skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not a book but I've been working on a project that sounds like it might be what you're looking for. It's algos and data structures courses in code-along style. It's free to audit, so do check it out even if you aren't interested in the certification stuff :)

https://qvault.io
Everyone’s for “affordable housing.” It isn’t allowed to exist except in rare synthetic occasions however, and nimbys often know that.
We have the same problem with the car market. I can only afford a $5,000 car, but the car manufacturers make all their money building $20,000 cars. I just can't see how Honda making another $20,000 fit is going to help me afford a $5,000 car.
Adafruit will probably have to sell cryogenic cooling equipment first.
What's so bad about them?
Even if they're not cool anymore, I hope they keep making them. I don't even mind buying a new pair every few years if the batteries get too worn out. I use them when I work out, I use them for zoom meetings, and sometimes even to listen to music :). I charge the case once in a while, probably every couple weeks, aside from that I rarely run the airpods themselves out of battery -- takes a few long zoom calls to do it, and then I just alternate ears if I need to.

Corded headphones at my desk use to make me so angry. Always tangling. And with earbuds, cord noise. I don't miss corded headphones.
I wouldn't necessarily assume it's a lie. I have no inside information and, if I did, I probably wouldn't be able to share it. However, based on my experience in Iraq, it wouldn't surprise me if 5th Group were relying on a previous-generation drone and didn't know an MQ9 or better class drone was watching the same AO.

We once had a TF call in requesting a strike on military-aged males carrying rifles. In the strike cell, we had a newer drone on station and checked out what they were calling in. I'm glad we did. With higher fidelity video, we could see that it was actually teenaged males with fishing poles. The strike request was (of course) denied. In our case, it worked out the way one would hope, but with aging equipment and poor networking, it's definitely a "there but for the grace of God go I" moment.
Depression is more than low mood, it’s a change of consciousness
My guess would be that the developers gave Apple permission to abuse them in this and other ways when they signed up for the app store.
At the time I was considering it, I figured there should be a dedicated protocol for serving things like this. Something simple, like a subset of bluetooth, with easy discoverability. Sort of like NFC perhaps. Something that you can implement with minimal software and hardware support. Obviously you risk the protocol dying and devices becoming bricks. I'm not sure how you avoid that.
While I agree zoning is a huge issue (I think that interest rates being so low doesn't help, either, but I concur with your thesis that zoning is the bigger problem), this, however:

> Houses cost roughly the same on a $/sqft basis, adjusted for inflation, as they did in the 1970s.

Sorry, but no. My parents bought their first home for $72/sq ft. real¹. They sold it for $99/sq ft. The same house last sold for $208 sq ft., and is Zestimated today at $302/sq ft. The value of the home has averaged >7% gains YoY, well outpacing published inflation.

Their current home, built significantly later, and like you say, significantly larger, was $149/sq ft. at purchase, and is $182/sq ft. today.

Every house I look at sings this same tune. Accounting for inflation, where my parents got a large house ready to move into, for the same amount to day I'm looking at what I call a "contractor's paradise", and that will require significantly more than the sticker price to make it habitable.

¹all dollar figures in this comment will be in 2021 real dollars, not nominal ones. I.e., adjusted for inflation.
I've heard 10-20% dilution each round (assuming the company is doing well), and probably 3-6 rounds before liquidity or indefinite illiquidity. Obviously there are circumstances outside of that, but that already ranges from barely any cumulative dilution to having a third of you original stake.

If the company isn't doing well, then dilution can be worse, and your valuation will also be lower, so you will own a smaller piece of a smaller pie.
Don't forget Blockchain - IBM was going to change the world with that.
Most farmers don't have the capital to invest in enough solar PV to generate anything you might call an income.
cuetorials.com really helped me get there
I like NestedText, it's less verbose than anything else for nested data.
I have more faith in a project like FFMPEG to be around (it's way too embedded in almost everything now) or a viable replacement. Definitely more faith than someone will still be around with a tape deck.

However, that's still not answering why you think HEVC (supported by some puny little company called Apple on all of their hardware) vs any other codec. It's not like they chose Cinepak or something else as ridiculous. It's the most modern codec with the longest legs of viability.
I don't know exactly, but the account has been doing nothing but hammering Facebook for months, and the profile makes it clear that it's an agenda account. That's the sort of battle agenda the site guidelines are asking people not to conduct here. The guiding value of this site is supposed to be curiosity, not smiting enemies.

Lest anybody misunderstand, I'm not defending FB by that; just defending HN.
I hope this answer was a sarcasm or that I misread it.

A poor man looking for his next meal will not know anything about Paris accords. He will not certainly elect a leader who will starve them to death over sticking to environment commitments by people living in a high castle.

