skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You brought up the Illuminati, not me. Nothing about "they said their objectives were A, B, and C when it was really just A" implies an esoteric occult order of some kind. There are dozens of documented examples of Gates doing that sort of thing while he was building Microsoft.
It’s not hurting them. It’s signaling that they are not in a position to reproduce. They are hurting themselves. You know, Darwinism, where everybody doesn’t get to reproduce. It’s how we got to airplanes and smartphones.
I'm not sure automation is the answer, but if it did work then the people freed up from other jobs would be able to do that kind of care.
A third of all units developers build in SF goes to low income housing
Upon a few moments of reflection, it's obvious to me I should just buy the 3rd wall paper both to see what I'm missing and to support this fine work. Thanks again!
Here's the thing: maintenance of existing infrastructure that serves existing residents is almost entirely paid for by astronomical "impact fees" paid by new developments. In the East Bay, 85% of EBMUD's maintenance (not capital!) budget is funded from impact fees. These can be really high. Any new dwelling in the East Bay pays a minimum of $26000 for water capacity and a minimum of $4100 for wastewater capacity. It's a big pyramid scheme and the existing residents better get a clue and permit some new construction, or the public utility districts are going to have to change their strategy and get all that money from annual assessments on existing properties.
Egress Filtering Benchmark Part 2: Calico and Cilium
> Congrats (seriously)!

Thanks!

> However, many of the interview tests themselves seem to discriminate for age (or at least, distance from college graduation as a function of time)

This is correct. I would add that it also (and perhaps mostly) discriminates on your ability to find time to prepare for the interviews.

I don't have kids, and my job left me enough time for preparation. But I can see how it's not the case for a lot of people in their 30/40s.
How do you ensure the credibility of the votes themselves?
In my early twenties I read that the human eye naturally tracks laterally in a jerky motion and that using a cursor helps train the eye to follow sentences smoothly over a book's pages. It was postulated that the gaps caused by the jerkiness were sapping the speed of information intake and that the smoother motion allowed larger batches of information to be "gulped". I began using a simple coffee stir stick. After a few months of initially difficult adjustment my speed reading superpower was born, which served me very well through university and my career. I recall sadly that my early school teachers used to scold kids who used their fingers, pencils, etc. to read. Those kids were onto something and lost a valuable life skill, I think.
Unless the lease had other terms written in, California generally allows landlords to continue to charge rent until the unit is rented again (or the end of the lease term).
I really enjoyed "Sid Meier's Memoir!: A Life in Computer Games". If you enjoyed Meier's games or even if you just like video games I think you will enjoy this book.
Flare Ups: It's Been a Busy 2020 for Cloudflare
Exceptions Happen; Handle Them Well
Now, that is half a response.

You failed to address anything regarding wastewater treatment.

80 million gallons per day treated with no rain, but rain, it can be 500 gallons.

So, will climate change put additional pressures on wastewater treatment as well?

Also, has SF only recently had a handle on wastewater treatment?

Was 1998 wastewater treatment capacity inadequate?

Also, if you have historical data on wastewater metrics, I would like to take a peek.
> Naive question maybe, but if demand is that high, why don't prices rise even higher to balance it out a bit?

It's not always legal to charge more in San Francisco.
I'll tell you who won't pay for it: existing homeowners, because they rely on new buildings' property taxes for anything to work. And in SF, they rely on payroll taxes from high income earners.

And in SF, the "dig once" policy means that anytime something substantial is done, nearly everything is redone, which is why Van Ness has been under construction for sooooo long: utilities.

The property wealth in SF appreciates at absolutely massive rates, but they rely on poorer new entrants to fund everything. And that old property wealth is the same political power that stops the city from a accommodating new people, restricting entry to ever more wealthy new entrants.
How I got to the HN front page three times in a row
Its the DK effect in action.
it seems you could dlopen (etc) a compiled-in-a-repl code snippet, but it's seemingly not often thought of. not sure why. (I've done it, but just prefer straight compiling, as in "i am the repl".)

p.s.
here's the most concise two refs i found by googling.

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-purpose-of-dlopen-dlload-i...

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/dlopen.3.html
I don't imagine they deliberately intended to facilitate all the snooping and tracking that's happening nowadays -- think about how old SS7 is, how "closed" telco networks were at the time, and how the Internet and VoIP were still just figments of our imaginations. I'll give 'em the benefit of the doubt in that regard.

However...

The vulnerabilities in SS7 have been known publicly for at least 12 years (per Wikipedia). While I realize that it's going to take an absolutely enormous amount of time and effort to roll out protocol "enhancements" and "upgrades" across the biggest network in the world without completely breaking everything but the (apparent) lack of any progress whatsoever is what makes me start to question whether it's just negligence or if it is, in fact, intentional.

