skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have heard a lot of people say online that most people are suburbizing but not leaving the bay, but this does not match my experience.

Many, many people only moved to the bay in the first place because of job availability and not for the reasons others describe (e.g. the weather, the people, the policies, the cosmopolitanism). And many of us left behind our families and friends to do so. Of this group of people, many many have returned, almost my entire group of friends from college. I myself moved closer to my parents and embraced fully remote work.

The bay area is lionized, especially on sites like this, but many tech workers dislike it for various reasons and are happy to get the ticket to jump ship.
why do high-level languages almost always run inside an interpreter/vm? (except swift/go)

is it a good or a bad thing?
How many billions of dollars of tech money, in your opinion, is enough to find a way to house and support people in a city where planning is fundamentally structured around finding ways to not house people?
Deep Collaboration: The Benefits of In-Person Work
I honestly can't tell if you're joking or not.
What stops someone from creating a nft with the same metadata?
Rust on a micro is more than theoretical. You could start a commercial firmware project on it today. However it is an extremely slow-moving segment of the industry so I wouldn't expect to see much of it for a while.
Nvidia will add anti-mining flags to the rest of its RTX 3000 GPU series
could you provide a link. very intrigued.
Google for “Steno for coding”. It does work :)
That was my first thought as well but then remembered that often the reason for homelessness is mental health issues. Many homeless people are just incapable of taking care of themselves.

e.g. not paying rent/bills when they physically have the money to do so, gambling addict so getting into massive amounts of debt, getting evicted due to antisocial behaviour/vandalism of property.
Commercial leases are often multi-year. If they expect the high vacancy rates to evaporate within a year or two, why would they drop the rates now to fill the vacancy?
You might try apulse:

https://github.com/i-rinat/apulse
Most American cities are way, way below early 1990s violent crime levels, San Francisco included. SF had three times more homicides in 1993 than in 2019.
Cloud gaming suffers from inherent issues having to do with latency that are unsolvable. If you place a lot of expensive machines very close to users its not economical and if you put the machines further away from users the latency sucks.

It's likely that PC gaming will spend the next 40 years the same way it spent the last 40 years. It's also immaterial anyway. We need to not kill the PC gaming industry this decade not try to bring it back from the dead like lazarus with tech that may never come through. The same thing is true of using tax payer money to incentivize production of silicon. It may make sense for a number of reasons but its not a solution to I can't buy a GPU now. Making it uneconomical for miners to use gamer cards solves the issue this year. Meanwhile we can subsidize production of silicon in the states and work going "to the cloud" with the gaming industry if it makes sense. It's not an either or.
AMP and cookie pop-ups are top of my list.
Do you have a preferred template that gets past the filters? I imagine much of bad resumes comes from people using traditional ones.
Concept implies abstraction and the mark of abstract thought is language.

Karl Popper's four functions of language might help here. Language has an expressive function, a signaling function, a descriptive function and an argumentative function. No other animal besides Man shows any sign of the anything but the first two, but it's the second two that require abstract concepts. These animals may very well possess imagination, but imagination is essentially concrete. You don't imagine Triangularity, but rather specific triangles (though in human beings, by virtue of having an intellect, the image of a triangle is "accompanied by" the concept of Triangularity).
The Dutch Velotype https://www.velotype.com/en/homepage-eng/ / Veyboard http://www.veyboard.nl/en_main.html design seems to be a slightly more general-purpose version of the same chording idea. Classical steno is based on quickly producing a cryptic stream of personal abbreviations then manually patching it up into a proper text later; though ofc computers can now assist with the second part, and it seems that now some people are using steno boards (or steno layouts/software on normal KBs) as general PC input devices.

There's also the question of how useful steno-like high WPM is. For transcription (using a keyboard) it's obviously somewhere between very useful and essential, depending on the task; but it also requires a lot of skill, so most people will probably never achieve it even given everything else they'd need. (And there's the alternative of using stenomask https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stenomask -style dictation and/or computerised text-to-speech.) For other things like computer programming or natural-language composition extra speed may not be worth a lot of extra bother. However there are some other things chording could be useful for instead (or as well). It's a fairly obvious way to easily access extra characters if you have an NKRO board: I'm a bit surpried I haven't heard of anyone using chords for mathematical symbols etc. yet. And it's a way to achieve one-handed typing. One-handed chorded typing isn't as fast as two-handed conventional typing, but it offers the opportunity to type with one hand while controlling a mouse with the other, eliminating the delay in switching between mousing and typing. (Though a thumbable touchpad now also offers low switching time. The Matias Half Keyboard/508keyboard https://matias.ca/halfkeyboard/ approach offers one-handed typing with a minimal amount of chording.)
>> I knew I was the only poor person at my tech startup because people kept bragging their bodily purity based on what they would not eat or drink, and I could only feel pity for them.

