me a non-hypothetical example of the other side and open my eyes up a bit? Any countries, laws, specific corporations which demonstrate a carefully-regulated market of institutional single-family-home lenders I should look at?

jfindperon I misused LLMs to diagnose myself and ended up bedridden for a week

>About 70% of hospital deaths are due to preventable mistakes in the hospital.

It's awful that you had a bad experience, but no. Nowhere near 70% of hospital deaths are from preventable mistakes.

I would also note that in your experience, you ended up trusting a different doctor (ophthalmologist), not ChatGPT. Second opinions from other qualified professionals is a thumbs up from me.

jfindperon Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain

Yes, other things cause e-waste. Sometimes worse.

That's not a good justification for more e-waste.

jfindperon I misused LLMs to diagnose myself and ended up bedridden for a week

>How does this line up with your religious belief that doctors are infallible and should be 100% trusted?

Hilariously, this is the second time you posted this exact line, to yet another person who _didn't say this_!

jfindperon I misused LLMs to diagnose myself and ended up bedridden for a week

>How does this line up with your religious belief that doctors are infallible and should be 100% trusted?

They did not say that in their comment.

Replying in obvious bad faith makes your original comment even less credible than it already is.

jfindperon I misused LLMs to diagnose myself and ended up bedridden for a week

I agree with you, and reading some of the takes in this thread is actually blowing my mind.

I cannot believe that the top-voted comment right now is saying to not trust doctors, use an LLM to diagnose yourself and others.

jfindperon I misused LLMs to diagnose myself and ended up bedridden for a week

The lack of awareness to advocate using LLMs for medical advice on an article about how bad of an idea that is... It's astounding.

jfindperon 10 Years of Let's Encrypt

>one day they started getting hounded by Let's Encrypt multiple times

>trying to get a small company to shell out $50k as a "donation".

>Even more so if, like Let's Encrypt, you are turning up on the doorstep asking for $50k a pop.

Does your friend have anything to corroborate this claim? Perhaps the email with identifying details censored?

I have a received an occasional email mentioning donations. They are extremely infrequent and never ask me for a specific amount. I would be incredibly surprised to see evidence of "hounding" and requests for $50,000.

jfindperon Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain

>Is that based on anything, or is that just a guess?

Fancy enough, it's from the article!

Right under the "How long does the battery last?" heading.

jfindperon Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices

No idea? I was just making a point about $1.00 being nothing despite "16% increase" looking big.

jfindperon Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain

"Years of average use" is great until you realize that it actually means "Roughly 12 to 15 hours of recording".

Not sure how long my iphone can record for, but it's probably close to that. Afterwards I get to charge my phone instead of recycle it, though.

Apple, don't hire this man.

Edit for the downvoters: can my iphone not record that long or something? iphones can't recharge? Just hate Apple and love e-waste rings? Enlighten me.

jfindperon I successfully recreated the 1996 Space Jam website with Claude

>I actually did read your post [...]

>What you wrote was: [...]

>You didn't [...]

It's not my post.

jfindperon I successfully recreated the 1996 Space Jam website with Claude

Yes, anyone who reads the post will find that out because it says it in the post.

jfindperon Google confirms Android attacks; no fix for most Samsung users

>[...] there is a possible way to launch activities from the background due to a permissions bypass.

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-48572

https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/...

>"In hasAccountsOnAnyUser of DevicePolicyManagerService.java, there is a possible way to add a Device Owner after provisioning due to a logic error in the code. This could lead to local escalation of privilege with no additional execution privileges needed."

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-48633

https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/...

jfindperon Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices

Percentages are fun because they can make something with a small absolute change look like a giant change.

No business is really going to care about $1.00/user, especially when it costs hundreds of dollars per user (or thousands) to migrate entirely away from the Microsoft ecosystem.

jfindperon RAM is so expensive, Samsung won't even sell it to Samsung

I have several qualms with how the real median household income is calculated, specifically the consumer price index.

