skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most people in the middle of the city won’t get their dream home, there can only be so many penthouses. But at least they’d be able to afford to live there, and not be shut out of the economic opportunities that cities provide.

And as another commenter mentioned, the current density of SF is incredibly low. One and two story buildings cover much of the area. Even if it just looked like Paris (wall to wall 5 story buildings), SF could house many times the number of people it currently does.

Zoning rules and NIMBYism are the main reasons for the housing crisis.
Having worse sanitation than the Roman Empire is not comparable to the inevitable breakdown of human form that comes with age.

Platitudes are cheap.

Examine a statement to see if it's logic bears out before saying that it's impossible to approach safely.

Formal education is helpful in treating the root cause of the problem it's addressing, that of knowledge and skill.

Complaining disposable plastic bags are necessary for sanitation because of a large homeless society doesn't treat the root: Why are so many people homeless? (And yes, that problem is difficult and requires a multi-faceted approach... But plastic bags to pick up human shit isn't the solution.)
And curbing massive amounts of spam and just vitriol. Communities without strict moderation end up as cesspools.
Maybe cold solder on a component on the mobo. Heat expands the joint slightly making a connection, cold temperature makes the contact points contract away from each other, breaking the connection. I had a similar issue with an LCD dashboard display in my car, resoldering fixed it.
We've already asked you not to post ideological flamebait to HN. If you want to have generic ideological arguments, please do that on another site. Because such discussions are predictable, they do not count as interesting and therefore are off topic here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Doesn’t spam automatically clear out emails older than a month? You might be missing some if you don’t check very often.
> When someone breaches your online account

The bank will seek to see who/what was at fault. If you handed someone your passwords etc, they carry no responsibility and kiss that 50k goodbye. Your pin/passwords are yours and yours alone. You should protect them. At least in the UK there have been plenty of cases were people were tricked to hand in their passwords. They never got anything back from the banks.

If someone breaks in physically and steals the contents of your safety deposit box they will hunt-them-down. If you come forth and you say "I know who it was, I helped him/her as part of a pen-test" then you are going down with them.
I found Google restaurant reviews in NYC to be generally very inflated. You'd think couple hundred reviews averaging out to be 4.6+ would mean pretty good experience, but I've learned to dial back my expectation.
The fact that it doesn’t interact should make it less likely to fall in as it still has intertia (apparently).
Their postmaster tools don't show anything up at low volumes. I'm a freelance consultant, and my mail volume is very low. Usually setting up contracts, and sending out invoices. Not much else. My mail volume is too low to show up there.

I don't send out bulk or promotional emails, I use SPF and DKIM, and I've still seen a lot go to spam. My mail is hosted by FastMail, not a home server.
Sooooo you decide to log a call ...

Hardware description, OS (and version), software installed, etc etc before we even start to think about it.

Bugger that: cost your time at say £20 per hour (I'm thinking of a reasonably good techy take home in a reasonably rich economy). Now do a cost/benefit analysis ..... buy a new motherboard, fit it and delete the blog post.

Don't forget that the ambient temperature may also correlate with say humidity or some other parameter. Buy a new mobo and delete the post and move on unless you are prepared to really go to town with a decent investigation 8)
It is known that certain types of galaxies can have less dark matter than others. I believe that jury is still out. I'm a little concerned by how many people "believe" there is dark matter. This adds a bias to the proposed solutions and the funding for each. It leads me to be a little skeptical when I hear that dark matter is being found and whatnot through the speed of stars. I'd love for research to be more balanced since the phenomena can be explained through more hypothesise than just increased mass.
Doesn't this duplicate the effort of HHVM?
I would start by checking all the capacitors if they are in good condition (i.e not inflated). Then maybe search for a bad solder point.
this but unironically
My Sony PS3 3D Display has the well-known problem where its screen shuts off for a few seconds every once in a while. I noticed it got significantly worse this winter, when I opened the window for some fresh air.

