skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is urban planning, urban economics problem.

Cities have huge positive agglomeration externalities, bigger cities have more than smaller cities. (many reasons are not intuitively obvious or the effect size seems smaller than it is, saying this generates usually torrent of on the spot counterarguments).

People and firms move into cities because they become more productive there. Inefficient zoning and urban planning creates negative externalities that cause friction and limits the growth of cities (negatives outweigh positives when urban planning fails).

The solution is zoning more housing in cities, better urban planning and public infrastructure. This includes fighting against NIMBY's somehow. If you zone and build enough housing, housing prices and rents decrease. People who already own property, don't like it.
Minting USDT currency to prevent deflation and keeping the currencies value around the value of 1 USD(1) is pretty much the same as printing USD to prevent deflation and keeping USD at the same value as some other currency/security, e.g. the Euro or Gold. The only difference is that most currencies place themself in relation to the USD, but anyway conceptually pretty much the same.

Because in the end weather it's USDT, USD or even Gold their value is purely a construct of people (roughly) agreeing that it has that given value (in general in ratio to some other thing which has "value by agreement"). Gold might have some intrinsic value but it's fundamentally so much smaller then the gold price that it doesn't matter.

(1): Assuming they did it for that reason, my argument was intentionally detached from Tether.
> It doesn’t matter.

I think the issue is that there are so many different reasons projects need any storage. There's a reason why you need persistence, there's a reason why you need ACID, there's a reason you need some form of replication ...

Eg: a cms like WordPress would probably have been better off just storing structured data in xml files on disk (or nfs) - along with media files on disk. Or using Berkeley db/later sqlite.

Your point of sale terminals might not fare so well without central inventory.
Caddy Auth Portal U2F/Authenticator Demo
The images look nice. You might consider a demo page that mimics the output of the extension though, with some amount of interaction. It's difficult to tell what it's really like from an image.
It's a bit rough[0] at ultrawide resolutions, but then again what isn't?

There's also a small padding issue[1] next to the sidebar when the column width is set high.

Otherwise it looks pretty good.

[0]: https://jagger.co/downloads/modern-wiki-wide.png
[1]: https://jagger.co/downloads/modern-wiki-padding.png
Apple, AT&T, Ford, the USPS, and Comcast all hold /8s as well:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assigned_/8_IPv4_addre...

The United States Department of Defense has 14 /8 blocks.
Heh...a guy I knew in college got a meeting with admin when he thought it would be cool to host an OLGA mirror on his university web storage around 1995 or 1996.
Airtable Valuation to Double to $11.7B in New Funding
If your productivity declines, you can use the five Why's and come to the conclusion that you need more rest. I don't see what your "why not" methodology is adding here.
Much of "time theft" is covered by people struggling to focus continuously for 8 hours at a time 5 days a week. That's not theft, that's unrealistic expectations.
I think it would be extremely neat to have a fully citizen run global p2p infrastructure that is nearly free, resilient to electrical and internet outages, and able to reach remote and distant places.
I might be ok with "the mobile reactive version everywhere" if it didn't also lack a bunch of features. Not being able to easily get to the talk page to contextualize what you're reading makes the mobile site very frustrating.
A few past related threads:

J2 open processor: an open source processor using the SuperH ISA - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26866065 - April 2021 (45 comments)

The SuperH-3, part 15: Code walkthrough - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20779622 - Aug 2019 (1 comment)

The SuperH-3, part 1: Introduction - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20622921 - Aug 2019 (2 comments)

Building a SuperH-compatible CPU from scratch [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11886079 - June 2016 (24 comments)

Resurrecting the SuperH architecture - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9812010 - July 2015 (15 comments)
Seems kind of a wild leap to blame the rise of ISIS on Twitter.

ISIS came from the events in Iraq and is an offshoot of "Al Qaeda in Iraq". It even stands for "Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant". They existed long before the Arab Spring.

