skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My HN bio lists Eclogiselle.com, which isn't really a company but I would like it to be one.

I have a Certificate in GIS from a very respected program and I wanted to be an urban planner before life got in the way. I had a college class in Homelessness and Public Policy years ago as part of an incomplete BS in Environmental Resource Management with a concentration in Housing that was intended to be the basis for eventually getting a Masters in Urban Planning. (Most planning degree programs are masters programs. There are relatively few bachelors in planning.)

So housing issues were a main focus and I've probably gotten the most traction or respect on HN for writing about homelessness. The two are very much interrelated. Housing policy is a large factor in homelessness in the US.

I also worked at Aflac for a bit over five years which exposed me to the award-winning design work of their wholly owned subsidiary Communicorp.

I went through YC's free online Startup School last fall and I'm doing what I can to try to figure out how to develop community development resources for underserved small communities and also find some means to turn that into a real business.

Community development work is somewhat outside the scope of what is typically handled by YC companies and much of it is done by either government entities or non profits.

For profit companies in urban planning or economic development spheres tend towards being consulting companies that do contracts for government entities.

I did some volunteer work locally for a couple of years for a couple of non profit organizations that operate in that realm and quit last May, which is a long story that I don't know how to sum up.

I started Eclogiselle a bit after quitting and likely wouldn't have done so if I had been taken more seriously locally. I'm okay at this point with how all that has gone so far.

Maybe I'm "dead" in the eyes of locals and maybe I'm not. I don't know. I have reason to believe some local movers and shakers have followed my writing and that has changed the discussion of local issues but I haven't succeeded in turning that into significant paid work for me.

Related projects:

ProjectSRO.blogspot.com

ButterflyEconomy.blogspot.com

At the moment, I'm pretty pleased with Project: SRO though it's small and I don't know how to get traction with it.
Indeed - and believe a green book existed documenting writing a PS printer driver.

Can't find it now but it's not the GREENBK.PDF available in link above, though might peruse that version
You joke but symbolic programming languages like APL are kinda neat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_syntax_and_symbols
Those neighborhoods are often targeted for redevelopment the moment the ghetto starts improving, and as the ethnic residents are often renters, they have little recourse when it begins.

See: gentrification.
Falling down the shaft when there's no carriage at your floor
Leo Brodie's book Starting Forth's good tutorial
Created with FrameMaker, as were many reference and user manuals in the day. The first editions of the PS and related manuals were done with FrameMaker when Frame was a separate company; Adobe liked it so much, they’d bought us by the time of this third edition.

I wrote the code that outputs PostScript for a FrameMaker document; plus that which handles automatically generating the index, table of contents, list of figures, etc. Tricky back in the day that each chapter was a separate file, since large books could be too big to fit comfortably in memory all at once.
First thing is stop all grants to existing physicists. The law of relativity would have to be so wrong that we ccouldn't even trust our ability to turn on a light anymore.

The speed of light is far too slow. If they exist (might or might not, either way is extraordinary), they are probably too far away to even know we are here (100 lightyears at the most, and probably less considering how fast radio weakens ), and then even longer to get here.

In short they can't get here in anyone's lifetime.
Software Development Managers, yes
No, that's not at all what I'm saying.
I always find it fascinating when employees try to justify these schemes. Both the bonuses and the rating systems.

Yes, all of your team can be 5s. They can all exceed expectations. And that's what each individually thinks too. He's gonna be so much better than everyone's else. Most people think that.

Of course the system is rigged. It's not really about exceeding your expectations. Even when they try to make it seem like it's possible. It's about making a nice bell curve of the ratings and assigning bonuses and salary increases based on it. If you're at the wrong company they also fire the bottom 10% or something like that.

Why they do this I will never understand. It kills intrinsic motivation (even for the 'exceeding' guys as seen in previous comments). Google the Oprah experiment. It kills morale if the company doesn't make it one time. It kills morale for the guys that don't get the bonus they wanted or makes them game the system. Which kills morale for the guys that are actually good at their job but don't care about gaming the system. So much to loose.
the first link shows that the documents he leaked had details about spying on chinese networks; the third link says he initially intended to try to fight extradition in hk.

what neither of them say, and what you are accusing him of, is that he tried to trade intelligence for asylum.
He is the guy who has been harping on ʻOumuamua being a UFO for the last few years.
The study's abstract is so nakedly anti-weed that it's hard to take it seriously. It starts off by calling it a "drug of abuse" and descends from there into labeling as "erroneous" beliefs such as "cannabis has positive effects on the brain, increasing creativity and helping treat mental illnesses".
Wouldn't those be a bad fit for AWS Lambda, even by the opinions of most proponents of the service? IMO, one of the Netlify clones (JAMStack) is the best solution for these, so if you're running your own VPS for a static site, you're also not using the best tool for the job.
We use Elixir at work. I attach to a running sapp all the time. It’s great!
Feed the chart.

https://nitter.cc/ShaneDPhillips/status/1380643298612715520#...
I’ve never seen a hot water fire truck. Are they common in your area?

eta: Even hot water still has a high latent heat of vaporization.
Yes, and that's great.
There already is value given for not limiting growth - it is called growth and absence of pronlems. The main issue is that they don't see them.

