skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Facebook and the Internet were a bit different in 2008 than they were in 2016. Facebook had fewer than 150m active users and they skewed young. The "news" feed was actually stuff your friends posted and using social media for a political campaign was novel.

Fast forward to 2016 where Facebook has two billion active users, a majority of whom use their location/behavior tracking app. They also have 12 years of user extremely detailed user graphs and own a significant percentage of online advertising (tracking). Their business model has also changed to specifically sell microtargeted ads. They've also resisted all types of regulation of political advertising.

There were misgivings about social media political advertising in 2008 but up to that point social media was just crowd sourcing of bullshit. Since 2008 it's become far less social and really just become a big advertising vector. Whatever misgivings anyone had about it would have vastly underestimated its impact.
For clarity the people voting for policies to restrict housing are not the people moving away because they can't afford housing.

There's a class of people that own housing that pay very little property tax because they bought years ago and are protected by Prop 13.

These people vote to prevent building anything because they benefit both from insane house prices and property tax protection.

All the new people live with a handful of roommates and still pay $1400-$2200 in rent.
We don't know yet, so.. better safe than sorry, no?
One of the downsides to that rule, is that it heavily favors incumbents who have big donor networks in place. And it imposes a big cost on the new players, just to get the donor networks.

It's one contributing reason why it often takes a self-funded millionaire/billionaire to unseat them - or get real traction in a campaign.
I think that depends on the context. If I was visiting that neighborhood in Japan to assess whether I wanted to live there, I think it might not come across as racist as much as similar to how I outlined the prior statement, with some variation because Japan is both a much more homogeneous society, and one where the population as a whole is shifting towards being older on average.

I would also argue that a lot of times people are called racist (or called out for saying racist things) these days are likely because people are also less likely to give others the benefit of a doubt for their actions or words. This is likely complicated in that it appears some people that do harbor racist views feel more emboldened to speak them, but I'm not sure how to pick apart how much is one and how much is the other.
I knew the endless gaslit posts would get to me, and I dreaded the slow drip of our common friends and acquaintances cutting their ties with me. Only a few are left, but this way I know they're solid.
I used to be YIMBY, but I doubt more construction would lead to lower costs of living.

When I researched this I couldn't find any strong evidence suggesting that more building would lead to more affordable housing.

You would think that more construction would lead to more affordable housing, but it seems like more construction doesn't just increase supply, it also increases demand, which can offset any price effects from the increase in supply.

This makes sense when you think that similar people want to live in proximity to people like themselves. So if there are more luxury condos in an area that's going to create demand for more high-end retail, which will enhance that neighborhood's appeals to wealthier customers which will then increase demand for more luxury residences.

Vienna and Singapore seems to be cities that have overcome this trend.

So I used to be an enthusiastic YIMBY, but there just doesn't appear to be any concrete evidence that more construction is going to lead to more affordable housing.

Having said that, I do believe we should promote more construction, I just don't think it's going to reduce the cost of living to a sustainable level.
This sounds a lot like Freedom mobile/Wind here in Canada. Although it was the opposite, the cities had the good coverage but if you drove an hour out of town it was either offline or really slow.

The networked sucked at first but they are slowly improving things and offered far better customer service and contracts than the existing 2-3 monopolies.

But sadly if you really want the cutting edge of speed and spectrum you need to use one of the monopolies.
It supports most of it. Useless stuff like VLA is still uninmplemented though.
Can someone with an MBA or a business understanding explain why they would even make this announcement if it is a small number of roles in the company? Why not just reorganize? I don’t get it unless it’s a signal to the market that the execs are looking at cloud compute.
Most people don't use mobile web sites? Really?
Yes specialization is often useful. But the divide between developers and DBAs seems to have been similar to the dev/ops divide. Probably still is in many places. There is always a need for seniors or specialists to guide work, I'm not against that. But something like DevOps for RDBMS is needed. DevDat?
I just completed a difficult cybersecurity certification exam (OSCP) and if I had to summarize my learning path for that:

- Figure out a time where you want to become proficient in the skill by – something that balances between setting a fire under you while not being impossible to meet – then develop a weekly learning plan roughly based on that

- Learn a lot of things from many resources, instead of learning everything from a single resource. Cross-pollinate the ideas of several authors. I like to combine text books, audio books, hands-of practice with things like labs or side projects and just talking to others about what I'm learning

- Don't burn out and take a couple days off the learning path every once in a while
Uploading backups couldn't really be served by a cache. App updates, sure.
The only campaign finance reform we're ever likely to get except in the rare case, is reform that gives advantage to those currently holding office.
Things were different before the internet was a big thing.

