skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If only the naysayers of development as a solution bothered to do research on how Asian cities (esp Tokyo) develop to get ideas to apply to cities in the west.
Yeah, I'd rather pay 0$ and use VirtualBox or VMWare instead.
The amount of housing in the most expensive housing market in the world is going down because of lack of capital? That passes a sanity check for you?

Or maybe the regulations are so insane you spend millions in legal fees before you even have a glimmer of hope and eventually say “this isn’t worth it.”
And yet, the same people keep getting elected.

Whose fault is it?
Square leased it at the end of last year and if this[1] article is to be believed, they won't move in until end of this year at the earliest.

[1]: https://sf.curbed.com/2018/12/21/18151762/square-uptown-stat...
I think it's telling that those in tech, including billionaire execs like Jobs, were/are very sensitive to the usage of tech devices by their kids. Addiction to games, news, apps, entertainment is real, but that's only half the issue. It fosters this itch where we can't linger on uncomfortable thoughts without instinctively grabbing our phone to be distracted. This include when we're trying to really go deep on a subject matter that could take a long time to grok.

I credit a lot of changes I made over the last few years to courses like Learning How to Learn (Oakley, Sejnowski) and books like Deep Work (Newport) and Mastery (Greene) in helping to bring me back to realize the importance of uninterrupted blocks of hard, focused work. That coupled with moments of quiet time away from devices so that I can let my mind kind of just wander and process life has made life actually more fulfilling.

I quit Facebook, Twitter, and only check Instagram once every few days. I'm not totally 'clean' since I'll still spend time on YouTube and Reddit during moments of frustration, but I think it's important not to beat oneself up when one 'cheats.' After all, it's not completely a new phenomenon. There's always been things like books, newspapers, TV, radio to distract our attention.

But maybe it just feels a bit different since some of the smartest people in the world are working everyday to make sure we're looking at the thing they're working on in a very calculated fashion. That plus the fact that sometimes it feels like you're supposed to know so much of what's going on in the world and environment around you. But really, so many topics are so much more complicated than a simple cursory look that it feels kind of fruitless to jump into it when it realistically takes hundreds of hours to truly understand it.
That incredible!
We are in the process of going through this but have not yet received the confirmation that our scope is approved.

This process was a huge surprise for us. We are a bootstrapped startup that spent a significant amount of time building the Gmail integration last year before this was announced. We are launching shortly and have had to remove the entire integration. We have no idea how much it is going to cost or if we will be approved.

We are launching a product in a mature market with lots of competitors (hence the long initial development time), one of those being Google. According to Wikipedia, Gmail has ‎1.4 billion customers. I don't understand how this got past their lawyers - 1) monopoly in e-mail space, 2) create other products tightly integrated, 3) charge a $15k - $75k fee to any new competitors in your space.
>Perhaps he's considering using the Delta for FHeavy as the first stage booster and building the upper stage{s} himself. Either way, its great to have someone pushing for more progress.

In the past they've talked about launching Blue Moon on SLS. Not that I expect that to launch real payloads by 2024...
That’s exactly what I was getting at... The best is watching it with your kids...they can’t take it lol.
>Microsoft took mobile-first too literally

Server 2012.
I don't think containers are supported on Android.

But it did take a few days for the Android fix to be released on Google Play, so it was more annoying than on the desktop.
I'm not sure what kind of connection you are trying to make here.
$3700 a month is my rent for a large one bedroom condo in Rincon Hill, SF, with my own parking spot in the building. If you think that making $95k more doesn't tell you anything then you're bad at math. Even if housing costs 3x, the rest is effectively surplus. Why on earth do you think you only get a cardboard box for that money btw? I live in luxury for that price.
This seems to be new as of January 15, 2019.

https://developers.google.com/terms/api-services-user-data-p...

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/g-suite/elevating-use...
Really cool. “Analysis by synthesis “ way can probably increase the performance of networks. I am looking at autonomous driving scenarios where it can remove false object detections.
Related to this: Mozilla has deleted Telemetry data for those users who enabled Telemetry to get the hot-fix [1]

[1] https://twitter.com/firefox/status/1126593558490693632
That's an incredibly alarmist statement without any clear backing in the medical literature.
I 100% agree with this. Now that geographic barriers are coming down, you have to offer something unique and specialized. This is an incredible trend.

It forces people to come up with unique and better products for particular use cases. It allows people in poor underdeveloped areas to have access to global markets.

For my company for example, we work in Southern Oregon (one of the least industrially developed places on the West Coast), we have a support team in Costa Rica, a designer in India and we sell products nationally that people cannot find locally.
Its kind of in line with the rest of Bezo's other companies' UI/UX.

Most Amazon apps are generally pretty fugly too (at least IMO).
I'm not sure what you mean by the "star from one table, specific columns from another" issue... if I'm understanding correctly I'm pretty sure MySQL allows just that.

