skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On one hand I’m relieved to see that this business model isn’t working out. I didn’t want to see institutional players start putting even more upward pressure on home prices.

On the other hand, this highlights just how insignificant their purchasing was. 7000 homes is nothing relative to the 1,200,000 homes they have listed for sale right now.
Different genre, but the Kaypro 2000 is also pretty cool: http://oldcomputers.net/kaypro2000.html
Waiting for tab groups and/or multi line tabs (current add-ons suck).
Is it possible I live in an insulated worldview largely detached from the political, economical, and societal issues faced by non-urban dwelling, non-millennials?

No, definitely not. They’re just actual fascists.
It is not. The license in questions says "if you use this software in a way we don't like, we can revoke your license". Nothing to do with selling it.
>> As minister he is allowed to make deals in the name of Germany.

That is very true. It also is part of the problem with that particular Minister, one of those deals cost Germany north of 500 million for nothing.
> exclusive rights

... Generally called a monopoly, yes. (The original Copyright Act 1710 had a hard upper limit of 28 years on the duration, the modern near-eternal copyright is a recent thing; patents are around 20 years max even today, or using the LAME codec would still be illegal.)

While I don’t think I called it a price tag (if anything, it’s only the right to set one if desired), note that the practice of copyright assignment (required among others by most publishers, both of books and of periodicals) precisely amounts to selling this exclusivity at some sort of market-determined price. The Berne Convention’s inalienable “moral rights”, from what I understand, were intended exactly to limit the scope of this so that the author could at least receive acknowledgement even if they chose or were forced to give up any and all material benefits or other control over their creation.

... I’m not sure I entirely understand what you wanted to say, sorry, so this reply might be missing the point.
I'm also planning to make the switch. Do you know anyone who's tried Qubes? The finicky hardware requirements are intimidating.
I'm saying freedom from slavery was an increase in freedom and a greater good. That's the point. A net increase in both. That's why it's a false dichotomy.
The fediverse was not about diversity in the first place, its main purpose is to decentralize power from one platform owner to various instances with their own rules. Since each instance can have their own whitelists/blacklists for other instances, there can be less diversity of what people you meet, but people have their own preferences.

If you want a platform where people from all political sides come together (and fight via quote tweets and ratios), then Twitter is your best bet. But not everyone wants to have that experience, and I’ve seen people move to Mastodon to escape from that and have a more curated, closely-knit experience.
> "you can’t make a profit with fast DC charging stations between demand charges and price sensitive drivers"

Fast charging will be perfectly profitable in the longer term. There just isn't a large enough established base of EVs to create enough demand yet. But once there is, there will be plenty of customers willing to pay a premium for the fastest, best-located chargers with the best amenities and services on site.

Fast charger operators can make significantly higher margins on reselling electricity than anyone is making on gasoline.

Demand charges are an issue when demand is limited and spiky, but this will be alleviated through increased scale. More customers charging results in a smoother, more predictable demand curve. On-site battery storage is another solution.
> as if to imply that being a sitting President gives Trump greater legal right to a social media account

That's not what they're implying.

The implication is that if they can do it to the office-holder of one of the most powerful jobs in the world, they are very powerful and can do it to you.

> the narrative of social media being an organized supranational conspiracy

When lots of social media companies do the same thing at the same time, what other explanation is there?
I hope you're right, but what signs do you see that it's at the tail end? Home ownership rate is at 65%. They want their home value to keep increasing and I don't see evidence of millennials being any less self interested when the rubber meets the road.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/184902/homeownership-rat...
It is really simple to compile Postgres from source and it only takes a few minutes. You can have multiple versions running on a single machine and installed in your preferred directory.

If you forget to include the extensions, you can add them all later.
Microsoft is hiring in Austin, Texas, for the Java Engineering Group.

Come work on building and optimizing OpenJDK.

We are looking for compiler engineers and more.

https://github.com/microsoft/openjdk/tree/main/JOBS.md
I had to resort to using policies.json in order to disable updates completely. I'm on Firefox 88.0.1 and have zero plans to update and take proton/photon or whatever they are calling the new design.
It doesn't upgrade everything. It upgrades dependencies and dependents of those dependencies (which, admittedly, can feel like everything). It does this because the alternative is sometimes breaking things.

A "breaking things without this example":
- you want to install something that depends on `readline`
- the binary package for the thing you want requires the latest `readline`
- this upgrades `readline` on installation

Now, we have a choice. Either we upgrade _everything_ that depends on `readline` that you have installed or we knowingly break some of the things you have installed that depend on `readline`. We choose the safer option by default.

If you leave it a long time between updating: you are more likely to have more dependencies updated which requires more dependents to be updated.
I was in a similar situation. I recommend finding hobbies that have nothing to do with computers. I used to work on open source stuff all the time, now I find that my energy vanishes if I even think about it after work.

