skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, then, citation needed regarding "wealthy heirs with East Coast educations, [and] vestigial Mexican land grants, ...[whose] plan of record really is to block all solutions to SF's housing crisis and wait for a recession," And, are you willing to even consider the possibility that people in the tech industry actually are "gentrifying techie scum," or, some significantly less loaded version of that?

It's pretty indisputable that the tech industry has raised housing prices in the Bay Area, mostly because Silicon Valley is no longer a gigantic orchard. Basic economics says that when you take land and put it to a more productive use, as measured by how much money one can make using said land for said new purpose, the price of the land + improvements goes up. That's literally what's happening, and people are being forced out because of it. That's the actual definition of "gentrification." "Scum" is just a pejorative qualifier that would be used by those who don't approve of this dynamic, which, while it displays an ignorance of basic economic principles, is entirely understandable in terms of human psychology.

And, it seems utterly stupid for these people to want to crash the local economy, just to get rid of the most productive sector of the economy. Unless there's some other master plan you're not elucidating, and, for which you'd need to provide an actual citation, Occam's Razor says this is absolutely absurd.

Do you see where I'm going with this? The scenario you posit, in the terms you describe it, makes city leadership sound like a bunch of literal cartoon villains. While I don't believe they are immune from self interest, and the influence of money in politics, chasing that money away deliberately just doesn't fit in with the simpler "follow the money" scenario, unless there's something more to it than you're alleging.

Edit: moved the bit about SF leadership being deliberately obstructionist to the correct quote.
And the benefit of that is a discussion worth having, but the point of the $1200 was to inject it into the economy during the height of the shutdown. Having it spent slowly over the course of a year or more doesn't help the waitress getting tips when the restaurant she works at is operating at 25% capacity in May. In this context specifically, money being saved or invested is a failure.
I was grappling some very similar problem, and working with numerical results to verify intermediate results wasn't helpful and finally had to turn to maxima to final give analytically derived and simplified expressions.

These symbolic tools can save ones skin on a bad day.
Proof of stake does not have the same security properties as proof of work. The arguments are too complicated for me to usefully communicate them in a short HN post, but as a heuristic just keep in mind that most cryptocurrencies haven't adopted PoS despite it facially seeming better/"less wasteful".
Could you explain how the rust is causing an issue on your brakes? Siezed piston or pin?
These issues are all political issues, so I'm not sure what people expect the tech minority to do ― become even more politically powerful, and even more influential in matters of civic life? Furthermore, the wealth of tech is completely different from the voting base of tech.

This is a democratic city situated in a democratic state in a democratic country. So, like, either the people on any level want to do something or... do they want the Andrew Carnegie of tech to punch through the "red tape"?

What is the city/state/federal political mood on matters of big homeless, housing, or infrastructure projects? Isn't it depressed or pessimistic?
Bitcoin is a hedge on the US dollar, so people probably suspect the economy will go down since Biden won.
Inflation has a specific definition with reference to the cost of a set basket of goods and rent. An increase in the price of assets and assets alone as a result of an increase in money supply is not inflation.
I don’t know why it’s so difficult to accept that cities change, often for the worse. The quality of life for the average person in SF was unquestionably better ~30 years ago than it is today. At this point, is it even possible to have a middle class existence in SF?
I remember composer as the package manager that required a gigabyte of RAM to install a few dozen of dependencies for some framework.
Shoveling enormous amounts of cash to homeless nonprofits who are incentivized to keep people homeless.
In Memoriam: Judith Jarvis Thomson
Unless you figure you'd be privileged enough to live in Freeside, I'd say so.
"Bhakta, a San Francisco native and tenant organizer for affordable housing nonprofit Mission Housing, is well-versed in the seismic impact that the growth of the tech industry has had on the city. As software companies expanded over the past decade, they drew thousands of well-off newcomers who bid up rents and remade the city’s economy and culture."

