skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems very tough to draw any conclusions on this just yet. The media has clearly latched onto a storyline of a mass exodus from American cities, but the reality is probably much more complex.

It seems plausible that SF already had such low inventory numbers that any change would look huge on a chart like this, though that doesn’t appear to be the case in the other highly competitive markets seen here. I’d love to see the actual monthly figures... maybe it’s true that there’s an exodus afoot, or maybe SF was that much worse off from an inventory perspective until now.

It also seems plausible that SF has a unique combination of factors that put it in a bad spot right now. It’s insanely expensive, quality of life has been on the decline for some time, and the types of companies that made real estate there so expensive in the first place are also likely to be the ones that adopt remote work quickly and wholeheartedly.

SF aside, my best guess at this point is that many American cities are and will continue to actually see some amount of people leaving for lower cost and more spacious markets, especially if remote work optionality sticks in the way it looks like it will. But cities have enduring appeal - proximity to people and culture and things to do is just as much a factor as proximity to work. I think any exodus we see in most markets will amount mostly to a pull-forward of people who would have left cities anyway because of life stage, but did it a year or two early if they could.
You can blame Google for a lot - however I believe if it wasn't about Google someone else would dictate the game.

In the past it was Yahoo, MSN, ICQ, XFire, ..
I mean those companys were so big (e. g. XFire for gaming streaming) but they failed to stay ahead of time - lets see whats up with Google or Facebook or Amazon in 15 years.
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FWIW I had the exact same experience, but I see OP replied with exactly what I was looking for :)
Order by [column number] is also a useful shortcut in mssql. Very often my columns are a compilation of functions, it feels clean to not repeat them. I'm not sure of availability in other sqls.
I’ve used a ton of game engines throughout the years. This looks better than most closed-source and paid software. Can’t wait to give it a try.
YOU MANIAC!

You spoiled the movie.

Damn you. Damn you all to hell!
Does it get us closer tot he twin prime conjecture?
Mozilla recently cut off 25% of their employees. I believe this will have a major effect on the Servo project, so we'll see where it goes.
We put our faith into systems built by PhDs every day. People don’t have to understand why airplanes stay in the air in order for them to be the only practical means of rapid international transport.
More canonical source:

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg0002...
Covid19_age_fatality_checker
Could you elaborate? As far as I know, Japan attacked in winter and won, everybody else lost in any conflict of which I am aware. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Japanese_War
I think what you're missing is:

Moving forward, large scale election rigging will be seen as a feature by those in power.
That is a great way to elect the one who buys the most votes.

If you want to avoid such shenanigans, you'll need to enforce voter privacy.
Does it support latex and math and code blocks?
They are abusing the “more information required to complete your order” messages. I report them when they do it.
AMP still makes no sense. On iOS, Android and Windows it’s completely broken and friction increasing to grab a link to send to a friend in another medium.

Not only that but it seems the page slightly degrades sometimes.

For what? A theoretical page load time improvement? Maybe that’s naive but we already have “request desktop mode” to allow for bifurcated experiences. Why do we need a third thats seemingly even worse?

Total “get off my lawn” complaint but how do you turn the damn AMP off? :)
I hear a lot of complaints about counterfeits in Amazon in the US.

But not as many back here in India. I've bought electronics, chairs, phones and appliances without too much hassle. Always with fulfilled by Amazon though.

I'm curious if the problem is more prevalent in different locations.
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>Am I the only one still against network-based, and to a lesser extent electronic-based, voting?

Yes. You are literally the only person who holds an extremely popular, prevalent, and often repeated opinion on the internet and in tech circles. Thank you for your bravery and insight.
> Google’s capture of the Web is a fait accompli. Only legislation will keep the World Wide Web from finally becoming Web by Google (TM).

I really hope it's not the case, because then Google will cancel it. /s

Search is probably something where there could be creative use of the p2p decentralized technologies. If when performing a search I could ask my contacts to look in their history if they have something matching, and then they ask their contact to do the same, who ask their contact to do the same, I think we could have fast and massively parallelized trust based searches. Then you can rank the results based on how many times they appeared.
I'd argue that they tend not to lose on their home turf, but rather the ground moves under them. Google only increased it's hold in the web as Facebook took the new territory of social media.

Likewise Microsoft still is a massive player in enterprise software even as AWS became a virtual synonym for cloud computing.
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And the income tax is by far the highest, currently at 13.3% compared to 2nd place Hawaii’s 11%. Sales tax averages to 8.5%, good for 9th highest in the country.
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Creator here to answer: I have tried to make it clear in interviews these are not ground-truth representations.