Is it common to use "bragging" in this way?
Seems like a pretty low ROI to me.

Generously, we're talking about ~$100/hour, my guess is it was actually a lot less than that, maybe as low as half or a third, and this is for an idea that got some traction.

That could be a good wage for some groups of people, but my guess is you'd find a much better one either a) growing something to a larger size or b) working for someone else.

If you're really interested in building these tiny products though, then it could be a way to support yourself doing what you're interested in. I just wouldn't generalize this strategy to "this is a good way to make a living".

On the flip side, I bet doing this sort of thing really sharpens the entrepreneurs skillset - identifying good ideas, quickly bootstrapping a product, and negotiating for funding, so I bet you're getting some pretty big personal levelups as you go.
Young people want to slum it up in SF, supposedly.
And yet, I feel like that database doesn't succeed in replacing a website that tells me "the following terminals support OSC 8 and with what awkward limitations", which is knowledge I find both useful and important for web browsers despite being able to do runtime tests to determine the support of most features. "Oh, it turns out 78% of my users wouldn't be able to parse OSC 8 even if I went to the trouble of using it... maybe I'll work on a different feature today".
They always claimed it was backed 1:1 with the US dollar. Then they paid a fine to the NY AG because it was not backed 1:1, and as part of that they had to produce quarterly reports about how it was backed.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.ft.com/content/529eb4e6-796...

It still isn't backed 1:1 based in their own admission. This isn't about being tight lipped, this is willfully misleading customers.
I get at what you're saying, but I figured I could give it a shot since he replied to my thread :)
This is one of the best things that I've read here. It's awesome that you got the opportunity, figured it out, saved energy and money, and still helped out on the physical work. Unrelated, Woods Hole does great work.
I suspect IRC will always have a place in my heart, but it doesn't seem to be what it once was. Is there some hip new place where people hang out to discuss and help with stuff like JS frameworks and the like? I don't necessarily want to go there, but I'd like to know where it is.
Why is every top-level comment equating autocomplete with the ability to paste a password? Those are two explicitly different use cases, and one should not affect the other.

I don't want my password fields autocompleting; that sounds like an absolute usability nightmare. Conversely, I don't think browsers should even be able to stop me from pasting whatever I damn well please into a password field.

As to the other sentiments expressed here and in the main issue thread, I don't really disagree with Google's stance on autocomplete in regular form fields. I only really care about being able to remove invalid autocomplete entries that I may have mistakenly entered in the past (without simply deleting every entry).
I'd say both are anecdotes with bias, but honestly, the random internet commenter has less incentive to massage the data than WC.
The web app has no control over what information the browser is and isn't saving. Autofill can and should be disabled in the browser in that case.
Chromium is open source…

Seems like a better approach in every way than the old mosaic/trident closed source mess.
TIL - this is cool!

Do you know if there's a way to see that XML list they mention anywhere publically? I can't find a link to it on that page.

I guess it should be possible to spin up IE11 in a VM on macOS and inspect the network, but would be nice to take a look and see which sites are on there.
It is undeniably happening. One benefit is you ship the same UI for all screens.
For several billion people, the power user features mostly serve to shoot themselves in the foot, and then they blame the browser manufacturer. On their phone the software either works, or it does not without explanation, in which case you need an expert, and for most people this is perceived as an improvement. Desktop software development is pushed in the same direction. Fewer people complain, and its a lot simpler than doing fine grained settings and informative error messages.
Taleb could be so much more effective if he dialed down his ego by a notch or two. He is lecturing to an audience that lives in his imagination.
That reminds me of a story where in 2009 some rouge youtube employees put up a warning that IE6 would be deprecated:

https://blog.chriszacharias.com/a-conspiracy-to-kill-ie6
I run a Pi-Hole on my local network, and I still see YouTube ads -- they're served from the same CDN as the videos. The way in which YT delivers ads (pre-, mid-, and post-roll videos on the same CDN/domain as the content) seems, on the surface, to thwart any type of static ad detection.
Here is the code:

https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit/blob/753b17407e9a9d...

But in short, it's a histogram of the values of the pixels.
Not if there isn't enough housing.
I don't think any of this was obvious in 2006.
>Surprise, commercial banks that lend to you, like mortgage or car lease are actually creating money out of thin air. Unlike tether which is fully backed.

In the US commercial banks are required to maintain a certain % of cash reserves relative to all deposits. They are also FDIC insured. Tether is neither insured nor required to maintain any reserves. Their recent filings show that less than 3% of tethers are actually backed by cash, and the bulk of tether is backed by anonymous 'commercial paper,' aka IOUs. Tether also declined to disclose the credit rating of this commercial paper, or who the counter-parties are.

