skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a difference between focusing on people and completely abandoning them. One of the reasons many people (myself included) are leaving Twitter in droves is because Twitter has made changes which betray its original community.

In fact, at this point I would argue that Bay Area tech companies are actively hostile towards the people who helped create them. To use Twitter again as an example (because they have done so many stupid things), to come out with the ridiculous "we decided to change likes to hearts" icon crap when many, many people were crying out for some solution to the rampant abuse on the platform, was not just a lack of focus, but a show of active contempt.

One of my biggest criticisms of the growth model (in part championeered by YC) where you focus on getting users first and then figure out how to make money, is that it almost always leads to this sort of betrayal. This is also the general problem with offering "free" services to bootstrap things. There was a period of several years where some of us (again, myself included) were outright begging Twitter to let us pay for our account. This happened again with Ello, and when they took VC money I lost all trust in them.

When you have an entire paradigm of companies that are following this strategy as proposed, over time people will see a pattern, and when a company practises the first steps in that pattern, it's not hard to see where it leads. As a result, I'd argue it leads to an erosion of that initial base, and therefore companies in the future will not be able to bootstrap in the same way.
> This is really just re-labeling the numbers for time. So now, 9 am is called 10 am

Were you expecting some fundamental shift in space-time?

Aren't all of our efforts at DST, time zones, leap seconds, and so on, simply ways to assign an economically and politically convenient label to each instant in time?
Not seeing any lispers, maybe that's my sign. :)
So when do you cash out and move to the Midwest?
I scrolled through the list looking for this myself. How are you going to have a list of development streams and not include the most popular developer streamer. This list just feels weird, like giving a list of popular programming languages and not mentioning java.
Love Discord. Only one bone to pick: Every time I sign up to a new Discord instance, I get to jump through all the same hoops to prove to Discord that I'm a Good Person There To Engage As A Proper Human Being. It gets old fast. I wish that Discord instances would talk to one another and say "Oh, that gal, she's probably OK..." and give me at least a step or two up the ladder.
If you follow them on Twitch you would have that information in your Twitch sidebar!
That prompted me to recall Carl Berg from the prior era of the 1980s and 1990s tech boom. He ended up with a lot of stray equity holdings as a consequence of his real-estate position in Silicon Valley.

https://www.forbes.com/forbes/1998/1012/6208086a.html
Thanks so much for sharing your results!
Well, not meaningless ... it can mean whatever you want, and it will not be strictly wrong.
We have Irish Travellers in the US, too, you know. They mainly stick to the east coast. Local police will publish warnings when they're coming through. They are likely the primary motivator for anti-caravan laws, the other being that caravans and trailer homes generally have negative curb appeal and depress nearby property values.

But "rural" in the US and "rural" in the UK are orders of magnitude apart. There are individual ranches in Texas larger than whole counties in the UK. The kinds of nomadic people that provoke anti-camping laws require a certain population density to support their lifestyle, so in the US, it's usually the NIMBYs that try to ban certain kinds of dwellings on other people's land. It's a question of how many people would even know something is there. If you never even see your mail carrier, you're not going to have a problem erecting any sort of building you want. But if you have neighbors that can see your dwelling from theirs, they will be interested in your private business.

So if you're in the middle of the wind farms and corn farms in northern Indiana, no one cares if you have a manufactured home on your land. If you're on undeveloped land just east of Denver, you can't even pitch a tent on your own property without a permit.
So I've been working on a truly native macOS Slack client for a while, wondering if its time to revive it

