skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my city, Vancouver, there were something like 100,000 empty homes maybe 5 years ago. More than enough vacant homes to house the entire homeless population a few times over. Now, do market forces work well enough that filling those homes pushes the cost of housing down low enough that those people can afford a home? Idk. We put in an empty home tax a couple years ago, but I don't think the dust has settled on if it has succeeded in filling those homes. If it has, it certainly hasn't resulted in noticeably lower housing costs for anyone yet.
I suffer from bi-polar disorder and it's been difficult to get a referral to a psychiatrist who can confirm the diagnosis. The depressive phases are easier to spot and I get medication for that when it's too bad.

The thing is, there are already countless mechanisms that can track the obvious symptoms of a manic phase, but none of them have an incentive to tell you that you're suddenly spending too much. Frivolous purchases have increased, monthly spend is up, you're staying up late and buying shit on Amazon at 2am, etc. You're at the pub more often, and drinking more. You're working late or staying involved with work, late.

The data is all there, why can't it be used to say... maybe you're in a manic phase, you need to know this.

But more generically, if Apple invested in this but also kept the data open and portable (i.e. adhering to or contributing to FIHR and similar medical standards), I would switch back.

Basically, using the mass of data to understand your mental state and physiology, privately, instead of powering the ad industry.
Houses. Everywhere. Using labor.
In almost any area with high demand, the prices are almost as high as California. The same zoning restrictions are everywhere.
At this scale, I believe people should start asking him through some kind of Structured Query Language instead...
Quite a few, I'd guess.
Norway reclassifies Covid-19: No more dangerous than ordinary flu

https://freewestmedia.com/2021/09/23/norway-reclassifies-cov...
I think somebody has to do it. It's like backup, we don't think we'll need it much until we need it.

Imagine if we as human had started preserving our knowledge since Ancient Greek (and, not burning the libraries..), collectively we could have been at a better place.

Or at least 1,000 years from know they will know there was once PPAP (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfuiB52K7X8).
Houses, apartment buildings, government housing. Everywhere that has high housing demand with square footage prices far exceeding the national average. Reduce the governmental burdens to building new housing such as easing impact studies, reducing the influence of local zoning boards, and cutting unnecessary red tape (I don’t mean go to 0 government rules but we have a severely onerous amount now especially in the most popular places).
There's definitely a higher barrier to entry to Clojure.

There's more layers to understand, because it is hosted over existing runtimes, instead of being self-contained like Janet.

For that I would recommend starting out with Babashka https://babashka.org/ it'll take some of that edge off, because it is a self-contained interpreted Clojure. It's a good way to start where you can get straight to writing code and learning the language itself, and not having to learn about how it is all scaffolded and bootstrapped over a JVM, CLR or JS runtime.

Clojure also forces you almost exclusively into the functional programming style. Doing imperative things in it is ackward. So if you tend to rely mostly on Janet's imperative constructs, this might be a bit of a shock.

Don't really have a trick for this one, just got to learn and practice FP to get familiar with it. Also, it depends a bit what you're doing, a lot of coding questions and small exercises tend to be simpler to implement imperatively, because they're either designed to be so, or are very focused on raw performance. FP will show its worth when writing larger programs in my opinion, where long term productivity, extendability, modularity, maintainability, and robustness/correctness become your biggest concerns. So in the small, it can often seem like a more convoluted way to do things, though for certain problems it also can land itself really well.
This is the best layman's explanation of JPEG compression that I've ever seen.

I feel it's very much spot on, and true to the math within.
It's not totally clear what claims you're making w.r.t. the compensation at G/F/A/A (Netflix pays 100% cash and lets you convert to discounted options at will, if you want). Obviously it's true that the performance of the market the last decade or so has hugely benefited engineers working at those companies. But the base salaries they pay at any given level are still pretty close to top-of-market when compared to companies that pay all-cash, or cash + illiquid equity (again modulo exceptions like Netflix). Even if you joined Google as a senior engineer and on your first day the stock dropped by 50%, you'd still be making more than you would be at a place that didn't have an equity component to the compensation!

> they don't even know what zero-mq is

Why does it matter that they've never heard of a specific library? If they're working in a domain which requires something like that, most companies at that scale will either be using it or a similar home-grown alternative, which they'll be familiar with. If they aren't, then what does it matter?