Did anyone else find a BBS file or get passed a disk copy of Jolly Rogers Cookbook back in the day? Something that seemed so innocent at the time has got people locked up for terrorism offences recently.
> Company that is flush with that much cash couldn't find new roles for the 'small number' of people that were impacted?

The third sentence in the article: "Google didn’t specify how many roles are being cut and said it was working with affected employees to find them new positions in the company."
There's a standardized way for an officer to do this...alas, it will likely vary between states, and half of the officers will use some ad-hoc method anyway.

A civilian trying to direct traffic around their broken down car...now that would be harder.
> There is substantial (if also insufficient) housing development going up in NJ

Very much insufficient IMO. People are resisting a proposal to build a residential tower at the site of a current parking lot across the street from Journal Square PATH station. If people can't see the need to prioritize humans over cars at that location, we're in big trouble.
Show HN: Map Based Chat
Why? If he's happy at FB, and wants to get more k$, I'm sure he can arrange to get moved to the US and have his salary adjusted for the local market without any issue. Probably would mean 180k$ base or whatnot right away; plus lots of stock (no idea how much stock they give outside of US).
For me it is a smaller dependancy stack. For example I needed some tooling that worked on RHEL/CentOS, back to version 4.x and 3.x (yes, I know). Also, someone at work wanted me to get into Swift... They had Ubuntu packages but nothing for RHEL or Fedora (that may have changed now though).
This is also a consequence of how much technology knowledge was easily obtainable by anyone interested in it.

Even black hats were eager to spread their knowledge around, from 2600 and Phrack to the thousands of filez on BBS's and the early internet.

That in turn was a consequence of both the open hacker ethos, born in the cradle of academia, and of "information wants to be free".

As a result, those in the security and surveillance parts of the government who had an interest could easily learn pretty much whatever they wanted from the mouths of the very people they wanted to survey.

Not that I'd have it any other way, being a fan of the free flow of information, but it's interesting to see what unintended consequences this has.

Of course, this information flow was mostly one way.
Google Cloud includes GCP but also G Suite and maybe certain other product lines. So, all of the above.
C is still king in embedded systems. It is also great at making you aware of the machine. In C, very little is happening behind the scene. If you want something to happen, you need write some code. Objects will not initialize themselves, allocated memory will not free itself, no smart reference mechanisms, just explicit pointers. This understanding of the machine will help understanding why higher level langages behave the way they do.

But anyways, programming skills is not so much about the language. A good programmer in one language will be a good programmer in any other language very quickly. But still, if I have to hire a programmer for a project in a language he doesn't know, I will tend to prefer C programmers over those who only use higher level languages. The reason is that C programmers may do things that are not pretty, but they usually understand what they are doing, people who are only accustomed to some higher level language may come up with better designs, but write code that make no sense.
Isn't that basically Tom's shoes' business model?
This is often attributed to Fred Brooks in his seminal book "The Mythical Man Month"

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks%27s_law
* https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Fred_Brooks

It also appears to originate from Theodore von Kármán (1957): "Everyone knows it takes a woman nine months to have a baby. But you Americans think if you get nine women pregnant, you can have a baby in a month."
I created this for van dwellers, to help foster communication and possible in person meetups. We'll see how it goes. Suggestions are appreciated!
Yes, but also other products like G Suite.
It's not an announcement as much as a legal obligation to disclose, and news sources just pick up on it.
Which is a tragedy in itself.
I suppose improbable rather than impossible.

Here is the error:

error: The unique option `environment.variables.XDG_DATA_DIRS' is defined multiple times, in:
- /nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixos/nixos/modules/programs/plotinus.nix
- /nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixos/nixos/modules/config/shells-environment.nix.
(use '--show-trace' to show detailed location information)
Have you looked at FSet? https://github.com/slburson/fset
that’s the one project in the list that caught my eye - looks pretty neat. shame it doesn't gain the attention of the electron hating mob on HN - they all want people to work for free and give them stuff for no money but in the name of foss. keep up the good work, your project is an example of going against what the mob wants and building a successful product.
The "Remote - WSL" extension allows you to open a folder inside WSL but keep writing code inside VS Code running as a Windows process. It's available at https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-remote-release.git
Does the news do us any good? (2014)
Is it even primarily an economic self interest thing? If they intend to continue living in their current neighborhood it would be hard to realize that home value, although I'm sure there's some people that plan to sell the house and retire out of state.

Increasing density might not even necessarily be bad for property prices (for people who want to sell) since the land might be redeveloped into more than one unit.

I'm sure the economic angle is part of it, but I don't have a good feel for how big a factor it is compared to disliking traffic / change in "neighborhood character" etc.
Children are pretty resilient. My parents divorced when I was around 5 years old. My father moved a lot and I didn't see much of him, and at times didn't hear from him for long periods. My mother remarried when I was about 7 years old. My stepfather was a great guy and it didn't take long for us kids to get used to having him in our lives. He and my mother had two daughters over the next few years and we all got along great.

