jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> The fact that the population of greater Houston has more than doubled in 30 years tends to support the idea that they are building enough for growth.

This isn't enough to support the idea unless prices have also not climbed.

The Bay Area population has dramatically increased and prices have too because building to support this growth has been fought by NIMBYs via bad policy.[0] As a result houses on the peninsula have reached insane prices and there is little available for new people, see: https://www.redfin.com/CA/Palo-Alto/3785-Park-Blvd-94306/hom...

Myself and many of my friends (~30yrs old) rent with multiple roommates.

The only people that can buy experienced some sort of exit event or have a lot of FAANG equity with two FAANG incomes. Even then they have to pay property tax on that insane value that the NIMBYs don't pay.

Maybe Houston has done a better job, but population increase itself isn't much evidence.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_housing_shortage

Bad incentives for existing owners to restrict growth exist everywhere, but they're particularly bad in California because of Prop 13.

The most frustrating bit to me, is that the NIMBYs that won the housing lottery and leverage their political power to screw everyone else also play victim. I hope one day we can pass something that corrects a lot of these bad incentives. The new RHNA housing policy and things like Sacramento's elimination of single family zoning are the way. SB50 and related policy would help too.
This makes sense to me. For example, there are other farther-left viewpoints that I haven’t heard represented or being advocated for, specifically thinking of animal rights. When I can pick out viewpoints like that so easily, it makes me wonder if the ideas being pushed are not historically arbitrary. Will we one day need to make AI take on ideas of animal liberation because, as you stated, that becomes “social justice outrage du jour”? What makes that less pressing at this moment in time?
This is the right move. All FAANG companies will have to fall in line quick.

All the nonsense about location based COL salary adjustments are based on pure HR fantasy.

High performance engineers are valuable and rare.

All this talk about more talent being available remote to companies and companies can demand salaries lower miss out on the other aspect.

More companies are now available to high performance engineers. High performers can now negotiate higher salary with multiple companies for remote positions.

It will be upward feedback loop, pushing higher salary offers for higher performers.
If it saves lives and gets their economy back to normal, that was the right call. Meanwhile we’re discussing sending multi-thousand dollar checks in the US because of Covid.
Domestic wires in the U.S. (the only actually immediate form of money transfer besides cash or Western Union) typically carries a fee between $25 and $50 per transaction.

BTC is not immediate either, it takes several days to cash out through an exchange because it will ultimately be settled with you through ACH.
Are you in my living room?

A few months ago I disassembled and cleaned a grape juice damaged MBP. Tried it afterward and no dice. Tried it yesterday on a bored whim and I now have a working MBP with a sticky keyboard. Why? I have no idea.
Chromebook sales are constantly rising.

With the eventual capability that they'll be able to run Android programs, as well as PNaCl and Emscripten borrowing from each other and getting better offering opportunity for tons of apps to be ported to the web, and then of course HTML5 and Js becoming the technology of choice for all sorts of apps, Chromebooks are the eventual future.

Maybe they're not the present, but they ARE the future.

And this is the main thing - for millions (hundreds of millions, maybe billions soon), a smartphone is their first entry to the internet. Probably an Android. When they see the Chrome logo in a laptop they can afford, and they already like the Android/Chrome ecosystem, they'll buy it, versus Windows which is associated with viruses, scams, piracy, etc...

Keep in mind Googles current business is still search. The net they're casting has nothing to do with the present, they're gunning for 7 billion people to associate them with computing, and to create the new future of computing.

Go to the third world. Yes some families have cheap PCs running pirated XP, but every kid has a cheap smartphone that they can connect to the internet with. They all have Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter, etc...
>When everyone expects prices to fall, everyone becomes less willing to spend

I find that contradictory. If something becomes cheaper, I will be more likely to buy it. It's the entire reason to have discounts and sales.

Slippery slope fallacy?
I don't see your point. Most large projects require the combined effort of many people, especially if you want to be confident in their quality and get them shipped on time, as I'm sure the NSA does. Is that supposed to be a bad thing? Or did you just want to have fun by calling people enablers because they do something you disagree with?

As for your views on privacy, I don't expect that most people can change their fundamental beliefs like what constitutes a human right. Especially not as the result of anonymous internet comments. As always, progress depends on people with outdated views dying out naturally.
This makes me wonder about how legislators deal with merge conflicts. Since new laws are often written as "Act X of 1972 is amended as follows: ...", I wonder if there are ever cases where two laws are in the House at the same time that would conflict, and how they resolve this. Do they amend the later law once the first has been signed/given assent?
But this is the point. Without the credit they will not be able to afford $32.5K car.

