skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> i.e. everything should be niche?

This is not what I said.

My thought process is that I personally would like to see more products with a higher focus on being good for a smaller group of people, rather than cheaper and /or worse but aimed at a huge audience. [0]

Focusing on delivering a good product to a smaller audience allows you to have tighter feedback loops and create more useful iterations because of that. You can also usually charge more. Personally, there are a lot of product spaces that I currently prefer or would prefer spending more for higher quality. But I don't always get that option due to the obsession with casting a wide net, as it were.

Do I expect this to happen organically? No, market forces seem to heavily incentivize races to the bottom.

[0]: NB my use of relative statements and not absolutes. Going from one extreme to the other likely won't produce a net positive.
I don't think this is an accurate take on math. Beyond the fact that a lot of math fields deal explicitly with state updates (e.g. discrete math), there is also the constructionist framework for mathematical foundations which removes "non-computational" theorems like that law of the excluded middle. When you do this you get a form of math where all proofs are necessarily computational and there is a viable direct translation into code. It is not generally why many constructivist mathematicians are interested in that framework, but it is a nice side-effect.

I think your intuitions about how math works is an unfortunate side effect of how math is often taught, and not so much reflected in mathematics itself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructivism_(philosophy_of_...
And one-way functions are not necessarily the hardest to invert. They are, in some sense, "hard enough", at least as hard as certain threshold (speaking informally).
Hey there, I work at Twilio and am just seeing this. Happy to dig in if you'd like more detail. Drop me an email at gb@twilio.com
Good.

The way countries allow the ultra-wealthy to park money in real estate and pay almost no taxes on it while it drives up the price of a necessary resource for everyone else has to stop. Period.

In an ideal world, this wouldn't be a ban per se. I'd prefer to see that owning a property anyywhere allows that jurisdiction to tax your worldwide income and assets of the beneficial owner as if they were a resident.

Double taxation treatires exist and can handle that case.

New York City (as one example) should be for New Yorkers, not Russian oligarchs, nonresident billionaires and corrupt heads of state.
https://twitter.com/DAlperovitch

https://twitter.com/RALee85

https://twitter.com/KofmanMichael

Like the other commenter said, these are part of OSINT (open source intelligence) twitter.
> For our civilization to be successful in facing this reality, we must realize that nature cannot be fooled. Nature is relentless. It does not care about our petty human needs to be respectable. It simply is.

This is why I have no hope. The powers-that-be will never acknowledge this. It’s already too late.
"I have a couple devices that might be nice if they had keyboards but don't support USB1 low/full speed. "

Its not about the keyboard, its about the host not supporting USB1 speeds or TTs.
paraphrase of the director of the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases
Yes I also think it's about my personality. I'm also highly competitive. I don't know if I would be able to play just a bit for fun.

For me the fun is in trying to be the best among my friends/discord groups, then the best of the country, then the best of the world (ofc the best of the world streams on twitch and the game is his job and main source of income)

In those 2 years I was able to go reach top20 in my country and without paying for any 1-1 coaching which is common for many to keep improving
Rich Harris – The Road to SvelteKit 1.0
Why not write Rust directly, and target WASM for client side environments?

I support efforts to tune existing tech stacks. But there is such a more direct path to performance, reliability, etc etc by dropping (alt)JS entirely now that anything can compile to WASM.
That’s closed minded. I can find 100 different product data sheets in the next hour to disprove you, but why waste our time?
I would also recommend starting interviewing after the first request to get back into the office.
From the linked article:

> Fortunately, the cost of uranium is a small percentage of the cost of nuclear fuel, which is itself a small percentage of the cost of nuclear power. Over the last twenty years, uranium spot prices have varied between $10 and $120/lb of U3O8, mainly from changes in the availability of weapons-grade uranium to blend down to make reactor fuel.

> So as the cost of extracting U from seawater falls to below $100/lb, it will become a commercially viable alternative to mining new uranium ore. But even at $200/lb of U3O8, it doesn’t add more than a small fraction of a cent per kWh to the cost of nuclear power.

And yes, demonstrations of seawater extraction have been done. Again, this is covered in the article.
Your hard drive probably has a RISC-V core in it anyway. It seems like a distinction without a difference.
Children can obtain parental consent for some online accounts, if the site supports it. Ex. Microsoft -

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/account-billing/parental...
Interesting to see. A lot of this looks like pretty novel interface (not something you can easily copy from other apps). How did you find inspiration for some of these designs/direction?
You can't open a help to buy ISA any longer, the government honours existing accounts though.
Unit Testing is software construction's "we have to do something to validate, this is something, we have to do it".
I agree about the engineering failure, but I'm not sure if mass hysteria is the right term. It was messier than that, we also saw a few leaders chilling out too much too early. My favorite: https://twitter.com/billdeblasio/status/1234648718714036229

And if anything, governments have been too relaxed about the origin of the pandemic (which has now officially killed 6 million!), while panicking about other details.
This got past the undoubtedly upwards of nine product managers/business analysts/directors/etc on the team as well. Blaming the low man on that totem pole in a organization thick with management like that is silly.

