skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Former network engineer that went into management. My email is in profile if you would like more candid guidance than I can give on a public forum.

1. Not realistic, but not outside of normal for an management infrastructure/ops position. What you are writing is what you hope for, but sometimes it sends a red flag to potential applicants. The worry many high level people have is that they will be turned into the 'do everything' person. Trim a few of the less directly related requirements off of the description (e.g. Microsoft certification).

2. Yes... but also No. There are a lot of people who push through their careers collecting credentials and turning it another rung on the ladder. Chances are you will get a rosy candidate at some point, who will put in two years of aggressively spending your budget to inflate their resume and then move on. Not that a majority of people are this way, but the filters are set in such a way that this is what you are likely to end up with.

3. Other comments will say 'pay more', but it will be difficult to meet market rates for this skillset when working with local governments. If you can't get approval to raise the comp, instead try to split this role up into a team. Governments won't pay one highly skilled person 250k, but they will pay four people 80k, and one manager 120k.

4. Politically? Find someone with pull, and make sure that it's 'their idea'. Something that they can put on their win list.

Procedurally? Don't boil the ocean. Handle it iteratively. Start with commercial areas and new housing developments. White-glove your initial smaller install and it will create the broad demand from the community to expand it.

Love what you are doing. Hope this helps.
> made possible through the (lack of) gun ownership regulation.

The US has plenty of gun ownership regulation.

Criminals choose not to follow that though.
Does QT have some sort of issues with free software licenses? I wonder why QT hasn’t been used as widely as GTK. Maybe I’m mixing up GTK with Gnome?
Gangs in certain areas are the issue. I support solving it with money, eg paying people to relocate.
Seoul is a collectivist society without "diversity." You can't compare it to the US. Shootings are highly concentrated in "diverse" neighborhoods.
I've seen people allude to this lack of "geography" here and there, but this really thoughtfully frames the problem in a way I haven't seen before. Thanks for writing all that out. I don't have any immediate solutions/answers, but I will keep it in mind.

I think we also hear this a bit when people say they prefer "old" forums for unspecified reasons. Traditionally they're very top-down, you almost always enter through a category page... so you're naturally getting a feel for the taxonomy just by navigating to content. Discourse can also be configured this way, but it's very common for sites to default to the "latest" view, which can certainly feel like an endless stream of content.
You must never leave your house. If you must leave your house, you must not talk to anyone. If you must talk to someone, you must not talk to anyone else. These are the new rules to keep us safe.
Google Info - for when you're looking for information, not shopping advice or lists!
Toptal perhaps? Although they're not necessarily subscription based.
> growing the permanent rental class means eliminating access to the only vehicle for building wealth

This is a policy choice, and I would argue it's a bad choice. If we strive to make housing cheaper across the board, households will have more money available to save and invest by other means.

In particular, the incentives created by housing as an appreciating investment are awful. Owners who have all their money locked up in home equity are incentivized to oppose new development, creating an artificial housing shortage.

As a counterexample, consider Germany: virtually all households rent, housing stock is plentiful and affordable, and the middle class is still able to save and build wealth.
I think you're thinking about the problem in the reverse order, it costs money per foot to lay down a street, sewage lines, internet, electricity, gas ect. If there are more units per square foot it makes more economical sense for everything. It's the reason rural regions still use septic tanks and DSL internet, it's expensive to lay it down. Think of it this way, if it costs 10k/year for a quarter acre lot to have access to a city municipality and to pay for the road maintenance but you double the units of housing on the lot, all of a sudden it costs 5k/year per unit on the quarter acre lot (plus a little bit for a second hookup.) This means not only do you have more units of total housing but a more economical infrastructure.
They're starting to get more voluntary because of SB35. They can voluntarily decide where to build now, or helplessly watch a judge rubber-stamp whatever the developer wants to build once the city is designated as behind their RHNA requirements.

SB35 ends the days where "local control" included an option to not build anything.
From the article, which talks about the police being able to get a warrant on you based on nothing more than you being in the wrong place at the wrong time, and from the fact that the police convict innocent people based on flimsy evidence all the time, I'd say at this point you're much more likely to get falsely convicted based on your location than exonerated.

Has anyone ever been exonerated based on their Google location history?
I've been following the lawsuit* since it was filed last month, and this Twitter controversy has succeeded in burying media coverage of that lawsuit under new coverage of this culture war nonsense. It's an effective PR strategy, I'll give it that.

* Hough v. Maraj et al complaint: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21041882-hough-v-min...
There is a lot to unpack there, and I don't have time to expound on all those individually, but I'd come down as more of a hardliner on the side of free speech while letting other societal mechanisms moderate the extremes to varying degrees.