And btw, average worker makes $35K, and pays federal tax up to $3200. So their "after credit" price would be close to $30K.
> How come there's so many people willing to work at a cigarette company?

- Money

> What kind of programmers are willing to help their government attack Github?

People misguided by propaganda.

> How can so many smart people join the NSA and essentially attack the internet?

- Fascination with technology

- Xenophobia

- Patriotism
Yes. NYT is making an editorial decision. Google publishing an app is much more akin to you making a phone call - they are the carrier, nothing else, because they control the end of line.
They've been heard, but it doesn't matter. The people they've chosen to follow keep stoking their feelings of grievance.
So we’re equivocating looting with disrupting the counting of electoral votes?
It's more than 45 minutes on the western extremes in the EST, CST, and MST zones.
this in itself is a dangerous precedent for censorship at the request of the twitter management.
So Hamilton, not Jefferson.
I guess it's like any timing side-channel.

Saying no takes a few minutes, thinking about and saying no takes longer, putting it through a lawyer takes a lot longer than that
> "no u"

> It would be funny if it weren't so sad. Please join us in reality when you're ready.

I rest my case. I was suggesting that you take your own advice, instead of throwing stones in glass houses.
Depends on which news agencies you believe!

The below articles report that the mayor was concerned and requested federal assistance. The Capitol Police however, refused help that was offered[0][1][2].

In the end two members of Capitol Police leadership resigned[3]. Their reasons for turning down assistance should be investigated.

EDIT: Found an NPR article exploring this[4].

> Bowser's approach to security was clearly influenced by events last summer when demonstrators took to the streets near the White House to protest the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis and other police abuses.

[0]https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9111913/DC-Mayor-Mu...

[1]https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/national-international/la...

[2]https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/07/capitol-poli...

[3]https://www.npr.org/sections/congress-electoral-college-tall...

[4]https://www.npr.org/sections/congress-electoral-college-tall...
I didn't say anything about the BLM app. Don't know why you're bringing that up, other than to strawman, but hey, that's what they do.
Was interested in this so I did a bit of investigation into whether it makes sense with UPC.

UPC only makes a small amount of bandwidth available on the 'Wi Free' (UPC's version of Xfinity) network, seems to be about 2.5mbps down and 0.5mbps up. In my country (Ireland), the minimum package you need to get 'Wi-Free' is 120mbps down, so It's not really worth the effort for an extra 1% bandwidth.
Notably both C# and TypeScript are developed in the same Microsoft division as Visual Studio and VSCode. :p
Yikes! This is why when I built my home NAS I used five different drives and manufacturers.
> It’s a job, not a judicial system

People effectively reviewed the cases, hopefully discussed in details and came to a conclusion.

There was a decision process, it's not outlandish to have a review process coupled with an appeal process as needed. That's what happens for performance evaluations in a lot of companies.
”You are supposed to trip under the guidance of a professional”

I don’t think that this statement is technically accurate - fortunately. Studies have shown that following a certain protocol or setting will increase the effectiveness. That framework is published science.
See [0] for the "credibility revolution"

[0] https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.24.2.3
> gender workplace equality

The workplace isn't the only area where someone can leverage technology to discriminate against a characteristic...
> Not sure what you mean about filenames as arguments, how would a filename be listed?

Just the name of the file, like ls. Typing lq file.txt and display nothing looks like the file doesn't exist.

> Added regex support for --filter. For instance --filter=re:\\d+

God, you are fast! Thank you!

> You mean something like what tree displays? Or just to count the items in the directory?

Forget this silly thing. I tried using find and worked perfectly:

$ find . -type d -exec echo -e "\n$ lq {}" \; -exec lq {} \;
To paraphrase Nietzsche: the concept of free will was only invented [by subjugated group] in order to assign blame to [person/group in power] for their actions, and to do the inverse - justify one's (undesirable) position, i.e. "I'm in a subservient position because I choose to be, and not because I lack power / knowledge / ability."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche_and_free_w...

