skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you miss the vibe of a small community of mostly intelligent, supportive beings, you might find some of that in the tildeverse.

It's a "loose association of like-minded tilde communities", which exist on shared *nix systems, usually glued together with an IRC network. As an example, tilde.team is "a shared system that provides an inclusive, non-commercial space for teaching, learning, practicing and enjoying the social medium of unix."

Some tildes have specific focuses like gopher or writing science fiction. I've found the community to be mostly positive and accepting and it definitely has some of that ~Olde Internet~ vibe for me. I sometimes worry about the community growing too large and losing some of that, so maybe I should be keeping my mouth shut? Then again, share the love right? It is that certain day, after all. <3

Here's a list of the member tildes: https://tildeverse.org/members/
I heard Solaris for email, calendaring, etc.

RHEL for WebObjects and other servers.
> "yeah, screw them, I got mine."

A more charitable interpretation is that it takes a lifetime of wealth accumulation to be able to buy a home in today's California, and it is not unreasonable to be concerned about the potential of losing your life's single largest investment. Casting them as a cartoon villains solves nothing.
The further you zoom out, the more tree-like it gets, but if you zoom in on any particular node in the tree, like hominids, then it becomes a tangled mess.
Yeah I use it all the time to get to midtown, dubmo and wall street from greenpoint. It's really convenient and much more pleasant than the train.

It's also great for tourists. I take everyone who visits me from out of new york on it and it's always a hit.
> Why does everyone always suggest K&R?

Because it's the best no bullshit book to learn C, period. Especially coming from garbage collected languages. It's not going to teach you valgrind or GDB, or even compile and link C programs but it will certainly teach you how to write C programs.

> only trivial toy examples with no real world application

Re-implementing POSIX commands is writing real world applications.

> and touches almost nothing on actual project architecture or best practices.

On what platform? Linux? Windows? Mac? tool chains are so different on all these platforms that it wouldn't make sense to spend time on that. That books is about C, not learning autotools and other horrors.
Really? Where are you located? I get about 70MB/s (with a big B) from that Apple CDN. I’m on a 500Mb/s down/15Mb/s up residential cable connection. Yes, I’m aware that’s faster than the network speed I’m paying for.
The problem is when journalist make "mistakes" and are subsequently promoted. When Bloomberg made one of the biggest hacking accusations of the decade and failed to even remotely substantiate their claim that Apple and others were victims of a supply chain hack the journalists who wrote this story didn't get fired or disciplined. In fact one of the co-authors, Michael Riley, was promoted to be in charge of all of Bloomberg's technology security reporting.
> The house that the owner lives in is not an asset. It's a durable consumer good.

Thank you. I had already figured that considering one's house to be an asset is the wrong way to think about it, but lacked the words for how to then accurately describe what it actually is. "Durable consumer good" captures what a house is and does much better, IMO.

Getting this attitude more widespread is going to be difficult, sadly. The land that the house rests upon absolute is an asset, and the house thereupon can't be readily decoupled from the land (trailers and double-wides not withstanding). Thus conflating the actual asset, the land, with the consumer good it is presently being used to produce, the house, is a reasonable mental shortcut.
Meh, I prefer having some real reviews in an ocean of fake ones than having none at all.
New York City has been losing residents for some time. This is not a supply and demand thing as much as easy money policy chasing hard assets. I’ll have to dig it up the numbers, but Manhattan many condos are vacant, and have been bought by foreign money who don’t live in nyc or investors looking to park assets.
Costco will shut you down if you start playing the 'buy it -return it' game too much. They monitor that. Stand around the front desk a bit and watch the used up crap people return.
I've found 5G speeds on Vodafone to be quite variable. I have a weak 5G (Vodafone) signal at my flat, and at times I've seen it as high as 130 Mbit, but at other times it drops to 1-2 Mbit or vanishes completely. Where as on 4G I get a consistent 20-30 Mbit all day long.

I suppose this will improve when they build out the network more, but even in locations with strong 5G signal the speed seems to vary a lot.

Seems like 3's 5G network has still not actually launched, but they're now promising it "by the end of February".

Is 3's SDL in addition to their carrier aggregation ("4G+") rollout? Because I already have that and it doesn't seem to have helped much!
They put out a game called Hackers[1] that was inspired by the raid. Its a pretty fun game, but it does inspire some ribbing and directly adversarial moves. The currently ahead player is called the "Net Ninja". Our group called the currently losing player "Net Poser" (thanks Tom). That set the correct attitude at the table.

