skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At the same time, you have to also keep in mind that apartments in the Bay Area frequently get rented after a single, 15 minute open house, set at the convenience of the property owner or leasing agent. This does not seem to be happening right now, based on how my & my girlfriend’s apartment search has been going. We’ve also been seeing insane move-in incentives, like 2 months free rent, which I’ve never seen before. I’d love to see if there was more data about it, but my experience is leading me to believe the price drops are real (not statistical aberrations due to a small sample size), and likely caused by the immense negative demand shock we’ve been experiencing in the economy at large.
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> Was Tickscript what Kapacitor used for InfluxDB 1.7?

Yes. The learning curve was steep, and debugging was near-impossible. Flux is rough too, but it's already getting better documentation and tooling support than Tickscript had.
Facts and editorialism are not the same thing. I want my medical textbook (and the journalist reporting on it) to not lie to me. Whether I elect to choose the treatment after side effects are disclosed is up to me. I'd rather not have to make a medical judgement as to which of 10 pharmaceutical companies are making a false claim however.
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Qt is not being paid in exposure by KDE. Qt was in large part built by KDE, and if the KDE folks decide they want to fork it and get an organized response they might quite literally kill the Qt foundation by outcompeting them at every turn.
anyone with insight into the Debian/Ubuntu packaging care to comment ?
Sounds like you have bad computer job experiences.
Remember interviewing a guy who worked for Uber( non technical side of things). If that's the level of candidates they hire,I'm afraid they need 5 people just to change a lightbulb.
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The SF market is extremely differentiated. The market is still tight in many verticals and not hugely changed for any landlord not already on the bleeding edge and pushing higher prices believing them to be reality. The towers are going to have huge vacancy rates since they practice this price “edge game” diligently.
A nominations system in which vouching for a candidate is more likely to harm than help their chances of appointment [especially if one is sufficiently convinced of their competence to believe 10 other people will feel likewise] is palpably absurd.
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What's really sad is that this is a physical limitation of books that is easily overcome with digital copies. Instead of embracing this new freedom technology brings us, we -- or rather some publishers -- seek to hold new technology back and effectively make it mimic as much as possible the limitations of the previous technology. And this only because it makes business sense to them.

Imagine this:

"Good news, everyone! We've invented Star Trek-like replication technology. I can replicate and provide any amount of food or tools for everyone! It's the post-scarcity society we've always dreamt of!"

"Quick, we must now devise a way to make this encumbered so food and tools cannot really be replicated at will with zero cost, and instead make it resemble how we used to farm/grow food and build traditional tools, or else business as we know it may crumble. Also we need a way to identify and sue people who breach our business contracts!"

It's depressing. A bit like the future that The Murderbot Diaries depict.
We're talking about dozens of transactions here.

I think it's bigger than you think.

I read a newspaper article just yesterday which stated that the average annual turnover rate for an apartment complex in the United States is almost 50%.
In practice there are not so many. And e.g. on Windows I use an old VS compiler version and can then also use it with later VS versions (but not vice versa). Linux is also no issue because Qt is usually part of the distribution, i.e. there is no need to compile it as long as you depend on the standard version (not a custom one).

Personally I don't work with package managers, but prefer so setup and control the environment myself. It's not that difficult, and there is also Docker.
Tbh, this is one of the reasons why I moved away from Python to Ruby for my side projects.
This article seems to be based on only a few transactions, as not a lot of people are actually moving right now.

I manage a couple of properties in the Bay Area, so I keep a close eye on these things. What I'm seeing is not a drop in rents, but an increase in $0 deposits and many weeks of free rent upon move in (sometimes 6+ weeks).

Landlords are very reluctant to lower rents, because with the statewide rent control that limits increases to 5% a year, we're incentivized to keep the rents high and give months of free rent, just so our base rate doesn't drop.
But people don’t have to buy additional phones for the purpose of reading books. Also, dead tree industry can never achieve a global distribution at the scale of the Internet. Look at it the way cassettes couldn’t ever have achieved what Youtube has been able to do for new artists/music.

