skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Two is that we're highly skewed to a handful of elite metros, whose housing markets are not representative of the country as a whole. Housing is expensive in San Francisco, New York, LA, and DC. But in places like Tampa, Omaha, Cincinnati, and Phoenix the cost of housing (per square foot) has barely gone up at all.

I think cities are fundamentally the wrong unit to look at when thinking about housing prices.

What we really want to know is "how much does it cost to live some place where I can get a job". Knowing that Tampa is just as cheap today as it was 40 years ago means little if Tampa today has, say, only 70% of the jobs that it did back then.

What we really need is some sort of normalized "job availability unit" like "per capita" but "per employment opportunity" and then try to calculate current and historical housing costs relative to that.
Why do you watch the BBC? Maybe it is better if you are not in the UK, but it is heavily biased towards the Westminster government, and does not give a fair picture of and to Welsh, Scottish, and (Northern) Irish concerns.

I agree that it is less bad than Fox and other Murdoch media.
> I would argue that stickers are the prime example of Signal trying to become feature rich.

I agree with that and think it is a good example. I know they got a lot of flack for it, even seeing Rachel get downvoted quite a bit for saying this is what Signal needs.

As to the sticker discovery, I am more referring to a link in app that leads you somewhere like here[0]. It is nice that if a friend sends a sticker to you that you can download the entire set. It is nice that you can make your own (which is presumably what you are referring to). But if we can download these stickers without some warning (presumably no danger) then this would fix the endless comments I hear of "Signal doesn't have good stickers like Facebook does." Just seems like extremely low hanging fruit to me.

[0] https://signalstickers.com/
I do not understand what you are trying to say. I also don't understand what the current topic of conversation has to do with App Stores.
If it were truly just about the games, they would let you keep using Oculus login. Why else would they force you to use a Facebook login? If they only cared about store profits, logins wouldn't be required at all.
Check out bumpalo[1]. Dodrio is a real-world[2] usage of bumpalo, so you can inspect that code to see how he deals with lifetimes correctly.

Edit: GATs are how "placement new" (Rust doesn't have new at all, hence the airquotes) would work in Rust, assuming the author here meant to say "custom allocators." With GATs, you could create a pointer (Box, Arc, ArenaBox etc.) trait and use that on your message types.[3] "Placement new" is a whole different issue that ultimately boils down to a compiler optimization that is currently missing/not working and shouldn't functionally affect what you are trying to do at all.

[1]: https://github.com/fitzgen/bumpalo
[2]: https://github.com/fitzgen/dodrio
[3]: https://rust-lang.github.io/rfcs/1598-generic_associated_typ...
It's never any engineer's job to make decisions/define constraints. That's on the business side whether it be management, marketing, analytics teams, etc... I seriously doubt any engineer decided this. The decision to go with a single non-redundant system and use software to improve safety margins seems like a cost cutting measure which definitely seems more like something that would have been mandated as one of the design goals. Maybe engineering presented various options or something like that, but I find it very hard to believe the risk decision laid anywhere else other than very senior management.
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I understand the issues with DRM. I respect Cory's position.

But honestly, Audible is how I listen to audiobooks. If it's not there, I'm not going to buy it. I've pretty much transitioned all of my casual, entertainment reading to audio (still using physical/digital for more technical reading).
That was the thought: is there some non-BCPL like grammar that makes sense.
Like... (not fully formed thought here) JSON is easy but verbose - YAML is nightmare by cleaner. Maybe we're looking at it wrong....
I do but it's still present in plenty of places - mobile especially. I prefer paid as removal options if I use the service (YT premium, Spotify, etc.)
Newer Pi's do support booting to USB drives (flash or SATA adapter) and I think the firmware update enabling that on the 3/3b/4/4b allows SATA hats and others to work but I haven't read into or tested any of them.

Booting to USB protects the install better, allows easier access or setup on a PC, and I have more of them around to set up random OS or systems to test. I have several pis around and each that can boots to USB including the pihole systems at my parents place and grandma's apartment.

Plus, the SD copier tool in Raspbian works with USB drives (and VHDs) so I set up the pihole for my grandma, cloned the usb drive, then sent both drives to her with the pi and called to walk her through plugging things in then used my existing remote tool on her laptop to finish set up. Now she has a backup USB drive that may need updates but is ready to go if the existing USB fails with pihole ready and everything. Plus once I update the backup drive I can clone it to the corrupt USB and she can store that as backup.

I know many people have hard lines for supporting friends/family. I've taken it in stride with super useful setups for relatives (pihole and a remoting tool if I set up their laptop/desktop) and beer or similar cost for friends. One recently spilled warm garlic sauce in their laptop so I pulled it apart while they scrubbed and wiped and some local beer is cheaper than a new laptop any day.
In Windows 8.1, if the Sound service crashes, clicking on the sound icon with an (X) on it will bring up a UAC prompt. Going through that will get the "resolve the issue" prompt to restart the Sound service, which will fix the issue.

