skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rent control is bad economics. The simple progression:

1. Local political culture limits natural housing supply growth.

2. Increasing percentages of people can't afford rent due to housing supply not meeting demand.

3. Rent control is enacted for political wins.

4. Property values fall due to decreased utility in ownership.

5. New housing creation falls due to new lack of incentive.

6. End-stage dysfunction; negative feedback loop established.

6A. Lack of inflation-tracking minimum wage exacerbates.
I don't know to what extent the movie "Social Network" is based on facts, but if it is a true picture of Mark Zuckerberg, then that's what is happening is not a surprise. He cheated guys who employed him (to create social network), then he cheated his best friend (from what that remember they all sued him and he had to pay them undisclosed amount of money).

What can we expect from someone who looks like someone very greedy without any sense of morals? We should be rather happy he didn't become mass murderer or politician.
I want my kids to either grow up in a huge city like NYC where I live or a rural area. I spent a year in a small town in rural NC and your kids can grow up wild.

I think the suburbs are the stifling force here. They're too safe.
"That is a true statement." is one that is frequently used around here. It sounds very engineer-y, and has no inflectional or emotional connotations whatsoever. It's about as sterile as a SYN-ACK packet. I heard what you just said, and evaluated it for correctness. Current computation completed, and ready for additional input.
Apparently there isn't much love left for the GPL.
The copyright law is a red herring.

There shouldn't be any copyright requested or registered, and if one was awarded automatically, the state could have re-released it into the public domain.

The "copyright law" merely helps enforce this -- it doesn't dictate a monument should have a copyright, nor that the owner of the copyright should ask for money for taking pictures of it.
Which would have the exact same problem as UTC.

For most use cases when a users enter a datetime in the future, they do not care about how many seconds from 1970-01-01 that point is, they care that it occurs at exactly 12:30 on that particular day.
Show HN: What's Your Personal MRR?
this is truth
You need to re evaluate your priors WRT “london, nyc are building a lot of housing”. The rate of housing supply growth in both of those cities is near historic lows and below the rate needed to support natural population growth (residents having kids, kids moving to their own place), and your reference frame for judgement is likely comparing to 2008-2013 where there was little construction anywhere due to the financial crises.

At a broad level, housing prices rise because the rate of office space growth/job growth exceeds the rate of housing supply growth. All of the cities you have listed have created far more jobs than housing units in the past 25 years, and office supply growth is probably most of the construction you perceive. Tokyo is the best example of a city that has balanced job growth with residential supply, and it is one of the most affordable mega cities.
Nobody disputes that road vehicles have downsides

On the other hand it is disputed that the impoverished and economically isolated city of Asmara having barely any cars is a demonstration that a city functions well with virtually no access to private motorised transport and inadequate public transport.

(cf Groningen had a policy of actively removing roads in favour of cycle paths to achieve high cycle use, achieved very high cycle use whilst remaining a typically prosperous mid-sized northern European city. Asmara might be interesting as a human interest story, but if you want to make arguments about the superfluity of powered road vehicles you'd probably be best citing just about anywhere else... except possibly Yangon)
Indeed. I was stuck at getting the correct images for the area I had the height map for. My plan was to use the NAIP images, which I have sitting here on one of my computers, processed, and is free.

But, I ran into some weirdness with Davinci Resolve where it was getting "Media Unavailable" for some frames of the video. Once I went down that rabbit hole, I was just tired of that video and wanted it done. So I didn't add a spinning 3D map of the area, just added some titles and music and called it a day.

Agree that it's not cool to remove copyright.
Those other cities are not nearly as bad as San Francisco; and have far more affordable rents and far more pockets of affordability than San Francisco or the Bay Area.

Does building alone help solve rents? No, but that's kind of the point of the article. NIMBYism just makes it much worse than having less NIMBYism.
I absolutely love MIR publishers. My interest in science still exists because of the books they published.

here Someone Has uploaded many of the MIR's titles.

https://mirtitles.org/category/mir-publishers/
I don't think you can really compare the implicit "tracking" that occurs with face-to-face interaction with tracking through technology - there's a huge difference in scale. It would be like saying there's no difference between mom and pop shops and Walmart because they both just sell commodities.
"Tons" of development is not a couple thousand apartments here and there.

"Tons" of development would instead be 100 thousand housing units.

The places that you mentioned are not building a hundred thousand housing units.
When did you perform the test? Can you remember what MongoDB version you were using?
I have PhD in physics. Now working in IT startup team of five coders from various academic backgrounds. Been doing everything from app development to web, admin/ops, some elixir, lots of python. Currently working on a few machine learning projects, collecting data, making features, scaling infrastructure and so on.

Salary is decent, everything is moving a lot faster than at uni. Wouldn't say I miss academia as such, but I definitely miss working on actual fundamental physics problems.