The reason being that without a clear line the government always pushes for less freedom, not more. Sometimes it is better to have a few societal ills than a slow slide into authoritarianism. Yes, this is a slippery slope argument but given the historical evidence I believe it is warranted.
Chacun son expérience. C’est “définitivement”anecdotique.

Weird that you never heard it. Oh well. Why do I care.
Goes hand in hand with red-lining.
This is why the next step should be reforming prop 13.

If we charge fair property tax to homeowners, based on the actual present value, municipalities will be able to afford the infrastructure improvements.
Tear down the houses and build sky scrapers?
Instagram also ruined Photography for me. I've asked countless times in many locations if there is a place for good photography to be exhibited and criticized but most people have no solution.

I think Photography (the real kind, with minimal edits and realistic captures) is fading away and this Instagram photography style is replacing it.

Fake everything, all the way down.

The problem is, most photo sharing platforms are too susceptible to theft of property, or they're too susceptible to very bad quality photography.
It is far, far easier (and perfectly safe!) to get there by selling a popular product that poisons millions of people.

All the lead paint and tobacco company executives retired to their yachts, scot free. The fats hydrogenation people responsible for millions of heart failures are walking around loose to this day. Nobody currently responsible for slow, painful deaths via liver damage from sugar poisoning, in the hundreds of thousands each year, is looking over his shoulder.

But people still talk about the Zodiac Killer (who I have no factual reason to believe is Ted Cruz).
The writing's been on the wall for ages on this one...

GTK+ theming was never particularly stable and I get the impression the developers are tired of dealing with avoiding breakages or the fallout when they inevitably occur. It's easier to just outright drop support for it.

But it's unclear to me to what extent theming will actually be impossible. I presume the GTK+ look and feel will still be stylized more or less by a theme, it's just the GNOME theme which will always evolve in lockstep with the internal code. This way they don't have to care about breaking compatibility with third-party themes.

TFA is too short on details.
The list is a joke. Nigeria, Ethiopia and Kenya are all on the top 8. Due to their large and rapidly growing populations, plus expected future industrialization, all three countries will experience extraordinary increases in GHG emissions. This is nothing but an admission that we don't have a plan of any kind.
Yeah, and people used to think that the World Wide Web would make nation-states irrelevant and usher in a new era of unprecedented individual liberty and enlightenment. That obviously didn't happen for anybody but the very richest among us.

Nothing this guy is saying seems implausible, but I'll believe it when I see it.
He was never going to veto it, and it would have become law after 30 days without his signature anyway.
I think they fundamentally no longer understand what the product is or should be.

On the contrary, I think they know what the product is quite well: it's you. All the ads they're shoving into everything are evidence that even if you're paying for it, you are still the product being sold.
Money per foot is one thing. But the actual total infrastructure on that street has to be up to snuff before you build, while money can be taxed later.
I personally cannot afford a $70K+ car but all these new luxury electric cars are pretty damn exciting. Tesla and the model S has been on the throne for a while now and hopefully with good execution, there will be more American electric car companies!
SB 10 is voluntary; but for the cities that do choose to use it (or selectively use it), now neighbors can’t sue to stop anything 10 units or less from going up based on environmental concerns. It’s big for that reason.

SB 9 is paradigm shifting: every lot in California that’s single family zoned can
a) be split into two lots
AND/OR
b) each resulting lot can now have up to 2 units
AND
c) if the lot is compliant with all other criteria, each lot is still able to have an ADU built in addition to the extra unit, per statewide ADU law passed two years ago

So you can potentially turn a single lot into 6 units. Or 3 without splitting the lot.

All of this is by-right, too. Design approval and local councils can’t stop it, and I believe they must be approved within 90 days, too.
On that same point, I see a lot of turnover throughout my career and would say about 50% chance someone goes on medical leave and actually comes back to work. We basically start recruiting expecting they’ll not return. It’s obviously correlated with that persons income and ability step out of their employee compensation. But, especially with first time mother’s in their >30. They’ve been saving for it and often hold a key position within the organization by this point in their career. Or perhaps that’s just what I’ve observed at several companies.
Thanks for the link. I sent them a note.
To do this, we have to break the cycle of housing price inflation: as housing stops appreciating (because we start building enough supply), people will have progressively smaller investment in their homes, and won't be as dependent on home appreciation for their financial welfare.
Its the "healthy web" Mozilla^1 and Google keep telling their blog audiences about. :)

1 Accept quid pro quo to send all queries to Google by default

If what these companies were telling their readers was true, i.e., that advertising is "essential" for the web to survive, then how are the sites returned by this search engine for text-heavy websites (that are not discoverable through Google, the default search engine for Chrome, Firefox, etc.) able to remain online. Advertising is essential for the "tech" company middleman business to survive.
As far as we know, though, the police haven't (yet) been able to demand Verizon turn over the records of everyone who sent near a crime scene at 2pm, though, have they?

