skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is nuance that you're not considering. Increasing supply only results in a decline in prices at the point that supply is so plentiful that sellers are obligated to drop prices to increase revenue. This very article inadvertently explains why this will not likely be the case in San Francisco for the foreseeable future, regardless of development. People waiting tables were making $70,000-$80,000. This is edging towards 300% of the US median personal income [1], for being a waiter! If there was affordable and available housing here, along with getting paid $75k to wait tables, you'd see a massive surge in migration. And you'd rapidly end up in the exact same boat again as the newly expanded supply would be insufficient and prices would continue to rise.

People use Japan as an example of smart planning leading to more reasonable housing prices over time. In reality what happened to Japan is this [2]. That's the GDP of Japan. Many people do not know that Japan is now going on 30 years in recession. Their GDP was higher 25 years ago than it is today. And so prices naturally declined over time. The reason I mention this is because the same is true of San Francisco. If you want housing prices to decline you'd need to see a general recession sending all prices, including wages, down. Otherwise anytime you create affordable housing it will quickly become affordable as people race to spend somewhat sane prices on housing while earning $75k waiting tables.

[1] - https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEPAINUSA672N

[2] - https://tradingeconomics.com/japan/gdp
What is the going price for a Telegram 0-day again?
Who hasn’t shouted “hello” somewhere likely to have a good echo?
You mean they would use something else instead? Most of the project who use Ember, they love it, and they would not use other tool. For example Intercom in Dublin is a huge supporter of Ember.js and they are big fun of the framework.
Yet we make an effort to preserve those things, and seek peace among ourselves despite our differences.
Xinxia has some really high highs, and some really low lows. There are epic moments that make your blood pound mixed with endless repetition of things like mc meeting paper thin arrogant masters that are there only for some satisfying face-slapping scene.
Did not see that. Guess I need to spend more time on this site. :-/
Australian Government Design System
Why can't they pay their chefs more until the chefs too can afford to live closer?
Strong recommendation for "Usurper of the Sun", have yet to read another book like it.
Fair point. But by the same token, the closer to an emergency good a procedure is, the less likely people are to buy it.

To illustrate: I know someone who took off the top of her finger in a car door. She picked it up and drove to the nearest hospital. Database or no, the "cheapest ER near her" wouldn't have been an option. Admittedly, this is extremely, but it still communicates the point.

Let's also not forget that cheaper often is correlated with a worse standard of care. The nearest ER happened to be a hospital with an expert hand surgeon on staff, and the hand of the lady in question looks nearly the same. The "cheapest ER near her" would likely have stitched up a stump. Functional, but inferior. Furthermore, the standard of care becomes much more important with anything life-threatening.
I think he overvalues temporary documentation. There is a difference between writing extremely detailed notes on something because you know you won't be available for 12 hours rather than documenting a summary and asking questions if needed. The former is only a shortcoming of working remotely. You end up writing a tremendous amount of documentation that is really ephemeral, just to allow people to work in that manner. There is no substitute for face time, and video conference doesn't do that. The only companies I've seen be successful at this are extremely small, and the employees they do have are highly independent.
Is Racket mostly for teaching and academia, or is it also used in production? If so, are there any particular areas it is strong in?

Typed Racket seems like a more cohesive language than Typescript while retaining the dynamic typing escape hatch, so I've been eyeing it for a while.
Don't know where you are getting this from, but it's literally not how every enterprise-level company runs.

You have something like and EMC Symmetrix all flash full of optane or nvme flash drives - hundreds of them. your data is striped across all of them. they're connected to something like a cisco mds. usually you have 4 paths to each LUN, and they're usually 32Gb FC. you can certainly have as many paths as you want if you need more bandwidth. The array also has 10-20TB of cache to front-end the flash. your response time is about 100-200 microseconds.

