skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What are you using instead?

I keep on getting yelled at the zoom is insecure etc. But actually no one actually wants the waiting rooms and no one is willing to name the alternative that they use that is better. I interact with a hundreds of folks often with only 1 or 2 chances to speak, and zoom gets everyone in / on much more reliabily in my experience.

Same with slack. We are using slack between companies now, and trying to figure out google's chat app strategy with video / screen sharing integration is a NIGHTMARE (even though we pay for gsuite so would prefer it). You have meet, hangouts, chat etc. Some things are in gmail, some things are not. The integration between everything is broken (we also use google voice). We've had issues where I guess folks have domain admins that block them joining a meet call? WHAT! So no your invitee can't get in etc.
Consider the basic httpd feature of providing an automatically generated index to a directory. It is possible to locate content, including names of virtual hosts, with only an IP address.
I haven't really used Blender (but know Maya, Houdini, Nuke very well). I think "pro" software (a wiggly term) tends to require a non-standard UI (however, I do miss when Photoshop used the base OS' UI). Pro tools end up being a bit of their own window management and filesystem that overlaps with the OS. Their decisions are part of the ergonomics of being productive in the app.

I remember when macOS started adding smart folders and other database features to Finder. I was hoping the base OS could do photo management and Photos/Aperture could just do the retouching. The same tooling could replace iTunes. After all, a filesystem is just a very opinionated database, right? In practice I'm not sure how well it would have played out.
“Just one more market-warping law! That will fix everything!”
The latest Samsung Tab is pretty good; did you try it?
I agree with your assessment regarding NeXT. NeXT can be thought of as a pragmatic Smalltalk machine that was adapted to the needs of the higher-education market that NeXT originally courted up to the release of the NeXT cube. For example, instead of pure Smalltalk with its live object environment, NeXT chose Mach + 4.2BSD as its foundation (which made NeXT able to run Unix software), and it chose Objective-C as the primary programming language for implementing NeXT software, which added Smalltalk's object system to C.

I've been knowledgeable of NeXT's history for over 15 years (I was a high school student when I first learned of the history of NeXT), but I'm curious about the decisions that led to NeXT picking Mach as opposed to pure 4.2BSD? I'm aware that Avie Tevanian, who was a PhD student at Carnegie Mellon who worked on Mach, was an early NeXT hire, and I'm also aware that before Steve Jobs founded NeXT, he led a project called the BigMac which would have integrated the Macintosh with Unix (https://lowendmac.com/2013/apples-bigmac-project-failed-prec...). NeXTSTEP could be thought of as a continuation of the BigMac project.
From reading the post, it sounds like the fact that housing is treated as a commodity rather than a necessity of life is what is keeping people on the street and units empty.
I also live in NZ and agree with that commenter's "news" quote. You're right - the NZ Herald isn't a reliable news source.
While I agree with your sentiment, Reddit is becoming less and less a website over time.
I thought oxygen was toxic if given pure...
Nothing, but I go to xkcd.com for that. IMO, the only valid use of reposting xkcd is when the thing you're posting is pertinent to the conversation. Like if somebody's among the lucky 10,000 who hasn't heard of nerdsniping until today.
This also explains the popularity of giving rent-free months instead of just lowering the rate: this way the baseline is not affected.
There is and always will be variance in the quality of your work space, whether that is at an office or within your own home.

When people say "I enjoy working from home", most attribute to the being able to focus in your comfortable area, lack of noise, no need to commute during rush hour, and many other widely common cons that is associated with working at an office.

The consensus of wfh vs office should take place with the following question:

given ideal situation for both scenario which one would you choose?

Because, having a loud roommate in your house does not represent the general public and is actually what I would consider an "outlier" in this particular consensus.
I was amazed to learn how much the US depends on SFTP for ACH. Though if a more instant based system becomes available through the Federal Reserve we could finally get to quicker payments like the rest of the world.
Sure you can, frequentists do not ground probability in repetition. Repetition is just a measurement process.