I feel like Google's location history is basically built for that kind of thing.
Of course there are dangerous ideas, and it's a bizarre insinuation that they don't exist. Mass shootings are preceded by ideations of committing a mass shooting, how nice it would be to do that, and how it might be performed. These are not good ideas, they are bad ideas. Dangerous ideas.

Some people will reject that dangerous ideas exist because they think to accept that they exist is to approve of censorship, but that's not how it works.
recently YouTube disastrously failed to stop million dollar scam. Scammers made over $1mn. I took this screenshot https://i.imgur.com/evrKgGR.png
All those things can routinely be built, without magic, as needed.
SB 10 is voluntary; but for the cities that do choose to use it (or selectively use it), now neighbors can’t sue to stop anything 10 units or less from going up based on environmental concerns. It’s big for that reason, where localities would often be sued out the wazoo for environmental concerns for daring to rezone a single family lot as multifamily

SB 9 is paradigm shifting: every lot in California that’s single family zoned can a) be split into two lots of equal size AND/OR b) each resulting lot can now have up to 2 units AND c) if the lot is compliant with all other criteria, each lot is still able to have an ADU built in addition to the extra unit, per statewide ADU law passed two years ago.

So you can potentially turn a single lot into 6 units. Or 3 without splitting the lot.
All of this is by-right, too. Design approval and local councils can’t stop it, and I believe they must be approved within 90 days, too.
No, what made you think that? Follow up question to yours: are you talking about literal anarchists (ie. people who don't want a government) or just libertarians (people who want less government)?
Idaho is at 2 and half of households have a gun. Puerto Rico has almost no firearms, and no land borders with the US, and is at 20. Pakistan has way more guns and is way poorer than Puerto Rico and is under 5.
And those keyboard shortcuts, so clearly displayed! You just don't see it these days.
I may deserve downvotes for this, but:

I find it ironic that so many on the right like to criticize the left for being "oversensitive snowflakes", and yet here we have you, presumably right-leaning (apologies if I've mischaracterized you), being upset about the difference between "appealing to masculinity" and "compensating for a lack of masculinity". I feel like if the tables were turned, someone on the right would accuse someone on the left of being oversensitive.

I say this not to insult or demean, but in a way that actually makes me happy, because it's another point in support of people on the left and right not being from different planets. Because I totally agree with the point you are making here. There is a difference between saying someone does something because it appeals to their masculinity, vs. saying someone does it because they feel unmasculine and need a boost. And I think you're right to be sensitive about it, and the parent should have worded it differently (or thought about it differently).
I wish our wealth building was in the form of production machines that families maintain through investment.
> Very big battery (can't get a firm figure but have heard numbers from 110kWh to 150kWh).

It's 113 kWh. They don't specify if that's net or gross capacity. It's probably net:

https://www.lucidmotors.com/stories/introducing-2021-lucid-a...
As long as you do what is right
There's a big difference about making bold, broad claims about disrupting an industry, and lying about having developed a specific technology that is in actuality a complete fabrication. Even the most rampant bullshitters like Adam Neumann typically restrict their claims to mesmerizing future possibilities, rather than more specific claims about nonexistent sci-fi technology.

One interesting commonality they share is the willingness of established and powerful generals, bankers, and investors to champion their cause. It seems like the purest bullshitters have more backing from 'conventional' high status individuals than those with more weight to their claims.
The "slipper slope fallacy" is usually actually just a non sequitur in disguise.
Being against lockdowns is harmful to Facebook, because locked-down people consume more Facebook. That's all Facebook really cares about, and everything else is just justification for that.
It’s not fair for poor people to be driven out of their houses when rich people choose to enter the neighborhood.

That is the very essence of gentrification. If you want to destroy more communities of color in the Bay Area, this is how to do it.
That’s one interpretation of the events, motivations, and hypothetical alternative situations.

