skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you really even get a house here on 5% down? I presumed anything over $750k would require 20% down immediately (and there's basically nothing that you'd want to own under $1m here). At least - that's what I got told when I talked to a guy at a bank about it.
It's really hard to wrap your head around whether a city is building a lot by looking at a raw number. But fewer than 7,000 building permits in a city of 8 million is frighteningly little.

You need to compare it to population growth, decades of building backlog, job growth, etc.
I'm a Macperson but for my primary Mac (Retina iMac), I refuse to upgrade simply because of my 32bit apps. I still have plenty of them that work as designed and have no interest in purchasing newer versions just because Apple says so.
Paul Lamere from The Echo Nest made an awesome music analysis demo called "The Infinite Jukebox" (for when your favorite song just isn't long enough), for automatically finding loopable points in music. And it can use that analysis to stretch a song out to any duration you want, by seamlessly skipping and looping parts of it to shorten or stretch it. It's interactive, so you can point and click on the arcs to control how it loops at any point.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Echo_Nest

http://infinitejukebox.playlistmachinery.com/

Infinite Jukebox

For when your favorite song just isn't long enough

This web app lets you upload a favorite MP3 and will then generate a never-ending and ever changing version of the song. Infinite Jukebox uses the Echo Nest analyzer to break the song into beats. It plays the song beat by beat, but at every beat there's a chance that it will jump to a different part of song that happens to sound very similar to the current beat. For beat similarity the uses pitch, timbre, loudness, duration and the position of the beat within a bar. There's a nifty visualization that shows all the possible transitions that can occur at any beat. Built at Music Hack Day Boston 2012.

Billie Jean Forever:

http://infinitejukebox.playlistmachinery.com/?trid=TRSFLTX13...

Scatman (Ski-Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop) by Scatman John:

http://infinitejukebox.playlistmachinery.com/?trid=TRXKEZN13...

Lots more cool Echo Nest demos:

http://static.echonest.com/labs/

http://static.echonest.com/labs/demo.html
But I have friends who work at those companies. They're brilliant, they post here on HN, and have families that they take care of. They are active in their local communities. Are you saying they're the bad guys? Should I distance myself from them?
Transit reacts to changes in transportation demand, it doesn't set demand. How do you envision BART would profit from underused directions? Put out ads encouraging people to take these routes for fun?

As I said, pointing out that transit systems are at capacity is not a valid reason to block development. Transit systems always try to operate at capacity because excess capacity means suboptimal allocation of resources. There's no reason to increase capacity until there's demand for that capacity.
Genode OS roadmap includes initial version of a kernel in Ada/SPARK in August
I did actually do most of the initial development on Clozure.
> Cop directing traffic by hand at an intersection.

That’s going to be really challenging. Good one!
Also a homeowner, and I'm a YIMBY (or PHIMBY) for selfish reasons as well. My neighborhood is mostly old white people, because they bought their houses years ago and stayed put. Not that I have anything against them, but I'd love to have a more diverse, younger neighborhood. More neighbors also means more customers for local businesses, which means more shops and restaurants in walking distance. More neighbors would eventually also mean better public transit, because the ridership would demand it. I think the selfish benefits of more housing are often overlooked due to fear of change.
Y'all are gonna call me a crackpot, but consider P, PSPACE and IP. PSPACE is (probably) much more powerful than P. Also PSPACE=IP (interactive proofs). Learn interactively. Treat your compiler as the prover, you as the verifier. Don't try to understand everything by simply reading the manual -- that's only utilizing P, not PSPACE.
What movie? It sounds vaguely entertaining.
Yeah but if you use the same key for server management, then you may be in a bad situation :(
As I stated above, use TPU or Ninjaflex filament. It adheres very well to a clean copper surface. Start etching immediately after printing.
Not really. Probably closer to a Veblen good (which does exist) but, in any case, those are about increased price driving up demand, not increased supply driving up price.