Also, contrary to what many people are told, pulp farming in the US is super harmful to the environment. The damage isn’t local to each manufacturer either. You might want to look-up into wikipedia for credible info on this.
They should do a distributed client where opt-in users can upload their browser cache.
I think real estate hasn't really moved because supply and demand moved together. Fewer people moving around means fewer sellers and fewer buyers. Hell, prices could even go up if the number of sellers shrinks by more than the number of buyers shrinks.
> to even require these staffing numbers do VCs like headcount or something

Bullshit Jobs is a book.
> Amazon is an online retailer but only achieved profitability due to AWS.

Amazon was profitable in 2002 to 2006 before introduction of AWS services of S3 and EC2 in 2006:

https://dazeinfo.com/2019/11/06/amazon-net-income-by-year-gr...

Amazon's retail operation is profitable on its own. They just have lower profit margins than AWS.
> if you're going to sell stock to do it, you might wanna do it now

Might be a wise move, but the current interest rates make it hard to pass up a mortgage..
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During the dotcom era someone tried to build Flow batteries (although I don't think the term had been coined yet), and if memory serves they were sodium chemistry.

There's a hint on the wikipedia page that someone may be trying it again, but I'm having trouble following the citations to figure out who.
A friend saw 9 move-outs in his building last month, up from a norm of 1. All were AirBNBs.
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For software development even 16GB is not enough these days. But for many other tasks 8GB is OK. iPad Pro max memory is 6GB and with right applications it is rather good at video and graphical editing.
We now only useEffect for this kind of events.
This happens if you miss the "subtly adjust using logic" step.
"See, people with power understand exactly one thing: violence." - Noam Chomsky.
In a nutshell it comes down to two things. A. It's not ready to fly yet. And B. it's not really built for that purpose. Sort of like taking an RV to the corner store. You can do it but it's expensive, bulky, and over-built.
I agree with that and wrote something similar in a little essay about HN recently. The challenge is how to get there. I don't think we can flamewar our way to peace on the internet.
It's amazing how quickly one can go from a "disciplined" investor to making decisions contrary to their principles, regardless of how much you think you believe in them.

I too, found myself making emotional investment decisions throughout this pandemic, despite typically just leaving my money in ETFs and rarely checking them.
The issue is that when you hire someone good and realize it took 30+ interviews you realize it will take about 6 months to fill a full office. At that point, the 'minimum requirements' will fall off a cliff.
I suspect this is happening in NYC too, but have not seen any data or articles on it.
Oh, seeing Venice mentioned here does not do justice to how weird the process was: 10 steps at each either enlarging or reducing the number of people involved, all to prevent a single family from controlling the outcome (but still allowing negotiations to happen at every step, apparently).

https://constitution.org/elec/venetian_selection_system.html
- Orion doesn't have the necessary docking adapter.

- Orion costs well over $1 billion per capsule, plus almost another $2 billion for the SLS rocket to ride on. In total that's more than the $2.6B they paid SpaceX for NRE + 6 flights. (NRE on Orion was $20billion and SLS will be even more)

- The SLS rocket isn't ready yet.

- Boeing can't build more than one SLS per year.
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You realize I'm not talking about these art exhibits right? I'm talking about stuff like duck taping a banana to a frame. Or having your painting shred itself after a timer goes off.
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The mistake is in the original citation... the moon's mass in 7x10^22 kg, and the number they gave for salt in the ocean (which I haven't verified) was 5x10^19 kg, so that would mean that the moon is about 1000 times heavier than the salf in the ocean... hardly 'nearly the mass of the moon'.
You are really comparing a Hacker News comment that took 1-2 minutes to write with the content of libraries? It's hard for me to write a civil rebuttal to this.

It takes years to write a good book. Years. It's not something you just whip out.

The same applies to any non-trivial piece of music, art, software, engineering, design, or any other form of intellectual labor. People spend years and years on that stuff but only after they spend years and years getting good enough at their craft to actually produce it.