Or it’s simply that Heroku didn’t provide customers great visibility into a the issue at hand, that the best-in-class at the time 3rd party add-on that gave that visibility was misleading, and that architectural changes required to support a broader set of languages in a more distributed fashion introduced a change in behaviour that was not documented. The engineering best practice continues to be the same, which is why it is unchanged 8 years later: push long-running requests into an async flow. It’s both more scalable and more durable.
This would be awesome if the search actually worked. Typed in 'runescape' and expected a few websites left over from the early 2000s. But I got nothing, just a lot of hits to other keywords.
> So we could keep out black people: https://www.kqed.org/news/11840548/the-racist-history-of-sin...

That article hardly proves that SFH was primarily a tool for racism. It only says the first Bay Area SFH law, in Berkeley, was championed by a guy who didn't allow property to be sold to blacks. This is not compelling evidence for SFH being a channel for racism in any subsequent cases across different cities.
No questions from me but definitely excited when I see righto articles come up here. It’s appreciated!!
It took me a minute to parse what this means, not being from California. Single Family Zoning means that certain land may only be used for Single Family Homes - Ie No Condos, No apartments, no duplexes allowed.

Removing Single Family Zoning means that developers can no longer be REQUIRED to build single family units in an area. Single Family Homes may still be built, but may not be required.

If I am not reading this correctly, let me know.
Try putting a pre-emptive background check, $200 fee, and 10-12 month waiting period for approval on any other constitutional right, whether that right be explicitly stated, or implicitly "discovered".
What do you mean by “ production machines”?
A clean install should work though.
There is good and bad. You're giving up conventional text based version control (assuming the 'database' behind this is anything like a conventional RDBMS database.) You could pick up a lot of flexibility; multiple, high feature frontends using anything that can deal with a relational schema, for example. Automation could benefit from the (loosely) standards based API that is SQL.

I think it's worth exploring. I suspect that if it had been done this way on day one people would be suspect of any approach that looks like the hodgepodge of bespoke cloud APIs we wade through today.

I've been working with OCI lately. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure if that still needs to be called out. Ironic that the company that popularized RDBMS software didn't invent this. They've got a really nice, first class fully supported Terraform provider, but apparently it didn't occur to anyone at Oracle that they might use their raison d'être to solve the problem. They could have done both even; the Terraform provider could be a front end for SQL DQL/DML operations.

The iasql blog makes the rather good point that behind all the kooky Cloud APIs and their vast walls of documentation and third party abstractions everything you're doing is actually landing in a SQL database anyhow. What, exactly, is the value of all that stuff in the middle?

There isn't enough info on the iasql site to illuminate this, but I think one problem they'll have is with types. There are a lot of special types in the world of cloud provisioning and if they try to shoehorn all those types into varchar, number and uuid the result will not be pleasing. Obvious examples would be IP addresses or CIDR notation.
> Even if they were, or planned to bulldoze your cemetery, the US has a very well trained, staffed and equipped paramilitary police system and full on militarised domestic National Guard.

You are correct.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakota_Access_Pipeline_protest...
> 1) Neither the SMS protocol nor any phone I've ever seen has any mechanism to file messages in "folders".

My phone (ROG Phone 3 w/ Android 11) automatically flags spammy texts into a "Spam & Blocked" folder, I assumed this was a stock Android feature - is it not?
Given that it's generally local governments that are hesitant to upzone, is there any indication of some cities bucking the trend? What barred cities from ending single family zoning prior to these bills?
Genuinely trying to understand the thinking here:

I understand the lack of love for lockdowns.

But, on this piece about it not being temporary: is the belief genuinely that COVID-related lockdowns are really just a nefarious ploy for introducing longer-term control in order to subvert our freedoms and usher in authoritarianism?
I could take it piecemeal once it's accrued, but I just don't think that's a good idea. It's quite an opportunity to take a long period off work paid and I intend on honouring it.
Not even a little like the headline, Steele sounds like a generationally smart intellectual.
The homicide rate in Puerto Rico is super high, comparable to other news world countries, but it’s an island and has almost no guns.

Also, the US homicide rate was extremely high compared to Europe long before gun laws in other countries or the drug war. It was 10x higher than the UK at the turn of the 20th century.
>but it will only lead to construction on ~3% of all single-family plots statewide.

Over what time frame? Do you have a source?
> Density is almost always developed as rental units

I'm all but certain that's not true. Virtually all non-single-family new construction is aimed at condo sales. Rentals are what you do with depreciating units, not stuff you just built.
This was a fun article I was astonished that you could fit all eight of those function types in to only 320 instructions!
> He called the company's bluff

It wasn't a bluff. Unlimited PTO has never meant taking months off at a time.

I've never met an adult that needed clarification on what unlimited PTO means. Nonsense like this just ruins it for everyone else.