The Arab Spring started in 2010 and ISIS didn't enter Syria (which I think is the connection you're making?) until well after that.
You're welcome! I get that feeling too, makes me uneasy.
Best of luck on your eyesight improvement journey!
In my experience at Amazon, orgs which deal with physical things operate differently from orgs which deal solely with digital things. So the advertising org was more very "move fast and break things", while the Kindle org was more "if we ship a broken build then we brick millions of pieces of hardware, so we're going to manual verification on daily builds". Fulfillment having a healthy/diligent development culture fits that experience pretty well.
American companies are sued and pay claims every single day for violations of employment labor standards.

Just as an example you can find lawsuits against Uber for misclassifying its workers as independent contractors instead of employees.

Not sure what of facts you have that shows American companies using slaves and being immune from civil or criminal lawsuits.
I have noticed that the dispensary experience is very different in CA vs OR. Oregon dispensaries are often small headshop type places whereas every dispensary I've been to in California seems to be a more expensive operation with a bank-like queuing style. The Oregon dispensaries are also just more thick on the ground; can't throw a rock without hitting one. Not so common in CA and they're tucked into shitty office parks much of the time.

Not sure why they're so different but I don't think it's the cash-only property that is doing it, since it's the same deal in OR.
It's not a very efficient process. Firstly, you need to drill very very far down, unless you are near an active volcano. If it isn't very near the surface, most heat is lost traveling up the bore hole. Remember that you never drill INTO the magma chamber, because that would collapse/plug the hole, so companies drill adjacent to the magma chamber and allow radiant heat to rise.

It's also unstable and inconsistent. Ground water changes, magma movement, hole collapses, all make it an unreliable source of power.
Ask HN: Did you get the Zoom class action notice?
Last week I got a court-authorized notice about a Zoom class action based on 3rd party data sharing. I pay for the healthcare compliant enterprise version of Zoom.

Anyone here know anything about this? Should we accept joining the class for the suit? Is there more information about the case?

The allegations section is copied here:
"(i) shared certain information with third parties, (ii) should have done more to prevent unwanted meeting disruptions by third parties, (iii) advertised its Zoom Meetings App as being encrypted “end-to-end” when Plaintiffs contend it was not at that time, and (iv) that the alleged conduct violated California state and federal laws. Zoom denies these allegations. The Court has not decided who is right."

ZoomMeetingsClassAction.com
Have you investigated memory constraints?

Ryzen is 2 channels; Epyc is 4-8 (depending on CPU). M1 has that stupidly fast/wide setup.

If your Epyc is one of the 4 channel optimized SKUs or is only running in 4 channel mode, you would get pretty close to the quoted ratios on a memory bandwidth test.

Correlation, not causation, but worth looking into.
I always try to look at incentives

If the "great resignation" is not real, who is benefiting from that narrative?
I 100% agree with you, I left another lawless dump in the sfbay area and am glad I did. Me and my spouse are both in higher level tech positions and we were not getting ahead financially. Taxes were sky high, our 100 year old house that needed alot of work was at the highest we could afford(cheapest house in the area), schools were terrible, packages were being stolen off of our porch. City services were non-existent, our quality of life was terrible. What is the point of working yourself into an early to grave to live like this? I made the move to be closer to family and although its not perfect its alot better than we had.
Show HN: I made a GitHub Actions workflow for OTA firmware deployment to ESP32
Hi guys, I have prepared a GitHub template with a configuration for over-the-air (OTA) firmware update from a level of GitHub workflow.

After a new push to a repo, the CI/CD pipeline is triggered that builds a new firmware and sends it with HTTP POST request to an OTA server running directly on ESP32. It takes ~3 minutes. Using that configuration in "matrix build" enables updating up to 256 devices at once.

