skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is a given and is basic economics. Supply and demand curves certainly apply to housing.

Increasing housing shifts the supply line to the right - which satisfies greater demand at a lower price, all else equal. That is what "many would move to SF if housing was only slightly cheaper" means in economic terms.

Shifting the demand curve to the right is not driven by quantity of housing, but instead by things like quality of life, supply of jobs, etc. Its the difference between the slope of the line and its position.
My reaction to this is kind of similar to yours, and sort of in-between a lot of others'. A lot of posts here seem to be nay-saying the piece, but I'm not really sure that's right or wrong.

The problem as I see it is it's not really clear how progress should be defined to address the sort of questions being asked in the article. Maybe someone has convincingly, and the article doesn't convey this, but without a clearer definition things seem to be a non-starter.

I have some intuition that the question of the piece is not really nonsense, that there was something about the interwar and postwar period that was different. A lot of advances since then have been powerful incremental improvements on those postwar innovations, but incremental nonetheless. The one exception I personally maybe see is networked communications, which have really revolutionized a lot and are still disrupting things. But outside of that my sense is that life (in the US) hasn't changed in fundamental ways since, say, 1975. Things are really different in a lot of ways, but the basics are the same. Conversely, my sense is things are really different compared to 1915.

On the other hand, I'm not sure any of my subjective senses of things are really accurate. I wasn't alive in 1915. So without quantifying anything convincingly this is all some armchair discussion.

I do think these kinds of questions are important, and I suspect there's some way of getting at this, maybe with very high-level economic or public health data (I've read that the biggest increases in life expectancy in the last 200 years or so, for example, have not actually come from any medical procedure or tech advances, but rather public health advances). But I agree that the way we define things is critical, and it would be interesting to address the question of the article definitively positively or negatively.
Welcome to the new millennium, this is your 2010 wake up call.
Hamap as SPARQL rules–A portable annotation pipeline for genomes and proteomes
What does it take to create a new TLD?
Hah! This is what originally got me interested in learning to program at 12 or 13.
Thanks znpy! I couldn't agree more!

Companies that have the financial wherewithal to provide a more welcoming workplace should be leading the charge in this domain. FAANG definitely falls in this category and they have an opportunity here to make a difference.
I'm criticizing the assertion on it's logical merits (or lack thereof). You're ignoring the substance of my critique, and making a borderline ad-hominem attack on me, including attempting to guilt me for my presumed identity. So yea, I'm sensing a pattern...
To clarify,
the issue is that in the 60's, both cities had much looser zoning and allowed dense housing development. Policy changes in the late 60s and early 70s tightened the zoning/reduced a cities ability to create dense housing.
Rust, let me share your awesomeness with C
To value diversity of ethnicity or race, you must believe there are intrinsic differences between people which are determined by their ethnicity. That's one of the definitions of racism. A non-racist wouldn't be bothered what race their neighbors were just as most people aren't bothered by the color of their carpets.

In the candy example, you would believe the color is an important determinant of some quality of the candy. If it wasn't, you wouldn't care what color they were.

I should add that it's not the end of the world to be a racist. Most people probably are. It's perfectly legal and normal! Admitting it is hard though.
+1 Matrix has made the best architectural trade-offs to achieve various goals.

There's a Flutter-based app in the works for the specific purpose of messaging for families: https://github.com/nileshtrivedi/family
I think it can't go unsaid that the tracking data and the conclusions you draw from it are useless without the second step which is the actions that emerge from those conclusions. i.e. Lots of people are visiting the second page of process x but not the third - tracking data. There is something wrong with the transition between those pages or the 'flow' of process x - conclusion. Conduct observational/interview testing to determine why - action.

My point is why weren't you doing the action in the first place? Did you actually need the tracking data to tell you that?
Agreed: an API that _just_ maps to CRUD operations isn’t good. I’m not advocating for that, neither is singingwolfboy, and the starter repo he’s linked to basically does not use them: there are only 4 CRUD mutations, all the others are custom. I rarely use CRUD operations in PostGraphile, mostly I use custom mutations either defined in SQL or TypeScript.
That is fair, though, because it is equally likely to find someone that will never give Apple credit for a single thing.
Google cuts jobs at cloud-computing group
See reviewmeta thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22327272
The Java implementation of WebObjects runs on Linux.

https://wiki.wocommunity.org/display/documentation/Deploying...
Probing the Corporate Manipulation of Science
Well (and I'm elucidating, not necessarily defending) they mean knowledge somewhat specific to the project, not in an absolute philosophical sense.

So you have an API that belongs to this project. When you change it, do so in one place, and then run your doc generator rather than change it in both function/method signatures and docs.

Or you have domain knowledge embedded in classes, and a wire protocol between peers or client & servers using different languages. Derive the data structures in the two different languages from common source (either one of the languages, or both from metadata).