When I got to be 14 years old I moved halfway across the US to live with my father. A bit over a year later both my younger and older brothers came to live with him.

That move did cause some friction between my mother and I but by the time my brothers moved out there she was fine with that arrangement. It had to be a lot easier on her and it gave her more time to spend with my sisters, so it worked out good for them too.

For me, it worked out pretty good as well. My father owned a business and I learned a lot working with him, way more than I could have had I stayed with my mother and stepfather.

So, I'll offer that if both parents make an effort to spend time with their child, refrain from criticizing each other around or to their child, and work together raising them, the kid will be fine.

I have no regrets about how things worked out for my parents. They both remarried and found someone they did get along great with. They were all happy, and I got the best from all of them.
One of the big issues with any messaging system is how to address your recipient. WhatsApp, Signal etc use a phone number. Jabber, irc, etc use other.

So, one of the problems to bring your use case to life is that you'd need to remember your friends' phone numbers AND you'd need to know that they're on Signal.

Signal, as an app gives your phone the ability to completely replace your sms system seamlessly. If a particular friend doesn't have Signal then it goes via sms.

So, the use case you're mentioning is definitely relevant, but having yama (yet- another- messaging- app) is going head to head with WhatsApp, jabber & co, and not currently what signal seems to be aiming for: secure messaging for the masses.

Maybe in the future it'll add usernames as an address recipient, but it may turn out to be a mess like Skype if so (Am I phoning someone, or skyping? Do i have credits, etc). Currently, Signal clearly delineates in the app ui what's going to happen when you press send (or call).
well the 9 to 5 you work in js probably selling some non tech products as well, yet it may be called a tech company.
How do you successfully co-found a massive hit while being addicted to heroin?
I mean I am but I am not? A lot of the people in the safe "burbs" are commuting somewhere. But even then I feel like I could count far fewer safe burbs than what I described above.

Anyway, just because there are some safe burbs does not mean what I describe is wrong. Our roads suck, we have a backwards property tax, its expensive to live in a decent school district and I generally feel pretty unsafe here.
By default Signal notifies users when someone in their contacts starts using Signal. You may have installed it before that feature existed so it triggered when you opened it.
Legal requirement
Ask HN: How many signups should an app realistically expect in the first month?
I released a MVP web app on Jan. 18th. Sign ups have been disappointing, but wondering if this slow pace is expected or if its an indication that there is simply no need for this.

My write up of results and steps taken in the past month can be found below.

http://surfertas.github.io/korabo/2020/02/14/korabo-users.html
well google is an ad company, what’s your point
Fuck Prop 13. It blows my mind how many long time California people don't even realize prop 13 covers many business properties.
@feross published an experiment on funding mechanisms on opensource. https://feross.org/funding-experiment-recap/

My suggestions for now would be BountySource (great for micro-financing on issues) and GitCoin (great for crypto-payments)
Now you can see porn in public without being noticed by others
> prices are pretty good right now

How do you define "pretty good"? Sure, prices in some areas are less than their peak, but many people are still struggling to afford housing.
I would consider to donate not to the IT tools but the domain specific software. It's often undervalued, underrepresented, and underfunded. Science, engineering, literature/music/art creation, etc. I believe, these are in the need more than IT, also have a bigger impact to the society.
It works great on desktop! It doesn't even need to tunnel traffic via your phone like WhatsApp does.
The title of "only $130K (£100k)" is incorrect — it makes it seem like he's underpaid, because 130k USD in the US wouldn't be a competitive salary, whereas 100k GBP in England is quite a top buck.

Also, not sure about the deal with only listing the base salary — in the US, his SV-based company would provide significant equity-based compensation for any of their engineering offices. In fact, FB is known to pay exactly the same at all of their US-based engineering offices, so, it's up to you whether living in SV or NYC is worth the extra cost, or whether you'd rather save it for an early retirement by going for a secondary market.
Is this a sign Google is not going to compete in Cloud anymore?

Can't see how this is not going hurt customer confidence.
I don't know about everyone else, because what you're saying seems to be a common sentiment and multiple people here mention "just" getting a $200+ piece of equipment, but neither the $200 nor finding the space to put the printer on is worth it to me for the ~1 PCB per year I want to make (and ~0 pages I want to print).

At most, I might go to a printing place and ask them to print a page, but my 3D printer is right there and this saves me a trip.
I might indeed. I am not a big fan of console driven applications, but it's intriguing so I am installing it on my linux box now. Thanks for the suggestion!
wxWidgets is a poor platform abstraction that just results in the lowest common denominator of UI.
> In practice, extinct branches of humans are classified as separate species

They were classified that way, until the presence of Neanderthal & Denisovan DNA was discovered in modern humans.