Not having the problem in the first place would be better. Automatically solving the problem would be great! But, for once ever, I can safely say that this does sometimes fix problems.
Is there an issue of not being able to hold your breath in low pressure?
Would love to hear your thoughts
Psychologically, yes one does forget about the real world. But in terms of actual FOV measurements the human eye is far better.

However having that narrower FOV in VR is actually a good thing, as it makes for a smaller arc subtend for each pixel. If you were to give the wearer a 60 degree FOV in VR, they'd see very crisp and detailed things. But the more you stretch it out, the worse the effective visual quality becomes.
Do be aware that some passengers have oxygen generators that could be mistaken for an ozone generator.
The single most important reason why AI projects fail
It's not peculiarly American, it's a Western European, especially Northwestern European, pattern. See https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2917824/, particularly the multigenerational household columns in the various tables.[1] And I'd bet it's related to the phenomenon of late marriage that has historically distinguished Western Europe from most of the rest of the world for the past 500 years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hajnal_line

I'm tempted to admit that the expression of this otherwise shared culture might be intensified by some of the more distinctive aspects of American culture (e.g. pioneer spirit, as mentioned elsethread), but I hesitate because assuming America is exceptional is a bad habit I'm trying to kick =)

[1] That paper is something of a rebuttal to the argument that NW European culture (including North American culture) was always strongly nuclear. But the lack of multigenerational living seems pretty clear; what they seem to show instead is that the trend of the elderly living alone is relatively new. Which doesn't seem surprising. A culture that pressures children to move out of the home doesn't imply a culture that pressures the elderly to live alone.
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Seems about the same as always. Either Windows is working, or you get a blue screen that says ":( Error code: WE_AUTO_INSTALLED_A_SHITTY_DRIVER_FOR_HARDWARE_YOU_DONT_CARE_ABOUT_AND_IT_OVERWROTE_THE_OS'S_MEMORY"

Then you google it and the first 300 results say you need to install their malware to fix the problem. Never change, Internet... never change.
> where everyone else wants to live.

Another way to say that is "where the jobs are".
not parent commenter but as someone who also has casual user family members on Linux - Ubuntu on a ThinkPad x220 is what I've set them up with.
Supposedly holding your breath is not advisable, and can actually make things worse.
If the cabin depressurizes, the pilots immediately fly the plane down at a 45 degree angle to quickly move to an altitude with more hospitable air pressure. People who don't put on masks (and most people don't) regain consciousness after a couple minutes.

The real safety hazard is anything that makes it harder to evacuate the plane, such as bulky clothing or eye-wear that make it harder to see in the dark or through smoke.
Well, drones don't have any Slack instances running on them. If you want to exclude all defence contractor software-engineers from the list of software-engineers that's fine. I am comfortable with that. Though I suppose when your job is killing people, killing people is a sign of competence. I think Boeing wasn't trying to kill people with the 737 Max, but I'm no expert on corporate psychology.

The important thing to remember is that true engineering is building Electron and React apps not whatever nonsense all these guys who go around constantly accidentally killing people do. Aeronautics, such a poor field with poor standards. Any guy using React+Redux is a superior engineer. After all, he won't be killing anyone by accident.
The post-WWII generation were able to buy a house plus car/holidays/etc on one person's median working class salary.

It wasn't a particularly palatial house, but the mortgage would have been paid off before retirement.

But this is a direct consequence of a rent-seeking economy which uses property rights as a proxy for political influence. The British economy started being converted from an industrial economy to a patrician rent-seeking speculative economy in the 80s, and the result was massive asset price inflation in property and shares.

This wasn't an accident. It made a certain kind of person extremely rich, and most other people increasingly poor to varying degrees.

Unless there's a change in strategy - unlikely - you can expect the wealth concentration to continue in the UK, with increasing danger to the personal circumstances of any kids you have - if not to yourself if there's a serious downturn.

Even a 95%er is in danger of losing their property if they lose their job for an extended period if they don't live off speculative investments and rent.
On the contrary, my mom and I get along swimmingly. We also know that we don't want to be in each other's hair endlessly and our limit for each other's presence is around 2 weeks.
Your source ignores benefits.
I didn't say they were the same, but they serve the same purpose. Buying a put is a long volatility and short underlying position. You can mitigate the effect of volatility with spreads. But the directionality of the position is what you're buying with a put, you're buying delta within a certain time frame. And as I said, the risk profile of put or well constructed spread is better than plain shorting which has unlimited downside.
Ask HN: Co-founder is addicted to new features
My non-technical cofounder (who has majority share) won't stop thinking of new features he wants us to deliver ASAP. The problem is, as we've kept building features, the system itself is getting less stable and we've accumulated cut corners over time to deliver ASAP. We (the engineers) have made it clear that we need to spend many weeks refactoring, adding tests, and doing other improvements if we want to get to a level where we can successfully land & support a big customer.

