skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The landlords making money hand over fist are the ones that bought long ago AND had the tenants turn over (reset rent control).

Right now it’s cheaper to rent a place than buy in SF (rent to home price ratio is almost 1:30 where 1:15 means it’s equal).

Most landlords are betting on property appreciation, but even that isn’t guaranteed if you have tenants as they lower the value of the home.
This might be because no one in Sweden knows what “residential natural gas” is. I haven’t heard about anyone heating their house with natural gas. Residential gas is used for gas stoves in some old (exclusive) areas of stockholm. Oil used to be a thing but these days it’s usually electric (heat pump) or geothermal.
Tiger mom parenting has become a part of SV culture, or at least many schools in SV.
I think GP is saying, if you are at a point in development where you can choose A or B, and A has foreseeable better performance or scalability, all else being equal choose A.

A lot of assumptions there and real world is almost never that clear-cut.

The general advice of "don't optimize until you've measured" is still almost always correct.
To be fair, this culture is by no means unique to UX. I've seen unqualified people make messes in many different tech disciplines: coding, operations, project management...
You said "what we want" and one of the important things to remember when having a discussion about macrosocial policy like reducing drug abuse or homelessness is that it is exceedingly rare for everyone to be in agreement.

When confronting homelessness, remember that landlords, aristocrats, and even upper middle income working class all don't want to actually improve the homeless situation. To them its a cost center, and they save more money exporting their homeless by force than trying to actually get them housed and healthy. The policies currently in place out west and across the country, in relation to not just homelessness but all "problems" in society are all intentional. Its key to remember that, because recognizing the hostile actors in resistance to societal improvement is often half the battle in knowing how to make meaningful change.

Homelessness and drug abuse are both symptomatic of livelihood instability, as can be proven by how European nations demonstrated marked reductions in both as more policies are enacted to keep people from falling into extreme poverty. But neither is simple enough to distill to being the consequence of one decision or policy - the frequency of homelessness is influenced by many factors, including... 1) The livability of the area exposed to the elements (homeless in Seattle and Boston are often lower not because of good social policy but because its life threatening in the winter). 2) Local policy relating to the homeless. Mostly due to the age of many of the cities there are more well established non-profits, charities, and churches operating to assist the homeless in the East than the West. 3) Housing prices, obviously, are a huge factor. Its much easier to be livelihood insecure when your rent is a larger and larger chunk of your income. This is why, despite often rampant poverty in the South, homelessness isn't nearly as endemic because property is much cheaper in Nowhere Kentucky than it is in the Bay Area.
How the fuck is this on the third page with 110 points in 2 hours?
I have a conspiracy theory.
Yes, most of us would probably have to check the manpage for three or four of these utility programs to put together something like Rob McIlroy's one-liner from the article. I think this is clearly still more efficient than writing 17 pages worth of code in a general purpose language, which is what it's being pitted against. I also don't think it's really a very high hurdle -- if I were writing the same thing in a Python or Perl script I bet I would end up also consulting the documentation to check exactly how to do things or what some detail of syntax is. If you happen to write Python all day every day then sure, you'll find it much faster to just write a quick Python script for this sort of thing. If your day job is C or Java or some other non-scripting language and this is a once-a-month-or-so task then I think the time required to do this sort of small utility task in shell-and-utility-tools is not really any different to remembering how to write Perl scripts.
I've worked on string theory briefly (published one paper that got a respectable number of citations). It is not considered a dead end by people working on it obviously.

Many of the best people in theoretical physics with Edward Witten being the most prominent example have been working on it for ~40+ years now. None of the public detractors have nearly the same stature that Witten has. Of course this is basically an argument by authority and there is a chance that once titans like Witten leave the playing field the following generations will lose more and more influence.

I think there is a fair bit of criticism of String Theory among very good people that is not voiced publicly because there would be no point to it, they have nothing to gain. In many ways it is the "Only Game in Town" (literal quote from my supervisor), just doing high-energy particle phenomenology is not that much more exciting.

String theory has already led to a number of very high profile successes in mathematics (Perelman's Proof of the Poincare Conjecture, Monstrous Moonshine etc.), so it is not like the techniques that have been developed are totally useless.
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There's closed loop ground source heat pumps. It's all very situational as to whether they are practical to install. The vertical ones are more expensive but don't need a whole lot of ground area to be installed.
I'm saying there are very few real black and whites, and everything in life and in software is more kind of grey.

As such there are very few black and white rules you can follow and succeed.

The correct approach is somewhere to the left of "premature optimization" and somewhere to the right of "don't even think about performance until you can measure it".