Picking up guitar, cooking, studying (real) languages has rekindled my sense of purpose. Seeing my technical improvement on guitar from 3 months ago and being able to play and make music with other musicians is far more gratifying than ... maintaining open source software. In the limited time I have before I, y'know, die.
The irony is that the crypto prefix in cryptocurrency refers to cryptography, which basically no one involved knows a damn thing about.

I’ll leave it at this Wikipedia excerpt: “Cryptosporidium, sometimes informally called crypto” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptosporidium
why else would it exist? :)
In Ada you write

type Score = 0 .. 192 -- enough for a game of American football

instead of choosing to use a signed or unsigned byte, short, triplebyte, etc..

The compiler figures out what kind of number to use. That article points out that bit twiddling and other operations you want to do in embedded systems is awkward in Ada because Ada hides the binary nature of math in ordinary computers.

It's strange because, by 1980 when Ada was released, 8-bit bytes had won conclusively. The last straggler, Digital's 36-bit PDP-10 was discontinued in 1983.
Very cool! In case you're not already aware, https://twitter.com/searchbound talks a lot about his experience building ranchwork.com
and still own your house
> There's absolutely no reason to stop eating meat, and we're not going to.

I mean, sure, if you have absolutely no empathy towards the animals involved. Don't pretend like they all live idyllic cartoon-style pasture lifestyles and are only slaughtered painlessly after living a full and healthy life.
> Instead, a background agent will download and install updates even if Firefox is closed.

I hope that can be disabled. If I kill Firefox, I want it to be completely dead. I deplore background "download agents".

> Plus, closing devtools now reclaims more memory than ever before.

Perhaps reducing devtools memory usage might have been more useful; more than once it has brought my machine to a standstill, and forced me to reboot.
I'm getting back into BJJ after 2 years of not being able to train due to COVID.

I started a technical interview podcast this year as well which is about to release its 20th episode. Currently at 210 subscribers which is really exciting. That is more than I thought I would have at this point.
New technologies are promising a shortcut to enlightenment
"The real problem is people that prevent additional housing from being built."

If you go deeper, it's about personal preferences and distribution of jobs. There are plenty of areas that allow houses to be built and have affordable houses. Many of those places may have limited job choices, although remote is becoming bigger. If companies didn't cluster as much, then overpopulation or constrained resources in specific areas wouldn't be as much of problem. But there's also the side of people wanting single family homes instead of apartments - both existing owners and many prospective buyers.

It seems some companies and individuals are realizing this and moving to areas with lower density and lower cost of living (or cost of business).

Sure, you could take the other way of removing many zoning regulations, but the regulations are the product of democracy. Nothing wrong with people in a community wanting to set standards for their area.
The Muller report and Senate Report on Russian Active Measures (I posted links earlier, but you've already read them I assume: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29080495) show that Trump and Russians coordinated efforts, made secret deals, delivered on quid pro quo arrangements, and yes even shared information during the 2016 election. And they lied about it all, destroyed evidence, and obstructed the investigations into their activity. You can characterize objections to such behavior as "bleating", but it doesn't change the fact that the Trump campaign worked with Russian intelligence as they hacked the DNC. There is still no explanation for Trump's campaign manager handing internal campaign data to a Russian intelligence officer, other than collusion.
I suppose if you had a broken metal tape measure, this would be a good use, but I can't imagine cutting up a serviceable tape measure to make an antenna when there are other materials available.
Why don't they just publish the source?
From Wikipedia: “Cryptosporidium, sometimes informally called crypto, is a genus of apicomplexan parasitic alveolates that can cause a respiratory and gastrointestinal illness (cryptosporidiosis) that primarily involves watery diarrhea (intestinal cryptosporidiosis) with or without a persistent cough..”
Not to be a pill but velocity (in physics and as-used in the preceding posts) is well-defined and includes both time and distance. So if reducing distance results in the same time then, indeed, the velocity must be lower.

If one is talking abstractly about the “velocity” of the game I suppose a point could be made about that.
They are, and I think that Spotify should work to ban them. If I'm listening to a podcast on Spotify, then presumably the podcast creator is already getting my money (indirectly, via Spotify) and therefore I should get an ad-free version.
I guess they were bad in more then one way
"self-hosted" just means you host it yourself. Where and how is up to you, but the instance is entirely in your control.

"Deploy to cloud" is just an answer to the "where and how"
- a singular option.

