skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did this with the Wheel of Time series. I skipped the 5 middle books and had zero problems picking up the last couple and figuring out what was going on and enjoying it instead of burning out midway through the series because there were far too many side quests.
>>> (If you're in California, you should also know that the new law punishes your landlord for trying to do you a solid and keep your rent stable across lease terms.)

The CA law allows the rental price to reset to market rate for a new tenant, so unless the landlord doing you a solid was planning to stick you specifically with a rent increase down the line to recapture the present solid, they can still keep your rent stable across lease terms.
> Oh, you never wrote tooling and you dont have a jobbing engine? Well, that's the complaiing that you can't get an an Uber because you did not download an app. It is sort of funny because every single shop that is "oh containers!" either creates them manually ( slow and painfully ) or just uses random ones developers find.

Whatever helps you sleep at night. Creating a container image doesn't have to be slow. There are a lot of tools to help with this that provide things like caching. If I find a container image, the first thing I do is look at the Dockerfile to see if it follows best practices, and if it is secure and lightweight. A lot of the official images on Docker Hub are pretty good. Creating a VM image is going to be slower than Docker period.

> It is the same reason why Whole Foods sells sushi: that's teh way to sell salmon for $85/lb to hipsters. Hipsters hate buying salmon for $22/lb but they love the rolls.

I don't know what this has to do with anything. Besides, I thought hipsters would be vegan.
The second thing you quoted is part of my evidence for the first thing you quoted. It's not a backtrack at all.

Do you have an actual evidence-based opinion, or are you just trying to catch me in weird gotchas? I'm sure I've said something slightly incorrect you can track down, but that doesn't really negate the evidence I've linked.
I agree! That money should all be going back to the workers instead too ;)
That's a trick of perspective. The estimated orbital elements [1] show an inclination of roughly 45 degrees between the object and the ecliptic. If you click the link in the tweet, you can rotate the model and see for yourself.

The orbital plane of the solar system is not aligned in any special orientation relative to nearby stars or the Milky Way, so we would expect interstellar objects to arrive from all directions with equal probability.

[1]: https://twitter.com/AscendingNode/status/1171845027099795456
> So when over-regulation drives up the costs, the appropriate response is to introduce new regulations to fight the other regulations?

Yes. The effort to reduce regulations on construction has failed. As such, retaliating against the beneficiaries of those regulations with counter-regulations is appropriate.

It's not pretty or efficient, this is a fight between different interests, not a group problem-solving effort.
You realize they're owned by Microsoft yes?
>raising labor costs 50% is a nonstarter.

This is where one can say sure. But in reality with the lack of public healthcare, it's just hiding an large cost on society when the person ends up running up medical bills and is unable to pay.
Having grown up poor myself, I can attest to this. My mother was preoccupied with looking respectable. It was one thing to be poor, she would say, and another thing entirely to be poor white trash.
Not true. We have a house and commercial rental property in Sunnyvale California. I’d love to tear down my commercial building and build something with an additional story but zoning won’t allow it. And is welcome all single family zoning being upgraded to 2 family zoning. I’d build a second unit in a heartbeat.
And what point is that. I haven't even started saying it, but I guess I'll start now. IRC is not broken. I've never tried to justify it so I guess that proves it.
Most things flying towards a black hole don't cross the event horizon thanks to angular momentum.

Stars tend to get torn apart, go into the accretion disk, and then eventually fall in. But we don't have a big black hole in the solar system.
So if a new apartment comes on the market in SF (never gonna happen, I know) what rental rates can they start with? Whatever they want?
Nobody is exactly crying for the guineaworm, and by interrupting its life cycle it may end up being eradicated.
Iowa's AG was already bought by the banks: http://swampland.time.com/2011/05/09/foreclosure-probe-chief...
That's not what those links say:

> It is not known whether vaccinia virus is the product of genetic recombination, or if it is a species derived from cowpox virus or variola virus by prolonged serial passage, or if it is the living representative of a now extinct virus.
"If a donation is anonymous, the theory goes — that is, anonymous to the public — the giver cannot accrue any prestige or social capital from it."