(I suppose increased supply could drive up price if providing that additional supply increased the overall costs but you'd presumably still be constrained by the overall supply/demand curves of the market.)
They expensed rubber mallets, which didn't work. They brought in a locksmith, which did.
SSL is exactly the problem. Has pretty much killed caching proxies.
Show HN: Best way to keep your personal journal and get connected with others
Kraftful (YC S19) is hiring first engineer, account executive
Team succeeds? Take credit. Team fails? Blame them.
Simple. The engineers are working on the product during the day in well-lit spaces. Since the lights are always on, it never occurs to anyone that the LEDs might be too bright at night.
Not anymore than it should be called ICQ. The XMPP protocol does not share any of the privacy-oriented roots of signal.
In theory perhaps but in practice a) it’s unreasonable to tell people for literally decades that homeownership is the path to security in retirement then move the goalposts and b) tech-driven wealth disparity is fully the root cause of this situation and if it were “corrected” through taxation we wouldn’t even have this problem
Beyond the boundaries of C: writing ASIL-4 software with Ada/SPARK
Hangouts is actually one of the best messaging apps to this day, I'll be sad when it disappears.

I love being able to send and receive messages from my PC and phone, seamlessly. And, probably the best part of all? All of my messages are searchable using Google's excellent search in my gmail inbox. I've been able to find specific messages I remember sending years ago. No other messaging platform does this (at least, not well).
Does anyone have suggestions for good books on the history of Mathematics?
You are comparing the entire metro area population to housing units under construction only within the NYC city limits (and the population within NYC city limits is ~8.4 million).

I agree there needs to be a far faster rate of housing development if you want to see housing cost reductions, I just don't think the comparison you're drawing makes much sense.

There is substantial (if also insufficient) housing development going up in NJ, parts of NY outside the city limits, etc.

The comparison needs to either include all of those units, or only compare against the NYC population instead of the metro population.
I used to have this exact same fear and never downloaded any extensions bc of that, until I started making browser extensions. Pretty much any useful extension needs the access that prompts that generic message about accessing all the data.

Any extension that's listed on the web stores have to be reviewed for malicious code, and they must do what the listing say they do. So if your browser extension has your passwords, then that extension would be considered a password manager.

The extension probably listens to the IPs of well-known time wasting websites like HN or reddit, then adds a latency to the browsing. Same with an ad blocker -- they know every site you visit but only to compare them with their blacklist of advertising IP addresses.

Of course, you have to trust they aren't doing anything else with that info, which you can probably assume you're mostly safe if you don't need an account to use the extension.
> you said you were working on game code

Actually, I didn't. I said I wanted to "up my game" which is a phrase commonly meaning "to get better". Said another way: I needed to get better at describing code to management.

> I will encourage you to keep thinking about the complexity of the choices you make in which constructs to use

Indeed, management generally wants simpler code even at the cost of performance. Simpler code generally translates to cheaper developers and cheaper maintenance.

> don’t buy into the thought that says performance implications are not a really concern

I actually write DNA analysis software. Performance implications definitely are a concern. :)

But performance is useless if I'm the only developer who understands how it all comes together (eg, high bus factor). So I've been writing a lot of documentation to that end, from file-level down to the systems-level and bit-level descriptions. I really would like better support for diagrams in markdown.
I don't believe that the "airtime" laws will do as much good as you hope. They applied only to a very specific kind of air, namely the public bandwidth used for broadcast radio and TV. These were limited resources that justified some restrictions on their usage.

They never applied to the Internet, cable TV, or cell phone bandwidth. And those have become the dominant forms of communication. Only around 15% of people get over-the-air TV. And while the numbers for radio are somewhat higher, it's competing against much more targeted messaging on social media and web advertising -- both of which are unregulated.

So even if you reinstated airtime laws, and actually enforced them, I don't think it would make much difference. It's not the loss of equal time that allows obviously-biased mass media TV "news" channels to exist, but the fact that they're not broadcast over the air.

