skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Article: "Hitting that number will require building more everything: Subsidized housing. Market-rate housing. Homes, apartments, condos and co-ops. Three hundred and fifteen apartments on prime parcels of towns like Lafayette."

I feel weird sort of agreeing with the wealthy home owners in outlying small towns. Why should the state adopt a "more of everything" policy? The American and California model of low-density suburban building is completely broken and "more of everything" is basically saying more of the same. A higher density approach with the building concentrated in the centralized cities and perhaps some of the "towns" surrounded by city (Menlo Park or Brisbane).

I mean, it's obvious false that "more of everything is the only way to meet the goal". Of course, you could build that much housing in higher density urban areas.
$130K USD / £100k base, no mention of equity compensation. Seems a bit misleading to be open about base compensation but hide the bonus and RSU compensation. Why not quote the whole compensation number?

That said, this follows my experience with European compensation practices. It's easy to hire great talent at average or below-average US equivalent compensation.

I some times wonder if the push for more remote work in the US will open the floodgates for cheaper international labor. Once you're hiring people in different time zones, it's not that much more of a stretch to open a remote office in a cheaper European locale.
It was called Flock: https://signal.org/blog/flock/
Show Hackers to kids these days, then tell them essentially all the law enforcement stuff was true. (To say nothing of the unrelated Hackers 2)
Reaper is amazing software.
Yeah I got stuck on the crazy lines back from Dumbo a few times before and will never do that again, taking a citi bike is a great alternative.

The subsidies are bad but it's a net positive for the city and I'm sure a fare hike wouldn't hurt it too much.

I used to take an empty bus (in heavy traffic) down Metropolitan ave from Kew Gardens to Bushwick before and it really convinced me that the city should consider getting rid of the fares, at least on busses in the outer boroughs. The amount they spent to install the new select bus service ticket machines must have been insane, and now they're spending $250 million to clamp down on fare evasion.

https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2019/11/14/mta-will-spend-249m-o...
Do you buy products with 3-star reviews?
That's a feature for a lot of people, though it's only as good as the security of your phone.
I ran an online multiplayer drug dealing game in the 90s similar to dope wars. The DEA contacted me to let me know they spent a month investigating me, and that it was probably not smart for me to do something like that, but that a lot of the agents were playing the game and enjoying it and I was cleared.
Are you referring to hangouts with the USA-only Google Voice service?
For anyone who doesn't know, Dan Abramov is one of the worlds leading experts on, and a core developer of, ReactJS.

I think many ReactJS application developers around the world would be paid significantly more than this.

It's strange - I had heard that the big Silicon Valley tech companies paid well, but maybe not.

Anyone here on HN know what typical senior software engineer salary is at Facebook? Presuming Dan is one of the best paid ones then that must mean average is more like USD$100K which seems alot lower than I would have expected.

I'm a recruiter - I could get Dan a job here in Melbourne for well more money than that which is weird because Australia doesn't pay at the top end.
The essence of NIMBYism is wanting to make the value of your own property increase, not by adding any value, but by restricting others from competing with you. That's a net harmful behavior so I think it's fair to describe it as "an evil force to be mocked and dismissed". Kind of like if Google lobbied the government to ban search engines which weren't Google Search. People would see that as evil too.
> There is very much a difference between news organisations that attempt to present the facts e.g. NPR, PBS, DV, BBC, ABC AU and those that seek to divide and target specific demographics for profit e.g. Fox News, The Sun.

You believe this because of your bias. There are a significant amount of people with another set of biases who think Fox News, The Sun, etc are presenting facts. Both you of guys are wrong.

> There are facts in this world.

Yes. And the job of the news industry is to spin facts for their employers'/elites' interests. If you think the news industry is in the business of facts and truth then you really have fallen prey to their marketing. Every major newspaper was created to push a political agenda - including the oldest newspaper ( The NY Post ) which was founded by alexander hamilton to push his federalist agenda.

> Reckless and intellectually lazy comments like yours are what is responsible for so many of the problems in politics in the last decade or so.

You need to expand your view. The news industry has been lying forever. Problems of politics has existed forever.

"Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent of this state of misinformation is known only to those who are in situations to confront facts within their knowledge with the lies of the day."

-- Thomas Jefferson ( one of the people who gave us free press )

If you think this period is new, then go check out some george carlin clips where he talks about censorship, disinformation, etc. This issue is something we've had since the founding of the nations and has existed in our parents' time and will exist in the future.

> Seek out facts instead of pretending they don't exist.

Agreed. But I'll add an addendum. Stop pretending the news is about facts and not politics/opinion/agenda/etc. I'll add a second addendum - "fact" checking organizations are even more biased.

Try this. Ask a fox news fan why they like fox news and what will they say? They'll say that it is because fox news is factual and accurate. I know because I've asked. But we aren't idiots, we know that's bullshit and they like fox news because they like fox news' opinions.