"each step towards realism is likely a step away from ground-truth." via https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/peer-past-these-ph... & https://twitter.com/dvoshart/status/1292107503543689217

I have not in my Roman Emperor write-up itself been as overt. I thought it might be a bit too obvious. My writeups make it clear when no information about skin tone is available.

I did include such a clause in a forensic facial reconstruction experiment: saying: "My gut instinct is that the results are simply easier to look at, that each step towards realism is a step away from ground-truth skull measurements." because it was an experiment where there are likely living relatives.

https://medium.com/forensic-vr/ai-forensic-facial-reconstruc...

Proof: https://twitter.com/dvoshart/status/1294977757756227585
> 40% don't have the money to cover a $400 emergency expense

This is an often cited statistic that's been essentially debunked for being flawed and misleading[1][2].

> And yet 78% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck

Again, not a particularly useful statistic because 1. real consumption per capita has been increasing[3], and 2. the US has the 2nd highest household consumption[4] in the world.

"Living paycheck to paycheck" includes people that are destitute, but also people that just consume more than they should, and also people that are unable to save money due to increasing housing costs (not due to inequality, but due to zoning regulations). Of those who claim to be living "paycheck to paycheck", you don't know which are destitute.

> For our riches, we have the highest population of people without health insurance in the first world, and the number one cause of bankruptcy in the US is medical expenses.

Sure, this has nothing to do with inequality. If you gave everyone health insurance in America today, inequality would hardly change. And inequality is NOT the root cause of America's healthcare system, the root cause is a series of policies passed in the 20th century that resulted in 1) healthcare being tied to employment, 2) a lack of any form of price transparency, 3) supply constraints on medical professionals that have resulted in the highest PPP adjusted salaries for medical practitioners in the developed world.

> Inequality drives cost of living up. Normal people in the US are competing with the richest people domestically and internationally for housing. While normal people need housing to shelter themselves, the rich, especially the rich outside of the US, see housing as a means to store value.

We’ve always had mega-rich families. The new phenomenon we’re seeing now is not that "normal people" are competing with the super-rich, it's that they are competing with the upper-middle class. Where I live (Brooklyn), The rents aren’t driven up because I’m in a bidding war with Jeff Bezos; they’re driven up because I’m in a bidding war with other high earning millennial white collar workers. The “middle class” worker doesn’t stand a chance in our neighborhood.

Also the cost of living isn't up uniformly across the US, it's only up in most big cities where the root cause is attributable almost entirely to poor zoning regulations, not "inequality". You can see the salary one must earn to purchase the median house in every city[5] and outside SF/NY/Seattle, it's around the median household income.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-06-04/the-40...

[2] https://www.cato.org/blog/it-true-40-americans-cant-handle-4...

[3] https://alfred.stlouisfed.org/series?seid=A794RX0Q048SBEA

[4] https://datacatalog.worldbank.org/dataset/world-development-...

[5] https://www.hsh.com/finance/mortgage/salary-home-buying-25-c...
Thanks for putting this together. If possible, would you make searches case insensitive? Search for “Kafka” returns nothing, but “kafka” works. Especially annoying because OS tries to autocapitalize.
So another large company will take them over. We need to legislate this now to avoid this endless cycle
I mean the "MO" in the address kind of gives it away.

Also, that zip code is not anywhere near the east coast.
I think we’re in a real low point right now. Gmail, AMP, Chrome, Android. So many peoples internet experience is from one place.

With Amazon dominating retail, and Facebook under its various brands dominating social media, there isn’t much scope for other players.

I don’t see another option than breaking theses companies up at this point.
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On my read list, thank you!
It's a lot of effort to maintain AMP pages for all your site content alongside the standard pages over time. That's why they tend to degrade.
BQN uses the 2-modifiers ⊸⟜ for hooks and, because data values (numbers, characters, and arrays) apply as constant functions, to bind arguments to functions. I find them very flexible and intuitive and would say they're one of its best features. For example, F⊸G⟜H is the function that applies F to its left argument, H to its right, and then G to the results together.

As in Dyalog APL (and subsequently NARS2000, ngn/apl, and dzaima/APL), BQN uses the two-train for simple composition, so that (F G) applies F to the result of G. The "nothing" indicator · allows a function's left argument to be omitted and can accomplist the same thing: (·F G) is another way to write that 2-train, and can be part of a longer train with more functions to the left. So it functions like J's Cap, but also works outside of trains.
> And let’s not forget that most people now access the web via mobile devices, 75% of which run Google’s Android.

Which is a good thing, because these devices can actually run different browser rendering engines.

Perhaps the bigger problem is that devices ship with Chrome pre-installed instead of asking the user at device set-up time what browser they want to use.

