skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is somebody with empathy somebody with empathy or a pushover? The problem is the existence of architecture astronauts. How is a manager without technical skill going to distinguish between an engineer pointing out a real problem that needs some work versus the utterings of the architecture astronaut who is going to create an overly complex architecture just because he can get away with it?
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That's what I mean! On average this number is less than 3%. If it's managing to be 50% here, what is going on here to make the local economy so staggeringly poor? What does a place this devastated have to offer if the housing is not even cheap?
Yeah, I suspect that a rather lot of the options use the same libraries; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poppler_(software) claims that poppler is used by Evince, LibreOffice 4.x, and Okular (among others).
I think you have this backwards. Landlords increase housing supply, not increase demand. Also they charge what the market bears; they're exactly as parasitic as people are willing for them to be.
They're specializations of the same higher-level category. People tend to treat one as good for society and one as bad, but both are just concentrations of power whose impact on society is a function of the limitations on that power (which is not a static thing for either category as a whole, much less individuals within the category).
How about a Safari Extension?
Timber and brick, I’m unfortunately not an expert on home construction and can’t give a more interesting answer but maybe someone else around knows.

A lot of homes and construction in the New England area is brick and I bet it will last quite a long time.
I can appreciate this perspective but, like others have said, it is probably useful to add a "for me" and "for others" qualifier to these observations and see that there is no universally true statement for all people.

I have considered "meditative" to be a part of my character for nearly my whole life, while it is self-taught/self-discovered and idiosyncratic. I would read some popular accounts of meditation and hear parts which resonated and parts that just didn't seem to translate.

I already am aware of my breathing. I discovered "square breathing" for myself as a child for pain and stress management and got lots of breath-awareness through swimming. I find it odd to imagine being unaware of breathing, but I realize it must be possible from the accounts of others.

I am self-reflective and aware of my thoughts and emotional responses. I had difficult aspects to my childhood and had to learn to modulate my responses and predict the unpredictable to deal with volatile personalities in my surroundings. I find it odd to imagine being unaware of my thoughts or emotions.

In recent years, I've struggled with stress management and found myself stating things very similar to your final line. I hear people telling me to do these beginner-level meditation steps and I simultaneously feel, "I am already doing this," "it is not working," and sometimes "your advice is not actionable!" while feeling very frustrated. I might blurt out any of those statements if I get past feeling it is pointless to continue the interaction. On reflection, I think it may be impossible to know which is more true of the apparent contradictions. Am I not doing it even though I think I am? Is it working even though I don't think so? Is it really meaningless advice or I am just being petulant?

These guides and advice are written for a target audience. They are not really wrong if they do not work for some of us, as we may not be the audience. What is frustrating is that it can feel impossible to find alternative guidance if you have an atypical starting state. What is alternative advice about "being present" for someone who is stuck in hyper-vigilance due to stress/trauma? What is alternative advice about "recognizing your thoughts" for someone who is stuck ruminating and meta-ruminating? Etc.
It's what I call the Michael Jackson Effect.

Someone surrounds themselves with people who are financially dependent on them, so they only tell them that they're great, and whatever they do is the best thing that has ever happened. The unchecked praise-money feedback loop eventually leads to the host's destruction.

See also: Silicon Valley.
The Uninvited Internet of Things
Why would a company which holds an effective monopoly over Android chips in the US do anything in order to discourage the sale of new chips? Providing support for older chips would hurt sales.

Qualcomm is abusing its monopoly position and the laws/patents that allow this need to be changed. Qualcomm is a great example of how IP laws can hurt progress and competition.

In the future China and other countries will leapfrog the US in areas where competition is banned, because the only possible competitors will be in other countries.
Hi, could you share a little of what you do? It didn't even cross my mind I can work for a non-profit, still get paid (not top dollar) and have a good community impact (kids in your case). Thanks!
Has anyone tried c2rust on the Linux kernel? Does it provide any positive results?
Would you please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments to HN, and please stop using the site primarily for ideological battle? The latter is especially important because it destroys the curiosity that HN is supposed to be for. I had to look back months in your comment history before I saw something that wasn't off this nature...that's bad. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and return to the intended spirit of the site we'd appreciate it.
Well it does actually.

As interest rates stay low - the amount of leverage in housing increases, which creates more volatility.

The economic crises is obviously the primary forcing function during the crises and subsequent recovery. This will cause pressure one way, and then the other.

The amplitude of the swing is a function of the fact interest rates are so low, and leverage is so high.

They have been really low for a long time relative to the return on other assets, ergo, the leverage maintains and increases.

Obviously this is amplified by other aspects of easy monetary policy.

Put inversely: if rates were up 3 or 4 points, I don't think we'd see this kind of bubble in housing, not remotely.

