jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
>>> That’s because as bad as California’s affordable housing problem is, it isn’t really a California problem. It is a national one. From rising homelessness to anti-development sentiment to frustration among middle-class workers who’ve been locked out of the housing market, the same set of housing issues has bubbled up in cities across the country. They’ve already visited Boise, Nashville, Denver and Austin, Texas, and many other high-growth cities. And they will become even more widespread as remote workers move around.

The thesis is that the problem is not limited or caused by California, it' a national problem. California and Californian expat-related growth are just a particularly glaring example.
Parler's also not alone in not having any plans against "the event that we've been warned about for months actually happened".
For software engineers, keep in mind healthcare is typically taken care of via private (high quality) insurance and that pre-tax retirement contributions (401k) are matched as well.

So these aren't really issues.
Vancouver also has a pretty high cost of living from Chinese capital flight into real estate, no? Haven't been up there in a while.

IMHO, people think about the nature of capital ecosystems incompletely.

Why haven't other places duplicated SF / LA's ecosystems?

Not because they couldn't, but because they couldn't be better enough to justify the move.

However, "better" and "enough" are relative terms. If SF & LA are executing well, that's an insurmountable barrier due to network effects. But if SF & LA decrease their competitiveness, the relative difference also decreases.

And at some threshold, it does become possible for other cities to capture that business, network effects be damned.
If you have o.k. stat skills, and need to work remotely, where is a good place to look.
Never jump to framework flavour of the month until it gets mentioned in Requests For Proposals by customers.

There is a reason we old timers are usually sceptic of new frameworks/languages.
I believe they did so to fire a warning shot, to be able to argue later that they were not banning immediately. I bet they knew that guy wouldn’t be able to keep his thumbs in his pockets – and that’s 100% on him.
Google discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25693742

Apple discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25691631
There are also many other alternatives to Urbit that achieve the same general objective while not being actively user(/developer) hostile at every possibility.
I wish this existed years ago when I had to figure out how to programmatically send out calendar invites. There were some quirks with how Outlook handled them vs Google Calendar and it was a time-consuming trial-and-error process.

Congrats on shipping!
VPS servers are an excellent deal get a big one then run containers on it.
Lol yes? And also the capitol would be littered with bodies if it was a left wing rally.

Also it’s called a coup because the president in power incited a mob to attack congress. Your hypothetical is missing that part.
Wow Twitter is oxygen now? Dramatic
Because I think it's important to clarify -- many people in America use the term "liberals" to mean politically left. I wanted to clarify the poster's usage, did they mean this person was a classical liberal? A colloquial American liberal? The favorite-specter-of-the-Right liberal?
I'd love to try it out. How? It looks like their "sign up" is just a waiting list at this point. I'd also question whether they have really "launched" if at this point all they're doing is what amounts to a limited subscriber no-cost public beta.
Mixing family and business is never a good thing to do. I love all those memories and I want that to be the time we spend together not that ____ is wrong with your website/business because you may start out with a website but it never seems to end with just that.
Fun fact: the Pentagon was designed as a solution to that problem (well, for an office building, not for a mansion).
Ask HN: Got nothing to do this week. Anything good on TV?
schadenfreude (happiness at badness)
+ gluckschmerz (sadness at goodness)
= schadenschmerz (sadness at badness)
& slashdot
= slashdenschmerz (sadness at slashdot badness).

?
So here's a great way to fix it: next time Wikipedia does a donation run, post against it and advise people not to donate, explaining those reasons.
Well evictions have been banned at the very least. [1]
I'm not sure how much that helps your current situation though
[1]https://www.gov.uk/government/news/complete-ban-on-evictions...
I have been thinking "blood circle" this whole time!
Not by design from the FED, but yes, it's by design.

Helicopter money has many other desirable characteristic, like a much short lag to get into the real economy (so the government can adjust it with an easier to control bullwhip effect) and its wide distribution meaning that it distorts less one market or another.