Division by zero errors and non-"magical" GROUP BY have been the default mode of operation for a _little_ longer, since the 5.7 series.
Getting falsely accused if a grave crime, and doing time in jail, is a true 1st world ruin event. Dying of starvation, or curable diseases, losing your family to war, in many places. Losing your phone number is not.

You devalue the meaning of "ruin", and minimize the experience of true ruined lives, if you truly mean it. Of course you're free to do so, as I'm free to mock it.
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The 2019 Standard Deduction for married filing jointly is $24.4k.
That would be crazy expensive.
I worked as a Foxpro programmer for 18 years. I later switched to the Clojure language for 8 years. I used the functional programming language Clojure as SuperFoxpro, which is very easy to use and enjoyable. I has formed a new programming idea ---- `Everything is Foxpro (RMDB)`. ;-)

I advocate: Building a relational data model on top of hash-map to achieve a combination of NoSQL and RMDB advantages. This is actually a reverse implementation of posgtresql.

[Clojure is a functional programming language based on relational database theory](https://github.com/linpengcheng/PurefunctionPipelineDataflow...)

[Everything is RMDB](https://github.com/linpengcheng/PurefunctionPipelineDataflow...)

[Implement relational data model and programming based on hash-map (NoSQL)](https://github.com/linpengcheng/PurefunctionPipelineDataflow...)
You can support a variety of formats in Safari using WebAssembly builds of the decoders. WebAssembly for audio and image formats is more than fast enough. It's even fast enough for VP9 video.

WebP demo: https://webmproject.github.io/libwebp-demo/webp_wasm/index.h...

Theora\VP8\VP9\Opus\Vorbis demo: https://brionv.com/misc/ogv.js/demo/

ogv.js on GitHub: https://github.com/brion/ogv.js
> you believe SQL is insufficient

I don't believe it, is insufficient, as a fact.

Compare

let city = SELECT name
let filter = WHERE id = @id

to

let city = map name
let filter = filter(id = id)
let query = city |> filter

this is to show that SQL, despite being a programming language, can't compose well.

The syntax is not the point.

You can build full apps in forth or lisp (as examples of even more minimal Langs than SQL) but now consider the idea of build a full app in SQL. Without other language making the rest of their limitations.
> I wish Bezos, Allen, Musk, etc. weren't burning their piles of cash

Allen did many things with his pile of cash (though none that I know of directly involved moon trips), but no longer:

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/paul-allen-microsoft-spacesh...
Yes, you're right! It looks like they've pimped out the graphics for the later releases of Parappa.

One of my favorite PS1 games whose designers rightfully said "fuck it, we're just going to draw perspective-incorrect textures" as well as "fuck it, we're just going to simulate newtonian-incorrect physics" in the name of excellent gameplay, is Twisted Metal 2!

Check out the deliciously distorted faces of the buildings along the Boulevards of Paris:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6mB8zlx88g&t=12m38s

Peter Macon, the guy who voiced Axel and Minion in Twisted Metal, now plays Lieutenant Commander Bortus on The Oriville!

https://orville.fandom.com/wiki/Peter_Macon
I love how they paint the picture that certificates "unfortunately expired" as if it were an act of god or something. Surely one cannot see it coming! No mention at all why nobody was checking certificates expiry.
On Android, you already had the xpinstall.signatures.required option without having to install nightly. Linux too. Took me maybe 30 second to fix all my devices.
Note that ISS tourists did months of training to go into space for a few days.
Starship looks like it does because it has to re-enter Earth's atmosphere. If you don't, aerodynamic shells are just dead weight.
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The comments on this post really make me wonder how many people have actually written a UWP app or tried using the API?

I have experience across a heap of stacks... Cocoa, Cocoa Touch, Android, Win32/WinForms/WPF, Web, Xamarin Forms etc... I love UWP. It was pretty ordinary in the first few releases but it has matured well, has great documentation and the UI framework is developed in the open on GitHub.

I am by no means suggesting you could write something like Autocad or Photoshop in UWP; perhaps you could with a rethink of the UI. But UWP is an excellent choice for probably 70-90% of desktop applications, including enterprise LOB that are just forms over data or integrating with an online service of some kind.

If you're drawing your own conclusions based on what you read from others writing (who are likely doing the same) - actually try the framework, you might be pleasantly surprised.

Finally, I think Thurrott has lost the plot. He has been waging this war against UWP for many years now - to the point of a crusade - I just ignore any statement he makes on this.
It was through Verizon. The insurance does not offer such a discount in their traditional offerings. https://www.amica.com/en/products/auto-insurance/discounts.h... you need to get Amica Flexmile to have ODBII data collection.
Here’s the intro to Twin Peaks...

https://youtu.be/i7d0Lm_31BE
It’s a one party town.