I don't know how much ram or disk you're going to shove into your server, but good luck running a bunch of half-petabyte databases in it, and expanding it for growth.

this is literally how 90% the world runs. your little theories are cute though.
I feel the same debilitating anxiety when it comes to planning out career. It's become so bad that I have started ignoring it and instead checking emails and Hacker News for solace. Questions that keep me up:

1. What to learn next?

2. Is this the right career?

3. Shouldn't I be a CTO by now? What a failure!

4. Dude, you forgot about your family!! (Gasping for air)

so on and so forth...
I think you could produce much better machine code by "templatizing" the stack allocations into function-specific pattern variables, passed to a single alloca-like function which uses the template to figure out how much stack space to allocate, displaces the stack pointer, and sets up all your metadata in one swoop. Also, this would improve the upgradability of the runtime/metadata, as it would be decoupled.
I've started using Notepad++ texts in a folder (as a workspace), synced across devices using Syncthing.
One thing that fascinated me early on was how the web was equal: <famous-company>.com had exactly the same lame, gray-with-text-and-slow-images site as some silly student web site. Or sometimes worse, as students had lots of time to fiddle around with HTML and Netscape, and companies hadn’t yet amassed entire organizations devoted to web presence. :) Most sites were also utilitarian; aside from maybe a logo here or there, they just gave you what you wanted (since they literally did not have much else).

You really noticed image-loading. Each image gradually rendered into view, and sites still knew how to use them judiciously. And yet, since we’d never seen anything quite like it, we patiently waited to load every time. It was too cool to be a bother.

The most mind-blowing thing was that you didn’t really need to know much to connect. I didn’t need network numbers or other weird stuff. I could simply guess a dot-com for something, and there it was! It wasn’t material printed in a book or mailed to me, it was just there, right when I asked, like a personal butler. At the time it was astounding.
Isn’t the definition of privilege escalation going from non-root to root or did you mean that any RCE on an application gets you root.

Nit picking comment aside, I wonder if the fact that it is single-user was one of the reasons Apple did not go with it.
Why would that speculative new capital be interested in the property if not because they know there is a supply constraint?
A strong judiciary, high bar to change the law, and harsh accountability.

Still a fine line to walk.
Kind of backing yourself into a corner. You can find competent people anywhere, so if you are advocating remote work, just realize that there is no longer anything unique about living in the USA.
Thanks for doing that. I have personal strong aversion to spammers. To the point where their product doesn't matter, I'll just use/help a competitor instead.

Reaching out to the occasional person who stars a project, if there's some strong overlap of stuff then maybe sure. An automatic spam approach though... that's not on. That makes starring projects a "dangerous" thing for end users, as they'd have to be open to emails for every one. :/

And yeah, it did look useful up until this point. Lets see what their response to the GH issue is like. :)
> Most laptop OSes, like Windows, macOS, and Linux, are a decade behind mobile OSes in terms of application sandboxing and also still lagging behind on restricting OS tampering and implementing reliable chains of trust from the system software to the hardware level, e.g. features like secure enclaves.

Desktops/Laptops come with decades worth of software that I do trust. Applying trust at the application level or at a permissions prompt is too late, for the average user it has to be handled by the OS vendor, much like linux distros and apple do. Users mostly just click to allow everything, even most tech savy ones.

The android and possibly iOS sand boxing also does a poor job of protecting against things like user tracking.
Alphabet Unit Tests New System to Identify Airborne Drones
There's lots of different ways to approach explaining the phenomenon of hawking radiation, PBS space time does a good job here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPKj0YnKANw

Ultimately, hawking radiation does not come from within the event horizon, so it can escape into the wider universe.
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1) Burnout - When you've done too much work and it affects your productivity.

2) Depression - When you have a chemical imbalance or got hit by a traumatic event that chances the way you perceive things.

3) Laziness - When you do not want to work. It could be due to any reason. You may be mindfully doing it.

4) Being in the wrong job - Actually happens to a lot more people than 1 & 2. But it could lead to 1 and 2. Maybe 3 but then you're getting paid for it.

