skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article does suggest that housing density doesn't really solve the problem and that we should be more OK with letting "urban sprawl" happen.

Personally, I think we need both. Let the urban areas increasingly densify and let the people who want larger single family homes move into those types of developments that are farther out of the city centers.

Some people just don't want to live in apartment buildings, and as someone with a young child, I much prefer having my own home with a yard and parking space and garage for projects than living in an apartment building and parking on the street or in a garage. But when I was younger I wanted to be closer to restaurants and the like.

CA should invest heavily in opening up more land for housing developments and equipping them with schools and shopping close by, with transit for commuters, while prioritizing density projects in the urban centers.
Insider trading makes someone richer at the expense of others, it's a form of fraud. I don't think it necessarily affects the market significantly otherwise, except by introducing more irrationality and lack of trust, if not regulated against.
I think the problem is that the processes are often not mutually agreed, but instead dictated by middle managers.

JIRA then becomes a tool for enforcing arbitrary rules, e.g. control
I don't know folks.

2 years ago I took a laptop which I wasn't using (16 GiB RAM non-ECC) => I created in Linux with Python an array ("bytes"? Don't remember exactly anymore) of ~10 or 12 GiB containing random integers => computed the array's hash and saved it.

Then for ~1-2 months I recomputed from time to time the hash of that array (inbetween the laptop was in suspend-to-RAM) and compared it to the original result => it always matched, I never had any bitflips.

I therefore doubt that the estimation of "1/256MB/month" is correct - I could not prove that, at least not with my laptop.
I feel that's mostly true, but there may be many other similar factors. If you make "affordable" housing ("for who?" is the correct question), then you have more people that can't afford to spend as much, while pushing out the people that spend more.

Someone else stated it simply as "undesirables", which I think is the quick summation of your statement and other similar reasoning. It all comes down to "I get that people need a place to live, but they can find that somewhere else" or "we've got a good thing going here (for me, the politician)".
Maybe Visual Basic?
Things (housing, schools, cost of living) are so expensive that also "tech" workers at so called FAANG are leaving California to work in new campuses that big tech are opening in other (for now still cheaper) places in US and
abroad.

California has become a little island for reach people and NIMBY. No way to build a future and a family unless multi-multi millionaire.

Also, building a startup in California does not make any sense
any more. Cost of hiring is too high.
You can be pro encryption, but acknowledge that it makes tracking child porn harder is an unwanted side effect, without aiding the child porn creators.

So you can be pro decentralized financial systems without actively helping totalitarian governments to use them.
Topology actually makes some sense here in that a very small number of proteins do fold into knots! This was a huge surprise and completely contradicted most predictions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knotted_protein
It looks like the article describes a series of conventions for Nails projects to follow, and I think that still provides value. If it was packaged up for you (or even a template), would it be missing any functionality you would expect from a framework?
Cool, I'll give it a try. I dont think there is much gain to be had as we are mostly on spot & reserved instances already, but I'd gladly be suprised ;)
I don't think you understand the worldview of the average american
This is wrong on so many levels. The U.S. doesn't get to decide who gets to use blockchain, or whatever technology.
> compartmentalize

a static website, srsly?
Comprehensive, insightful, and otherwise interesting data science blogs
Hey, so my apologies, but the README is inaccurate, unfortunately. Modules were removed in a commit, but they were working, they just weren't perfect. I plan to bring that commit back [0]

[0] https://github.com/analang/ana/commit/a2a62301388ae1843c60f2...
[0] https://github.com/analang/ana/commit/a361c4498c0f44c4d28f4f...
Would it be fair to estimate that the majority of SaaS companies aren't sharding like this then? Seems like a lot of downsides that impact everything often except for backups, which you'd restore rarely.
Bought "Britain's Shield", thanks!

Also I like the premise of Arthur C Clarke's short story, but it's a shame that it's fiction (it would actually be awesome to have a nonfiction book of examples where a technologically superior group lost to a technologically inferior one... At least to find out why)
>> Since many years ago. The cryptocurrency movement has always been very ideological.

> so has the anti-crypto so we are at an impasse

No on both counts.

Also, the "cryptocurrency movement" isn't just regular ideological, it's particularly ideological. Cryptocurrency wasn't made to fill any practical need, it was made to fit certain peculiar ideological obsessions.
I think you're confusing that with "pocket change" as in a small/insignificant amount of money. Pocket money can just mean that you always have money around that can be spent according to whatever whim or whatever you want to do.
I wish I could provide a useful summary, but I had it on while I was prepping for a meeting so I wasn't really paying attention. I was more surprised at my timing of seeing it on HN, searching for his twitch profile, and then right then he was going through the article I had open in another tab.

I think if you're a subscriber (I'm not) you can replay his stream from earlier.

I do remember he said somethings like...

