skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not so sure about this one. I remember visiting the Bay in 2003 and housing prices took my breath away. Now, of course, it's stupefying.

I think salaries have increased dramatically since that time frame, creating the perception of relative affordability for previous years. I think the % of home price increase has been fairly constant (except for the market crash).

Who knows what may happen in 10 more years! Home prices may still yet double, but then entry level SE positions may be going for 400-500k!
If you run and fully control your own recursive resolver, it's also possible (but non standard) to run DNS-over-TLS on port 443. The general steps are to install stunnel for a TLS proxy on the DNS server, set it up with the appropriate public/private keys, and then have stunnel forward traffic to localhost:53 on the same machine.
The downside of software dev is you typically need to work in a city, and then pay extraordinary costs of living.

As a doctor, for example you can earn good money in a town that is no where near as expensive.
All the ML inspired languages seem to fall over on compile time. This post is a good example, where it describes design choices driven specifically by compile time, which is not a dimension I usually want interacting with the way I structure my code. I love the rest of the story (full disclosure: I have years of experience with Scala and Swift, which are no better) but until sufficiently advanced compilers arrive these languages are going to continue to be a hard sell for a substantial group of developers.
ITT: rent-seeking.
Why did they not write the backend server for Whatsapp web in Erlang, which the original Whatsapp was mostly written in?
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"We’re in a bubble that’s ready to burst IMO."

People have been saying this every single day since I moved to San Francisco in 2009. I guess if you keep predicting it eventually, you might end up being right, but its not exactly insightful.
When did you move to Seattle? 2011 for me. The city has certainly changed but I'm still unclear on this nebulous culture shift that has supposedly "ruined" Seattle. What was more interesting about Seattle when you moved here vs today?
So completely free with no ads?
That's even worse advice than opening a restaurant: http://www.slate.com/articles/life/a_fine_whine/2005/12/bitt...
GNU Linux userland/desktop lacks BDFL. No one is enforcing one right way to do things, hence distros fragmentation.
Me too. I would take 0% return on investment and reasonable housing costs over obscene housing prices and some return on investment in a heartbeat. For people who just want a comfortable safety net for themselves and their children and not speculation, investments should be liquid and diversified, not tied up in one illiquid asset.
I just did a quick read through your site. I only have two comments:

1 - great work!
2 - connect it to LLVM on the back end. That will cause your user base to absolutely explode.
jlgaddis' answer addresses it quite well. One note to add, if you're on a wifi network where you know that the DHCP server assigns IPs in a certain range (such as from 10.100.100.80 to 10.100.100.250) and you have the correct WPA2-AES key, you can totally associate to the wifi, disable DHCP and manually assign yourself the static IP of 10.100.100.70 or whatever, the correct default gateway, and manually chosen DNS servers.
Mitt Romney got blasted for not revealing his returns (they were being ammended IIRC). The media made this whole thing about it for weeks.

Apparently it didn't matter as much 4 years later. The media are a fickle bunch.
Maybe Colorado should implement some of what Hunter S. Thompson had in his platform for Sheriff of Aspen:

1. Rip up all city streets with jackhammers and sod the streets at once.... All public movement would be by foot and a fleet of bicycles, maintained by the city police force.

2. Change the name 'Aspen', by public referendum, to 'Fat City'. This would prevent greedheads, land-rapers and other human jackals from capitalizing on the name 'Aspen'.... These swine should be fucked, broken, and driven across the land.

3. Drug Sales must be controlled. My first act as Sheriff will be to install, on the courthouse lawn, a bastinado platform and a set of stocks in order to punish dishonest dope dealers in a proper public fashion. Each year these dealers cheat millions of people out of millions of dollars.... it will be the general philosophy of the Sheriff’s office that no drug worth taking should be sold for money.

4. Hunting and fishing should be forbidden to all non-residents, with the exception of those who can obtain the signed endorsement of a resident- who will then be legally responsible for any violation or abuse committed by the non-resident he has ‘signed for’…. By this approach-making hundreds or even thousands of individuals personally responsible for protecting the animals, fish and birds who live here-we would create a sort of de facto game preserve, without the harsh restrictions that will necessarily be forced on us if these blood-thirsty geeks keep swarming in here each autumn to shoot everything they see.

5. The Sheriff and his Deputies should never be armed in public. Every urban riot, shoot-out and blood-bath (involving guns) in recent memory has been set off by some trigger-happy cop in a fear frenzy.

6. It will be the policy of the Sheriff’s office savagely to harass all those engaged in any form of land-rape.
I still not 100% sure because I can't read the research article, but from the press article it loos like they didn't find the bone in the middle of a pile of sand but in the middle of some dry mud that was at the bottom of a lake a looong time ago. With dry mud you an easily notice if someone has been digging there after the main part of the sediments was formed.

