skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I read this story:

""Low mortgage rates, low volumes of homes available for resale, favorable demographics, increasing acceptance of remote working and the underlying housing construction deficit due to several years of underbuilding appear to be positively influencing the demand for new housing in North America," the company wrote in an earnings report. "Economists are forecasting U.S. housing starts for 2021 to be approximately 1.5 million units, an increase of nearly 9% over 2020. An aging housing stock and increased repair and renovation spending should also continue to drive strong lumber, plywood and OSB demand.""

The price increase was not relevant to their expansion, but long term trends in which the price increase was irrelevant.
My first Linux was an early Slackware that came in a CD along with the book "Using Linux"

I've placed an iso on archive:

https://archive.org/details/UsingLinux
But the "no equity" deal was valued as acceptable because the equity was positioned as worthless in the "never sell" world. If employees had known there would be a sale and they'd never see a cent from it, they may have valued the offer differently.
>Nowhere in the original post does the word "just" appear.

Yes, that's why it isn't part of the stuff I quoted, it's part of what I wrote.

>I don't think the poster was being flippant at all, or was suggesting that taking this path is easy

Well, I suppose our opinions wildly differ on that.
Yes. Every single person in my work, friends and family has owned multiple AirPods, not a single one of them owns a Bitcoin ASIC.

AirPods sell over 14 million a year, that's an astonishing amount of waste for a product with such a limited lifespan.

I'm fine with people making arguments that Bitcoin is bad for the environment, but e-waste is the least of the worries with it.
Honestly, depends what state you are in and if defending property is legal.
> It’s we’ll known that this is one of the only technology sites that will allow racist and sexist comments.

Even, for the sake of argument, assuming that that is true it doesn't prove the ideological moderation bias you are claiming, it is consistent with HN being one of the few sites which does not actively suppress such content and those who post it for ideological reasons.

Tangentially, this reminds me that HN needs a dedicated meta-forum and a policy of moving meta-commentary that is off-topic out of other threads and into the meta-forum.
Congrats on shipping and thanks for sharing with us! I'm going to try it, as recently the good old "impossibility dot org" (don't try that, it's NSFW now) went offline.
> I genuinely believe terrible results like this are making society dumber.

You have to e causality reversed. Google results reflect the fact that society is dumb.
I believe there's a difference between newsletters that you value (because they provide news and interesting updates, e.g. JetBrains' XYZ Annotated Monthly) and what is typically sent via mailchimp, i.e. drip feed sales emails and click bait offers with lots of small print.
Yeah but that's the limit for the source image, which would you would want to be the best resolution you might ever want to display.
Golden advice right here
Most startups don't offer dividends, even when they do it doesn't amount to much, and if they indeed never sell/IPO/raise a new round, then you have basically no way to sell your stock, so it's indeed pretty much worthless. Only other way to sell would be with approval of the board, but even assuming you get it, who would buy that?
~4 years ago I gave a talk at Mozilla Privacy Lab (perfected from a talk I gave at 360|iDev) that focused on these moral reasons for not having centralized systems, looking at everything from government control to the tyranny of the majority, that I called "That's How you Get a Dystopia".

https://youtu.be/vsazo-Gs7ms

As far as I am concerned, you absolutely cannot have centralized control over something like "all software distribution" without being actively complicit with such regimes, and that people working for Apple have chosen to normalize this is unconscionably immoral :(.
Nano Cryptocurrency Checkout API and Vanity URL service.
It is, but it also a liability you can afford to pay others to manage in detail.
sounds like they allocated 500 million between RSUs and cash bonuses, which is about 400k per employee.
The title perhaps inspired by the Peter Carey novel “The Chemistry of Tears”?
spell checkers which account for keyboard layout absolutely exist. [1] is one example, but in general it's hard to believe that any trained model would fail to notice that certain mistakes are more likely than others, and it's hard to believe that any spell checker google releases these days would not be based on a trained model.

[1] https://ai.googleblog.com/2017/05/the-machine-intelligence-b...
> Hundreds of pages of paperwork to register the company in the US

This called my attention, as I imagine that a US-registered company with European founders would be a headache. Is this a requirement for YC companies? If so, could someone explain why? I can imagine several plausible reasons, but I'd like to know what the official one is.
Well, but even beyond regulators and media, if I'm a parent, do I want to let my kid watch videos on a site where they might click over to a how-to on a homemade medicine that'll kill them? And if I'm the guy running YouTube, will I sleep well at night if users of my site die after trying something that they saw on my site? I think even if I were just running YouTube in my basement and had zero media or regulator attention, I'd want to avoid that just for my own conscience.
This is why efforts at raising school test scores have not improved actual achievement
I guess the point though is all of these things are problems anyways with a programmatic interface like boto. SQL has battle-tested techniques extracted to composable common libraries that will build these safeties on top of SQL itself. So if there's an expectation that cloudSQL is a replacement for something like kubernetes, nomad, rancher, I think that's not quite the right level of abstraction -- as I see it cloudSQL is a replacement for boto.
I use it, and own a small portfolio of names on chain. "base" and "faq" are a couple of them. It's been pretty interesting to watch the ecosystem mature.