Their grounding is some real physical parameter, eg., with the coin the geometry of it having two sides.
Average tenancy length is two years (https://www.residentrated.com/blog/2019/6/10/average-us-rent...). So you'll have more money on your hands if you drop your rents by one third rather than leave it vacant for a year. Of course, the actual effect would be smaller than one third since tenancy length is endogenous.

However, this serves to illustrate: keeping rents high is rather a combination of being bad at mathematics, tacit collusion among landlords and protesting rent control.
I am aware. Scientific reports is supposed to have a professional editorial process, and is rather expensive to publish in. Its entire premise is to capitalise on the Nature brand whilst riding the open access train. I think it's a big bag of crap personally. You're paying for the reputation. Without any editorial standards the reputation will inevitably decline.
Renting in SF is tightly controlled and regulated, which sounds like the polar opposite of an easily substitutable commodity.
It has jailbroken Linux on iPhone 7; there are no full jailbroken iPad (Pro) options?
> If you're not a lazy musician, you'll just learn all your scales. No professional player would take you seriously. Sorry.

This is the heart of the problem. Wanting to factor out unnecessary work isn't lazy. Refusing to change a system, even when that change is a clear improvement is lazy.

It's pretty clear that neither you nor the average "professional player" is actually sorry about it. By definition, "professional players" have gone through the effort of learning muscle memory to play 144 scales. By definition, they are not motivated to promote a system where only learning 12 is required.

Defining someone who would like to see or implement an improved system as "lazy" is an effective way to stifle diversity.

Do you take Jimi Hendrix seriously? Is Jazz serious?

This attitude that worships tradition is stifling innovation. I would much rather we stopped taking it seriously.
I just gave it another whirl, maybe first time in 10 years. It's still as shocking, UX wise.

I hate Photoshop, I use it very often. It's bloated since before CS1, it's annoying to use, it's DRM rooted with a service running 24/7 on my machine, and it's also very costly.

Sadly, there is literally no option nearly as good. Adobe got me by the balls.
So if I learn Cobol, I'll land a job in a bank?
Social media's Like/Click/View based reward architecture is the main reason. If it doesn't change journalism wont.

If we had Stackoverflow points for journos rather than FB or Twitter Like counts the world would be a much different place.
Hi, thanks for responding. My question is how often do you look at competitors to build new features for your products?
I've been looking for something like this for a while and it is quite nice so far. I was able to wire it into a side project very quickly and remove a lot of boilerplate.
Love the idea of it, even if it's not for me. Ruby needs new blood infused into it.

I realized recently that Rails started losing its popularity because it just didn't quite keep up as the web evolved. Where the framework and its community resources (guides/tutorials) should have started promoting REST APIs and out-of-the-box no-friction compatibility with modern tooling like npm/webpack/react/whatever, instead it stuck with "the Asset Pipeline," purely MVC-style full-page-reload apps, and things like Coffeescript/jQuery by default.

It's really unfortunate because Rails is such a brilliant framework, and Ruby such a lovely language, and they're falling out of the mainstream and losing popularity because of this. I wish the community would re-align.

Michael Hartl's book, the go-to "learn Rails" resource, is a classic example. I think it's costing the community more than helping it nowadays. Although it's a great guide, it just feels weirdly out of date to be building a purely MVC full-page-reload app. And I think for every person it helps, five people look at it and think "seem like this isn't what I need for my project."
He'll just live in all 3 of them. Problem solved.
What's meant by "tenancy lengths are endogenous"? For me, "endogenous" refers to biological processes. I'm missing the connection to tenancy duration.
> Vitamin D is going to be the cure to this thing not a vaccine.

Based on... what?

> The word just hasn't gotten out yet.