When it comes to developing countries like India, China and Bangladesh - it is a question of subsistence, not comforts. They need rapid growth and cheap energy to come out of poverty and ensure basic quality of life to everyone. Part of the reason, why they can't commit to eliminating coal this fast - without obvious helping-hands from richer countries.
Exactly. Hopefully, Bitcoin will soak the monetary premium from real estate and correct this mess.
No really clever tooling. But even where the database gets too big, you can still stay in a similar operating mode. For example, when the user requests the first page of items or performs a search (that you have to do server side due to the size of the whole data set) - why not send the first 100 actual items instead of just the visible data from the 10 rows forming the first page? Or send the first 10 immediately followed by prefetching the next 90?

Now the user will immediately get to see the full item and will be able to page through the results much more quickly.

I've definitely had cases where I had to process the data before sending it to the client, but I've also sent absurd amounts of data and rendered it client side. In fact, I think sending data embedded in HTML to the client is rarely a good idea, and once you've adopted that mindset, apps can look very different.
I think most go with Android so they don't have to think about it and can roll out quickly. I'd be willing to guess that everyone wishes they could do what Apple did, but instead just roll out crap hardware with crap software ontop of the OS they didn't make.
Man, this seems familiar. What is it about Austria and treating a group of people with different ideologies like animals?
Managing the Cyber Vulnerabilities with Endpoint Security Systems
It's only bad advice if we don't have a spike in inflation.
Everyone whose favorite side gets moderated thinks that the moderators are secretly favoring the other side*. The thing is, the other side thinks we're favoring yours; I could give you dozens if not hundreds of examples. Here's an old list: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26148870 – there are many more than that, and plenty of cases of people attacking us personally for siding with your side, which they perceive as dominating the site. These perceptions are all false; they're determined not by what the moderators are actually doing, or how the site actually is, but by your/their own passions.

I think this is literally the most predictable phenomenon that shows up on HN—it's so reliable that one can confidently predict people's politics simply by their assessment of moderator (and/or community) bias.

> How can there be curious conversation if an honest and frank discussion is disallowed?

An honest and frank discussion is not disallowed. What's disallowed is ideological rhetoric that seeks to defeat the other side instead of relate to it. That's deeply destructive of curiosity. If we were to allow it, it would actually drive everyone who isn't consumed by such passions away from HN, and that would be the death of HN. If you want to smite enemies, there are lots of other places to do it.

* https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
It’s also why I don’t pay for or use apps that use their own data sync instead of iCloud (looking at you sleep cycle).
The War Lover had inflation-adjusted production budget of 23M USD, so this had to be used somewhere too.

Beyond that, there can be many reasons; for example, in a similar situation with Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afS5ks54tms

1) It's fun

2) Interesting to work on for the director and the crew.
If this was shot with a digital screen and a fan, that'd super be boring to produce.

3) Brings good marketing

4) Can justify paying expensive advisors / raising more production money (these stunts are difficult to financially evaluate so they can funnel out budget easily)

5) It looks more realistic (though it's not necessary a quality, as the story-telling is sometimes more important than realism).
Just hired a guy from FB for less than half of his FB comp.
Japan's former princess Mako arrives in New York after giving up title
Would this also extend to the $1.5T (or whatever) spending bill that they're pushing?
There is a surplus of cheap labor in the United States (at least up until recently), for the amount of goods and services produced. You may not believe it, but it is true. We have people willing to take jobs at low wages (again, up until recently) because of the growth of automation, outsourcing of low wage jobs to countries with even more labor surplus, and immigration. All these things, I will say off the bat, being good things that are producing good for people. (aside from the question, how many people can our planet sustain)

"How can you tell people they are not welcome to live in the cities where they work" is a nice feel good thing to say, but those are feelings. Liberal city people seem to care a lot about feelings. But what matters, and how people actually behave, is what options and choices and reality people have to decide based on. And I might just point out, you probably don't care equally as much about the young families who are in the tech industry who "get told they can't afford to buy a house where they work". Anyway.

No public policy can escape the fundamental demographic truth that we have a surplus of labor, and as cruel as it may sound, as long as people are willing to take the job for less, people will be coming to work in the Bay Area and yet not be able to live there.

Liberal city policymakers believe that forcing cities to pay living wages or mandating housing will "make people feel welcome and that they belong" but there is no escaping these fundamental forces of wage depression due to labor surplus. Then trying to "fix it" by guaranteeing people housing or forcing affordable housing to be true through rent control etc. just creates more unintended side effects elsewhere. It creates housing shortages, sky high rents where not rent controlled, and protects the very NIMBYism that this article is about (where liberal people, believing their responsibility to be fulfilled through tampering with the market, now refuse to give on actual meaningful changes). And most of all, it makes those who had the good luck to get in, better off than those who weren't chosen to receive those benefits.