Amending the laws to cover those would almost certainly run you afoul of the first amendment, since the equal time doctrines were only legal because the bandwidth was so restricted. The unrestricted bandwidth of the Internet will make it much harder to justify.
Does anyone have a good summary of how this relates to the differential geometry world with its n-forms and n-vectors? For example, I'm used to thinking of the wedge product as operating over n-forms and requiring a metric (or volume element) transformation to work over vectors. Similarly, I don't see any discussion of behaviors under coordinate transformations.
The problem is they need to create the demand. Anybody who wants to get around and checks transit knows it isn't an option so they find an alternative. If CalTran wants to be useful transit for more than commuters (My understanding as someone not in the area is CalTran runs only a few trips during rush hour - if I'm wrong that invalidates some of my reply...) they need to run more service for a while so people start to think they can count on it.
Off topic... but there are .apple domains now?
That's how they prevent you from deleting the data, so they can keep it.
You can get developers to build the infrastructure and finance it on their future taxes. You wouldn't believe the incremental tax from building real buildings in the Bay Area. In one particularly egregious case a single apartment building replaced several detached homes that were paying a total of $1200/year in the city of Berkeley. The apartment building pays over a million dollars per year.
Denker describes the development as a case study in "Experimental Techniques in Condensed Matter Physics at Low Temperatures." His chapter is on electromagnetic shielding and grounding - important for animated sharks and microKelvin measurements. Spielberg is indirectly referenced as the director getting impatient with delays caused by all sorts of hidden electrical problems.

The book is a compendium of tips and techniques from graduate students in Cornell's famous low temperature physics lab. Although published in 1988, it is sufficiently general to be valuable today.

https://books.google.com/books?id=8tJMDwAAQBAJ&pg=PP16&lpg=P...
Click on the pencil & paper icon next to the search window. One of the options is "New Secret Chat".
Kickstarter Hired Law Firm That Advertises 'Maintaining a Union-Free Workplace'
"if you live in the Bay Area you probably meet that qualification"

Only if you are leaving the Bay Area. Often, these older houses have a lot of deferred maintenance and the retired seller wants to downsize into something in the Bay Area that is newer build/renovated.
Really? https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-72/p...
This could still have a beneficial effect of pushing political discussion towards issues instead of personalities.
Can't agree more. Brave Browser incredibly cuts so much crap out of every payload. Sometimes, I feel (with the way how things usually done in the US) someone may try to lobby for "this kind of technology needs to be regulated..." kind of BS.
In a bright environment, a bright LED is useful. Instead they should also have a light sensor used to determine the ambient light level, and then adjust the status LED display accordingly. My Samsung TV does this with its "powered on" light.

Of course, that adds to the BOM and manufacturers love shaving off fractions of a penny. Asking them to add an extra 50 cents of parts for something consumers don't think about prior to purchase is a lost cause.
Broadly, 1% could be bad, or it could be helpful... it depends.

NY-Newark is clearly the wrong metric, since the new housing website only covers NY. The comparable statistic is 8.4M for 2020: http://worldpopulationreview.com/us-cities/new-york-city-pop...

But I agree this isn't right either - you really want new commutable housing vs existing commutable housing, and that's obviously a lot bigger number on both sides of the equation, and because it affects multiple jurisdictions (NJ, CT, LI, etc) it would be a pain to gather properly... even assuming everyone could agree on "commutable" - for some, that means 20mins, for others 2hrs is fine sitting comfortably on LIRR, NJT or metro north; let alone capturing the impact of transfers, flaky vs reliable transit options, transit cost... I once commuted by LIRR: all fun and games until you're waiting for a train transfer outdoors in high wind in Feb, and then get to your car, which has thawed/refrozen and you need to excavate to even get in...)

hope this helps, please be gentle.
The source of the quote saying the Trump pressured him to make sure Amazon lost the competition includes a follow up quote from Mattis telling his work group that they would be doing the acquisition by the book.

