skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Any thoughts on what to do when the pandemic ends and employers make us come back to the Bay Area office?

Get an employer which allows remote work.
Even with plugins, VsCode feels like a text editor + syntax highlighter for single files. Jetbrains feels like a project-first language introspection tool. It knows how the languages (Python, Typescript, Rust etc) work, how their functions, data structures, modules etc interact.
The UI on the computer may have stagnated, but it seems fine to me. Do we really need to change something that works?
> Not sure why I'd want this: (flags & (4 == 4)), but that's what flags & 4 == 4 does.

Originally there was no && operator. You had to use & for Boolean conjunction too. The precedence makes sense under that condition. (And later couldn't be changed without breaking existing code.)
Where is the black middle class, or upper class? See the Housewives of Atlanta. Nothing like this to be found in Oakland.
This is progress. If they're going to sell a sealed unit, it ought to be watertight. I expected that by now, phones would be totally sealed with no connectors. We have wireless charging and wireless headphones. SIM cards remain a problem, but there's probably some way to replace those with photographing a QR code or something.

My own phone is from Caterpillar.[1] Of course it's waterproof.

[1] https://youtu.be/pE8xN7kCUXk
I love this category of thing, glad to see more of it.

How do projects like this get off the ground / get funding?
Prices in Calgary, Alberta are going up too. I don't think there are many folks moving here from Bay Area.
On the related article of the ADHD tech stack. There’s a great app for windows called Lazar Focus [0]. It does time tracking at an OS level. It is made by a fellow HN user and blogger: CP Botha.

- It tracks time spent in applications, as well as which browser tabs etc.

- can block the opening of specific url, as well as .exe.

- can export all data to a CSV

[0] https://lazarfocused.com/
My niece found in Porto Rico an iPhoneX, near the beach, about 1m underwater. It worked, but screen was locked and no way to find who the owner was. We could get the SIM card. When they got back, my brother in law went to Verizon and told them to find who the owner was, and to call him.

It was an Indian couple from New Jersey on their honey-moon vacation , and there were very happy to get their phone back, as they had all their honey moon pictures there. The estimate was that the phone was in water (about 1m of depth) for at least 3-4 days before my niece had found it.

So, it was a good story, also that the iphoneX, when new, can survive in shallow waters. Overtime, the 'water proof' coating does smear out, and eventually give in. I wouldn't swim with one, especially if it is an older phone.
Force them out of cities to where exactly? It doesn't sound like you've thought this through.

What OP meant was that it will take a federal initiative, meaning something that will cover every state and local jurisdiction. If they're forced out of one locality, what's to stop the next one from moving them out of there and so on?
Oil's network effects are largely on the production and distribution side. Rockefeller bought out refineries and negotiated railroad rebates ... on both his own and competitors' shipments (the latter paid to him, not the competitors).

Telephony very much has network effects, which played a key role in how AT&T built its monopoly (early 20th century).

As do other "network corporations": railroads, commodity trusts, wholesale and retail, banking, information services, higher education.
Where is your data from if not arrests?
I live in New Orleans and by and large things were fine. Maybe 50K people lost power and water in the state and most of those were in BR. (Lake Charles is still recovering from the hurricanes). It was much worse here in Jan 2018.

Entergy turned over its grid control to MISO, as well as built a (huge waste of a) gas peaker plant that I will concede was used in this situation but probably wasn't needed given our connection with other states. Louisiana may be an economic colony of Texas, but please don't drag us into apologia for the national media or Texas' poor decisions.
Ask HN: Alternative to Yclist.com?
the lists arent complete

where i can find yc2021?
Even if you released every prisoner in America, besides the rapists and murderers, the US would still have a higher incarceration rate than Europe. I'm sure the SF specific numbers would tell a similar story.