I think the distinction between this kind of project-specific 'knowledge' and more abstract 'everything is knowledge' issues is clear enough in practice. But it is just a rule of thumb rather than a deep philosophical principle, and like all such will break down in individual cases.

whenever I copy-paste code around

But that's just one source of code duplication. Another might be (for example) duplicated code deriving from code generation. DRY might advocate this (as there's a clear canonical source of knowledge), whereas a generic rule against all 'duplication' wouldn't.
>I don't feel like it is the same ~vibe~ as when I used to use it growing up in the 90s

What does have the same vibe now as when you used it growing up in the 90s?
Amazon reached that point for me a number of years ago. Since Amazon reviews are largely worthless, I don't use them to decide whether or not to buy a product. I do read them, though, because they often contain useful information about specific issues and usage tips.

Amazon is fourth in my list of where I buy things from. First is a local physical store. If I can't find what I need there, then I seek out manufacturers websites, or websites of authorized retailers. If I can't find what I need there, then I check out eBay. If that doesn't work, then it's Amazon.

This changed over the last year or so, though -- before, I would go to Amazon before eBay.
I agree, I don't think there's a chance of that actually happening.

There were some rumors that Andrew Yang might run for governor in NYC, would actually be interesting to see him run for Cuomo's seat. A competent governor would unify the MTA, NJ Path and LIRR under one system and potentially add a few extra stops in Queens.
As long as it works or can be fixed with some bodge, I'm okay with that for prototypes. I do tend to tin the traces wherever they seem 'porous'. For broken traces, I use wrapping wire core soldered on tracks.

But yeah, that isn't pretty!
For everyone saying it's hard to set up a relay, if you use something like The Lounge, deployed by something like HomelabOS, it's pretty much a one-liner to deploy it, then you have a fantastic mobile and web interface accessible from anywhere. I've been using this setup for a while and it's been great.
> Google said it is cutting jobs at its cloud-computing unit as part of a reorganization aimed at improving operations at the business that has become more central to parent Alphabet Inc.

> Google on Friday said “a small number of employees” have been notified their roles have been eliminated. 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.
Tangentially related, BigQuery uses a similar usage-based approach to place and replicate data in a manner that's likely to be available for users:

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/how-bi...
No, but I miss the community of people that I used IRC to chat with.
the new designs fit in a standard rack so I don't think it's that big of a deal.
What criteria makes Andrew Yang a serious candidate compared to Marianne Williamson?
In my experience, I have never been surprised by overly cautious drivers, only drivers who have an excess of confidence. How do you define 'excess caution'?
Yes, totally. Nowadays IRC is mostly a thing I use very passively to stay in various open source project channels. Back in the day it was a place where other folks who were internet savvy would convene to discuss just about anything. I was in lots of tightly knit small channels and met plenty of friends I still have.

I didn’t use IRC until the mid 2000s, but in my opinion until around ~2012 it was still quite active for many communities.
Obviously not, but that doesn't prove that there isn't value to having backwards compatibility. Sometimes you just want something to run and not have to touch or change it for a long time.

A 20-year old machine that's critical to a factory can run off a serial cable plugged in to an expansion card running software written in the 90's that will still run on Windows 10. Nobody in their right mind would decide to write that same software on a Mac.
Glad you've found FSet useful! I'm curious what the difference is in map equality semantics.
Google also own .new which seems like the sort of ridiculously expensive experiment only one of the big startups with cash to burn would do. It allows you to type docs.new or sheets.new (etc) into your address bar and instantly get an empty document.

Sadly it always defaults to the first logged in user, which makes it almost entirely useless to me.
how about $1 each? i don't want $100 worth of ad impressions (pennies each) blasted at me over the course of a campaign season
So much so, I was prompted to recreate[0] the #distributed meetmap and add a new link[1].

[0] https://github.com/ryjones/meetmap

[1] https://github.com/ryjones/meetmap/commit/a0148759c2b6b06757...
I think you are uncomfortable that some phenomena particularly biological don't fit in a scientific experiment neatly and are more comfortable labelling 3% of the population hypochondriacs to alleviate your own anxiety.

What I've stated is that I experienced increased fatigue from exposure to ER while I was seriously ill and had elevated serum ferritin.

Each ferritin molecule has 4500 iron atoms and serrin ferritin increases with acute or chronic viral infections. A healthy level is less than fifty. So a 1150 times increase in iron atoms in someone's blood could plausibly cause fatigue when it absorbs er.

Who does this cause anxiety in exactly?

How is turning off electronic devices going to cause anxiety?

People can turn them off. If it helps great. If it doesn't don't bother.

No anxiety necessary.