More experienced and talented people will be more successful at picking that sweet spot.

Telling a dev that the correct approach is to pay absolutely no attention to performance before it can be measured is ... crazy IMO. I would expect them to have at least thought about it, and have some opinions, just as they should not have put excessive effort into prematurely optimizing things they don't know are going to be a problem.

My point is - its grey, use your brains, don't buy into absolute rules.
Programming Pearls is great (I haven't read Hacker's Delight) but it's mostly "programming in the small". I think it would be interesting to see a book that took real world projects and looked at some core piece of them that is particularly elegant or clever. The core of how git manages its data structure for example, or the Quake BSP. In practice most such real code is probably too tangled up with the rest of the project to be very suitable for this approach unfortunately.
It's easy to say that every programmer should read CLRS, but I think it would be a lot more interesting for the author to explain why they think CLRS is better (and, in particular, better for straight-through reading?) than "The Algorithm Design Manual", "The Art of Computer Programming", or "Algorithms in Java".
I make clear ice at home with those specialized insulated/rubberized coolers. The distilled part I mentioned is in relation to impurities and that glacial ice was the most “pure”. Is that really true? Can’t glacial ice have trapped impurities and gasses?

I guess what I’m getting at is, the claim that glacial ice was needed, what particular property of glacial ice can’t be replicated by careful ice making?
The article makes a good argument against simplifying Silicon Valley down to its faults:

> stop talking about how Silicon Valley only makes ridiculous overpriced juicers

But who are those people who simplify Silicon Valley, and mock the useless innovation?

I feel like the author falls victim to the same blind-men-and-elephant problem: he somehow reads all the 'thinkpieces' (whatever that means) that focus on strange things SV does. I personally do not see this phenomenon, probably because I get my news from aggregators with different bias. The (successfully defeated) strawman is just that, a strawman.
Pretty much anything in a pre-1980 house will a nightmare to retrofit. Houses in the 1945 to 1965 era (in the US) especially were mostly built as quickly and as cheaply as possible.

The concept of energy efficiency didn't really exist before the 1973 oil crisis as oil use per capita was steadily going up and up until then.

Energy Star, for example, was only established in 1992.

Energy efficiency is very very recent.
One idea i've had is to just make a central heatpump system.

Why does a fridge need its own compressor that vents heat back to the house even in the summer?

Why can't your water heater use that same heat instead?

This all started because my brother used to redirect dryer air back into his apartment during the winter, using a saw dust sock to keep the lint contained.

I started thinking about how heat could be better managed if everything used a central ac/heat pump. heat generated by the fridge, your computer, the ac, etc could be used by your water heater, your heater heater, your dryer.

Add heat recovery systems to your dryer, and your drains, and bam super sustainability.
CPU vs. GPU vs. TPU
SaaS can be massively broad from core choices like single tenant/multi tenant up.

One thing that I always find useful is go read the source code of the SaaS systems that are open soure, things like GitLab and Taiga are good clean codebases to have a look at the general architecture.

https://github.com/taigaio/

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce

I found this quite good https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1fkGyIcePA

Also worth a look https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8NWDHgWA28 (by and large GOTO; talks are phenomenal).
My go-to example is Vitamin C: it's an essential nutrient for humans, but mice, like most other animals, are capable of simply producing it. That's usually a good starting point for the "they're really different" conversation.
They are $12/year, right now. (Non-premium.)
We accept too much PR bullshit origin stories. If you find yourself coming up with a cutesy, exaggerated narrative of how a feature began, don't.
Yes. I grew up in a lower middle class family with uneducated parents. Then I was enlisted in the military. Now I'm a resident physician working primarily in a county hospital. So when I say someone is a narcissist it's backed up by current DSM knowledge. And when I say despicable, I say it knowing that this spoiled author has no idea how the majority of America lives.

SV types seem to not understand that a "hyper competitive" educational environment is not a pitiable condition.
damn.. spying on video from doorbells that is really strange action
Some of the blurriness seems related to melting on the surface layer. I wonder if he had made a metallic lens housing which was supercooled to prevent melting if the result would have been better.
The end goal of the apps are very similar, though Footpath places a greater emphasis on the route building + editing UI, as well as what you can do with map layers.

One aspect of EasyRoute that is pretty awesome is its support for exporting turn instructions to Wahoo + Garmin GPS devices via FIT files (the developer works for Wahoo by day), while Footpath only supports exporting the route data to GPX files right now.