You can't simply compare European to American incarceration statistics without taking into account that the US is an extremely criminal country for the developed world. And no, this doesn't have to do with universal healthcare or any other hobby horse. America had much higher homicide rates going back to the 18th century, well before modern European welfare states. (Not just the US, the Western Hemisphere in general has always had much higher rates of violent crime.)

The fact of the matter is that we're a violent society. Absent total abolition of prison, we're always gong to have much higher incarceration rates than Europe.
You mean more artificial islands built on landfill.
Facebook seems like the least of the big techs that are the most abusive of monopoly (outside of netflix). Google is by far the most abusive, Apple is the most locked down, Amazon is the most disruptive. Facebook is just for casual communication and isn't as business impacting.
IMO this is one of those unintuitive things that clicks when you see it and you go "well of course that makes sense". Really cool.

And now I'm reminded of http://bash.org/?406381:

<Axe> I
<Axe> do
<Axe> not
<Axe> know
<Axe> where
<Axe> family
<Axe> doctors
<Axe> acquired
<Axe> illegibly
<Axe> perplexing
<Axe> handwriting;
<Axe> nevertheless,
<Axe> extraordinary
<Axe> pharmaceutical
<Axe> intellectuality,
<Axe> counterbalancing
<Axe> indecipherability,
<Axe> transcendentalizes
<Axe> intercommunications'
<Axe> incomprehensibleness.
<JediHobbes> woah
<JediHobbes> *blinks*
In related news, Tim Wu has accepted an appointment to serve the Biden Administration on the National Economic Council.

"White House signals coming antitrust push with Tim Wu appointment"

Wu will be serving on the National Economic Council as special assistant to the president for technology and competition policy, the White House said this morning. Wu confirmed the news in a tweet.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/03/tech-critic-tim-...
(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26372971)
The US tax code will follow you until you renounce citizenship.
Yeah are they trying to sell python?
Progress? Flagship phones have had IP68 water resistance for the past few years now.

This is not like a surprising or novel feature of the iPhone.
> NFTs legit or mania?

So you are comparing it to Canal Mania in 1793?

I think yes, there will be NFT's sold far to high for investment purposes right now, but others that are profitable, it will be an on going business / art form.

I personally think $2.5m for the first tweet in a mature market would be embarrassing. Are you allowed to destroy the first tweet, if you are getting true control then yes I think it might be worth $2.5m. Else you are not actually buying the first tweet, unlike art created only as NFTs. So that has a embarrassing side, you're a rich person who doesn't even truly own it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canal_Mania
Transplant an organ? Why not an entire body?
The bacteria are in an environment very different than the human body. So while there may be a lot of bacteria, it's probably not going to do any harm to you because it's not adapted to infect you.

Speaking as someone who has done a decent amount of caving, I'd be much more worried about the CO2 and other gasses in the air (and I'm sure those scientists are as well). It's really rare for caves to have dangerous bad air. But sounds like this one could be an exception.
What happens when the only people left in a city are the ones who truly love it and want it to be as good as it can be?
That will get cheaper.
These cities are considerably larger and the homeless can be corraled somewhere out of sight. The difference is that in SF you have to see them.
Telco has network effects, we just mandated interoperability to neutralize them.

The same lessons would work on social media: I should be able to choose what site I view a post to FB from my network from the same way I can choose what operator provides my phone service.
They might be a trap, but wouldn't you at least like to have a real life girl hold your hand through the check out process? [0]

[0] http://qloppi.com
It would have needed to be done through Chromium in non-headless (likely full Xvfb) mode, with step screenshots, and screenshot comparison (always flaky!), for the Safe Browsing interstitial to have generated an alert.
How much electricity is used refrigerating frozen desserts in the US? It's probably a lot. Probably more than a small country. Is ice cream an unnecessary and "dangerous" trap that we will all pay dearly for in the end? Probably.
There is no way to make the city work for everyone. The city has so many constraints on it, there is no way for everyone to be happy.

