skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Housing is more expensive for them than prior generations

I harp on this constantly. But housing is not more expensive in the majority of American metros. Adjusted for inflation the median cost per square foot of new housing is almost exactly the same as it was in 1990. (This doesn't even take into account that mortgage rates are drastically lower since then.)

We get skewed on this for two reasons. One is because homes today are substantially larger and have more amenities than they did in previous generations. We take for granted better fire safety, higher ceilings, central A/C, higher load electrical circuits, attached garages, better lighting, and swimming pools that are much more common in new construction.

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.

The demand for ultra-expensive housing in places like the Bay Area is driven by the huge earning potential of the high-skilled labor market. (Of course the supply side of the equation is driven by NIMBY zealotry.) If you're talented enough to make it as an L8 at Google, then it probably does make sense to buy a house in Palo Alto. You'll earn far more money than you would in the St Louis tech scene. more than enough to make up for the living costs.

But unless you have the potential to become an L8 at Google (or equivalent), it makes no financial sense to choose to live in the Bay Area instead of Raleigh. It's like somebody who works as a back office bookkeeper insisting on buying custom tailored Seville Row suits for his work attire, then complaining that the costs of clothes has gotten out of hand.
The first sentence of this article describes the die-off as "inexplicable", but the sub-title gives a couple explanations including the massive fires and resulting smoke which is covering the western US. Watching the animals outside my house, I wonder how this smoke must be effecting them, but evolution must have led them out of wildfire conditions in the past.
That’s thing it wouldn’t work. It would have broken permissions and would never be able to properly function. Just like the location api changes etc. If try to launch an ios11 app like Instagram in ios14 it would be completely useless and nonfunctional because of just permission api changes. Not to mention any of the million other things Apple changes. So ya that’s this 24 hours is a crunch because even if 15% update the first day that’s 150+ Million Devices.
This situation is still a bit hard to understand for me as a simple Java dev. Until now I thought that there were 3 kinds of "LTS":

1) OpenJDK Updates binary builds: they take the source code of the project, build it, and provide binaries. Examples I know are AdoptOpenJDK and the free Azul OpenJDK distribution.

2) Open source LTS: they take the OpenJDK Updates project, then add bugfixes they did for their PAYING customers. They publish the source code of the result. Here I see RedHat OpenJDK (such as the OpenJDK 8/11 builds distributed with RHEL 7/8). Those are then made available for free in binary form as well, such as part of CentOS. If you want a big fixed in those versions you have to pay, but you can benefit from bug fixes made for others. "LTS" here means as long as the RHEL version lives.

3) Paid LTS with custom support. Those do the same as 2, but don't release the source or binaries to the public, only to paid customers. Maybe there are even custom builds for specific customers. That would be Oracle mainly, and Azul and IBM as well.

What's unclear to me is if fixes from 2 flow into 1. Also, I don't know which kind Coretto is (Probably 1).

Is that a correct assessment of the situation?
I've come across those Stirling engine parabolic dish systems before and always thought they looked really impressive. Definitely installed in my dream off grid retirement place somewhere sunny.
The word "modern" is really overused in tech, and it doesn't really tell you all that much, just that "this is better because it's new, and new stuff is better than old stuff".

Consider a more descriptive word, such as:
- minimal
- streamlined
- sleek
- simple
- opinionated
- spatial
- comprehensive

etc...
The Guilt Line – Self Expression vs. Order
This is REALLY cool.

How can I meet people around me who have already setup a collection point, a community point, or a machine shop?

Do you have an onboarding guide for beginners who are looking for low-effort ways to explore what you are doing?
How the Next Wave of Innovators Can Rebuild the Economy After a Crisis
Can cities survive without office workers?
> I wonder how many of those "faulty technical assumptions" should fall at the feet of Boeing's management.

Most. If engineering has to be subordinate to management and not equal, then management must take responsibility for their decisions.
I Ctrl+F'ed in this thread for Regolith, this should be higher.