1) http://www.sjgames.com/hacker/deluxe/
It’s not just a hunch. There is a strong theoretical basis for why that will case prices to go down and supply to go up. And that theory is backed with actual evidence. Houston has more new home starts than the entire state of California, its housing prices are stable despite explosive population growth. Tokyo likewise has more housing starts than New York, LA, and Houston combined, and prices there are stable despite a growing population as people move into the city from the rest of Japan. The thing both places have in common is very streamlined zoning laws.

Zoning proponents are like anti-vaxxers and climate changer deniers.
Does that include Yann LeCun?
The SoftBank Investment in Zume Pizza
What a quick ride. It was so popular, so quickly. There must not have been great retention? Or poor monetization?
Eventually, [co-founder Julia] Collins’s team gave up on the dream of baking the pies while driving to customers, according to two people familiar with the matter. The cheese tended to run everywhere as the trucks turned or hit bumps in the road. Instead, the oven trucks began parking in central locations, with runner cars or mopeds transporting the cooked pies.
Go to Sam's Club. No lines. Empty parking lot. Just don't think about why that is.
Amazon has been my wheelhouse, fulltime, for the past 7 months. I'm building a site that looks at most listings per category and determines "true" scores for each one. The site also lets your filter and sort, instantly, on a variety of attributes, like "price", "unit price", "shipping time", "recent price drop %", "used price discount", "popularity", "brand quality", etc. Spending 7 months collecting and analyzing data of several Amazon categories has been exhausting, but quite revealing.

As you can imagine, dealing with low quality products with fake reviews is a challenge -- but it turns out it's not too hard to handle, even with my dataset which is far more limited than Amazon's. Without looking at any reviews or any metadata of reviews (author, count, chronology, etc), one could filter out "impostor" products with 95%+ accuracy.

Here's a neat trick: Next time you're unsure if a product has fake reviews, click on the brand of the product and see what else they sell. If you're looking at binoculars, and that same brand also sells dog food bowls, then maybe you should reconsider.

I've concluded that Amazon really doesn't care about fake reviews -- they will show users whatever listing has the maximum Expected Value (conversion rate * revenue), per your context (search term, category, or both). Even if a product has obvious fake reviews, if there are enough other people buying it it will float to the top, and Amazon is fine with that.
Ask HN: Good learning resource for web/software development?
I want to learn and master a list of topics once and for all:

- HTML/CSS
- Node.js/Express
- React
- <insert name of another technology to learn>

I know enough to make a website/web service but I find myself constantly fighting the system (especially with CSS and React).

It's tiring to keep on scouring the web for tutorials or courses, and not know which one to pick.

Is there a decent course or website (even if paid) that I can stick to and that would let me take the training wheels off?

I've read:
- FullStack React, but I feel that it's outdated.
- I've read Web Development with Node and Express, but it just scratched the surface.

I'm a dev and my background is Cocoa development.
> Also when readers are trying to understand exactly how some function changes the system state, having to refer to numerous other functions it calls is tedious.

This also applies for small inlined common helper functions. If it folds two or three operations into one, but doesn't have an obvious universally recognizable name, it would often be way clearer to a reader of the code to just put the few operations in directly.
With the way I look at the review system, an O-Ring certainly could be worthy of 5 stars. By rating something like an O-Ring less than 5 you are implicitly saying that there are better o-rings out there, and that this one could be better. I don't see a rating for a given product as a comparison against all possible other products.
I think he means that taxes are indirectly passed to renters in form of a higher rent.
That is not a profit because it is not generated from capital. "Cost of producing labour" is not just food/water/shelter/etc. it is the literal time you have to give up in order to perform the labour. Someone who owns capital gets the profit which the capital generates at zero cost or time spent.
What if he just makes a feature film about himself and gives out free tickets? I don't see that there is such a clear distinction between a campaign and other speech.
How does Prop 13 make it hard to sell your home? It only affects the owners property taxes but not the property buyer's. At the time of purchase, there's no delta to the buyers taxes vs a property that was taxed at a full market rate assessment the whole time.
Money not spent holds significant value.
> you'd see 3-5x the number of proposed units as you do, or more.

Why? I would think it depends on population growth, no? From what I hear [1] the population of NYC is actually shrinking (due to taxation and demographics).

After seeing this number (127k units under construction) I'm actually optimistic that prices will drop medium term.

[1] https://streeteasy.com/blog/nyc-population/
Would you mind reporting this on our public tracker[1]? We absolutely do not expect there to be any outgoing connections unless you explicitly request them. Everything we're shipping is something visible in our public source, so you don't need to take my comment at face value.

[1] https://github.com/microsoft/terminal
I have both, but if I could only have one I'd rely on the native iOS backup encryption.