One dumb top of the head idea is a new development "tax" to existing owners within a certain radius. It is pretty perverse in its self. Hopefully it would be offset by absense of NIMBY costs. Probably not the best concept by any means and had loads of flaws I haven't noticed but it could technically help.
Show HN: Starboard Observable – An open source ObservableHQ notebook editor
I've yet to see a remove feature OKR.

As a matter of fact I've seen the super-opposite more than once.

That's where the organization figures out they are having the team work on something no customer wants, but they decide the team should go ahead "finish" it, as if there is value in the company maintaining filler.

The worst part of the anti-pattern is when a software leader is trying to do a good job, but finds this puzzling behavior where people in the org just want to hurry up and finish the filler project instead of resolving problems like poor performance, bad customer experience, etc.
Artist. Innovator. Pedosexual. Genius.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avi_Loeb

Aka the guy that proposed that the ʻOumuamua is a solar sail.

(IIRC he is a good astrophysicist, but he is pushing the idea of the alien solar sail too hard.)
First they would observe and they would learn that humans are fiercely bigoted and largely dependent on mythology, religion.

Unless earth has something they want or need I doubt they would bother with us.

If we did have something they needed a warlike, or non-peaceful race of aliens would come down and declare themselves as our God and creator, and after some advanced science demonstrations, all of the religious people of the world would fall in line.

A peaceful or benevolent race of aliens would still probably avoid us unless it was absolutely necessary to contact us, and then I’m still not sure we’d be smart enough to understand everything that was happening.
The real world is not perfect. People have to make the best decisions they can with the data available.

I think it's better to publish the numbers that are available. Tesla can't publish Toyota's numbers, because they don't have them. I don't think they're at fault for comparing against the only benchmark available, and I think it's better to have that comparison than not. Many, many writers have claimed that Autopilot is inherently unsafe and believed it would cause massive numbers of crashes compared to traditional cars. The data shows that not to be the case.
A concrete example might help. I worked at a shop that had a decent monthly spend on AWS and other hosting fees. One intermittent task was rolling up hourly/daily logs into monthly stats. We could have used our existing infrastructure to provision, run, and bring down the hosts on completion and that would have worked. Over time that could have been effective.

Instead I suggested writing a Lambda service in Go and to run it incrementally (I think it was hourly and monthly). It worked out to tens of dollars per month, basically free. [At first it cost much more than this because the original implementation wasn't specifying known sizes for initializing collections that was constantly being resized in several places in its pipeline resulting in copying/double consumption plus severe fragmentation.]

The development, in particular versioning and deployment sucked back then. It's surprising to still hear mention of challenges so much later.
> Also, the root cause isn't X, it's Y

Unfortunately unaffordable housing is a problem with many causes, not one simple root cause that explains everything to the detriment of all other factors.
Speaking with coworkers that aren't tech workers - nobody gives a damn. Not one, not even something resembling one. To them, they are getting paid for something they otherwise have no use for. They're aware everything is tracked about them, and they do not give a fuck.

Your friends, family, and coworkers might though, so the critical mass of people not okay with this can still grow :)
I’ve got about 300 c# lambdas and dont have any development friction.

Curious what sort of errors OP is running into that cause friction.
I just picture this shoe unraveling during your jog, like a thread from my jeans.
Arthem here, @seth feel free to let me know if you would like any help with the project. Seem pretty interesting. I am available for contact on reddit /u/arehmat .
NIMBY says otherwise.
Those are all "coming soon". Tesla and Elon Musk are 100% clear that today, you still need to be an attentive driver while using Autopilot.
Is there any projects for textile printers?
Those other locations have similar problems at lower price-levels: relative to incomes you still have to get to moderately large commute distances to get affordable housing.

One improvement would effective transportation that makes the outlying locations nearly as attractive for commuting purposes.
One difference between third party cookies and FLoC is that with FLoC it is being explained to the public how browsing history is being used. The third parties who send Set-Cookie headers do not write up documentation attempting to explain to the public what they are doing and why it is not a threat to privacy.

As other comments point out, it would be more difficult for people to "be all up in arms" about third party cookies because third party cookies is not an issue that is easily attributable to one entity nor one set of documentation.
You mean in the Historical Imagery thing? Sometimes the "blur" is just taking a long time to load, and if you wait longer it'll become sharp. Other times it's just a blurry image. Some are better than others.
There's also a green book, on program design. Still have all three, mostly because of an inability to throw books away. They were so clear, as software documentation was before everyone created hyperlinked docs.