I might go back some day to apply my new knowledge of operational data science. There's definitely a need for updated methods, especially in data heavy fields such as astrophysics.

Edit: To answer your question about what's better outside academia - I'd say for me it's the tighter collaboration with colleagues, better project management, clearer goals, more diverse team (in terms of educational background / role in company), and last but not least job security - I can live where I want, not where the next postdoc happens to be.
Judging from the following line "Keanu does it all the time", I guess you can get credit for it you just have to donate anonymously and then have others tell people about it :)
I had a hardback of a soviet childrens book, which had a long story by Sergei Mikhalkhov called "Disobedience Holiday". Now thinking about it, it was as an allegory about the west in the same vein as "Animal Farm" was an allegory about the Soviets.

I think this is one of the things many in the third world started to be deprived off, following the Fall, inexpensive but very well made hardbacks printed in the USSR. The very smell of the ink and paper was something special, compared with locally made books.

The Chinese also had started printing cheap books for other countries in the third world, but they never could match the scope and scale of what USSR was doing.

And there seems to be an even older tradition of tiny pocket hardbacks mostly printed from England, small enough to fit almost in the palm of the hand, of classic novels majorly. I have managed to pick up a few at second hand sellers. I thought I'll write a blog post about them sometime, but I never came around to it.
Different cities different problems. Manhattan is expensive because its covered in tall buildings (minus central park) and more or less 'full'. SF on the other hand, and even more so the bay area in general, has massive amount of open space (parking lots, land preserves, etc.) in addition to large amounts of detached single family homes. Specifically in the bay area, greasing the political and regulatory wheels is so onerous that upscaling these homes and parking lots is expensive, so comparatively few dwellings are built relative to demand (see: Manhattan-esque pricing at some fraction of the density).
Well, sort of. They do have a meaning. It’s probably not an easily findable or understandable concept to humans. If you hypothetically had a large labeled corpus for a bunch of different features, you could create linear regressions over the embedding space to find vectors that do represent exactly (perhaps not uniquely) the meaning you’re looking for... and from that you could imagine a function that transforms the existing embedding space into an organized one with meaning.
Condensed matter physics PhD student here, working on ultrafast electron diffraction.

The field of ultrafast science brought forward by the advances in ultrafast laser technology (Nobel 2018!) is exploding. On the largest scales, the Linac Coherent Light Source and similar machines are generating a lot of buzz. It hasn't yet reached the public recognition of the LHC, for example, but it's only a matter of years.

A colleague of mine was just hired as a data scientist at a major tech company. Based on the interview questions I heard from him, it seems that the data science field is a natural extension of the kind of data analysis we perform daily.
Layoffs happen; these kind of whiny twitter rants aren't really helpful for anyone.
Rent control is a terrible idea for the exact reason prop 13 is - it reduces mobility and flexibility for everyone, and completely screws over anybody new (immigrants, young people, people who get unlucky and their landlord happened to want to move back into their house, etc).

Even further, it allows a lot of people to completely ignore the high prices, so people benefit from these things, keep voting to block new construction and ignore the housing supply problems and make the jobs/housing imbalance worse, and prices just go up even faster.
PhD in Experimental Neutrino Physics (2018), now a Data Scientist at a growing start-up.

The transition was an easy one for me as I found a particle physics collaboration shares many characteristics with a start-up.

One thing to note is that responses here will be biased towards physics people that are more interested in the tech side than the physics side.
They actually update this in the newer builds so you can finally set per-user volume controls, after years of hating on that :)
"Starting in 2013, when Backpage’s growth stalled, Salesforce took on the web portal as a client and provided tools to help manage its “trafficker and pimp database,” resulting in Backpage’s resurgence, according to the complaint. The lawsuit includes an order form billed to Backpage that’s dated in December 2016."
... plus a massive stamp duty on the transfer ...
>I can't think of ever reading about a society where the right to marry and start a family was not a part of it

There are societies (studied by ethnologists) that don't marry -- the children are raised by the community.
We tend to overestimate change in the short term and underestimate it in the long term. It's true that it'll probably take longer than we may like to resolve this situation, but in the end it'll probably be resolved more thoroughly and strongly than you'd have guessed.

As it is, even just where we are with the HN gestalt's opinion would have been difficult to imagine two years ago. It's slow, but it's a very strong opinion change. Another couple of years and having Facebook on your resume may be a problem getting your next job, who knows.
Mortgage is high, and we could put that money to better use but that's not it. We have yard service, laundry service, weekly cleaning service. But still the maintenance is stressful and overwhelming. 6500 sq. ft of space we mostly don't use. 3 HVAC units. Boat dock, so glad we sold the boat. I long for simpler times. Good years but I don't think I'll miss it much. Too much space fills up with too much stuff that isn't needed. Going through and taking care of stuff takes too much time. All the little things add up. One thing I now know is that space and stuff own you. Need more freedom.
This is the same as the alarm clock problem. When a user creates an event, what does that user _mean_? In the alarm clock example, what should happen if I've set my alarm clock 7am and then travel to a different time zone? In the conference event example, what should happen if the local time zone rules change, or daylight savings time comes into force? Did the event organiser print marketing materials that said "starts at 1000 UTC" or "starts at 10am" with a "in the local time zone" implication?

