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> In all seriousness, what are the advantages of stone?

If done right, it is likely the most durable material to use for siding. Will last for hundreds of years. Same with bricks if well maintained.

All other kinds of siding deteriorate quickly in comparison.

I am keeping an eye on the new cement siding that's now on the market, that's very interesting.
I think the author is making the opposite point: that having a 6-figure job out of school is cushy and anomalous outside of Silicon Valley
Isn't the refrigeration loop "tuned" for a particular operating range? Like, if I want a heat pump for extracting heat from cold winter air, the operating envelope will be set up differently than for a unit designed to dump heat into hot summer air.

I'm guessing here. I just know that the outside condenser and inside evaporator (in a cooling setup) need to match each other pretty well to avoid damage to the compressor or inefficient operation.
It'd be very interesting to see the financials of a dwarf star like Slashdot.

What does it take to keep it running? How many people are still employed by them?

It has been over a decade since I last went there.
Visit the Emacs land. Embrace the joke that it's an operating system (truth be told, it's not really a joke). What you'll see is something combining the best features of CLI, TUI and GUI. A 2D canvas with various UI primitives, made of text. There's no separation - like in traditional GUIs - between what's accessible to user and programmer (the contents of editable fields) vs. what's just dumb pixels (everything else). If it's displayed, it can be used as an anchor for navigation. It can be copied or interacted with, either manually or by code. The depth of interoperability this enables is unseen in the GUI world.

I wish GUIs would learn from that, but I don't think there's any GUI framework attempting this, besides maybe CLIM (Common Lisp Interface Manager, see[0], and that's not because of being inspired by Emacs, but because of shared historical roots of Lisp philosophy.)

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[0] - https://common-lisp.net/project/mcclim/excite.html
Because we are not mice.
this is not parody. Perhaps you would be more sympathetic to the perspective of the OP if you were raising children here.
I'm pretty sure there are mechanisms you can use in Haskell to reduce boxing despite erased generics. Specialize pragmas, for instance.
Jokes are discouraged on HN, but you did make me snort out loud.
Terminal.app on the mac appears to handle cjk characters as expected (both lines output are the same length):

$ printf "1234\n谢谢\n"
1234
谢谢
Its a rant but I'm also surprised at how she writes "people's perfect life". Whats perfect about San Francisco, that has such a low demographic representation of family, the city is super dirty, people live with 6 figure salaries live in terrible housing conditions.

Maybe google gets to shelter their employees from a lot of the cruft of SF, but walk 2 blocks away from the google offices in SF and you'll get yelled at by homeless people.

Also sad that the writer does not see a correlation between homelessness and public policy, but blames it to income inequality due to the tech companies. Without tech companies SF as a dump would not be masked by 6 dollar coffee.
A fascinating idea -- kind of a software analogue to the 10,000-year clock (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clock_of_the_Long_Now).
I agree with the Harvard thing, in the grand scheme of things, hopefully that floats to the bottom
"black holes have a temperature that arises because each particle that falls into a black hole has an entangled particle that can escape as heat"

o_O
It's an industry town now. I personally worry how sustainable it is to have a city that's just "high paid white startup workers and fancy restaurants." I think a more diverse and affordable San Francisco would benefit all its residents.
> but I often use terminal-displayed frames as well.

Fun trick: if you run your terminal in 256 colors, the resulting terminal frame is nigh-indistinguishable from GUI Emacs for like 95% of the tasks. This works amazing over SSH, and allows me to work on heavy applications with full productivity even on a bus, with el-cheapo netbook and a mobile connection.

(I really need to write a blog post about this.)
Imo, the generics are a downside, not a selling point.
Go read "Mythical Man Month", written in your selected year of 1975, and see how relevant it remains today. It's pretty startling isn't it? That a book written over 40 years ago remains relevant today. Dismissing things because they're "old" is unwise. You just need to be able to separate the wheat from the chaff. Now excuse me while I get back to my "Speedcoding in 21 days" book... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speedcoding
Love how the map doesn't even show the actual "Silicon Valley". Anyways this is also why I now prefer to live with "non-techies". It's a great way to separate work life from home/personal life. Just hard to find roommates who can afford to live here and are also not engineers/techies.
As was once said of a computer magazine, but is really an evergreen observation about all business media:

“The publication is packed full of advertisements, some of which are clearly labeled as such.”
You misunderstand. A function cannot offer a description of the taste of chocolate. That is the kind of description I am referring to.
UK is finally getting there, but we have a very long way to go. Our housing is mostly bloody awful for insulation, draught proofing, and sensible forms of heating. The very worst is anything 60s-90s, particularly if there's a flat roof.