> you only get 1/4 of by definition

Not totally clear what that's supposed to mean but in any case Google & Facebook (along with an increasing number of other tech companies) no longer have a 1-year cliff - your equity starts vesting immediately on a monthly basis after you join; it's significantly de-risked.

> if the "process" did not exist and they were just interviewed technically for 5-6 rounds they would have flopped

What exactly do you think the interview process at these companies is, if not multiple rounds of technical interviews?
OpenAI Codex (GitHub Copilot) in the Terminal
The wheel also solves scrolling, which tapping doesn’t. Many great ideas are only obvious in hindsight.
You don’t need Kubernetes to implement an embedded SRE model or an internal platform. You’re describing a good organizational model but making the mistake of crediting a tool for it.
Notice how clear the document is even with plain ascii formatting.

This reminds me of old time military documents - they were peculiarly orthodox and notably very clear.
YouTube has rss.
> - Move sshd to a non standard port to avoid the nmap/bot noise.

There are scanners like shodan that will scan every single port you have now so moving it to a non-standard port doesn't stop all the attackers.
Looks almost identical to bpytop. Super neat!
> static, public IP address

That’s basically a super-cookie.
I mean, the article gets at this at the end, but these days I don't think there is much disagreement in the root causes:

1. Yes, if you want more affordable housing, you need to make it much easier to build homes.

2. The root cause of current housing crises, though, is that once any individual buys a home in an area, they immediately then have a strong economic incentive to make building new homes as difficult as possible (assuming they already live in a built-up area).

So the question is how you fix number 2, because in virtually any area home owners will have outsized political power. So the article talks about this somewhat at the end: removing local control over housing policy and giving more of that power to the state, which I agree is one way to address the issue.

But I still think the fundamental problem that needs more attention is how do you adjust (or nullify) incentives so that existing homeowners are prevented from making the house permitting process more difficult for everyone else.
I was going to write a response, but this comment I found further down the page sort of communicates my perspective: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28552078
Interoperability is arguably a hit to innovation. You start with just text messages, one company wants to add images, either (A) they have to push for a standard which takes years or (B) they add a non-standard extension. Then someone wants to add video clips, audio clips. Okay you say, older clients will skip those. But then someone wants to add threading, suddenly the entire format needs to change (see A and B above).

Or, you just let each developer go as fast as they want to adding new features and/or selecting the ones they want (Apple putting adding in memoji that works by sending only the parameters, to very specific and copyright protected assets)
Housing. On land. With our hands. Unfortunately, the single greatest hurdle is bureacracy which requires layers upon layers of paperwork to build a single thing. On top of that, the taxes don’t help pricing the asset either. Nor do the additional 1000s of pages of regulations that prevent laypeople from making money on that housing.
Thank you. I'm glad I posted on this forum as the responses are a departure from the usual 'everyone should learn coding' rhetoric.
It’s really nice. That main main screen is giving me flashbacks to Doom.
For me it’s enough iotop + bpytop + htop
> Where I live, Vancouver, we have plenty of new construction - and have been pretty developer friendly for decades now.

Developer friendly maybe by comparisons to other place. But probably enormous by absolut value anyway. As an anecdote, I just googled custruction regulation in BC. So to just get access the build code, it costs 140$ dollars :).

I'm tempted to believe as in most western countries, there is an enormous amount of regulation permiating ever tiny aspect of construction process: from zoning, labor regulations, to enviromental restriction etc.. Not saying this is not needed, just pointing out that for many it might be a blind spot since all this regulation is taken foregranted...
Beat cops aren't really empowered to do what a normal person would consider an "investigation". (their "investigations" are stopping people and asking them questions) They write citations and reports of incidents they directly witness to and statements by people they directly talk to.

No way in hell 2 patrol cops are gonna do all the paperwork or are encouraged to go track down the various video footage to find out who hit you. They might refer it to a detective. Who wont action something that will likely result in a misdemeanor offense or very light straight to probation felony at best. Especially when you consider detectives workloads. It makes a certain degree of sense when considering prioritization. The detectives supervisor would probably lambast them for deciding to spend the half day to track all that down when more serious crime could have been pursued instead.