Just recently a small dev team released a desktop app that syncs name data to your local device and lets you browse sites with lookups to the handshake root before falling back to icann root https://impervious.com/fingertip.html
I'm having issues parsing your comment, but WSL2 is already a single Linux VM with containers for each "distribution". That's how the /mnt/wsl/ thing works — it's just a mount mapped into your container. Also, all distributions share a network namespace.
it's an excellent question which your reply doesn't address.

There's black and white with grey in between. Whether you report the shades of grey as black or white depends on who you ask and what is offered for comparison.

Is india an authoritarian regime? You'll find plenty of evidence going both ways. What about Belarus? Hungary? Venezuela?

The grey is precisely why having yes/no binaries like this leads to more confusion.
This is a great perspective - agreed that consistency is everything.

My personal journey into fitness started with P90X3, highly recommend trying it out. If you can get past the MLM aspects of BeachBody, it's a good place to start building consistency in weight lifting, cardio, yoga/core from home. Highly recommend getting Bowflex weights, a pull up bar, and you're good to go.
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Facebook Hobbled Mark Zuckerberg’s Bid to Get America Vaccinated
Before Netanyahu can begin dubiously shaving off little slices of Iran, he'd have to dubiously shave off all of Jordan, Syria, Iraq, and northern Saudi Arabia. I have heard about the nukes thing but neither country would stand to gain anything even if the exchange was one-sided.
Its funny that I was discussing the last election with someone who said the old "government moves slow" and "checks and balances."

My response: "not this time."

They looked shocked, but everything that has happened since the transfer looks like an operation warp speed towards authoritarianism.
I wonder how China will respond to this.
That is what I think, but that's not the point of my post.

The part you're reading around is the people here defending Apple and Google's behaviour, because they're just doing what's right for their employees.

Doing what's right for Apple and Google's employees is not setting up offices in front of Russia's loaded gun, which we've only known about for… hundreds of years. Apple and Google put their employees at risk. They don't get points for doing more bad things to further delay that risk (and feed the machine that made that enables the risk).

My naïveté is certainly worth considering, but we're all so wilfully blind to atrocities. It was one thing to let another country beat up its citizens and attempt to sanction them, but now we're each personally entangling our lives with companies that aid and abet. We have to demand better.
Video of Tesla FSD almost hitting pedestrian receives DMCA takedown
Masks reduce coarse aerosols by 77%
Isn’t dark energy the aura that surrounds politicians?
https://archive.is/l3Vmm

http://web.archive.org/web/20210916005143/https://www.haaret...
I've heard that, but I don't understand it. Is the idea "I don't have to deal with static typing"? In vanilla Go code I can change out implementations super easily as well (via interfaces, which are less tedious than Java interfaces due to structural subtyping). We can also use factories, but this is precisely the kind of stuff I prefer to avoid except in certain very rare cases ("but with Spring, no one is forcing you to use factories!"--maybe not technically, but if it's idiomatic or otherwise culturally accepted then you can guarantee that your coworkers will reach for them).
I've always wondered why no Linux app store has risen to prominence? Can one make a living selling their Linux applications to end users?
Why Candidates with Little Hope of Winning Are Raising More Money Than Ever
Yeah I don't think it's the best as cardio. Mainly strength, and mainly in certain muscles. But if it's the only exercise you can enjoy enough to keep doing it, it's better than nothing.
Wouldn't simply activating file-level encryption in the Linux subsystem be enough to throw off Windows-based AV scanners?
Now we have the flexibility and conciseness of explicit static typing with none of the run time guarantees!
This is why I largely stopped looking at company mission and values and such to determine where I want to work (beyond just immediately saying "nope" to even considering a few). I look at comp, culture, and assume my stay will be temporary since the former of those is likely to not change at the rate the market does, and the latter of those is likely to change in ways I object to given time.

The only reason to join a company based on mission or whathaveyou is if it's a non-profit. Maybe, -maybe- if it has done things that hurt the bottom line, to the betterment of employees, that have no precedent in industry (i.e., Gravity Payments), but even then, you benefit from that, so it still counts as comp to my eyes.
Looking at the countries above the USA... They all mostly have one thing in common, their populace lives almost entirely within a few primary concentrated areas. It is much easier to build out the infrastructure to only support a handful of major cities which certainly helps raise the average.

edit: I want to make it clear that I think the fact that I can get gigabit internet in a town of 300k smack in the center of "flyover country" is absolutely amazing. I think that the USA competes with these other countries despite the size disadvantage is nothing short of astounding.
>the will of the people

There is no unified 'will of the people.' I would agree that, in many cases, governments were criminalizing behavior which communities had already curtailed, so to that extent they were following wills of many people. In this case, why not let those same people who chose the actions take the blame or appreciation for their actions, rather than saying it was government?