Once the BTC world stops trying to hide, obfuscate or otherwise cover for bad actors it will be possible to create meaningful financial innovations that scale.
We do support separate workspaces but we don't have auth yet. However because there is an API available, you can always build the account segmentation and permissionning at your app level and only interact with Airbyte using the API.
I don't think that's a good thing. Perhaps it's better than the alternative (which is that web developers abuse the hell out of the feature), but there's been plenty of cases where autocomplete has annoyed the hell out of me.

For example, I've accidentally reset multiple system passwords on a management interface where I could set the passwords/keys for several components when Chrome helpfully started autocompleting fields.

I'd much rather see a Firefox-style nag screen that notifies the user that the application in question has disabled their ability to autocomplete. If dumb developers disable autocomplete because of backwards "security" policies, showing a message saying "this website has told Chrome to disable autocomplete. If you wish to enable it, contact the website owners" or similar would be much more preferable to me. Maybe even leave the autocomplete behaviour in, but then put it behind a setting somewhere that's off by default.

All the good use cases for autocomplete=off have been ruined by all the terrible web developers and corporate managers out there.
I think the case with embedded code on crates.io is more along the opposite: they're trying to make the experience as consistent as possible by defining common interfaces for embedded drivers so code can run consistently with different hardware or libraries. The problem is it's really hard to design such abstractions, especially safely, when you can't make many assumptions about the hardware it'll be abstracting over and efficiency is paramount.
My understanding was that dwave was easy to simulate (albeit using a different algo than it was allegedly using)
Yeah, all the minicomputer companies (which is where most of us went to work after school). I'd have actually considered living in Cambridge at the time but it would have been something like a 45 minute (reverse) commute whereas I had about a 5 minute commute until I bought a house.

Depending upon how you characterize tech, there's still a lot in the northern and western suburbs, especially if you include the defense contractors. But, yes, there's now a lot in Cambridge and the Seaport, especially, as well as all the biotech/pharma in and near Kendall Square.
Reminds me of the Figjam page from Figma:

https://www.figma.com/figjam/
I think I might have looked at it. But I just want noise in my ears, not noise in my life, and that website is _very_ noisy. I don't want to wade through a sales pitch or an "as seen in" section or someone's life story or testimonials or recommendations or animations or calibrations. I don't want to have to watch video tutorials to learn how to use it. I don't care how much carbon it offsets.
Back before there was blockchain, banks selling mortgages didn't like having to record ownership of deeds and mortgages with the county recorders. It was slow and expensive, and they wanted to shred the mortgages up and sell the pieces. So they created a system called MERS, that would track the notes as they went through the bond market. Except that MERS didn't really do that. It just pretended to. When all the loans went bust, it turned out that they hadn't properly kept track of the ownership of the notes. And MERS itself appeared to have no owners or employees--no one took responsibility for it. It was, you know, decentralized. So loan servicers took to forging signatures on papers to claim ownership of the loans they were foreclosing. And courts in some states let them get away with that.

So whenever someone says, hey we have a decentralized to do away with the old system of recorders, I think, we have heard this story before. It does not have a happy ending.
Haven't had a chance to observe a lot of runtime stats yet but I can tell you that my compile times in big projects fell down dramatically with Erlang/OTP 24.0, at times with 35%.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27210819
FWIW, some portion of what was Xanadu apparently finally made it to the OSS world. See:

http://open.xanadu.com/

I haven't looked at it much, so not sure quite what the state of it all is.
I'm chuckling to myself because we're literally in the same boat.

I still have my collection from the 90s, which I obsessed over as a kid.

I just used the fellow HN user's link in this thread to check the value of some of my cards.

Turns out my black and white vampire angel deck is worth a chunk of change!

And at the time I remember being teased for using outdated Beta cards because I was too poor to buy newer packs.

Thanks for the trip down memory lane ^_^
Binance has to be the most cringeworthy term of 2021
Given that Matrix seems to be quite successful these days, and afaict is basically a next-gen IRC, is there any compelling reason to push IRC?
Well, there is a lot to unpack here. I am in the same boat (german dev, more than 25 years of coding experience).

First of all, feeling down because you „never ever get it“ to run a business is quite revealing in itself: why do you define your value as a human being by your success to build up and run a business? This thinking in itself, that you are only „valuable“ if you achieve a self-defined goal is questionable.

But since websites like HN project the illusion that everyone who can code can turn this into a successfull business, it is understandable that you may get the impression to miss something or not to be adequate or as clever as everyone else. Yet this is an illusion in my opinion.