You might be better educated than me, better connected than me and more intelligent but there's something to be said for original thought. I'd love to take you up on your bet where you impolitely just called me a whinger. I think I'm smarter than you are just sayin there wasn't one insightful thing in your comment as you tried to apply a method that doesn't really fit the situation. How do we do this? Let's bet our hacker News anonymous reputations on it.
What could go wrong...
Unfortunately, they don't all come with a label.
If you know of initiatives you care about (like SB 50 for example), look for groups pushing that.

If you're on twitter, the twitter networks usually bridge cities. I follow a lot of LA area YIMBY groups, but get some cross pollination from other cities too.
I'd say "advanced" C, not necessarily "well-written" C. There's certainly a lot of C in it, and I'd bet it's the largest open source C codebase.
I miss when I typed /list and my computer would crash. ;)
> The problem with Three is they don't have enough spectrum especially in densely populated areas

Isn’t this argument basically debunked? Places like South Korea and Japan have no issues whatsoever with extremely fast wireless internet at a fraction of the price.
You're absolutely right. People are rarely self-consciously irrationally opposed to any given proposal to build housing. In theory, it should be possible to address any given rational concern!

Too tall? Make it shorter. Not enough public space? Make the area in front of it a parklet! Not enough subsidized housing? More BMR units and a donation to a neighborhood group will solve that one. Doesn't fit with the style or is otherwise ugly? Pay attention and design a building that fits, it's not that hard.

Although there might be tricky ones, like maybe the neighbors have been treating the lot as a park and would like to keep it that way or someone is afraid of losing the all-day sun on their backyard garden. Still, all of these should be solvable in principle, right?

Again, as you wisely point to, all of these possible concerns are individually eminently reasonable and addressable. Certainly insulting the people who are just trying to keep their homes and communities they way they like it isn't going to win them over!

With all that said, might there be problems in aggregate? When people are empowered to throw up essentially arbitrary roadblocks, no matter how reasonable their complaints, the result can be near-infinite stonewalling. This has happened enough that some people have lost trust in the process that enabled good, kind, compassionate people to get their perfectly reasonable concerns addressed.

So perhaps there's some room for subtlety here. How do you think YIMBYs should frame things, to avoid the issues you rightly point to?
Not sure it makes the case well, but biology and agriculture being revolutionised by a glass box has parallels.

Don't attack a field directly. Improve it by processes that help all participants.
That is the opposite way I read it; the term used in the article "breakthrough" says to me "the very beginnings of a completely new thing"; not focused on who got there first but about demonstrating that a thing is possible, when it had not been possible for all of human history until that time. The article talks about "a new discovery to shatter old paradigms completely".

It is hard to judge and in many ways arbitrary - there must be a lot of inventions along the way to making something mature enough to be generally available and useful, and improving things gradually does open doors to new ways of using them. Inventing a way to increase LiIon battery density 10% by new factory processes, is valuable and useful, and doing that several times makes for a sea change in the kind of devices which can be economically viable. I'm hoping for room temperature superconductivity to be discovered in my lifetime, and think it will be a breakthrough if it is; but temperatures of superconductors have increased over the years and I have no reason (layperson) to think there is an arbitrary universe cutoff around 273Kelvin, so if we keep progressing and trying, it will eventually appear. The time when Onnes discovered superconductivity at all, was much more breakthrough into new realm, even if room temperature superconductors sounds like crossing a significant threshhold.

The article to me is about the feeling of novelty and new discovery missing from post-1971 life, rather than saying no economic growth in useful mature technology is happening.

I was absolutely certain the article said "we've forgotten what it feels like to have a breakthrough" in more or less exactly words. And it says nothing like that, at all. This bothers me.
Has CF ever directly prevented a gay couple from getting married? Has any organization they have donated to ever directly prevented a gay couple from getting married?

Just because an individual or a company is perceived as disagreeing with your personal beliefs doesn't make it 'bad'.

CF happily sells its delicious chicken to everyone irrespective of their sexual orientation.
My take -- as someone who fits neither category, and who uses the ferry quite frequently -- is that it helps to make the overall system more usable, by making certain areas more accessible. For certain trips (East Midtown to Greenpoint; Lower Manhattan to the western edge of Red Hook, for example) it quite definitely is the shortest hop.

It's also much more pleasant (and healthier) ride than the subway. One of the negatives of life in NYC is the significant amount of time spent underground (or on buses, swimming in the exhaust and street noise). Ferry trips provide a significant respite from all of that.