For one, it's incredibly geographically constrained. Because it's constrained, housing supply is restricted, which drives prices up enormously and displaces the majority of the population. If you open up housing development, and high-rises start shooting up everywhere, the identity of the city diminishes, and it will lose a good deal of the character that most find appealing about it. Maintain development restrictions, however, and you get people complaining about the NIMBYism and extremely high prices.

In regards to the homeless, how do you resolve that? I mean, if your solution is to provide them with housing in one of the most geographically constrained and most expensive places on the planet, well then you're going to contribute to the first problem. If you're going to move them somewhere else, you'll ease up on the housing constraint issues, but upset the homeless population, and a good deal of people who thought that the homeless were perfectly entitled to live in the middle of most expensive city in the country.

What about the culture? The artistic community that had a larger presence in the city a few decades ago absolutely hates the influx of tech workers. Tech has taken root as a primary identity of the city. Does the city work for everybody when the tech workers continue to displace artists, or the artists prevent the tech workers for moving in?

In what way are you going to come up with solutions that "work for everybody?"
Sindha AGHA
"You who read me, are you sure you understand my language?”
A long shot, but hope they could include the Wave Disk Engine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_disk_engine). I could never wrap my head around the operating principle. Also, the research appears to be either slow going, or halted.
Oh look, another political appointee who didn't do their job, and is now advocating for other people to do the work they were too afraid to do.

Give me a break, it's just another useless "advocate" pimping their book.
It’s easy for a famous entrenched artist who mass produces their work thanks to legacy infrastructure to talk down on this but I’m seeing lots of independent creator artist friends making some money for their work
Civic participation is a long, hard slog that rewards the people who stay with it. Best of luck to you wherever you landed.
i live in denver. winters are getting warmer and drier but the summers lately have been very very hot and wayyy too much smoke from fires. still amazing weather though!

you're right on the traffic it's always sucked but not as bad as like LA of course.

with the population growth it goes right back into highways.. always building/expanding ;(

i feel like in theory we should be super bike/walk friendly; if Minneapolis can build bike highways that are used in the dead of winter we should be able too. but we don't. my neighbors prioritize and fight politically for street parking. you can't even see into intersections because they let cars park right up to the edge. they're trying to make a street near me a bike corridor - put in fake roundabouts - but it's not a protected lane and they still have parking on the street ffs.

the light rail should have been more promising too. we do have good buses though and the train to airport is nice. maybe can someday finish the boulder extension.

we're building a ton of condos in the center of denver so i really hope we get more pedestrian first voters.

And also please let's keep outdoor dining/drinking post COVID. take back the streets from cars!

I don't drive and live purposefully where i can walk or uber. it's great unless you go to the mounatins a lot.

i supported a mayoral candidate who really wanted to restore the street cars - it makes a ton of sense would love to see it return on a few of the major streets like colfax downtown to CU hospital.
Evolution accelerating itself.
nitpick. Yes, this is me nitpicking XD
> Do you honestly think that a black person right now would have trouble finding a restaurant to eat in even if there was no law forcing all restaurants to serve them?

No. My point is that it's not as big of a deal as you make it out to be. Competition didn't suddenly disappear because of that.

In the EU we already have the laws we're talking about, requiring banks to provide you a basic bank account. The competition between banks didn't disappear here either.

Also banking is not exactly a free market one way or another.
Dodd frank made it next to impossible for small investors to finance rentals or spec houses, or for builders to finance new inventory.

I'd say that benefits large investors.
It's kind of hard to argue that Facebook has a monopoly on "social media" when there's so much actual competition for attention in the same space. Twitter, TikTok, Snapchat, iMessage, Youtube, etc. Yeah, there is no other Facebook-style social network to share photos of your grandkids or whatever, but no one under the age of 30 even uses that these days and it's hard to argue that it's as deserving of government intervention as oil, railroads, or telecom in general were.