Hope that helps.
Fixed above. Thanks!
Pa will cut all Palestinian salaries, except for terrorists and their families
My favourites are the liquid crystal lenses. Essentially they are micron scale Fresnel lenses controlled by electric field. No moving parts, very thin, ideal for something like a camera module.

I'm surprised that nobody managed to commercialise it in that niche yet.
Whence Modesty?
To be fair, here in California, all newer homes have insulation preinstalled. I think there may still be a tax credit to help have your home insulated if it doesn't have any insulation.
You wont believe how many C++ experts apply for our developer roles (rolls eyes).
Haven't used them much (or C++'s at all), but (not speaking as a PL-designer-or-implementer), D's templates seem to be not bad. I could understand how to use them for some simple cases, at least, without much studying of the subject.

And I liked what Walter Bright (D creator) said in (IIRC, in a DDJ article): something to the effect that, after working on the design of D templates for a while, a sudden insight he had, was that templates were (just [1]) a way of parameterizing a function not just by value parameters, but by type parameters too.

[1] Not really "just", of course - there will be a lot to the implementation, but conceptually, that simple.

Edit: Links:

https://dlang.org/spec/template.html

https://tour.dlang.org/tour/en/basics/templates

https://dlang.org/articles/templates-revisited.html
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Caveat emptor: Standard ML is not widely used in industry and does not have a large library ecosystem, so if you do recommend it to clients, make sure it's clear that they'd want to follow up with something like Scala or Ocaml, which have far more users/libraries. It's just that for really understanding functional programming, Standard ML is fantastically clear. (Although actually, that Scala coursera course I linked to above is by Martin Odersky, and is also pretty darn good, especially if you're already committed to the JVM.)

Others have mentioned Elixir, which would also be an interesting option to explore. The main difference being that with Elixir you're leveraging Erlang and BEAM (which gives you a fantastic platform for actors and lightweight threads), versus Java and the JVM in the case of Scala (which gives you access to all of Java).
IIRC, many embedded processors have a sort of secure enclave, that allows encryption of small amounts of data. The key is basically baked into the CPU, so if someone just takes the flash out of the device and tries to read it somewhere else, the file will need the CPU to be decrypted. I think mostly this is obsolete encryption, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's trivial to break.

This would be the sensible implementation, but I doubt that LiFX have used a suitable (and more expensive) MCU.

https://www.digikey.com/en/articles/techzone/2015/apr/securi...
This is great! I am seriously considering using this. My company does email marketing, and most of our staff who do email have limited tech skills (which with email is ok we teach them to keep it simple, obviously dont need js or anything). But I always notice mistakes in putting correct url params, styling quirks, syntax/order problems. I'm seriously considering using this and building custom components to give super use-case specific email newsletter elements - and ONLY those options. And I like the concept of storing simple plain text -> json -> template, so we can integrate into our existing analytics & eventually build out more tracking & automation into the process(copy -> approvals -> html email).

My biggest concern just from reading docs is styling. I see a custom CSS parser.

My question is if you have real test usage for actual widely deployed html email? Like very minimal email specific styling, inline styles, render testing etc.

Any tips or things you've learned if you have real html email examples? I am seriously considering diving in and trying this out and bumping this project up higher on my 'value creation' list!
True but it’s much more prevalent in first generation immigrant families especially from Asia, so there’s some selection bias.

Yes, some areas can be 30-90% this demographic makeup (eg cupertino schools) but it is not the norm for the entire Bay Area.
Québec’s Trump-like immigration policies contradict Canada’s welcoming image
I was thinking the same thing and go to Minnesota in Winter where the life span of the lens would be four months long.
Yeah, just checked again, and bought several.
It's a great place to follow high quality individual writers instead of publications. For example one of my favorite finance writers: https://medium.com/@byrnehobart/
I feel like that problem is hardly unique to SV, though it also seems likely that interpersonal relationships and the SV cultural mindset are fundamentally incompatible.
I'm actually really disappointed that I found out about them because they're shutting down. This looks perfect to me because I've been wanting to make some sites fast but I don't have the time to expand my React skills currently. Does anyone have a good recommendation for an alternative?
tone and cadence of read speech is different than that of spontaneous speech

I don't think most people speak to their phone the same way they normally speak.
For example, I always speak slowly, with perfect pronunciation and intonation when talking to Siri.
Thanks for the question. Our process can plug in during the resume screen or after an initial screen. Once the references are completed, we provide high level summaries and recommendations for which candidates have the strongest fit for the position. This gives the hiring manager better data while still saving time. The full references are available if the hiring manager wants to dive deeper.