None of the "idea men" had the idea of "what if someone's cat walks across the keyboard when we ask them their birthday". That's the embarrassing failure here.
Released in 2001 after a budget of $137m, and $85m revenue.

https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Final_Fantasy:_The_Spir...

> The movie was created using a 3D CG tool called MAYA as well as original tools created in Honolulu.

> By the time the final shots were rendered some of the earlier ones had to be redone because they did not match anymore. Also, the software used to create them had become more advanced (and hence more detail was possible).
It is not actually possible to increase the supply of good suburbia. The virtue of a suburban home is to be on a large plot of land with low-intensity neighbors and convenient vehicle access to places, and this genuinely can’t scale very far. Even if you have infinitely much land, you will never build enough roads or lanes.

We can increase the supply of other things which are also called “housing” but are fundamentally different products, and not what most people in North America are talking about when they talk about wanting to buy or own homes.
Only 20% of Canadians voted for Trudeau, and the majority of Canadians are being misled by our mass media channels - CBC which got $1.2 billion of government funding last year, and they are now being rewarded with an additional $100 million per year for the next 4 years.

E.g. our electoral system is designed to be unfairly balanced towards the duopoly, so we've been stuck in a cycle of voting for the lesser of two evils - instead of who we actually want to vote for.
I think they were implying that if they are horrified that the universe doesn't have a plan for them that therapy could help relieve them of that pain.
In the case of real estate, the entrenched transaction businesses control both supply and demand, and hence are more able to block new entrants.

In the case of Uber, supply (people who own vehicles) was effectively unlimited and independent.
Looks like it supports GraphQL APIs[1], and downstream BI applications should be able to consume metric results from MetricFlow through GraphQL.

[1] https://github.com/transform-data/metricflow#features
Because he ads that basketball because he is being payed to do so.
Crypto hermit yells at cloud. No matter what crypto currency you are using if there is a possibility of a 51% attack there will be state actors and if they want it hard enough they will win because in the end they control the computing and communication resources. It's just a bad concept in a centralised physical world.
to separate you from the addiction you need to go on a long vacation, south america? asia?
You're almost certainly mistaken. An employment contract is a very specific legal document that ensures certain rights (including pay) and obligations. You (almost certainly) do not have a contract, you work "at will." Your pay could be changed to minimum wage tomorrow and you'd have no legal recourse other than to quit. Similarly, you could quit your job with no notice today and your employer could do nothing. Neither of those would be true if you had an actual contract.
I was actually going to submit this article https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2022/03/bleak-hous... but there was already a HN post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30707519 so I couldn't, but then I wanted to put this article as a comment, but there was no commenting allowed any more I guess. So I figured I would post it instead.
Ask HN: Enough YoE to be senior, but no CS background, how to find work?
I started writing software over 10 years ago. I've worked in several companies, from corporations to startups.

I have no CS background. I studied something completely unrelated and taught myself. I live in Europe.

While I'm generally ok at writing code and know better than to put a loop within a loop, I can't hope to do well in algorithms or CS theory.

I'm looking for a new job at the moment but the "code challenges" are killing me. Even more so than usual this time around because I think with my 10+ years I get evaluated for Senior roles. It is incredibly demoralizing to be reminded of all the ways you can fail with every interview.

I love programming but I'm getting more and more tired of the interviews. How much do you really need to know to add a button to yet another CRUD app?

I've considered several options:

- Refuse to do code challenges altogether. I should note that I have several open source projects on my GitHub that I'd volunteer for examination or even pair-programming on

- Aim for the jobs that require 3-5 YoE, so that I don't get evaluated against senior contributor criteria

- Switch out of programming and to something related (but what? endless meetings or politics isn't really my thing)

Have you ever been in that situation? How did you get out of it?
How 'long form' do you want to go? Because if a six hour review of a genre-defining Japan-only dating simulator from the early 90s sounds like something you might be interested in then I highly recommend Tim Rogers's YouTube channel, Action Button.
Storage just needs to be built out. It takes time to build out.

But nowhere near as much time as it would take to build out nukes.
I used to work in airfare marketing systems, one of our biggest sellers was Instagram ads with prices inserted into the ad graphic hourly. I have no clue what kind of person sees an ad for "cheap flights to {destination}" and then clicks the ad and impulse-buys their tickets, but they exist. A surprisingly high number of them.
Ask HN: Is there a lightweight headless browser (to scrape SPAs)?
I'm looking for a CLI solution to get content of websites which have JS or other dynamic stuff going around.