We are living in weird credit bubble, and thanks to COVID it may never let up - i.e. this could be 'the new normal'. It's like Earth's gravity has shifted for good and we're all having to adjust to a new reality. Part of that new reality is crazy home prices.
yeah, and what do you do when you got a nonexistent country: "🇩🇧".
? https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MORTGAGE30US

2000 interest rate - ~8.5%

2020 interest rate - ~2.8%
> How do businesses shop for such products

Businesses are more interested in reliability, security, price, details of the warranty, support contracts, and other details that don't show up in benchmarks.

If performance is key, they buy samples and test in their workload. Or at the enterprise scale, they might get loaner units from their vendors to evaluate. Benchmarks rarely tell the full story for unique workloads.
> the addresses of military generals and spies are less of a target for hackers than the addresses of medical patients?

Why not both? Think how valuable the medical information of military staff would be as a source of coersive power.
I heard good advice for life and interviews (be they for work, marriage, etc).

For life, it's that you aren't your weaknesses but your strengths. Don't worry about filling the skill hole in juggling for instance, put that time into your strengths or hobbies. Be a better you, not a more complete someone else.

For hiring though, if you've assured basic competence you're now more interested in weaknesses than strengths. You don't need the world's best person in the role, you need someone who won't bring down the group - either in their incompetence, malaise, nasty behavior, or whatever.

So when being interviewing for a role don't worry about being the best, shoot for 60% and you're golden - but do your best to avoid showing even a single red flag.
This is semi standard behavior for truckers. There is even a name for it "trucker bombs"
A Java dev will at least tweak the xmx/xms at some point in its career.
Sure, but ideally we should be writing software that erases technical debt, not shifting it. To my understanding, the system you're suggesting is actually how Chrome manages it's tabs: it will let you open whatever you want until memory is constrained, at which point it will kill/compress the biggest offenders to keep things snappy.
As a FreeBSD user, that's good to hear :)

Has there been any discussion about why the process failed in this case, and what is going to be done to make sure something similar doesn't happen in the future?

This is the review for the original commit, in case anyone is interested: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26137
> Landlords increase housing supply

Housing supplies increase when developers build new housing. Landlords would seem to be a fairly small component in that equation.
Thank you for this. Helps put my career choices into perspective. (I just quit security work to be a stay at home dad.)
I can personally confirm that there's at least one autistic person in a senior engineering role at Netflix.
I've sailed the Suez canal on a cargo ship – no wonder the Ever Given got stuck
Is mania a desired state though? It's very chaotic and we already have adderall. I would guess it was more of a facsimile of happiness than a productivity hack. I'm partying all day, my mood is chemically elevated so surely this is what happiness is right?
I've often wondered about this, in the abstract.

What if the reason someone isn't motivated to get better is precisely because of the acute drug dependency? In other words, what if getting someone through the initial withdrawal of, say, heroin stabilized them enough to feel motivated to improve their lives?

After all, we use this reasoning to prescribe medication for e.g. anxiety and depression. The reasoning is that drugs are sometimes very good at providing people with just enough stability to allow for long-term solutions like therapy.

If this is indeed the case, might there not be some situations in which forcibly taking someone to rehab would be helpful?

The "you cannot forcibly make someone go to rehab" seems like policy more than actual truth. It may even be a good policy, for all I know. But assuming I'm right, maybe we shouldn't confuse the two.
Interesting to see how the 'local recreation' measure on Manhattan can change so much just depending on which side of Central Park you are.

Also, Treasure Island ranks surprisingly well in SF!
I do think you can get the worst managers that way as well, and jobs at some points was one of the worst. You do need empathy and ways of handling underperformers that is not screaming at them hoping things will get better.
I used to run a fairly large job ad scraping operation. Our scraped data was used by many US state and federal job sites. "Scraping" is just using software to load a page and extracting content. "Crawling" is just load a page, find hyperlinks (hmm... a kind of content), and then crawling those links. Crawling is just a kind of scraping.
You might try this link, which I got via a DDG search and which seems to be the complete article:

http://investorsnewsblog.com/2021/03/25/the-bank-effect-and-...
We’d love to but my guess is Apple hasn’t made it easy to do :) FF and chrome are pretty close in terms of their plug-in architecture.
Please don't take HN on generic ideological tangents. They lead to threads that are repetitive and therefore uninteresting, and often turn nasty as well.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26585073.
Money earns more money.
Privilege begets more privilege.

This is not just true in the case of Google but in other other domains as well like the financial markets.

