skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, but everyone can comment on them. And one can imagine, for example, having alternative versions of contentious articles. The existing disambiguation setup could easily handle that. Agreeing on tags might be nontrivial, but I'm sure that it's doable.
And IMO that's also a product of rent freezing.

Without rent freezing, rents continue to increase substantially enough that investors either build more housing in/near the urban centers to meet demand OR the price shifts high enough to make the decisions to live in rural areas much more appealing.
Is changing my password the only way to disconnect Plaid's access to my bank account?
Yeah not now, but given everything else they’ve done, it wouldn’t be a surprised if they introduced it as a feature later down the line.
> The private market isn't making the solution better in this case because their implementation is reckless and potentially harmful.

You could make this same argument about the existence of online banking. At some point utility supercedes risk. Personally, I feel fortunate to live in a society where I am able to make that decision for myself rather than the government making it for me.
>“I could make arrests off Craigslist 24 hours a day, but to what end? ... "

Well, enforcing the law is actually the job of law enforcement. It sounds like the ultimate goal is to keep the bad stuff where the general public can't see it.
It's already too late. It's unfortunate that we didn't understand what was happening 100 years ago, if we did we might have been able to do something about it, but as it stands right now, we can't even slow down what's already been set into motion. The earth is now changing, it's not just the climate, and the earth changes will drive the climate, the feedback loop has started.

Unless someone can invent a technology in the next 5 years to pull the excess greenhouse gases from the upper atmosphere and take us back to pre-1825 levels and keep us there going forward, this is a lost game.

It's like standing on top of the Empire State building and watching a balling ball go over the edge, we are at the point where the majority of the ball's mass has gone past the balancing point. We are close enough to recognize that it's happening but too far away to stop it from falling.
Yep! And more specifically, if we found a planet that had an atmosphere with O2 in it, that would be highly indicative of life. Although it's not the only option, O2 is pretty reactive, and you need a constant O2-producing force to maintain it. An O2-producing force would be something like plants or some life that is creating hydrocarbons from CO2 and H2O.
Tradition dictates that only men are allowed to work on the making of the bridge itself. Women remain in the upper part of the gorge, weaving the smaller ropes.

dudes, WTF?
That's a useful perspective, thank you.
Personal attacks are not ok here, regardless of how wrong another comment is. Would you mind reviewing the site guidelines?

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I'm well aware of the environmental costs of these decisions. For a while, I avoided online shopping, for a number of reasons. One day, a few years ago, I drove to four or five different stores in my city to try to find some specific hardware product, where physical fit was important. I did not find it. Then I searched online, and found an answered buyer question that made it clear that the thing would work for me. After this, my online shopping ramped up a lot. What's worse? 45 minutes of driving an old car, or .01% of the freight volume of an 18-wheeler over hundreds of miles?
There are entities out there sitting on hundreds of 0days. Governments buy hundreds every year.

Things aren't really getting much better either, so yeah, could totally crumble.`
> your wallet is not tied to your Facebook account

Nice try, Mark!
There is a video is about French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire fighting the Facebook Libra

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kH4oVeME_dk
I keep all my Emacs config files in a git repository, so I can quickly pull it wherever I happen to be using Emacs. Might be practical for some IDEs too depending on their configuration file formats. I'd imagine it would work fine if the configuration is stored as XML.
Ok, but you’ll admit it’s ideologically centralized, and that it’s facebook’s interests centralized.

Facebook launches Silicon Valley Bank and... people argue about the most minor technical details.
Modelling the recent common ancestry of all living humans (2004)
Seems that the majority of respondents were not from US
What does the last global debt crisis (which was caused by central banks around the world keeping interest rates incredibly low for a long time, which allowed housing debt/speculation to balloon massively, and then tightening suddenly) have to do with the failures of the free market to develop sufficient housing?

And in many major cities, things like zoning are preventing developers from building nearly as much housing as they’d like.

I guess I’m just kind of baffled as to how you’ve reached the conclusions you have. I’d love some clarification.
A relatively simple fix for this would be for banks to allow me to create a read-only user ID and a transactional user ID...I could hand the read-only credentials to services like Plaid. I suggested this to Fidelity over a year ago and they looked at me like I was crazy.

Banking in the US is so horrible at the moment. there’s an immense opportunity for someone to come through and give a better consumer experience, but I fear the barriers to entry are far too high. I had high hopes for Simple.com, but they ended up destroying about every useful feature they had and falling way short of the mark...
Unless, you can drop in out of nowhere and cut the Gordian Knot. If we follow the analogy of the story about Alexander the Great, maybe the pattern involves a story about someone who comes in and decides to ignore conventions or "the way it's always been done" because they have some insight from direct experience or first principles?
Maybe we need to question whether the government should have the power to unilaterally block a transaction. Just because they’ve been able to in the past doesn’t mean we have to artificially limit technology to let them keep that power.