Also, you call yourself a hacker and seem to be passionate about technology - this is a totally different skillset than the one needed to run a business, where other priorities are to be set: when you run a business, you‘ll need to focus on your customers and their needs, provide support and sustain or even grow your business.

This is something completely different than being technically proficient. You have to ask yourself if you really want to do that (to take care of nagging customers, to have to deal with stupid shit like business taxes and hires, take on additional responsabilities, or to work on a single technological topic exclusively for years to come and thus have less time to code or learn about new technologies).

It dawned on me quite early that if you like an acitivity (like coding), the encouraged way of society is to build a business around it which turns you effectively into a manager, thus alienating you from the original activity you signed up for.

It seems as if someone is good at something, the „natural way“ is not to accomodate your life to do more of it, but to build a business around it in order to get rich. The goal of the operation however has slipped here, from enjoying an activity to creating money.

But don‘t do more of what you like, but usually become a facilitator to create more money, having to deal with topics you would have never considered in the first place.

This is not what I signed up for (to do more of what I like, namely to code).

„L‘art pour l‘art“ would be my motto. I am not in it for the money (although I need to be able to sustain myself), but for the ride it provides:

„It‘s more fun to compute!“ (https://youtu.be/3odl-KoNZwk)
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> In a world where everyone is remote and where 10 Elixir people apply to every job, this product must have been pretty unappealing

That's really inaccurate, not everyone is remote and looks like post COVID most companies will be hybrid office/remote. So hiring is still a problem, and getting hired is a problem for people who don't want to be 100% remote.

> "We can underpay cheap devs again"

I don't think Rails devs are particularly cheap though I'm not sure if that's what you meant.

> mutation bugs, monkeypatch bugs, and concurrency bugs (just forget running your test suites in parallel)

Rails comes with parallel testing since Rails 6. As for concurrency - I know that Gitlab moved to Puma (a threaded webserver) and tons of huge companies use Sidekiq which is threaded as well. I'm not saying there are never any problems but it seems to work well for many many companies.
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While this is all true, it doesn't obviously counter the GP's contention. It's a good argument as to why YouTube's cut isn't the same as Patreon's, but that doesn't mean that 45% isn't to high.
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I completely agree.

There's an additional aspect, though. Voters will vote against new restrictions for themselves, but will vote to keep existing restrictions that have been around a long time.

A fun example (quoted from https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/01/11/self-serving-bias):

> Oregon is one of two US states that bans self-service gas stations. Recently, they passed a law relaxing this restriction – self-service is permissible in some rural counties during odd hours of the night. Outraged Oregonians took to social media to protest that self-service was unsafe, that it would destroy jobs, that breathing in gas fumes would kill people, that gas pumping had to be performed by properly credentialed experts – seemingly unaware that most of the rest of the country and the world does it without a second thought.

So maybe we like freedoms that we're used to, but also like the benefits (or perceived benefits in the above example) of restrictions that we're used to.

(I don't know if disapproval of allowing self-service was widespread or was just a small number of people posting on social media, but it makes a good story.)
Yeah the way I remember it is to compare "casino math" vs. math for real life problems like the stock market. Before reading the book I didn't appreciate how much these are two entirely separate domains, and how much it matters.

And even people who "know" that they're two separate domains fail to ACT like they know it.

If you're trying to predict what happens with 52 cards or a six-sided die, well that's easy. Everything works out nice and cleanly, with no ambiguity.

But if you're trying to predict markets, the math is intractable, for fundamental reasons. An example is that Michael Lewis talks about the "Value At Risk" that Wall St. metric in one of his books, leading to the 2008 crash. That's clearly casino math applied to real life, failing catastrophically.

The charitable interpretation is that people saying "well this only happens once in 100 million years" are genuinely naive. The other interpretation is that they know that their gains will be privatized and their losses will be socialized, so they have no incentive to use math that's not nonsense.

This is basically the "ludic fallacy" [1], although I think "casino math fallacy" is easier to remember. You're applying the math of games to real life, which is wrong exactly where it matters (in the fat tail).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludic_fallacy
I have very mixed feelings about these videos. Some don't quite build enough intuition, others are extremely handwavy.

Also, Taleb often disses certain methods without providing alternatives or entertaining the idea that alternatives already exist.

My recent favorite is his rant about correlation where he shows that linear regression can yield a slope of zero on certain piecewise examples.

He just makes fun of regression and moves on without acknowledging piecewise and kernel regression exist to address those cases. Instead he'll make some comment about information theory being the solution without any further elaboration.

Sure correlation can be abused, but so can mutual information and any other information theoretic metric you choose.