Would you blame capitalism?
I recently reviewed my (imho absolutely recommendable) pick here: https://johannes.truschnigg.info/reviews/2021-01_fwbox/

Hth :)
The hidden fingerprint inside your photos
"...push notification..."
Using Twilio?
I don’t know, but I wouldn’t take the risk to find out in a professional environment.
How to Move That Ship? According to the Internet
Yeah not like those US backdoors...

https://www.engadget.com/2016-08-21-nsa-technique-for-cisco-...
What happens if you have a sequence of puts that triggers an expansion and some keys get migrated, but all of a sudden you get a series of removes, such that you need to perform a shrink to keep memory usage linear?

Do you now end up with three live arrays? You can probably make things even more pathological...
You're arguing semantics, and you're equivocating: since these are specializations of a higher-level category, then they have meaningful differences.

More to the point: my entire argument is that we should not refrain from viewing businesses as totalitarian, despite the fact that this label is classically applied to government.

Do you have a point, or are you just here to nitpick?
As much as I like this idea in theory, in practice, a lot of the hairiness and opacity of code I've seen comes from the business domain itself, not the code. There is only so pretty you can make code which has to do painful and unintuitive tax calculation, or credit underwriting logic. But often times, this code is the most critical to the business as a whole. It is code which is counterintuitive because it reflects a reality which is itself painful and unintuitive.

When it comes to writing clear code in reality, I'll repeat what I said before -- there aren't absolute rules, and things are contextual. Where it's possible, it's absolutely ideal to keep things compact and expressive. But that only will take you so far. When you run into domain logic that is to an extent incompressible, trying to compress things further will only impede clarity.
It seems like you are assuming that population will continue to increase. Obviously it is not something that can happen forever.
Yeah and that was my original point, nobody buying an ultrabook-style laptop is expecting to run Cyberpunk with Ray Tracing enabled. A laptop like that can't even run a game that might take you over the 8GB threshold - i.e., you're not RAM-bound.

If you can run DOTA, League Of Legends, Fortnite, Rocket League, etc, and run your streaming/voice and text chat/browser apps simultaneously, then you're golden. And I think, for that use case, RAM is basically not a concern. Someone with an 8GB MacBook Air/XPS 13/X1 Carbon can do that exact workflow.
Framing it differently: I have $100,000 as a down payment for a $500k house. At 8.05% the monthly payment is $3,686. At 3.11%, it's $2,138. That's a savings of $1,548 monthly. 12 payments a year for 30 years that's a net change of $557,280.
That's $450, plus tax plus labour for a wifi setup. It's a really hard sell compared to google mesh wifi pick for anyone other than a die hard fan
Are there truly dumb APs? Because I'm really not fond of having Debian in the network core but the actual APs running unpatched proprietary garbage firmware either (especially if that's the part handling wireless security).
Sure, but we don’t want that. There is an incredible amount of space in the bay area
which could be turned into droid housing and office buildings. ALL of those places have cheaper real estate, fewer homeless people (the #2 complaint of everybody here) and warmer weather.

It’s 2021 and Covid-19 has shown that remote work is viable.

Back in the day large tech companies like Sun, Peoplesoft and Cisco built offices all over the bay so that people had the option to work at facilities close to their home.

SF wasn’t even a significant tech destination before 2007.

My wife and I are actually moving to Barcelona when Covid is over, under the Non-Lucrative residency permit. If you think San Franciscans have a Nimby attitude and hate outsiders then you should go visit Barcelona.

“Unremarkabe single family housing”. So what, you want to take peoples’ housing via eminent domain and build more of the hideously dugly condo boxes they’ve stuffed all over SOMA and the Missiom?

I happen to love my unremarkable home in the Sunset in which my family has lived for 55 years.
The lesson is in the essay from James Mickens, above.
Ex-CDC director says he believes coronavirus originated in Wuhan lab
You are off by a factor of fifty. That's like confidently announcing that US median household income is 3.4 million, or declaring that the US has a population of 16 Billion people. How do you react when people hold such crazy views?

Here is a recent BLS study called "Characteristics of minimum wage workers"
https://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/minimum-wage/2019/home.htm

"In 2019, 82.3 million workers age 16 and older in the United States were paid at hourly rates, representing 58.1 percent of all wage and salary workers. Among those paid by the hour, 392,000 workers earned exactly the prevailing federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour. About 1.2 million had wages below the federal minimum. Together, these 1.6 million workers with wages at or below the federal minimum made up 1.9 percent of all hourly paid workers."
Probably something like pushbullet or pushover.
A not so brief DNS introduction
This bothered me so much I made a bookmark to the cookies setting. This is much better, thanks from me.
> A person who doesn't play video games at all will have a big disadvantage.

Even more so for a person who can't play video games, e.g. blind people. Many of the other interview techniques, for all their faults, at least don't (inadvertently) discriminate against people with disabilities.
$35bn Romanian software company UiPath files for IPO
Python at Massive Scale at JP Morgan (2018)
I second this recommendation. Using one for a business. Added an LTE card to it for backup. Running Debian, very stable, low energy usage, more than enough power for gigabit routing, VPN, and some server proceses. Booting off of a real mSATA SSD, much better than eMMC.
For the most part individual airports own that infrastructure. So it's hard to generalize. For most types of notable flight status/time changes, however, airlines usually know first.