Now ask a "NPR, PBS, DV, BBC, ABC AU" fan why they like "NPR, PBS, DV, BBC, ABC AU". You know what they will say? The exact same thing as fox news watchers. I know because I've asked.
I think you have it very wrong:

"After the first two months of war, South Korean Army (ROKA) and the US forces rapidly dispatched to Korea were on the point of defeat. As a result, the ROKA and US troops retreated to a small area behind a defensive line known as the Pusan Perimeter. In September 1950, an amphibious UN counter-offensive was launched at Incheon, and cut off many KPA troops in South Korea. Those who escaped envelopment and capture were forced back north. UN forces invaded North Korea in October 1950 and moved rapidly towards the Yalu River—the border with China—but on 19 October 1950, Chinese forces of the People's Volunteer Army (PVA) crossed the Yalu and entered the war.[51] The surprise Chinese intervention triggered a retreat of UN forces back below the 38th Parallel by late December."

I can't find anything related to US/UN forces invading. But this is most likely a western view of the war. China looks like anything but just standing idly by during the war (did not realize that China was deeply involved in the Korean War before).
DRY skips the part about dependency management: Will tying these parts together make sense for future readability, changability, or not? Often it is wise to be clear what and how to separate and encapsulate.

If there is only one right way, there is no reason for change or changing together, so is not shared knowledge.
Waterfox Has Joined System1
"appearing lazy" ... "concerns"...

These are weasel words coming from BS-land. A strong leader will crush them immediately. Proof should be the only true currency.

Someone complaining about your process? Walk them through every step and explain every decision until they see they're out of their league and stop complaining.

That's what I'd do.
I'm sure death among heroin addicts is common. It's only a matter of time they'll come in contact with a fentanyl laced dose.
How about a maven plugin that searches for libs in your pom that registered in a db (put together by a service), and creates a mutual-fund sort of thing that you can donate to, to be distributed later? When I was in an investment club the portfolio of stocks we bought was something any of us could collectively buy into, for any amount.

Then more plugins could be written for gradle, npm, etc.
Is there a system in widespread use which allows a user to accumulate reviews they have made across multiple platforms?

I may be able to trust a reviewer on product A if their opinions on B,C and D were like my own.
You can make the wrong choice for legitimate reasons as well as illegitimate ones.
We're growing a lot! YIMBY Action just brought in People for Housing Orange County and Peninsula For Everyone as affiliate clubs. We're in the process of expanding into Denver and NYC.

The demise of Scott Wiener's SB50 this year has certainly been a disappointment, but we try not to pin our hopes on any single solution. It took us 50 years to get where we are, and we expect it'll take at least 10 to get out. That will be a combination of local, state, and federal action.

The thing I've learned being involved in SF politics and YIMBY for the past few years is that politicians don't make change. They don't shift the discourse. Instead, it's grassroots movements like YIMBY Action that build a parade that politicians then jump to the front of. (Of course, this isn't true for Scott. He's one of the few true believers!)

We're building a passionate and vocal community that can do the on-the-ground organizing necessary to make politicians court us. The way forward it to continue building a voting bloc. You only have as much power as the people you can turn out to vote.
Billy Gates once said that RPM and centralised package management/repositories were a bad (for business) idea
It's a fair point. What makes Lafayette a good place to build without increasing sprawl or traffic that it is right on a BART line. "More of everything" should probably be caveated with "more of everything near public transit".
If the only possible negative effect is "burns", then it's easy to verify that people all over the world aren't getting burned by their phones, no? Testing and standards are still important, but it doesn't sound like there's some nefarious hidden effect we may just not know about.
If someone has broken the law, he's broken the law. If he hasn't broken the law but you wish there were laws against his actions, that person still hasn't broken the law. Convicting people for random things you feel should be illegal but aren't is tyranny. Punishing people for violating the
Progressive Web Apps on Windows
> Also when readers are trying to understand exactly how some function changes the system state

Yep. That's why changing system state is better kept at a minimum, and at the highest layer possible.

Most languages have a very clear public/private marker for determining what is an API and what is just there for convenience (it doesn't have to be literally public/private, for some it's scope, others just tag the names, etc). You don't need to change a code's style just because of it.

On the other hand, if the functions do not have logical and atomic meanings, they will do make your code as hard to understand as it will be to name them.
Are you unfamiliar with how powerful the placebo effect is? Totally meaningless "treatments" can have real biological impacts, simply because the person receiving them believes it will.

If you truly cared about this topic, I assume you would want to know if the effect is real, or just your mind playing a trick on you.
> so the [company] might be different, too

I had an acquaintance who bought the most recent Delphi release (he’s a long term customer), but had some troubles so he installed the free community edition as a stop gap solution. They phoned him and bolloxed him and demanded he buy another copy, extremely rudely and extremely forcefully (almost as if the person calling had KPI’s for upsells).