Where's this "word" coming from? Just firing off ideas like POTUS in his press conference?
This is like the code you write on the stuff you blast off into space—sometimes the most important things need the simplest, most trustworthy, and, yes, oldest code.
It’s not written in the rent control law in SF, but apparently the rent board regards the “effective base rent” as inclusive of all discounts.

The one exception is if a tenant can’t afford the rent and the landlord decides to give a temporary hardship discount. There is a very strict procedure the landlord has to follow for that discounted rent to not become the new base rent.

I assume that tenants, if they are willing to put in the work, could very well force their landlord to keep the discount offered during Covid.
The way I would put it is: GIMP has features, not workflow.

There are a lot of things that are possible, but not by combining the basic tools and metaphors in sensible ways: each time is more like diving into the command line options of a GNU tool, finding the exact thing, and if you really, really need to automate it, it goes in a script where it can be safely forgotten.

Which is, certainly, a way of doing, but not one conducive to pleasurable use or professional scenarios where you need to have it pass through multiple hands.
I'm not sure why there's an assumption that property owners should make money. If rents go up they make money and if they go down they lose money. That's the way the market is supposed to work.
Clearly the fact that we treat housing as a commodity is causing an issue here. There are housing units owned (as investments, not for their use value) by OP's friend which could be used to house people, who are instead forced to live on the street.
The Board of Supervisors would love to impose some punitive tax increases to increase their slush fund and fritter it away on non-profits and unions.

They just have to ask voters nicely first, and if tenants really are fleeing in numbers and new tenants can’t or won’t move in at these prices, that’s not looking more likely to happen.

We could cut rent control, then landlords might want to rent out at a sane, well, saner, price again.
IIRC, sometimes rent thresholds are baked into financing documents. It's pretty unpalatable for a landlord to drop rent rates & then end up with a capital call from their lender -- especially while facing eviction moratoriums. So instead, they offer 1-time incentives (e.g. 3-mo free) instead.

These things are never as simple as they seem...
XNU, Darwin's kernel, is Mach + FreeBSD[1].

[1] https://github.com/apple/darwin-xnu
Circuit Cellar [1], if you're into electronics. Good mix of industry coverage, recent trends, and experiential projects. It's like a more sophisticated version of Elektor.

Maximum PC [2], for the PC enthusiasts out there.

[1] https://circuitcellar.com/

[2] http://maximumpc.com/
Seems a little too good to be true.

"The biochemical basis for the toxicity of oxygen is the partial reduction of oxygen by one or two electrons to form reactive oxygen species, which are natural by-products of the normal metabolism of oxygen and have important roles in cell signalling."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen_toxicity#Mechanism

"Under normal physiological conditions, cells control ROS levels by balancing the generation of ROS with their elimination by scavenging systems. But under oxidative stress conditions, excessive ROS can damage cellular proteins, lipids and DNA, leading to fatal lesions in the cell that contribute to carcinogenesis."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactive_oxygen_species#Damagi...

"The effect’s duration is yet to be determined in the long-term, Efrati said."

I would keep an eye on the potential emergence of new cancers in these folks.
What prompted the question?
Thanks for replying, is there any performance numbers for gcsfuse. We use small files and large files. We write small files at high rate. (Jupyter Notebooks) and can read and write large files (models)
I also started looking into the multi writer and wondering if there are new developments (nodes >2)
> but no posts hosted on medium.com will open

Sounds like a great feature!

Recently we had a post about websites smaller than 1MB, I think this is a much better metric: "Will load on iPad 2 in <10s". Or "Will load on a Pentium II without OOM"
My claim is that "people have student debt" is not one of societies issues. That some people have debt may be, but the question there is, who these people are and whether their educations are performing for them, not simply that the debt exists.