The cellular / mobile phone networks, though?

Personally, I'm 100% convinced the issues there (CMEA, A5/1, etc.) were intentional and "by design"... For those who don't know what I'm talking about, just look into NSA's "alleged" involvement with CMEA -- knowing what we do now, post-Snowden, about the NSA -- and let me know if you don't feel the same way!
I've known several people who ideated, founded, fundraised, and exited companies in <2 years, so I disagree with the 3+ years (to find product market fit/rise above the slog) assertion that the author makes.

Otherwise, seems like sound, well founded advice that any would-be founder could learn from.
Inb4 the comments that Apple build quality is "second to none", that Windows and desktop Linux are literally unusable so that the author, who computers for a living, has no choice but to buy Macs and run macOS, and anyway this is just one data point which, like a single stuck pixel on a 4K display, officially does not count against Apple's flawless record.
> I tried to buy an Elbrus-4C computer and have it shipped from Russia to the UK back in 2015 and it proved impossible.

I find this to be the most interesting fact of the blog post...I wish author could elaborate more.
A bit off topic, does anyone know a guide or a good starting point to build landing page that look that clean and modern. For example the landing page for this website https://savvycal.com/
The idea behind the LVT is not about making rent cheaper. It's to reward landlords for using land more efficiently. If the land costs a fixed amount you want to build as many units as possible and make each unit as attractive as possible.

Compare that to a conventional property tax where you have to pay more tax for each unit of housing you build. You also have to pay property taxes for home improvement meaning old properties won't be renovated ahead of time and therefore won't be rented them out. Instead the house will only be available for sale with the hope that the buyer will renovate the property.
Bubble Guppies routinely has weird consequences of choosing their cast and setting to be mer-people but that premise being incredibly restrictive to a long running show.

They float and swim around like fish yet somehow they have scenes that will involve something like gathering around the ol' underwater campfire or they'll be "at the beach" and you see their air bubbles floating up, yet you also see waves lapping up on the sand or them build a sandcastle. Or the episode featuring the town fire department and they teach fire safety. They also had an episode where they adopted a puppy. Not a mer-puppy, just a regular dog that would drown shown next to the clearly-just-a-fish teacher Mr. Grouper. Or the episode about _air_planes. Nevermind that the show is clearly tries for an ocean theme most of the time and guppies are a freshwater fish.

I'm glad my kids are aging out of this nonsense. At least Mr. Rogers spoke to kids like real people with emotions and intelligence instead of just assuming they're too stupid to recognize massive internal-inconsistencies.
Yes this: in real estate investing this is called the vacancy rate and it eats into profits, sometimes significantly. Too much vacancy and you can’t cover the mortgage.
I would like to see this metric but where instead of substraction they should use division.
The assertion that economies were based on trade isn't well-founded. Multiple researchers have found that economies were based on credit rather than trade - trading goods for the future expectation of a trade rather than an immediate barter.

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/02/barter-...
This is something we’re trying to stop?

“Families need to stop staying together because rich people want condos in SF” is the most Hacker News comment I have ever read. Absolutely sociopathic shit.
> More apartments built are the only thing to make housing more affordable for normal people

What? No! Rent control is among other something that can lower the rent for normal people. I know SF has rent control, but currently it only applies as long as you don’t move.
Almost half of American children spend at least one year in poverty

Not to mention, I don't know where you folks develop your anecdotes -- you really do meet a lot of totally ordinary, high-functioning adults in soup kitchen and community pantry scenarios. They just happen to be broke and hungry.

At any given time, most homeless families are only temporarily homeless, and most hungry families are only temporarily hungry. Life has its ups and downs. Most of the adults spend most of their lives working, just like everyone else does.

The "hardcore," long-term homeless, who spend years at a time unhomed, are not terribly representative of the great mass of Americans who have spent some time unhomed.

Poverty is endemic in America, and it's a hard time to be a working stiff, especially if you work in, say, the Bay area, as the comic's author did. ("Santa Luna" seems like a very thinly fictionalized Santa Cruz.)

A man like the author, in 2020, could very well find himself in the encampment he so obviously feared.
It ran smooth enough on 486/33DX with 10 Mb of ram. Actually it ran better on that than on 66 DX2 with 4 megs of ram.
If we’re being pedants:

Tidal power is from the initial formation of the solar system.

