skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A phrase I like to use sums this up: “dependencies are easy to add, but hard to remove.”
The other videos on this fellow's channel are great. The pipe cleaner bending robot reminds me of machines I've seen on 'How it's made' in a spring factory. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BngfWLsFVs
We really need to better price the negative externalities that come with these different choices into the market. Massive price increases for fossil fuels are an obvious step.
Very simple: they were the first to get there in the online payments space and delivered something that worked reliably without the time and $ cost of money orders or bank transfers.
It seems like we need to reimagine how we repurpose old plastics rather than recycling them. Conversion into park benches and decking won't consume enough material, but maybe building houses from old plastics will?

https://www.curbed.com/2019/7/10/20688718/modern-house-hurri...
I think a lot of people living in cities think there's only two options - living in an apartment downtown in a megacity, and living in a car-bound wasteland suburb.

But there's a third option - towns.

I know you have them in the US! I've been to a few of them. Walkable towns with coffee shops, restaurants, bars, culture, dating. You can even find a few in the Bay Area if you don't want to look too far.

Isn't the small town an icon of American living? Why are people so incredibly snobby about it?
So did the OP on this thread while giving advice on and advocating dodging tax.

I have some sympathy as I have the same approach to online identity (don't bother as anonymity simply isn't realistic), but if working for a company that recently had to flee US jurisdiction I'd be more circumspect about advocating breaking the law!

It's almost impossible to be anonymous to a nation state even if you try harder than us anyway, and most people slip up early and often - you won't know you want to hide from a state till it is too late in most cases.
It’s almost €20 a month for “premium” and YouTube TV isn’t available in my locale.
The US is the economic leader in tech because network effects in tech strongly favors monopolies, and the US does not do antitrust enforcement anymore.

The US tech sector makes money hand over fist not because of its technology but because the various tech firms have been allowed to monopolize their respective market areas.

See e.g.:

https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674237544

https://johnquiggin.com/2020/08/03/intangibles-monopoly/
> I wonder whether this trend will reverse in the next 1-3 years or this is the new permanent dynamic of the SF rental market.

IMO, that's completely dependent on how much SF tech companies embrace remote work.
I think FB and Google both surpassed Perforce's scale a long time ago.

I've heard all these stories about build servers or source control servers where, for the longest time, the solution to scalability problems was to throw larger machines at it. At some point the machines have well into the TBs of RAM, each, and it becomes a major priority to make the system distributed.
I went to an Applebee's for the first time in 10 years recently and I... liked it. I swore it off as an uppity 20-something.

That said, I've been living in a fairly urban 'burb with a nice downtown for almost 10 years. It's nice to actually have space to park a couple of cars and hang in your backyard amid some level of quiet.

My personal experience is that when you're younger, city life has its charms. When you find yourself full-on adulting with kids, the burbs (and Applebee's) actually sound pretty nice.
I agree, but if we have no alternatives to current development styles, then taxes can not correct the bad practices. We literally outlaw the alternatives to building in the WUI.
My commute is 20 minutes on an uncrowded ferry, and my home office is a tiny desk in my daughter's bedroom while she works on the other side on school stuff.

My colleague has a massive house with a pool tennis court and so much space he has literally 3 never-used bedrooms. His wife looks after kids who are at school most of the day again. His commute is 2 hours each way.

People are talking home vs office people are coming from very different comparisons.
Not the OP. In my case:

- I get far too distracted by my apartment. The things I hung up on my wall to give myself a sense of personality are the things that I will be distracted by if I have my work laptop open.

- I want a clear separation between being at work and being at home. Otherwise I will make excuses that because I happen to be at home I can do X or Y without consequence. At home I have my personal computer and television within walking distance at all times. By being in the office I deliberately prevent myself from having those options.

- My job requires me to use a specific model of laptop for remote work. The laptop itself is not an ideal environment for getting things done. It is a Lenovo-era ThinkPad with the chiclet keys and they are awful to type on. I have other hardware in my room to plug in, but on top of that I have to RDP to my machine in order to access corpnet things, and the latency is plainly awful. It takes several minutes to just launch it and render the entire desktop completely, control key combinations will frequently not register because of the latency, I'm unable to use my laptop's microphone half the time over RDP, and there are frequent disconnections. And if I'm working at home, all of these annoyances will just pile on top of each other and make me lose motivation to do work entirely.

- On top of that my access credentials expired while I was taking shelter early on, so to use my work laptop from home at that point I had no choice but to go to the office to get them unblocked. I went in and immediately wondered why I hadn't been working from there in months. It was night and day.