Focusing on the debt is a red herring that conveniently rewards elites and others who are doing just fine. Focusing on whether universities are actually doing what they claim on the box is the real issue -- again conveniently elided by a blanket debt forgiveness program.
We're modeling rent drops using tenancy length as an input. However, tenancy length is also affected by rents compared to market. Since the output also affects the input, we have endogeneity in an econometrics sense and blindly estimating the equation will give us wrong numbers.
Rent control is the system by which a new married couple spends $3K to rent a 1 bedroom while an incumbent renter who has been living in the same unit for 2 decades is paying $900/month for a 2 bedroom apartment in the same building. Only one of these is "kept safe", the other is exploited, effectively subsidizing the long term renter. In this sense, it's very similar to Prop 13, where two identical houses are charged very different property tax rates, based on how long the current occupant has owned the house.

Both of these systems are widely regarded as unfair by everyone other than their beneficiaries (e.g. long term property owners for Prop 13 and long term renters for rent control).

Both of these systems end up raising prices for newcomers, so that old timers are subsidized (newer home sales have Prop 13 benefits baked into higher asking prices, just as newer rental contracts have rent control benefits baked into much higher rents).

Nothing prevents a landlord and tenant signing a contract in which future rent increases are controlled for a long period of time while allowing the tenant to move out whenever they want. Obviously such a contract would require a higher asking rent than a contract in which the landlord had the option of raising the rent after 1 year. This is because the former contract has an embedded option value that the latter contract doesn't. Thus rents in rent control cities are always higher than the same rents would be without rent control.

That doesn't mean that there isn't a (small) population of incumbent renters who massively benefit from the option, even if a larger group of renters loses from the option. Like any lottery type system, those who end up being able to stay in the same place are winners and the other renters are losers.

This situation creates massive transfers from a majority of the renter population to a small minority of very long term renters, just as Prop 13 creates massive transfers from new home purchasers to long time owners.

The issue is why the city makes it illegal to have any other kind of contract. Most renters suspect they won't be living in the city for a long period of time, and don't look forward to paying twice as much in rent than their long term renter neighbors. I understand that some people are very risk averse, but why should everyone be forced to buy so much insurance?

Landlords, on the other hand, are subject to more volatility (the risk of having a very long term renter) and so demand higher rents in exchange for bearing this risk. Landlord are effectively selling insurance in this system together with housing services. Some landlords may want to sell this insurance and others won't. This forcing of selling insurance is why landlords don't like rent control, because some landlords are also risk averse.

If tomorrow, rent control would be eliminated, then rents would fall quite a lot and many people would be evicted. A small group of long term tenants wouldn't be able to pay the new (lower) market prices, but a larger pool of newer tenants would see their rents fall as they would get an unbundling of the rental price from the insurance price.
Because the app store rules are arbitrarily enforced at Apple's whim?
Your stat is for the country as a whole, not SF. Of all the folks I know that rent, the strategy is to get a rent controlled unit, one you’d be happy with for a long time, then never give it up.

I’ve been renting for 8 years and I’m the shortest tenancy in my building (as an example).

And the math about keeping it empty doesn’t factor in the sales price. A realtor explained it to me - if you have a 3 unit building, the sales price can go up by several hundred thousand dollars if one of those units is empty. That could easily be 5+ years worth of rent, so keeping a unit empty for a couple years can be a financially smart move. The reason is because evicting a tenant (owner move in) is a very expensive and lengthy process that few buyers are willing to put up with.
I thought of that for a long time. Finally decided that fines should be handed over the Social Security Admin and booked against the offenders account.
> Tax property more when it's vacant. Problem fixed.

Besides leaving properties vacant, rent control distorts the market in other ways. Because rent control also lowers the supply of rental unit, builders are more incentivized to sell to owner-occupants (since rent control depresses the value of rental units and thus a landlord's willingness to pay for a given unit). This increases the pool of housing available to richer people who can afford to buy a house, and decreases the pool of housing to people who can only afford the rent.

Rent control also incentivizes renters to stay in their current housing, even when moving would be more efficient. (Consider someone living in an rent-controlled below-market rate apartment in San Francisco who gets a new job in the South Bay. They would like to move, but that would cost them extra in rent.)