There are very few reasons to explain why a government would make money creating so unconstrained that banks actually do not create as much as they can, and allow interest rates to go negative, instead of going for the helicopters.
5 y.o. and a 3 y.o. here. The key is to have one unique, anchoring activity each day - paint a rock, cook a loaf of bread, something. Also, we took a tip from preschool and create structured time. Kids playing in a room is one thing, but put them in a room and say "ok guys, one hour of 'free time'!" and suddenly they are excited to play.

Don't just leave them alone until there is a problem. Give them a task and a reward - fold these towels or clean up your mess, then you can watch a show.

Have a bigger project. Organize your spices and ask them to help. Or wash the windows, anything - getting them involved in something productive is necessary for your mental health too, so you aren't just spending all your energy trying to occupy their time aimlessly. Effecting real change (even in small ways) can help make things feel less pointless.
So, hopefully there will be blinded researchers who analyse the data.

They'll probably use sequential stopping rules to take samples of incoming data.

If one of the treatments works much much better, then they'll almost certainly recommend that (but doctors will probably figure this out first, anyway).
Hi Hackers, founder here,

What's in common with nomadlist, Ghost CMS and baremetrics? They are all Open Startups!
It's an interesting era to live in.
An era where we are in the midst of a virus outbreak, political corruptions and... Open startups!
What is an open startup? Well, there is no strict definition, but it basically means that the startup operates in full transparency, so all metrics like revenue and traffic is free for all to view.
I came across one problem though, how do I find these startups? how do I find their "open" metrics pages?
And that's why I built openstartuplist.com
Some interesting insights come across when you go over the data in the list, like:
- nomadlist revenue for Feb was ~30k$, a slight decrease from Jan but not much considering the effects of the Corona virus, interesting.
- Ghost have seemed to just cross today the 2M$ mark for ARR!! that's incredible!
- And a lot more insights out there.
I've taken the last week to curate a list of 12 open startups. But that's just the start, as I'm eagerly looking to add more to the list. I'm sure there are many more startups out there that operate in this transparent way.
This is a trend in the making.
All feedback is welcome and be safe and healthy :)
These measures have little teeth compared to European mainland measures.
>Like Scotland, Ireland plays the victim card very well to extort money from the English.

Yeah, if only the British haven't raped their freedoms, they'd be playing the victim totally virtually.
Floppy disks were a mix of bases 2 and 10.
And the last thing you want is Reddit moderation involved.

It’s more arbitrary and poorly due processed than Google,PayPal,FB etc.
There’s stories every few days about how some new “asset class” is exploding in value. Sneakers, baseball cards, diamonds, comic books, Bitcoin (I’m sure there are many others). There are signs of a big bubble all over the place now.
It looks like cursive Yiddish.
These have existed for quite some time. If you'd like to take a closer look, see:

https://www.reddit.com/r/shoebots/

https://shop.houseofcarts.io
You're not wrong. However, every time I think about that, I just tell myself to pedal harder ;)
> The retailer really only cares that they sell

In the space of limited special edition stuff, a retailer is not going to last long with that mindset. If a brand gets a reputation that they have lenient buying restrictions, and all their stuff ends up at resellers instead of true enthusiasts, that brand will swiftly become irrelvant.

This article may cause waves in niche for Jordans and Yeezys, and suddenly those products are no longer quite as cool or worth quite as much, simply because now you know it was just some dude buying up stock... it really kind of takes away part of the fun ownership of the stuff in way.
I'll bite... why would that matter?
It's pretty much the same grift with every self-help channel out there.
WSB has bets in the name and frequently points out that fact in various threads.
They're using the attention to drum up business for their DDoS service. https://www.dailydot.com/crime/lizard-squad-lizard-stresser-...
Do you (or anyone else) happen to have any recommendations as far as low-cost SIP providers? I've been looking around lately and I haven't seen any that jumped out.
I really hope these guys succeed, I know the founder has been having money troubles and it has made me worry about Tesla's future. This is an industry that can use a jolt of innovation.
I'm not sure I understand: IdeaStorm has been there for years and years.