Some relevant parts:

> After all, fossilization on land is very rare; the water and wet sediments of the paleolake must have offered just the right protection from oxygen to preserve the bone.

> One possibility is that, at the time, it wasn’t a desert. While the Nefud is all sand and rock today, at the time of the Al Wusta fossil, the region was a savannah, covered in lakes and rivers thanks to summer monsoons. The multitude of animal bones found in the same location, from wild cattle to antelopes, suggest that game was plentiful. The lake itself lasted year round and offered a source of fresh water, though it may have come with risks as well as rewards: many of the faunal bones bore marks of carnivores’ teeth.
>I know folks like to point at the big techcos in the area being flush with cash as evidence this can continue a long time. And in a vacuum, wage growth in tech could continue to keep pace, perhaps. But that is 300k in appreciation a year.

It's not even about people on tech salaries at this point. Those people are being priced out of the market, too. It's an issue of foreign investment mainly from China either speculating on the market, or investing their money in the only way they can given that personal property does not exist in their country.
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I would argue that usually it doesn’t matter because of the reasons you mentioned, but in this particular case it really did. The US government, and the NSA in particular, made it a matter of explicit policy to delay and discourage commercial crypto research and development in the US. Off hand, I’d guess this delayed crypto by 10 years. Imagine if 10 years ago, we had today’s understanding of crypto. I’d wager TLS would look better.

I’ve been reading Crypto by Steven Levy, it’s on exactly this topic, and I’m astounded by how actively the NSA discouraged commercial research, and how early on it happened: mid-1970s.
Apple's true success came with Second Steve i.e. mature Steve, not first Steve. Amazon, Oracle, Intel founders weren't in their 20s.

Microsoft, Google, and Facebook indeed were started by young founders. Twenty years later Google might be the only meaningful one standing. Time will tell.
> Actually since Citizens United this is effectively pretty much the case.

This is a gross misunderstanding of the Citizens United ruling.
Maybe governments should remove the plank from their own eyes before attaching the voluntary association eye splinters in the market.
This approach is safer because you are getting some feedback sooner, from the CI running on your feature branch, but this branch is telling lies. It is not the real story. This is not a change set that will ever make it into production, it isn’t integrated with other branches yet. So even if all your tests pass on this branch, some may fail when you merge. It is slow because you are now building and running everything at least twice for a given commit.

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You have someone who tests out adventures for you? Wouldn't hearing about his experiences and stories ruin the mystery and adventure when you go? That sounds disappointing to me
in theory yes, but in practicality, there are two points that make it probably impractical.

First, the reprogrammability of FPGAs means lots of unused gates and less density, or wasted space. with flash technology nowadays, it doesn't waste as much power, but the footprint is just so large it's not worth it.

Second, a lot of the things that make custom silicon fast can be found in GPUs, such as ALU, MAC, FFT, FIR, SIMD and other DSP slices. Sure, there is a whole additional layer of optimization that can be done with custom silicon, but the computational powerhouses already exist. It's mostly (not all) a matter of reprogramming the memory movements from block to block, delegating certain operations to the CPU and general optimization. Most new codec algorithms can probably done pretty well with GPUs on phones these days.

And unfortunately, cell phone companies aren't interested in keeping older HW relevant :( Other industries might, though. My friend said lots of military radar projects he worked on used FPGAs.
I'm from a small town in Idaho. I recently went back to visit family. Everyone was eager to tell me that the direct flight from Seattle would be cancelled in favor of a town 45 minutes away. The local airport which used to serve the region is losing commercial service to the largest metro area in the region. Getting out of town will take an extra transfer and a 45minute to two hour drive.

That town has stagnated and now it is dying. It is an oversimplification but I would rather deal with the problems of growth than stagnation and decay.
None of the above. Captive authentication portals are common in most "constantly changing" wireless client scenarios. Many use a DNS MITM approach that requires you to have working DNS service to the resolver you were provided by DHCP, and few today permit HTTPS service to DNS servers at any address, especially 1.1.1.1. Enforcing DNS-over-TLS, -HTTPS, or DNSSEC on your wireless client will not be a viable configuration in these real-world instances.
Yes, otherwise why would they 'delete' their regular facebook?
Yes, and also school age families will keep moving out.
I do not think that the total bandwidth will be comparable to fiber. Even if every starlink satellite has a 200 Gbps full duplex link to the satellite "ahead" of it in orbital plane, the satellite behind it, and the two satellites to the east and west of it in adjacent orbital planes, it'll still be vastly less than the capacity of two strands of singlemode. 200 Gbps x 4 is about 4/76th of the capacity with a modern DWDM system (assuming a maxed out point to point topology such as 80-channel bandplan, QPSK modulated coherent signals in the fiber C-band spectrum).
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Let's share some info to date. How many views you got from SF on your YC app video? Our team got 5 for now

Also, are views are really an indicator of strong interest from YC app reviewers? Were there ever apps that got in with 0 views?
> Colorado is now seen as the last "cool" place thats "affordable" and liberal (sorry screaming Coloradan's, you're next).