I imagine if you told the user they could have a browser with extensions, ad-blocking, background playback etc they might be a bit more inclined to consider using Firefox.
Yeah it wasn't working at all for me until I realised it was case sensitive
I’m not sure what you mean by “won”, the Japanese most certainly did not conquer Russia, which is the entire point of this old truth: that the geography and vastness of Russia makes it extremely difficult, if not impossible, to conquer. It’s a very different thing to attack Russia and have them cede territory to you, this has been done many times even by European countries.
My guess is that, in this case, "too big" actually means "above the fraud team on the org chart." They could presumably pull the rug out from under fraudsters, at relatively little cost. Perhaps by making some policy changes that alter the cost/benefit tradeoff for fraud, or that limit the blast radius so that it doesn't render he entire platform untrustworthy. But I'm guessing the changes in question would be tantamount to an attack on some executive's golden calf.

I could hazard a few specific ideas in Amazon's case, but really I'm just extrapolating from the fact that I've seen that this is how it generally works at any sufficiently large company.
Property taxes are not that relevant for the masses who can't afford to buy property.
Don't forget that Amazon dominates a lot more than just retail on the internet. With AWS they effectively run large portions of it as well.
The future of Rust language from Mozilla is also uncertain.
They're not even good at that. They seem to have forgotten how to package books so they won't get damaged in transit. Ordering books from Amazon is a last resort for me these days.
AMP is the most transparent land grab Google has pulled. It's technically unjustifiable, is arguably value destroying, and as a bonus you can't disable it.

It only makes sense in terms of trying to lock marketers and publishers into a Google-led ecosystem.
That depends on what you mean by "sex." And even then, it's not a neat binary thing by any definition. Most things that involve humans fall on a bimodal distribution. Cropping out the wide fields in that distribution is convenient for statistics, forms, and rhetoric, but it doesn't reflect the true range humans are capable of.
The vote is private but the counting is public.
Because the fact that the maths add up to allowing for planes to fly doesn't need to be understood to be accepted. On the other hand, the process of electing a representative from a group must be understood to not be contested or misrepresented.
Seems like a ShowHN opportunity: upgrade your AMP code (ugh) automatically when you update your regular web facing presence.

Call it antitrust.ly! :)
So it would seem one can now effectively use Peergos as a front-end to manage identity and permissions on S3?
> Windows, macOS, CentOS, FreeBSD, and almost every Linux OS released since 2011 are supported with no dependencies.

No dependencies?

$ brew info osquery

osquery: stable 3.3.2 (bottled)
...
==> Dependencies
Build: bison , cmake , python@3.8
Required: augeas , boost , gflags , glog , libarchive , libmagic , librdkafka , lldpd , openssl@1.1 ,
rapidjson , rocksdb , sleuthkit , ssdeep , thrift , xz , yara , zstd
> For example, demand for Rust engineers seems to be steadily increasing

The future of Rust is uncertain as Mozilla.
Apple has been doing it for a long time
Unfortunately Glassdoor is a place where any random person can comment things, not necessarily real ex-members.

Only a few of the reviews we have at Glassdoor are real, the rest comes from internet haters. Even so, if you look a the numbers, you will see that even people that criticize us, 74% recommend the company to a friend.

It’s obvious that we have challenges, as any company, but apparently the benefits are higher than them.
There would be a certain symmetry if Apple took a (non controlling) stake in ARM to keep it independent given that sales of ARM shares in the 1990s were a significant factor in giving Apple financial stability in the 1990s.

[1] https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/06/09/how-arm-has-alrea...
I’m not sure there’s much truth to your statement. There’s nothing inherently complex about git’s internal data structure nor does putting a SQL interface on something indicate a level of complexity.
> no one seems to be writing about the utilization of the existing machines

First off, that's wrong. Like three of the top comments here are talking about it.

Second, if it's about efficiency then it needs to wait until after our record mail-in election. There is no excuse for providing even so much as the image of election tampering.
Isn't that kinda like saying that the electric companies do the same thing, though?
Anecdotally speaking, not just in their teens. (Certain coastal pockets excluded).

I once overheard an American (M, 30s) visiting Europe commenting on European men wearing coloured trousers (red, orange, turquoise, etc).

You’ll also find colours of outdoor clothing in the US to be more muted, or the overly garish ones in fewer numbers.

On that note, men in tights without over-shorts is increasingly common in my parts of Europe. And nobody here gives me shit for wearing pink.
And the solution is to dismantle the USPS?
> […] the beginning of the piece serves as […]

You mean, if you take a piece of it out of context, and remove the text following it, it can serve to mean something completely different than what was intended? My point exactly.

