skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
NIMBY/YIMBY arguments seem just too convenient an excuse for me. It's almost if one has actively tried to find something that can plausibly explain the housing crisis but does not challenge the status quo of structural/systematic problems in any way shape or form. In Sweden the seemingly prime effect of these movements is to remove democratic influence to the benefit of construction companies, even though that only rarely is the cause of delays, and certainly not the root cause of the housing shortage.

And here's an anecdote from Sweden from the early 90s:

To get a cheap rental flat in high standard, albeit in a working class neighborhood, my parents were able to walk into the office of the municipal housing company and more or less pick a key from the wall and go take a look at it. If they liked, they got it. These were the days where the state still took an interests in providing housing to its citizens and planned, and built, accordingly. Now there's the market and a housing bubble consisting of too many expensive apartments that few can afford. To now suggest that the state should again start building cheap housing to a population where the middle-class is up to their neck in inflated mortgages is impossible. This is the real NIMBY.
That's actually incorrect, you can get a part time non university H1B as long as it doesn't impede your work. You need be fireable though, so no majority stake in the company.

But IANAL if you have a good lawyer he might tell you about some interesting workarounds in that situation though, maybe.
It isn't a question of power, I use a lot of Cortex M machines (32 bit ARM) which can compile C++11 just fine, it is that there is a lot of infrastructure (like you really have to have a working heap system, startup files that know how to build the necessary infrastructure, Etc.) that is intimidating to embedded programmers. Not to mention screwing up the symbol names :-).
Once the output is built and uglified, you will not reverse engineer it back to the source that google started with. JS projects are not not much different from any other built project. Probably closest to .Net or Java IL once uglified. Still higher than WebASM, but still not he same as source.
It may be useful for you but in the grand scheme all the new ferries cover only a trivial percentage of the total number of daily trips.
NASA calls out preparing for this specifically in their software engineering requirements. My understanding is that this was added specifically to address bit flips from radiation effects.

See section 3.7.2.f
https://nodis3.gsfc.nasa.gov/npg_img/N_PR_7150_002B_/N_PR_71...
I'd rather see an increase in progressive taxes for individuals and companies in NYC rather than a fare hike.

I, at least, heavily depend on public transportation in NYC and would be more than happy to pay more to the MTA in taxes if it meant cleaner, more efficient, and more reliable service.
You can read those docs, it just requires that you insist on it delivery of documents ahead of time, which may require your real estate agent to actually schedule an extra day or two for the timeline of closing.
Yeah, he did. It's a good one.
It would be awesome if we lived in a world where VCs, investors, and the tech industry in general just invested in people who deserve it. But we're so far from that world right now (just google vc investment in women-founded cos).

I think what JL is bringing up here is important because there is no room for naysayers with this exit. It's a monumental achievement, (for anyone!) but particularly a big F YOU to all the rampant misogny and boys-club culture that persists in tech among investors.

I don't speak for women, but I will say as a mostly-white dude, I have never thought "are there even CEOs or founders that look like me?" whereas I have, through the years, heard that many many times from women and POC.

What Tracy and her team have done is really fantastic. The fact that she's a woman is important only in that it begins the process of shutting up the old boys club, and (hopefully) a sign of things to come for those people who haven't traditionally been given the benefit of the doubt.
Agreed on all points. For me the most telling part is 'these guys believe/know they are top quality in everything except appearance. Therefore they deserve top quality women, which to them means physically attractive.'

That's how I might justify getting the best laptop bought for me at work..it's how you justify getting a possession. Women are not possessions, and that is a concept incels just don't seem to get.

The other thing that punches my buttons is that some self-styled incels use bad looks as an excuse, a reason why they cannot get a partner. For many women attractiveness is based on some combination of confidence, success, and how central to your current reality you treat the woman. That's according to a number of studies and based on my personal experience, so YMMV. Looks are a distant factor behind those mentioned above. There are women who are the exception and place looks above everything else as an initial discriminator, but that's true for men too. I think they are in the minority, and I think I've seen studies before that agree, but I don't have the study references at the moment to back that up.
Haha. I guess that person was alerted. I should've taken screenshot. But really, the profile page included those cars.
If you tried this, or any other famous MIT hack, at today's MIT, you would be in Big Person Trouble in a heartbeat. It's quite depressing.
That would inflate volume, but have minimal impact on market cap.

I dunno if Tether’s ledger is public or not. I would assume it would have to be for anyone to know how many are in existence.
That makes sense!

Just out of curiosity, what size is your blog?

I spoke to several blog owners of various sizes. The smaller ones tended to not care about this, but indeed the bigger ones took more of an interest in the actual emails they collect. Just wondering if you'd fall into one of these categories.
...has resulted in the lowest rate of poverty the world has ever seen.