I got certified to go into the office as "essential staff," because for me being in the office is what determines if I am productive at all or not. In fact the amount of work that ended up piling up because I was unable to work effectively anymore caused an anxiety episode that I had to take off a few months for. It truly felt like I had been pushed into a corner. Thankfully my team was understanding, it being a devastating pandemic and all.
This. It’s okay to oppose democracy, btw. I think republics are greatly superior, myself.
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Sounds to me like you never make a mistake. And of course i did look, thats why I didnt get run over! But we learn cues from patterns and the silent fast moving scooter is a new pattern. If this happened to you you’d understand instead of being snarky. And you probably dimly think I am against silent electric vehicles which I am not.

The other day this almost happened to me on a sidewalk in NYC. Delivery people on silent scooters do drive on sidewalks.
Author here. I used io-ts when the documentation is still on its root README.md. Apparently it has been moved to https://github.com/gcanti/io-ts/blob/master/index.md
I don't believe that. They are better at general purpose programming than regular languages. And I don't think they take longer to read in terms of distinct operations.
I wonder what the world would look like now if there never was any oil. We’d have missed out on a lot of industrialising. Would we have had as many wars? I guess we could still have got into space using methane. Will all the positive stuff oil’s given us be undone by just how bad the climate gets? Interesting thought experiment!
Honestly, BWW had the best tap lineup in my area for a long time, which has no shortage of trendy bars.
...for a life of shopping at Home Depot and spending their Friday nights eating mozzarella sticks at Applebee's, with their families.

I added that bit.

Funny, they always seem to forget about family, even when talking about 30-somethings from hip rental apartments.
Arm Sold to Nvidia for 40B $
Microsoft uses git for all its Windows development, which is a pretty big scale (the repo was 300GB back in 2017)
> The long term shakeout of this will be that everybody realizes that yes, we need offices.

You said this, and then wrote the rest of your post about the opposite? Why do you think we'll need offices?
I live(d?) in SF and would on occasion rent a car just to drive to Buffalo Wild Wings :)
Correct. There's about 19 billion opinionated articles on the internet. If I start one off and it seems immediately wrong, I'm not going to take the time to read the entire essay. You have to have some kind of filtering heuristic for content.
The parent comment was unsubstantive but please don't make the thread worse by going into personal attack.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I like the idea of having representation but being able to override my representative if I want. I really like that idea. We have the technology to implement it seamlessly now, if we wanted. I would find myself voting on a lot of issues I care about and ignoring the ones I don’t care about.
Prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24441979
"Still over 7% of active mortgages are in forbearance,"

This seems incredibly concerning, and could suggest an especially hard market in the coming months/year.
> we used to call it the greenhouse effect or global warming back then.

And before that we were going to have a mini ice age...

Also, can I say I find it odd when people talk using the pronoun 'we'. The Queen does that when she talks about her country. That's called the royal 'we'.

What global warming effect can you say you've witnessed? I don't think I can say I've noticed a single thing. Nothing. Some warm summers some cold winters - ie weather. As a cyclist it seems the quality of air has improved and I'm noticing more birds. So 20+ years of talk and fear, and there's nothing to see?

I'm at the point where I see that all that fear serves a purpose in its own right. I don't think the rhetoric matches the reality. But putting people in a state of fear that they are also powerless to address does serve a purpose. The purpose is that it supports government. It supports global governance too. Government plays up a problem that only it can solve, and it can only solve that problem by reducing the freedoms of the people it governs. So less freedom of travel, closer monitoring, etc. For me, it's one of the justifications given for what is shaping up to be a technocratic hell. And technologists are unwittingly building the infrastructure.

What I see with Al Gore is, on the one side - a self-serving politician, happy to talk up the importance of governance when he is a member of the governing class, and on the other - a salesman doing a sales job given he is invested in green energies.
My state has been voting by mail for over thirty years with no problems. Absentee ballots are not new.

This FUD will be what leads to unrest, please stop spreading it.
Encouraging people to commute just so the coffee joint near the office can survive is economically and ethically disproportional. Commuting is, for most people and at least for a large part of the commute, a waste of time.
What I mean is, we secured it by forcing them to create better products, so we made Microsoft more desirable for consumers. If someone dislikes Microsoft's monopoly and Bill Gates' fortune, then I'd argue intervention made it worse.
Surely all issues you outlined apply to radioactive particles released by coal power-plants even more?

Example of "warm water rises" is silly - global ocean is not a teapot, water on the abyssal plain is not heated from the bottom.
The midatlantic region is filled with cities that are carcasses of an industrial era that doesn't exist anymore.

It's not "doom and gloom" to say that when there are examples of it happening before.

San Francisco's tax base is leaving. What do you think is going to happen?

Rent wise, San Francisco will just be Anytown, USA with a little bit of scarcity due to plethora of rent control and old tenants with grandfathered in low property tax due to state law.