But I agree that tackling housing alone would be significant.

jfindperon Autism should not be treated as a single condition

>so obviously incorrect though

I couldn't possibly disagree more.

jfindperon RAM is so expensive, Samsung won't even sell it to Samsung

>but not everybody who works minimum wage needs to make a living wage

I think this is a distraction that is usually rolled out to derail conversations about living wages. Not saying that you're doing that here, but it's often the case when the "teenager flipping burgers" argument is brought up.

Typically in conversations about living wages, people are talking about financially independent adults trying to make their way through life without starving while working 40 hours per week. I don't think anyone is seriously promoting a living wage for the benefit of financially dependent minors.

And, in any case, the solution could also be (totally, or in part) a reduction in expenses instead of increase in income.

>It's a complicated issue and one can't propose solutions without acknowledging that there's a LOT of nuance...

That's for sure! I know it's not getting solved on the hacker news comment section, at least.

jfindperon Autism should not be treated as a single condition

>RGB implies there are exactly three measures

It's a metaphor.

It helps people build an intuition. It doesn't need to be exact to do that.

jfindperon Why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they're disabled?

some disabilities have mostly lost their stigma, sure, in some places.

Many have not. Most have not, if you consider the whole world and not just California and Washington or whatever.

jfindperon Why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they're disabled?

One example of a malicious explanation would be: people are lying about having a disability to get some sort of benefits they don’t need, likely at the expense of someone who does need those benefits.

jfindperon Why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they're disabled?

>I haven't seen one in 15 years across 5+ different companies

How does one even know this? Do you ask everyone you meet if they are neuro-divergent? That’s awkward as hell.

jfindperon RAM is so expensive, Samsung won't even sell it to Samsung

>implies an argument that the minimum wage should be higher than that.

It can also imply that expenses should come down, you just picked the implication you want to argue against.

jfindperon RAM is so expensive, Samsung won't even sell it to Samsung

>A teenager in his/her first job at McDonald's doesn't need a "living wage."

Wow, a completely bad-faith argument.

Can you try again, but this time, try "steelman" instead of "strawman"?

jfindperon RAM is so expensive, Samsung won't even sell it to Samsung

>resorting to an ineffective solution (minimum wage) when what you actually need is to get those costs back down.

I'm not really resorting to any solution.

My comment is pointing out that when you only do one side of the equation (income) without considering the other side (expenses), it's worthless. Especially when you are trying to make a comparison across years.

How we go about fixing the problem, if we ever do, is another conversation. But my original comment doesn't attempt to suggest any solution, especially not one that "requests the annihilation of the middle class". It's solely to point out that adventured's comment is a bunch of meaningless numbers.

jfindperon RAM is so expensive, Samsung won't even sell it to Samsung

sweet! according to austintexas.gov, that's only $2.63 below the 2024 living wage. $5.55 below, if you use the MIT numbers for 2025.

As long as you don't run into anything unforseen like medical expenses, car breakdowns, etc., you can almost afford a bare-bones, mediocre life with no retirement savings.

jfindperon Japanese four-cylinder engine is so reliable still in production after 25 years

"This is really bad for the engine and it will wear out much faster" is significantly different than "runs fine [...] just keeps plugging along".

But yeah, you can limp along without the essential fluids for a bit.

jfindperon RAM is so expensive, Samsung won't even sell it to Samsung

>You can make $11-$13 at what are considered bad jobs, like flipping pizzas at Little Caesars.

Holy moly! 11 whole dollars an hour!?

Okay, so we went from $4.25 to $11.00. That's a 159% change. Awesome!

Now, lets look at... School, perhaps? So I can maybe skill-up out of Little Caesars and start building a slightly more comfortable life.

Median in-state tuition in 1995: $2,681. Median in-state tuation in 2025: $11,610. Wait a second! That's a 333% change. Uh oh.

Should we do the same calculation with housing...? Sure, I love making myself more depressed. 1995: $114,600. 2025: $522,200. 356% change. Fuck.

jfindperon Japanese four-cylinder engine is so reliable still in production after 25 years

>other owners say it runs fine without coolant, oil, etc - just keeps plugging along.

This is called lying. They are lying.

jfindperon RAM is so expensive, Samsung won't even sell it to Samsung

They're just using this comment section to brag about how well off they are, I wouldn't worry too much. They're completely out of touch.