https://twitter.com/harisamin/status/727634194814373889

I've posted about it before here on HN but wasn't sure if there's enough interest
I'm sorry for your loss, Matt. Thanks for sharing.
So because of the accident of your birth, you have more right to live there than I do? I worked hard (and was fortunate in various ways and was supported by the social system) to earn what I have, but my money isn't good enough?
Why are you disappointed if Keybase includes a wallet or a way to send people Lumens? Can you not just not use it?
Those cases are often Deep Vein Thrombosis[1] caused by not moving around enough.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_vein_thrombosis
It's interesting that an article that provides at least 6 different meanings for it says that it's meaningless.
Can't you be paid by virtue of cheaper costs? Ad agencies filtering out value is of dubious value for society. Cheaper cars, more effective roads and transit, wiser food choices, data driven medicine, and plenty of other progress points continue to help most everyone that is at stake in this discussion. My hope is it continues to help even more.
Unfortunately, you're probably broken at this point. Too much time spent in the productive bliss of solitary work breeds unrealistic expectations when pulled back into the conformity of collaboration. It's like shackling a thoroughbred to a plow.

If you've got VC money to burn, sticking a whole squad of expensive programmers in a room and gating their output to slightly more than a single person might be a reasonable option...
Ask HN: Anyone ever use TLA+ on a Webapp
I recently became aware of TLA+, and I was curious if folks who have used it, have used it with webapps and had much luck with it?

I typically work with things like Personalization and Caching, and was wondering what folks thought about TLA+'s usefulness in those areas.
This is how it's done in the Netherlands, actually.
That's an interesting notion of equity, fairness, and progressive principles.

Where does it follow from those principles that it is in any way fair, equitable, or progressive that people born into a community, with friends, family, and community there, should have to move out because they can't find a good job or afford housing in that community?

Similarly, how does it follow that some other young person should have to completely uproot themselves and move to a strange city just to get a decent-paying job?

"Labor mobility" is for the convenience of capitalists, not workers.
I would say, ignore both of them (the HNers advising you above in good earnest). You will cross that bridge if/when there is a need. The disruption to a happy phase can come in various guises. Don't mend if it ain't broke, they say. Also make hay while the sun shines & may be it will shine longer.
And I completely misread what you wrote at first, we're in perfect agreement :)
I won't disagree with your statement, but there's a very large difference between intentionally changing a user's mood by modifying their news feed vs. indirectly and unintentionally affecting a users mood via an interface change.
I think we all agree it's some for of "secure" ledger. Otherwise yea, it's not a super well defined term. Regardless it's obviously over hyped and buzzed. Git for example could be called a blockchain if you really wanted to.
The latter would be my takeaway as well, based on how effectively Google's search technology was extricated from China -- to Baidu's and the surveillance state's benefit, despite the results from Baidu being about as effective at finding useful information as AltaVista was at the end of it's reign.
It’s not meaningless. Saying Blockchain is meaningless is like saying the web is meaningless or the internet is meaningless. Just because you either don’t understand it or you feel it’s too broad does not make it meaningless.

Blockchain is a distributed ledger that guarantees consensus without any central party. It has many other properties, like making the transactions public in most cases, and many other important things that are different from centralized databases and non public databases we have been using for the last 30 years.
"Bay Area is top region for outward migration in the U.S."

https://www.sfgate.com/expensive-san-francisco/article/Bay-A...
I wrote my own alternative in Python when noticed pypi.in: https://github.com/SavandBros/badge
I think that is the point in the article; it is used in many different ways so simply saying you're using the blockchain doesn't have much meaning and yet people look at it as a sign of a forward facing company.
I'll believe it when I see Satoshi's Bticoins draining off to a new wallet...
>part of the advertising costs get passed on to consumers //

Can you tell me who else will pay my advertising bill, because it can be a complete money pit and getting someone to pay for it without using revenue from customers would be great. Let me know bub.
Houses appreciate. Trailers do not. Trailers are like cars.

