skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> My complaint about all these articles is prices have barely changed in NY and SF but they all like to proclaim some huge shift. Every time I check to see if there really are major discounts and I’m disappointed.

From my searching in NYC prices, it seems like this is happening not in average prices but in the bottom of the market, and within specific neighborhoods. West Village prices aren't going to drop, but some places like say Astoria, Gowanus, Williamsburg, Greenpoint, and the like are going to have more decent places hit some record lows. I recently found a place 5 blocks from me that was 1.2K cheaper a month. Yes, it lacked some amenities and the location is worse, but that type of gap would have never existed pre-pandemic.

I know someone who explicitly moved into my neighborhood off of one of these deals, and without it they would have been in a much cheaper neighborhood. I suspect that type of movement is going to have ripple effects into outer borough pricing which could then make cheaper space.

I think we also are still not done seeing the shoe fall. These moves take time, even if already planned. The sublet market is going to shit in most cities on the seller side, which won't be reflected until those leases end. West Village prices might not fall in 2020, but they may in 2021. As time goes on with this pandemic, we also have to factor in that stagnation can also effectively be a drop.
That definition doesn't change much, because the part that can't be removed can and will leave your system vulnerable to exploits like this one: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/advi...
I would love to see an example of how to set something like this up if you've got any links in mind.

We've got multiple apps deployed various ways, everything from pseudo-automated CI/CD (auto build but manual deploy) to fully manual deployment directly out of our IDE. Nothing set up within Docker containers yet except for a few proofs of concept.
News – WordPress 5.5 “Eckstine”
A peek under the hood of AAVE – second defi protocol to join billion dollar club
Correct. And as far as I can tell, devops folks don’t do leetcode interviews. Most SREs don’t either.

At my last interview process (in June) I was being hired into a more seasoned role where experience matters more than code chops. There was an algorithms question but the biggest weight was put on the “Can you design a distributed microservice infrastructure with good tradeoffs and solid relational modeling”

Series A company so it’s conceivable that I’ll be involved in all parts of the stack.

If I just did well on algorithms (I didn’t) and nothing else, it would be a hard no hire. But they were very impressed when I said “Eh for this load, you don’t need horizontal scaling except for redundancy”
But people are taught the basic boring skills required to deliver value in a big org in the first few months and very few fail to learn them in that time, they are by far the easiest skills to teach in software development so it doesn't make much sense to test it when hiring.
> HN is so SF Bay centric sometimes

Given that 21% of global VC money is pumped into the Bay Area[1], that seems like a pretty natural thing.

[1] - (Through 2017 though): https://hbr.org/2018/11/how-the-geography-of-startups-and-in...
The US military uses the almost same convention (dd-mmm-yyyy) so 07-aug-2020.
Why the load average is not a good metric for Docker
We are in the middle of a 110 degree heat wave which was briefly interrupted by a series of lightning storms and rain.
By the way, if you want to learn a bit more about your local weather, start reading your local "Area Forecast Discussion" (just search for that phrase plus your local region / airport) - you'll end up predicting the weather on a qualitative basis, while picking up new vocabulary and observing more about the world around you.

I think the format predates ASCII.

As a bonus, if you watch the local news on TV, you'll hear the local weather personalities parrot language from these forecast discussions...
Wait i thought the problem is that it creates droughts, not more wet weather?

Or is it one of those things we could to point at if the needle moves in any direction?
NYC's population did not reject HQ2— a very small, vocal group killed it, angering quite a few of the rest of us. Even then, the controversy was over 1) tax breaks to Amazon being an unnecessary handout (turns out they weren't), and 2) which neighborhood to be in.
Pretty sure the first known uses of literally were in way that would literally upset you.
The part that can't be removed still has had critical security vulnerabilities, though.
How effective does a Covid-19 vaccine need to be to stop the pandemic?
What I take issue with is that there’s no verb in the second part of that sentence. The overuse of “literally” is one thing, but the fact that, “literally” has come to mean, “literally [there are]” bugs me a hell of a lot more.
I've lived in San Francisco for 15 years, and I won't miss these tech workers that are leaving. They can flee to their plot of land in Minnesota and make everyone out there angry instead when rents rise and their carpetbagger ideas show up on the local ballot.

Anyone moving away isn't set on urban living and the type of community that's here. A city offers a mix of cultures, personalities, and ideas that don't form around people sitting at home taking meetings over zoom and hyping up the latest fad.

Those that stay and invest in the downturn caused by the pandemic are the ones that belong here anyway. They'll be the ones getting once in a generation housing discounts, leasing cheap retail store fronts and warehouses, and building enriched relationships.