Zero setup, incredible keybindings.

You can install it on top of your existing Distro, as an apt package. And then log out + log back in using new DE.

I had never used a tiling WM before Regolith, i3 seemed too difficult to configure for someone who didn't truly didn't understand the point/benefit of using tiling WM's.

A day into using Regolith on Ubuntu I was hooked. Been using it for years now and it's the best decision I've ever made, productivity skyrocketed and it looks nice.

I tried Pop_OS shell's tiling WM, as I was hopeful, but the keybindings and behavior aren't as nice as Regolith. It does a "swap" animation when changing tile positioning that slows stuff down, and I could never get the gap borders to disappear completely.
Dead birds? Clearly, the Earth's magnetic field must be reversing!!11

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0298814/
Digital Agency vs Freelancer
1. 10
2. 90

https://www.amazon.com/Fools-Crusade-Yugoslavia-Western-Delu...
UK, as per the user who I replied to.
Epstein's Former Chef Is Cooperating with Feds on Sex Ring Investigation
Likely as guilty as we will when our disposable gadget, data center power hungry environmental mess is left to the next generation.

Hard to really get behind such customized moralizing when we’re not really putting ourselves aside as engineers doing grave damage but on a longer, vaguer timeline.

Our linear progression towards yearly updates is hardly warranted anymore. Exponential breakthroughs are pushed to the side with our fetishizing stable revenue over R&D, low taxes, unicorns built on cut/paste-able software IP, and mathematical gamesmanship, and eyeball addiction over variety of ideas.

Purposefully stimulated chemical addiction to agency of self indulgence and nihilism is generating economic activity, not novel invention.

Take some solace that it’s not all your fault: We’re not allowed to assess the validity of many key economic assumptions, even with historical evidence like the pre-80s era of high taxes and strong unions.

Just trust that non-gods picked correctly for all time decades ago, and iterate on their meaning!

Really having a hard time with the glaring hypocrisy of all first worlders right now. Science! Oh but also yeah just leave economics alone, the physics there has to be read different.

Take yourself a bit more seriously first and we’ll moralize about others later.
OP here - Yep, job boards nearly always create more volume. After running one for several years, we see great job descriptions attract great candidates and vague job description attract, well, average candidates :)
Tons of small/large companies are turning to job boards, especially when it comes to hire remotely where you never know where your next employees lives.
Seems you're right, according to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24493214 (and https://bugs.debian.org/746715) which states "That includes merging reasonable contributions, and not reverting existing support without a compelling reason" which I missed when first reading about it. Thanks :)
this is a variation of the "avocado toast" argument. if you go crazy and subscribe to amazon prime, a music streaming service, and several video streaming services, you're paying somewhere around $100/month. if instead you invested the $100 every month, you could expect to have an extra ~$200k (inflation adjusted) after forty years. that's not nothing, but it doesn't add a whole lot to your safe withdrawal rate in retirement (roughly $8000/year). if you're only able to save a couple hundred bucks every month, that extra $100 makes a big difference. if you're saving $1000+, your subscriptions aren't going to make or break your retirement; you need to dig into those bigger fixed costs to really move the needle.
Correct. It was from being very frugal in _all_ areas of the budget. Eating out, entertainment, internet, not taking vacations that wouldn't be financially responsible. Frugal dates, frugal Christmas/holiday celebrations, living in an extremely inexpensive apartment in a not-wonderful area of town. We were pretty late adopters of smart phones because we had cheap flip phones. We gave to charity too.

It's all about priorities, and having a vision for being financially "free". The victim mentality is an _enemy_ of human creativity.