I'd be looking much more closely at Amazon (nearing a monopoly on e-commerce, soon to be all commerce) and Google (an actual monopoly on search) if I were the government...
I don't understand the point of this comment. It's almost schizophrenic in nature. Are you advocating for wasting energy by saying that wasting energy is fine because it's done in other places but not criticized?
Even sticking strictly to the realm of economic incentives, $35K is chump change compared to the billing potential when keeping an unhealthy patient alive as long as possible.
As a society, we have decided intent matters, and as a result, enshrined it in law. We consider intent in situations where people are killed, I think we can do the same when some feelings are hurt.
I don’t know, but as I am both an artist and a tech worker, I have a large stake in whatever comes next, and I know that the future belongs to the people who show up for it.
Facebook is the most anti-competitive of them all IMO. "Monopolist" and "anti-competitive" are overlapping yet distinct legal concepts in antitrust law. Facebook had a well known "buy or bury" strategy where they would either buy their competitors or try to destroy them. What is interesting is that IMO FB has had antitrust pressure before google/apple/amazon and this basically froze FB's M&A teams for the past ~4 years. In this time we have seen 4 new promising independent social media networks arise (tiktok, dispo, clubhouse, substack). IMO without the antitrust pressure against FB the current state of social media would be more consolidated, less likely that these 4 new networks would be independent/growing quickly at this stage.
The original post I replied to was implying economy of scale because he based his claim on competitive advantages coming with a larger addressable market. However if the market is actually divided (firewalled really), with no sharing of brand recogniton, content creation, marketing, infrastructure, customer service etc, where does the economy of scale come from? Even source codes are now developed separately. There is some sharing of business model and basic technology, but is that truly formidable? There is certainly no network effect (between TikTok and Douyin) which would have been the most significant barrier.
The possibilities of NFTs fascinate me, especially for portable, digital identities and assets that transcend any specific virtual realm and can't be arbitrarily erased by any central authority.

But I also won't put a single sat in any of them right now.
My biggest issue is starting on a task. I am very good at To-Do lists, breaking down the tasks, time boxing etc etc..but when it comes to doing the actual task (and this can be anything) I get the feeling like my hands a tied. Its like my brain saying "no i am not going to let you work on that".
great write up thanks Seth.

we're going to have to suffer hearing about these terrible ways to extract money from people & waste energy for so long.

this is a demented game of make believe, and it's just going to keep getting worse all around us.
Or move to Logic...
Shomoi kom lagar jonnoi bolchilam. Looked too verbose. But you are right.
What property of NFTs has suddenly made them make money where previously they weren't? Like how did adding NFTs to the mix suddenly make their art start selling?
I think you’re right to be worried. The piercing of the Bay Area reality distortion zone, combined with the unprecedented embrace of remote teams, may well mean that for the vast majority of tech workers their value will be judged against someone also very good who is willing to work for considerably less money.
Vertica runs on top of Postgres - the grants, admin commands, etc. are postgres commands.

Source: was a Vertica DBA, received Vertica training.
But wouldn't it make logical sense for the general population to consider trying something different? We're talking decades of single party control (left wing liberals), and these cities are rat-pits.

I guess that's why it's so powerful that the left currently owns the mass media...they stir up that visceral hatred to the point where people forget about reality.
It’s probably more like if we had a common point of comparison for all the energy spending points in our society we wouldn’t be focusing on blockchain that much.
iPhones are actually able to detect this and will give a pop-up saying moisture has been detected in the charging port and charging has been disabled out of safety concerns. It even shows you a bypass button for emergencies!
DoIt isn't really a swear word. It's a euphemism for coitus. It's also a very common phrase in general so it really isn't strongly associated with "doing it" to cause any issues with English speakers. Aka it's fine as a project name. See Nike's "Just do it." advertisement campaign, they would have never gone with the phrase if it had strong negative connotations.
I think keeping food from going bad is a lot more useful than very inefficient digital signature verification.
Next week: YouTuber burns down home MIG welding in unfinished attic of stick frame house
Java's not slow, but IntelliJ consumes a lot of RAM. On computers with less than 8GB RAM, the constant swapping causes bad performance.
NFTs aren’t much different than merchandise artists and musicians sell. Tshirts, buttons, plastic figurines, stickers, etc.