So it's a "sunk cost" but adds value overall. Though I realize this is a nuanced value proposition. And that valid questions can be raised about which communities are getting the most benefit from the service.
I feel like this article is being critical about something without justly staking a clear claim about what the right approach is. In my experience, the benefit of DRY code is bug reduction and overall increased new development velocity. There is a whole class of bugs around similar behaviors that devs and product managers expect to move in sync which don't, because features develop over time and it was just easier to code separate small bits than refactor into a common code path. Yes, it can make readability harder to unify into abstractions and create the right configs or import steps. But the time hunting down and fixing the bugs, plus the drag on overall feature development due to having to write updates in multiple places and test for them is far worse to deal with for not taking that preventative measure.
Exactly. It was obviously not "good enough", so they failed to meet that standard. That's my point.
The other problem with reviews is that they seem to be scaled according to price. A garbage product that sells cheap often gets reviewed as highly as genuinely great product that is more expensive.
It is a matter of fact that the reason we’re not flying commercially x5 as fast is NOT an engineering problem. Ditto for reusable rockets before Elon. Ditto for electric cars before Tesla. In those cases, it’s just complacency. And there are many such cases
This is almost like, for instance, why are there so many popular accounts on quantum mechanics (and new ones keep popping up every so often). This makes me think they are all wrong somehow (and to a significant degree they indeed are - which is quite understandable in this case, as QM is a tricky subject); looks like that's what the author of the next one should think, too.
Japanese homes are only kept for 20-30 years from what I read. Do the above statistics include homes that are demolished and rebuilt?
it became clear that Uber's strategy (under Kalanick anyway) was premised on replacing drivers with AIs before the cash ran out

This is kind of nitpicking, but this has always been a backup plan at best for Uber. Look at their expenditures and it is clear that their strategy has never been "all in" on self-driving.

Their main plan was and basically still is a combination of driving competitors out of the market, increasing their efficiency, raising prices, and lowering payments to drivers, before the money runs out. If self-driving cars happen, it will be a tremendous boon to Uber's bottom line, but it is not a necessity.
Awesome of the Times to document this. I hope it helps these brave men.
It seems like few things get built in NYC if they don’t also line the pockets of interested parties.
The Goosig (extra blinding crpyto) is also optional. With the --bare flag, its just a signature.
Allow me to introduce you to nextdns.io. Simple DNS level blocking on any device... (not affiliated, just a fan)
I'd never heard of reviewmeta until I read your comment. I'll check it out. Thanks!
1. [..]In Sunnyvale, CA you have a 1 in 611 chance of becoming a victim of violent crime. Violent crimes include murder, rape, robbery and assault. With regards to property crime, you have a 1 in 62 chance of becoming a victim. Property crimes include burglary, theft and vehicle theft.[..]

2. Dallas and Houston are not in the same category as Bay Area. Texas is not California.

3. Crime in California stats are unreliable due to passing of Prop 47. Crimes are not reported or recorded or booked due to not wanting to incarcerate people. This has actually increased petty crimes all over Bay Area(I don’t know about other cities in CA..I do know about my backyard however)..you only have to subscribe to NIXLE to see that even those reported is increasing.

The cops won’t even come to an ongoing crime scene unless someone’s life is in immediate danger.

Wrt San Francisco..just type ‘Chesa Boudin’ in google news to see what’s happening in San Francisco. This is our lives and our backyards and built upon our tax dollars and work. It’s being auctioned away by those who have no stake and have never contributed to it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_California_Proposition_...
yeah I joined the bitcoin channel and asked something and I started getting really hostile treatment, I received the explanation that alot of new bad characters had joined recently and were causing trouble. i dont know but yes the positive vibe has gone a bit.
or just succumb to the dark side and pay for reviews which is WAY cheaper.

I thought this was what the Amazon Vine program was for -- a legitimate way for retailers to provide free products to reviewers in return for a review, and those reviews are clearly labeled as such.

Seems to work pretty well - I've bought some products that only had Vine reviews, and I've agreed with the reviewer.
same here. i just don't understand this obsession with cellphones.

and that's also why i use telegram.
Have you been to either cities?
Not really on topic, but Steve Jackson has made great games for years: http://www.sjgames.com/
Thanks for the clarification. If it's a definition that applies to literally every physical good in a market economy, then it doesn't have much explanatory power to explain why some things are cheap and abundant, and why some things are expensive and scarce.
6,200 Lines just to list all fields!
> I was wondering why Signal hadn't caught on more.

Network effect of existing apps and no "Killer feature" for Signal that the layman cares about (Better privacy is not it).
Yes! Read the realease notes on U2F keys as SSH Keys; this means a cheap ($5-$25 USD) hardware key can now be used as an ssh key! These physical keys require a tap or physical touch to release a signature and are hardened against physical attack.
> the compensation packages are all out of whack.

Not while we're bringing in absurd margins.
This point is that these dips in some neighborhoods a basically negligible against a backdrop of an overall affordability situation which is extremely bleak for most people who live in the city. And quite different from how things were 20 years ago or more.

It's like -- okay, a 1BR in a reasonably accessible neighborhood now costs $2600 instead of $2700. What are we talking about here?
You need recent ssh-keygen's -o to make the passphprase effective (default for ed25519). That was covered here at some stage, but I don't have a reference.