`curl` doesn't cut it here as it only fetches static content.
it is a good observation, I think you mean most immigrants are not rich. If you didn't mean immigrants, immigrants are not rich until 10+ years later. Definitely don't spend like the rich. But they are willing to commit years to buy into real-estate.

> The foreign-buyer ban won’t apply to students, foreign workers or foreign citizens who are permanent residents of Canada, the person said.

The article says some of those foreigners will be exempt. I will say this, the country needs the immigrants' money (ie spend in that country, on top of taxes paid)
> The evidence wasn't perfect, but you have to operate using the best working evidence you have. It's logical that face coverings reduce spread of a virus spread primarily through respiratory droplets.

You're making two mistakes here, that mask advocates frequently make:

1. At the time this decision was made there was no evidence that masks would have any effect. That's why public health officials around the world were saying they'd have no effect. It wasn't a noble lie, they were actually telling the truth about masks at the start and we can see that by simply searching the literature for evidence masks are effective that predate March 2020. Thus there is no justification for this policy given evidence based decision making.

2. Your claim about what's logical is predicated on the belief that COVID spreads through large droplets of water. This isn't how it works. COVID spreads like a gas, against which masks are useless.

> The downside, of people being mildly inconvenienced by wearing a cloth over their face, is tiny compared the risks of your health systems getting overwhelmed

If masks don't work then the risk of health systems being overwhelmed is irrelevant. And they don't work, that's the point you keep trying to avoid.

But equally as important: the downsides of the policy are far, far greater than "minor inconvenience". If you really believe that's the only downside you have no business forming opinions on health matters at all.

Firstly: wearing masks is unnatural and not surprisingly, doing that for too long breaks things. Things like children.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1592670/covid-news-babies-...

The UK education regulator has just issued a report about delays in babies development and struggles with responding to basic facial expressions. They say “Children turning two years old will have been surrounded by adults wearing masks for their whole lives and have therefore been unable to see lip movements or mouth shapes as regularly.”

There are certainly many other problems, think of the enormous trash problem it creates too.

Secondly, the policy is incredibly destructive in other ways. The entire population spent the last two years being forced to go along with an obviously incorrect and pointless rule, along with absurd caveats like restaurant physics. It's utterly destructive to people's confidence in public health and the ability of governments to make rational decisions. If anyone ever needs any reason to doubt public health ever again, about anything, masks is all the justification they'll ever need.
FOMC Minutes: Plans for Reducing the Size of the Balance Sheet
I think Go works so well with Bazel, because Bazel's concept of versions and modular dependency trees is very similar to Go's.

Python and JS have come a long way in this regard, but depending on the libraries you're using, these languages are still way behind Go/Bazel's standards.

If you're using python, and are scared to jump straight to bazel, poetry is a good in-between tool. More forgiving than Bazel, but strict enough to make a future Bazel migration much less painful.
Do you mean GCP Cloud Run [1] ? I would love to have it on AWS and Azure if you have a link to share. Or do you mean it's possible, but through different services on each cloud?

[1] https://cloud.google.com/run
> It tries to be deep but in the end the message seems to be, simply, “there are many ways of looking at things, but only one of those ways is right”.

... many of the puzzles have multiple solutions depending on what you want them to activate when you solve them, or on the perspective you have when solving them. I don't think your assessment of the message is very generous.
>I think that blind bidding is a bit of a scape-goat here:

Almost everything mentioned in the various comments here is a scapegoat. These all might contribute a little to the escalating prices at the margins, but they are not the root cause.

The root cause is that many capitalist societies have decided that purchasing a house is the most expensive and important investment most people will make in their lifetime. Therefore these societies gradually shape their policies to ensuring these investments continue to increase or else there are widespread repercussions. The end result is we have collectively refused to build enough housing to keep prices stable or decreasing. The prices need to go up. I don't understand why no one is willing to admit this.

All the other problems originate from this. The reason foreigners want to buy homes as speculation or a place to park their money is because governments are committed to ensuring that housing is a safe and profitable investment. It all comes back to us deciding that a basic human need should also be an investment that always is increasing in value.
Because lots of government make a lot of money and have multiple homes.

It's a fine black of pretending to do something, but just not enough to hurt your friends.
Zrythm Switches to GTK 4 and Libadwaita Ahead of Other DAWs
I posted this earlier - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30945227. And no, it’s not supposed to be a tongue in cheek.

First of all, this “ban” is for 2 years. Secondly, majority of the homes bought, as in the stark-fucking-majority, are by investment firms. This ban doesn’t apply to them.

This is just another reshuffling of money that’s going to be pocketed by the government cronies. What are they going to spend $10B on? They aren’t the ones building houses and residencies, that’s for sure.

