skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its long been a a realtively true thing: take any salary in California, and cut it in half - and thats the same level of salary-Quality-of-Life you would have in any other state...

So making 100K in CA is the same as making $50K in Wyoming.

However, we are seeing a HUGE squeeze on cost of living in California.

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As an example, my brother bought a house in June 2020 for $327,000.

The house now Zillows for between 488K and 517K (depending on if yu believe their site, or the emails they send you.

This house was built in 1959.

My grandparents bought their house in Saratoga in 1959 for $29,000.

Sold it in ~2000 for $2,500,000.

Its now zillowing for $3,650,000.

Its almost the exact same layout as my brothers. Same build year. The only difference is that it is a 4BR and my brothers is a 3BR.

(and location...)

THe california real-estate market is literally crazy.

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But realors are an abomination. They are part of the reason (a major part) that cost of living is nuts.

Reality shows about realtors should be illegal - its market manipulation.

Look at companies like HouseCanary -- they attempted to build a ML/AI platform to inform hedgefund realtors on buying everything they could...

There should be a "protected" class of real-estate, one that cannot be purchased by hedgfunds or any individual that does NOT live in the residence. THese housing developments should be partially helped by local muni ords etc..

Budget accountability should be a thing ; SF is proposing to PAY for people from outside SF and California to COME to SF and get an abortion, such that they will pay for travel, accomodation AND procedure.

SF can't even take care of its OWN homeless folks, yet want to pay for out-of-state-abortion-medical-tourists???

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A few years ago I went thrugh the CDPH budget and read it, and looked at the salaries and employees divided by the number of homeless it claimed to be "helping"

I found that the city of SF was paying out ~$25,000 per year, per homeless person in "services"

Why not just pay those homeless people the $25,000 a year to have a city job that requires them to clean the city?

The salaries of the people that work in CDPH on the homless prblem shows the root cause

These are just anecdotes on how california is fn broken.
It isn't even fixed in the original blog post.
I use Old Reddit Redirect by tomjwatson

https://github.com/tom-james-watson/old-reddit-redirect
Especially a place like YouTube that is vertically integrated with their cloud provider.
I've used Elixir in production since 2016 and I have only had to deeply introspect erlang code exactly once, when I had to implement OIDC using Ueberauth and it used the underlying oidcc erlang library (which was extremely cryptic and wasted days of my life with absolutely useless error messages).

And then I remembered why erlang never picked up. It was a huge pain in the butt to try to read the erlang. Didn't like it at all.

Apart from that, we've done tons and tons of work in elixir and never had to touch Erlang, and for that I'm eternally grateful.
> One acre-foot, about 326,000 gallons (1.23 million liters), is enough water to supply one or two households for a year.

This is mind-blowing. Is this true? Each house in American (roughly) uses this much water? I assume it's certainly not an issue in, say, Ohio where my monthly water bill I think has never exceeded $25 - but there's just no way this is sustainable in places out west prone to drought, right?

Am I over-appreciating this seemingly large number?

> "We are never going to see these reservoirs filled again in our lifetime," said Denielle Perry, a professor at Northern Arizona University's School of Earth and Sustainability.
Preview is great. Among the many other features, it's also what I use to sign PDFs. You can enter and save a signature using the trackpad or camera and then paste it into any PDF. It looks like you printed, signed, and scanned the PDF back in.
I feel the term “no special equipment” is doing a lot of heavy lifting considering how much special equipment there is in a single smartphone.
A comma, added.
> I once tried to use it on a high-resolution screenshot of a Discord message containing only the characters "0" and "1". I cropped it to only have the text, restricted character sets, tried fiddling with the images contrast and what not and the result was still quite poor, with many characters mistaken or straight up ignored.

I had the opposite experience.

My partner was doing a project for the Army Core of Engineers and they only provided information via some system called ProjNet that, best I can tell, exported PDFs of Web Pages in pure vector format so they were unsearchable. Of course they needed to search 10000 pages of documents to answer questions for the ACoE.