Although certainly not a perfect system and could be improved, be careful not to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
> I've heard this argument applied before to many different things in many different situations before and I view it to be just as much of an intellectually and morally bankrupt position to take, as when I first heard it.

I don't think you're even able to comprehend my position. Let's imagine manslaughter was legal (as it has been in the past, to some degree) and I would be here arguing that it should be illegal because you can't trust people not to kill each other merely because there's a court of public opinion. Would that be morally bankrupt, or just common sense?
I remember being impressed by how many apparently high-functioning homeless people I saw out near Venice in LA a few years ago. I managed to avoid Skid Row, I guess that's where you'd go to see SF-style homelessness but in a more... integrated? boxed-in? tolerated? style.
>Since the population (especially the voting population) of the city is <0.5 of the state population[…]

I did a quick and dirty check on Google for "new york state population" [0] and " "new york city population" [1] and the percentage I get is 43%.

[0] https://imgur.com/a/2zkmdjm

[1] https://imgur.com/a/904hwM2

EDIT: As did a few others, I read "<0.5" as "<0.5%".
I don't get this part:

"The worry is that this might not be the case for long. Though the housing market has finally recently started to cool, experts tend to agree it’ll tick back upward before long—especially given the reticence of the powers that be to impose the slightest limit on the breakneck pace of growth."

Which are "the powers that be"? City/county/state government? Or large tech employers? Local municipalities do seem to be limiting growth through zoning (a contributor to the high cost of living). If this is to suggest that local employers should somehow limit their own growth, I guess you could point to Amazon choosing to open new headquarters in VA and NY.

I guess I just don't get this paragraph.
> endless money pits

The reason they are money pits is because they aren't something that will be solved by a city or even a state. Any attempt to solve the problem locally in a "humane" way has a high risk of just attracting more folks in the same circumstance to the area.

The most effective way for a city or state to "solve" the local homeless problem is to simply pay for one-way bus tickets to somewhere else. But that doesn't solve the actual problem.

Homelessness is a systemic problem that can only be meaningly addressed in a humane way by the federal government.
This is a common enough misrepresentation of the sources of homelessness that it's imperative that you stop spreading it.

71% of San Francisco's homeless used to have homes in the city, it is likely a similar proportion elsewhere.

http://sfist.com/2016/02/11/71_of_sf_homeless_once_had_homes...
Social Security has been the most effective anti-poverty program in history and it has less than 1% overhead. Can any charity match that?
I blame previous dev he’d apparently never heard of primary keys so he had to put way too much date in the QR code.
We should measure and optimize for the the growth in wealth of the bottom X percent of citizens.

Who makes up that portion may change, but that portion will consistently be the one that needs the most help.
Warstrike: WAST!
A straightforward way to move a lawsuit like this forward might be to sue to have apps similar to Tumblr taken down. Make Apple choose to either take down all of the apps or pay some large penalty based on damages that are easy to show - find the offending content in each app and cite the law(s) that were broken.

Basically prove to Apple that they risk the viability of their app store when they censor specific apps. With the full legal power of Apple at their own disposal, they might just find a clever way to keep this situation from ever happening again.
Not really workable in practice. Are you going to lie in the project schedule section of the application? Nowadays the grant agencies expect to have Gantt charts and other crap. It also would require delaying publishing a work when it's finished, which then raises the chances of perishing...

What people however do is to smuggle more risky ideas into proposals for less risky ones. But that in the end means they'll be spending time also on low-risk things.
Hilariously I was having to write init.d scripts for a crusty version of CentOS yesterday and used `set -e` instinctively. Died inexplicably importing `/etc/init.d/functions` until I noticed a comment explicitly saying to _not_ set that.
> It seems Nadim (the author of this paper) took it really badly when we called him out for intentionally spreading fake news this weekend.

Is this seriously your official response to this paper? Is this an official company account?
TTL as a Service: Automatic Revocation of Stale Privileges
mbed makes it pretty easy to get going with C++ on Cortex-M, last time I tried it, but that was over a year ago.

Still, I'm skeptical about how much CV you could actually do on a Cortex-M processor. A few dozen to a few hundred kilobytes of RAM is really limiting when we're talking about just loading up an image from a camera, let alone doing computer vision on that image, unless you pay for a Cortex-M7 to get 1MB of RAM or something really expensive like that... at which point, an entire Raspberry Pi 0 SBC with 512MB of RAM is actually cheaper than just your microcontroller alone.