Every time we find a stability issue & figure out a fix, he asks for LOE and if we don't say we can turn it around in a day or two he shoots it down and says we have too many features (which he just thought of in the last 2 weeks) to do.

On top of that, he is always promising to show current & potential customers new features next week - features that haven't even been started or thought out! So we scramble & cut corners to get them demo-ready.

A few months ago, we pushed back pretty hard and said after our next milestone, we need time to pause features & work on stability, and he said we would. Well, it's been a few months and now there are documents and documents of new features we Need to build in order to be Successful. It's getting harder to buy since half of the features we did build get little to no use.

So what can I do? Despite owning a large chunk of the company, it doesn't feel like I have any say when it comes to how I spend my time and energy. I'm trying to bake adding tests, refactoring, etc into my Definition of Done for feature work (thus slowing down those features too.) But it feels like a piecemeal bandage.

I've read these threads on HN before and half the responses tend to be "engineers obsess too much over quality - focus on delivering business value." Well, plenty of business value has been and is being delivered. And when this guy is also always complaining when thinks break in complicated ways, it feels like stability would provide business value.
A friend and I took a day trip to Morocco many years ago while backpacking through Spain and experienced this. A local guide approached us who came across as pretty legit and had a driver. We had a good time being shown around to different stores and it was pretty clear that he was getting a kickback from the places we went. Had some nice mint tea, and a pretty good meal later.

There was a slightly dark time in the middle though, where my friend and I were sure we were going to be mugged and left for dead when we were driving further and further from the city. I've never experienced anything quite like it before or since. We both looked at each other, and in an instant with a single expression we were both able to convey that "I love you and we're going to die". We were totally relieved when it turned out they just wanted to show a scenic view by the sea, while showing us a lot of very rich mansions along the way.

Was totally surreal, though, and I'm not sure how lucky we were.
>YoY median home prices were up 13% nationally in August.

That's a misleading statistic. It simply means that the houses getting sold has shifted towards the higher end of the market. If you look at the price for the same house it's gone up somewhere around 3% YoY.
> until the forest doesn't grow back again at some point

gotta love this doom-obsessed gedankenexperiment
You might be right about that. Maybe we need more bracket flexibility or something. Or something built for TOOLING - nobody just writes freeform anymore?
Honestly I hear this much more from those closer to poverty. I think they view it as children should be self sufficient so I no longer have to pay for them. I think a lot of what people consider “cold hearted” in the modern world is really just veiled economic uncertainty. People would rather be considered strict than poor.
Isn't it a slippery slope though?

Obesity and wheelchairs and people on the way to Magaluf who've spent the morning in the airport Wetherspoons also make it harder to evacuate.
"You have a few seconds to put this on your face before you're unconscious"

Is that correct? People can obviously hold their breath for longer than that. Is it something like panic causing you not to hold your breath?
Ironically, it's already the 3rd title on Hacker News. Two previous titles all received complaints for being misleading. let's hope this one is good enough.
Clearly nobody is in that situation. If you have any money at all in 401k, you almost surely have paid significant amount into Social Security, which pays out retirement benefits independently of whatever you might or might not have in 401k account.
But there's not even an attempt to compare risk quantitatively. Cabin depressurization events are extremely rare, and deaths from people who don't manage to put on the mask (which will exist on every plane) are rarer still. This is a known, negligible risk, while covid is an real and still difficult to bound risk. Passengers should be allowed to make that decision themselves.

(And regarding blocking the way for others: as long as it's easier to get by them than to get by some of the very large people who are allowed to fly, that should be OK too.)
I'm not sure how irrelevant it is (though Covid may change that).

If I wasn't engaged I would have gone home to WFH immediately during the pandemic, it would have been nice to spend time there and be with family (rare opportunity for easy ability to work remotely and spend time with family on the east coast).

That said, most of the successful people I know moved out to areas with more opportunity and those that stayed behind (particularly those that live at home) are more likely to have 'personal failings' of some sort.

Maybe this isn't true if you were lucky enough to grow up in an economic hub to start, but if you didn't there's still some truth to it.

Obviously during the pandemic this changes and no longer becomes relevant since remote opportunity and being able to save money by living home (since everything is locked down anyway) makes way more sense. Most people don't think independently from the cultural context though so it'd take a while for this to update.

Why live in Palo Alto and waste lots of money on rent because of stupid housing policy when you don't have to? When you can't go out and do stuff?
Fusion 360 is a huge beast that is really ten+ applications in one.