For 2) you may need to go to a doctor or therapist. Everything else you can do something about. Hope that helps!
That 5.5 kW number - where do they get all that power? Is it all just solar?
Their menu and pricing scheme is really what makes it extra terrible. They have far too many needless bundles and inconsistent value with substitutions. Is getting a fry, a shake, and a burger or a burger meal and substituting a soda for a shake the same price as getting everything separately? Is it just the difference between a soda and a shake?

You shouldn't have to waste mental bandwidth on that needless bullshit - the only reasons are price point sleaze.
At least in part because restaurant margins are very slim, and customers are paradoxically price sensitive to menu prices despite being largely insensitive to rent (probably because everyone feels like they can go across the street to get a better value for food, but nobody feels like they can trivially move to a higher-value neighborhood).
A city of 880k shouldn't regard demand as inexhaustible after grudgingly tolerating 4400 new units. They should try again with at least one extra zero.
Is this not obvious? Seriously, this question always comes up in these discussions. The answer is it’s a macroeconomic problem: SF restaurants have already increased prices to $34 for a pork chop and $13 for a cocktail (Nopa.. which I attest is a very good value by SF standards). Restaurant margins are low. If they triple their cook salaries it will result in a net decline and they’ll close.

What we’re seeing is a shift towards “fine casual” formats like Souvla that have lower labor costs. But there are just fewer midrange restaurants opening due to labor and rent and the ceiling on what they can sustainably charge. The high end and low end / fine causal are doing ok.
I alias cd to pushd
The data, posted online in spreadsheets for thousands of procedures, is incomprehensible and unusable by patients — a hodgepodge of numbers and technical medical terms, displayed in formats that vary from hospital to hospital. It is nearly impossible for consumers to compare prices for the same service at different hospitals because no two hospitals seem to describe services in the same way. Nor can consumers divine how much they will have to pay out of pocket.

I took a look at the Vanderbilt charges[0] mentioned at the top of the article. If they could at least provide proper medical codes for procedures like they did in the drugs export, that would make it a lot easier to cross reference procedures/etc. between hospitals.

You can look through my comment history on my complaints about it, but if these csv files or pdfs were generated with jasper reports or mirth connect (any other integration engine), its a shame that they missed out on either one extra column or one extra join to get all their corresponding codes in their exports.

To the other comments' points, yeah someone could go ahead and start cross referencing codes, if they were all there, but the problem is that most systems are usually behind in code systems (e.g ICD9 vs ICD10) or they are made up using their own internal codes. You might end up with yet another set of standard codes that you would have to map to the official codes.

Here are some value sets[1] that are listed on the HL7 site. If anyone did want to tackle this problem, start there to at least get a baseline in the types of labels/descriptions you will be seeing across the board.

[0] https://finance.vumc.org/chargemaster/

[1] http://hl7.org/fhir/us/core/terminology.html

CPT - https://www.ama-assn.org/amaone/cpt-current-procedural-termi...

SNOMED - http://www.snomed.org/snomed-ct/get-snomed

ICD-10 - https://www.icd10data.com/

RXNORM - https://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/rxnorm/
I'm an ex-SF'er and a "just build more supply" person generally who is basically just not there for arguments about how tech workers are ruining SF, and this is the first formulation I've read of this argument that resonated for me. I get the argument now: the long-term health of SF is an externality to tech workers. Yeah, that does sound right.
I'm really not sure I understand this layoff, will they be cancelling some of the projects?
Looks like no engineering jobs, but mostly technicians and assembly. This makes me think the launch cadence of 2019 is taking its toll.
> If you’ve never seen an IBM AS/400 machine, don’t feel bad. Most people haven’t. Introduced in 1988 as a mid-range server line, it used a unique object-based operating system and was geared specifically towards business and enterprise customers. Unless you’re a particularly big fan of COBOL you probably won’t have much use for one today, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t worth playing around with if the opportunity presents itself

Oh boy, I've seen multiple businesses that utilize AS/400 system(s). I even know a few people who manage them, building out applications, etc... They are still very much used.