OTOH, it at least helps the anonymous 'givers' to feel a bit consecrated about their nefarious actions. Also it helps the prestigious 'takers', capable of ignoring the smell of it, to cloak their taint.

The rationalization that 'it's okay if noone knows' seems more like something for, say, a bank than for an academic institution. And the smell hangs around. It might lead to things like, say, rigged admissions standards. Or the unfortunate suicides of bright young stars.
I'd put decent money that most of their interactions with wokeness have been though social media where a particular brand of ride or die wokeness comes out. Partially I think because when you're arguing online it's real hard to suss out where the person you're talking to lies and a lot of people make bad faith arguments where giving any ground gets taken much further by the other side of the debate.

It's much easier to hold a categorical black and white opinion than to try to defend and define a nuanced opinion, especially when you're likely going to wind up arguing with more than one person at once.
Almost all of the value is the land.

RE: Cost of living, I dunno, part of the reason the cost of living in SF / Manhattan is so high is that lots and lots of people make enough to be able to afford it.
We all live in a respective bubble.
Yeah, they are looking to screw with his biggest employers. Cali under state law could be far more invasive than the Fed probe too.
If that is the case then you likely have something misconfigured, or are running on seriously underpowered hardware or in a VM that needs more resources allocated to it.
I still don't buy it. There's no way that anyone can be that good for so many years running without having insider knowledge or somehow manipulating what is going on. It's not a matter of how many brilliant PhDs you have.
If the actual full-strength virus hasn't managed it why would a live vaccine be any more likely to? It's not going to be replicating very much- it was designed to be bad at actually infecting people but good at provoking an immune response.
Baby with extremely rare mutation in GPX4 gene
Well, all these rich assholes were fascinated by the opportunities he opened to them... If the Clintons were on the Lolita Express bandwagon, why can't they ride it as well?!
A reset could be after the big one hits and we have to rebuild cities.
If computers are so smart how come they can't read?
Maybe there are glitches possible.
Do you ever use wifi in a coffeeshop or hotel?

Because if you do, at that point they are your "ISP" for purposes of this discussion. Do you still trust them more than Cloudflare?

(For a desktop machine, obviously this is not an issue, but for pretty much anyone with a laptop this is something that needs to be worried about.)

As far as internal services, is this a split-horizon setup? As far as I understand, the plan is to detect those and fall back from DoH to normal DNS as needed.
"The fewer Republicans" et al
There's not much risk to it. Sure, others could undercut you, but when you see that happening you're free to lower the rent and have a tenant again.
See the discussion from last month: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20605660
That seems like a really clumsy way of pretending to be in a free market.
But it isn't that easy. I understand all kinds of incredibly complex tech. There are many more variables than that. You would have to know all the C-level execs, too, and understand what makes them tick and what their foibles and vices are, who drinks too much, who snorts coke, all of it. Then you might know whether a tech company is worth backing or not.
> I don't have to have a bouncer.

By some odd twist of fate, WSL is what enables my IRC use. My only 24/7 PC is my HTPC/Plex server, which I also run ZNC on via WSL.
"In software engineering sometimes conclude that a rewrite is necessary. How can we completely rewrite our regulations?"

A currency collapse or a successful invasion perhaps.

Even 'freezing a moment of time' is kind of a suspicious thing. People don't understand the present time and they sure as heck don't understand previous ones.

While fixing the plane while it's in flight is hard, I'm trusting our upcoming robot overlords to understand tax or criminal law. Accreting everyone's good ideas for a century or two was bound to result in a hairball.
The rent control laws in SF aren’t even as bad as HN comments would have you believe.

Rent control doesn’t apply to new construction in SF. It also allows a regulated annual increase, and rent automatically jumps back up to market upon a number of different conditions - not the least of which is that the owner can push you out to renovate the building!