Of course, the microcontroller boots up instantly and supports incredibly useful sleep modes and a variety of other peripherals... but for raw performance per dollar, the M7s are just so costly.
I use it as well but it moves far fewer people at a much higher running cost. I love the ferry but it's not a viable replacement.
Maven does not come with Java, and OpenJDK itself is built with Make rather than any other tool.

The idea that "nobody" uses make for Java when Java itself does, is a little bit a stretch ;)
In some areas you can use commuter benefits with Uber and I think Lyft was implementing that also.
Show HN: Command-line tool to manage hostsfile
To this day, I'm amazed at the things that were done with Access, and horrified by the things I've seen in Lotus Notes.

It really just depends. What visual systems provide is accessibility for novices to create value. That sometimes means planning to replace them, or enhance them with skilled developers. In my mind, it creates jobs. Not always great jobs, but at least security in that Software Development will always be a viable career, with lots of opportunities.
I think what we can do tomorrow is lighten regulations on things like how many people are allowed in a hotel room. This could help many people tonight.

Next is feeding the homeless, some cities limit how they can be fed.

We need to take a close look at these sorts of regulations as soon as possible. Just these two things could make a huge impact.
The money pit is the cost of housing. Homelessness and artificial housing scarcity go hand-in-hand.
You're right, WP does have several plugins that do this, the most popular being from providers like ConstantContact and Mailchimp. I think I'd expect a few WP users but you're right, my target are probably people that are using something like Jekyll.
Not to mention what they are doing with drones and software. It's quite amazing. They did quite a bit of work with 3D Robotics. https://forge.autodesk.com/customer-stories/3dr
PLOT cofounders Bjarke Ingels and Julien de Smedt were in their mid-twenties when they started out. Today, Bjarke Ingels Group is among the most influential firms in the world. Julien's own firm is also doing well, last I heard. Their old boss at OMA, Rem Koolhaas, started that firm when he was barely 30. Still a bit older than 22 years, but closer to that than 40. They're the LeBron James exceptions that prove the rule though. Though there are some amazingly talented architects in their 20's, it usually takes a lot of time to get the momentum necessary to be able to be the figurehead of an organization that depends on hefty commissions to keep running. Bjarke Ingels' openly flouts the architect-as-artist model of expecting clients to bend to their every whim and instead opts for an approach of mutually beneficial compromise. It's hard to argue with the results he's achieved. By trading some of his starchitect's share of cultural capital, he's gained the trust of influential clients on an accelerated timeline. It takes a special skillset to merry that to a coherent and compelling design aesthetic, which I think is also undeniable in BIG's case.
And even then, what is their non-degraded uptime? There are parts of their infrastructure failing all the time being routed around by incredibly clever software.

And I bet all that costs much more than an IBM. Not a computer, the company.
You might also be interested into this comment someone made on a different post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18494918
End-To-End Encryption Using Ethereum and IPFS
What do you mean by "Gordian knot" here?

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

> In August 2007, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development reported that the number of chronically homeless individuals living on the streets or in shelters dropped by an unprecedented 30 percent, from 175,914 people in 2005 to 123,833 in 2007. This was credited in part to the "housing first" approach; Congress in 1999 directed that HUD spend 30% of its funding on the method.

The page is full of more success stories like that. If it's so impossible, why is it already being done all over the world?

> Studies in New York City and in Utah have shown that every homeless person housed in programs such as Housing First saves taxpayers $10,000 and $8,000 a year, respectively. A research study at University of Northern Carolina also reported that a housing project for the chronically homeless called Moore Place had saved the county $2.4 million.

Yet it "seems like a Gordion knot" because how would we pay for it... that's the answer, you don't pay, you save money. So if the problem is how some people feel about something, because they haven't informed themselves, then they should feel something else, problem solved.
You're both right: 43% < 0.5, 1 = 100%
That isn't the case here, I think you're conflating the two. Building cool / cool stuff doesn't clash with meeting deadlines, knowing how to do both / when / how to compromise is vastly more useful than being either one of those two extremes.

The more people in management that care about building well engineered products and that treat humans like humans and not resources the better off we are as a community.
Are you ready for traffic spikes during holidays?
This is a well known issue known for a long time.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flophouse#Cage_hotels_in_the...
NYC subway fares are insanely cheap compared to the rest of the (developed) world. $2.75 single for any distance is incredibly low.

In London that same fare in rush hour would be anywhere between $4 and $15+ depending on the length of the journey (and NYC has much higher GDP per capita than London, plus the £ is on its arse at the moment). Even Berlin is marginally more expensive, in a much smaller & less economically prosperous city.