As much as good intentions are nice, they rarely lead to good outcomes when applied at that level of thinking.
The reason we had a 12% interest rate was because we had a 13% inflation rate.
I did not notice that, good catch sir.
Useful methods to combine the little Python strings
The issue with depression is it often makes it impossible to address the root concerns. It is almost like a catch-22 in a lot of ways, and it is why it is such an awful thing.
Exactly. Every person living in a city is a positive externality for the businesses. And every business is a positive externality for the residents. It's a network effect. The more people in a city, the better it is. The people who own empty lots contribute nothing, and their empty lot keeps going up in value.

When you incentivize people to say no to housing because the more they say no, the higher the value of the house, they are going to say no. It doesn't matter how much the state demands. You don't want centralized forces creating a mess, you want decentralized forces. We need to stop swimming upstream.

The only way out of this is to tax the land equal to those positive externalities. The only way out is a Land Value Tax. When you under tax the land, the price of the house balloons. Once you have a Land Value Tax in place and increased housing supply means lower taxes, all the NIMBY's will quickly convert to YIMBY's - it will be a breeze to get new housing built.

Fix the incentives. Land Value Tax[0].

[0]: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/your-book-review-progr...
I find it an interesting contrast of contradictory themes.

On one hand there are progressive voices demanding climate action and sustainable development. What is sustainable development in real terms and where does it differ from just plain development? I think you'll find that the real difference is the cost of whatever is being promoted as "development" is much higher or more scarce under the so called, "sustainable" model.

Paying climate reparations to the regressive government institutions which hinder development, probably isn't a good strategy if development is the goal. Of course, it is always worth considering if anyone actually cares about development, sustainable or otherwise. Perhaps it is all a song and dance for ulterior motives.

Then further down the line, we might ask how this compares to other themes which have been tabooed in the modern age. Take the entire premise of western institutions dictating energy policy to less developed countries. How does that contrast to the theme of colonialism we've been taught to hate so well? What about carbon credits, how does 'global' institution appoint itself as arbiter of carbon consumption and demand payment worldwide? Again, how is this different from the colonialism we've been taught to hate so well?

Finally, consider the demonized Christian proselytizers. They are disdained by the secular West and hated by the religious East. These people make the mistake of putting children in school, building homes and bringing aid directly to people in poverty. If only they had chosen to believe in a cult of climate apocalypse and sent funds to government bureaucrats instead...
I have never had earbuds fall out of my ears. I used to worry that it would happen and it never has.
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Wealthy countries can start by justifying not delivering on the 100B in climate finance first.
Hans Rosling explains it very well: https://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_religions_and_babies
I feel like a lot of the anxiety around reviews is an unquenchable thirst for more. My understanding is that if you just meet expectations you get 100% of your bonus. If you're happy with your salary alone (which is probably higher than 99% of tech companies) then why get stressed?
At first I thought it was dah-VEM-ā-oh-ite.

Call them Dave Diamonds. Or Diamond Daves. Like David Lee Roth.
Here is a direct link to the Lancet review article "Open-source automated insulin delivery: international consensus statement and practical guidance for health-care professionals": https://www.thelancet.com/journals/landia/article/PIIS2213-8...

Article is paywalled and not sci-hubbale because it is recent. At least we can see the references though...
You're supposed to use a personal/social account for workplace communication?
> What can you tell me about Magnetite? A ha!

What about Fe₃Si (suessite)? Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂S₄ (greigite)? They too are magnetic.

I don't think magnetite is even the only magnetic mineral with Fe₃O₄ and if you want to be precise it should be ferromagnetite, because every thing from Fe₂O₃ (hematite) to FeTiO₃ (ilmenite) are weakly magnetic.
The algorithm itself is public - the blog post has arXiv papers on it.

People have shown themselves very willing to trust algorithms that are opaque (as in difficult to understand) but auditable (by other people). Witness Bitcoin or Ethereum, where they will put their life savings into an algorithm. They're just not willing to trust organizations or people, where the organization can change the rules of the game at whim. (Even this has exceptions - ETH flourished over ETC despite doing a hard fork to rewrite history after the DAO hack.)
ACLU Comment on FBI Raid of Project Veritas Founder
I imagine the height of the panels is important to allow cleaning, but they could perhaps try more to combine the solar infrastructure with any fixed elements that would help the plants - irrigation lines, grow/heating lights or pest deterrents, rails for picking carts, etc.

I recently toured a very advanced tomato greenhouse system where a heliostatic field, solar tower and turbine generated the power to cool/heat the greenhouses and desalinate water for irrigation. The heating pipes doubled as rails for the scissor-lift carts used by inspectors, pickers, etc. They had navigational lines embedded in the concrete flooring so that they could fill a train of carts with tomatoes, and then program a destination for it to self-drive to.
> This might be more indicative of your bubble than anything.