I was able to feed the PDFs into Tesseract and produce 1:1 text document per page of PDF and then marry it back up to the PDF so they could search the PDFs. It worked astonishingly well and took about a half an hour using the cringiest of shell scripts.

I did something similar with SDGE's published rate tables to convert their screenshots of XLS files back into tablur data. It didn't work as well but still got the job done.
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I feel like my experience with JIRA across two organizations wasn't as bad as many (most?) others have experienced. Neither place used it heavily for management reporting, but mostly as a developer-centered tool to help with tracking issues, sprints, etc. with some very light workflow management.

To that end, I found JIRA to work well enough for the needs we had at the time.
Preview is the one thing I miss from macOS (i.e. excluding hardware) using Linux. Unless I'm not allowed to include it's integration into Finder (or 'the file browser') as 'one thing', in which case that too.
Does this game exist in a easily accessible board-game format? If not, is there some PDF or something that can help a "board game enthusiast" like myself set it up and play it?

I see that this article discusses a "deck of cards", as well as various records that must be managed, and a "Stack of pennies" representing something. So there's some game that really exists out there.
Yep - "Huggingface Enterprise" just like there's "Github Enterprise" seems like a straightforward way to make money, at least to me? Does Microsoft make good money from Github Enterprise?
What are the centrifugal forces exerted on electronics, such as as satellite? Is there a ...limit to how fast you can spin a non-living object?
An escrow service that would photograph the goods before shipping either party would go a long way automated mitigating the empty packages and Bricks. Certainly makes sense for a add-on for high price items.

I wonder if there is a market for this as a third-party service outside of eBay that works on their Market. It would double shipping cost and add time but that could be worth it for a class of goods
I'm glad I have no connection to, or need of, Google Pay, Apple Pay, PayPal, e-bay, and similar large net-based services.

It's almost like they're beginning to pull the same crap American insurance companies do, where they have policies to reject 10% of all claims regardless of validity, just to reduce expenses.
I bought and sold a lot, and I've never had a bad experience as a buyer.

About 10% of selling experiences were bad, whether because of scams or just shady or entitled buyers.

Lastly, though I generally did my best, a few things that gave my buyers bad experiences have happened:

1) eBay sold items while I'm on vacation mode. I got about 5 hours away from home on a month long trip when they sold my item, despite me using their vacation mode option. This happened many times.

2) USPS delivery failing. We've all seen this, packages floating in loops, or never moving. Another time an item was claimed to be broken. Maybe it was, maybe scam.

3) eBay selling my items after I removed my store and unlisted everything. Eventually I had to literally delete all my listings. I had planned on just taking a break, but no way I'm entering all those again. Anyway a couple things sold and I just immediately returned the money and told them no.
YouTube is the largest social media site (or at least was a couple of years ago.) Google gets a lot more value than just cash out of it, otherwise they’d have shut it down.
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Derailments could be getting worse even with fewer of them. The author of the letter is talking about the trend towards monster trains which suggests fewer trains being run. Is the number of derailments per train going up? Is the impact of the larger trains derailing leading to more overall impact because each individual derailment is larger even though there are few of them?

If I run half as many twice as large trains I'd expect fewer total derailments even if these monster trains derail more often than the more normal trains of yesteryear.
Police is an interesting edge case, where at least in 2022 the people who want to reduce police are firmly on the left, and those firmly on the right want to cut everything except police.

There was an attempt to defund police, and that went down with the electorate like a lead balloon.
You can use the Adobe Reader Classic Track, which is still on the feature level of 2020 and allows counterclockwise rotation: https://www.adobe.com/devnet-docs/acrobatetk/tools/ReleaseNo...
I have read recently that the southwest is experiencing the beginnings of a long drought that's been cycling for thousands of years. Is this true? And if so, perhaps the best measure is to adapt and move elsewhere, as civilizations untold have done so for a million years.