Sorry my comment was ambiguous
VeritasDB: High Throughput Key-Value Store with Integrity
What would be the right way to test this?
Networking for founders
This happens a lot. You could probably find 20 photographers in my area who capture frames with the same timestamp during a sunset by a lighthouse.
But there's lots of things we don't know. Just because I think Facebook is creepy and advertising-crazy, doesn't mean I can just make up claims. You have to come to the table with at least a little bit more than just not liking FB and superstition.
With all due respect, that's crap. Blockchain means exactly what Satoshi Nakamoto defined it to mean in his seminal paper.
> So you're saying that affordable housing is preventing housing from being affordable? LOL.

I think you're conflating 2 types of 'affordable housing.'

People say 'affordable housing' when they mean 'government legally forcing landlords to underprice their units' versus what the term should actually mean, 'a reasonable price range of rents'.

> there's certainly lots of red tape in NYC construction, but I see zero evidence that there is more red tape with non-luxury construction.

There isn't necessarily more but there should be less to incentivize builders. No point in going through all the bureaucracy if your margins are going to be super low.

> Simply presenting alternate causes doesn't mean AirBnB isn't a cause

It's a factor, for sure. I'm not defending Airbnb as a nonentity, my point is that it's easy to blame Airbnb because they're a new player whereas academics and state politicians seem less enthused about taking a cold, hard look at housing laws, while well-intentioned at protecting low-income renters, probably play a far larger role in increasing housing costs.
Cryptocurrency, welcome to AI's long nightmare.

AI has forever had buzzword-complaint terms. Consider "Agent", which describes a very specific thing (namely autonomy), but that didn't stop everyone and their dog outside the field from calling their software a "database agent" or a "compiler agent" or whatnot, equating "agent" with "program". Indeed there's an entire non-AI field called "Agent Based Modeling" -- of which I am a participant -- which completely misunderstands the term. So AI gave up and switched to "Intelligent Agent", which was unfortunately an even more buzzword-compliant word. Now we started seeing "intelligent graphics agent" or "intelligent login page agent". Finally in the late '90s AI moved to "Autonomous Agent", a word straight from the Department of Redundancy Department. But it worked! Nobody outside of AI seems to use it: my theory is that most people don't really know exactly what autonomous means.
The "monitor you wear on your face" trope is simply inaccurate, and essentially a misunderstanding of the state of VR today.

I say this not to either criticize you or excuse the mistake by Oculus (they really needed to countersign their cert with a timestamp server), but to educate. These are non-obvious issues to people that don't follow the VR sector.

Monitors work without low-level drivers because their maturity (and lack of innovation) allows the hard stuff to be embedded in the operating system. VR is not at that state; it is emergent, and the capability stacks require additional integration into the OS. Vendors frequently add unique features, and will continue to do so for some time, making standardization difficult.

Even at its simplest level, a VR headset with 6 degrees of freedom is two monitors that must remain in absolute synchronization while also returning positional information to the CPU. This alone is enough to go beyond "standard monitor driver" functionality.

But there's much more. Here is a paste of a comment I made elsewhere:

Oculus (and Steam, via SteamVR) engineers a plethora of low-level code to reduce latency and add features. It's not just a monitor, but a whole set of SDKs, APIs, devices, and drivers.

For the Rift, the hand controllers are wireless input devices refreshing at 1,000Hz; the sensors (to know where you are in the room) are USB devices with tight 60 fps synchronization to LEDs on the headset; there is a custom audio stack with spacialized audio and ambisonic sound; video needs specialized warping to correct lens distortion, interpolate frames, and maintain a 90 fps image, etc.

Not to mention, the system creates a virtual monitor so you can see your 2D desktop while in VR. You can reach out and "grab" a window, rip it from the desktop and position it in your VR world. Pin it, and when you enter a game that window remains and is fully interactive with the Touch controllers emulating a mouse. Maybe you want to play Spotify in the background of a table tennis game, or be able to check a Discord screen while working through a puzzler, or watch YouTube videos while flying your ship in Elite:Dangerous. One guy set up a video feed from his baby monitor so he could watch his kid napping while in VR. This is obviously not a standard feature of the Windows compositor.