The project is based on / uses:

- PlatformIO

- Arduino

- AsyncElegantOTA (for OTA server - we do not use the provided frontend)

- ESPAsyncWebServer (for a simple "Hello world" server)

- Husarnet (for direct access over the internet over NAT & firewall)

- GitHub Actions workflow definition

I hope it might be interesting for those of you who do sth with that cool WiFi chip :)
I hope you can stay positive. You sound prudent. Are you really in a hurry to buy or can you wait for a crash? Are you tied to the lawless dump or can you move?
Vizzuhq/vizzu-lib: Library for animated data visualizations and data stories
Whoa, I had no clue about these key-combos. So handy! Thanks!!

For anyone curious, MS has a useful summary of how this works here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/snap-your-window...
It is not just the US, though. Prices are crazy almost everywhere.

I was born in a city that lost 40 000 people over the last generation. From 320 000 people to 280 000 people. A Central European rust belt city called Ostrava.

And the real estate prices there made a huge jump in the last three years. Not as huge as in Prague, but +50 per cent nonetheless.

Lots of those apartments are actually empty and cannot attract tenants, because there just isn't enough demand on the rental market. But they still sell like hot buns at a bakery. I believe this is caused by the fear of inflation combined with relatively low mortgage interest rates. People don't want to have cash in hand.
Accessibility Nightmare (Linux): A rant after a several year long research
http://joeduffyblog.com/2015/11/03/blogging-about-midori/

There is also a really great blog about Singularity’s “rebirth” experimental OS, Midori, that continued in its footsteps.
On a related note, this article reminded me of something one of my professors had to say about William Shakespeare.

There's a long tradition of conspiracy theorizing around Shakespeare, that he didn't actually write his own plays, that they were instead written by Francis Bacon or Queen Elizabeth or something ridiculous. These arguments usually start from his background: how could the son of a common glovemaker have gotten the sort of education necessary to write like this?

The thing is, glovemaker was a highly skilled profession. Exactly like you said, any dum dum could cut a hole in a sheet of fabric and call it a poncho, but handmade shoes and gloves take serious craftsmanship. This kind of profession would have put Shakespeare's family firmly in the upper-middle class.
That’s a little disingenuous. They’re simply saying “I know my evidence is light but I haven’t seen any stronger envidence to support the counter argument”.

The “great resignation” will be more pronounced in different cities and professions. Eg I’ve noticed London based cloud engineers such as DevOps seem to be really affected at the moment whereas a lot of friends in other industries haven’t seen any change at all.
That can also be true, but let me point to this: https://openhousing.ca/2020/12/30/vancouver-empty-homes-cros...

That's a lot of un-lived-in houses.
Why are you telling them your salary?
Total anecdotal evidence but it seems that in tech a lot of people are quitting/changing jobs or looking at it. It seems like big co's have tweaked their comp packages a bit to front load equity packages and avoid those crazy comp numbers you could get in the past and that and various news stories have made people more willing to leave.

Some companies may also be doing a bit of downsize without layoffs and others have done layoffs and reigned in comp in a way that leaves the remaining people looking at their options.

Overall it seems like a good time to be hiring, especially as a startup/pre ipo company.
Researchers Use New Approach to Calibrate Soft Robotic Exosuit to an Individual
Here are a few people who don’t like inflation:

- People who aren’t leveraged with a lot of debt.

- People who are seeing wage stagnation while the cost of living goes up. The majority of jobs that keep the economy running aren’t like the tech sector where one can job hop to keep wages up.

- People who have a significant chunk of their savings in cash for a down payment, and they are seeing property values run away from them while the value of their money goes down. They are also seeing increasing costs, impacting their ability to save for a down payment.

- The people who are trying to buy a house that was $400k in 2005, that is now valued at 1.2M and requires $240k for a down payment.
I think it's because people don't give any critical thought as to what "freedom" actually means. They don't understand the true costs we pay for freedoms (ex: freedom of speech means you hear, allow and protect things you strongly disagree with" and think it means "I only have to do what I want" like a petulant toddler.
We've banned this account for repeatedly breaking the site guidelines and posting flamebait/unsubstantive comments.