The environmental critique rings hollow. Our economy revolves around this unnecessary consumerism. Why single out NFTs? Seems like sour grapes to me.
except for the whole destroying political discourse in our country accelerating polarization spreading disinformation and acting as a tool of radicalization. not to mention leading to increased rates of depression in it users.
Tip the artists you love. If you want you can send them money by paying for prints, or buying originals, but ultimately just send them money. There's no need for it to be transactional. If there are artists in the world that make things a little more beautiful for you, you can just pay them for that, without any need for it to be tied to something concrete.
Since you have experience, maybe there's something you can help explain with what was mentioned:

> In fact, out of the 32 valid domain names that are 1-bitflip away from windows.com

"windows" is 7 characters long so how is there 32 1-bitflip combinations?

Also one of the ones mentioned was "windo7s", but "w" is 01111000 and "7" is 0000111, which isn't a single bit flip away unless I'm doing something wrong.
Hydrogen Sulfide is bad stuff. Friend did work for a tannery. One night the concrete lined cesspool they stored waste from leather manufacturing blurbled and turned over releasing CO2, Methane and Hydrogen sulfide. Killed two security guards in their guard shack 100 yards away.

I think like cyanide you lose your sense of smell as the concentration approaches lethal levels. That leads people to assume concentrations are falling instead of increasing.
Search within the article for 'Casimir effect': https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_particle

It is not the most-useful/calculable way to think about it, but it is an evocative way to motivate the idea of fluctuations of quantum fields.
> The possibilities of NFTs fascinate me, especially for portable, digital identities and assets that transcend any specific virtual realm and can't be arbitrarily erased by any central authority.

I'm struggling to understand the possibilities. Can you enlighten me? It seems like people buying these things are just speculating. Can you paint a picture of what kind of possibilities you're excited about?
Sadly paywalled for $30.
NFT: non-fungible token. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-fungible_token

Expand your acronyms, peeps.
Sir, you are gravely mistaken about the 'Loin. People do not shit in the street there. They shit in 20-pound bags left upon the street:

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stephaniemcneal/bag-of-...

Important distinction. Take note.
The more recent iPhones and Samsung phones, and some others, have eSIM support - no physical card required.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESIM

List of devices with ESIM support https://esim2fly.com/esim-supported-devices/
It's also easy to discount someone's arguments by writing them off as an "entrenched artist" and implying their opinion is invalid and old fashioned.

I'm not so convinced, especially when Seth has been a major proponent of digital currencies and economies for decades now.
Interesting take.

From where I sit Facebook appears the most brazen about their anti-competitive practices especially when compared to Google. Their tightly held walled guarden, forcing oculus to use facebook accounts, etc. Android allows 3rd party market places, Google's products in general have low switching cost (from gmail, calendar, etc to 3rd party stuff). Their ad network is pretty pervasive there and hard to escape just because of the size and Google's push for AMP on the web when so many were against it does seem like flexing their monopolistic strength.
Amazon told diapers.com sell to us or we will sell diapers at below cost until you run out of money. Maybe I am just old and the "real" world seems much more legit than the social media world. Sure Facebook bought a lot of companies, but there isn't a ton they do to smoosh them together. They seem pretty independent. Facebook's ability to kill seems weak. TikTok is still doing well and Reels didn't eat into them. Clubhouse is new and up and coming. Much more competitors than new search engines (which isn't even what Google really is anymore). Apple does have more a variety and mix of competition as well as less market share than the other Tech giants.
Buying an NFT directly from the artist could be seen as this form of tipping.

Buying one from anyone else is clearly not.
NFTs seem like an amazing opportunity to extract some money from people who got rich fast with crypto currencies ;)