I trust Apple's implementation more than I trust myself accidentally leaving my disk unlocked in public. And I do trust myself not to leave my disk unlocked in public.

(I know this is a digression from the topic but we're nicely tucked away at the bottom of the comments)
Statically determining data flow is just as important, since it means being able to parallelize your code. Flowcharts are a very limited tool, other diagramming approaches (such as proof nets) can generalize on them in a helpful way.
This ignores the primary issue of needing empirical evidence before claiming discovery. If non-ionizing radiation of a certain level is hazardous then it is provable. Affecting enzyme reactions is an observed effect, but what is the health risk?
Land of the Undead
Millions of hairy tarantula skins could be used to mop up oil spills
I've had no better interaction with computers than the "jump to song" dialog in Winamp. It was always instantly responsive, worked when I wanted it, how I wanted it.
This is completely irrelevant to my point.

It has nothing to do with "god" or "bad" political speech. Before their court challenge, Citizens United was free to make their documentary. They were free to show and distribute their documentary. They were free to advertise their documentary. What they weren't free to do was to spend money to advertise it within 30 days of the primary election. Citizens United asked for that part of McCain-Feingold to be overturned. They didn't even ask for anything nearly as broad as what the court ended up doing.

The choice between completely forbidding or completely allowing the government to put restrictions on political speech is a false dichotomy. The slippery slope argument here is not a serious one. It's not even the one made by the majority in Citizens United.
You apply to ICANN. The registration paperwork and associated work will be fairly expensive, figure on spending $1M for a relatively uncontentious proposal, like maybe you want .pier25 that seems plausible unless there's some big community out there which feels they own it (see .amazon)

There are two routes, the key differentiator is are the resulting name hierarchy public (like .com) or is it yours and jealously to be guarded from all others (like .mil) ?

If the former ICANN will also require you to do a bunch of legal work to ensure that when you fail (because realistically you will) any names can be scooped up and preserved by a new operator of the TLD.

If the latter you're likely to have a tougher time defending why you should own this, unless you're a huge global brand.

Then you need to either spend a lot of money (again estimate $1M a year at least at first) yourself on infrastructure to serve your TLD, or you need to pay somebody else with relevant experience to do it for you.

A surprising number of companies bought vanity TLDs which they then don't use at all because of course they're much less convenient than a short name in an existing TLD. For example the KerryProperties TLD isn't used at all, kerryprops.com is much easier.
> Supreme Court has ruled money is free speech. It will take a constitutional amendment to change this.

This is a massive oversimplification. There are still set limits on donating money to candidates, and to political parties. The "money is free speech" phrase comes from Citizens United, which removed limits on spending unrelated to electioneering.

So you can't just go donate a million dollars to your favored candidate or political party. You can, however, run ads broadly advocating e.g. for or against gun control, climate change, etc.
While not America, I live in a minority white suburb. I don't want to have a school-age child here because it's, not coincidentally, one of the poorest places in the city and thus is only in zone for the worst schools. Poor people's kids drag down the quality of their schools. So you have to be careful your diversity doesn't overshoot and end up a ghetto.
Don't get me wrong - I live in Greenpoint too (and work in Dumbo), so I totally love it from a personal perspective - but at the same time the level of subsidy strikes me as outrageous given that it largely connects wealthy waterfront neighborhoods. I don't think they really needed to equalize the fare with subway/bus fare to encourage ridership - as you've pointed out, it's by far the most convenient and pleasant way to make those journeys, which feels like enough incentive to equalize it against something like an Express Bus instead.

(A downside from a personal perspective - the Greenpoint-Dumbo trip is fine, but the reverse trip can be pretty brutal, especially in the peak of summer, when the boats often reach capacity before they even make it from Wall St.)
It's true that code is knowledge, but I think it's talking more about not having slightly different versions of that knowledge floating around the same code base. For example, if there is one canonical way to do something, such as adding a table row and having to remember to update counts somewhere else, then that should be done in one place. That way, if that agreed-upon way changes you don't have to remember that it's done in 25 other places across your code base.
Thats why I turn my rating into a 1(lowest) or 5(highest).

I binary-ize any score that isn't already a yes/no, because thats what every score turns into.
One of the founders overdosed, they switched hosts, and overall seem to have done everything in their power to tank themselves.
HQ Trivia was great at first but it got boring fast, especially when they replaced host Scott Rogowsky and did the show multiple times a day instead of every few days which created more hype. The sudden death of cofounder Colin Kroll was also a bizarre event to add to the mix.
That jumped out at me as well. It seems to me that what the team actually gave up was the entire business model, because what they did instead was not really much different than what most pizza parlors do.
Over the years I've learned many many things in depth. I've worked on codebases totaling hundreds of Mlocs. Perhaps I can say a thing or two about this.