These recommendations are based on on both quantitative ratings and open-ended questions like working style and ideal environment. We do use tools to help automate the recommendation calculation, but also currently human QA because we want to get these recommendations right when we're early-stage.
It’s required to even get a building permit in Lithuania
Correction: I recently learned that Go has interfaces. But my point still stands.
I would have been onboard with the deduction cap if the revenue had actually been used to lower the deficit and help sustain existing expenditures--regardless of whether I personally agreed with those expenditures. Instead, it was used to partially offset a corporate tax deduction in a bill which significantly expanded the deficit.

The bill effectively transfers wealth from the top 10-20%, as well as the top 98-99% of future generations' through their debt burden, and passes it on to the top 1-2%, putting a few bucks in the pockets of the bottom 50% for good measure. This is banana republic politics at its finest.

I'm also not enamored of California transferring its wealth to states which continue supporting inherently broken fiscal policies in Washington. Texas gets a pass, but almost every other conservative-leaning state uses federal monies to backstop their own fiscal failures. There's nothing new about rich states helping poor states--its the whole point of the union--but its problematic when the poor states sustain such a fiscally craven political culture.

The benefit of the SALT deduction is that it permits states to raise more revenue, and because states can't run long-term deficits there's more fiscal accountability. Making it easier for the Federal government to raise revenue isn't actually more efficient if the Federal government will simply use it as a pretense to lower tax rates and (mindbogglingly) run even greater deficits!
If it were the same Evan, I'd be really impressed. The single barrel is quite nice, and even the bottom-shelf stuff still tastes better (and is cheaper) than plain ol' Jack.
You get lower efficiency for lower temps, so for a typical Swedish house you just need to consider how many days in the year you expect sub -20-25 temps. For e.g Stockholm this is only very few days per year so a good idea is to have a fireplace (which is nice anyway) as a backup in the very rare cases it’s -25 or colder.

In northern Sweden you can’t be surprised to see a month of -20 some years, so you probably want either a bigger heat pump, expect to use more direct electric in the pump (the heat pumps are air/water so the houses are heated with circulating water, not hot air) or something else entirely like geothermal.
Station-Ary: Giving Transit Context to Smart City Kiosks
Sorry for a late reply. In most companies outside the US nobody, not even the CEO, makes 10x the income of an average low-performing engineer. A high performer has a chance of getting a respectable salary only by rising to CTO or similar roles, which obviously require skills other than just project contribution.

There is literally zero chance a high performer would get even 3x salary compared to their peers. Those pay ranks simply do not exist.
I don't know about governments, by at my last job the transition to cloud was driven mostly by:

1. The desire of some people to have AWS stuff on their resumes.

2. The optimistic belief that the same people who couldn't figure out how to manage normal servers in 10+ years will figure out how to design good serverless apps in a few month.
It is nice to see the const fn improvements!

maybe this is normal for the minor version Rust announcements, but is the page missing a link to the list of contributors?
Questions I Ask in an Interview
That was Toyota's explanation for what was happening. Turned out to be a lie or a hasty conclusion, I don't remember which.
I have a somewhat similar perspective, having moved to Colorado about four years ago. There are clearly a lot of transplants here, but if you go for a walk around Denver, it's A LOT of affluent white people. Go to Boulder and it's even more pronounced (similar to a miniature Silicon Valley). I'm very conflicted because there is a lot to like about Colorado, but I sometimes wish I moved to an area that was not so white.

The article's mention about Patagonia made me laugh and cringe, because sometimes it feels like Colorado is sponsored by Patagonia. That being said, I'm "guilty" too, because I wear Patagonia. But part of that is because they make solid items and they are generally environmentally conscious about their production (I still wear a jacket of theirs from 2013 that looks brand new).

On the more perverse end of consumption, I am now starting to see Canada Goose jackets all over Colorado; they are about 2x or 3x what Patagonia costs, which I believe is already quite expensive. I remember seeing something similar happen with North Face jackets years ago; once they became ubiquitous, the wealthy find something more expensive to show off.

Seeing all of this happen while the homeless population increases and more people that grew up in Colorado get pushed out due to rising housing costs, it's enough to make me feel hopeless that this situation can improve and overall disgusted about my part in it, as well. So I can definitely understand this feeling of "wanting to get out" due to hopelessness.

That being said, states like Colorado and California are some of the few areas with solid protections for LGBTQ people. There is a certain amount of unacknowledged privilege in seeing other posts on this site, mostly by straight, mostly white, men who talk about moving to "the middle of the country" to get out the bubble. But I think that a lot of people forget that many marginalized people move to these areas precisely because they provide legal and cultural protections and generally more openness.