I've moved about a decent amount in Covid times (after community spread was a fact of life in all those places). While moving throughout places within particular Covid-rule jurisdictions and looking across spans of time, the people I encounter are far stronger predictors of e.g. mask-wearing behavior than recent executive orders. Communities that want to wear masks continued to do so when civil authorities said they weren't necessary and cases were low, and communities that wanted to never wear masks stuck to their plans even when civil authorities ordered masks (with barely enough begrudging, targeted compliance to continue about their days) and cases were spiking.
I am not cruel, I am a follower of strong humanist beliefs. Life in shit is worse than death, way worse. I will at least give people a choice of two. If you force people to live in shit, just so they can live, you are cruel.

I am very reflective. I see the West turning into a serial facilitator of rogue, and fascist regimes for some "special relationships." If they deserve fire for that, I think they really should. It's been 20 years since 9/11, and USA is still sucking up to the Saudi Regime for really nothing of benefit — this is what I will call a real lack of self-reflection.

Cuba is not a threat, but it very much will be if you leave its neck out of your hands for a second. The Cuban state is the biggest threat to Cuban people. Thank them for good healthcare, but then smack them good for near starving their people despite Cuba being chock full of agricultural land for a country of 10M, inventing silly excuses for it, and jailing anybody pointing a finger on that.

I see the mob in charge, very much see. I personally knew people who lost all their livelihood to having their business robbed, and seized. The general population don't want you, the West to keep feeding Putin's bottomless mouth. They are not idiots. They see every gram of food the West gives the regime, the regime uses to grow bigger, and stronger, and then bite, and rob them even more.
It’ll be curious to see how this progresses with Starlink.
It's not a narrow-minded approach, it's a cost-oriented approach. If you want renewables to win, cost is EVERYTHING. Electric infrastructure is not net new. It's plug and play. That's a massive, massive benefit.
> What does 10B buy me that 10M wouldn't?

Somethings that could interest you:

A private island?

A megayacht?

A mansion/penthouse in a ritzy part of LA/NYC (Bezos's LA mansion alone was 1XX MM)?

A professional sports team?

A private jet?

The ability to call the leader of your country and either get through or get a meeting on the books?

Notice that what's interesting about a lot of those isn't just the initial cost, but many of them have quite high carrying costs.

But those are just interesting generalities. At that wealth you can (really have to) get creative. Paul Allen bought a bunch of rock star's guitars and a bunch of Sci Fi memorabilia, and then built a museum to hold them.
“Nuclear attack sub” refers to a fast attack submarine with nuclear power, not a “boomer” that carries sub launched ballistic missiles with nuclear warheads.

“Fast attack” subs hunt other subs, convoys, ships, etc. they are not strategic weapons.
I remember Australia and West Indies forfeiting their games during the 1996 Cricket World Cup when they refused to play in Sri Lanka during the civil war even though there was no real threat to the cricketers. But Sri Lanka, even at its worst, was not a basket case like Pakistan.

With the collapse of the Afghan government and the porous border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, you can't predict who the TTP and other militant organizations within Pakistan will target next.
Introduction to Verifiable Credentials
This hurts Apple. Remember, Apple's entire argument for CSAM scanning is that they would resist pressure to modify the system.

Obviously they won't if they fold this easy.
Oh, cool, I didn’t know that.
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> There are many people in the computing field (alive and dead) with many accomplishments to their name but utter devoid of empathy and social skills. Despite that, many of these figures are idolised by other developers, or their behaviour tolerated.

I guess that's natural, isn't it? We value people by their feats, not by how well or bad they treated their fellows. I've seen this interesting discussion happen several times with other fields, such as music or arts: lots of people might almost worship someone, e.g. a famous singer, not even knowing (or caring, to be honest) about how they were violent with their spouse or were racist or something like that.

Practical example: Pablo Picasso. One of the most renowned Spanish artists. His work praised everywhere and every time. Now go have a look at his personal life...

So it's not a problem in our profession. It's more general: a defining characteristic of how we humans generally tend to appreciate other people's work.
In my eyes, it was the introduction of WiFi and home routers that made Linux-based systems accessible to home users.

Prior to that, I remember having a lot of issues with "soft modems" that required Windows drivers to work.