Unless I had a burning reason to use Delphi, I would avoid it, since I don’t like dealing with stupid businesses if I can avoid it... Don’t burn your loyal customers...
I had some selection rendering issues in Excel, and Word is reporting some kind of registry corruption on startup. Otherwise, works fine.
"Because the calculation is automated and devoid of human involvement, criteria are consistently applied across articles and sources."

How is the training data generated?
Amazon gets judge to block Pentagon’s cloud contract over bias lawsuit
In Cupertino ironically, on a Gigabit fiber line.
Automating MySQL schema migrations with GitHub Actions and more
It's even clearer when you consider higher-order functions. These diagrams are only able to represent functions of order at most 2, i.e. what is called "dependency injection".
Before I started ignoring the ratings, I absolutely bought products with 3 star reviews, since my view was that "3 stars" means "it's fine".

And you know what? They were. I never really noticed a huge quality difference between things rated 3 stars and things rated 5. And, since I started ignoring the ratings, I've purchased things with 1 and 2 star ratings on Amazon (that were well-reviewed in other places). Those have generally been as good as the 4 and 5 star things as well -- and a couple of them were actually excellent, deserving of 5 stars rather than 2.
FWIW - I’d love to see increased density where I live in Seattle, but the people who support it seem to ignore all the other stuff that has to go with it - e.g. more school capacity, better transit, requiring parking in new developments because people still have cars and the on-street parking can’t scale to meet new developments...

Bringing that stuff up gets me called a NIMBY; it sometimes seems like anything that might make it more expensive for developers to build more housing is a crime against humanity. :-/

It sometimes feels like all we’re really doing is enabling developers to mine our quality of life for their own profit, without actually creating enough housing to make a dent in the problem.
> The way I look at it is that the incumbents are there due to mostly accidents (of birth time/place) or of luck. Why should newcomers be disadvantaged due to accidents and luck?

Most things are accidents of time/place/whatever. Including whatever resources those newcomers are bringing to a city. Is migration and density growth a strict good? A strict bad? Somewhere in between? Lots of ink have been written on that, I'm fairly personally neutral, but I'm very skeptical of the "this is a simple problem with a simple solution" crowd. I'd love to see a decentralization of high-end high-paying jobs. Right now if I wanted to live back near my family, I'd have to work on problems that are less interesting to me for quite a bit less money.

There's nobody exactly being unselfish in this debate... People who want more density or to save their own money argue one way. People who want to live a (different) way argue another... it's basically all wants considering we have so many other cities in the country with plenty of space.
I think many people try to 'tough it out' and underestimate the depressive effect seeing things related to exes can have. Hell, I still get nostalgic when I get a whiff of my first girlfriend's perfume, how could you not feel something when you see your most recent flame posting a new relationship status a week or two post-breakup? Going dark on social media is the easiest step to healing.
BBC doesn't belong on that list either. They covered for Jimmy Savile's pedophilia for decades. Fun fact: the head of the BBC left as their cover-up came to light after Savile's death. He is now the CEO of The New York Times, which has its own history with Jeffery Epstein (Ito on the board...).
Affecting the seller's still creates a delta because the seller is also a buyer of wherever they're going to live next. Causing the new place to have much higher property tax than the existing place makes it harder to leave the existing place. And then fewer people do it, even if they e.g. don't need a place that big anymore.
Fuck California and fuck the Bay Area.

Just a bold statement. I wish for change but i don't see it happening. I love the weather, love the environment and sometimes love the people here but after living here for a number of years, I am started to not understand it. I pay pretty high taxes to live here. We have the most embarrassing property tax laws that include business property. I walk to work and walk through so many homeless camps filled with poop, trash and needles. Many of our communities have failing roads, some of the worst I have experienced in the world. The roads have started groups such as "pot hole vigilantes". In most of the communities I never see a police presence. We say we are green and love the environment but we have made little progress on public transportation since the 70s. I mean hell, we cannot even get a quick rollout of new BART cars. So we want to hate on building new roads but we have no new public transportation. I am starting to run out of reasons to participate in California.
The K&R book was for decades my gold standard of a programming book. Perfectly clear and concise, its one notable failing being that it's obsolete.

The Rust Programming Language [1] has since equalled and surpassed it in my mind. Hats off for Steve Klabnik & Carol Nichols :)

(note, I'm not saying Rust is a better answer than Fabien's recommendation, just that its book is as high quality as the excellent K&R)

[1] https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/
Try to rekindle the relationship. What they have is better than what they will find.