Did a few tests, and sure enough, if the room temperature is below 22C and the screen has been on for about 10 minutes, then it starts to shut off frequently. My guess is the ambient temperature is causing some metal component to contract and break a connection.
What would you require for verification?
We need exactly that for the really big environmental problem - global warming. So far it's not great, only Europe has a CO2 credits system and while it's designed to be plugged into a global system they're mostly a joke.

But then the appeal of the likes of Green New Deals are stealing away the attention.
He butchered that theory. There are more elegant and contextually accurate ways to express it.
Also of note, it appears to be a mostly (if not entirely) C++ codebase.
My computer still has a screensaver, so they’re not completely dead :)
really? Based on otherwise pristine reputation for Yelp?
Was the value you found use-value (ie. the software did something useful) or was the value to you more along the lines of "instructional" (ie. you learned something useful from studying it)?

Because I've found that use-value often decays (or bit-rots) pretty quickly in unmaintained software, sometimes due to nothing more than changing packaging requirements.
A Modest Response to Mark Zuckerberg
> you're always free not to use that service

Unless that service has monopoly power. SGX makes it far too easy for an entity to abuse monopoly power, by directly turning it into power over what their customers have to run. This is why this sort of thing should only ever be done via physical devices - "monopoly" over a single, dedicated device is far more obvious and less insidious.
Need some love here for AOLServer and TCL. Got "Philip & Alex's Guide to Web Publishing" and within two weeks had a major Mutual Fund company up on the web. The CICS interface was a little wonky, but it worked and worked well.

I do things now with Wordpress, since that grew and was maintained past AOL server. I always look forward to improvements in PHP, the last few releases have made huge strides in page load times
So this is where it gets frustrating. When I'm heading to a new city for business meetings (which happens often) Google is great about auto-magically surfacing restaurant names close to where I will be. It's much faster and easier to use than Yelp.

But Google's "reviews" aren't really reviews at all. They're one-liners that people type into their phones, without telling me anything about local specialties or WHY some particular dish was good or bad. (What's "too spicy" for someone might be just what I want, etc.)

The best Yelp reviews are really informative. They're quirky and opinionated, but that's part of the fun of reading them. I routinely collect a couple Google-generated names and then look up the places on Yelp to get the real deal.

I understand that Yelp's sales team plays dodgy games with merchants to "fix" negative reviews, or to shake down merchants who don't buy ads. Wish they didn't.

But from a consumer standpoint, a seriously flawed Yelp is still more useful than a deluge of momentary burps from a Google system that is practically insight-free.
Why should I believe a self post? There's a weird anti-Yelp cult but never can the people who claim Yelp is involved with nefarious business practices provide any actual proof.

Yelp employees don't know about these practices.

Yelp says it doesn't have these practices.

And these people can't ever offer substantive evidence for the outrage porn they're writing.

I'm thoroughly convinced after reading countless of these types of posts that the anti-Yelp sentiment is purely born out of salty business owners who don't like the fact that they get terrible reviews from an experienced audience.

This post does not belong on HN. There is nothing worth discussing about this story except to fulfill someone's outrage porn fetish.
> I'd love for research to be more balanced since the phenomena can be explained through more hypothesise than just increased mass.

Such as?
We just had to warn you about personal attacks a few days ago. If you continue to cross into incivility on HN, we're going to end up having to ban you. Could you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and fix this?

Your comment also broke the guideline that asks you not to complain about votes. If you think you see abuse on HN, email us at hn@ycombinator.com instead. I looked at the data on your comments upthread and found no evidence of abuse. Everyone who voted was a long-established user.
One doesn't need to fake news, merely to point out history:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/confirmed-the-us-...

https://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/30/us/homeland-security-give...
Its not just enough to make money, you have to make increasingly more money every year.
Rent-stabilized tenants are receiving implict or explict taxpayer subsidies. Why is it unreasonable for restrictions to be placed on their use of the property, when the government places restrictions on the landlord's use of the property (through rent-stabilization laws)?
Only within the same market.