Meanwhile the detective has way more incentives in his social group to prioritize finding the person who hit the SFPD detective. The detectives supervisor might even tell them to drop everything and prioritize to help internal office politics!
It’s really funny for me to see Gernot Katzers page linked on HN for something related to spices. I was a regular visitor to his site during my time in academia, looking up character tables for algebraic point groups used in molecular chemistry: http://gernot-katzers-spice-pages.com/character_tables/index...
I don’t think you should risk your health/livelihood to pursue a venture. First because this startup mentality has consumed our culture with this idea that you must turn a project into a business, and get capital, go big, sacrifice everything, and become a billionaire success story. You don’t need to do that, and your life isn’t of less worth than the person who does.

I’m curious how you’re comparing your success internally with how others are seeing it. You have an internal record of everything you think you ought to be done. I would suggest shifting all these ideas to a “someday/maybe” list. Don’t consider them obligatory, but look at the list once a week and decide which of the things there is most important. Work on the. If something stops being important, let it go (it can stay on the list if you aren’t ready to let it go away forever)

I also struggle with anxiety of the same kind that you’ve described. When I’m working through a project, especially something large that seems impossible I will tell myself (out loud) “just do the very next thing”. This helps make the next step consumable, which makes it easier for me to actually do it.

Also, if your Therapist doesn’t believe you, you might get a different therapist
Seattle had rent inflation at 7% a year. See if you can tell on this chart when they passed the law allowing higher density on some single-family lots

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.png?g=H4YO
That would be stupid.
Vancouver isn't trying nearly hard enough. Housing is much more affordable in places where supply is allowed to grow without government interference. Unfortunately there are very few such places, but states that are more free to build in, like Texas, are much more affordable and people have been migrating for the low prices.

Speculative hoarding of the scarce resource of housing can lead to houses sitting empty, but speculation would be pointless if the resource weren't artificially constrained to be scarce.
And you can name them all here:

https://colornames.org/
> I believe a search engine that ignores results based on superficial and aesthetic qualities like "modern web design" would be even worse in that regard

I think you may be confused. No one's trying to replace Google here. The idea is to have another option for when Google craps out on you. And if you find that Google almost always craps out on you, then hey, maybe you're in the 5–10% who have just found their new default search engine :-)
The programming model and the operational tasks are also quite different across serverless and microservices.

Microservices are by now an old and well known way to develop software (and even there transactions and orchestration aren't easy).

Serverless could force you to break down application logic very differently and slow your coding. Which serverless platform and language are you considering? What's the tooling like? What the Developer Experience like?

Operational workload should be less in theory with serverless. But that only holds if your software scales smoothly. Or else you'll have more complexity to deal with than microservices.
They can build, but still be banned from buying. Can you see the difference??

Can only buy if they are going to knock down and build bigger. Application needs to be approved.
Why shift career and not just learn programming in your spare time? Just spend a few hours a week learning the basics and make some small things you like. For many people programming is not all that enjoyable and it requires a certain mindset. Reading what you wrote I would do this and not think about a career: just fiddle around and if you turn out to be a wonder, maybe you will see opportunities around you. I am in banking automation and there is a lot to do; most of it I probably have no clue about.

If you are a talent or/and love it, you can always move.
Friendly suggestion to all that Bayes Theorem is the right way to deal with this kind of weak evidence. We should not adhere to arbitrary legal standards in our own thinking about the truth.
A good indicator is that when I clicked on the "more..." button, I instantly recognised copied featured (eyes, face shape, nose, hair) from The Incredibles and Frozen in 3 out of the 4 samples just mashed together.

This shouldn't be the case unless you start actively looking for it.

It's just much easier to recognise with these cartoon characters than with realistic faces as there's naturally much less variety in the training material. Also the features are simplified to a point of being easily recognisable as well.
Makes sense, that's the portable version. Would be reasonable to package that all together.
A lot of people want electric Miatas. I think the main reasons they aren't being made is that Mazda would have to invest a lot of R&D into designing it and they're a relatively small car company that can't do everything and they're probably not convinced that they can make an EV that feels like a Miata.

The main issue is batteries. They could either make a light EV without much range, or make a long-range EV that's quite heavy. Placement's an issue too. If they put the batteries in back under the trunk, they'll have too much weight in the rear causing it to spin out on corners. If they put it under the middle of the car like in most modern EVs, it'll make the car taller and look very un-Miata like. Best case is probably to put most of the battery in the front where the engine was, but I suppose that might be a safety issue (it could be crushed in a collision).