We got what we deserve, then.
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This is arguably a deceptive title. Why not something more clear such as, "All Chromebooks will now support containers." Chromebooks are already running a modified Gentoo Linux kernel. They are already "Linux" laptops.

Chromebook users currently employ chroots to run non-Chromium userlands from Debian, Arch, etc. Ideally, they would like to run their own kernel, usually one they get in binary form from those public distributions such Debian, Arch, etc., but also kernels they compile themselves.

It is possible (=good) but still a pain to install one's own kernel on a Chromebook. The Google Corporation could, but is not, making that any easier.

Instead, what is happening here is that they are adding support for containers. Chromebook is still running Google's modified kernel.

Pure coincidence I am sure, but looking at how Microsoft is marketing using the term "Linux" we see the same thing. They like to use the word "Linux", but the user is still running a proprietary kernel. In that case, it is the Windows kernel.

Linux is a kernel. If you cannot compile it yourself and easily install it on your laptop, then whose "Linux laptop" is it, really? The issue is one of control.
Telegram works great, Slack works fine as does Discord. LibreOffice is descent, there are a few Money Manager apps. I'm not a huge fan of GTK or KDE-based apps, but ones developed in React Native and Qt with static binaries, then I really enjoy the quality and having the latest version integrated into my package manager. It is much cleaner to install and remove overall. Containers would help isolate this even more. I really also enjoy having most of my dotfiles in a single location to manage application settings that can be shared for other installs.
No, just somewhat irrelevant. The defeat device was installed on ICE engines to meet emissions and economy standards, standards which don't apply to electric cars. Since Telsa doesn't make any ICE cars, it's as easy to compare a bicycle to Volkswagen versus a Tesla. They're just in completely different conversations when it comes to emissions cheating, since they don't have any regulated emissions.
Lol. We have the most corrupt President in the Federal government and a corrupt to the bone, bought and sold for Congress and you think SF's government is corrupt ? SF government actually responds to their citizen's demands than any other government. If they were actually corrupt, it would be far easier to take developer lobbying money and issue building permits.
> I think the onus is on you to disprove them, not just to merely question their veracity.

This generally is not how reasoned debate occurs. The onus is on the person making an assertion to provide facts supporting it, not on everyone else to disprove an unsourced claim.
I'd really like for this to support accelerated graphics - unfortunately I imagine that would require a comprehensive solution to GPU virtualisation at the DirectX level, which would at least need to be implemented in drivers - if not also supported at the hardware level.

Without that, then the main reason that I'd even be using the subsystem - GPU compute - is unavailable, and I'll need to actually boot into Linux if I want to do anything useful.
seems to be a quite desperate time for north korea supposedly undergoing another famine....how long can this tyranny last I wonder....
Only 10x? How large would Facebook, Uber, or AirBnB be on a 1980’s BBS? an 1880’s telegraph network? a 1780s campfire?

The other examples may have been 10x each but the Internet seems more like 1,000,000x
Handled it very well? That must be the worst hyperbole I have ever seen in a while. It broke extensions suddenly for millions of users. If you went on Firefox.com there was absolutely no news about it. Completely awful lack of communication. You had to find a minuscule banner on the "find a fix" page in order to hear about the problem.

Add to that that the recommended fix was to activate the backdoor of Firefox, thats just a horror story from beginning to the end.

And no admission of guilt anywhere.
I would probably do qt or WPF. For CAD probably a large part in Directx or Win32. But in general the picture for windows desktop apps is very murky. There is no option that really stands out.

If I had to do a windows app I would seriously consider electron. Which is very sad...
That's hilarious, stop.
I'm rather curious about this as well. Maybe he is saying that it is not as user-friendly because it is command-line-based? I have had no issues with it, and it seems it would be simple to make a graphical front-end.
Who leaked this integration test from the facebook codebase?
> What "video formats" have looping as metadata

QuickTime (MOV/MooV)
Sorry by real time systems I just meant systems that do lots of data processing that is generated in real time but don't have super strict latency issues. Not the control system that's running on the oil rig for instance but all of the data processing that is happening downstream on the data the sensors generate.

I can see how that wasn't clear at all. I should have used maybe the term data stream processing applications.

> Go is a nice fit right in the middle between C and Python

Totally agree. I just see it used as a Python replacement more often then a C replacement. And the teams that did seemed to be getting a lot less done than the ones using a Python equivalent language.
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> Mark Zuckerberg cannot fix Facebook, but our government can.

Mark Zuckerberg cannot fix Facebook, but our government can break it. Which would fix it.
Same here. A few of my posts get 1 or 2 votes the first time they get posted to Hacker News. And then someone resubmits it a few months later and suddenly it gets 300 votes.