City better balance its budget.
I think it's more that the ability to work remotely has been unlocked for pretty much every business that operates online (which, as I type it, sounds kind of crazy that it didn't already work that way).

At the very least, for the most part, businesses won't forget that possibility, even if they don't rely on it heavily post-pandemic. We've removed a significant blocker, that doesn't necessarily mean that we've reinvented the office dynamic or anything like that, but we've at least opened up a new channel for some businesses that didn't have it before, which IMO is objective improvement.
Cool now Google is playing "safety enforcer". They should do the same thing with Google Maps users who are too close to each other.

Having the world see that a party won't kill you is a dangerous thing.
K then don't force new app stores onto the iPhone, just limit Apple's ability to ban apps they don't like, like Gab.ai, Voat, 4Chan, etc.
Org-mode is another package that is due to "non-professional" developers. Carsten Dominik, the original creator of org-mode, is a professor of astronomy. [1] A lot of people who've contributed to org-mode are academics in fields other than computer science. Not as unrelated as mountain guides, but certainly not professional developers.

[1] https://staff.fnwi.uva.nl/c.dominik/
Mozz-eater who frequents Home Depot checking in. I thought it was funny.
Perforce scales the best of the bunch.
Ask HN: Does HN has content reviewers?
how does HN ensure no content is violating the laws?
usually maintaining such a big traffic web site would come with lots of spam, porn and so on, right?
I assume the ranking algorithm can not delete those contents.
Well, you don't have to only accept DNS records! It's like arguing that independent email providers shouldn't provide general addresses like @gmail.com or @fastmail.com if they're going to provide any support for custom domains. You could do both. In fact, offering support for custom domains is usually an opportunity to up-sell, particularly to the kind of customers who have already shown that they're willing to spend money on an on-going basis (by paying for the DNS name).
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Ok, we've de-effed that bit.
Would be marginally useful if it listed a counterexample for each incorrect assumption, so readers could expand their knowledge of time rather than simply be told that they're wrong. I seem to remember an article very similar to this one where it did so. Does anyone know of it?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24453631
The breakup of the bell system is what allowed dial-up services and the ISPs that followed them to flourish.
Yep, and they've had to add support for several features that Facebook added to Mercurial years earlier.
What are some examples of Bay Area towns? It seems like everyone in my friend circle in tech lives in San Francisco and puts up (or used to) with the long commute.
And others, like in finance.

It also depends on whether those who move away from (or would potentially have moved to) the Bay Area come back, especially if prices are a bit less eye-watering. Which to some degree depends on how badly restaurants, bars, retail, etc. are ultimately hit.

And just what the attitude towards urban living generally is. (This applies more specifically to SF than the Bay Area as a whole.) The urban inflow among college educated young professionals is only about 20 years old. No reason it couldn't reverse again.
SoftBank nears deal to sell Arm Holdings to Nvidia for more than $40B
I mean the answer is pretty obvious. We don't care about problems with online banking; we force banks to care - if something (anything) goes wrong, the bank is on the line for any losses, worst case scenario is, a bank collapses.

With voting, whoever is the online voting provider (even if it's "the government" i.e. the bureaucrats and the party/parties currently in power), isn't really responsible... if some things go wrong, nothing happens... if too many things go wrong, the whole system collapses.
It's not about Microsoft's resources, it's about holding up those resources from others
I'd say spend the time to get used to macros and and regexes. Each is so capable, together they are more than the their sum.
Come on now, Truckee is half second homes - the resource intensiveness is based on gluttony not existence of housing.
After having discarded every sighting reported by individuals as unverifiable and unplausible so far, this one is finally different. It's the combination of respected fighter pilots, instrument recordings with authenticity asserted by Pentagon, visual confirmation of the object and multiple observers involved that makes this incident unique and remarkable.
To the public, it looks like another "It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is."

The general public hates lawyers. But it hates weasels even more. And CEOs acting like weasels even more than that. That's why congressional hearings are sometimes delightful to watch. It feeds our hatred of CEO "others."

There are plenty of CEOs who can talk to lawyers, even in a public forum, and do it well. Splitting hairs never looks good. It makes you look guilty.
The solution is something that works today, nothing with word autonomous next to motorization is ready today.
It's all relative. Living in Dublin, I'm always amazed at how good the public transport is in German cities when I visit (in particular, it's punctual enough that "take this tram, then wait three minutes and take that tram, then wait four minutes and take that train" type directions often work!).

And then again, I'm always amused when visiting Americans think Dublin's awful public transport is good :)
You have the same attitude when prices go up?

“Wild that tenants having to deal with rent going up and having to negotiate a commercial transaction is “grim””.