All this needs to work across AMD and Nvidia, in Unity, Unreal, or any custom game engine. It's not off-the-shelf driver stuff.

Not to mention, the premise that monitors don't have drivers is also mistaken. They may not be necessary, but they are available[1]. And, the decision to sign kernel drivers is not a poor choice by Oculus, but a mandate from Microsoft for Windows 10 build 1607 and above.[2] A cert is, indeed, necessary to function.

Hope that was informative.

[1] http://www.aocmonitorap.com/my/download_driver.php
[2] "Starting with new installations of Windows 10, version 1607, Windows will not load any new kernel mode drivers which are not signed by the Dev Portal." - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/in...
Yes, it would lose population if it wasn't also a top region for inward migration from outside the US. Growth is definitely slowing down (housing has a lot to do with that), but I don't think we will see actual falls until the next decade.
Sorry, that’s just incorrect.

Most value of residential property is in the structure. $/sqft of space is the metric, not the land plot.
The world "blockchain" is not really meaningless. Originally, a blockchain was a cryptographically chained chain of blocks in a proof of work system. It is still used that way, but it is also repurposed by other marketing schemes of many cryptocurrencies.
You have no way to say if it's a fair deal, because we don't have proper metrics to check. Plus this data collection is instrumental to the increasing centralization of power and wealth that has the potential of getting to a dangerous extreme soon. I think we should act, and I'm proud that the EU is doing just that. Lanier's proposal might be a bit too much, but at least revising the tax scheme for companies that profit from everyone's data is a necessary step, in my opinion, in order to properly redistribute value to society.
They aren't that far out (especially when the subway ran in a more timely fashion).

My commute from Nostrand to lower Manhattan was under 30 minutes even including the 10 minute walk to the subway. That's exactly why that area is gentrifying.
Those people who are willing to pay $50 per year for such thing are worth more than 50$ per year as targets for advertising.
Why Your Fear of Committing to a Niche Market Will Kill Your Startup
"Means exactly"... to whom?
A day off? That's all? Give that man a raise! Something to look back upon each month. He might have saved the company and even if not, probably a lot of money anyway... it's only fair to give something back.
I recommended Keybase to people as a security tool. This isn't security. There is no reason for cryptocurrency bullshit to exist in tools I rely upon. There is no reason for cryptocurrency bullshit to exist things that I use in production capacities.

It is the pure addition of risk to my operations and my clients' operations and offers nothing to me except a ding to my reputation, because I now look like an asshole because a security tool I recommended and spoke highly of is now going to be flogging funbux.
Because cryptocurrency has a very high potential for propagating failures or legal risks. It's like being given a free piece of asbestos with your sandwich.

It's also prone to reputational risks; basically everyone who hears about cryptocurrency almost immediately either loves it or hates it.
or karma level (at least >1 ?)
And just as AI is being overused to solve problems, so too is the "blockchain", inevitably making users lives worse in the long run.
If it helps, try imagining what programming superscalar computers is like. :)

That is, when it is ready, you really won't, for most things. Instead, you will leverage massive amount of work others have done so that your much simpler programs will work.
The idea that corporations aren't people leads to evil.

"Oh, yes we harvested your data from all the sites you visited and used it to manipulate you in to buying stuff that harms your livelihood (gambling, say), but it's the _company_ that did it and so none of the controlling executives can be blamed!"
"Blockchain" means a 394% surge in your stock price:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-27/what-s-in...
It's about as meaningless as the word "communism". Tough to come up with a definition for that, but I still know what it "means".

I guess you just have to read a bunch of different sources to get the full picture of what a blockchain is. It's kind of hard to communicate abstract ideas, so you need a variety of sources to paint the picture in your head.
I would like to see total mortgage debt and price side-by-side.

*I mean that, anyone know where to get this?
I think the problem is at a much lower level... This is the nature of competition and evolution. It's the natural progression of a game called "maximize the resources" where there are no rules against exploitation.