HN commenters are usually just repeating stuff they heard somewhere, and have no idea what the laws actually say.

Moreover, while there are indeed lots of publications on the theoretical impacts of rent control, few of those publications consider laws as they actually exist, or if they do, the scope of the impacts is rarely communicated when translated into HN talking points. Every study I’m aware of has shown, at worst, diffuse, long-term negative impacts to housing costs. Meanwhile, many of them do exactly what they set out to do: stabilize short-term prices for vulnerable populations.

These laws are simply not the boogeymen that comments here make them seem.
How do you define it's high? P/E ratio of most value stocks is not much higher than ever. Don't exclude technological advancements, they really contribute a lot to economical growth.
ycombinator, where standard econ theory gets downvoted by people who've never taken econ. Here's a challenge, explain the history of the US stock market vs world stock markets and US venture capital vs world venture capital better than I did.
I am reading big space operas right now.

What we know of this reality is so limiting compared to what we can imagine.

Good dreams. Many of us have them.

I also like to dream the knowable remains much larger than the currently understood too.
Nobody complained of no A/C in the bathrooms. You've misread Airbnb's social media agent's misguided reply. I'm the OP's roommate and I've clarified things at https://www.reddit.com/r/digitalnomad/comments/d1i53n/its_10...
Many parts of California are already beyond 100% capacity for certain pieces of infrastructure like transportation, schools, water, and sewers. So I only support more housing in those areas if building permits are directly coupled with equivalent infrastructure upgrades.
I’m not sure what you’re looking at... They’re selling USDA Choice strip steak for $18/lb.

2 pounds of steak before cooking isn’t lunch and dinner for two adults.

A single bell pepper is $1.50. They’re charging $0.69 for a single damn potato. Broccoli is over $3/lb.

These prices are insanely high. And I would assume some of the food you eat in a day is not going to be just bulk produce.
Haha. I think it's one reason why I have No Script installed on my browser -- To protect me against poorly designed websites (to a degree at least).

Infinite Scrolling is not bad, but you have to design the page for it instead of jamming the feature in later. Otherwise, it hurts.
If a $10M anonymous donation had just showed up in my account and I hadn't told anyone, then yes I would be inclined to believe you.
Talking about "regulation" doesn't really say anything. All laws, good and bad are regulation. There is regulation passed by businesses, and very few passed by citizens. When you cry about regulation, it is similar to crying about the water being wet or over having to breath. In modern society, very few things are done without regulation. Even basic rights that we take for granted, such as freedom of speech, are guaranteed in the US because there is a piece of regulation, passed more than two centuries ago, called "constitution".
California is also one of the most taxed and regulated states. Do you think that is a coincidence?
The first article gives fluorescent lights as an example of modern usage of arc lighting... The second article distinguishes between glow discharge and arcing.
> This sounds terrifying and dystopian. Is it?

> No.

That's me sold then!
Please don't cross into personal attack on HN. We ban accounts that do that repeatedly.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
If over regulation drove up prices, what exactly do you expect from more regulation?
Of course you spend a lot of money to eat out, but you don't do that every single day. Even when you hardly cook, you don't have a sit down meal at a restaurant that charges $25/person every day.

If I think about the speed I'm usually driving my car, it seems like it's generally 50-60 mph, yet the trip computer consistently says I average half that. Because mentally, I don't weight all the time I spend not going full speed as highly.

I think a lot of the budget items are inflated in the same way - the monthly amount sounds like an amount you could spend in a month, but nobody would spend that much every month in perpetuity.
A new rent control law changes the market. If the tenant leaves, they will need to sign a new lease, and the leasor will build in extra rent because they are worried they won't be able to raise it enough later.

In other words, it scares all the landlords at once, and they all raise prices a little because of it.
Okay, I should know I have to be 100% pedantic when discussing these kinds of topics, so that's my bad. I amend my claim to the following:

Assuming we could generate a sufficiently focused laser or other communication mechanism to communicate over 111 light years (which we can't), currently we have no known material that we could build the comm device out of that would survive a 111 light year trip to another solar system intact enough for the device to actually function.