I guess there's another option beyond the two I cited above:

(3) Everything is low effort shit.

Open Source is almost entirely funded by large companies. Pick a popular FOSS project and look at who's committing to it. They're people being paid by large companies to do the work because the company has some vested interest in supporting it. The counter-examples are either SaaS driven (meaning they're not really open) or dual licensed (meaning they're using copyright law).

This sort of philanthropy has limits. In particular it doesn't work for consumer items, only for stuff that companies use directly.

I really don't think you want to bring up YouTube as it actually proves my point. YouTube is a cesspool of propaganda and divisive trolling. That's the kind of content you get when it's "free" and creators must find roundabout ways to get paid for it, such as by stoking society's divisions for attention to monetize ad views.
They're more likely to be more dangerous.
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I just asked the same thing below/above. I live in NYC but am currently outside the city and assume we must see a 15% decrease also.
> Finding qualified engineers who have the skills you're looking for who aren't happily employed and making above-market rate already is often a real challenge.

As a happily employed engineer who has FAANG recruiter friends and gets scouted fairly regularly, I think you also forgot "and is willing to jump through the hoops you put in front of them".

Also, this doesn't sound like it needs to be an engineering problem. A customer support team could alleviate the workload. Even if its an internal-only, non-public support team, just people whose job it is to do the manual data scrubbing.

This sounds like a possible revenue opportunity as well. People would probably pay for the ability to ensure accurate data for their Places, which could also serve as a way for G to ensure the Place data is valid and meets their editorial guidelines. Don't know if this already exists or not but it sounds like it should.
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This line of argument is really tiresome and comes up every single time in discussions like this. It's been done over and over and over again and I'm not really interested in arguing about it.

(Sorry, you can’t just say you’re tired of an argument and then continue with only your side of that argument.)
House prices are down 8-10%. Rent is down 10-14%. ymmv depending on location.
I loosely included Babel and Webpack as part of dependency management since Python does not have a similar compile step. I don't think it is unfair since they fall into the same category of wtf when trying to get your dev environment working.

With that said, I should have included Yarn and Npm with their own problems. I can't remember how often I solved my dependency problems with rm -rf node_modules.
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> Landlords are very reluctant to lower rents, because with the statewide rent control that limits increases to 5% a year, we're incentivized to keep the rents high and give months of free rent, just so our base rate doesn't drop.

How is it that Mission Bay apartments are not subject to these rent control regulations if this is state wide? Asking because when I lived in Mission Bay, UDR properties each year tried increasing my rent much higher than this.
I live on 22 block Valencia.. I've had 4 neighbors move out in the past month. So as far as price.. I can't say. But as far as folks moving out. I can.
Wouldn’t you still need something like pip-tools to lock down subdependencies and handle conflicts?
He probably can at the end of the lease, but usually not in the middle. I've done it, but it seems to take an open-minded management company.

It also depends on things such as how much money/time/effort the landlord want to put into "turning" an apartment, the number of corporate long-term rentals a complex has, what the landlord thinks is going to happen in the near future, and even what property management software the apartment complex runs.
there are multiple services that cache deleted twitter and reddit content. it'd be silly to assume the government wasn't capable of accessing that.
Shockingly, at physical libraries you can also re-borrow a book if there's nobody on a waiting list for it.
> They did it because the pandemic has closed libraries coast to coast, and it was a nice thing to do for people. Imagine that, making a decision not based on money or liability.

You mean a stupid one that endangers everything else you do, yes?

Robbing a bank and giving away the money is a decision not based on money or liability, but you shouldn't be very surprised you still get put in prison for it.
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The police were breaking those taboos constantly last week. I've seen them casually macing people (not to move them, or to make arrests - they didn't occupy that space, they just sprayed the front of a line down, because they could) tossing tear gas and flashbangs into non-violent crowds (again, without any intention of occupying the vacated space), and shooting non-lethal projectiles at people who were sitting on their porches.
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It's probably better to act a bit too much than a too little.
Human lives are at risk.
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