We've only been hearing about how well Sweden and other Nordics do insulation, community heating, heat pumps etc for about 40 or 50 years. Various combined heat and power, insulation, passive houses etc would turn up on things like Tomorrow's World (60s-90s technology TV series) fairly often, like it was some sort of breakthrough new discovery. Well it was, to the UK, I guess.
It's definitely migrating north over the years. Some would argue it's centered in SF now, which I'd disagree with, but I have to admit it's moving that way.
I don't think raising kids has anything to do with. If you're a parent and your main hope and dream is your kids go to harvard, you're doing something wrong.
> Did Uber change that?

Not sure about on the driver side, but on the passenger side you could log into the desktop website & modify ratings for a previous ride. Was useful when a driver forced you to give 5 stars, you could revise it once you got back to your laptop.
The only unethical aspect of the whole story is that Strava claimed it is their innovation. Welcome to the real world, companies do this all the time. The amount of time I've seen Apple do this (and no, not a hater; we own 4 MBPs).
You can build a LEED house the same way as any other building: https://freshome.com/2014/10/09/what-is-a-leed-certified-hom....
I think this is part of the problem:

"We’re dealing with an irrational public who wants greater and greater service delivery at the same time they want their taxes to be lower,"

There's noting irrational about wanting government to take advantage of the same technological advancements that businesses use to improve service while cutting costs.

When I order from Amazon, I see real-time inventory, get immediate order confirmation, near real-time tracking as the package is handled (and actual real-time tracking for some orders were I can see where the delivery vehicle is), and delivery to my door step is 2 days (or sometimes the same day).

In contrast, when I ordered a dog license from my county, I had to mail (FAX was also accepted) a paper form, and then 6 weeks later I received a metal plate in the mail (just a numeric ID on it, no personalization). The only way I knew they even received my order is because my check cleared the bank 2 weeks after I mailed it (no credit cards allowed).

I don't expect my county animal services department to build an order an fulfillment system that rivals Amazon's, but there are thousands of this offices across the country, they could all cooperate on one system and save money dealing wit these paper forms.
Then again, a lot of people had faith in David Koresh.
Can I use this to interact with my Go projects' source code? I've tried other Go REPLs in the past and they didn't play nice with my setup (didn't like my symlinked GOPATH.) So I use a self-hosted playground during development sometimes.
I also think the list is OK, not quite the list I would have picked, but close. But I'm puzzled how you would know it's a legit list if you have read none of the books?
Elecrow Smart Plant Watering System Using Arduino Uno Review and Tutorial
The start of the story is. This one has a different ending though w/ climate change. We'll optimize our ad spend right up until the end.
No, I believe I understood the point you're trying to make, but I disagree with it.

I've worked directly with several VIM devs on Enterprisey frameworks who were not held back by their lack of Intellij.
It's not about the codebase but the business rules.

I was once handed an insurance codebase and a list of open bugs after the maintainer left on short notice. I fixed a few bugs, which led to more bugs being opened from users in other states. WTF?

Turned out that the business rules naturally varied per state regulator but had never been implemented. Just wading into code would never have resolved that. It took months to compile the documentation before touching yhe code again.

You can't make meaningful contributions on Day One in any regulated industry. Especially as a contractor where the fines might be passed along...
You could conceivably do both either name or code lookup. Both options are available to me when I go to my self checkout grocery store and try to submit produce.

This sounds more like a bad UI. A good UI covering all use cases would let you do both, and a UI not able to provide choices like that is a bad one.
Are there no health issues associated with a house being that well sealed, or do you have some sort of air exchanger that is temperature efficient?

Edit: e.g. googling brought up this article - https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/buildings/airtightness-b...
Ask HN: Rewriting a Codebase in an “Old” Language?
It's a common theme for people to discuss the success of a rewrite from one programming language to the other. Usually from an old language to a hot new language.

There's always a number of benefits claimed, such as less code, faster, better organized, etc.

My question is: how much do you think it has to do with the sexy new language, and how much is it due to the act of rewriting?

What if you take that sexy new code, and then do another re-write back to the old language? I bet there would still be a corresponding improvement again, even if a minor one.
You need to line up the timestamps for each spoken sentence to each written sentence. Some data sources, like Amazon's "Whisper Sync" can do this already.
Yes! Here’s a recent HN discussion about itD https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19152561
I put all untrustworthy devices on my guest WiFi. My game consoles, e-readers, streaming devices, and Internet appliances don't need access to my privileged network, and they don't need access to each other. And if I were so inclined to buy smart bulbs, they'd get the same treatment.