Still a bit wishy-washy since it involves magical technology that we have no idea how to build, and if we had the communications technology we would probably have the materials science too, but hopefully that gets the point I was originally trying to make across.
JRE – Nick Bostrom
You can upload sound of rain and it will get a YouTube strike.

A sound. Generated by nature. Produced uniquely at your own location. Is copyrighted.

What are you even on about?
Oh, yeah, absolutely. I can see a corporation / organization pay for Windows XP security updates. Regular people, not so much.
So, MailGirl is just a nail merge tool implemented in JavaScript and running on Node, right?

Why call it MailGirl, anyway? Why not "MailAssist" or some other gender-neutral name?
Not having the ability to specify 'Partial A/C' is exactly my suggestion to Airbnb.

The "reasonable solution" didn't work - we waited longer than what the host claimed it would take to make the place "cool as a fridge".

Why would we not be supposed to work in the apartment?

Right, it wasn't anyone's hard fault, so if I were the host, I'd charge 3 nights' worth and leave the situation with a clean conscience and quite a bit of cash for spending 30 minutes.

See my detailed reply at https://www.reddit.com/r/digitalnomad/comments/d1i53n/its_10... (I'm the OP's roommate).
I hate that mentality. It achieves nothing good in the long run.
I figured it out! It's an article designed to funnel traffic to the author's blog site by using outliers (like the janitor) as clickbait. Other commenters pointed out that this is partly absurd expectations of what middle class is and partly the absurd reality of bubbles like SanFran.
Yeah, for real life applications as well, I shy away from Python for anything where performance might one day be an issue. Most languages can at least get within an order of magnitude of state of the art (at which point ergonomic considerations can matter more), but Python is just incredibly slow in practice.
Disclaimer: I currently work at a company in the QSR+mobile ordering space

It takes a TON of work to get the menus+availability, payments, local tax laws, security/privacy right for specific regions. Menus are not a solved problem - think about the case where a user wants a fillet o'fish, but hold the sauce and the top bun. Is the fillet o'fish the same item in the US as in Japan, even? What about other regional items? etc.

Also - McDonald's is run by McDonald's corporate and Franchisee's. Sometimes, corporate has the buying power, but most of the time, it's the individual franchisees that make the buy decision - for even things like mobile apps and ordering. Many times, restaurant brands you see here in the US, when traveling, are owned and operated by completely different sets of corporate beings.
Saying "The hype and claims we see in blogs that are not backed up by anything?" followed by "Both C# and Java are faster than golang" without substantiating the claim is the pot calling the kettle black.

If you do have links to share, however, please do.
When working with legacy code, one first writes automated tests.
More like a household renting to a family friend, a student, an artist, someone who helps with child- or elder-care, etc. Homeowners put situations like that on the "market" in large part because they're allowed to change their minds later when the lease is up.
Because there was no "laptop-friendly workspace" in the bedrooms. The host claimed that in the listing, and the only thing that remotely qualified was the dining table in the kitchen.

Context: I'm the OP's roommate. See my detailed reply at https://www.reddit.com/r/digitalnomad/comments/d1i53n/its_10....
Ok, but please don't be rude or post shallow dismissals here. If you know more, it would be great to share some of what you know. Then we can all learn something. Alternatively, it's fine not to post even when someone else is wrong.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Plastic, climate change, and identity politics also bring out radical behavior.
There are constexpr constructors
If they are making less money, they certainly won't allow more construction to deflate prices even further. Rent is already below mortgage in California, so I am not sure what kind of deal people are looking for. As others have said here in various ways, it seems more like lashing out at someone because it sucks life is so expensive where you live rather than dealing with the root causes.
Pernicious attacks on landlords because of some perceived collusion amongst them is ugly. The landlords aren't any more to blame for the lack of supply than their tenants or the politicians.