In the same way they used to be able to tap your phone, but now we can encrypt our calls and make that much more difficult. That doesn’t mean encryption should be illegal.
They are, though. I wouldn't have expected it, but I was just looking at Craigslist now and rents in Mountain View seem to go for about $700/month over roughly equivalent housing in Sunnyvale. I'm in a pretty old 2BR right next to the Mountain View border for $2600; the equivalent would be a 2BR in the California/Escuela area, which rents for about $3300/month. Perhaps it's just my neighborhood (rents in new construction near the downtown areas are about $4500 for a 2BR in both places), but there's a similar differential among 1BRs north of Central: $2500-$2800 in MTV, $2000 in Sunnyvale.

Among likely differentiators: 1.) Traffic. If you're traveling to Google or Facebook Sunnyvale adds an extra 15-20 minutes to your commute. 2.) Schools. They're better in Mountain View, at least for now, though both regions are rapidly gentrifying. 3.) Cachet. Mountain View has the name because of Google. Sunnyvale doesn't really, and also feels like more of a sterile suburb than a lively community. 4.) Shuttle stops. I don't know exactly where they are now, but that'd explain why the downtown areas go for relatively equal expensive rents, while my neighborhood (which AFAICT has no tech shuttle stops anywhere near it) rents for a lot less than other neighborhoods in the area.
Can you please eliminate the gratuitous provocations? They are quite unnecessary and take discussions to shallower, angrier places.

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I was trying to get a mortgage and the agent made me download their app and fill it there. I had to put my bank username and pass in the app. I thought it is Auth2 and I am putting those credentials in the bank website.

Now I am wondering could it been Plaid? I read that they are mimicking bank's page design.
there was no URL in the app to verify where I am putting my credential in.

now that I am thinking about it, it was super stupid of me.
Reminds me of a (now defunct) computer un-conference I went to about 8 or 9 years ago. I left fulfilled and defeated by how vulnerable everything seemed.

Whenever I went to a “professional” conference in my field from then-on, I just felt disappointed in how little I got to learn.
Note that Libra doesn't use energy-sucking PoW.
It was a response to your post "seems to be that regular smartphone useage does as much damage to young people in a short time as was previously only done in a lifetime."
In practice there are a lot of soundproofings that can substitute for an air-gap, but the cheapest soundproofing to meet code (resilient channels) is useless:

Resilient channels basically work by fixing horizontal metal strips to the studs, and then hanging the drywall on the strips with clips. Because there is purposefully play in the connection, vibrations cannot easily transfer from drywall to stud to drywall.

Why doesn't it work? As soon as anyone nails or screws or otherwise attaches something into the stud through the drywall (say a shelf), the drywall is now mechanically connected to the stud again.

The proper fix is to have a separate frame for each dwelling unit, preferably with fiberglass insulation. This essentially doubles the cost of inter-unit walls, so it is less popular. My parents live in a townhouse constructed in this manner, and if they dial up the volumes on the movie to 11, the subwoofer can cause pictures to rattle on the neighbor's walls, but audible sound is nearly zero.
You crossed into incivility and personal attack in this thread. Please don't. It's not what this site is for.

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> During a garbage collection, the runtime scans objects containing pointers, and chases them. If you have a very large map[string]int, the GC has to check every string within the map, every GC, as strings contain pointers.

This would, of course, be much less of an issue with a generational GC, which doesn't have to scan the entire heap on every collection.
EdgeDB: A Path to a 10x Database
IMO, they should have gone with a wildly smaller number. Enough IP addresses to get ~10% of the world online is just about the worst possible pick. It’s enough to get entrenched, but not enough to finish the job. If it was 1024, they would have run into the problem while it was easily fixable. Y2K wouldn’t have been a problem if two-digit years started being used in 1999.
> All scripts are idempotent.

THANK YOU!

This is not a property that is exploited nearly enough!
Peat is a renewable resource, like hardwood forests. It grows, but it is very slow so it's more expensive than other renewable resources. Someone here quoted 1mm/year but in active areas it's closer to 1 inch (26mm)/year
The pressure range range between vacuum, mars atmosphere and earth atmosphere is 10⁵Pa. The pressure at the bottom of the ocean is 10⁸Pa. Humans can survive the former with little more than strong tensile garment and a breathing apparatus, the latter requires massive, crumple-resistant pressure vessels around everything.
That certainly makes the max less of a safety concern.
People's Republic of Facebook
You know that Libra is a POA coin and does not require mining, correct?
Please don't take HN threads into nationalistic flamewar. You probably have a good point there but snarky frustration is not the way to present it, and you made things much worse with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20215080.