EDIT: A quick perusal of their archives shows posts from mid 2007.
I will tell you the answer: It's because you spend the other 5 days doing crap.
At your volume of sales, you really need to setup a merchant account for your business to process payments. Using middlemen like Google Checkout and Paypal and you are going to fall into problems.

I can help you get setup with your own MID with a liberal acquiring bank, send me an email ofcmanagement at gmail if you're interested.
You can't default on a student loan (unless you die or something).
Bill Gates

It is time to Bill Gates to be back and salvage the damage done under Steve Ballmer, and retain the value of 8% or so of microsoft common stock still owned by him
Reading this Ken Fisher article was akin to reading a blog post.

This is why I look to authors like John Siracusa for quality articles on Ars Technica. This article however, is just a giant assumption that is likely to not be true.
coming asap :)
> But: Safari 5 has hardware accelerated graphics on both Mac and Windows for HTML5 video.

IIRC Google Chrome use Google Skia to reader webpage and graphics, which is based on OpenGL.

I assume OpenGL is automatically hw accelerated?
Bad analogy. If you waste 50,000 gallons of water by leaving your water hose on while you're on vacation, that's 50k gallons that the community no longer has [1]. The only way someone downloading e.g. 5gig of data in a month can cause anyone else to not be able to download is if the line is running at 100% capacity 24/7. The only possible impact the person could have is making communications take a little longer during the times he's bursting. But this is easily fixed by bandwidth caps and burst limits.

Do you have any evidence that lines are getting anywhere close to 100% utilization perpetually?

[1] I'm simplifying of course, but this is the basic idea.
For those who miss IE6 there is always http://ie6ify.com.
A comment I loved from the interview:

"You can't win (every argument). If you want to hire great people and have them stay working for you, you have to let them make a lot of decisions, and you have to be run by ideas, not by hierarchy. The ideas have to win, or the people don't stay." - Steve Jobs
OT but check the flights from NYC to City Airport they are much better than anything you can get from/to Heathrow unless you are flying with mile high club ;)
Ask the citizens of countries with those programs? They seem satisfied.
Focusing so hardcore on metrics can also lead to the loss of a curated product's edge. If you just keep following what the lemmings do you would end up falling off a cliff eventually, it often takes domain knowledge and experience to make educated opinions about how a product should move forward.

Selfishly, I hope you do stay in digital marketing, and be the change I want to see. Ad-tech needs some sanity and reality checks, and I hear a rumbling in the deep around ethical advertising practices.

Ad-tech is not just feeling more manipulative by the year, it's also feeling more and more like snake oil to your average business. I feel like there's a niche opening up for honest feeling, more simple online advertising networks.
>>Here's a crazy idea: Don't use analytics at all but focus on your product. If your success relies solely on "improving conversions" by tracking your users and then changing the position and color of your "Checkout" button then maybe try setting yourself apart such that customers want to buy your product even despite an obnoxious purchasing flow. Only then start optimizing it.

YUP!!

Any company, especially startups, should treat analytics they way they should treat MBAs - as a plausibly useful sub-function *after everything else in the product/service is running well at scale*.

Before that, the entire focus should be on the product and how it gets smoothly to the customer.

Only when there is lots of extra sales and production capacity, and lots of extra cash piling up, THEN is the time to start adding financial guys to efficiently manage it, and analytics to optimize your channels, etc.

Plus, NEVER let either of those tails wag the dog. Once a company's financial numbers start to rely on the finance department, or the sales numbers start to rely on channel optimization, the death spiral has started. It may take a while and look like an improvement at first (e.g., see GE), but it is still a death spiral.

Focus on product and customers, period.
The more recent choice would have been ExpressCard, but that standard was never updated beyond PCIe 2.0 x1 and USB 5Gbit/s. But the bigger problem with both ExpressCard and PCMCIA is that the cards are long—those form factors date back to an era where expansion cards needed a lot more PCB space than they do now. ExpressCard 34 is 70/75mm long, compared to a typical client WiFi card that's M.2 22x30mm. It's quite impractical to have ExpressCard slots on both sides of the machine.