This is (typically, though not always) different from SaaS and on-prem, the former being hosted/managed/monitored by a third party, and the latter meaning hosted by you, usually managed and monitored by a third party - often for regulatory or whitelabelling reasons.
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I doubt they are $400k in the city.
Debian is my preferred distribution for servers, I'm simply in awe of what the community has achieved. Most of the good features that people associate with Ubuntu are actually in Debian, with none of the proprietary weirdness that creeps into Ubuntu year over year.

The project does, however, sometimes have its share of people who dogmatic/pedantic to the point where it really doesn't help the cause. This might be expected from something that's a passion project for many of its contributors, and to Debian's credit, they've always been able to resolve these conflicts eventually.

The article mentions the systemd drama. The recent kerfuffle around the 'which' command might be a smaller example of this kind of thing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29026623 And note: As silly as that discussion was, when it got widespread attention, it was actually already resolved.
Maybe?

I don't get the problem with Foundation. Like why can't they take the source material and create their own interpretation? What's so wrong with that? Maybe someone will go on and create a Vorkosigan Saga interpretation too?

I read the books. Loved them. Really enjoying the show too.
It’s worth pointing out that I live in an area where pre-industrial times had all the trees cut down, and it’s full of dense trees now, so all the CO2 released by that charcoal has been recaptured. Even non-sustainably-harvested biomass can regenerate about 6 orders of magnitude faster than fossil fuels do…

Fast growing trees could regenerate in 10-20 years. Crops can regenerate in a few months to a year. (Ignoring regeneration time can screw up return on energy calculations, BTW…)

I think relying primarily on biomass for energy is a bad idea, but for that last few percent, it’s not bad.
Determining gender through walking styles with machine learning
I can't help but think the designers do not care. I'm guessing the UI/UX folks at Mozilla think only a loud minority of users are protesting the incessant redesigns. They probably look towards what Apple and Google do and believe they have to follow trends or be left behind. They also probably want to be seen as bold and innovative - so damn the metaphorical torpedoes, full speed ahead!

Edit: The kind of feedback they're willing to accept is probably only barely impactful. Suggest going back to the old tab bar? Sorry, but you'll learn to love it and we aren't changing it. Suggest a slightly different shade of gray for the edge of the rounded tab bar? They might just take the suggestion. That kind of thing.
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That just instantly makes me think 'what are the attack surfaces, and vulnerabilities of such a service and how can I abuse it?'
5% is still $20k. When you're living payslip to payslip, even $5k is too much as a deposit is too much.
being all "the sky is falling" with negative news

I don't read it that way. My guess is that they 1) didn't believe that prices would level off a bit, as they have in the last couple of months 2) didn't factor in significant delays & increased costs for even minor refurbs and 3) as a result realized that any profits would be eaten by carrying costs (property taxes, maintenance, opportunity cost of having capital stagnate).
They manage, but they're not bulletproof. One such instance:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/11/googl...
It is not? As the creator I can tell you that the parser and analyzer of GCC/GNAT were modified.

For example, supporting implicit "use" clauses for packages was a difficult problem to solve - not to mention allowing for abbreviated type names in the Standard package.
If you’re lucky, some friendly malicious website will compromise you for the sole purpose of updating your copy of Firefox before someone else compromises you for a more nefarious purpose.
> Instead, the pre-defined exit codes from sysexits should be used, so the caller of the process can get a rough estimation about the failure class without looking up the source code.

I got a laugh out of how this assumes that checking the command's documentation isn't an option. If you want to know about program's behavior, you're going to be looking at the source code.
I remember when I used to play Pokemon Greenleaf with my friends; the Nintendo and pokemon hype was something back in the day.
On the flip side, this has always been an infuriating default for me. If I hit CMD+Q, that means I want the program to quit. Not prompt me or make me hold it down or use a different command. CMD+Q = Quit on Mac. Overriding that behavior is annoying and one of the first things I disable on nearly every program I install.
sounds like common sense but with fancy tables and diagrams. explains why i never passed initial phone screens for senior PM roles at FAANG even though i developed and launched several succesful hardware products from start to finish into retail, without any PM education or training.
People know that it's a scam. But they just hope to find a bigger fool later on.
Brew's package selection is unmatched and it works great for a particular purpose. Keep using it, but stop using your dev machine's system package manager to manage project dependencies. There are a bunch of good reasons not to do that, anyway. For server stuff, probably use Docker. Brew is for your tools you personally use, that you mostly want to be at latest. If a project needs, say, a compiler and library at a specific version, define that in the project and use something that will manage that for you, which will typically be language-specific—damn near every language has an "Xvm" now, where X is the first letter of the language or platform, or else something equivalent, right? That's not to cater to Mac with Brew, it's because that's a very good idea on any platform.