You can say, "this area is too expensive; we need to find a way to move somewhere else". You can say, "I need to sell this gas guzzler and get a cheap, used commuter car." These things aren't _fun_. But they set you up for success.
Ams introduces world’s first ambient light, proximity and flicker sensing module
I'm curious if you need multiple admin accounts to verify suspending an account or hide a tweet, or is it just anyone with privileges can do it willy nilly without collective accountability.
Hi everyone, I'd like to share Viadog Subscriptions which is my first product. It's targetted towards Shopify/ReCharge shop owners and helps to both increase revenue through upselling and reduce churn through gifting.

I'm happy to answer any questions and also open to feedback.
The Programmer Who Could Have Bought Google for $1M
I dislike their shady practices as much as anyone else, but calling their lack of driver support on a platform outside of their market segment "borderline criminal" is wildly hyperbolic.
What was the most expensive part of building that engine?
A little sloppy with the error handling, but pretty neat.

E.g. log_append() doesn't check fopen return value, malloc() return isn't checked, and a write() can return a partial write, thus needs a loop. fcntl().

Also write() should check for EINTR&EAGAIN.

And also there's no handling for nonblocking write.

If the user types too much while the network glitches it seems that this could cause the client to exit().

Probably the correct way is to not read from stdin unless poll() returns that writing to the socket is safe, and vice versa.

connect() errors should print where they failed to connect.

And:
$ ./kirc
Nick not specified: Success

And in my first test I got:
Write to socket: Resource temporarily unavailable

And I see a lot of NULL pointers being printed when I connect to e.g. freenode.

And so on, and so on…

For these things I recommend re-reading the manpage for every libc and syscall you call, and check how they can fail, and consider how you can handle that failure.

307 lines of pure C is a pretty neat minimal actually usable client, so I'm not saying it's not well done. But that thing about "… and do it well" (from the readme) means doing all of the above.

The problem, of course, is that fixing these problems well is "the other 90% of the work", especially when coding in C.

And this is the main reason I avoid C when I can. You can't just call "write()". You have to write a 5-10 line wrapper function, and then all callers need a few lines of error handling. And so it goes for everything, until your program is no longer the nice 300 line neat thing you can almost write from memory.

So it's a good start. But it's pretty fragile in its current form.
I wonder if that won't cause more bioluminescence when the body decomposes? I seem to remember modern coffin are pretty good at limiting these effect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will-o%27-the-wisp#Natural_exp...
Other than the US regulating the shit out of overseas companies like China does, they can't.
this might be one of those projects that gets open sourced with the hope that someone else will maintain it
I know what you're saying, and agree. But I think it's worth pointing out that the explanation of "people hallucinating hallucinate" doesn't end the conversation. Can you answer the question of "what is a hallucination?" with still fewer assumptions?

Maybe you can, but I think if you're acting in good faith you'll find you have to discuss the nature of consciousness and its relationship with the natural world. Now, this may still come to a simpler explanation than one involving extra dimensions but I think it's a lot more complex than "people hallucinating hallucinate" if you're being fair in your investigation.
Anyone interested in this should check out Towards a Science of Consciousness conference going on right now. Selen Atasoy just spoke, Dennis Mckenna, Paul Stamets, Robin Carhart-Harris, and lots of other really great Psychedelic scientists. + Many many other avenues of Consciousness https://consciousness.arizona.edu/
Just for the record, I think "pension" in the UK means something quite different than it does in the US. A UK pension is (usually?) more like a US 401(k).
Not always. You have to do your research and pick and choose.

TV won't give you any useful information.
Sometimes a black bar or even cropping isn't sufficient. You still have to trust the editing software.

There was a scandal around 2003 when a TV host took a topless photo, cropped it and shared the cropped photo online. Unfortunately, the software (Photoshop—I think CS3) she used to crop the photo stored the original photo as metadata if you didn't change the original filename. The original (uncropped) photo could be seen in the "Open File" preview dialog when opening the cropped version.
I interpret that as meaning that good looks was one of their design goals. It doesn't necessarily mean everyone will find it pretty.
I was walking the trash bins down our long drive to the road yesterday in a soup of wildfire smoke and fog when it occurred to me — we sure have a compartmentalized way of looking at the issues plaguing the world right now.