Events generally need to be locked to _something_ - whether that is UTC or a local time zone depends on the application.

The iCalendar standard (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5545) generally gets this right.
Is this a Curb Your Enthusiasm reference?
This point of view only makes sense if there is a strong limit on the number of homes that can be built. This is not the case. Both SF & NY can easily build many many more homes simply by building up. The fact that they, for the most part, aren't doing so is a much much much bigger problem than a few empty homes here and there (as a % it's still a very very small number).
> And it would also be nice of "journalists" would differentiate between prostitution and sex trafficking. The cops, of course, are using the most inflammatory term possible to justify their actions.

This is a civil suit, not criminal, brought by women who claimed they were abused by traffickers, which was enabled by Salesforce.

I can't find a single reference to the police in this piece, and the article clearly states that the plaintiffs allege trafficking in their case. So the piece is exactly correct to use the term "trafficking".
What happens to me if I photograph it and live in another country?

Can France extradite me?
What an amazing illustration of how humor can be lost across language boundaries. You have to have experience in both English and Chinese to know how hilarious that statement is. It's genius to write it in English and deliver it so deadpan to readers who won't know to laugh out loud when they see it.
+1 for Braintree. We have used several different payment providers over the years, including PayPal alone. We switched to Braintree back when they were offering $50K in free payment transactions.

The payment integration was straightforward, and getting built-in support for PayPal (which accounts for 16% of our sales) and the ability to safely vault payment methods made it a no-brainer.
If you really cared about how many seconds have passed since 1970-01-01, you'd need to use TAI not UTC.
Wow.. wow.. there are others who have read the same things. :)

The hydro pneumatic rocket!

I tried to find Mir publishers books about 10 years ago. Apparently Mir got bought out and publishing ceased.

Another gem is "Fun with maths and physics" by Ya Perelman. It's available in a cheap reprint now, nothing that matches the original Mir publishers book.
An AMP developer confirmed two things:

1. Setting Gmail to not automatically load external images will also ensure Dynamic Email (AMP for Email) is disabled by default as well.

2. The specific Dynamic Email setting should be "rolled out to all users over the next few weeks".
For GPL'd software you're required to share your changes, for open source software you aren't. That's a big difference, especially for a business that wants to sell their changes.

So when people say open source is business friendly, they don't mean that the vibe is business friendly, they mean that it removes a restriction and allows more avenues to make money.
This is a great idea. If you manage to pull this off you'd gain extremely valuable experience that would allow you to easily transition later on.
> As a starting example, here's some code that Miri reports as violating Rust's rules for references

So...this was determined statically? Or "statically"? If there's no/few false positives could this be used as a check in rustc? Or clippy?

BTW for this one specifically, why can't we look at the AST and see that a and b alias?

EDIT: I guess it's because it's lost in the deref/take addr?
> You should strive to make better choices, even if they are imperfect.

Definitely. If some unachievable ideal of perfectionism is preventing us from doing anything at all, it's quite harmful.

> What is better for animal well being may be worse for the environment (plastics in lieu of leather), and vice versa (forest clearing for Palm oil plantations).

This claim is often used as an argument to stay away from soy products even though the amounts of (mostly GM) soy used to feed livestock are larger by an order of magnitude.
Human beings did not evolve to live in a population density of sixty thousand people per square mile. The fact urbanization is increasing even while larger and larger chunks of the economy become location-agnostic as they move online is insane.
you could still interchange the dimensions arbitrarily. You can't say "dimension 1 = happiness", a re-training would not replicate that, and would not necessarily produce a dimension for "happiness" at all.
I went to production with Mongo and it exceeded my expectations. It operated without a single issue for years under high load. It was a dream to administer and a vital piece of a multimillion dollar franchise.

Everybody else I know, however, has had nothing but headaches.

They’re the same reasons I’ve seen people fail at using Cassandra, Redis, or Spanner. If you can’t adjust to the limitations and paradigm shift, you get no benefits. And an ORM often makes everything worse.

The “no” in NoSQL doesn’t seem to stop people from modeling join relationships in Redis, or chaining distributed queries with fully consistent writes on Cassandra.

I’m on a project right now, where a developer has selected an ORM for PostgreSQL that forgoes joins. They’ve managed to generate about 100 queries, in one case, where a single query is all that’s needed. 2ms vs. 800+ms. That individual is incapable of using something more complicated. Substituting Mongo as-is will make everything worse, and they’ll triumphantly proclaim how terrible NoSQL is and then write an article.