You shouldn't use the system package manager on Ubuntu or Red Hat or whatever the way you're using Brew, either, unless you're exactly matched to your deployment target—same distro, same version, and you don't upgrade locally unless the servers are getting upgraded—and are scripting your local package installations and upgrades with the same script you use to deploy on the server.
My experience with MacPorts has been generally good, apart from dealing with OS upgrades which are more painful than necessary, but I've honestly never tried Homebrew so I can't compare them directly.

Personally, I find that the whole Homebrew "theme" where every command/thing is named after something alcohol/brewing-related (cask, bottle, formulae, tap, keg, etc) is a huge turnoff.
Emissions in Transportation are dominated by road transport, which I didn't include. Road transport is responsible for about 70-80% of all transport emissions.

See for example [1] for a more detailed breakdown. They list Aviation as 1.9% of total emissions, Shipping (by ship) as 1.7%, Livestock & manure as 5.8%. So by those numbers planes and ships add to 3.6, much less than the 5.8 of livestock (and that's not including use of energy or transport for livestock).

1: https://ourworldindata.org/emissions-by-sector
No, they only pay attention to feedback from their telemetry. HN users mostly disable telemetry, right?
This gets to a question of what’s an ad. Take EDM DJs. Could they advertise an upcoming festival they’re playing at, even though the main purpose of the podcast is playing music?
Not only that (it's true though) but what if they committed to a certain $ figure of upgrades/renovations for the house in question? Seems valuable in terms of property values even if it costs the seller/buyer some additional premium up front
Those are a different set of error codes. Also, they have been present in Python long before 3.
Where you draw the line defines what kind of person you are, your values and your commitment to them.

The reason shows like Squid Games is popular is that it's all about where people draw lines.

Morality is all about choices, and your true morality isn't what you say, but what you do.

The interesting things is that the people who are most committed, who are unwilling to compromise their values even if it means sacrifice*, are often invisible. They don't make waves. They just do the right thing quietly. There are very smart people who don't make a lot of money, who choose to become teachers, or find some other uncompromised occupation. Other people see them as crazy, or naive idealists. Our culture really tends to look down on those people, since material wealth is how everyone is measured.

btw, I left my career in the tech industry and my high salary nine years ago, to work on social justice, to write, and to work with children. There are costs that don't bother me at all, like my ultra simple life living in a run-down rental. There are costs that hurt, but those have to do with living in a society where eschewing the benefits of capitalism isn't popular. Some analogies I've used: Imagine being a white person having 2021 views of race and racism, but you suddenly wake up in 1850, where even Abraham Lincoln is a white supremacist (he was!). People will shun you for voicing your 2021 views. You will be an outcast in the dominant white world. You might be able to find a home among black people, except they are slaves and will be afraid to associate with you. Or here's perhaps an easier analogy: Imagine that you one day wake up and feel deeply you can't eat meat anymore. It's your conscience. You deeply feel it is wrong. So you become vegan. Now imagine this was 50 years ago before veganism started to gain any traction. Again you would be isolated. People will look at you weird.
I am glad Windows is moving to a package manager esque system.

It would be nice if rather than reinventing the wheel for the billionth time, apps could just use the OS based update mechanisms where possible. (i.e. App calls apt, or snap, or winget, or windows store, which updates Firefox).

Whether that be store based or packaged based. It really sucks both in resources and UX when apps bundle their own update/install mechanism.
> CEOs make important decisions about how a company is run and its future.

I've yet to work in a (large) company where the CEO is actually relevant. Most of the decisions happen at lower, departmental levels.

In the initial years, CEOs can make or break a company, but after that it's pretty random. You can have a brilliant CEO that just gets stumped and the company goes bust. Or you can have an incompetent CEO that just stumbles from success to success.

In my experience, CEOs get hired because of their old-boys networks that will allow the company to participate to the pay-to-play games with e.g. financial institutes or similar industry handshake-wink-wink-partnerships. They know people that know people, that's it.
I use qubes for work. I don't like it.
There are much less CO2 and methane producing ways to do each of those. Pork produces less than beef, chicken less than pork, fish less than chicken. Smaller, more fuel (whether gasoline or electric) efficient vehicles, public transportation, bicycling (like an Organic Transit ELF or a Better Bikes PEBL) produce less than SUVs. In ground or air-to-air heat pumps produce less than electric baseboards, oil furnances or wood stoves.
Yep, this is enough friction that it keeps me from using Firefox as my daily-driver on MacOS.
If you're interested in the original works, IO9 did a deep dive into the Foundation series.

>The books that came to be called the original Foundation Trilogy (Foundation, Foundation and Empire, and Second Foundation) were not written as novels; they're the collected Foundation stories Asimov wrote between 1941 and 1950.

Asimov wrote the first Foundation story when he was 21.

https://gizmodo.com/isaac-asimovs-foundation-the-little-idea...
I agree. This is more interesting and engaging than corporations posting their open roles.