Geothermal is a roughly 50-50 mixture of the initial formation heat of the Earth’s creation and the decay of radioisotopes in the core. (I was going to add something about the crystallisation of liquid outer core onto the surface of the solid inner core, but Wikipedia implies that’s not a big source of heat).
Land value tax would be simpler. Tax everything based on the unimproved value of the land. Unoccupied homes and apartments become money-losers, and owners are forced to sell them to people who would rent them out or occupy them, or else it becomes a money-losing enterprise. No need to figure out what's occupied or unoccupied, and no loopholes. Just tax the externality and let the market figure out the rest.
We should have a website that lists and ‘name and shames’ all those who engage in these practices.
People can upvote based on whether or not that is really a dark pattern and how insidious that is.
Could it be that some sort of RTOS/emulator/ROM monitor boots off of an 8GB SLC CompactFlash?
That would be interesting, I'd guess the floating point(and being twice as fast) were what really made a big difference.

It is also interesting to think that smart refrigerators and automobiles end up with significantly more capable processors and hardware than early desktops. 'Running Doom' turns into more a challenge of getting an operating system and a working C compiler onto the device than one of optimization.

I've often toyed with the thought of pushing the limits of the classic 2.5D FPS on modern hardware (without acceleration), pretty impractical being that most things have a GPU of some sort built-in at this point, but it would be interesting at least.

When GPUs became available it seems like everything kind of moved towards more 'true' 3D where everything became defined geometrically (QUAKE etc) rather than via sprites.
I used Dialup for a while when it was added as a Startup School feature and I’m using Clubhouse on and off now. Both of them suffer from tragedy of the commons.

DialUp was excellent while startup school founders were still using it, but the call pool diluted over time and several times the calls dropped randomly with no way to reach the person back. Because of the dropped calls we would start the conversation with the name of our business first, so we could continue on another channel if interrupted. So the conversations were still great enough to persist through the technical issues (startup founders like me, working through challenges we could both relate to, brainstorming and coming up with great solutions, etc). All it took to stop using the service were several calls where people who answered were on there just because they were bored instead of working on something and the value of it disappeared.

Clubhouse was quite interesting a few weeks ago, when there were fewer running threads and even if many of them were were noise, the HN/YC type people would aggregate around one or two. We had fun conversations about 4th+ dimension mathematical shapes, mobile app development, startup revenue models, technical stacks, prototyping, etc. Now the intimate threads are increasingly turning into hustle culture or scam-like conference podiums with huge crowds waiting Disneyland style for a chance to ask one question, which inevitably diverts most conversations into the same types of generic questions. You have to scroll down many levels and if there is any interesting technical topic, the group is usually very small and increasingly diluted by the noise.

Clubhouse needs to enable better filtering of conversation topics or they will lose that early crowd of valuable users fast.

Just as HN branched off from Reddit, there needs to be a Clubhouse for the HN/Startup School/YC crowd moderated with the same standards as HN.
> In general, there's just not the political will to actually make things here, and the press tends to push the narrative that anyone who thinks we should is stuck in the past.

We make a surprising amount of high-tech stuff, but it tends to be bespoke and expensive or very automated. Mass employment manufacturing is down to a few car plants owned by Nissan and Honda whose future is in doubt over Brexit. This is partly due to terrible industrial relations in the 1970s and 80s.
I rage quit Haskell when I saw all the promises for application correctness fall like a house of cards by realizing I can write to a file after it has been closed when using lazyIO.
My favorite line from the article is "There are simply no alternatives" as people build cash reserves and buy stores of value like gold and Bitcoin. People are hungry for an alternative, but yes I suppose if you only consider stocks and bonds this article has a point.
>>true numbers are unknown because building developers are manipulating the market by releasing units slowly.

Why would they do that? Not to mention that NY is kinda big for developers to band together to manipulate this. My guess is that developers try to sell/rent units as fast as they can....and faster than the other guy.
I don't really understand the thrust of your question. A purportedly absurd chain of reasoning with respect to one Gates Foundation initiative which ends in "they did it for the profit" means that that could not possibly be the case for any other one?
So, is the existing infrastructure well maintained in your opinion and adequate for existing use?
> And are still pretty much ignored.

This is says more about where you get your information. Heart disease is talked about constantly. Practically any interaction you have with a medical professional or health insurance company will involve consideration of your diet, exercise habits, how much your smoke and/or drink. The entire point of these questions is to reduce the risk of heart disease.

February is National Heart Health month in the USA! Americans dedicate an entire month to talking about heart disease. A time in which we are inundated with news reports and ads about how to improve our overall well-being and reduce our risk of heart attacks.

The American Heart Association is one of the most influential non-profits in the USA and they run ad campaigns, lobby politicians and healthcare providers, finance research, and issue guidelines for improving cardiac health for everyone.

The same is true for cancer. There's a National Cancer Awareness Day in the USA. There are several high-profile non-profits that raise awareness and finance research into cancer. Medical professionals have guidelines for when cancer screenings should be performed, etc, etc.