WiFi allowed me to move to RedHat, then Ubuntu, full time.
Russia Added to List of Countries Where iCloud Private Relay Won't Be Available
Apparently, privacy is only a human right when your government considers you a human. Otherwise, Apple takes no issue enterprising on your lack of freedom.
I don't understand the math here either - 2.5% of 12 billion = 300 million, which would be 250k per person. And that's ignoring the 200mm in RSUs being issued to employees as well.
More arguments that Apple will go further than CSAM were presented by Snowden: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28309202.
Pull the graph construction logic out into helper functions if necessary. Pretty straightforward.
Also there are plenty of gray legal areas. Often the questions are, "Is this really breaking the law? What is the risk?"

And even in cases where the managed 100% wants fully comply with existing law, there are still tradeoffs. How much do we fund internal enforcement and will that prevent us from being competitive? Which isn't so much about actively trying to break the law, but willing to risk that breakage will happen, or even naive trust of employees.
Probably cottage industry. A machine shop or clothing line in every garage.
When I was in college we had a swing dance society on campus that met twice a week and it was about 70% CS majors. As an adult in a different city I've met probably half a dozen coworkers or peers in software who are or have been into one kind of dance or another; my engineering manager at my last company was prominent in the blues dancing scene and when I told him which company I was going to, he told me my new CTO is like a master ballroom-dancer. Even Jonathan Blow has said that he enjoys swing dancing.
Impressive, but you need to factor in it is a real time JVM, with corresponding soft real time GC, and hard real time threads.
Google results reflect the fact that educating and informing people has low profit margins.
This is a bit of a strawman, I'd say. I've never been concerned about someone utilizing MI-6 resources to construct a fake duplicate of my prints.

I'm worried about someone using my hand while I'm unconscious, or by physically forcing me to do so.
That's not quite accurate. YC's approach has always been to encourage founders to do what's best for them. This was actually something that sharply distinguished YC from the rest of the investment world in the beginning. Industry insiders couldn't believe that YC would leave money on the table when the founders wanted to do something else. I remember one person talking about puzzling over the paperwork going "why would they do this?" Even today, when things have shifted in a founder-friendly direction (thanks in part to YC), it still stands out that way.

You're right that YC's business depends on high-growth wins. But YC knows that only a few of the startups it funds will reach that state. Where the two outcomes—high-growth win vs. what the founders want—end up conflicting, YC has always advised the latter.

If you think about it, there isn't a conflict anyhow, because no startup is going to become a high-growth win if the founders feel it doesn't work for them. What works for founders is what's best for YC, generally speaking, and the company has been organized around that principle from the beginning. Founders that want to be a high-growth win, and show progress, get a lot of help with that, but people aren't pushed to do that if they don't want to. The optimization is global, not local.

(Btw, although I work for YC, I refer to it in the third person when describing the investment business because I'm not really part of the investment business and have mostly just observed it as an outsider - albeit inside the wall, if that makes sense.)
Slapping tariffs on steel and lumber was incredibly ill conceived. We should protect industries that are economically or militarily important. But needlessly raising the cost of unrefined materials made zero sense
nothing screams 'efficiency' like everyone participating in the network having to write to an append-only ledger every time any transaction whatsoever happens

im sure thats FAR more efficient than banks, right?

i hate banks as much as the next guy but good fucking lord is bitcoin terrible
Mass shootings are so common in the US (notwithstanding the anomalous ceasefire forced by COVID) that talking about them is like talking about the weather. Just another Tuesday blurs together with all of the other Tuesdays.

And why bother talking about them when "conversation" always follows the same tedious partisan flowchart?
No. Under no circumstances should you accept an offer when a company refuses to give you any sort of context for what your grant might be worth.
The View from the Highest Ever Orbital Mission
Plenty of billionaires invest cash in capital expenditures which aren't totally frivolous. Build a global satellite broadband network or something.
How is it overkill? I already have it installed on my machine, I already have an account on GitLab/GitHub/Whatever, and I already know the commands I need to do close to 100% of my day to day work.

Are there features of Git that I won't use? Sure. There are also features of IntelliJ that I don't use, but that doesn't make it overkill for my hobby code.
that's really clever. Navalny himself shows that such martyrs exist, brave enough to return after being poisoned. But what if they arrest everyone and not just the martyrs?
Yes, although I'd say that .NET is still a little tied up with how fractured their environment is. There is a lot of tech debt sunk into the .Net Framework, and it'll be awhile before it really gets flushed away.
It was a hypothetical, to explain why you can't spend bitcoin if there is no mining activity. See the rest of the thread in both directions.

If BTC difficulty was low enough the laptop mining was profitable, BTC would be priced much lower anyhow, maybe close to zero because it is increasing difficult to turn it into spendable fiat. Ya know, under the hypothetical that the Govt does squash cryptos as Ray Dalio suggests will happen. I think that is likely, only if, they threaten the national currency, which they do not look to be capable of.