There is reason to believe that Trump tried illegally influence the award. There is also plenty of reason that he was unable to do so because senior subordinates ignored him and protected the process.
WhatsApp lacks authentication by default.

Also, WhatsApp sometimes doe use a server key to encrypt your messages instead of e2e encryption, which basically means that if FB wanted to they could listen in on some communications at will (such as at request of law enforcement, etc):

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jan/13/whatsapp-...
I don't know, but the words we use for it are certainly influenced by our culture!

Here's a paper with nice graphs, drawing where different languages put the boundaries between words -- they divide up the hue-saturation space into a varying number of blobs:

https://www.pnas.org/content/115/31/7937

(The data isn't theirs, it was painstakingly colected by going and asking lots of people "what colour is this pantone?". The paper does some fancy stuff on top of that. But it has nice graphs.)
I’m not a “NIMBY”, but I believe the YIMBY moniker is counter-productive to your cause.

It automatically frames the question in a sophomoric way, where the “other side” is an evil force to be mocked and dismissed. In reality, there is no such thing as a “NIMBY”, just a collection of people with differing - often rational - interests concerning any given project. Until and unless you address these interests, calling people names and yelling ”just build, dammit!” will not get you what you want.

I think, if you talk to most of these folks, you find that many/most abstractly support the idea that building is required. It’s the specifics where the problems lie, and calling people names doesn’t resolve fundamental issues. This is why the “Yes in your Backyard” line is such a devastating rhetorical criticism: everyone favors development of projects that don’t affect them.
SlateStarCodex has a relevant post on money in politics - https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/09/18/too-much-dark-money-in...
Wow, so how dumb was spring ejection SD cards in hindsight?
I've literally lost two sd cards while moving about in the wild with important code on them in the last 6 months.

I think we spend too much time discussing how were succeeding and not enough time discussing how we are failing.

For example, its still impossible to paste an image from google search onto twitter...
From the Birth of Numbers. ISBN 9780393040029
You also mentioned an adhesive, what's that for? Also, how do you find it better than the marker method?
You could just try it. Turn off the electrical stuff before you go to bed but hey everyone has freedom of choice.
I think that on Netflix's case they are not going for reviews. They want to know what you like, to suggest something you'll probably like too. Doesn't matter if it's 4 or 5 stars.
"As you move up the ladder you are constantly trading control for impact."

Brilliantly articulated!!

(I logged in after years just to up-vote this comment).
There is nothing forcing the allowance of campaign season debate on these platforms, I think it's reasonable to put our society above the health of these platforms and allow formal debate to only happen on the mainstream platforms - people can talk on other streams, but campaigns funding (either directly or through friends) discussion on those platforms can be pursued.

Bear in mind, it's not like we have no control over debate platforms now - the rule enforcement has been lacking but foreign money in campaigns is strictly verbotten, free speech has some limits.
I might be hopelessly naive, but why not do the new growth somewhere else? The BA is pretty obviously "full" already, and adding more housing of any kind isn't going to make it better.
They made the best modem for a price where many cant refuse. Or you could choose other modem from Mediatek, while it is stable enough, they often come very late in the cycle.
Google (Waymo?) has been thinking through these exceptions: (around the 9:45 mark) https://www.ted.com/talks/chris_urmson_how_a_driverless_car_...
You mean the output of VC firm and Silly Con Valley marketing centipedes isn't strictly true? Perish the thought! Next thing you know, you'll be telling me the advocates of strong-AI, 3-d printing, Virtual Reality and Drones as revolutionary technology might not be exactly accurate.
Only if you’re Apple - they own it and afaik don’t sell domains on it.
On Facebook, create a "list" of all of you're friends, bookmark the list, and use that bookmark as your portal.

The list will show you posts and shares from those people (in actual chronological order), and nothing else.

You're done scrolling when you see something you recognize from a previous visit. Congratulations! You've reached the end of Facebook. Visit again another day.
"Incompetent Manager" is a pleonasm.
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This is just a map of the housing construction in the five boroughs.