I don't think it would have worked well to try to make a hot-swappable externally-facing card form factor derived from M.2. Likewise, cutting EDSFF E1.S down to a third of the length wouldn't leave any provision for USB or DisplayPort signals. USB-C is clearly the best available connector choice among current standards.
The amount of bitcoin on exchanges - including Coinbase - is at an all time low.

so really: who cares man.
I love the fact I don’t have to muck about with my iPhone to get it to work ...

I have changes I want to make to my iPhone. Some of them would be as easy as adding a trigger to an SQLite datbase that a stock "app" uses. I'm not "allowed" to.

I don't think companies should be legally permitted to take away the rights of an owner to do what they please with their own property. Locked bootloaders, e-fuses, crypto keys buried inside hardware, etc, should all be able to be overridden by a physical interlock. (Like Google did with Chromebooks, for example.)

Flip that switch and you lose the "walled garden". Okay. So be it. No running software that "trusts" my device (which is, arguably, misplaced trust anyway). No "app store" for me. I can live with that. It's my device and my choice to make. I get to make the call to give up "security" for freedom.

It's morally wrong to take away the ability of the owner to do what they wish with their devices. It should be illegal too.
Both situations applied to different people. I'd find it weirdly paradoxical for one person to find themselves in both situations simultaneously.
> We designed the Expansion Cards in a way that it's possible to 3D print the housings for them on a home 3D printer and get PCBs fabbed through the normal hobby channels.

That's a bold and brave move. Well done.
Yes, in Cali currently. I suspect you won't have the same issue. Our folks in other states don't have this issue either.
I am oversimplifying the situation. There are more than 1000 people in the world, everyone can enjoy cat videos. My main point is not that the world is divided into hacked and cat videos lovers. (There are two types of people: those who divide people into two categories and those that don’t :)).

My point is that there is a small percentage of the population who are makers and a large percentage who are consumers. The Internet of 30 years ago was mostly populated by the makers so it felt like everyone was a maker. Now it is much more representative of the real public because the consumers joined. It now feels like it’s mostly consumers because in the world’s population consumers outnumber makers by a large percentage. However, and this is the crux of my point, the absolute number of makers did not go down and in fact went up. You won’t find many makers in your Facebook feed, in relative numbers. But maker communities are bigger, better, easier to find, and easier to join than ever before. Just because consumers have joined the makers does not mean that things are worse. They are better. The rest is nostalgia.
> You can make a necklace out of many materials and it will function the same.

How so? Jewelry's function is to look a certain way.
Thanks, I will add the pointer.
You’re right. What makes this project interesting is the idea and the design, not Go, yet it would be much harder to get this publicity through that. And that’s exactly what I’m saying: why should people upvote just because of the language?
You should do your homework before embarrassing yourself: https://github.com/stefantalpalaru?tab=repositories
Baidu and Tencent are, in part, state owned.
Here are detailed pictures of a Range Rover Autobiography converted to a cargo van: https://link.marktplaats.nl/m1475620469
People are worried about the x-ray machines, not the microwave ones. The x-ray are by far the majority and that radiation damage is cumulative. That means that it doesn't matter how much we're getting elsewhere, we are adding to the damage unnecessarily, and the TSA workers at an even larger rate.
Don't overlook the obvious: The Matrix

Also: Primer, Amadeus, Ratatouille

Older movies: The General and other Buster Keaton movies, Trouble in Paradise and other Lubitsch movies.
seconded. awesome. also:

"The water under the Golden Gate bridge is cold, Mark."
Gattaca is always uplifting.
Star Wars, the original movie

Superman, the original movie

Star Trek, the first movie with Shatner, Nimoy, etc. Also Wrath of Khan.