Part of that is the sheer complexity of our contemporary world. There are few polymaths — most are specialists. It feels like we’re sorely lacking people who see across many fields to synthesize everything that’s happening.

But it feels pretty clear that the system is on the fritz, has been for a while, and we’re incredibly stupid to not take bold action to fix it. Instead, we’re still having arguments about whether people are the cause. Of. Course. We. Are.
I commented somewhere else here with a link to a researcher posting about findings. The link is to a twitter thread, and several posts down they say, "The birds seem to be in relatively good condition, except that they are extremely emaciated. They have no fat reserves and barely any muscle mass. Almost as if they have been flying until they just couldn’t fly anymore."
So why call out the side that's at least honest about its intentions? If you think government intervention is a bad thing, isn't the side that's upfront and honest about its desired amount of intervention still better?
My point was that what the driver did was not negligence, it was deliberate inattention.

If she had been negligent, i.e., too tired to notice the pedestrian, that would have been a different matter. If she had been paying attention most of the time but inadvertently reached over to drink some coffee, that would have been a different matter.

But she wasn't too tired, and she wasn't momentarily reaching for a drink; she was simply choosing not to pay attention to her job so she could do something else instead.
I'm willing to give HorizonXP the benefit of the doubt. Devoid of context, my statement isn't all that different from what some young adults would say. Parents or/and their children can mature as they grow older and relationships can heal.
Disagree. Consider the phrase "time is money". That is, if Stripe costs more money, but saves me time, and I can do other things with my time, and some of those things make me money, then... is Stripe actually more expensive?

This is especially relevant if "I" am a small business rather than an individual. Then the person whose time is saved can do something else with the time that can make money for the business. Or the business can run with fewer people, which saves money.
Is iOS dev paid for by the hardware? What makes you think that? It just sounds like something you made up.

And what makes you think the App Store is profitable ‘by itself’?

These statements seem to indicate that the argument against Apple is just about them making profit from what they do.

That’s exactly the argument Epic and Spotify are making - they want to take some of the profit from what Apple does.
Autoconf solves the problem of easily porting software to different systems because autodiscovery is its default modus operandi.

Now that we live in a post-innovation world, there is no need to port software: it's either Linux, Mac OS, or Windows.

Except, of course, there is still a lot of innovation going on, and there's a lot of porting and cross-building that happens outside the the web domain, and a heck of a lot of things that are none of the big three development hosts.

CMake is starting to converge towards what the autotools have provided for some decades now, but it's not there yet. When it comes down to it, the only real difference is different domain-specific languages and that just results in tribalism.
That's a valid point but millions of people live and work in SF, NY, LA, and DC. Their needs for housing should be acknowledged as well.
The very first prototypes of Dropbox were Py2, so I suspect that legacy is a reason why it was chosen for the codegen.

My $dayjob also started as a large python code base, and so there are still lots of one-off Py2 scripts that need to be deleted or rewritten.
I'm confused. We both have pensions.
Questions that I've had good experience with:

* What's your problem? w/ Tell me more (as follow up)

* What are you doing right now for that problem?

* What other solutions have you tried?

* Are those other solutions working? Why / why not?

* Why do you feel our product might work for you?

The last question is a BS filter. If they're just using you for their own research purposes / get their existing vendor to bid lower, their response here will sound thin. Prospects who are early in their decision making won't have much to say here (or they are already late in their decision making and have made a decision to go with another vendor and are just going on a call with you to say that they've done their DD). The more they have to say, the closer they are to the finish line (ie. sale).
> I have to say I find the settings / control panel dichotomy issue overblown

Agreed. The task bar search finds the setting I'm looking for about 99% of the time.
$75 should cover the basics, including a sub to Facebook/Google if you want it. It's far too much to pay for only the internet pipes.
Astonished? Really? They have sooooo much money tied up in this plane. They have soooo much money in orders to fulfill. It's not like they can just say, "instead of the 737Max you ordered, we're giving you this nice 777 instead". Of course they want this plane back in the air as quickly as possible. The airlines do too (maybe less with COVID).
Individual behavioral change is insufficient. A civilization-level crisis requires government intervention. Vote.
I though military was the obvious target use case this whole time.
I did start using i3 with Xephyr (Xnest at the time) inside gnome. That could be something you want to try.