Could you please not create accounts to do that with? We're trying for a different quality of discussion here, to the extent possible.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
If you have some electronics experience you can buy the Plantower sensors that PurpleAir uses and connect it to a microcontroller, there are guides mentioned in the comments here.
There is a really simple reason for this: Discussing basically anything with the outside world is violation a of your employment agreement.
Because the original blocker: AdBlock, did. And some donated more than others. The rest is history.
reddit is over there ---->
The dark cabal of recruiters /s
Correct, but also with 1, there is a way to embed chapters into a mp3 file that's a part of the ID3 standard. We use Forecast (https://overcast.fm/forecast) to do it. I've found that most podcast applications either parse these chapters or timecodes in show notes (or support both), and that would be another way to identify moments that as a producer we've called out in the file.

for 2, the RSS feed would include show notes and greatly speed up the process for bulk production.

If you'd like to get in touch with me, I'm on twitter as @yakk0dotorg.
thanks again!
I'd be interested in this for some circumstances with the kids knowledge - and generally I'm interested in companies that are trying to do this without an alterior motive (see: Notabli for photo sharing).

That said, as a parent, I also know that the knee-jerk reaction to get this tracking technology is really more of a crutch for me since the whole gig is to make them more independent so they can live lives on their own.

The sweet spot for tracking is that it allows you to give them chances for autonomy potentially earlier than you might otherwise be comfortable with a greater margin of safety. The challenge as a parent is to turn it off after the first N number of times you grant them the autonomy.
Democrats fall flat with ‘Latinx’ language
I don't know the research and I'm talking about headache and even tiredness after a day on the computer.

There's an app called f.lux and when I work on my computer in the evening and turn it off, the screen becomes really bright/annoying.

Perhaps it doesn't make a difference on eye health in particular, but it's easy to try that and i do notice a difference immediately concerning eyestrain.

Note: I'm aware of the difference during the day and my situation during the night. It's mentioned as an easy to reproduce example from personal experience, not as a fact supporting any research.
Well, more reason not to feel sorry for them.
Redesign online shopping to fight the environmental menace of free returns
China’s silk industry attempted to prevent replication by withholding information: in today’s lingo, that’s not patents, that’s trade secrets. Those are intentionally mutually exclusive: the motivation for patents was quite literally to prevent knowledge being kept secret and eventually lost by granting time-limited exclusivity in exchange for public disclosure. (That’s why you can’t get a patent for something that was previously published elsewhere, even if it was you publishing it.)

In theory, every patented technique is already public: it’s described by the text of the patent. In practice, today’s patents are malicious compliance writ large: most of the time, they describe only the most indispensable (not necessarily the most difficult) parts of the processes in the most obtuse language possible. And while I hold that a patent lawyer’s job is morally repugnant, the overall fault is hardly with those exploiting loopholes, it’s with those who cast the loopholes in stone (making them part of national law, pervasive international agreement bundles such as the WTO, etc.) in the first place.
Gateway always make me think of SAP Gateway
Ants, a Priest-Scientist, and the Reception of Evolution
Remote work will allow the people who helped turn the areas they came from into overpriced lawless dumps to spread out and turn more areas into overpriced lawless dumps.

There is nothing special about Seattle (or anywhere else) that made it's descent into an overpriced lawless dump inevitable. It was the people who live(d) there. Not all of them, and probably not even a majority of them. But enough of them.
Did anyone go through the existing lists to see if someone had already been using this vulnerability? Didn't see anything about this in the write up... seems like it should be a part of responsible disclosure.
You're not alone. I have the exact same thoughts here in London, England. Average house prices here are 10x median income.

Me and my partner want to start a family, but on my sole income we'll be paying ~50% of my take-home pay in mortgage + property taxes. It's probably not worth her continuing to work (although it's her choice) if we have a kid, due to the cost of childcare.