In the end, I think it probably leads to a form of consequentialism. It doesn't matter if you are more or less inclined to certain actions, but simply what the consequences are.
About a minute or so for the batch of 64, but I haven't tuned the implementation yet (I just did enough work to get it down to a comfortable range of experimentation). The paper I linked (https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/1041.pdf) which uses the same model, but with a more optimized implementation cites 26ms amortized per image (in a batch of 64), so I would suspect I can get down to that with a day or two of optimization work if I wanted to (or just plug in their backend - but where's the fun in that).
To be fair, I use auto complete with my 5 year old netbook in VIM and Kate with auto complete and it doesn't slow down. I also run RStudio (occasionally) and it has a slight slow down. Intellij slows only a little more and is usable with my old netbook.
Do Telegram have that now? I actively use Telegram but can't remember having seen it - nor an announcement that it is available.
Yeah, lawyer sounds about right.
DevOps/IT at a small company can be a good one.

While you will be expected to work off-hours. So much of the job is about keeping things humming along nicely, and when that's happening, nobody has much expectation from you.

You can slowly automate the time-consuming segments of your job. And most of the time, the automation isn't necessarily difficult to do, as most platforms have API endpoints designed for programmatic interaction.

On the developer-side, you could find a job maintaining a product for a smaller company. It will mostly be DevOps work, but with some bug fixes or minor enhancements thrown in. This would be a much more visible job than DevOps. And if you don't really care about the product, it might not be a good fit.

I have a former colleague who has been working devops/web site maintenance for a Sewage Pipe Manufacture* for going on 13 years now. Last I talked to him, he loved it. $80k is plenty to live on, he has no commute and got to watch his kids grow up.

* Not really, but it's an equally obscure, but very specific industry.
"Too many people want your natural resources" would be a unique reason to grant a territory more sovereignty.
As a background I'm broadly pro-crypto, in particular the privacy-preserving coins.

>He is one of the most ethical people in the information security industry.

Connecting your communications history, your transaction history and your offline ID through phone number is an explicitly pro-establishment move. Something must have changed along the way about his originally cypherpunk positions.

>Does it compromise Signals security as a messenger client?

Not that we know. The problem is much more pernicious: through centralization, it makes the user less secure. In case of a privacy breach or court ordered document reveal or seizure, the scope will be much broader: communication history AND transaction history. Given that it will also list the transaction counter-parties, this opens up others to the privacy risks just as well.

The correct solution: decouple messaging from your offline identity (phone number etc.). Decouple transactions from offline identity and from communications - proper use of cryptocurrency is good for that.
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Add to that the fear of social rejection by people who you perceive to think they are better than you.
While learning, try to tuck away concepts and patterns (not necessarily Formal Design Patterns), idioms. Those things will translate across language barriers and offer new perspectives of doing things in other languages. Learning that way (while doing the practical stuff) will make you much more adaptable. You'll be learning Language X and you'll be like, "Oh, that's just like such-and-such in Language Y... I wonder if I can flex it like... cool."
For a Western company, that may be: use a first name and a last name field which works for 95% of our customers and inconveniences the other 5%. But that 5% is already used to it.

Which of course goes against the spirit of the original article.
That's more likely to happen as the startup matures. In the early days of ramen-fueled late night code-a-thons in a tiny 1 bedroom apartment, you have a much better chance of finding 20-somethings, not older developers with mortgages and kids.
You have a point there. I stand corrected.
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We are hiring, the site may not list these positions, but we are looking to fill Kernel Developers, System Developers (linux), and Front-end UI (PHP & Javascript) Developers. Also have a tech support job open.
> I can't imagine why they would have done that in the past .. decade?

Maybe they aren't using software keys, but rather a low quality/older/small-kb hardware token or following the default guide for one? The vast majority supported 2048 in 2010 though..
I think that it is fine to have small mediocre things on your github. It is your github after all, use it to host your things so that you can use them when needed.

Maybe point out some of the more solid applications that people could check out on your resume, but really having anything on your github is a plus on its own.
Seen your "nickpickiness" leads to no other conclusion: you are homosexual, are you?
Traffic is a vanity metric.
Yeah, that's a hard question. But maybe we can mitigate the need for funding by being open source, P2P, or getting donations.
Thank you, that was the incident which sent me down this chain of thought. That was an act of true integrity.
If only there was a culture that had a centuries-old tradition of committing painful ritual suicide to atone for failures... I would totally trust those guys to safely run a nuclear plant...
I assume he was correcting the line "we'd be running abominations like MS IIS". Many of us were running Apache httpd prior to Nginx (and Apache remains a very competitive server; still the easiest way to run PHP, and Rails+Passenger+Apache is arguably simpler than Rails+Unicorn+Nginx).
I moved from Office and started using LibreOffice several years ago and still run into issues where people can't open the LO docs I send over - even after I've saved in the MS Docx format.