EDIT: I read about it in the following paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-022-01290-z
It seems pretty contextual to me, FWIW: the goal is to be useful and this is useful given the very specific pain point.
I have to disagree with this because that's not what I've seen in the wild.

If everyone made a clear distinction between remote and async, I'd agree with you 100%. But the term "remote" is in my view intentionally conflated with async most of the time.

Companies will advertise themselves as remote, remote friendly, remote first, etc and then have a culture of completely synchronous work. That's why I called it a farce.
Recent and related:

Tell HN: I was permanently banned from eBay in one hour - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31305341 - May 2022 (422 comments)

Also this from a few months ago:

Your eBay account has been suspended - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29435091 - Dec 2021 (141 comments)
I have done exactly this - Automator is the other secret weapon in MacOSX's arsenal.

Downloading a bunch of PDFs from my bank/broker into folder and then running an Automator script to combine them into a single PDF is the only satisfying part of collecting information for my tax return.
In Hawaii they are actually required to do that. (Hawaii's GET is levied on the gross amount, recursively applied to any taxes, etc. passed on.)

A few other states also tax marketplaces on their gross marketplace revenue, and the marketplaces reasonably pass those costs on to their sellers. Though these marketplace taxes are <1% of gross marketplace revenue, not 13% or whatever the local sales tax is.
Money transmitter services, including PayPal, are highly regulated in the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_transmitter

(Note that eBay no longer owns PayPal, nor was it even used in this case)
It's not a strawman, this is literally what you said above: that bodily freedom (in this case abortion) does not imply the right to actively defend against something/someone violating this freedom (in this case the foetus).

Children of course do have rights, because they don't invade anyone's freedom, in particular they don't parasite on another person's body against that persons will. As opposed to unwanted pregnancies.
OneDrop already has such a device?

Disclaimer: I have done contract work for OneDrop.
HA is not automated. I know plenty of people who think it is though. None of their shit is highly available. It's easy to handwave and assume it's working automatically though, given all the other hype ignorance. Ask a dev to test the RDS HA. Protip: Take a backup first.
It's a bit unfortunate that we need to teach our kids to lie to service providers to be safe.
Anyone who wants to know more about the situation on the colorado river should read Science Be Damned: How Ignoring Inconvenient Science Drained the Colorado River [1]. The Tl;DR is that water is doled out by a multi-state compact that used several years of historically high water flow as it's basis. Over time, normal river flow rates were bound to deplete the reservoirs.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Science-Be-Dammed-Ignoring-Inconvenie...
What's on the list? Off the top of my head, I'd think of food service, roofing in the summer, carpentry, and ditch digging.
actually just wet myself a little bit when I read this.
Thanks for creating that feature. It’s very helpful to highlight and copy notes from multi-column papers!

As others said in this thread… Preview is the best macOS built in app.
As everyone else has said, build stuff.

More specifically, I highly recommend Hartl's Ruby on Rails Tutorial as a starting point. It does a fantastic job of helping you get your hands dirty with everything from the database through the frontend, without assuming a ton of prerequisite knowledge.

Even if you never touch Rails again after (which would be surprising, I have been using Rails for a decade and still love it), you'll have a good grasp of the fundamentals involved.
Regulators.

And since the US seems to have abrogated those responsibilities they are falling to the EU.
Yep, but I think it was the minimum for placing midroll ads. Now it's 8 minutes, but the "sightly over 10 minutes" phenomenon is still very much alive!
It's a spectrum, yes, and adding an extra service might be the right move, especially if they are well and truly independent (don't interact with each other). But it's still a significant architectural decision to go for a distributed system, much more so than whether you split your services into separate repos or go for a monorepo.