The Matrix

300 probably will become one

The Social Network was surprisingly motivational. Fairly realistic portrayal of programming and programmers and startup life, and I loved many of Sean Parker's motivational speeches, and some of the Zuckerberg character's speeches as well.
I think it's an interesting idea, but imho it's in rather poor taste to use the "Hacker News" branding without knowing if PG approves.

Whether or not the site is for profit is entirely irrelevant; it comes off as you trying to cash in on the work that PG et al have put into building up the HN brand. It's tantamount to stealing.

Not only that, but it might cause confusion.

I wish you good luck, but I hope you'll change the name or at least put up a disclaimer in an obvious place noting that you are not affiliated with Hacker News.
They should have saved Lehman Brothers.
uh, its a great movie, but I don't remember it being very feel good. I mostly remember it being depressing. That scene toward the end where one of the kids is playing ball with his father is heartbreaking.
> This is designed to run without shell access, and without installing Node.js.

How can you run that without installing node itself? the godaddy tutorial specifically says one needs to upload nodejs on the server.Whether you are running apt-get install node or uploading it,you are still installing node on the server
Interests rates rise, investors pull out of riskier assets, like tech/VC. Funding dries up, businesses start to fail, causing further investor pull back, which in turn causes more businesses to fail.
FWIW, the salary charts on angel list show the average startup equity offers there going for a bit more than a point.

If your hypothetical startup sold for $100 million dollars, after dilution and taxes, you could expect maybe $500k. In other words, ~$125k extra for each year of a 4 year vesting period.

That's nice, but it's certainly not substantial - it's about equal to the salary you'ld expect at the same jobs. And, we are talking about a hundred million dollar, moonshot exit - in other words, vastly, vastly more than most startups can expect to make. Most early employees make a modest, very decent, pittance.
Yeah, DJ is actually the only one I'm still using via a fork (https://github.com/alphabetum/delayed_job/commit/9637a4418ad...). I haven't had time to put the change in a topic branch and do a pull request.
That is a completely wrong-headed view. There is no precedence there because there is no ambiguity. The parentheses in your example are the function call parentheses, not the optional grouping parentheses. They are mandatory.

There are some issues of associativity in the semantics of some Lisp functions. For instance we know that that the syntax (+ 1.0 2 3.0 4) is a list object containing certain items in a known order.

But how are they added? This could depend on dialect. I think in Common Lisp, the result has to be as if they were added left to right. When inexact numbers are present, it matters.

This isn't a matter of syntax; it's a semantic matter, which depends on the operator.

For instance in (- 1 2 3 4), the 2 3 4 are treated as subtrahends which are subtracted from the 1. But (- 2) means subtract 2 from 0.

In TXR Lisp, I allowed the expt operator to be n-ary: you can write (expt 2 3 4). But this actually means (expt 2 (expt 3 4)): it is a right to left reduction! It makes more sense that way, because it corresponds to:

4
3
2

The left-to-right interpretation would be

3 + 4
2

which is less useful: you can code that yourself using (expt 2 (+ 3 4)), for any number of additional terms after the 4.
It honestly depends on what it is - sometimes in the repository, for a wiki it’s stored in the wiki itself, otherwise it might be as simple as a text file in a web directory.
It sounds like you're saying that these trends can be explained by a general increase in American laziness over the last 50 years. Is that accurate?

And, if so, do we have data on that?
So ... how about some self-reflection in your bubble of self-righteousness?
And actually answer to the answer of jacquesm?

"But it wasn't a question, it was a statement, and a faulty one at that

Best case interpretation would require substituting 'current' for 'frequency' and even then it would be inaccurate because the current is a proxy for the Z-distance to the tip which is then used to convert to a 3D map, which in turn can be visualized.
"

So it seems you were just wrong in your statement and therefore downvoted.

In general, I would agree that the downvoting habit here is sometimes over the line. Like I would not have downvoted your original question, even though it did contained a false statement. But how you react to an answer actually explaining the reasoning - does not speak for you in this case.
> In mine, you have º and ª in that place...

Out of curiosity, what keyboard layout do you use?