“The market dynamics shifted. No big deal.”
> For some reason, neither helm, ivy or selectrum allows to open a candidate buffer / file in either the current buffer, a vertical or horizontal split window, like what I have grown an addiction for with fzf.vim.

I use ivy and counsel, and both counsel-find-file and ivy-switch-buffer offer the alternate action "other window" under M-o j. I'm not sure if that covers your entire use-case, but it works fine for me.
Not OP but I will throw in my 2 cents...

1. Work/life separation. Even with a separate computer, getting it shut away and Slack gone is easier said than done. Now everyone knows you're probably around somewhere and will read their e-mail or see their Slack message, even early in the morning or later in the afternoon.

1b. I work better in a dedicated environment. My home office has all kinda of other distractions. Homework from my OMSCS classes beckons to be done, personal projects, not to mention kids. The psychological difference of being in a dedicated workspace is significant.

2. Social connections. There are many people I was friendly with but only at the office. Now I only interact with people on my own team or in closely related teams when we are working on some project that overlaps. My 'work world' has shrunk dramatically.

3. Zoom. Just make it stop. My company has dedicated Thursday to be 'no meeting day' but it hasn't really stuck yet. I'm brought onto way more calls now than I ever was when we were in the office. It feels like Zoom has become the substitute for the random communications we used to have, except instead of taking 5-10 minutes everyone schedules 30-60 minutes at a time. And they always find a way to use up every minute plus 2 or 3 after the end time.

I don't actually want to go back full time. I am thinking seriously of selling my Model 3 because having a 60K depreciating asset in the garage that only gets driven a couple hundred miles a month is not the best use of my money. But when the office opens back up eventually, I do think I'll try to spend at least one day a week there. Maybe two.
It doesn't matter if you're the best if you're not good enough.

That's why neither Google nor Facebook use Perforce for most of their code. The repos are just too large.
This is not an individual choice. I can try to recycle plastic, but if there is no government programs to handle this issue, it will not work.
Just realised it would probably just be a world filled with coal smoke, but at least less plastic pollution!
It was on the frontpage since yesterday. And the minute it drops off the frontpage, it gets spammed to the frontpage again. Unbelievable. Not only that another NPR story got spammed to the frontpage at the same time. Now that's interesting.

Edit: Looks like I touched a nerve.
So a pandemic hits and everyone screaming NIMBY is suddenly moving out?
> role of dumb luck

Dumb luck is winning millions at the lottery. I doubt Bezos, or Zuckerberg, or Musk, or Gates, ever did that.

What they did instead was take calculated risks. Like quitting a job at DE Shaw to start an online bookstore, at a time when online bookstores were not a thing. If you or I are senior executives at one of the most successful hedge funds in history, would we quit for a pie in the sky idea?

Well, he did, and Gates and Zuckerberg quit Harvard, and Musk went all in into rockets until he almost lost it all. The part of the iceberg that's not seen in this picture is the hundreds or thousands of entrepreneurs who risked it all and lost it all. We are on HN here, and from time to time we get a peek into the struggles of founders.

Attributing the success of various founders to "dumb luck" is lazy and disrespectful. I did not take these types of risks in my life, so I'm not rich. But I tip my hat to those who did, and got rich in the end. I could be very well be luck, but absent any evidence, I prefer to extend the benefit of doubt, and to just respect these guys for what they did in life.
Weren't they already getting 0% since Epic snuck IAP outside of Apple's system into their app to bypass Apple's requirements? So Apple had no choice but to ban them. You're implying that by not kicking fortnight off the store, they'd still be getting 30%
I created a method similar to this one for curve extrapolation based on sample curves. I took the second derivative of each point on the training data, added it's contributions to a vector field.

To extrapolate, you can take 'position' and 'velocity' of live data and integrate over the vector field to produce an extrapolation. I enjoyed the project and it worked fairly well. I think there's plenty of room for extension around this method.
I agree you'll definitely want to read Elements of Statistical Learning but there are a few more, namely Think Stats and Think Bayes.

Since no one has really said much about Bayes yet, I think it worth mentioning just how useful it is in DS and ML. A Bayesian approach makes a very good baseline and often one that is hard to beat.

If you're not particular fluent with Probability and Statistics now, let me suggest you add in Khan Academy (make sure to pick the CLEP version) and JBstatistics. Khan has the advantage of quizzes (so you're not just kidding yourself that you know the material). JBstatistics has the advantage of really good explanations. You'll probably want to watch Khan at x1.5 speed.
The same here. In addition, I see social problems accumulate slowly and the team seems to be failing apart. Interpersonal issues are nit solved until they boil in the home office, in person people were more eager to speak up about issues faster and more often.