The same apartment in Manhattan will cost more than in Houston. The same mixed drink costs more at a fancy restaurant as at a dive bar.

Demand is as relative to price as supply is. There is a lower demand for developers in Topeka, and so the cost of developers is lower as a result.
The README here is a model (or perhaps a superfluity) of modesty. This person has, apparently, written a complete OS from the metal up to a usable GUI, single-handed, AND done it in about 6 months -- at least, the oldest commit in the Kernel branch is October 2018. Well, I'm impressed, anyway.
> but I believe that there is interest in private and public markets to get hands on a stack that starts with a higher security threshold compared with what we have now.

There's certainly some interest, in some parts of industry.

NASA [0] has an FPGA board they made to be more rugged, for CubeSats, which had multiple layers for preventing program corruption. I'd be shocked if it had a backdoor into it, and would expect parts of the system would make it more resistant to tampering.

Unfortunately, I also expect that if any chip becomes something popular among consumers, state actors will push their weight and get their weaknesses.

[0] https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experime...
Sure there are bad landlords in NYC, but there stereotype of the small cheap landlord trying to harass rent-stabilized tenants has not been my experience or that of others I've talked to here. In what way are these landlords harassing tenants? I believe NYC law is one of the most favorable to tenants.
> the big hangup for me is most sites don't put the full article in the feed'

If you're using Android, check out gReader Pro. You can have it automatically download and store the full articles for later reading.

I also run my own RSS aggregator, tt-rss (this is how I replaced Google News after Google ruined it). tt-rss has a plugin that will also download and store the full articles for later reading. It provides its own RSS feed as well as a web interface.
> Do you remember how long ago this was? I'm still hoping this is a solvable problem since I really want IPFS to work.

This was around two years ago. I hope it'll get solved too, but it doesn't seem to have been solved yet.

> I wonder why they designed it like that.

I guess it was just easier, but they haven't done anything in years. The ticket has been open since 2016: https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/issues/3054
Innovations in Scientific Publishing
hey, World ! I dont want a self-driving car with tracking ! thank you
You have the skills to diagnose this sort of thing but I suspect that a mere Unix sysadmin (soz: "herder") doesn't.

For the likes of Chris and me: put in a new mobo and move on, is surely the fix that any techy would do.
For majority of backend web project, in 2019, there should be nearly no technical advantage re: one language over another among all the popular ones. (i.e. the ones you listed: PHP, Ruby, Python. I would argue to use pure nodejs over Typescript though. Most people underestimate the dev flow speed it gives you to not to have a compile/transpile step. Refresh and rerun is part of what made PHP so popular years ago.)

In short, use whatever you're comfortable with. If you're super proficient with PHP, keep using it. If Python is that language for you, use Python.
How does comments at the bottom make scrolling harder?
Gypsy Rose, Dee Dee Blanchard and the Act
WordPress theme provider Pipdig using customer sites to DDoS competitors
This sounds like a misleading / high-pressure sales call, but if you read into it carefully there's nothing that indicates to me anything illegal, scammy, or even anything that would back up the claim that Yelp penalizes businesses that don't advertise.

A charitable interpretation is that the salesperson is basically claiming there were 21,000 searches the business showed up in, where they could have been shown at the top if they advertised.
This article is a great idea, but I think it relies too much on the headings to convey information and it could use much better examples.

The result is a vague article that could be vastly improved by driving home the point after each example.

For example:

> People want vastly cheaper prices launching stuff into orbit and deep space, ya know?

That's the entire text under the example heading.

This doesn't tell me why specifically SpaceX isn't a viable lean startup idea, nor does it tell me what happens if I go ahead anyway and try to build a lean startup around it. Nor does it say specifically what model SpaceX is or isn't using instead.