Cancer is not ignored; heart disease is not ignored. If you feel like you never hear about these topics, consider changing where you get your information from and perhaps you'll hear more about important topics!
Rent control stops rent from going up, but how does it make rent go down?
Using Wordpress requires writing zero code. Thats the advantage.
I wonder if this is the reason for the recent bitcoin surge?
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but if I had to spend an awful amount of money on a keyboard, it would be on one of these:

https://datamancer.com/product-category/?catid=/keyboards/

otherwise my good, ol' IBM M keyboard remains hard to beat ...
This person may have a point, but I find it hard to read past hyperbole like "Luckily, I did not purchase the touchbar version which probably is one of the worst electronic devices ever manufactured." Sure, he may not like it, but that's such a wild overstatement that I find myself disinclined to read any further.

And seemingly unlike many others giving their anecdata in this thread - a pet peeve of mine on HN, because it's effectively meaningless noise - my 2014 MacBook Pro is still going strong after one battery replacement two years ago, and if it wasn't for the M1s I wouldn't even be thinking about upgrading.
I'm no expert, just a virtual tourist via YouTube.

According to (1) average Tokyo apartment size is 20 square meters or a little over 400 square feet vs 700 square feet in San Francisco as found from a quick Google search.

Considering some Japanese rent and live in Cyber cafe cubes that are even smaller I'm not sure how fair a comparison really is between the two. Japan in particular seems to have small appliances geared towards smaller footprint apartments.

https://www.all-about-teaching-english-in-japan.com/Tokyoapa...
Does this mean cheapest as far as returns go? Or are you buying stocks at a very bargain rate right now?
>Institute an LVT and those competing landlords may become cashflow negative, forcing some of those units off the rental market entirely (typically to sales to owner-occupants, sometimes to landlords with better financing or lower overheads, sometimes to short-term rentals or other higher cashflow uses).

Well, LVT is always meant to be a replacement for conventional property taxes so depending on how it is implemented it can be roughly the same as the previous property tax or it could be significantly lower because only the land is taxed and not the whole property.
This was the most cogent response.

Appreciated.
This provides very little incentive for future good actors to search for these exploits... I had no idea the reward would be so low.
Yeah but you can buy an apartment 25 miles / 30 min from the city center with a minimum wage salary (I know, I have friends who did it). Try doing that in the Bay.
I meant it when you said that our lifestyle depends on Technologie that a lot is not software. So house building, gas and oil exploration and harvest, agriculture Technologie, Pipelines, Power plants, heating systems, cars, transportation, airplanes, telecommunication. A lot of obthis is nowadays dependent on computers but most doesn't have to.
Indeed, my point was that it's a quantitative question not a qualitative one.

When compilers created buggy code every other day, when memory allocators were unreliable because memory fragmentation would make it likely for new allocations to fail in the lifetime of a normal program execution, etc, it would be, as you said "a disaster if it works <95%" of the times.

Did k8s reach 99%? The jury is still out. Probably not yet, but in principle I don't see anything wrong pursuing that path just because it's "another layer". We use abstraction layers all the time; they allowed progress (Yes often we went too far)
I think the microdots have become mandatory. Any commerical open source printer would likely be required to do this too. I guess I just don't see that as giving people a compelling reason to produce one (meaning I'm not surprised by a lack of people working on it).
It's not an artifact exactly, but the Happisburgh footprints, discovered not far from me, gave me a visceral feeling of just how deep human time is. They are a set of fossilized hominid footprints made in the Norfolk mud 800,000 years ago. In the UK, there's old stuff all over the place (I live in a house that was built in the late 17th Century) so you get used to it, but 800,000 years is a length of time I find it hard to conceive of.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happisburgh_footprints
An Efficient Exponential Moving Average of Finite Length
To me, the major major unsung pain point with Haskell and any non-strict language that makes it unsuitable for most applications is it's inability to use dynamic libraries as we're all used to.

For an Haskell implementation to have any efficiency, it must re-order the order of execution inside of function calls as it sees fit, which it can do due to the non-strict semantics. This is fine in theory, but dynamic libraries aren't built on that assumption; they're, naturally, built upon the idea that they are a black box and that the consumer simply calls the function, obtains the result, and does not care nor has access to the insides.

A Haskell implementation must have knowledge thereof, thus, the practical effect is that with Haskell it's impossible to, say, fix a security problem in a dynamic library and simply have all consumers seamlessly benefit from that fix — every consumer must be recompiled with the new library's source.

And this problem is very seldom raised in discussions — dynamic libraries are fundamentally designed on the assumption of strict semantics.