> 'the chess stuff that they're talking about isn't 100% accurate, but close enough. No one will know/care about that who's reading the article'

> 'it seems the things they're quoting they've pulled from previous streams'
But some may hint at 'pay back' for old grievances : June 3, 2009. SFI researcher, Virgil Griffith, created a program called WikiScanner, which tracks computers used to make changes and edits to Wikipedia entries. WikiScanner revealed CIA and FBI computers were used to edit topics on the Iraq War and the Guantanamo prison. https://www.santafe.edu/news-center/news/media-channel-cia-a...
Municipalities are in an arms race to criminalize homelessness to push the issue to another city (defacto being Los Angeles).
I mean, moving whole family without consent of partner indeed tend to break relationships. Not being able to take major promotion do cause resentment too, but damm, if my partner moved me to region I don't want to, I would be pissed.
Well, I'm happy that you found it useful. If you ever want to chat, or have questions, my email is my profile.

I intend to update the README soon.
Dishwashers have not really caught on in India. I wash my plate or glass in the sink immediately when I'm done. I've done this for my entire life and I find it strange that people postpone it for later. Why would you?
I checked the history of the user who left that comment; it shows recent posts about crypto, too. That's thirteen years of following the subject.

The claim in the parent post, roughly, is that the HN community is clueless about crypto and economics. In reality, HN had a large hand in popularizing crypto, and criticism here often is based on experience rather than ignorance.
PS + LR CC comes in a photography bundle for $10/month.

https://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop-lightroom/compare-p...

I've tried a lot of other DAM + editing software and keep coming back to LR. YMMV.
A123 went bankrupt:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A123_Systems
My first introduction to Zoom was their malware-like pre-install install. https://twitter.com/c1truz_/status/1244737672930824193
SB-9 / "ADUs Everywhere!" passed last year at the state level effectively makes all property legally 2-3 unit.

Some people really want to live in lower-density suburban environments, though. I can't say I blame them, because the absolutely overwhelming majority of apartments/condos are strictly inferior in a number of ways. Sound transparency through walls / floors alone is a significant issue. Smells and ventilation too. And it's nice to have outside space you have access to / control over. Sure, units could be built to standards that mitigate those problems... but that costs money.

> It would be illegal to make the buildings they have under our zoning code and parking mandates!

More "costly" than illegal, if the LA neighborhoods I'm familiar with are any indication -- there's plenty of 3 story urban buildings with parking underneath (including one I recently moved out of), but of course that's a whole "floor" that could have been housing units, and the owner wants to recoup that with higher rents. $4250/mo for 2 bd last I checked.
Exactly the reason I use a headset with a boom mic. Flip it up to mute, and back down to activate. Love it.
I hate to break it to you, but the hyperinflation of the Weimar Republic ended around 1923 and the Republic prospered afterwards. Till the Great Depression, which was in big parts driven by speculative assets .... Wonder where I've heard that before.
And in the aftermath, the 1930s introduced austerity and deflation policies to the Weimar Republic, which was the final straw.
The realclear group seems to have a certain slant.

And given that California has Silicon Valley, and also the Central Valley that's full of farm-oriented immigrants, of course you're going to have this gigantic disparity in wages. Pick up Silicon Valley and put it in Iowa, or Alabama, or Mississippi, or North Dakota, what would happen then?

Have other states stop shipping the destitute to California. What would happen then?

Go back and time and keep Purdue Pharm from making legal heroin. What would happen then?
A lot of folks are misinterpreting this article, or just using it as a jumping off point to get something off their chest.

This article is not literally about the dirty dish. It's not even about compromise. Rather, the article is really about having healthy communication with your partner.

The author's wife was trying to communicate to him: "when you do X, I feel like Y, and it hurts me."

But he wasn't hearing it. Not really. Now maybe his wife wasn't communicating as effectively as she could. But the author seems to indicate that she was and that he could have done more to recognize what she was saying and to empathize with her. He didn't get it, and now he clearly regrets it. It's too bad a healthy relationship didn't come out of that, but sometimes there's just too much damage.

My wife and I have been together for 33 years, married for 26 of those (we met in HS). I'm extremely fortunate that she's empathetic, compassionate, and has the patience of Job. Because it turns out that for a large portion of our marriage, I behaved like an asshole. She's not confrontational, while I thrive on it. We had a rule never to let a day end angry at each other, but mostly due to faults on my side she wasn't always heard because I wasn't open to listening to her. This built a lot of resentment. It came to a head years ago, but we worked through it and our relationship is healthier than it's ever been.

"You're not wrong Walter; you're just an asshole."

The hard work in a relationship isn't compromise. That's table stakes. The hard work is communication.
Ah yes, the famously laissez faire zoning policies in cities like Paris, Copenhagen, and Milan...