I think an electric Miata will happen eventually, but probably not until Mazda can buy cells that are in the 250-300 watt hours per kg range.

(Personally I would love to see an EV Miata with a manual transmission, but that's probably not going to happen.)
Ferrari mandates minimum 93 octane in all of their cars. Have you checked your owners manual?
I agree that 5.7 seconds separates these two cars.

But they are also separated by these https://www.summitracing.com/parts/MHL-51138

We will see if that 5.7s is comfortable enough when the tesla also has a rollcage and racing tires...

until then it's speculative which is faster.. since it's been 2 years, surely we have some Porsche times with stock tires you can share???
> What's the harm in simply locking that functionality with a config option?

Nothing, there is nothing wrong with educating and informing users, then letting them use an extension privately. Users should not be forced to use unstable versions of Firefox to install an extension locally, nor should it be Mozilla's business to inspect the source code of that extension.

What's funny is that even in browsers such as Safari and Chrome you can permanently install a local extension after toggling an option, without being forced to disclose the source code to Apple or Google.

Firefox is the only desktop browser that prevents users from installing local extensions, and because Mozilla does not control the platform, malware can trivially bypass their restrictions.
Read this comment from up the page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28552078
Yes, for example if Myspace, Facebook, Google+, and all the open alternatives had all been interoperable, it would have been less likely for one of them to become a monopoly on the friends/wall/timeline segment.
The only free land is far away. This is a huge problem in itself.
I haven’t seen it mentioned, but does the recent legislation override HOA contracts? Not sure about CA, but most homes built since the mid-70s near DC have HOAs of some sort.
High-rise apartments, ideally.
A more accurate way to look at this based on your example is that, sometimes listAnimals returns [cat, dog, mouse], and sometimes it returns null.

It’s not that the result is nondeterministic, it’s that _whether or not the result is returned within the timeout of the polling mechanism_ is deterministic.
This ignores the inherent contradiction in current housing policy: housing cannot be both a good investment and affordable.

If housing is a good investment, that means it's appreciating faster than inflation, which will make it increasingly unaffordable as time passes.

If housing is affordable, and remains so, then it is not appreciating enough to make a good investment.

For decades, governments have made policies to make housing into a good investment. Things like government guarantees on mortgages to reduce the interest rate, mortgage interest deductions, property tax limits, and (yes) restricting the supply of housing through permits and zoning are all policies that serve to make housing a good investment, at the expense of affordability.
A few years ago I wrote some software to create allrgb images that resemble a source image. I even wrote a small blog post about it

https://davidbuckley.ca/post/colour-sort/
You can install a locally built and signed extension in the release version of Safari, without disclosing the source code to Apple.
A crypto-trading hamster performs better than Warren Buffett and the S&P 500
To put it in finance terms, EV and ROI in banking is much higher than coding imho. (Matching banking comp at middle of bell curve, you have to go to the right tail of tech curve).

Tech however has better EV in autonomy and intrinsic motivation (for me, very subjective I know) and much higher optionality in comp in the long run.

The typical example is a guy who codes for fun and don't mind taking a below market comp for a few years but is smart to choose to join a pre-IPO unicorn startup and make his comp on the backend. (150K for 3 years there a million dollar payday via employee options).

My personal example is after leaving a high frequency trading firm, I worked on automated market neutral option trading on my own retail account as a side hustle and built it up enough where my trading income exceeds my W-2 income consistently.

But don't think you should go for it if money is a primary motivation, if so the money payoff from the optionality if it comes, you won't be able to wait for during the years of theta bleed.
I dug up one of his latest YouTube videos, which I think as a whole is good watch. Here is the licensing part:

- https://youtu.be/MkJkyMuBm3g?t=1525 (at 25:25)

Also I think it's worth to listen the first 10 minutes as an intro, and brief about licensing from 5 minutes forward. Where he explains how BusyBox's licensing was then used by other people as "beating tool" to get hardware specs.
True, but an epidemic like COVID is generally a once in a lifetime (or less) occurrence. Probably best not to allow it to drive housing policy.
We're on this thread here to make housing more affordable, not to ensure your kids get your investment. Actually with a 99 year lease they probably will get it, just not your grandkids.
I wonder if dithering techniques could be used to convert any image into a 16 million colour image?

Edit: Yes: https://allrgb.com (should have googled)
Hell, it’s even seeped into the water supply…