Sure. But this bubble that I was in since for a long time had been OK with JOB positions and talking about a career in FB before. So if there is anything else, that itself shows that "my bubble" stopped preferring FB. Shouldn't that itself mean there is a reduction in people choosing FB? :)

And I am coming across this online and elsewhere too. So my bubble is not the only one with this feelings for sure.
>>a single company cannot be trusted to operate a marketplace while also being a participant.

Like the government?
I don't keep these things close by so I don't actually have a source, but on a past hackernews discussion I came across the trial data for the pfizer vaccine in young children. The outcomes between unvaccinated vs vaccinated children was basically a wash of almost no benefit, but there was 1 case of myocarditis in a male participant for the vaccine with none for unvaccinated.

So, terribly low data points, but at best it was no benefit for a vaccine, and at worst there were heart issues in young male children who took the vaccine. If the vaccine showed a huge benefit for the children it would be easily seen as a calculated risk, the issue is that the vaccine did not have a clear major benefit to outweigh the possible risk.
I unblock it every once in a while for firmware updates. And I think it would prompt on startup if it wasn't connected to wifi.
Part of the reason developing countries are forced to deal with such pollution is because developed countries have offloaded the manufacturing on markets with cheaper capital investments. London had its peasoupers as recently as late 40s, when it was still in the business of making goods.

I find making fun of have-nots from a highcastle of righteousness somewhat disappointing, when its bricks were baked in the homes of these poor gentry.
As a dark skinned photographer I always am annoyed by the take that “white people who designed cameras made them take better photos of white people.” No, that’s not what is happening. The fact is that you get a lot less light from a dark face, and the nature of light sensing technology means that it’s going to be harder to take a picture of a dark face holding all else constant. Of course you can use exposure compensation etc but the “white supremacy” hot take is very misinformed.
A lot of people have really strong opinions towards syntax things like YAML vs JSON vs XML, HTML, even programming languages. I think at some point we assign way too much importance to this kind of stuff.

I recently read a piece by Joel Spolsky that resonated with me (even though my career is not nearly as long as his).

> I took a few stupid years trying to be the CEO of a growing company during which I didn’t have time to code, and when I came back to web programming, after a break of about 10 years, I found Node, React, and other goodies, which are, don’t get me wrong, amazing? Really really great? But I also found that it took approximately the same amount of work to make a CRUD web app as it always has, and that there were some things (like handing a file upload, or centering) that were, shockingly, still just as randomly difficult as they were in VBScript twenty years ago. [0]

It makes me wonder if we're really focusing on the right stuff. Maybe there's lower hanging fruit somewhere that's more valuable than focusing on fundamentally subjective things like syntax.

[0]: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2021/06/02/kinda-a-big-announ...
It is also possible some of the people rejecting offers do not have another offer pending at the time.
They actually do. Gas taxes pay about 60% of the costs to maintain the road infrastructure and given that the damage caused to roads increases as the square of the vehicle's weight, walking/biking causes minimal wear and is offset by the 40% of road costs that come from general taxes.
8194 qubits for RSA-2048.
So, "I got here first" is the way that we want to manage an increasing population, increasing costs of living, and a shortage of housing in the important cities that are an major source of our national prosperity?
That's not a sufficient explanation because Neanderthals faced the same conditions but were outcompeted eventually. The question is: if Neanderthals were going to be outcompeted, why did it take so long for homo sapiens to establish themselves in Europe. What changed so that they would become the dominant humans
Came here from another comment where this video was linked. Hilarious how it's been [flagged], it's as if the subjects of the video (California NIMBY liberals) feel personally attacked, and need to shut this down to preserve the narrative.
Decentralization vs Centralization
> Any video (sic) processing like encoding WAV-files to MP3, writing code for microprocessors like the STM32 or even writing an entire operating system with drivers is nothing that COBOL would ever be able to achieve.

… hold my beer
Seattle development is absolutely constrained by zoning. Not sure why you think otherwise.

https://www.seattle.gov/opcd/population-and-demographics/abo...

> As of 2019, there were 367,806 housing units in Seattle, representing a 19 percent increase since 2010 (according to Washington State Office of Financial Management). The growth in the number of housing units in Seattle from 2010 to 2019 surpassed the 14 percent growth seen between 2000 and 2010. However, even with the rapid increase this decade, expansion of our housing stock has not kept up with Seattle's population growth of 22 percent between 2010 and 2019.

And here's Seattle's land zoning ("Land Use" tab on the same website):

https://www.seattle.gov/Images/Departments/OPCD/Demographics...

50% is zoned SFH. Only 14% is zoned for any kind of (residential) density.