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For this reason: write even your prototypes in a maintainable way. Don't go overboard, quick hacks are allowed where they save time (you might want to mark them with a // TODO), but even prototype code should be understandable.

Also: don't be afraid for dramatic refactoring. If you know it's necessary, do it. It will improve your code base immensely. And the earlier you do it, the easier it is.

And even when you do throw away your code, you're not going to throw away all of it. There are always bits that look good and work well, so you copy them into the new version.
San Antonio Center opened in IIRC 2012, 7 years ago. The area was all desolate parking lots around Walmart/Sears/Shockley when I first moved here 10 years ago.
> As a side note, don't think writing a second edition makes the process any easier.

Why?

Just add "dot" on last page -- and second edition of your book is ready!
I think plaid allowed anyone to sign up, and had really good Developer docs. I didn’t get this impression from yodlee, though they may have updated their offering.
The problem with housing there has one simple cause: NIMBYism ... The only solution

In the real world, nothing has one simple cause or one "only" solution. The housing problem in California, and elsewhere is complex. This is akin to people who say, "The problem with homelessness there has one simple cause..." and then insert their favorite boogeyman.

There are many factors involved, other than NIMBYs, and BANANAs (Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anything). There is corporate greed, geographic restrictions, land use issues, transportation issues, tax issues, and the list goes on and on...

The loudest among those on HN seem to be BEASTs (Build Everything to Achieve Skyscraper Town). That's not healthy, either.

† Amusing field guide to various types of NIMBYs: https://www.chicagoarchitecture.org/2015/08/19/a-field-guide...
A carbon tax is probably the worst thing you can do.

First of all, it will seriously destabilise a large economy where democracy still plays an influential role. This will place more economic power at the hands of non-democratic nations, allowing them to produce more CO_2 at will.

Secondly, the taxed CO_2 will just circulate back to the government, to be spend again. On what? Due to the strong relationship of the dollar with oil, each dollar spend by the government will involve burning oil and producing CO_2.

Third, how will you check the CO_2 emissions of your products? How do you prevent fraud? How do you make sure the system is not gamed by shifting the CO_2 burden to other countries?

No, if you want to make a dent, vote for those who want to invest heavily in renewables R&D (solar, hydro, wind, thermal).
Looking at this as a black box, you buy credits using real money, and you can transfer the credits with less fees than tradition banks. Except you have one extra step on conversion of money into credits.

If there are enough people and places that accepts this credit, you eventually don’t need to ever convert it back to real money. Therefore when there is a lowered chance people would do a bank run, they can lower the backing requirement, like how banks are, and can reinvest the money. Here is the main point, they probably won’t dare issuing coins ie print money as that would immediately could be deemed a national security issue as now you are competing against a nations money supply.

You gonna say, wait, this is how bitcoins work, but nobody is giving bitcoin any respect. This libra thing will get respect, so regulation may just stop it in its tracks as soon as it gets too far.
> That's not true at all. The number of building permits granted has actually dropped

Ok. But the real statistic to disprove the statement is the percentage of building permits granted based on building permit applications. Has that dropped? Or is that still rather high? Also, I think you're not mentioning the fact that major parts of Berlin are against gentrification so while the local government want something, the people don't, because that gentrification allowed them to bypass the rent rise law.

Realistically, to say they aren't building a ton of new housing at a rather fast rate would be a lie. As fast as possible, maybe hyperbolic but that is all.
Negotiable instrument
Kea 1.0.0-RC.1 – extendable logic engine for React developers, built on redux
And kinda stupid if you're trying to game the reputation of a business that went bust.
They could sell it back onto the open market and convert it to USD. Alternatively they could wait for it to mature and get USD.

The key thing here isn't about the reserves, its how they they acquired them by creating a swap on USDCNY from Chinese exports from their reserves - effectively holding the Yuan from appreciation.

The other thing is for the trade deficit to decrease the reserves need to decrease too. The reserves, especially the way they were created using swaps give a proxy of USD held savings held but not yet poured back into the US (and hence creating a trade deficit).

This is all of course useless if the holder of those bonds is still China, but through another country such as Belgium with an overseas account - which they've done before.
A mortgage broker should have a fiduciary duty and part of that should make it criminal to lead you down a dark hallway like that.

I recently dealt with one and it was so refreshing to have someone who consciously knew their job was to be my guide and educator through the process.
They claim they looked back over several years of edit history across multiple accounts.

There are a few people in the linked thread defending him while saying he's an arsehole.
Atlantic Ocean 'running out of breath'
I'm talking about the people creating the platforms, not the people using them.
Bitcoin is not inarguably the most successful cryptocurrency. It has completely failed at its stated aim of facilitating payments, and cannot coordinate the necessary technical changes for that to be realistic. It has also failed as a platform for programmable money, since its programming language is almost impossible to work with, and once again, it has been unable to coordinate the necessary changes to implement a working language.