There are actually way too many Elon Musk ventures in this article. I get the same feeling reading about these companies as a get reading about Apple. Unique in just about every way, and probably not applicable to what you're doing.
Tesla self-driving is like Theranos.

A big fake-until-you-make promise that gambles with peoples lives, in exchange for some hype and funding.
I use Symfony 4 and like it. Clear config organisation, class based controller with logic and route embedded together. Twig the templating engine is nice and doctrine is a very powerful ORM.
Good time as ever to mention that Foursquare is still great in every big city I try it in.
I don't carry around a backpack or anything like that, no, and my pockets are pretty full between my phone, wallet, and keys.
I have almost never found anything of interest in spam for many years. Maybe none, i can't remember a single instance.
In the early years, yes there had been a few.
I mean you could look at it as a 20 channel logic analyzer for free...
> she is likely to catch up after too many years, and then pass the formally educated that aren't so inclined.

I'm not sure about this. It seems to me that this really downplays the value of attending a good university.

Speaking for myself, I really can't imagine 'catching up with myself' had I not gone to university.

I wouldn't have developed my writing skills. I likely wouldn't have seen what proper grown-up mathematics looks like. I wouldn't have seen how academics work, up close. I can't honestly say I would likely have studied the various dry-but-valuable topics that universities are known for. I'd probably have a much harder time reading computer science research papers.

Additionally, universities teach students how to learn independently. I don't think this should be underestimated.

> If you want someone for a six month stint, go self taught

Well, kinda. If you want someone for a six month stint, and your choice is somehow between a green-horn graduate and a seasoned developer who never went to university, then sure, you're probably best off with the experienced developer.

(Assuming of course that the problem domain doesn't require any particular technical specialism.)

There's a reason large companies run training programmes for fresh graduates: they want people with formal training and the necessary working knowledge.

> If your company is using the tournament model and you churn through juniors in two or three years on average, go with CS grads

I'm sure this happens, but I'm not sure it makes any sense. I know it's the norm for software professionals to move jobs every few years to get the raise they deserve, but I'm not convinced this is in the interests of the employers. They have spend considerable effort bringing their replacement up to speed.

> If you are looking to invest in employees for the long term, go with lifelong learners regardless of credentials

I don't follow. Credentials reflect expertise and achievement, it's just that they aren't the whole picture. Do Google recruiters discount the grades of their applicants? No, they're looking for top-flight hires, and grades are an important part of that.
Do all employees have equal equity?
I still use PHP a lot.

PHP's problems are largely user driven.

What drove you away in 2004 is likely still there.

The community is still full of people who have no idea.

Laravel is still king.

Noun driven OO is still perceived as a good idea.

But on the flip side, the language has some nice features now and performance got a big boost too.

Still a couple of things missing but it's getting there.
It's nice you are interested in this topic.

So why don't you look into it and make your opinion from the facts?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2018/12/18/chinas-in...

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/22/world/asia/taiwan-electio...
> Joe Biden is pedophile this time!

There seems to be a coordinated push against Biden, driven hard through the entirety of mainstream press at the moment. People who have been quiet for decades are coming out of the woodwork to #metoo the guy. I guess whoever owns the DNC really doesn't want him to run. By the looks and sheer force of the hit job, it seems that HRC (or someone of equal political weight) might run again.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1809.02603.pdf
The conclusion is the same though: Inequality means inefficiency if the goal is happiness.
Here in San Francisco, we use a paper shopping bag with a flimsy biodegradable plastic bag wrapped around the bottom as a compost bag (the outer bag keeps in water/grease and keeps the paper bag from falling apart). The SF compost bin accepts a wide variety of material, and as a result we don’t generate much landfill trash.
I've directly noticed Yelp penalizing a local restaurant down in their search results for a key term and when I asked them about it, they told a nearly identical story to what this Reddit poster describes.