Those rents were by and large captured by SF "natives" who bought or inherited their properties decades ago. I've never understood why I, a transplant who needed a place to live, was blamed for high rents and not my landlords, real estate millionaires who vote against new development.

Look at this fucking map and tell me who has benefitted the most from the sky high cost of living: https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/networth/article/Intera...
The resources consumed by Bitcoin should be compared with those consumed by other transaction-clearing and store-of-value methods. Credit-card companies consume a few percent of revenue for a large chunk of consumer transactions. Gold mining is an environmental catastrophe [1].

Bitcoin is far from perfect, but it is important to place it in context with other systems that achieve the same ends. As bitcoin-mining technology matures, it is increasingly reasonable to think about home-heating/data-furnace ways to make use of the waste heat.

[1] https://www.google.com/maps/place/Cripple+Creek,+CO/@38.7295...
The tragedy of the PPP is going to be the companies that took the money, spent it on something other than payroll, and then collapsed or accounted their way out of repaying it. Unfortunately it's harder to get people to care about those abuses than the companies that didn't "need it" but still took. Americans are always so disproportionately concerned about moochers rather than grifters.
The founders came out of Oracle so it's the same playbook.
MadeWithML redefining focus to end the hype and deliver actual value
IIRC sometime last year teams passed slack for daily & weekly users pretty comprehensively.

Office 365 is heading close to 200m users. Slack and Teams use is both in the low 10s, but teams is growing fast into that 200m since it is bundled and interacts with the other parts.
I agree that there's a lot in that letter that hasn't aged well.

But it looks like Microsoft considered paying about $8 billion back in 2016[1].

Slack held out, Microsoft built their competitor and Slack are still around.
And now Slack are going to sell for $24 billion or more.

I'm not sure that puts Slack in too bad a light.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2016/03/04/source-microsoft-mulled-an...
I am not sure about the OP, but M1 Macs are not available in store anywhere in Canada, or at least not in Alberta and BC. Ordering by mail is the only option here at the moment.
You might enjoy this 2005 blog post from the great Raymond Chen titled Cleaner, more elegant, and harder to recognize.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20050114-00/?p=36...
> Just have to cross your fingers and hope the good times continue.

If you've got time for it between working two jobs and driving Uber to make rent, of course.
This is why we should have a simple government run narrow bank. Direct cash payments would be much less of a problem, you could implement a preferred return for savers(dual interest rates), and it would scale across multiple government programs.
If you read this and work at Apple, you can show this message to your bosses and I hope that it could entice the company to sponsor Homebrew with hardware + engineer time to help the project go forward.

As you can read further down the thread, the Homebrew team was granted test units during the summer and had M1 Macs donated to them once they shipped.
You have no idea what you are talking about and are just spreading more FUD.

https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/48857/former-head-of-cir...

I worked with Dan, I worked at Circle, we redeemed / minted billions and billions with Tether.
It's annoying but can't you file separately instead of jointly for your 2020 return?

If I'm interpreting the statute correctly, you'd then receive the stimulus next year. (Since anyone who didn't receive it but is qualified will receive it on their 2020 return, filed in 2021.)
Bitcoin is speculative, and will die a speculative death.
Until it is backed by something e.g. mandatory taxation like the USD, then its value is only as good as the next financial misinformation campaign. and here comes the btc boys.
> It'll be genetics next.

Which part of genetics are you thinking of? Much of genetics isn’t amenable to this kind of ML, because it isn’t some kind of optimisation problem. And many other parts don’t require ML because they can be modelled very closely using exact methods. ML does get used here, and sometimes to great effect (e.g. DeepVariant, which often outperforms other methods, but not by much — not because DeepVariant isn’t good, but rather because we have very efficient approximations to the exact solution).
beware of zealot geeks bearing gifts. if your environment is currently working fine and you are only interested in running one version of python and perhaps experimenting with a later one then venv + pip is all you need, with some wrapper scripts as you say to make it ergonomic (to set the PYTHON* environment variables for your project, for example)
It'd be fair to say that vocal hostility toward immigration is more concentrated in one party - and that that party is spread across the WH and Congress.

