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Re:Ask HN: Is GitHub Down? on Friday April 17, 2026 @11:01AM (#47806693)
Yes. I'm in the EU and GitHub is down.
There are many people that are willing to rent at the market rate? I would argue that if there is more supply on the market property owners will be forced to rent at lower prices?

For those who do not I would create incentives like raising taxes for empty property.

From the sample of my direct neighborhood I can tell that there are many empty former warehouses that could be turned into housing stock. I don't see the city developing any of those neither.
Re:Blocked from accessing zdf.de outside of Germany on Sunday February 23, 2025 @12:11PM (#43150998)
I tried accessing the German public-service television broadcaster ZDF's website (zdf.de) from outside of Germany, but it seems I'm being blocked. There are national elections happening today in Germany, and I wanted to follow the coverage.

Error: Access Denied You don't have permission to access "http://www.zdf.de/" on this server. Reference #18.5d401002.1740330090.500ca4e4

https://errors.edgesuite.net/18.5d401002.1740330090.500ca4e4

IMO it is good that Barcelona bought the building. I don't think regulating rent prices and the housing market helps lower rents.

In Poblenou, a district of Barcelona where I live, the city has decided that 50-70% of each property sold has to be purposed for social housing, i.e. limiting the rent to a fourth of the market price and choosing the tenants. Many of the district buildings are abandoned factory halls. I am rennovating one of them to become a house for my family, but am now forced to rent half of it to a poor family. From what I can see from the neighborhood is that there is almost no building activity and that private investments have stopped.

Re:Who uses Google TPUs for inference in production? on Monday March 11, 2024 @04:28PM (#39672885)
TPUs are tightly coupled to JAX and the XLA compiler. If your model is based on Pytorch you can use a bridge to export your model to StableHLO and then compile it to a TPU accelerator. In theory the XLA compiler should be more performant than the Pytorch Inductor.
Re:macOS Multi-Monitor Problems on Friday May 13, 2022 @12:13AM (#31363239)
MacOS does not support Daisy-Chaining, which renders most ports with two monitor outputs useless.

To use two monitors you have to use two different USB-C ports and play the lottery that the monitors get recognized as wished each time you reboot. Second option is two buy a Thunderbold 3 port which costs ~300€.