They had paid for Yelp advertising, and after deciding to stop suddenly their search result priority dropped, bad reviews were prioritized in their profile, and good reviews started being removed.
The fatal Tesla crash into a highway barrier a while back was because of faded highway markings.

Many localities can barely keep the lines painted. Many more have all sorts of adverse weather conditions (e.g., snow and slush) that make road markings hard to see. The chances of this being a workable solution, at least in the US, is nil.
Good to know! My funds generate relatively small capital gains distributions (most of what I see on my 1099's is from dividends) so I never noticed it.

Edit: Though now that you mention it, I think I must've known this at some point in the past: that ETFs had preferential tax treatment. A while back, I moved my most recent investments to ETFs, even for the "same" fund (example: Vanguard Tech VITAX mutual fund vs VGT ETF) ...

Still, how are ETFs treated differently from a stock?
Yep, came here to suggest cold solder too. Would be entirely unsurprising.
But what faster way to discover which applications to remove than by deleting /etc/machine-id?
Hi Ganesh, I couldn't find a direct email from your profile.

We resell name brands on Amazon, we work with brands to resell their products on Amazon. One of the most often request is MAP violator takedowns, we need a way to monitor brand's listings on Amazon to find people who violate MAP pricing.

Another request is sales opportunity. Like what listings could use improvement, and what listings can use more adspend. With Amazon, you can reverse engineer a lot of this stuff, it's presenting it to the brand in a seamless manner that's the hard part. I'd be happy to discuss more. You can get my email in my profile.
There are many cases of yelp doing these actions (we obviously don't have the source code as hard proof):

https://dfw.cbslocal.com/2018/01/09/yelp-accused-hiding-posi...

https://raymondfong.net/a-candid-yelp-advertising-review-is-...

https://www.searchenginejournal.com/yelp-filter-positive-rev...
> This doesn't tell me why specifically SpaceX isn't a viable lean startup idea, nor does it tell me what happens if I go ahead anyway and try to build a lean startup around it. Nor does it say specifically what model SpaceX is or isn't using instead.

Alright sure. SpaceX would make a bad lean startup because the main hypothesis they were trying to validate is whether it was feasible for a private US company to launch things to space using an affordable system, and the scrappiest possible way to validate that still required tons of effort and burning $100M+.
> The comparison of trash bags to reuising a cotton bag 327 times doesn't make sense as that's not generally something one would do.

They're saying: "Compared to plastic shopping bags which are also reused as trash bags, you'd have to reuse a shopping bag (just for shopping) 327 times before there's any carbon reduction."
Who cares how those bags end up there?

To figure it out and then properly enforce you'd need spend resources that could be better used elsewhere.
It's not just Google, sadly. We have a noticeable level of problems with big name mail services and major ISPs silently dropping messages, including messages we are legally required to send. This remains the case even though we're sending through reputable mail servers, SPF is set up, etc.

The likes of Google and Microsoft have applied embrace-extend-extinguish to possibly the most important communications medium of modern terms, successfully making it less reliable than it has ever been for sending legitimate, actually important stuff. They really should be strongly and publicly criticised for that. False positives in spam detection are, for the most part, more damaging than false negatives.
If the internet has taught me anything, it will be full of Swastikas and penises the moment you get above a certain critical mass of users.
Serverless Aurora is dirt cheap for low usage scenarios.

https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/serverless/
sounds like a good time to start using a bag!
How you implement these systems matters. GM super-cruise (not to be confused with Cruise automation) uses HD mapping + GNSS + visual queues and could potentially do better due to having priors from the map. Tesla's approach that doesn't utilize a map is likely more susceptible.

https://www.wired.com/story/cadillac-super-cruise-ct6-lidar-...

https://www.cadillac.com/world-of-cadillac/innovation/super-...
You can selectively hit areas with cold spray (i.e. duster turned upside down). Could be a bad/oxidized connector, cracked solder joint, tombstoned part. Only worth diagnosing it for curiosity.