Even if you create policies that address these issues, there are likely more problems rent control creates. At what point do you give up and conclude that rent control is the issue?'

If you want to control gentrification and enable people to stay in the neighborhoods that they grew up in, there ways to achieve that which don't have the negative side effects of market-wide rent control, like below-market-rate housing for people who make less than a certain amount or have lived in an area for a certain amount of time.
It also keeps rents from being jacked up unfairly because you don't want to move your life every year or two.

People like to point out that sf rental market does not have very high rental mobility.

While it's not a good thing (people living in homes inappropriately sized because they can't afford to move), it's also not a bad thing (moving frequently sucks, and should be more at the behest of the tenant, rather than landlord).
I haven't watched it in a while, but you will probably enjoy Avie's oral history (along with Blaine Garst and Steve Naroff's).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwCdKU9uYnE
This is a neat way to develop muscle memory for the home row.

As a complement to `vimtutor`, I'd love to know about more games that get people familiar with vim.

Right now I only know of https://vim-adventures.com which costs $25 for 6 months' use.
> This seems to be very good evidence that mask mandates work.

Nope, corona is still spreading everywhere, mask or not.

People are just grasping at straws while destroying our education system and economy in the process.
Even better. Tax property based on yearly or quarterly mean rent price. This is what Switzerland does. The owner pays the same amount of tax if they keep the building vacant, rent it or live in it. So landlords are incentivized to rent vacant real estate and parking money into real estate and keeping it vacant might not be such a great idea.
Anecdotally, I have a valid reverse DNS on my home ISP-provided static IP, and when I tried setting up a mail server I got blacklisted on the spot.

(I eventually went with a Tutanota account, fwiw)
You are well advanced in your Indology "skill" if you have already started on Karl Potter's works :-)

>Now my aim is to study these topics in Sanskrit with a traditional scholar. Currently trying to see how to make this work.

Contact BHU at https://www.bhu.ac.in/ and ask for advice on how to go about it. It is easier now since there are lots more focus and avenues for remote study/work.
If you have a guarantee for the worst case of generating a pixel (which you indicate by saying that you never drop frames), couldn't you get rid of the framebuffer? Schedule pixel generation so that they complete just in time for when they're needed for output.

This would save up RAM for other things (and be a fun exercice to get right).
Yeah, not scared. Paying $3K/month for a matchbox is a major sacrifice, living with 30 year old cabinets is not.
I've been running my own mail servers for ~15 years and yes you can run your own, but the biggest issue I've run into is other servers blocking me as spam:

https://battlepenguin.com/tech/how-google-and-microsoft-made...

I still prefer to host my own though.
I think the GP may have meant, not using configurations of tools that are off the beaten path.

Jsonnet as a templating language works very well with k8s yamls.

Pulumi is also phenomenal at having infrastructure as code versioned in repo. Pulumi and Typescript work very well for type checked templates. K8s yamls also officially have TS types so that works pretty well too.
How Is rent control keeping them on the street? I don’t think that’s the case. Seems to me if they’re on the street it’s too late and we need social programs and safety nets to get them back on their feet.
It's out of stock though. :(
Again, does that not mean X11 is needed, until those things are addressed?
My site still works in Lynx, nojs, and Netscape.

Google is leaving the web behind, doing its own thing.

That is fine.
Know of any commercial offerings with that characteristic?
This is kind-of funny requirement given the history of user-agent strings being incredibly convoluted.

I mean Chrome doesn't clearly identify itself as Chrome, it still identifies itself as Apple Webkit
Our wonderful reserve currency rests atop a fairly well tested and robust system called SWIFT which at its core is just ftp servers with some message queues. If it ain’t broke?
Food is a commodity, even though we need it to live.

Food works perfectly fine as a market, with out "food rent controls".
Always welcome all browsers and configurations.
I like how the OP's story about his friend is good enough for an explanation that can be extended to all landlords.