There are exceptions, like an airport-called ground stop.
As a parent, it is terribly hard to imagine your child not being there. I suppose what I'm curious about is, knowing what it's like to raise a child with Down Syndrome and what it's like to raise a child without, if you hadn't had either child yet, or perhaps were to have a third child, would you have a preference, and if so how strong of a preference?
> fridge which gets lit up 15 times a day.

Then a simple solution would be to keep the potatoes in a non-transparent bag in the fridge, no? That would be better than a bag outside the fridge I would think, if light is the problem. No?

I'm gonna try that thanks for the tip
> the 2020 mortgage rate allows someone to buy 172% as much house as they could in 2000.

You'd think so until you factored in vastly higher insurance costs - between 2000 and now.

source: five years of insurance increases more than doubled our 2000's monthly home payment
Land definitely has value when unused. Land is the right to be in a certain geographic location, and exclude others from it. Why would that right not be valuable just because you're not using it? As the other commenter points out, that would imply that empty lots in cities are worthless, and we wouldn't see teardowns selling for millions.
Broadly speaking, robots.txt files are often ignored. I used to run a fairly large job ad scraping organization, and we would be hired by companies (700 of the fortune 1000 used us) to scrape the job ads from their career pages, and then post those jobs on job boards. 99 of 100 times, the robots file would disallow us to scrape. Since we were being paid by that company's HR team to scrape, we just ignored it because getting it fixed would take six months and 22 meetings.
Basically all of Japan is earthquake prone, they do just fine. The building technology is there.
> Maybe what you meant to say is, "if you're an Apple engineer, what's the deal here?"

Perhaps, but this isn't a problem for old.reddit.com, so there's a business decision being made to not consider the value of the redesign/re-implementation if Apple's desktop brower is completely un-usable for the app.

Moreover, if Reddit is aware of this, why isn't there a banner or an alert indicating "Hey, Apple's memory management in Safari is shit and they won't help, can you use a different browser for an optimal experience?", but that's not the case. Obviously they wouldn't word the banner like that but you get the idea. It's questionable that Reddit would lie the blame on Apple's feet but don't communicate this to users

Either way you play it there's horrendous UX going on on Reddit's part
IF you don't have prior knowledge, you then have to either forget to store them in the fridge or make the experiment.

And personally, I've had things go bad, and most of the times I just think "I'll try to eat that sooner next time", without really thinking hard about how long I had it.
Also, WTF is Telsa doing? Dumping all of its cash into a troll-themed GPU casino? Its self driving tech only makes news for how awful it is. Instead of the New VolksWagen For The New Millennium Where Your Car Whores Itself Out On the Side that they promised us, they're currently tooling up to produce a cubist military vehicle.

I get the grunts in the factories, but how are there any engineers that still work there?
Initial investment and ongoing energy costs are probably quite different though, right?
"idiot" may have been a relatively innocent medical term, but "mongoloid" has a very racist history as a way to describe people with Down Syndrome (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolian_idiocy), including a popular pseudoscientific theory that people with Down's were a result of "Caucasian" interbreeding with supposedly more primitive "Mongoloid" races https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mongol_in_Our_Midst
With clickbaity misrepresentations of correctness, unfortunately.
If they can get to you, they can get to your clients, who have clients they're now better able to get to, etc...

HVAC company working in a building where a subcontractor of a major financial firm has an office, for a random example...
I own a condo in Boston. Someone new comes to Boston and sees there are 100 rental units on the market. I decide to move and become a landlord. Someone new comes to Boston and now sees 101 rental units on the market. By moving away and becoming a landlord I've put another rental into the supply side.
It is semi remote...but still has the "city stuff". Very beautiful area, year round recreation assuming you enjoy winter sports.

But it is a right to work state. I suspect that is part of the issue. There is very much a "Good ol' boys club" in town which has a tendency to employ people due to favors or connections (regardless of qualifications).

Even in the 90s when we had Agilent, Itron, and several other large companies in Spokane the area directly across state line was significantly cheaper to operate in. So we ended up with a few electronics contract manufacturers who got their start being basically sweatshops (yes...solderers get started out at minimum wage or barely above it).

I know a person who in the 90s was making $50/hr as an EE...last I heard he was making $25/hr to do the same job now. (When Agilent shut down it flooded the local market with engineers and techs).

edit: Adding this link for more data. Look at the percentage of renters below poverty level http://www.city-data.com/poverty/poverty-Coeur-d-Alene-Idaho...