Keep in mind also that if you don't raise fares you are effectively cutting them because of inflation.
being a serf is the societal manifestation of the lower end of the bell curve. period. anyone who's interacted with peasants knows this. yes there are serfs who fell out of wealthy families, and no they do not make up the bulk of the distribution.

putting your hand in the sand and blaming "aggressive royal taxation" or some other secondary factor instead of pointing out the obvious is a disservice to the peasantry. and before you call me uncouth, know that I mean this in the complete opposite way: acknowledging the problem with honor is the first step towards its resolution.
I'd be interested to hear how homelessness can be meaningfully addressed in a humane way by the federal government (especially if it is constitutional).
Synthesizing big data frameworks and deep learning
Assuming people mean something that they didn't say leads to situations a lot worse than uncomfortable situations. Taking your example, you'd have a lot of rocky starts with people who are actually generous.

There isn't anything wrong with uncomfortable situations. I have a few moments every day where I am physically uncomfortable (correct response: stand up and stretch). Why should it be a problem if I am emotionally or socially uncomfortable (correct response: clearly state intentions, put a little bit of effort into making other people comfortable).

There is a difference between going out of your way to make people uncomfortable (bad idea), being blunt (not the best way) and being direct (escalating quickly if someone doesn't take a hint - most of the people I've seen doing this are successful). You can make people uncomfortable in a respectful and friendly way.

Basically, if you take everything literally and and the people around you who won't be direct; they are the problem. Try and work with them, but reading things in to what they say is not a great idea.
> Trying to assist the single mother with children who lives in her car because she lost her job is a VASTLY different issue than trying to assist the drug addict sitting in an alley passed out in their own feces.

I'm not sure it is so different.

I mean it may be on the long term, but the first step of helping them is making sure they get a place to live. You're unlikely to solve any of their other problems effectively unless these people can have a start of a more regular life - and having a place to live is pretty much a condition for everything else.
It’s a very simple story. Health costs increase 15%/yr, and hiring slowed in the 1990s, leading to more overtime, and poor labor negotiations allowed MTA staff to apply overtime to pensions.

When you look at the NY State workforce, more effective negotiation essentially eliminated overtime, and you just don’t see the pension padding that you see with MTA. Most of the state workforce is in the provincial lands upstate and the unions are pretty weak.

Additionally, with trains, legacy regulations allow for systematic abuse of disability. Not sure about subways, but at one point 97% of LIRR retirees were getting more expensive disability pensions.
I read his statement as .5% first as well and then realized that he meant 50% because otherwise there would have to be 1.6B people in NY state to make the number work.
>Where did people head off to?

twitter
I wouldn't say it's government or industry that's preventing growth - it's just people. Every time the city tries to rezone something, a bunch of local residents come out of the woodwork and scream bloody murder (or in one case, threaten the families of city employees) about changes to their neighborhood.
Unrelated to the article, but the early British seasons of Kitchen Nightmares were so good.

I still enjoy watching the Fox version (and his new show, 24 Hours), but I appreciate those original seasons much more.
I used publicly available data on the people behind PlanGrid as a test for my project (data's probably out of date by now). Still, if anyone wants a quick overview of the some of the people behind PlanGrid, here you go:

https://theymadethat.com/organizations/so3/plangrid
Now it’s Office’s turn to have a load of patches pulled
It's all about tradeoffs, Android phones getting updates usually means the phone gets faster as opposed to ever closer to unusably slow.
That's lovely sounding, but false for a couple of reasons.

1) There's a capability gap. Charities can't do a number of things that are needed that local government can. Simple things like permission to operate portable toilets, or working alongside cops for redirection away from jail it possible, are somewhere between multi-month activities outside their core-competencies to impossible for private actors.

2) The vast bulk of private charities segment their 'market' in various ways that leaves gaps. That's fine, but it isn't going to "mostly solve" the issues caused by society-wide economic failures.

3) Because the problems are so varied, coordination reaps substantial benefits. Social workers talking to cleanup crews talking to mental health talking to cops is a dynamic that your local churches are not equipped to take part in.

Kneejerk antigovernment bias is a national pastime, I know. I'll even play along when it is valid. But the idea that the Salvation Army is going to spring to the rescue is fantasy.
> give people housing

Except now you'll just attract homeless folks from outside of your region. The city with the best homeless program will attract the most homeless folks--all paid for by that city's taxpayers.

This is why I maintain the only way to address the problem is at the federal levelm. They should at least be the ones who bankroll the whole operation. It shouldn't be the city's responsibility to fund the fix--homeless people can move anywhere in the country and it isn't fair for local taxpayers to foot the bill. Citizens country-wide should pay for a solution.
Unfortunately standalone Docker container don‘t allow to inject secrets (keys, passwords, etc) in a secure way for your app in the container. For doing this it seems to be necessary to use a orchestration solution like swarm or kubernetes.