There's obviously money to be had in leveling a block of houses and increasing the population density by 10-30 times the amount. The market demand is extremely high. Real estate developers would jump at the chance to do so if they thought they could get through all the red tape. The landlords owning those houses would certainly sell for the right price.

The entire society is abandoning free market principles in favor of social engineering. If they're not careful, they'll kill the goose that lays the golden egg.
that's why I said "2k MORE", on top of how much he is already paying for rent by sharing a place with someone.
N=2 means that we now know how to detect more than the one we are standing on, so it says a lot about how many we might expect to find soon.
I don't really understand the author's claim that...

https://il.linkedin.com/directory/people-a-1/

...contains links to all public LinkedIn profiles. I looked for a bunch of people I know with public profiles and they weren't in there (and neither was I).
Yep - https://www.reddit.com/r/digitalnomad/comments/d1i53n/its_10....
it has been around five years since that was even vaguely true
Bobby Lee Returns with Ballet, a Crypto Hardware Wallet for the Masses
Yeha!
It doesn't carry 184 passengers.

The drone's model number is #184.
There are places in California where infrastructure can't help. There is just not enough water for more people.
Sure, but they're not orthogonal at all. One is just a lot more delta-v than the other. It's the same basic thing. Point the rocket nozzle in the opposite direction that you want to go and turn it on (modulo the fact that the "direction you want to go" might not be intuitive because orbital mechanics).
I'd take it over an opem office if it's sound/germ proof and has free food.
I won't delete it.
Article: Using Java to Orchestrate Robot Swarms
I have fully employed friends who have driven uber during moments when they needed more cash, who would not have gone through hoops to work a second formal job.
Everything you dislike about IRC is precisely what I like.
Thanks for the recommendation - looks like an interesting read.
Robots are so much high maintenance than just touch panels and voice rec. Thus while it is a good idea the hurtles are much higher to get a positive ROI.
llvm cannot always eliminate bounds checking and gcc vs llvm does not explain all of the difference
Ironically, there's a name clash with a fairly popular immutable update library for JS:

https://github.com/immerjs/immer

Looks like the C++ one started first (2016-05 vs 2017-12).
Thanks. I was looking at that and scratching my head as to why Go's latency was so bad here...
Rent control benefits renters in the short term who don’t want or don’t need to move. However, property owners can’t price rents according to market conditions. This suddenly lowers the value of rental property and will mean that there is less incentive to build new rental property or maintain or improve existing rental property.

Where else is it being done? Is it a success in these places? There must be some places it is viewed as working or why else would California do this.
SF is capped at 60% of CPI. Inflation is 10%, you can get 6%. Doesn’t take long for that to add up.
Dang, I missed that whole 'subplot' about the food computer scam: https://gizmodo.com/mit-built-a-theranos-for-plants-18379682...

What a weird lab.
If the economy crashes is the best outcome for a large population to simultaneously become priced out of their homes? Policy has to consider its effects on society as a whole, not limit itself to one myopic viewpoint.
Maybe, but construction may not even be necessary. Shipping containers can now be easily retrofitted into stylish apartments. They can easily be stacked eight stories tall.

95% of the work can be done in overseas factories and is subject to the same globally competitive downward price pressure as every other manufactured good. Build them in Shenzen at a wholesale cost of $30,000 per pod, ship them to San Franciso for $2000, stack and install them at a cost of $8000. At 320 square feet, that's $120 per square foot. The same cost as new homes in rural Texas.

All the California legislature needs to do is pass a law zoning everywhere in the state for multi-story shipping container apartments. Then watch prices plummet. Even for single family regular construction homes, because the shipping container apartments will suck so much demand out of the market.
To expand the set of people suffering to include landlords and owners, instead of having own group of people benefiting from regulation (in the form of restricted supply) and another not.

EDIT: to be clear, not suffering for its own sake, but to pressure owners to stop supporting the current regulations.