Asheville, NC is coming up after Colorado - I've got one friends-couple that's actively moving there this summer, and a couple others that are thinking seriously about it.

> I wonder what this all will look like when we look back 20 years hence

There was an interesting throwaway comment in Carlota Perez's Technical Revolutions and Financial Capital (written in 2002). She's famous for her observation that each technological revolution tends to lead to a financial crisis that separates the "Installation" phase (governed by financial capital, and marked by successive asset bubbles & widening wealth inequality) from the "Deployment" phase (governed by production capital, and marked by a widespread dissemination of best practices and corresponding productivity gains throughout the economy).

Less famously, the book also mentions that towards the end of the "frenzy" period (the latter half of the Installation phase), you get a phenomena of "two monies". Any prices connected to the new means of production - stock values, salaries, real estate in key cities, etc. - grow exponentially, while the old economy remains stagnant. Eventually, the divide leads to war, with regions that have adopted the new production techniques battling rump states of the old declining empires. That's as far as the book goes, but the historical implication - based on the early 20th century examples of the Ottoman Turks, Czarist Russia, Imperial China & feudal Japan - is that societies that cling to the old ways collapse, and their leadership is exterminated. Those who aren't killed and who are adaptable enough to adopt new techniques find places within the victorious societies, which then start focusing their efforts on spreading the new production techniques widely within the society to equalize social divisions and cement the new order. Think of the GI Bill after WW2, the widespread suburbanization, mass production of the automobile, consumer goods, department stores, the Civil Rights Act, and so on.
> The tool that was finally chosen is a disaster with a graphical user interface, an abomination coming directly from Sweden.

Ohh, which versioning software comes from Sweden and is so bad? Got curious about this one.
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If you are in Los Angeles and curious about PureScript, Phil (the author) is hosting a meetup at Lumi HQ tomorrow, April 9th. This will be one of the topics. We're also streaming it on YouTube. https://www.meetup.com/LA-PureScript/events/249209149/
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Sure, but I used Elm for email for probably close to 15 years. It, and Pine, were pretty much the only two dedicated email clients for as long as I can remember. I don't have a problem with people repurposing the name, just be somewhat sympathetic that not everyone is going to know about your web framework. Onboarding is a thing.
fancy seeing you here. I loved battlezone as well, though I just played the arcade version (at my local thrift store)
I thought everyone is upset because property prices were changing...
It shouldn't surprise anyone to learn that a brand new just released video codec does not yet have hardware decode support.
I'm not say that he is bad programmer or all things that he did are bad.

Some things (i.e. in code) are really cool, but some are very bad (increasing dependency, mostly drop OpenGL1.x support, not providing official builds of SolveSpace for Linux, etc.)

I just tell, that as maintainer (project manager of open-source software) 'whitequark' is not good at all.

He always answer to users from point of coder, not from point of project manager.

I still hope that SolveSpace project could get good project manager that will give for 'whitequark' more time for coding, and take out him from communication with "stupid users"

For QA and communication with testers SolveSpace need another person, that will not be so rude as 'whitequark', IMHO.
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Nice to see you're doing your part...
I also think that's a mischaracterisation. It's statistically unlikely for me to transform the world. I just want to carve out a tiny piece of it and make it better.
What equipment do you use to mine with? How re your returns?
You should get renter's insurance ($8/mo) which covers your Boosted Board or bike even when it is locked up somewhere other than your home.
Brakes are an issue for almost any street car. Being heavy and fast makes it worse, but even something light and slow like a Miata will have brake issues on a track (not easy or cheap to solve either!)

The model S shares its cooling with the inverter the motor and the axle. I'm not sure if that is the limitation or the battery. The model 3 is different and there is video of one lapping ten or so laps at Laguna Seca without heat issues.

There is no inherent reason an electric car cannot be cooled enough to be a track car, the designer just has to make it a priority over say aerodynamic drag (and hence freeway range).
>Home price appreciation serving ‘as a kind of second job’

I had this thought the other day, actually, when tallying my net worth for the quarter. My home went up by ~$100k in value since December (hot neighborhood near Apple) and my family earned about the same amount in income. Long term, we plan on cashing out and moving to the East Coast so it's not just idle numbers tabulating.
I had this link open on my tabs as a coincidence.

https://www.hemmings.com/blog/2016/02/05/fifty-years-later-t...