Surprisingly though, they came in handy somewhat recently (2017?) when I was tasked with re-writing some legacy publication software. A lot was boilerplate, but buried in the .ps output were some answers that no one could find anywhere else.
wow, UI looks really great. I wish I can work on this product, are you guys hiring? ;)
PG's essays
The money is going to the Freedom of the Press Foundation, so no.
How do you think they will fund their government budget deficits with crypto? Rhetorical question — they can’t!
Honestly? Now. Invested heavily in a venture in China for 4 years then COVID hit and being locked out of the country for a year while paying rent on two properties (one major and industrial) and having my team denied return visas due to altered government regulations while being blackmailed by an equipment supplier (court case pending) and then having to tear my family including young kid out of a comfortable western lifestyle to return to factoryland via 2 weeks quarantine in a hotel room we couldn't choose, then six months of fighting to hire a new team due to an impossible HR market. Finally I have found some good people to work with and things are returning to normal, but the kicker is I have world leading contactless food preparation and retail technology which is nominally in demand but I can't get ears to any decent investors presumably because we are a pre-market cross-border venture active in China, which nobody likes under the current political climate, despite securing 1:1 foreign government investment matching to re-shore and world class advisors. Need a decent forward break soon! This is leadership for family and company simultaneously. Could write a book or three already and only 50% in according to Bezos' "most overnight successes" formula (10 years).
Is this fully true? Using wikipedia as an example, lots of people go away if their vandalism is just quietly reverted. Make a fuss, it becomes a contest, but quietly just undo it as a normal part of a days work, and they get bored eventually.
In addition to the title (why mention "Go" if it was not a critique of Go?), you also wrote in bold:

- "These Go executable files are rather... bloated."
- "70% of a couple hundred megabytes are copied around for no good reason"

I find it hard to believe that even a European software team would not consider those direct criticisms.
I agree that "my friends and family aren't rushing out to buy NFTs", but what makes you think it's self promotion? I honestly think it's pretty neat that a collection of random people were able to pool capital and "invest" in stuff without forming a business, opening a bank account, etc.
“Misunderstood”?

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/opinion/sunday/floyd-abol...
Assnange and Snowden are not really comparable.

Assange is an Australian citizen, and the US want d to lock bim up for publishing leaked information, while Snowden id an US citizen and leaked the info by himself.
> Wouldn't those be a bad fit for AWS Lambda, even by the opinions of most proponents of the service?

Static site? Yes. Basic CRUD? Not sure about cost efficiency, but otherwise that’s right in the APIGateway+Lambda wheelhouse.
India’s Razorpay raises funds at $3B valuation ahead of Southeast Asia launch
Co-ops address only one aspect of a three-element triad: supply, stability (co-ops here), and subsidy.

In his book, and the chapter exerpt I've linked in an earlier comment, Phillips explains why all three elements are key.

Co-ops (or similar co-housing or community-housing arrangements) cannot of and by themselves address the greater supply problem, or provide subsidies for at-risk, disabled (temporarily or permanently) individuals, children, or retirees. They're useful, but insufficient.
Working-class areas and luxury areas aren’t a problem if there’s effective transportation. As it is most of California is packed to the gills with freeways and little in the way of rail.

(Sadly rail is often opposed by the luxury areas - the Santee extension of the Trolley was campaigned against as “importing crime”.)
Hey, it's a ring buffer for people.

Traditionally, "rotating" a ring buffer meant incrementing the pointer to the start, or (equivalently) the offset within the ring. But, given where modern processor architectures are at; if the data fits in CPU cache, could there be circumstances where it's better to rotate the entire buffer?
Contradictory nutrition news creates consumer confusion

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/01/140128153814.h...

Confusion and nutritional backlash from news media exposure to contradictory information about carbohydrates and dietary fats

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/public-health-nutrit...
> How can it do that when the server needs an IP address to send traffic to?

https://github.com/bslassey/ip-blindness
This isn't correct information. I thought you were referring to something more meta, and not a reverse-conspiracy theory that the government _isn't_ doing what we all have seen it is. Additionally: Your link doesn't support the general claim that the gov isn't siphoning data, but provides some evidence that it doesn't have a _direct_ link to data creators. It simply states that it's using mechanisms like NSLs to obtain such information, which is basically the same.
Bitcoin only consumes enough energy to meet market demand for security.

You need to chill if you think the demand is high enough to literally wipe out humanity.
I like to imagine they've mastered FTL travel and adminstration of their vast empire by enslaving some other interstellar species and having them quite literally man the space sails and push space paper. Then they come to trade with us for our computer tech and food, in exhange for how they acheived FTL tech with nothing but prison labor.
Its security level is set by market demand (mediated by transaction fees).
Which is equivalent to asking, what is the nature of subjective beauty?