Belts will be extremely tight even though I'm well inside the top 1% income wise. That said, I still thank my lucky stars I am where I am, and can't imagine how someone on a median income feels about their prospects.
Not the only one - Orion browser lets you have addons on iOS.
Yeah Safari support is definitely on the TODO, but the requirement for an App Store account made me put that on the backburner for now.
I'm with you on links being distracting, but it seems you... nuked them entirely, which maybe goes too far haha? I guess you can always go back to source if you want that.
Indeed, the five Why's is just one of the starting points for introspection. Each person/team/department/org needs to find ways to generate consensus and actionable items out of that exercise. Reactionary phrases like "because x sucks" aren't very useful.
I think there's "professionalism" as in "behavior that signals to employers that you're safe to hire because you are a good little drone" and then there's "professionalism" as in "does good work and treats people right".

I don't think there's a reason to push the former, as it's got plenty of natural support from the unequal relationship between employers and employees. We may not be able to throw off the shackles entirely, but let's not shame those who rattle them a bit, you know?
So I ask this crowd are there any non-shady companies in this business?

Probably not.

What methods are parents of HN using for tracking their kids?

Being friends with the other adults, especially parents, in the neighborhood/places they hang out at.
There is another side of the coin:

Not to directly defend easter eggs but if we allow people to insert easter eggs, sure it creates slightly more work and potentially create an attack surface (albeit very unlikely), but in return you get something hard to measure directly. People love and embrace what they work with, they care about the project, spend extra time on it because it creates belonging and sympathy. It makes a little happier developers and a community, which eventually results in a better-cared project.

Even knowing any potential downsides of adding an easter egg to a program, I think upsides are a little higher. It's just hard to quantitatively measure.
That sounds miserable. Finding a sustainable employer imo is key to getting out of a situation that you recognize as subpar.

I just left Seattle and moved to Olympia. Sold my Seattle house and got a lot more for my money this far out. My company is fully supporting remote into the future, and we've hired a lot of folks that don't live in Seattle.

I won't name and shame, but Seattle has always had a number of hellish "startups" that are basically pump and dump schemes. They come and go. There are plenty of places that do offer sustainable employment, and I was lucky enough to land at one, so leaving the city was an option afforded to me by landing somewhere stable.

Also fuck 60 hour weeks.
Thanks. I was surprised Thompson didn’t spend any analysis on this part, which I consider the most significant aspect.

It’s more like the shift to AWS while the stuff he wrote about didn’t seem so transformational.

But this is just my perspective.
The trends of remote work and broader competition to find tech workers would make it much easier to get out of such a dumpster fire situation over the last ~18 months.

So perhaps the reasons for quitting haven't changed much, but the burden of jumping is lower so it's happening more often.
If these companies had nothing to hide, I'd bet they'd be a bit more transparent. It's your trust though, I won't tell you which horses to bet on.
One reason I suspect is that it's a well defined product. The "spec" is quite well specified at this point. When changes are made existing tests just need to catch regressions, not be changed extensively due to changed meaning of existing primitives. Projects with significant spec/feature churn can't do the same.
Not to mention that Myanmar has had serious problems with repression of religious and ethnic minorities for decades. I find it very difficult to believe Facebook is the spark that ignited an already sectarian government in a country with a long history of ethnic persecution.
Yep. Which is why Boise, ID is the most expensive real estate market in the country. Remote work is coming with its own issues, rather than being the cure-all HN thinks.

In many places, such as East TN (Knoxville) remote workers are moving in with CA salaries. HN thinks that someone remote working from Knoxville, TN should be paid Bay Area salaries. However, Bay Area salaries are high for a reason. There are many Knoxville companies that can't compete with those salaries, which is why they set up Knoxville offices in the first place.

But now their employees are suddenly priced out - and no one is happy about it.