Some suburbs are densifying around train stations and some are not, but New York City has no mechanism to make the suburbs densify.
I used to live right near the park, 1/4 mile from the N-Judah. The infrastructure in that area can barely support the housing stock that exists right now.
I have a feeling the adoption of AI will be like the early years of the internet. Massive hype, then a massive crash and then slowly it finds its into everything, fulfilling most of what was promised.
this might be obnoxiously unrelated but this site has probably the coolest usage of particle.js i've seen yet.
It's exaggerated in timescale and returns but not by a huge amount.

Condos I saw for $400K in 2010 are going for about a million. Homes that were about $1.1M in 2010 are about $2.4M. The sibling comment describes homes bought for $500K in 2000 that are now $2M; this is not out of line with what I'm heard from some founder friends I have that are pushing 50. IIRC my wife's parents bought their home for $130K or so back in 1986 and it's now worth $3M.
If you upzone far enough builders will fill all the demand for rich apartments, and see the only way to make money is to build apartments for the next level down Some of this is moving the rich to the next style and letting the next level down have their old apartment.

The problem of course is the best time to build affordable housing is 20 years ago. So if you want to really help the poor (as opposed to symbolically helping a few poor while leaving the rest out) you need to go back in time 20 years. You can start today though on a 20 year plan.
You can do both, you can set the fictive universe or the location were your are reading it. At the end is your literary map of the world (you can see only your literary moments if you choose 'Mine' in the layer control).

Good suggestion about the relevant pages.

For the moment is not possible relocate literary moments already saved. You would have to deleted and create a new one. Thanks for the feedback.
What do you do about endorsements, newspapers with profiles on politicians, unions telling their members to vote for one or the other.

If no/few ads are allowed we’d likely get famous or infamous people running and winning on name recognition mostly.
We as a community take a strong stance on the issue and categorically decline jobs that are not fully remote.

The recruiters I work with know that I don't entertain non-remote work at any salary.

Do the same. Join the revolution. Succeed.
If you've ever been in an area where your phone is just barely connected to a tower, and is struggling to keep a connection (and has no better tower to switch to), you'll notice your phone will get quite hot—hotter than it would normally let itself get before thermal-throttling. (Because it's not the CPU getting that hot; it's the antenna+baseband.)

Often, this heat will be localized to where the antenna is located—I've noticed that my iPhone 8 will sometimes feel burning hot along its right edge, for example, and no amount of closing applications or disabling radios will cool it down. The only thing for it, usually, is to turn it off entirely, such that the baseband stops receiving power. (For some reason, upon turning it back on, it doesn't heat back up, even if I haven't moved—perhaps because the baseband's criteria for connecting to towers is stricter than its criteria for staying connected to towers.)
So do a lot of ventures but that's no reason to throw in the towel.
This is how a Kodak can develop digital cameras yet go bankrupt when their revenue model breaks.
Exactly! When things cannot be measured we are left with perception only.
Not to downplay this (infact I am a signal user), but What if fb buys Signal, as it did with WhatsApp?
And while you're dreaming that purchase history solves that, the scam world has long moved on.

Currently, companies pay people to buy items. They can keep those items, they just need to leave a good review. There are intermediaries who handle lots of sellers, so people buy a mixed bag of random garbage in exchange for the occasional review.

Yes, you can probably test for statistical anomalies, but I'm willing to bet that's quickly countered too - just have people buy occasional legit items so their profile is "statistically normal".

As far as I can tell, Amazon tries to fight that by keeping their ML model secret so scammers don't learn too quickly, but essentially, they're currently finding out what the Internet learned about SEOs manipulating search results.
In Hungarian it's a similar situation: the usual word for wolf is "Farkas", which means "with tail", i.e. "tailed one".
Although perhaps the very first life on Earth came across extraterrestrial life from a meteor and they interbred?