You'd also be surprised how many records about you still exist in said system(s). Hell, I was using an AS/400 system only 3 years ago for business purposes (I'm not a COBOL developer, but something had to be fixed).
"Big" is a subjective measure, so I don't know if you think 450 is big; it is in my world. This 450 staff company GitLab, that this person is leaving, is well-known for being successful at being 100% remote. Maybe they're an outlier (probably they are), maybe they're the one proving you wrong.

Maybe your experience is with "remote-friendly" companies, versus GitLab being a 100% remote company. Purportedly, they don't have any number of people that are commonly colocated.
All of these things come with a cost as well as a benefit.

It is possible to deal with crime through an 'oversight system', this is called a surveillance state.

As I indicated, I'm uncommitted on which way is best for the case under discussion. For criminal matters, and for hairdressing, I prefer presumption of innocence; for aerospace engineering, licensure and oversight.

I think it is a justifiable approach and might be a better one. We chose IRBs after appalling cases like the Tuskegee Airmen experiment; perhaps we should have hanged the perpetrators instead.

Perhaps not. Having never been an academic, I am aware this subject invokes strong feelings, while having none myself.
Host your own FreshRSS.
That is a cost of living vs income thing everywhere - although they are an extreme example from their dysfunction. If nobody has a job in the area housing will generally be cheap due to lack of ability for anyone to pay and lack of reason for people to want to live there. If there is plenty of employment in an area it drives up housing demand and prices. There are always alternatives but the price may not be very well liked.
Considering we are buying a new iSeries with the Power 9 this year, I expect to have an AS/400 descendent in our server room for another 10 years. The last one lasted 13 years.
A Dog Who Took the Witness Stand
When I grew up, my mom was working on an AS/400 at work. I spent many hours watching her fly through all the screens.

She knew exactly the right combo of Function keys followed by how many TAB she needed to start typing. She could do it without looking at the screen or the keyboard, just the sheet she had to enter/modify in the system.

It was incredibly fast, 99% of the time.

She hated the move to Windows. All the sudden, everything was slow, error prone, fiddly. Keyboard navigation was mostly gone and although employees could start working with less training, she knew the move was generally a big step backwards.

She despised computers with passion from that day on. Today she's retired and uses an iPad only.

I'm a UX designer/developer. There is something to be said for these old terminal systems, when it comes to repetitive daily tasks.
California has $63b and growing in unfunded pension liabilities. The surplus is only a cash cushion.

The problem is vastly reduced if you can shift healthcare costs from the unfunded pensions to single payer or Medicare for all, I think that’s likely to happen in the next 20 years.
1. The information you seek... is found in the first Google result.

2. Counter-question: Is it possible to simultaneously hold a post-graduate degree, and be studying one?
There’s no paradox. Rent is a necessity, given that you want to live in and get your career going in SF. Restaurants are a luxury. Thus there are those who will spend as much as possible on rent (esp. if they think it will help them earn more later), taking it out of their going-out budget.
demise? I use an rss reader every day and consider it one of my most important news sources.
This free tutorial helped me to understand the concept behind the framework. Actually, I can adapt this knowledge to other work also. https://yoember.com
Thank you! I really appreciate that.
Once you have an OBJ file, you can 3D print it:

https://all3dp.com/1/obj-file-format-3d-printing-cad/

If you want a 3D model of your office building or something.
Ask HN: Any interest in UpWork for personalized financial advice?
There are plenty of managed marketplaces for professional and personal business services for finance (Toptal, Visor, Atrium) some of which can be used for personal financial services (do my taxes) but none to create a link between those seeking personalized financial advice and those providing it.