Go on a one-month vacation to someplace rustic and desolate. Talk a lot.
I know why Netflix does what it does, I helped build it. :)

What I'm saying is that Apple is probably already doing the same thing (using their own servers in colocations). They're just opening it up to the public now.
Predictably randomizing SSH server port using 2FA TOTP
Collaboration instead of conflict: Using empathy to change the chicken industry
I’ll take care of it tomorrow morning. What do you mean by “where” though... I have two aliases setup, one I’ve defined myself and another randomly generated. I’ve provided them the first.
I installed Signal a few years ago, and pretty much never touched it again. Today I open the app and closed it. After a few minutes, there were a lot of hello ‘messages which got me intrigued. It seems when I opened the app, all my contacts using Signal got a notification! What gives? Obviously uninstalled it straightaway...
At townhalls in Iowa and NH ordinary citizens would ask questions like "What are your plans to help with student loan debt ?", "Healthcare costs are out of control - what are your plans to fix the system ?", "Will your Freedom Dividend cause inflation ?" etc.

On the other hand, MSNBC, ABC would ask questions like "Some people say you make fun of asian sterotypes, what do you have to say to that ? " or "Some white supremacists are coming out in support of your campaign - why do you think that is the case ?", "When you lose, are you going to support whoever is the democratic nominee?"

The media bias was frustrating to watch. The best sources for information in this cycle seem to be youtube podcasts like Joe Rogan or the Breakfast club.
That's a good point about privacy, but then you're throwing the baby away with the bathwater, since all your secure communication now requires you to operate a laptop at the very least. You'll have more privacy, but significantly less operational capability (ie to communicate with your friends while walking around).
Well, Bart is opening in San Jose this year. Caltrain is electrifying which will enable much lower headways.

If you focus on dense developments near them, that goes a long way.
would you welcome a platform that specifically open bounties on issues?
Or rather, SDVs are a solution looking for a suitable problem space - which may turn out to be imaginary (or, more charitably, significantly more constrained, e.g. "long-distance freeway travel")
Have you looked at alternatives to Pushbullet?

Every time I've started investigating I've gotten mired in researching the various options and given up without trying anything.
Borland made a lot of mistakes with Delphi, but the best part of delphi was VCL was shipped with the source, it was a great introduction for the Win32 API world.
I'm not sure calling it unfair is necessarily correct, but the incumbents use ballot props to increase their name recognition. It works like this:

- A Supervisor puts a proposition on the ballot
- organizations funnel money into the campaign for the ballot prop
- then when the ballot prop advertises they include names of the people running for office

It's why SF has _so_ _many_ ballot props: they are the legal way to bypass the fundraising limits we imposed on individual electoral campaigns. Ironically, if we repealed our campaign finance limits, there'd be less dark money and far fewer ballot props.

I don't have a ballot prop to attach my name to, so I have to do old-fashioned campaigning (with some modern, high-tech things, too :)
> 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

Why so much money?
Yes, that’s arbitrary; unless we decide to always make the sexes explicit, we have to make a choice as to whether to mention the male parent or the female parent first.

Hoever, just as with Liger and Tigon, the two donkey/mule variants have different names:

Male Donkey (jack) + Female Horse (mare) = Mule

Female Donkey (jenny) + Male Horse (stallion) = Hinny

Hinnies are rarer, but do exist (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinny)
Emulated phones get a phone number?
Incidentally, this may explain why caching is hard - cache invalidation in particular. By definition, it must violate this SPOT/SSOT principle.
… And please don't ignore the description: “this is a bad idea, don't really use this please”
I love to hear stuff like this. I’m glad you can find your own joy through these kinds of technical arts.

Sometimes it really is just passion that drives us.
Yes In Your Backyard is literally everybody. That’s the point. It isn’t ideological. Most folks love the idea of building when it doesn’t affect their own lives!

Even most “YIMBY” supporters are actually “Yes In Your Backyard”, because nearly everyone has some local environment they want to protect. Don’t want a pork rendering plant or a sewage treatment center or a strip club next door to your home? Congratulations: you’re a “NIMBY” too! It’s a sophomoric epithet that makes you feel good and superior to fling around, but does nothing to convince people who don’t already agree with you.

If you don’t understand this, you are doomed to fail to achieve your goals.
Thanks! It was a real bummer when he dropped out. I donated to his campaign and have a friend who was organizing for him down in LA. At least he made UBI mainstream!
looks like you are describing a specific part of 'bay area' . lots of burbs don't have these issues.
Just remember to adjust your voting habits when you inevitably move somewhere else.
I think you should reconsider including the BBC. They most definitely intentionally deceived people for a very long time with regard to Jimmy Savile:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Savile_sexual_abuse_scan...
And after: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Gold_King_Mine_waste_wate...
I don't get it. Company that is flush with that much cash couldn't find new roles for the 'small number' of people that were impacted? I'm thinking they used the good old "your position is being eliminated due to business reasons" excuse to get rid of people they didn't want to keep.

It's a common HR tactic.
Spend a Day in the Life of Your Customers (1994)