Also, from the same original text, Adams writes:

> I realize I might take some heat for lumping women, children and the mentally handicapped in the same group. So I want to be perfectly clear. I’m not saying women are similar to either group.

So he’s explicitly and clearly saying that he’s not saying that women are “like children or mentally handicapped”, just so that nobody gets him wrong. But then, of course, everybody takes the first quote, cuts it out of context, removes the clarification, and parades it around the internet like a hideous rallying flag.
Government-funded inventions that Apple compiled into its devices
Hands down, this move by Pavel Durov is incredible.

Most important thing to know is that anyone can vote, but you cant choose options with candidates if your phone number is not Balarusian.

"I am not from Belarus" is only available poll option to make your vote if your phone number is not Balarusian. There is currently 630'000 votes with that option.

Telegram poll https://t.me/s/telegrambelarus/9

In Belarus there is only 7.8 million eligible voters.

Poll shows that 1,027 million choose to vote for new president.

Only 62'000 votes for current president.

While official results is 80% for current, 7% for new.

This is mind blowing.

There is currently countrywide protest. There 200'000 people on streets Minsk, capital of Belarus.

This is revolution https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTdqIc2s5wg
Thanks for the advice, I'm currently updating the data structure and will keep this in mind
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That's only issues because you choose them to be issues since there's no central constitutionally guaranteed process.

Most first-world countries simply require a polling location with certain number of booths per X people, require the maximum distance to one be Y kilometers which makes voting go swiftly. I've never waited in line to vote. Place elections on Sundays and ID's are already ubiquitous because you need them to function in modern societies. Like, I want to show my ID and then see my name be crossed of the list. It gives me the feeling of doing my part of upholding the integrity of the process.

The whole election is public, you can observe the polling locations and count. Just show up. This is mostly done by the political parties and watchdog groups.

Due to the size of the locations the first count is done a couple of hours after the election closes and the result is published the same evening.

We also simplified the process even more to allow you to vote up to 18 days advance of the election day at any place in the country. If you then decide to change your vote you can go to your polling location on the election day and the advance vote is thrown out.
Duplicate submission.

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24166505
You are re-experiencing the thought process of Einstein.

The recognition that there are consequences to our understanding of time if the speed of light is constant in every reference frame was earth shattering in the science community a century ago.
I'm currently dealing with a situation as an Amazon seller where I think the buyer is trying to scam me (claiming I sent the product wrong/late, hoping they can manipulate the return process to both get a refund and keep the product because of Amazon's notoriously customer-biased policies). I wonder how this plays in.
They kind of do, which is why alot of big tech should be highly regulated like utilities.
I am not sure I follow. It seems plausible that the sky-high taxes are a major motivator for people wanting to leave CA but a recent change in SF made it possible for people to move to a different state (e.g., Twitter and FB allowing permanent remote work and Google working remotely into 2021).
US has many. Even the UK has three
I’m under the impression there is more regulation because they are a utility company.
I’m not sure it’s reasonable to entirely ignore a statistic because it could be skewed by other factors. There’s no quick way to directly measure the net outflow, so if we want to anticipate the problem in advance potentially misleading data is all we’ve got.
If that's your number one qualification for a president then we should have just appointed a pet rock instead. No new wars, and it wouldn't complain when you try to put a mask on it.
True, but if isn't an acronym (correct me if I'm wrong) I am not going to use all caps. Because it feels like attention grabbing marketing BS to me.
The downside of the "true history" approach, besides obvious aesthetic reasons, is that it precludes the use of such tools as `git bisect` and `git blame`.
This is depressing, we as developers have to take the bull by its horns. Simply stop using their services, advocate against AMP etc.

But in the end, the US government will most likely have to split the company in order for stuff to really change.
Pro-Beijing influencers and their rose-tinted view of life in Xinjiang
> t can be verified with a pencil and piece of paper and a calculator, so anybody can do it.

The size of the resulting number would be so incredibly large that no person with pencil and paper and calculator would have even the tiniest chance of being able to verify their number. The chance of even copying it down correctly once would be tiny. The number of pages to write it out is huge. The time for a person to check it by your method would require more than their lifetime.

Thus nobody, not a single human, could check it by your method.

This is a non-idea.

For the math inclined, the nth prime is around n ln n. We need ~130,000,000 of them. Each side will multiply ~half of them. The resulting number is ~(10^9)^(10^9), which has 10^10 digits. Writing one step of the calculation at 5 digits per second would take 62 years.
It just Notre dame. Lots of colleges are about to get a lesson
The way i see it is Jobs ripped of Woz, without Woz Job's is nothing. On the other hand without Job's Woz would still been a successful engineer at a tech organization.
Readme should probably have word "Java" somewhere in the first line.
Google, the original author behind cancel culture /s