As either a 1) consumer of financial advice (e.g. how much can I contribute to IRA? how should I invest my 401k? how to invest my extra cash?) or a 2) provider of financial advice (e.g. registered investment advisor in the US) would you use a managed marketplace to buy or sell personalized financial advice? I should add this is not generic "on a blog" or "something posted on money.stackexchange.com", this is the equivalent of going into your local AG Edwards or Chase and sitting down with an advisor.

Assume that the platform has trust mechanics built in (e.g. vetting, escrow services, dispute resolution).

Again, think UpWork for personalized financial advice.
Neal Stephenson's _Seven Eves_ ends up with several distinct branches of humanity. It was a necessary adaptation to a population bottleneck -- after a global apocalypse there were only 7 living women and no men or sperm, but they did have a genetics lab. So they cloned themselves with some small changes to avoid inbreeding. Some of the changes weren't so small.

Some of the populations did well, some were strange, and some were constantly warring. So not quite "positive", but not gratuitously negative either.
Changed from https://medium.com/me/stats/post/fd62ff278d10. Thanks!
> "Some legal scholars have argued that ...

A paragraph later in the wiki-article you copied from, this is opinion is immediately refuted. Instead the buck stops at constitutions and the like.

It's a declaration of interests. It is heavily stressing the word law, which is very much not an inherent value, that the term competing interests should be hard to shrug off. I am not going to write a fully fledged critique in a HN comment about this monumental document, but it's always going to be a two edged sword.

For one funny bit see this paragraph:

> Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.

Which is asymmetric, not to say utterly useless, without provision about where to leave to. I forgot what GP's point was :(
Macintosh Interface Report (1989) [video]
Doesn't surge already do this?
"A suicide bag, also known as an exit bag or hood,[1][2] is a euthanasia device consisting of a large plastic bag with a drawcord used to commit suicide through inert gas asphyxiation."

Out of interest is English your second language or is there a second meaning to a suicide bag?

It's like your pretending to have Google Translated Exit Bag incorrectly.... (Normally called a Bug Out Bag amongst the hipsters, for future reference)
It does have that effect, but that's just an aspect of the default-criminality and UX fail: there's no UNDO.
I suppose they might be the one to prove me wrong. But I think the larger they get, the more they'll hit the problems big companies face, and it's compounded by being remote.

Good for them for making it this far, and from what I've read their product is great.
In the “old”, initial days (circa 2005-2006) they weren’t bothered by this, I remember they released the GMaps public API back then as a result (among other factors) of some people reverse engineering the public-facing interface. If I’m not mistaken one of the first projects that was using the reverse-engineered version (before the API was made public) was the former Chicago Crime website, one of the first Django installations.
Is anyone else not as optimistic about remote work? I feel that the workplace is the single largest facilitator of friendship/relationship/community building that most adults have in the modern day. If this goes away I really fear that the loneliness problem will become even worse.
Also, stamped mail (untracked, stamps can be bought with cash) can be dropped off anonymously at USPS blue postal boxes if it is 13 oz or under.

Orders over 13 oz could simply be split into multiple sub-13 oz shipments, although then that means a possible increased risk of detecting a package.
Serverless computing: one step forward, two steps back
Android vendors, don’t kill my app
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NFC Payments: Relay Attacks with LoRa
Lua trace JIT compiler using LLVM-C
Technology behind Swimming Headphones
You probably already know the book, but Basecamp's founders collected their thoughts on the matter a while ago: https://basecamp.com/books/remote
Des Moines is roughly the size of Bloomington, MN.
This is an odd quote to latch onto as an example of profound foresight.

Predicting a telephone with a screen in 1969 required no great skill at prophecy, since the AT&T picture phone debuted at the 1964 World's Fair. Really the idea of being able to remotely dial up information and services on some kind of telephone/computer console with a screen was all over the place by 1969. There were, after all, commercial time-sharing computer services.

I don't see any evidence that the quote refers to cell phones, since it doesn't mention portability. But even if it did, to predict that in 1969 was likewise not so impressive, since mobile radio-telephone service had existed since the 1940s, and the cellular concept for frequency re-use was conceived in the same era.