It is a boom and bust town, and for the savviest entrepreneurs, a bust is worth more than a boom.
I don't expect you to provide references as part of our discussion. Just your well-argued opinion is enough to move the thread along.

But I find Zinnia problematic because her playing researcher has the potential to cause harm to others. Plus I wasn't referring to her joke, I was referring to the part where she attempted to shame cis guys into not excluding trans women, which is obviously useful for her, but also obviously manipulative and if she was successful, it might make other people unnecessarily unhappy. Since she gave interviews about it, I am also reasonably confident that it wasn't a joke.

I would say it is fair to judge a self-proclaimed activist by their actions, and hers were of the kind that I would not be able to support her statements in good conscience, even though I support the cause of treating everyone fairly in general.
So it turns out Materialistic doesn't even show responses to my comments unless I go back to the thread itself...

The point I was making was in context of a discussion focused on mission-critical system. In that context, you can't just add a beautifier to your compilation pipeline with the argument that "the only way things will go wrong is if the beautifier is broken".
Edge might be better received if it didn't Full-Screen itself over top of everything, after install.

I find it easier to kill the process than deal with whatever it's trying to blackmail me into doing.
“So late in the game” is relative, no? Java doesn’t have it, Rust stabilised it last year after ~9 years (or around the same time period if we’re comparing 1.0 releases).

Async/await does not need to be a breaking change - C# managed fine without it being so. The breaking changes in Rust were around the standardisation of std::futures::Future rather than async and await.

That said async/await makes a world of difference to the usability of Rust for async code and I’d imagine it will for Swift too.
You generally start with a hypothesis before conducting research. There is likely no research yet.
Nitpick, but I think it was "It vexes me. I'm terribly vexed." Otherwise agree with you though. It's not something you imagine someone saying in the course of normal, or even quite abnormal, conversation, but Joaquin Phoenix pulled it off in spades - sounded totally natural, and entirely fit with the character of Commodus.
Yes. Bridges are designed using old-school Newtonian mechanics, without (in general) considering relativistic or quantum effects at all, but they stand up nonetheless.

That wouldn't be the case if they were built based on "flat-out lies".

Edit: the sticking point here is the use of the word "lie", I think.

A lie is a falsehood told with intent to deceive.

Thus, novels are not "lies", despite being works of the imagination. Everyone knows that the people in Moby-Dick or Wuthering Heights were made up.

Neither is a simplified model a "lie" if it is close enough.

All engineers know that the steel and concrete components of a bridge have quantum and relativistic effects going on inside them, so ignoring those effects isn't a "lie" in any meaningful sense.

It just doesn't matter for the purpose at hand.
I've been hearing about Intel’s Active Management Technology for years, but I'd like to see a demonstration of how an attack would work. I have an unused laptop with:

1. an Intel CPU that supports the vPro feature set

2. an Intel networking card

3. the corporate version of the Intel Management Engine (Intel ME) binary (well, definitely, a corporate laptop that used to get updates, but how do I check for ME?)

Is there a website I can visit that can initiate a remote takeover (I'm consenting to it)? Why isn't this possible? What other step is required on my side to make it possible? Is it possible only through the physical ethernet connection? Why aren't we seeing wide scale exploits based on AMT?
Why It's Hard to Escape Amazon's Long Reach (2018)
I really hope the fires don’t get too bad. I was unaware of the drought conditions.

I remember at the end of 2016 in the southeast where I am, we were in the midst of a severe, multi-year drought. Wildfires started popping up everywhere, causing lots of damage/ deaths.

It was very strange, the atmosphere was ‘foggy’ from the smoke for weeks. Praying for rain!
I love the NOAA commentary as it adds context to what is expected.

Having (barely) slept through the bay area weather this morning, others took advantage of the situation to get some gorgeous photos of lightning. https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2020/08/16/rare-august-thu...

There's also some maps for lightning strikes in the bay area that are fun to look at:
https://www.lightningmaps.org/?lang=en#m=oss;t=3;s=0;o=0;b=;...
(8-16-20, 12 UTC for example)
Android Material Component: Toolbar vs. DisplayCutout
Per other thread, A levels are marked outside the school by the qualifications body.
The police officers in the Rodney King case were tried and acquitted in State court, then tried and convicted of essentially the same crime with a different name in Federal court, and the courts declined to say this violated the Double Jeopardy clause. It's not necessarily the case that the courts will allow the same thing when the State seeks to try a defendant after they are acquitted in Federal court or pardoned by the President, but it seems difficult to me to distinguish the two kinds of cases, so I'm assuming it's more likely than not that if POTUS pardons Manafort and NYS wants to try Manafort, they will be able to.