What is “the most successful cryptocurrency”? I don’t know, but I would vote for one of those that set out as a development platform, and have successfully ignited a huge amount of experimentation on novel financial and organizational instruments (although their value may be unfounded).
News Feed Eradicator essentially does this (browser extension) - I've used it for years can't tell you how much time it has saved me from the FB timeline!
I leave in MV for a few years: in my opinion there has been many development of dense complex in the recent years (not to say that it is enough): especially alongside El Camino and also in the San Antonio area.
Discussion from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20205566
Under those conditions I think only the state begrudgingly would build large blocks of cookie cutter but pragmatic flats. Something ala eastern block country estate housing.

I don’t think we want that. Although some do want that. S better alternative is Tokyo or Singapore (though they had their state built flats too —which inspired state built flats in Brazil.)
The only applies for the 50 or so miles next to the Everglades conservation area, everything north of that is sprawl; I think Jacksonville literally ranks #1 as the largest US city by land area
>It's already too late.

The next stage of climate denialism is climate nihilism.

It is not too late to mitigate some of the effects on our societies.

At the very minimum we need the political will to reallocate resources so that we stop accelerating the process and start structuring safety nets for vulnerable communities.
Personal attacks will get you banned here, regardless of how made you are at someone's employer. Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and don't post like this to HN.
There are people in the linked thread saying his behaviour is problematic but that he should get a pass because he makes so many edits -- this is precisely the toxic culture that the foundation is trying to end.
If you ever had to use Yodlee's API you would instantly understand. As late as 2011 they only had a poorly designed SOAP XML API that was a nightmare to deal with.
That’s like the ultimate straw-man.

The 6 screenshots at the beginning are from an actual vision of the future articulated by Microsoft in a video that they clearly spent real money on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6cNdhOKwi0

Here's a similar one by LG, with a similarly high production value: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIRjytgNuhM

Here are more that appear to be by random designers/artists:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myB1L_NMLGQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SIhlWFAJWk

He's not disparaging the present, as he tried to make clear by having the word "future" in the title and then another 16 times in the post. He's disparaging a vision of the future that is disappointingly widespread.

Haptic interfaces ... provide fixed manipulation points
which can not rearrange to best suit the task at hand.

What about an interface that is dynamic rather than fixed, and can be rearranged to best suit the task at hand, but is also physical?

You know, like I mentioned in my very first reply to you?

> ... a map with purpose-built physical controls (not mouse + keyboard), but that is also dynamic (like a computer/tablet/smartphone). Maybe it'll be something like this: https://rsnous.com/posts/notes-from-dynamicland-geokit/
I remember one young aspiring manager (now director at Google) destroying a new talented employee by completely disregarding their work (which was the main component of their brand new successful system and helped said manager to a promotion), then later requesting that very same employee to smile more and be as energetic/optimistic as when they first walked into the office. Beatings will continue until morale improves...
You're reading into what I said in a very negative way, and extracting incorrect signals in the process. I was very clear in saying that if you are a PHP expert, you should definitely continue to develop with PHP.

It should not be negative to ask why someone might choose a PHP framework given so many other options.

I do find it amazing how little credit Rails gets from other framework communities given how many of their features are directly lifted from concepts that Rails originated or popularized. It's possible that Laravel developers don't know migrations came from Rails, for example.

Anyhow, if you're asking about my opinion, personally... don't confuse hate with pity. I've had to make some changes to a Laravel backend for a client project lately, and if you honestly believe that it's nicer to work with than Rails, we have different working definitions of nice.
In 2010, I recommended ballistic-missile-defense systems run their servers under both Linux and FreeBSD to mitigate the risk of kernel-level remote DoS 0-days [1]. Now it looks like N-version programming has failed yet again [2].

[1] http://michaelgagnon.me/file/isarcs.pdf

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-version_programming
Yeah right, next thing you'll be telling me there's a better way to move large quantities of people than each one sitting on the highway in their own personal metal box
Is it because you trust the banks to keep your money safe?
Have a look at what happened in 2013 in Cyprus where they did a bail-in with their customer's money to "save" a bank that was too big to fail.

I am with parent on this one.
One of these is a guideline violation (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20219023); two is already harassment. People have a right to post here regardless of who they work for. If other users hound them away, will that make HN more or less interesting? Obviously less.

Please don't do this again so we don't have to ban you!

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No need to be so cheerful!
My friend wrote a really interesting piece on why this is important: https://medium.com/@seandoeshousing/cssr-corporations-should...
Patterns of Functional Programming: Functional Core – Imperative Shell
It's probably a free-tier heroku app, being hugged to death right now. I've used this site quite a bit in the past on FireFox, Chrome, and Brave, and it has worked perfectly before.