And, yeah, my guest WiFi password is kind of secret, but I routinely give it out to people who I only casually trust.
It’s probably a combination of both things, but “I tried rust, struggled, quit, came back months or years later and now I have no idea why I thought it was so hard” is certainly a recurring pattern we’ve seen. Glad it’s working for you now!
I'm not sure I understand why types would need to declare the interfaces they implement to function with generics. If my generic requires interface I and T implements it implicitly why wouldn't that just work?
All About the Kafka Connect Neo4j Sink Plugin
Is there fluids that are optimized for more extreme climate on both ends?
OP must have been quoting the King James version, a more accurate translation would be:

"In general it's usually a Sith that speaks in absolutes."
Why It Still Feels Like Facebook Is Tracking You, Even After Privacy Measures
Bay Area student here. I'm certainly not going to Harvard for my undergrad (and not like I care), but unfortunately the mindset within parents here (and students, to an extent) is that the arbiter of success is an elite institution like Harvard.
How complex are these meshes? I'm only getting 42 fps average but I feel like it should be way higher
A problem we have in the world today is just an overall lack of empathy. Just because people have material things better than people in other parts of the world doesn't mean they don't experience problems and struggles. Your comment implies money (or being well off) = happiness. We all know that isn't true. Have some empathy and just be happy you might be able to handle problems living in SV better then others
"import antigravity" - https://xkcd.com/353/
HN, where wishing you could talk to your neighbors and co-workers about something other than blockchain makes you superficial.
Can confirm, I know someone that's spent over $100k on landmark.
Experiment Gives Night Vision to Mice
And there's your wide execution width making it possible to do the checks in parallel with the access. You are using up entries in your branch prediction structure when you have something like that, as well as instruction bandwidth, but I'd doubt the function will run any slower once past decode.
while I get what gron is trying to do, I do not have an intuitive grasp of how to use it. Do you have an example that you wrote/learnt from?
"No one" in casual claims is not the absolute quantifier ("absolutely no one").

It just means "very few people".

Else we could never say "no one" in casual conversation for anything, because even the vilest/stupidest/most paranoid idea still has one/some proponents.

(And by "even the" I mean, "most", not "absolutely each and every vile/stupid/paranoid idea has one/some proponents").
Ahhh, I guess that's why I got confused. Anytime I had run an IP check at previous/current jobs, I would always get back a generic ISP so you wouldn't see the company name. I hadn't ever been at a job that actually had their own block of IPs like that. That's what tripped me up. Makes more sense. So basically you can sometimes get to that info of who it is, and sometimes not.
surely lubricating the wheels that set prices is worth a reasonable fraction of your economic output. lets say 10%?
>In my liberal arts college, conversations varied dramatically, from British literature to public policy to moral philosophy to socioeconomic inequality. Compare this to my product management program filled with new grads, where even social conversations revolve around tech — whether it’s spilling the hottest gossip on the new VP, plotting how to get “double promoted” from a Level 3 to a Level 5 product manager in exactly 22 months, or debriefing where the top angel investors get drinks on Thursday nights. (And yes, Silicon Valley has an alcohol and drug problem, too). Attempts to hold discussions about social issues are often met with bored faces and are quickly terminated. For example, a friend in the program and I have brought up climate change on many occasions, since it’s an issue we’re particularly passionate about. We’ve mentioned the worsening air quality in light of the Camp Fire that devastated more than 150,000 acres of Northern California, lamented the fact that Google still uses plastic water bottles and straws, and encouraged others to donate to environmental organizations during our company’s giving week. Each time, we were met with silence.

Unless you embrace the orthodoxy on these positions, you would be a fool to talk about them at work. Basically, these "discussions" are met with bored faces because either 1) people agree with the position and it feels like "preaching to the choir", or 2) people disagree with the position, but don't want to endanger their nice job by taking a position against the orthodoxy.

Given the above, people talk about safe topics like tech, investing, and insider gossip.
I studied physics in Germany but never heard this word. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_number clearly answers the raised question here, as the word seems to either mean "integer" or "natural number", two concepts with the obvious different meaning I am familiar with.
Skip the blog spam:

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Momo Challenge: The Anatomy of a Hoax
That has been the fallacy for a long time. I remember discussions in the 90s when I asked people why we didn't store 4 digits for years and I was told "By 2000 this will already have been replaced". I know for sure that this particular system was still used in 2010 and probably even now. things that work keep getting used.
But the article doesn't say "look how tough we have it" it says "look how broken we all are." And not many people want to look, instead we want to do the endless phone upgrade cycle except with our lives.
I totally bought into the Silicon Valley dream. I moved to the bay area to work at Netflix and launch a startup. I bootstrapped my first company because I didn't know how to raise VC money. That was pretty great. For my second company I raised millions of dollars from VCs. I went to exclusive parties, did press interviews and had a huge net-worth (on paper). I became the person I always envied. It was HUGELY disappointing.

I remember being at the company party after we closed our series A and thinking, "Is this it?". I was expecting a much stronger sense of accomplishment.

I'm curious what the experience was like for other founders. For me, I realized that what I thought was going to make me happy, didn't. Not only did it not give me the happiness and satisfaction I was hoping for, it ate up some many other parts of my life that do bring me real happiness - family life, friends, traveling, adventure.