First, it takes time to develop a method that will work for you, and I won't pretend that mine will, but as that's what I know... The first time you have to do this is the hardest, but each time you'll feel like you're at the bottom of the Himalayas and have to climb to the top without help -- you might always feel a bit helpless at first, and you might have to defeat that feeling every time, and that's OK.

Second, you need to get a handle on concepts first, details later. When you deal with hundreds of millions of lines of code you just can't know enough of the details. Instead you need to know how to navigate your way around the landscape, and you need to know the general lay of the land, and key landmarks. This will help you organize the details that you must remember, and discard the ones you can refresh as needed.

Third, the ABAB pattern to dealing with prerequisites is essential: learn as much of A as you need to before you block having to learn some of a prerequisite B, then switch to B enough to get back on track to A, lather, rinse, repeat. Even establishing all the prerequisites and topologically sorting them might be ETOOHARD, and learning them all in the right order might be ETOOBORING or not good enough to build the muscle memory you need for the earlier topics.

Fourth, learn the tools early. Whether you use a proper IDE or integrate usage of a bunch of standalone tools into something like an IDE, you'll need one of them.
A friend at work (years ago) introduced me to WET: Write Everything Twice, a cheeky response to DRY enthusiasts. It falls just short of the Rule of Threes (as soon as you write it a third time, refactor it out).

I think this article does have something going for it. DRY should be about knowledge. Don't repeat yourself by handling tax rates all over, get that into a central place. This is not about turning similar looking blocks of code into a clean single block that handles everything as these tend to actually hurt maintainability (ever see the littering of conditionals in "DRY" code because multiple call sites use the similar code slightly different? Yeah, you did it wrong).

Another comment wrote it well by mentioning SPOT: Single Point of Truth. DRY and WET SPOTs. I feel like an analogy is forming that someone more quippy than myself can ferret out.
This repeal effort is specifically motivated by the desire to increase education funding, not to reduce income taxes. It may also have the Georgist side effect of pushing more expensive commercial property into productive uses vs idling as financial instruments.

I'm not saying you have to agree with that cause, but if lowering state income taxes is your goal, then there are plenty of groups in CA advocating for that whose cause you can join.

However, I'd guess that due to political realities, most of them also oppose repeal of proposition 13 also, so you might have some challenges building a movement around that.
Wait.. so you are just opposed to people having somewhere to live? You’re saying that more apartments on the market makes prices higher? I don’t think I’m going to be able to follow the logic here.

The problem with the “try to understand NIMBYs” concern trolling in this thread is that there isn’t much to understand. The only common thread in NIMBY philosophy is fear of change, and some mild xenophobia.

I think there’s a lot more common ground to be had with far-left PHIMBYs who want the government to build most housing. At least that’s a coherent philosophy and a proposed solution.
For what it's worth, Terminal doesn't do anything special with line breaks on shell prompts. PowerShell, however, might.

If you're using powershell, you can escape newlines with `. If git bash, \. If CMD, I don't know what to tell you -- I don't use it for any serious work. :)
This should be surprising to precisely no one. And this is nothing against HQ Trivia (although the founder seemed like a tool [1]) but any sort of format has a shelf life. Long-lasting shows like Jeopardy are outliers. The more typical case is where a given show will play for a few years, people will get bored with it and it'll be replaced by something else.

That's really all that happened here. HQ Trivia had a novelty value that eventually went away. Losing Scott probably didn't help. Just like Alex Trebek is probably a big part of the reason for Jeopardy's longevity, I think Scott was a big part of the reason for HQ Trivia's popularity.

[1]: https://theoutline.com/post/2517/is-hq-trivia-holding-its-ho...
Not particularly, but I’m also not enamored of Slack, either. IRC had easy discoverability that was free for the joining, whereas Slack has a better look and feel and no entire afternoons of channel greetings with nothing accomplished.

Neither one is a strong improvement over the other.
PostgreSQL’s source code is also really good. https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=tree
Do you live in California? If so, your city's infrastructure may be struggling due to the county's lagging property tax revenue, which in turn is a result of Prop 13.
In the case of the city/situation discussed in the article -- Lafayette, CA -- would you believe it is unfair to step on the property rights of the landowner who wants to put 300 condos or 44 single family homes on the vacant land? It doesn't matter how the current owner of that land acquired it: for any of us to stop them, would be a gross violation of their property rights. Nobody is saying, just because the land you currently own is upzoned, that you have to tear down your single family home and put in multifamily housing. To suggest such would be misunderstanding the position held by YIMBYs.