IMO the Rodney King case was a very bad precedent. It was very bad politics for the Federal courts to do otherwise, I understand, but it was not a good decision. The SCOTUS essentially held that a) Dual Sovereignty means the Double Jeopardy clause doesn't apply, b) that the courts can use the double jeopardy condition as a mitigation in sentencing. (b) can be seen as weakening the Dual Sovereignty doctrine, but (a) can be seen as a disaster because the 5th Amendment is incorporated against the States, and the Double Jeopardy clause is in the 5A, so allowing the Dual Sovereignty doctrine to overcome Incorporation doctrine seems like a gross error that puts the entire Incorporation doctrine in... jeopardy. Shall we now say that only parts of the 1A, 2A, 4A, 5A, are incorporated against the States? Which parts? This invites more litigation.

Of course, that didn't happen, IIUC. There's been no litigation arguing that if Dual Sovereignty overrides Incorporation in one case, it might in others. But it could yet happen.
There was a good LWN article about Snek a while ago:
https://lwn.net/Articles/810201/

But, my impression is that Snek is mostly for "learning" while MicroPython is intended to do "real work" (obviously those are not disjoint categories).
More detail on the Ki-77 disappearance from Wikipedia.

“ Their intended destination was the German airfield at Sarabus (now Hvardiiske, Crimea, WikiMiniAtlas45.118236°N 33.976564°E.) but they were to disappear over the Indian Ocean. British fighters likely intercepted them as they were aware of the flight and its route (via air grid squares 3420, 2560 and 2510) thanks to the ULTRA analysts at Bletchley Park decoding intercepted German communications to Sarabus warning of their impending arrival.[2] Slow, unarmed, without armour protection and with a substantial amount of fuel on board, the Ki-77 would have been vulnerable to Allied fighters, even had no mechanical problems occurred.”
Meanwhile in Colorado, dry conditions and lightning sparked the Pine Gulch fire, which is just one of four major fires ongoing right now. People are getting pretty concerned.

https://www.denverpost.com/2020/08/16/colorado-wildfires-pin...
My gym is 2 blocks away. Within 2 blocks I have about 10 restaurants. I also don't have to walk over syringes or navigate homeless camps. I think you're stereotyping non-urban environments.
That doesn't explain the e instead of the a, does it ?
> I don’t understand the need to say “literally” there.

It’s used for emphasis, like it always has been for literally hundreds of years. The meaning has not changed recently, but it has been trendy for people to complain about it on the inter webs.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/misuse-of-lite...

Even if the meaning did change, that’s one of the neat things about language, it’s fluid and changes over time. We don’t need to blame anyone, because words changing over time is the natural state of things.
If you want NumPy support in particular you basically have to use CPython.

The only other implementation that really supports it is PyPy which is not in any sense more lightweight.
Source for this? The only thing I could find is this[1], which still requires a phone number sign up. I also checked the signal blog and couldn't find anything either.

[1] https://www.zdnet.com/article/signal-to-move-away-from-phone...
> but it appears that the highest-paying outfits will judge me on things that are at best very tangentially related to how I can make/save them money.

This is very wrong, leetcode is just the baseline and don't determine your seniority. Even the best leetcoder in the world had to start at the lowest junior level after college. Instead they look at your experience and what value you can bring to determine if you become junior, mid, senior, staff etc, so they very much value experience not related to leetcode. However you still have to pass the leetcode bar.
The responsive design is not encouraging. The page does not shrink to the size of my screen, text is overlapping and it generally looks slapped together without a concrete methodology. For two hundred dollars I don’t even get to own the book? Yikes.
SF has a gross receipts payroll tax, and an additional payroll tax on workers earning $320k+. Additionally higher earners spend more money on everything else that is taxed.

The bigger issue is that the media overestimates how much money SF gets from "tech". SF has a very diverse economy.
I hear a lot about disabling the management engines... what about activating them for yourself?
This comment was posted about a different article (we merged two threads). Explanation here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24179898
Having a current employee add your resume to an ATS as a referral is the most efficient route. Around SF at least it's not particularly hard to find someone willing to do that even if they hardly know you. This sort of networking is likely harder elsewhere, but perhaps not by much.

Simply uploading your resume to a large tech company's website will rarely get you anywhere, is what I've heard from recruiters.
As I understood it:

1. Teachers submit both an estimated grade and a relative rank ordering for each student

2. Ofqual calculate a distribution based on the predicted grades

3. They compare it to grade distributions at that school from previous years

4. If need be, they shift the distribution up or down to be roughly in line with that school's prior results

5. They then use the rank ordering to assign students grades from that distribution (e.g. in a class with 20 students, each student is worth 5% of the distribution - so if it predicted 10% A* (highest grade), 15% A, etc., the top 2 students would get an A*, the next 3 an A and so on)
Adafruit's fork was for business reasons as they wanted control over implementation for the hardware they sell, and to focus development efforts on making it more accessible to newcomers. While I'm not thrilled with the fork since it dilutes the original project imo, they do still contribute back to the micropython project. But I don't think there's any lost love there, they just had different goals with a financial stake (unlike the uasyncio split which was ego driven)
I completely agree that the system put in place is poor and that it causing an accidental bias is very feasible.