Occasionally someone like dang, or some other community moderator, suggests I try again.
Win32 is super stable. The .NET Ui toolkits churn every 3 years or so without much improvement. Very frustrating.
You don't need a compiler, but if you have a good enough C compiler, there's often no significant disadvantage to using it. Even with a simple 8-bit instruction set, I've found writing in assembly to be quite a bit more difficult than writing in C just because of the mental overhead of having to manually manage registers.
Tokyo is a weird case, since apparently people don't like living in used homes.
> three quarters of white people don't have any black friends

Kind of an irrelevant statistic in this context. Where do these 3/4 of white people live? Do they live in places where there are few or no black people?

What's the statistic for white people who live in San Francisco, San Mateo and Alameda? (These are the three counties where most software engineers in the SF Bay Area live)

> That's over half of VCs that are significantly less accessible to black founders

Which black founders? All of them? Just the ones that live in these three counties?

Being concerned that many VCs are white is like being concerned that many producers in Hollywood are Jewish. There's nothing wrong with either. Both are historical accidents and testaments that social networks matter in many contexts. If I wanted to succeed in the movie industry, it would not be unreasonable to expect me to move to Los Angeles, take acting classes, join the Screen Actors Guild and network socially with producers or at least people that can introduce me to producers. If I don't do all three, that's a pretty strong signal that I'm probably a risky bet to invest in.

The percent of VCs that are white is actually less than the percent of Americans that are white (77%) but more than the percent of SF, San Mateo and Alameda county residents that are white (~50%). Likewise, most VCs in China are Chinese. Most Chinese in China have no white friends.

You know what's a better predictor of getting VC funding in tech than race? Living in the SF Bay Area and being an engineer. If you do those two things, you're already far closer to being able to get VC funding that most people. Doing those two things also put you in the position to network socially with VCs or those that can introduce you to VCs.

I honestly don't understand why people always make things about race first and foremost when there are tons of factors that have a far greater impact.
I had a totally different experience.

I'm still running FF 56.0.2 because I can't live without Tab Mix Plus.

The official line was to wait for the update but about:studies never came up with anything even after 24 hours of waiting and everyone was saying it was fixed but it wasn't for me, I presume because nobody cares about the refugees stuck on pre-add-on breaking versions.

So it was completely broken until I finally found a reddit thread that described how to use the developer console to manually import the certificate extracted from the fix.

That worked, but it enabled all my add-ons, even ones that were previously disabled.

Bloody irritating. I didn't even know that it was possible to break things remotely like this.
"I only now realize how great my contribution is"? Gag me.
No political angle, but to expand on the data from that report (pages 22-23):

* Sixty-nine percent (69%) ... were living in San Francisco at the time they most recently became homeless... 8% had lived in San Francisco for less than one year.

* Of their previous living arrangements: 32% with friends or family, 11% in subsidized housing, 8% in a hotel, 6% incarcerated, 3% in hospital, 3% in foster care.

So it's probably more accurate to think of at most 50% of the population as having come from stable housing situations in SF.
That’s probably why Office 365 freezes a lot when you unplug screens and also sometimes renders a little blurry. They haven’t made it better.
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> What do you mean with group by/ ROLLUP

ROLLUP is not the same than groups. With

[1:a 1:b 2:a]

Group by (as is normaly in other langs):

[1:[a,b] 2:[a]]

Sql "group by" instead is for summary/tally of data:

[1:2 2:1] //assuming count

ROLLUP is for make a nice report!

[1:[a,b] Count:2; 2:[a] Count:1]

What SQL lacks (in this case), but the relational model not, is the ability to nest relations as easily as JSON.

----

Part of the deceptive power of SQL is that is very adequate and for "just query" of data is ok for most cases.

But as "programming language" it lacks some extra power and versatility.
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I said it before and I'll say it again... Japan has a great idea: make rent deducible from salary before tax. Then if the city wants some tax revenue they'd better have affordable housing!
Going public brings a different set wof eyes to the table and more scrutiny and lesser patience from the public. That’s why. The story of being a loss leader is not taken kindly
I agree that WSL1 was a fascinating project. It’s too bad all that work has gone to waste.
If only a single self fulfilling data point of the largest city of an insular society (requiring citizenship to buy) with falling population near the edge of recession for 30 years was representative of the world's real estate market.

Also, I'd recommend talking to people in Tokyo about the cost of living/working there (you'll find most people commute in over an hour by train) and about rising homelessness. This is with a population growth rate over the last 30 years of less than 0.5% and is EXPECTED TO RELENTLESSLY DECLINE AFTER 2020 to 2100 by 6million people.

http://worldpopulationreview.com/world-cities/tokyo-populati...

If you want some other data points on massive building increases, I offer you Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen, where prices have doubled many times while the available housing has also more than doubled over less than 30 years at a more than 2.5% population growth rate.