It basically allows you to have a X11 window running i3 inside your usual gnome session. While in full-screen, that gave me a gnome workspace that was effectively i3.
Thanks to COVID and the rise of food delivery, you can still get that pizza!

https://www.pasquallyspizza.com/

(psst. just don't tell the hipsters that think this is a new place.)
They're a charity and a private institution, not a legal arm of the UK, an oversight organization of the EU, or a division of the UN. They have as much legal authority as any other private institution.

Not to say that it wouldn't be a good idea for AI to have the privilege of oversight of any court proceeding in the UK. But I believe such a thing would have to start as law from the Houses, not the discretion of an individual judge. If there is precedent to the contrary, I will stand corrected.
I'm glad you have good experiences with your parents, but some people don't. I really clearly remember a guy I worked with at one point telling me about the murder trial his father was in, really brutal stuff. It's not like everyone is possible to live with, unfortunately some people are seriously fucked up in a way that doesn't improve with time.
Police Violence and the Rush to Judgment
I'd pretty much prefer they'd go against evaders first. two reason: even if it's not as much as what you can tax out of the 99%, it does alleviate middle class pressure.

second reason, middle class can't get savings any more. savings are essential for a wealth of reason, including starting a family, a business, investing in property or other people ideas. these are all essential for growing a solid economy long run.

angel and VC money works as a surrogate but it goes only so far as it aligns with the 1%
incentives; it burns as much as it elevates, maybe even more, and is more of a way to
extract money from growing SMB instead of a way to build a wealthy middle class, as they only play for the exit.
Reports of Liberalism’s Death–A Reply to Yoram Hazony
Edit: Pardon me! I think I encountered some weirdness on mobile, I couldn’t scroll very far down. After a reload I’m seeing more.

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I’m seeing very little about the actual content of the book on the page. Could you please detail a little bit more about what’s actually covered? What apps are you building in those tutorials? Etc.
Yes. We're undergoing this now, and it's a very involved process that should not be undermined.

We've looked into companies that help with this stuff, and usually it's around 50k to get setup, and a minimum of 20-30k annually to get "re-certified" with a SOC2 report.

There's a newer SaaS company that claims to help with this sort of stuff called Vanta. Haven't looked into them, but I've been meaning to. https://www.vanta.com/

Please understand that it's almost irrelevant on if your cloud provider has a SOC2 report. SOC2 reports are centered around your internal processes, your organizational procedures, how you store and protect data, etc.
Where have you heard that? This field research looking at the problem, with pictures of the dead birds in question, does not indicate that's the problem https://twitter.com/salasphorus/status/1304973085833981952, and that the problem is starvation. It may be starvation driven by fleeing smoke/climate, but that would just be uninformed speculation.
The point is that it's a regional, not generational, problem.
If you're into some awesome science Towards a Science of Consciousness conference is going on right now, amazing talks / Zoom chats with some great scientists. Join in on the conversations! https://consciousness.arizona.edu/
Hi, thanks for using Dither it! I built it, and would gladly receive any feedback, suggestions or further praise!
Nvidia Ampere GA102 GPU Architecture [pdf]
Have fun. It's cool to have. If only to get acquainted with that v6y stuff.
Signals and Threads: Andrey Mokhov on build systems (a la carte)
I use cinnamon, for that very reason. Just works, and works well for my use case, is very stable, and I've no wish to learn and configure another desktop paradigm.