I can't speak for all of its use-cases, but even then: I haven't found any 3D modeling software that is as easy to use & feature rich as Fusion. However, for 3D print slicing and compiling after the model has been made, Ultimaker Cura is really a gold standard in the space, and open source (AGPL3 I believe).
So this isn’t in fact instances of databases inside databases? Disappointed! Surely possible with SQLite, right? Has it been done?
> If they know they are doing something dangerous or unethical, in my (perhaps unpopular) opinion they have a responsibility to voice that or leave.

How do you know they didn't?

They will keep leaving and management will keep firing people until such a time they get people that will go with their decision.

Management has final say.

> Challenger was from a lack of temperature data

No, they had data alright. They had data from previous flights showing O-ring degradation. There were two, and at least one flight the seal got broken on the first O-ring completely and started on the second. NASA's own procedures would not allow launch if they were routinely exceeding their safety margins, so those got changed.

On the day of the fateful launch, engineers responsible for the boosters raised concerns due to the low temperatures. Those were escalated to a very high level in NASA. They were ultimately overruled.
Media in states that are on the permanent UN Security Council, that aren't Britain, France and the USA.

Twitter claims their rule includes them, but if Voice of America doesn't count as "state-affiliated media" then what would?
wait until blender eat their lunch
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Smarter Every Day made a video about this in which he undergoes hypoxia training: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUfF2MTnqAw
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> Wages are not stagnant. They've declined precipitously.

Do you have any data that support this?
Transitioning from Engineering to Management with NFLX Eng Leader Tara Ellis
How do those rod-shaped atoms, like hydrogen, interact with other hydrogens or other atoms? Can chemical reactions still even happen in the traditional sense?
There is a trade off though in terms of detail. You're essentially taking a pixelated image and stretching it out more with just a FOV increase. The result for your eyes is essentially increasingly greater simulated myopia.
In New Zealand we have had at least one confirmed case of a isolation facility worker catching it in an empty elevator.

Everyone entering the country goes into an isolation facility (repurposed hotel) covid or no covid.
This doesn't look like an abomination to me!
Tutanota introduces new offline mode, then goes offline
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> In any event, NASA has instituted procedures to try an empower engineers to hold managers accountable

And yet, Columbia happened. Again, concerns from engineers were dismissed.
The lulz thing about the site is that you can't query it with SQL.

Let me download the sqlite database directly! Andy?
If there's cabin decompression and people need to put on oxygen masks quickly to avoid passing out, that tent is going to be a significant hindrance. While it probably won't kill anyone other than him, that's still a major liability for the airline. Just like not wearing your seatbelt is unlikely to harm anyone else but the airlines can still require it, the airlines can force people to limit things which would interfere with their own safety while in the airline's care.
> The worst offender here is OSX. I still haven't figured out a good way to switch between multiple open windows of the same application, not even the file explorer (Finder).

I use HyperSwitch[0] on macOS to solve this issue. I use it to override the default Cmd+Tab behavior to cycle through windows on the current desktop. It's become one of the first things I install on a new machine.

[0]: https://bahoom.com/hyperswitch
They still have far fewer dogs in the race for an American consumer. I can imagine that to a lot of those folks, goings-on in the British government aren't that important or interesting and so the bias doesn't really affect anything.
Nothing yet here... Anyone seeing the update on their machines?
It is a matter of time they will make it difficult if not impossible or they will start blocking websites unless authors start paying % per visitor.
Sure, compare to negative return, 14% in 4 years is nice.
Still it is a return of 3.3% per year. Nice, but not great. I was relativizing the return.
Clearly, during that 2016-2020 period, pretty much any major tech stock would have do way more than 14%. Clearly Softbank did not time it correctly.
> Herein lies the problem, of course, as Dropbox is having trouble justifying their value-add when storage is becoming a commodity, and is obviously searching for a new angle. From what I’ve seen before, this is usually a precursor for more trouble down the road, but who knows.

I think everyone outside knows where it's headed, and it's either enterprise-ware (clearly that's what they're aiming for, as they literally rebranded the whole thing to "Dropbox Business", it's right there on the home page) or slow death probably ending in an ignoble acquisition. Too much investment involved for them to just keep delivering the same service that made them a household name, taking a small and steady profit.

> Regardless, it makes me feel that I’m not the target audience anymore.

They're not all-but saying that, they are saying that, if you're a non-business user.
Maybe - REBOL was interesting in the functions are all RL to precedence and operators are all LR precedence. It's clean(-ish) without being too verbose/messy.
It's not perfect - just thought it was an interesting direction to ponder...
Your ability to hold your breath near sea-level does not invalidate the well-studied time-of-useful-consciousness effects from a rapid decompression in aviation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_of_useful_consciousness

Most commercial flights are operating in the 30,000-39,000 range.
Sure if that was the only data point. however, this is just one more thing they will use to refine the data they are sucking in about you every second. At this point, why would they not do it? It's in their DNA.