There still is no racing like it. Crazy stuff.
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The strange bit with Elm is that it limits its type system just enough that compile times should be reasonable: The performance pits that Scala has are skirted altogether by Elm. If Elm isn't faster at compilation time, it's because that's not where the focus has been. I might be missing something though, and I'd be happy if Evan corrected me on this one.

As far as Scala goes, Grzegorz Kossakowski has done work trying to get major performance improvements out of Scala type checking, and his numbers look very promising. Barring some Shapeless-style type level computations, Scala could compile quite fast.
I for one have an issue that only came to light after being in a relationship and have struggled with having to think about the facts of reality. Usually fine most days, but some dumb thing will connect the memory chain (like this HN post ironically) and down the spiral I go. It's the wandering that really does lead me astray.
also a good time to remind people that backups are not backups unless they're geographically diverse. back up to an off site location in case your (home|office) burns down or suffers some other total catastrophe.
I understand that Seattle is still allowing housing construction though?
> You open up a burrito/coffee shop next to him

ISTR the article saying something like "located far enough from my store that he wouldn’t fear my competition."
I think one of the premises of this thread is that online social media, rather than MSM, appears to hold the best cards at this point.
Minor technicality: AF Sensors are in the Bottom of the camera in DSLRs.

The main mirror is semi-transparent and reflects most of the light to the viewfinder prism. A smaller part goes through and is reflected by a sencodary mirror to the af sensor in the bottom.
Time for everyone to remember Ikigai, the overlap between what you like, what you can get paid for, what you're good at and what the world needs:

https://www.hyperisland.com/community/news/feeling-drained-a...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikigai
They treated it like a slush-fund with no accountability. All of the projects were late and gave a feeling of "a little paint cost how much?" Now they're spending more money to make better bike lanes they could have built in the first place. That's a MPLS thing though. They're always trying to reinvent the wheel instead of using the good infrastructure that's been tried other places.
If you want to do something about it: https://yimbyaction.org/
Yes, you should follow your passion 100% but it does not mean you can't have a "Plan B" to fund your belly, family and shelter. It worked for me and I happily doing "Plan A" right now. Why do people believe it is all or nothing when choosing a career?
See https://cdn.photographylife.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/H...
I believe rent here was stable in January 2018, the first time since 2008. Supply seems to slowly be catching demand. There's still some serious concerns about space to build higher density but the city has not totally locked down new construction or density increases. My neighborhood is largely single-family and there are a number of places that have been demolished recently in favor of town homes and small apartment complexes.
Reads like they found it near the surface:

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"But researchers behind the recent Misliya discovery argue that the bone’s location on the surface rather than in the lake deposits below mean it might not correspond to that climactic period."
An Indian state is using blockchain to collect DNA data of 50M citizens
> Most people underestimate the joy you get from a good solid, routine job that pays well. And they overestimate the joy you get from a giant windfall

I broadly agree with that text, I think that premise probably applies to most people. I've spent essentially every day of my adult life as an entrepreneur. It's so difficult and grueling, there's no amount of money that would compensate for what you go through over a long period of time. You better like something more about it than money or it'll ruin you. When I was in my early 20s, I used to recommend that people should start their own businesses, I no longer do that; I think the people that are well suited for it, will typically do it anyway.

When it comes to money, I think there are plenty of entrepreneurs that fall into my category - I want to get up every day and do what I want to do with my time, work on what I want to work on. No less, no more. I like that I can immediately throw all of my effort at something if I'm struck by an idea or problem I want to solve. I like that if I want to burn a week working on a potentially absurd optimization for caching, in the process of building something, I can do it: I set all the deadlines and end goals.

Money is nice, sometimes it has poured in, sometimes it has been all pain and struggle. Doing what I want to do with my time, is nicer than money for me, I'll always spend my capital on that freedom rather than traditional consumer goods, if I have to choose. The freedom to work on only what I want to, is the only thing I've ever wanted professionally, and I feel like a prisoner trapped in a cell without it.
If you read the paper you'll find that the conclusion posted here is absolute nonsense. Kids in poverty had average numbers 0.4-0.5 standard deviations below the mean. The authors didn't make any attempt to disprove the simple and obvious biological explanation: poor parents often had genes making them dumber, more impulsive low-grey-matter-havers that they passed on to their kids.

I'll bet you Syrian refugee kids don't exhibit anywhere near such a large gray matter problem.
Only after a protracted period of kids being stuffed into oversized under-resourced classrooms and suffering for it.
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