But if you're going to put this system in place, with months of planning, you should make damn sure that it isn't massively favouring the children who are already advantaged in life. Which it statistically is, whether intentional or not.

They screwed it up so spectacularly that the education secretary had to make concessions to it two days before the results, then a day after the results Ofqual made a statement about who could appeal that contradicted the education secretary, before withdrawing that statement a few hours later saying they were still deciding.

So sure it could be entirely down to incompetence not malice. But given either is possible, and this government's track record of cronyism I don't see why it's unreasonable to be sceptical.
> That’s much more disruptive than the python 2 to 3 migration.

Yet Python 2 to 3 started in 2008 - 12 years ago, and is still not “done” in any meaningful sense.

If I think back to 12 years after the intel OSX transition - 2018 - I can’t think of a single outstanding issue, whereas I bash into python 2 vs 3 literally every time I touch it (and therefore mostly choose not to).
If it's not made my Dupont, it's not Kapton... it's polyimide (amber) tape.
I agree with a lot of this, but there is definitely no discount on housing right now.
It doesn't seem hard to isolate; some people drive every day, and others ride transit. Common sense is often wrong, so it's good to interrogate it. (E.g., maybe constant low level exposures lead to stronger immune systems and less loss of life? Common sense tells me it's an effect!)
Why is it surprising that a CFG can approximate a subset of English grammar?
Those gradients are nice, I like that they are more complex than linear gradients. If you’re looking for something simpler though, I also took a stab at CSS gradients here: https://mybrandnewlogo.com/color-gradient-generator
Everything is connected. Everything we do has some impact that causes benefits and harms, and if we dig deep enough, we can certainly go down the rabbit hole of attempting to show that we're hurting the entire world by merely existing and going about our daily lives.

The question that is most interesting to me is how much will people agree to give up civil liberties in response to these discoveries? Another interesting question is will we equally study the benefits associated with the thing that also has a harmful result?
Would be good for the HN community to keep in mind what a global audience cares about.

If the insane Bay Area weather affected major internet services globally for example it would be relevant.

This certainly can be the top story in local Bay Area news, but too often does the HN
Community conflate local Bay Area top stories with stories of global significance.
Unicode goes to great pains to avoid ascribing any meaning/behavior/whatever to character sets. Because to your point you can’t. Unicode is actually incredibly well thought out. That’s why we have values, code points and grapheme clusters. I don’t think the Unicode standard even defines casing except in the human-readable names ascribed to code points.

If you want to build a polylinguistic rope you can certainly do that with Unicode, but you won’t have solved anything because language alone without context doesn’t really define many of the operations you’re describing.

The answer is usually the same as “doctor it hurts when I...” — stop doing it. Stop manipulating user input without context. Stop trying to limit user visible strings by character count, use pixel width in the rendered font. And so on.
That’s fair. Thanks!
For me, it is inertia mostly. That and the fact that the wife's work don't appear to embrace remote work long term.

If the above were to change, I would definitely move. Not sure where but my top considerations are:
- great school district
- lower taxes and cost of living
- Great outdoors / scenery around
Reddit is fine but parent was talking about Twitter.
I want to fix the title of this article so badly.
It doesnt "favour" any children.

Those children were already going to get the highest results.

There is no incompetence here. The predicted grades are a good estimate of what the results would have been.

The issue is that all teachers significantly over-predicted their students grades, but less so at high-performing schools. (Why? because the grades are more consistent at those schools, so there's less room for error).
In practice I've never known how many other units were occupied, and the land lords are incredibly incentivized to sit on empty units over reducing the value of the property by lowering rent ever. The numbers thus _only_ go one direction.
Another statically typed language that "looks like Python": http://strlen.com/lobster/
Taxes are based on marginal rates. The more you make the more you pay. If you are a high earner making $300k in California your combined rate (federal/state/fica) is 38% and you pay $114k in tax. If you are middle class make $60k your combined rate is 22% and you pay $13.3k.

If you are a business owner and most of your income comes from capital gains, still not possible to pay anywhere near 22%. Rate on capital gains is 33.3% (20% federal + 13.3% state).
Twitter provides examples; A level art downgraded from C to U (hard fail). https://twitter.com/hannahMulley1/status/1294571475509415937...