I feel confident using Mongo for any task. I don’t feel confident letting most of my peers use it.

There are a LOT of legitimate gripes, but no article I’ve read mentions them. It’s always the same superficial complaints from ten years ago. If you can’t get past those, choose another tool. End. Of. Story.
I agree that the FLOSS culture and the techbro culture are distinct. However, they both have a misogyny problem. Being anti-authoritarian does not mean that you automatically have great gender politics. (And, there can be fundamental disagreements about what "anti-authoritarian" means. I think esr thinks he's anti-authoritarian, but to me, he's quite authoritarian.)
The rants make perfect sense in a world that expects every disagreement to be adjudicated in the court of public opinion.
Is it normal for an ex-employer to help laid-off employees find new jobs? I would never expect that.
It's not the start?

I can't figure out what you think the story is about.
Protests Against: All Cities, Dates and Numbers of Participants Across Europe
In the right ballpark but it would be about 4 billion people in Texas, which is roughly half the world's population.

On the other hand, at the density of Manila, you could fit the entire population of the planet into Ohio.
S3cp – simple, standalone AWS S3 copy utility for minimal docker containers
Quotes on Remote Work, Digital Nomadism, and Work-Life Balance
To aggressively build housing. But this requires local politics to cordially ignore the calls to keep the status-quo. In many places, it isn't possible. :/
BS in Applied Physics. I work at a national lab (9 years now, since I was 25) on astrophysics projects in a Physics division, but mostly I work on software for data management, workflow management, data access, databases (multi-petabyte distributed and otherwise), and sys admin stuff. Lots of python and java, lots of kubernetes as of late. I occasionally drop down to working on things related to data pipelines, mostly working on improving some internal software interop with pandas. I don’t really touch science code, but the math background still helps, and is sometimes required. Sometimes still have to deal with ROOT.

The physics background means that, even if I don’t understand the exact science of why my coworkers are working on, they don’t have to worry about explaining everything to me.

Even my boss forgets I don't have a PhD. There's a huge need for people that are really good at software development (relatively speaking) that don't get tripped up by the physics, whatever it is.
I bet hedge fund pays significantly more too, no?
>...and you're a US company (cherry on top.)...

This isn't, implicitly, true. The EU played this game very well and came out on top. Let me explain: The US companies like to off-shore their profits through so-called tax-haven countries, Ireland being chief amongst those[0].

In response to the tax-haven laws in the US of last year (or the year prior, I forget), many companies made their "official" european headquarters in Ireland, which is still under the EU.

So, even though they're "US companies", the companies impacted would be european entities, which are legally separate and bound to the EU jurisdictions.

Put succinctly: By the US companies trying to have their cake and eat it, too, they fell into a quagmire of having their "partners" bound by far stricter laws than exists in the US. Thus, the companies affected, aren't "US companies", in the legal sense of the word. :)

(Sorry for the long-winded response.)

[0] - https://www.quora.com/Why-have-Google-and-Facebook-chosen-Du...
Zoning enough housing to meet demand.
It's an interesting question, but I'm not sure this is the constant trend.

I just looked up home ownership rates by age group: https://www.census.gov/housing/hvs/data/charts/fig07.pdf

The only group that doesn't seem to have declined in the last 15 years is 65 and over.

This is where I think the large size of the US and the tons of domestic migration won't really make inheriting a home as common as you would find in most of the world.

Anecdotally, I know nobody that I went to high school with that is remotely close to our home town - we all left. This is roughly 50 people, and I'm sure that all of them, like me, would not think twice about selling any property inherited from parents.
Leaders are not effective if all they do is throw work over the wall expecting other people to do it. That's the quickest way to isolate yourself and is why managers often don't know what's going on in times of problems. It's also the quickest way to get employees to hate you because they view you as useless.

And this is especially true when its a task managers should be responsible for, like hiring people.

If the point is to make them have no job, then why are they even needed in the first place?
Writing DDLs are hard when you don’t know in advanced what the schema is or the schema is changing frequently.

A lot of things “become popular” but that doesn’t necessarily mean they are good.
EU Parliament votes to end daylight savings
Researchers: It takes 1.5 MB of data to store language information
Why would someone who wants you out help you find another job?

What kind of mess is in the head of a person that thinks everyone owes them a helping hand?
Manhattan is nowhere near full. There are huge swaths of the city that don't have tall buildings due to overly restrictive building codes. #UpzoneTheWestVillage
Elections are coming.
Citizens United wasn't the decision equating money with speech. I don't know offhand which that was, but it was much earlier.

IIRC, Citizens United was the decision that allowed much more and much more opaque spending on political campaigns by corporations and wealthy individuals—it allowed the creation of SuperPACs, for instance.