Other commenters in here are spot on. First they tried to swindle us by saying oh no no it’s not the foreigners, you’re just being racist and xenophobic. Now fucking what.
Don't even bother with reddit on mobile; you really need an app. I've been through a lot of reddit apps and Boost is the best IMO. Everything just works, and useful gestures that I usually don't trigger by accident.
lol that's absurd, it's not his job to disagree with you. his job is to listen to you and represent you.
Yeah, about 70% of Canadians are homeowners (almost 15% higher homeownership rate than in the US). Ideally, they find a way to keep home price growth at/below inflation for a few years rather than actually pulling prices down directly. There's very little appetite for reducing the notional price since that 70% is broadly "most voters."
I see this type of bloat all over with Apple and coincidentally their devices are, broadly speaking, priced differentiated in large part by disk size and difficult to expand storage. I actually don't believe it's a coincidence at all.
According to them, not necessarily [0]. They do have relay servers (they call them DERPs) [1] but they're only used in rare situations where UDP is blocked entirely.

I admit I wasn't able to understand most of those explanations so I could be wrong. :)

[0] https://tailscale.com/blog/how-nat-traversal-works/

[1] https://tailscale.com/blog/how-tailscale-works/#encrypted-re... under "Encrypted TCP relays (DERP)"
Git has some strange behaviors with shallow clones (trying to manage volume using --depth). Shallow clones are great for CI builds, but not so great with working copies used actively by developers.

At this point in git the better tool is called "sparse clones" (using the --sparse keyword and some other associated tools). A lot of interesting engineering work has been put into making "sparse clones" very performant on "conical sections" ("sparse cones") of a repository at a time. (In the way of checking out a single sub-directory of a monorepo and just its history type of thing.)
This sort of archaeology is great fun. I spent a huge amount of time figuring out what was happening on the screens in the first Westworld film (1973): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzvbAm0y8YQ
I use syncthing to sync my entire phone. Now I have a 64GB folder on my desktop that /is/ my phone, but all normal local files I can treat like any other file.

Taking a picture with my phone and having it show up on my computer in 5 seconds is pretty close to magic in terms of file sharing.

Completely free, andno central server to introduce "age verification" or whatever.
TBH I don't know what O'Reilly is thinking with that price point. I wish they had a "lite" version with just book access or something, because honestly that's all I ever use.
HBO’s Chernobyl does an excellent job illustrating this dynamic.
Great comment and yes, I am definitely too competitive and always want to be the best at everything :/

You are right maybe video games are not the best hobby for me
LeMonde has the French point of view, the NewYorkTimes has the USA one. You should probably read both once in a while. I'm French and I think the NewYorkTimes tends to see everything with the USA point of view, and sometimes totally fails to understand and explain correctly. See this article from The Guardian for example: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/16/macron-france-...

But LeMonde is perhaps a bit too French regarding some events such as the African wars involving France. So having the USA point of view can be useful too.
Just curious what are the state of arts graphic workstations nowadays? Mac pro?
https://htmlunit.sourceforge.io/
Here where I live, the people who show up at hearings to stop homes from being built are all wealthy-ish local people. Not immigrants, not some faceless government, not BlackRock, but our neighbors.
I've been porting subc https://www.t3x.org/subc/ to my 36-bit RISC machine arch. It's by no means 'full' C, however:

1. It is Public Domain. I like that.

2. There is a book ($) that explains it in detail (and it's good).

I respect the design choices made, and the compiler can compile itself once bootstrapped. It's really fast, but code gen is only 'ok'. That's a tradeoff that works for me.
How on earth would higher home sale prices by corporations bidding housing up push rent down? It has the exact opposite effect, rents go up if a property costs more..
> Free-climbing it is an incredible endeavor [..] Honnold didn’t just free-climb El Capitan [..] Or, that’s true for the free climb

Minor terminology pedantry: free climbing merely means making progress using only one's hands and feet (or other body parts as appropriate) on the rock. It is in contrast to other styles including aid climbing, where it's totally fine to do something like place an expanding cam in a crack and step into a sling attached to it, thus using the equipment to make progress. You can still place cams and other stuff when free climbing but they're just there to save you if you fall. It's not free climbing if you're using gear to get up the wall.

Free solo climbing is free climbing without any protective equipment. If you fall, you keep falling until something else arrests you (the ground, a ledge, etc).

Honnold practiced freeing all the moves with protection until he was confident he could solo the route.

It's common to refer to free soloing as "free climbing" but it's not the same thing. Though people who aren't climbers likely don't care about the difference anyway, and that's fine. I'm just pointing it out in case anyone here is interested.
I agree; that is what we built the Zaplib framework for. But the reality is that there are tons and tons of existing JS/TS codebases out there, and it'd be nice to have an incremental speedup path for them too.
In the article

https://zaplib.com/docs/blog_ts++.html#best-of-both-worlds
It's people like me who had it on their to-do list and it was a reminder to do it later.