To be reasonable tho, effective hostility toward immigration is historically well represented in both parties (eg: immigration policies under the previous admin).
A 365 sub probably is the single most useful and valuable service most companies can get. I mean, just look at what you get for $15 per user [0].

[0] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/business/compa...
Dear finance, this is why cloud costs are complex
I thought the 80286 had 32-bit protected mode, but it was badly implemented (the only way to get back to real mode was a reboot), so they fixed it with the 80386. Unless, are you referring to “unreal mode”?
That @highlight doesn't have any effect, unless he's already reading the thread for other reasons and sees it with his eyes (apparently not yet :). Emailing them using the Contact link in the footer to have a title corrected works well (and more rapidly) though.
Credit Suisse Spied on More Employees Than Previously Disclosed
There is a name for the profession, but I don't know it. It's not my field of expertise.

The ban? Schedule one medicine prohibited scientific research of those plants and chemicals. It wasn't until the presidency changed that, by turning a blind eye to it instead of enforcing it. The idea is if states legalize, then research should be legally allowed as well.

Where I live all of this is legal, so it's where most of the research was happening. It's legal in more places in the US today, so for all I know research is happening now in more places.
Insert "Poorly Hacked Perl" joke here ?? /s
ohh - lets do vi vs emacs next! :-)
That was a long time ago; basically ancient history now.
>1000 lines of code in one file. Can't get a good sense of what it does, either.
Deep Learning for Programmers new release 0.23.0 (GPU, CPU)
I think most people would agree that finance is too large in most developed countries, but it is also important. It's not like the large companies that pay investment banks to help them with their IPOs or with issuing bonds just want to waste money.
Like what? What economic value do cryptocurrencies provide over our traditional banking system?

- being deflationary is not a feature, it's a bug. An inflationary currency incentivises you to invest it, otherwise you lose real purchasing power. With a deflationary currency, you can just stuff it anywhere and see gains. You steal from tomorrow. As the material wealth of the world increases, our money supply should increase to match. AFAIK there isn't any popular crypto that can easily adjust how many tokens are mined each year.

- almost every crypto's transaction throughput is ~4 orders of magnitude below what Amex/Mastercard/Visa can process.

- most of the ease of using crypto is only because it bypasses AML/KYC laws. Venmo and Zelle would be far more convenient otherwise.

I can't see it as anything other than speculation.
Created an(other) ta account to post this...

You DO NOT need the Google Play spyware, or the Uber or Lyft spyware apps, in order to use Uber/Lyft.

Most of these services, including Google Maps, have progressive webapps to be used right in a browser.

For additional security/privacy, open these apps in a separate/sand boxing browser.

For the truly careful, create a separate Android "profile" on the device for apps you don't trust even with permissions locked up (the accounts feature is an excellent sandbox for security/privacy).
Energy consumption in the classical model is substantially lower because if you scaled up Bitcoin to the size of Visa alone it would exceed the amount of energy generated on earth a few times over and the amount of ewaste generated on earth too.

This is a classic pro Bitcoin argument that’s trivially falsifiable.

The fact folks here think their transactions in the online economy should heat their homes is so bananas to me. What is this, the industrial revolution? I mean, I know we’ve got our plague doctor masks on but that’s not intentional.
there are many problems better solved by bitcoin than classical solutions. one example is as a bank account in a low trust society with high inflation (there are many such countries). creating a bitcoin wallet is extraordinarily easy and once you've acquired the bitcoin it's uncensorable and unconfiscatable. this is better than the classical solution, right?
We should tax/price externalities in general, there is no need to single out cryptocurrency.
Unless you're very careful I think it should be detectable at those levels. If someone is taking the same amount of time when playing some rare and tricky opening line as they are when playing the QGD, that's pretty fishy if they don't have the level where you have a big variety memorized.
That's still a possibility, though "rushing" can be somewhat subjective. By strictly adhering to the scientific method/process, we can hope to eliminate uncertainty in this regard. Unfortunately... as the parent points out, that requires cooperation between geographically dispersed parties (some of whom may have priorities emphasizing social norms such as "saving face")
> Meanwhile, we get interesting volatility.