Which is why I think we need more regulation in this particular area to clearly define the rules we want everyone to play by.
From my understanding, they define a state of the Hopfield nodes akin to some external model’s state at some point. Then the neural net “anneals” to its naturally lowest energy state. That state is then read as output of the computer. This is my very naive understanding, of course.
The problem is much deeper than Airbnb. As a 27 year NYer, I appreciate the shake-up caused by Airbnb. Landlords of market rate apartments can charge whatever they want for a security deposit, so we now get landlords asking 6 months to a year of up-front security on a 2000-plus rental AND then asking for 1st and last months' rent on top of all that. This effectively turns renters into owners without the benefits of being owners. (i.e. they can't legally rent out their apartment on Airbnb at all without the landlords' consent- and the landlord will NEVER consent to even a 30 day+ sublet. Even if they do rent out their place legally on AIrbnb, an Airbnb guest can squat after 29 days,a nd the actual resident would have to take them to court to get them evicted- this is a very long process, meanwhile...) Yes, there are so-called tenant protecting laws, but it is very very difficult to get these laws enforced (basic repairs needed, mold mitigated, Certificate of Occupancy registered, leaks fixed, water provided, fire code observed, electrical emergencies addressed, and on and on) So these landlords get away with stealing from tenants, making their lives a living hell, making the tenants pay for common area heating bills when the LL chooses to use very expensive electric units without insulating the building.

Airbnb is drawing attention to these legal issues, because now, the city has to pretend it cares about legality and enforcement since the power structure has shifted under Airbnb. This seems healthy to me. Our Housing Court in NYC is a joke. On the one had, it allows tenants to represent themselves, which is actually easy to do since it operates more like a community high school principal's office. On the other hand, housing court is a slow, slow process- it is ineffective at providing timely relief to abused tenants, and entirely ineffective at helping with certain types of landlord perpetrated swindling/lying/harassment that's rampant in NYC. The reason it is ineffective for this, is that these issues aren't handled by housing court.(for example if a landlord is rerouting the heating system so that tenants pay for the heating of common areas--a landlord responsibility--that is costing each tenant on average an extra $200 a month-- these tenants can't address this issue in housing court, because housing court doesn't handle this problem. They can't represent themselves. In order for the court to order an inspection by the electric company, these tenants must hire an attorney on retainer in order to force that inspection- otherwise, the landlord will not allow the electric company to inspect.) I'm happy that Airbnb is calling the city's bluff. Hopefully, it will challenge the city to beef up its legal system in all ways. Currently, the landlords are the ones favored by the city, while the tenants are the ones "favored" on unenforceable paper.
Yes, much more interesting than the Coinbase 4-coin-index, for me at least.

I have a small amount in one of their DAAs, and as a customer, I really enjoy the transparency in their communication. They do regular Reddit AMA's (https://www.reddit.com/r/ICONOMI/), financial reports on Medium (https://medium.com/iconominet), and simply make me feel like there are real and motivated humans behind. Quite rare in crypto.
"Pex doesn't insulate as well as PPr (thinner wall) and the fittings always introduce flow resistance and produce turbulent flow since they go into the pipe."

Errr, i have used systems of pex with outside fittings forever. Yes, inside fittings suck. All of the manufacturers have been sued for leaking, etc.

"Copper water pipes should always be insulated with at least 6 mm EPE sleeves or closed cell elastomeric foam sleeves (better). Even cold water pipes should be insulated at least in heated or high humidity spaces because of condensation that forms on the pipe."

Yes, they should.
But they very rarely in my experience (or they did a super shitty job) are unless the house was just built and you had a good code inspector
I can't find the link, but I recently read an article that sugggested people with autism did less connection pruning during puberty than people without autism.
Dismissing the study on the grounds that "How would the ending of a civil war not be associated with an increase in mental health?" looks a lot like hand-waving to me.