If you figure out the answer to such deep questions, i'm sure the philosophers would like to know. In the meantime the answer we'll have to stick with is because a plurality of people with power say so.
Short answer - 2 factor login option likely interesting for > 60% of users, special thing for client X good for < 1%. Maybe a mvp for the 1% can be ok and maybe that could show promise as a new side hustle or enterprise feature.

Long answer - It’s very tough. It really is checkers vs chess and thinking 3 years ahead vs a quarter. Big client X wants to give us 100k now for quick thing but what will it take to babysit them going forward, also client X is a 1% of our revenue and everyone else is medium sized...I’m leaving out the 99% and making the product more bloated, etc. But can that feature be a enterprise level feature if your product is b2b enterprise sales.
> a green book

Available at site above or via: https://www-cdf.fnal.gov/offline/PostScript/GREENBK.PDF
The problem is that when you are from a poor background, you will have difficult time saving money for a new house if you chose a path of working hard, getting educated and then getting a good job. All because of progressive tax, that is being sold to public as tax on the rich, but reality is that it prevents people from escaping poverty and makes sure people don't grow beyond a certain point.
The rich on the other hand don't pay the same taxes as anyone else - they have money to get around any system that is put in place.
I think the first step should be removing the higher tax bracket, so that people can save money quicker.
For example:

If there is 0% tax up to 10k

20% up to 40k

40% from 40k

And you got a good job and want to live like your colleagues, likely your costs of living will take up all salary up to 40k. Then above that for any 1000 you make, you have to give 400 to the state.
Let's say you make 60k. So 20k will be taxed at 40%.
It will take you over 8 years to save 100k.
If 40% bracket was removed, then it would only take you around 6 years to save. So the difference is 2 years of sacrifice. If you had that extra money, you could spend 2 years on improving your skills, starting a business etc.

For some reason I see both sides want to keep progressive tax - the left wants it, so that people keep being poor and therefore their clients. The right wants it, so that the rich amongst them can feel special - as the club is kept being small.

I think how tax affects people from poor backgrounds should be looked into.
Wow I really appreciate that! Thank you!
> The 5 minutes at the end is usually just a courtesy, and the interviewer isn't expecting to get grilled.

This is not true in my experience. Questions are expected and insightful questions have been considered major marks in favor of candidates. A lack of questions is seen unfavorably.
"At Microsoft, we are committed to fostering a healthy web ecosystem where everyone can thrive – consumers, publishers, advertisers, and platforms alike. Protecting user privacy is foundational to that commitment and is built into Microsoft Edge with features like Tracking Prevention, Microsoft Defender SmartScreen, and InPrivate browsing. We also support an ad-funded web because we don't want to see a day where all quality content has moved behind paywalls, accessible to only those with the financial means.

Through this proposal, we believe we can substantially improve end-user privacy while retaining the ability for sites to sustain their businesses through ad funding. We propose a new set of APIs that leverage a browser-trusted service to develop a sufficient understanding of user interests and therefore enable effective ad targeting without allowing ad networks to passively track users across the web. This approach removes the need for cross-site identity tracking, enables new privacy enabling methods to support monetization, and maintains ad auction functionality within existing ad tech ecosystems."
>> if they were replaced by generic high rises

>That's a false dichotomy. New buildings could replace old buildings while maintaining the same style.

If it's the same style, than it will have similar or the same occupancy. More dense housing will simply look different. It will have to.
Accidentally signed up for spam how do I get rid of it?
I have a gmail account. As of several weeks ago I guess I accidentally signed up for SPAM. It is from different addresses and different subject lines. The spam is primarily career opportunity spam. It is not legitimate job opportunities but BS spam like "Last notice: Walmart interview monday." It is ridiculous. I wonder who is making money off this spam? Seems like maybe a click fraud scheme or something. Also I got the traditional ED spam too. It is really frustrating because until a few weeks ago my gmail, which I have used for almost 10 years was relatively spam free, now it is full of spam everyday. I tried setting up some filters but as the sending and subject is different each time it is hard to filter it all out. On top of all this I am trying to find another job...so I can't just delete every email having the word "job" in the subject line...but I am flooded with bullshit job offers. I have tried aggressively marking the spam as such using the gmail button for that...but still it keeps coming. Almost looking like I need to get a new email address.
The evidence of the third person is that otherwise you've got to explain how the people in the car tricked the autopilot into driving at crashable speeds in a tiny cul-de-sac, where normally it wouldn't even engage, even apart from tricking it that there was a driver in the seat.

At this point, it's an Occam's Razor question, though different people will argue about which was simplest.

If there had been a third person who fled the scene, though, you would expect any physical evidence to have been left behind after that fire.