You don't get beautiful walkable cities if you let people just do whatever they want wherever they want. If you do that you get Houston Texas.
That's because you love her. The author's wife did not love him.
Why aren't we always eating a starvation diet? Just enough calories that we don't die, but not enough to perform regular day to day actions like walking to the store, holding a conversation, or driving anywhere.
Agreed, if you look at Alameda, CA it is a town with many beautiful victorian homes. In the 70s and 80s they were tearing them down as fast as they could and building ugly apartment buildings in their place. Then they changed the laws so you couldn't tear down the old homes and now many of them are restored to their beautiful original state.
As an immigrant who came to USA 25+ years ago and made SF bay area home since then I can say that California is not doing well. I am lucky to have a home here and surrounded by friendly neighbors and community. But as someone who came from India - I can draw parallels on many (negative) fronts between my experiences in India and where California is headed. Too much income inequality, inflation, poverty, homelessness, high cost of living, corruption, lack of civic sense and disregard about law shown by many when out in public in public spaces. I truly hope CA does not become replica of yet another "developing nation".
The easy solution is that your quality of life should not infringe on the rights of millions of people to housing that doesn't cost 90% of their monthly income to pay for. And the state is going to drag local cities kicking and screaming to where we need to go, like it or not.

I make well into 6 figures a year and I can't buy a shack in Fremont because of people like you.
Race is always relevent to racists
I'll just put this here, there is a book which describes exactly what the author realized too late. It's better to learn these things things via reading than in retrospect. I realized I have "Difficult Conversations" many times a day. I wish I had read it years ago, it's a relationship changer.

Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most
I have written many web applications for my own use, where I do not have to take the extra effort to bulletproofing applications for unintended use (validation and verification requirements etc). Three applications stand out:

1) a web application to manage customer Q-tagged VLAN Ethernet circuits within specific color-coded optical fibers of municipal fiber-to-the-home cables (12, 36, 48 and 96 fiber cables). The application enabled fiber optic physical plant to be optimized for customer Ethernet circuits, reducing the cost of implementing customers considerably below industry average.

2) a double-entry bookkeeping system optimized for the monthly US Bankruptcy Court Chapter 11 financial reporting requirements to manage the same company as debtor-in-possession when our largest customer(s) filed bankruptcy during the dot com bust (circa 2001), forcing us to also file for protection. This enabled us to successfully double our customer base, double our revenue and retire all debt while reorganizing in bankruptcy.

3) a general accounting web application emerged from these experiences specializing in multi-currency accounting of businesses specializing in asset management (features that Quickbooks etc just do not have). This built on my personal situation of being a citizen of more than one country.

All 3 of these were developed using PHP/MySQL and I have refactored them over the decades up to PHP ver 8 / MySQL ver 8 running on the latest Ubuntu LTS server version. As I am the sole user (with a few personal assistants), I have been able to focus on the addition of features and capabilities rather than user support, security and general hardening of the applications.
You can get 98% of the same capability with much cheaper software - you don't need spend several hundred on software (affinity photos does focus stacking raws, for example). But you're right the best looking photos are usually processed somehow.
FWIW if you focus on the modern areas, Google datacenters don't look much different.
Ask HN: Which data warehouse would you choose for your infrastructure in 2022?
We're evaluating multiple providers (Snowflake, BigQuery, AWS Redshift, Azure). What are good criteria you would recommend thinking about? Also, anecdotes of your personal pain points with using these providers would be helpful! Examples of criteria might include:

* support for querying unstructured data

* scalability and performance

* pricing models (storage / compute)
There aren't any obvious or inherent problems with unions, unless you are an exploitative employer.
Even worse, companies with the resources to buy JIRA will probably hire consultants to set it up, and you wind up with a system 1) bought by people who don't understand how programmers work, 2) configured by people who don't know how your company works. So end users usually wind up with a terrible system that continually generates complaints (along MANY axes), and the people responsible for foisting it on them think they're just being difficult.
They're one step ahead of the vaporware stuff you normally read about in that they are already operating at a scale worth noticing (no long lab level power but 100's of KW) and they are about to scale up to 5MW which will be a very important proof point if it can be done economically and reliably enough.
IIRC this is how TurboGears started out.
False. If you have 100 features, there are nCr(100, 5) combinations of 5% features = 75287520.
As I understood it is not "Cloud or Nothing" but "Cloud or Data Center" - is this wrong?
A: There is no evidence of X.
B: Did you look for evidence of X?
A: There is no reason to look for evidence of X when there is no evidence of X.
B: There have been as-yet unsubstantiated reports and claims about X.
A: These claims of X have been debunked.
B: How were these claims debunked?
A: They are unlikely.
B: How did you come to that conclusion?
A: There is no evidence of X, therefore they cannot have been likely. If X were likely, there would be evidence of X.
B: How would you determine if there was evidence of X?
A: If there were substantial reason to investigate X, it would have been investigated. There is no substantial reason to investigate X since there is no evidence of X.
B: If a third party provided some evidence of X, would that not be substantial reason to further investigate if there is more evidence of X?
A: There is no reason to investigate for evidence of X, since third party evidence of X is not believable.
B: What would make evidence of X believable?
A: If there was evidence of X, it would have been reported.
B: But the evidence of X was reported!
A: The reports of X are unfounded, since there is no evidence of X.
I’m tired of the whole bread winner argument. I understand that there are situations where this fits (i.e immigrants who don’t speak the language or are tied to a draconian visa) but if you marry into someone to have them cleaning your flat you should probably get settled for something better.