Rather than an attempt at designing a currency with really desirable properties, it seems like intent behind bitcoin was to take the WORST aspects of currency: scarcity, extreme volatility, unground it from reality, and computerize all that to make it even faster and more reckless.

Economic crashes devaste the working class when inflation skyrockets or goes into manic up-down bulimic cycles that seem to benefit only financiers. ... Yet this is what people have made as a _CENTRAL_ feature of cryptocurrency?

Bitcoin/crypto-currency makes me question even the most fundamental notions of what money "is". Whatever it becomes, I wish that crypto-currency was just a way to exchange goods and services with some useful features rather than a thrill-toy for wealthy speculators. I guess that would be too boring for people?
You can short crypto at many places, with 100x leverage. See Poloniex, Binance, Bitmex, etc.
I agree with this. I have tried briefly to make use of Result and Option types from https://github.com/cognitedata/Expression, and using match from pampy, in a personal project and while they are quite nice, it just wasn't fun at all compared to Rust.
My favorite argument: "it's too complicated for me to explain!"
Cheerp 2.6RC1: The C++ to WebAssembly compiler used to make CheerpJ and CheerpX
The remote African Village use case is already solved by mobile money solutions like M-Pesa, which are cheap and easy to use via SMS or low-end feature phones. The cost of buying a smartphone with data plan to use a BTC wallet is prohibitively expensive for most people in developing countries.
What about fields such as history or anthropology?
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That's just the HN/startup echo chamber doing its thing. Out there, MS's offerings have never been stronger for small/medium businesses.
A Component Library Can Make Your Design System Stronger
I'd find it interesting to know what those complaints are about.
NewPipe is generally very rarely "down" - I think the youtube-dl upstream issues are impacting them, or they're playing dead for a minute until the RIAA fucks off.
Yes, free money inflates risky assets, but it's also just supply and demand. Mining rewards got halved, so miners can't sell as many BTC as used to do after mining a block, so the supply of BTC just went down significantly.

The more macro stuff like worries about inflation due to the Fed printing $$$, easy money (0% interest rates), and yes, some FOMO speculation is increasing demand.

As far as I'm concerned this is working as intended. This is not the first boom / bust and this won't be the last.
It also makes one reconsider the notion that monopolies are entirely bad. This essentially appears to be a vanity project for Google. Though of course they'll benefit from it in many ways, but it's not like they're doing this as the core product of their service. It's a pretty awesome achievement.
I miss the original apple pie. (and yes, mcdonalds did have better fries than the competition)
installing code, packages is the hardest part of python programming, one of the reason I avoid it.
Given that ETH is the second biggest cryptocurrency it will be a great stress test of the security properties of proof of stake.

Honestly if it runs successfully for multiple staking periods I don't think there will be much of an argument for PoW cryptocurrencies that aren't the dominate coin in their respective type of work. Essentially all coins that share a proof of work with a larger coin are constantly at risk of a 51% attack. We've seen it before with bitcoin forks.

Proof of work's security properties are broken for everything that isn't BTC, ETH (although this will change soon) and whatever the dominate CPU coin is (Monero?)
What is the evidence that Slack rejected an acquisition offer from MSFT?
I love crypto post on HN - never seen more grayed out comments in my life!
The link has many such examples...
This is part of the cycle that makes the Bay Area wonderful. People come, people go, some people stay. In my opinion some of the most interesting work (including but not exclusively in tech) is going to happen in the next few years in the Bay Area precisely because of the opportunities and breathing space this outflow of people (and perhaps eventually money) is going to open up.