I can only imagine the headaches they are about to incur with this switch.
The Ars comments mentions two co-CEOs as a solution.
i'd argue against that. Somewhere else in this thread someone brought up weather predictions; even though we completely understand the physics of weather, we can't simulate worldwide climate precisely for various reasons (not enough information, not enough computational resources, chaotic behavior). I think it's the same thing with our brain.
If you had visited a few hours earlier it would have been direct. Then the hug of death hit.

If you want to visit the page directly without CloudFlare, go to http://trombone.zapto.org instead.
I live in DC on Capitol Hill and my partner and I take long walks every day. DC is a big place, but what you describe is not our experience, even in Colombia Heights or Georgetown. Maybe once in a while someone's using a vaporizer or smoking on their step, but that's a far cry from everything reeking of weed.

For what it's worth, the sewers here do stink. I'm glad we're a ways back from the street.
Not sure how your missing the fact that people drink to shut off or dull their senses. No one drinks to become smarter or more perceptive. The very point is to get your brain to chill out in a sense, unwind, relax, etc.

Also a 2% increase in alcohol content isn't noticeable in any way other than MAYBE taste (and I'm sure most people wouldn't even notice that).
Basically what happens in fascism
Maybe we need to figure out how to give feedback to people giving feedback. And that feedback will need to be structured such that it doesn't just get dismissed immediately.
When I was driving in the EU I had a car that used gps to pull the limit (but never actually enforced that you followed it). It was really cool to hop on the Autobahn and see a symbol for none pop up in the indicator. It looked like a nonsmoking sign without the cigarette in it.
> I refused to believe Wordle would be so evil as to have two repeated letters.

I remember VIVID which was pretty tough.
>This app is in Beta - we are adding new features and making improvements every day. If you have any suggestions for improvements, please let us know!

How exactly though?

Wish there was some kind of link on the message where you can submit feedback.
I think when we change the laws, we should compensate those who lose out from the change. By giving people the assurance that the laws will either remain the same, or they will be compensated if a change in the law incurs for them losses in their investment, people will be encouraged to invest more of their time and money in endeavors in our society. Regulatory/institutional stability is a related concept and widely considered by economists to be an important contributor to economic development.

As for the moral argument, I find it hard to believe that individuals should know that the laws that society collectively agreed on and implemented, are unjust. To some extent we rely on society to inform us of right and wrong, and there is no clearer example of that expression than the laws and policies the government institutes through at the behest of elected representatives.

So I think the fault of unjust laws, where they exist, should fall on society as a whole, as opposed to those who as a matter of circumstance, just happened to make investments of time or money that depended on those laws.

Finally, not compensating landowners means far more political opposition to instituting such a tax, and therefore delays in doing so, and that in itself is costly. Consequently, insisting on landowners being punished for benefiting from the legal status of land ownership will be harmful to society. It would be a case of prioritizing vengeance over society's wellbeing.
I think the other key part is that it was only tracking calls to/from specific countries (in the case of this article, it's Iran, but other countries are on the list). I'm not saying this makes it better, but it is not all domestic calls as could be inferred from the title.
I don't think insanity is the right word—these companies definitely have expertise in the field that should be considered valuable. It's kind of insane that the positions are taken at face value, though.
He/she/they have lost interest in the game. "Been there, done that."
Garbage collection is not a public service everywhere, especially in towns that don't collect utility taxes for it or in locations not within city limits.
There were numerous times over the past 3 1/2 years that we thought we would have to shut down.

Informing users about our shutdown was more complicated than simply sending an email out. It took a long time to "figure things out" and there were other parties involved in that process.

That being said, we are shutting down as gracefully as possible. Offering extended period downloads, export to S3 and "self-hosting" your own Trovebox and migrating your data there.
Personally, I believe they should've been able to fix it themselves. Then again, I'm also the kind of person who believes that you don't spy on your friends.
Tell it to this guy: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/saudiar...

Or tell it to this girl's father: https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ru&tl=en&u=h... (scroll down). This is modern times, by the way.

In 2015, there are people who treat women as subhuman beings due to religious reasons. Please tell me more how religion doesn't go hand-in-hand with ignorance.

US isn't the only country in the world, and Christianity isn't the only religion. Christianity has been (and continues to be) watered down to be able to exist in modern western society, that is why you are able to say that it's not at odds with science. Back in the day, if you dared questioning the geocentric model, you'd be burned at the stake.
There's two sides to that story: have we put regulations into place that prevent another sub-prime mortgage crisis? Or, are those regulations going to fizzle out in the next administration?