In my own case, as a single I was living into 1/4 of the cost of my married life. Because my car was not good enough, my house was not good enough, my clothes weren’t good enough for my salary I got into the overpriced premium for literally the same life.

Soon after my then spouse entered the “why should I work phase if your can afford to pay it all” and decided to stay at home and “find myself again”

I couldn’t bring my friends over because they are dirty, loud or annoying.

I couldn’t travel alone because “I was going to cheat”, so every business trip I had to take during my married live I had to pay to bring my ghost.

After a very stressful divorce I’m back to where I started and cry of happiness when I leave a dirty underwear in the bathroom and no one screams at me.
.1% per cycle afaict.
Human papillomavirus integration transforms chromatin to drive oncogenesis
>People like to live in single family homes and live next to single family homes.

Then those people should buy a single family home and the single family homes around them and keep them that way.

>You won't get a beautiful city like those with any kind of zoning. It's too expensive. You'd get flimsy modern cookie-cutter buildings and maybe some brutalist concrete hulks.

The current restrictions that have created suburbia are already yield expensive, cookie cutter and flimsy housing, so even if your arguments were taken at face value (Which I disagree with), nothing changes for the worse.
Good point.

Wine that costs 400$ is for fun.

You don't drink that professionally.
> whereas US prisons actually seem decent to me

based on what? Places like Angola or San Quentin are as brutal as any gulag.
I thought I had read that Stallman badgered the original dev of FreeBSD into adopting an open source license, but I can't find any references now. I probably misremembered, sorry!
> Are you claiming those cities don't have zoning?

I'm claiming modern construction isn't very beautiful. If you drop single family zoning for something denser, you're not going to get something like those beautiful cities that were cited above. It's false advertising to suggest that denser zoning would give us another Paris (at least not the parts people are referring to when they bring it up). You'd get McMansion Hell, 4-Plex Edition or The Concrete Hulks of Shanghai (e.g. https://aurelien-marechal.com/block#1).

I suppose you could have a zoning code that mandated "building them like they used to," but that would be too expensive.
> But not the same kind. And really it's minimal once you find a good shop.

Yes, that's an important time efficiency. Expending more effort on the same results is not a virtue.

> If I can save $500-2k on maintenance costs every year, that's significant.

Yes, but possibly less significant than the other benefits you could bring the partnership by not spending time on that.
Yeah, no thanks. Water is an awesome solvent and long term effects of these things are always worse than expected.
Or some overzealous engineer said hey guys let's delete all data 7 days after an account is canceled. This is called over optimizing.
PHP was a reference for me in terms of the parser generator because php-src is implemented with Flex and Bison.

However, come to think of it, it's more close to Python and C then it is PHP.
The reason they do this is to give you that little warning "You're muted" when you speak while on mute (if they weren't listening to the mic, they wouldn't know that). This is such common behavior (even with the warning!) that I think a videoconferencing app without such warnings would be virtually impossible to use.
Those kind of movies moved to streaming platforms.
I think there's some context missing when we're talking about the singularity, this is the whole Marcus "AI is hitting a wall" debate (maybe I'm reading part of that reference in your comment and it isn't there). For different people "hitting the wall" means different things and we're not really communicating well with one another. Marcus is concerned about AGI while others are concerned about ML in general and what it can do. So LLMs and LGMs (like Dall-E) are showing massive improvements and seem to be counter to Marcus's claim. But from the other side, there's still issues with solving AGI with things like causal learning and symbolic learning. But what's bugged me a bit about Marcus's claim is that those areas are also rapidly improving. I just think it is silly to say that Dall-E is a proof that Marcus is wrong rather than pointing towards our improvements in causal learning. But I guess few are interested in CL and it isn't nearly as flashy. I know Marcus reads HN, so maybe you don't think we've been making enough strides in CL/SL? I can agree that it doesn't get enough attention, but ML is very hyped at this point.
Unions can't hope to eliminate thugs.
I am a little suspicious of some of these, though. For example in the last one, it seems a bit weird that his son discovered a tulip, and it just happened to be directly in front of a perfectly black background (?). I suspect some of the stories have been tweaked to play up the convenience of having the phone handy. But they are still very nice shots!