The deeper I dig into the world of startups and VC the more I realize that it's very much not what it seems.
Show HN: git-stagelight – never forget to commit new files again
Ha.

His use was to avoid tainting the Amazon or WaPo brands with his personal drama. Medium seems like a neutral, "throwaway" place to publish that letter.
> The very same setup lets me work efficiently with Python, Shell, configs, SQL databases, HTML+CSS+JS, running a personal Wiki, organizing tasks, tracking time spent on those tasks, billing customers for that time, reading/writing mail, and a bunch of other things. We love our editors because of compound interest.

I think that's really the takeaway here. Spending time in your environment allows you to accumulate skills that let you solve pretty much any text based problem you can think of.

Whether that's using emacs with elisp or vim with shell scripts and Unix tools isn't important. It's having that playground of an environment to solve arbitrary problems.
> But his somewhat new Climate Change denial stuff finally made me unfollow him.

I don't follow Scott Adams, but my understanding from when he started talking about that subject is that he is not denying climate change, but he is acting as a climate skeptic in order to bring about debate and enlighten people on all sides.

For a (possibly bad and certainly trite) metaphor, it's somewhat like saying "Gravity is settled science" to a gravity denialist. You could instead provide some facts and experiments they could try such as holding their hands above their head to fight the force[0] of gravity. They could decide they don't think your facts are correct and perhaps theorize other reasons why they cannot hold their hands above their head indefinitely.

That's science, where even gravity is "just" a theory[1].

[0] Apparently in the Theory of Relatively, gravity is not actually a force, but a consequence of the curvature of space-time and uneven distribution of mass

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity#Modern_alternative_the...
It is still considered a dead-end. This is a puff / PR piece going over well known old arguments to promote it to the lay public.
It says sometimes it's hard to know what books are the best.

When is it not as hard as any other time?
Dropbox is using Rust to decompress Brotli: https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2016/06/lossless-compression-...
Yes, of course you can find anything if you're looking specifically for it. At HN we talk about scale, though, so how do we make everyone look for efficiency?
"Nordics" covers a pretty diverse area regarding climate and quality of local timber. Most houses in Denmark (southernmost part of "nordics") are built with bricks because wood has a tendency to rot in our climate. Also, we experience almost no earthquakes.
On the other hand I have worked on code bases in the 50M lines of code that would bring VS on its knees; people ended up just using it as a glorified text editor.

Note I'm not knocking down on IDEs; as an Emacs user I would love reliable semantic indexing and navigation, but all the solutions that I have tried (rtags was the best) consume a lot of time and CPU indexing and switching branches often forces a rebuild. Currently, on a 1M lines code base I get around with projectile (which uses the project git as a file index) for file discovery and ag for brute force search, which at least on linux can search the codebase quickly.
I think the GP was talking about what you might call "expressive range". Anything that can be expressed in a string of characters of a given length uses at most the full expressive possibilities of that string. I think it's a silly point, because the meaning of lisper's comment was clearly that the added structure makes s-expressions more powerful than the Unix convention of "plain text".

The Unix standard of lines within which there are fields delimited by some character is, itself, a very primitively constrained/structured form of text, so it too is less expressive than raw text could be. But this is a daft discussion.
I think book lists evolve over time. I would probably never had considered the Mythical Man-Month in my early career but found it helpful later on.

Also, some books don’t make sense until experience happens. The classic AWK book (gray cover one) came in handy only after I was having trouble organizing some data files. Then it was a must read/keep :)
Vbsp.js: Render source engine maps in the browser
That seems rather short sighted. Much of the increase in mean lifespan from 150 years ago comes from lower number of deaths at infancy (aka doctors washing their hands). You can probably attribute most of the rest to improved nutrition and antibiotics.

The philosophy behind "paleo" and various fasting regimens (as well as different modalities of physical training) is that living close to what our primate ancestors lived like is probably something like optimal. Starving yourself from time to time, something which is actually practiced by almost all agricultural societies as a form of religious devotion, is probably a good idea. The whole "3 square meals" thing is mostly a product of marketing departments rather than any scientific research.
> young people think that the people who wrote software 30 years ago were just plain stupid and all wrote crappy code.

It's understandable. None of us back then had anywhere near the "copying and pasting javascript from stackexchange" skills that "tech savvy" kids have now.
Most likely: It was put in because of mics being a rather cheap component with tremendous benefits for future use in a home automation product but product management didn't yet consider it a feature because it wasn't enabled/available to the customer upon launch and it thus never landed on the spec sheet.
I was remarking to my lunch companion, who referred to AOC, that John Fitgerald Kennedy must have been in the House for at least a couple of terms before the expression JFK became current.