> In contrast, living branches of humans (e.g. bushmen vs. pygmies vs. everyone else) ar classified as a single species even if they have evolved largely in isolation for hundreds of thousands of years and rarely interbreed

They are classified as a single species with the rest of humans because they can interbreed with other humans, not for political reasons.

We couldn't draw the same conclusion about extinct branches until recently because we don't have living groups of them that we can observe interbreeding. Now that we see the genetic evidence of that the classification has changed.
Ahhh, I don't think so. We're already in the place where memory bandwidth is the big killer so I can't imagine any enthusiasm for making our pointers twice as large.
The YIMBY argument mentioned in the article is that expensive new housing today becomes mid-range and eventually lower-end housing over decades as it ages. If you don’t put units into the front of that pipeline now, nothing comes out of the other end of it later. This seems plausible to me, and there is research stating the filtering effects may happen a lot faster than that on a regional level: https://www.citylab.com/perspective/2019/06/housing-supply-d...
That is internal struggle. But one must look at any external struggle. If you have people moving in without any means of stopping, just build build build would only help that much
My page(https://www.towardssoftware.com) isn't quite that old, but it gets the job done with an incredibly simple content manager - plain html/css editing.

There is almost no javascript, and I have to say, it's done wonderful so far. I have tried Hugo to manage stuff, and a couple of others, but for a lot of blog type of stuff, html just works!
A tragedy - yes, but not exactly 'bizarre' unless you are a frequent subscriber to fringe conspiracy theories.
Hi HN, I'm one of the authors of this paper. Very cool to see it being discussed here!

I'm happy to answer questions about private airdrops, with two caveats: first, I'm not associated with Handshake, so I probably don't know the answer to Handshake-specific questions. Second, I'm juggling some other things today, so apologies in advance if my answers are delayed.
It's called high-functioning addiction and there are tens of millions of such people (mostly addicted to alcohol).
Well, I think that pretty much anything is more effective than calling people names. But rhetorically, it’s probably a lot more effective to just be honest about what you want: shared sacrifice for lower rents.

It’s cynical to call it YIMBY, because a) it mirrors the name-calling, and b) anyone who is intellectually honest knows that YIMBY really means YIYBY for most people. So stop it. Own that you want something that will be at least a little bit painful for everyone. Then sell the positives.
Oh, far worse. 90% of the effort will get you 90% of the way there. Another 90% of the effort might get you another 9% of the way there. But that last 1% of "getting there" is going to take many more 90%s of effort.
Well, edge cache doesn't appear to be brand new (I found https://www.c8k3.com/blog/caching-in-apples-new-cache-progra... which dates from Dec 2019) but it does appear to be an analogue to programs like the one you helped build at Netflix. So while they probably have been doing this in some limited fashion (e.g. through direct outreach), it is entirely possible your own ISP wasn't included. Hopefully your download speeds will increase if/when your ISP signs up for the program.

I'm not sure what you mean that this is being "opened up to the public now". This seems to be limited to ISPs as far as I can tell. I'm not sure who, other than an ISP, would be doing 25Gb/s of Apple-content related traffic.
When your ancestry test entangles others
https://archive.is/sXRu3
> Just like Alex Trebek is probably a big part of the reason for Jeopardy's longevity

Off topic, but I do wonder what will happen to their ratings when he retires in the next few years.

The Price is Right pulled it off, their ratings are apparently higher now than they had been, since they started putting clips on YouTube and other types of "millennial marketing".
TBH, having driven in hailstorms, snowstorms and rainstorms, SDVs would refuse driving in such conditions - and that would have been an entirely sane decision. The conditions were literally insane for driving - yet most drivers continued, albeit slightly slower.

In other words, human driving is far more dangerous than we care to admit; that's not a technical issue, that's pure denial.
That logic doesn't work. 95% of new units going to existing residents doesn't mean that if I built 100 new units, I only get 5 new houses. Those 95% who move to new units leave their old local places open, which in turn go to god knows where.
Thought provoking.

Why attract the signal when you can attract the noise?

Mass media has been with us for a long time though. What's different about it now? Are people focusing on fewer media sources as time passes, or more media sources? If we're focusing on more media sources, wouldn't that play well in your idea that dumb votes will cancel out?
A Brief History of Quantum Mechanics - with Sean Carroll
If you assemble a 9+ stage pipeline, you may reach a point where you produce approximately one baby each month.
Desirable places are never going to be the absolute cheapest option, for sure, but they could be a lot cheaper. Here are some concrete (ha ha) examples:

https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/How-th...

https://www.vox.com/2016/8/8/12390048/san-francisco-housing-...

https://www.sightline.org/2017/09/21/yes-you-can-build-your-...