I lived in the Bay Area for 20 years, including college and 2-3 tech booms (depending how you count). From what I saw, there is always some portion of local people (like the angry anti-skyscraper guy in this article) that is too xenophobic and anti change, just as there is always some portion of newcomers that is too transactional, extractive, and ready to skip town when the going gets tough. Both postures are perfectly defensible; it's tough living in a place where rents are as unpredictable as they can be in the Bay Area, and tech leaders have not historically shown (IMO) enough commitment to the community and tax base, meanwhile those who move to the Bay Area for work are under no obligation to like it and stay, even if their complaints (about rent control, regulation, "dirty" streets, etc) are totally cliched.

Somewhere out there in the city some bleary eyed veteran of the scene is negotiating a tiny, bargain sublet for a few desks and a slice of a server closet in SoMA and will release something quietly revolutionary in the next year or so that in five years will be the next big thing. Or maybe it will be a cheery eyed newcomer leasing factory time in Hayward for a hardware thing, or someone testing robots in a warehouse in West Oakland, or whatever. Right now is one of the times when things get interesting.
> as long as people have access to land and seeds we can eat well.

and

> we are looking at a future with at best greatly reduced food variety for the vast majority of the population, and at worst outright starvation for large portions of our population.

are not mutually exclusive statements. As global warming progresses, a lot of the seeds that we are used to being able to grow aren't going to grow anymore, and the land that we used to grow them on will be turning into a desert.

Within 50 years there's going to be mass migrations and tremendous demand for the land that is still viable for growing crops. This is a situation where the rich will be able to survive, while the poor suffer.

GMO definitely isn't the only solution, and it may not even be the best one but it is one field that we need to deeply investigate and try out if we want our species to survive with a similar standard of living to what we enjoy today.
Multiple sources, several submitted to HN:

https://variety.com/2020/digital/news/fcc-ajit-pai-leave-jan...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-30/u-s-fcc-c...

https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/30/21726572/ajit-pai-fcc-st...

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/30/fcc-chairman-ajit-pai-will-s...

https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/30/fcc-chairman-ajit-pai-will...

The Variety, Bloomberg and TechCrunch stories have more meat, especially regards Net Neutrality repeal and Section 230 attempts.

Also: ArsTechnica, good detail:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/11/say-goodbye-to-a...
Yeah, but does that necessarily HAVE TO apply to "currency"?
Is that inherently a bad thing?
It depends upon the scaling algorithm -- as volume goes up, there may be efficiencies that allow the (competing!) miners to reduce their transaction fees.

In theory, since there is no notion of a Bitcoin chargeback and no need to extend credit to any party in the transaction, the intrinsic cost of a bitcoin transaction should be lower.
Thanks, added to the backlog.
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One would think, except managers don’t care. If you can’t fully recover in a couple of weeks they start looking for reasons to get rid of you.

You learn to hide symptoms as best as possible. Be antisocial on bad days so people Don’t notice how much your struggling.
It's always fun when you meet new techy people and you get comfortable enough to share your "I didn't get rich" Bitcoin stories: "I sold at $600 because it seemed like a lot at the time", "I bought a pizza with the ones I CPU mined", or "I had one but I forgot to get the key off the hard drive when I recycled my desktop" and everyone tries to laugh it off and stare into their drinks.
> Is it a map that commits to disk?

It looks that way.

> Does it operate on the filesystem level, or talk to the raw partition directly

Seems to use NodeJS' `fs` module[0]

> What's it for?

According to [1]: "How to make a Hash into a Disk system with fast lookup"

[0] https://github.com/c9fe/StrongMap/blob/main/src/strongmap.js...

[1] https://github.com/c9fe/StrongMap/blob/main/devlog/TECH.md
More on ramps and institutional investors buying in seems to be a big part of it.
If you don’t need backwards compatibility (such as on servers), there’s not much reason to go x86. For that reason, ARM servers exist. IIRC, AWS and Azure have some.
Used to be the case in 2017, but no longer true. You're more than welcome to get burned if you short into a hyped bull market.
Tony Arcieri's take is pretty good, too, and extremely succinct https://twitter.com/bascule/status/1329580017446047748