Getting work done is important, but it's not an excuse to avoid thinking through the long-term implications of your decisions. If you shrug and say "it's just one more service" every time you're tempted to add a new docker image, you'll not just end up with microservices, you'll end up with poorly planned microservices.
Personal experience: I'm related to a youngish (now) executive chef, who works for a very large food service company that runs cafeterias for companies. I've driven with him down to his place of employment on an off-day, so he could take a load of chicken out of the freezer. His job is mostly managing the young, fit people that Bourdain describes, and sticking to his budget.

He went to a not-top-tier cooking school, and then worked in some respected but not top-tier restaurants. Now he's at the Big Company, where you don't have late nights and you don't have weekends (except as noted). It's mostly a day job. Or so it seems.

He was thinking of opening a pizza restaurant, and I mentioned the unending nature of it, and he said, "well, I'm doing that now." So maybe it's not as regular as it seems.

This isn't exactly idyllic, or typical, but it's not as hellish as Bourdain makes it seem.
My cell phone carrier sent me a pair of Apple Airpods as a promotion after I signed up for an account. I didn't need them, so I snapped a photo of the box and used the eBay mobile app's "list by scanning this item's barcode" feature to list them for sale.

Nobody bought them, so I lowered the price and re-listed them. Somebody made an offer that I accepted, then stopped responding for a week, so I cancelled the accepted offer and re-listed them again.

eBay then sent me an email telling me that my listing had been removed because they had determined my Airpods were counterfeit. I sent an email to an executive CS contact asking "what is going on?" and eBay sent me another email telling me that my account had been suspended and I should never try to open a new one.

So I took the Airpods out and paired them to an iPhone and obviously they work fine and aren't fake etc. If eBay has some special knowledge here I'd be happy to convey it to the police, Apple, Verizon, etc. Otherwise it's just kind of confusing?
Ancient philosophers did not necessarily think democracy was good. Some were even so direct as to say that noble blood deserved to rule. Plato believed longer terms were less influenced by democracy than shorter terms, and therefore they were a better form of government.
I assume they're overprovisioning and banking on the assumption that everyone won't need to access their data at the same time.
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That is in terms of electrical power generation by hydroelectric dams.
A well written book is so much easier to read that I'll pay the premium (within reason). When I read a textbook by Hadley Wickham, I can tell how much he loves novels; he knows how to write in a way that's engaging for the reader. I've tried to slog through technical books that don't have the same writing level (despite the same technical proficiency of the author) and it's painful.
It's not easy getting an open-source company off the ground, Appwrite helps
Best thing I did was just get a job in sales at a startup. You get the mentorship and a way to practice with very minimal risk.
I have no idea why the author says this is an "app people forget about." I use it constantly. Hundreds if not thousands of times a month. It is always open. It is my faithful companion. It flows through my bloodstream. I breathe and dream and gain my nutrients and sunlight via screenshots and edits in Preview.
Cue the apologists saying that Apple is saving the world by not allowing alternate HTML rendering engines on iOS. If only Apple would be so benevolent as to disallow us from installing other rendering engines on MacOS too. A man can dream.
rip. what was that mod called? i think people were calling it like halo 1.5 for a while. i'm reaching way back for this.
After attending many fsfe events I am a bit annoyed as they do all these statements but nothing fruitful comes out. Telling common man/woman these is not helpful. Many of fsfe people themselves use G-Pay etc.
An excellent article. As huge Django fan, I could not agree more (so yes, biased :-) )

Since 2015, I've always rendered final HTML server-side, whether that HTML was travelling over a complete http request/response cycle (big page load or XHR or fetch), or over websockets.

The only JSON ever involved was stuff similar {"markup":"you html code here"} and a few other more subtle bits to make up for a dumb/blind client. In other words, the client does as it's told by the server. (my client is Azatoth)

Opinionated? Yes.

Full-of-bad-suprises-after-release-oh-shit-what-did-I-do? No

Then again some light stuff works (flask vs django). But as (more than) hinted in the article, a hello world may satisfy this immediate need to get that shiny first HTTP 200 from your new website/api/whatever. But doesn't do much insuring a certain level of quality, sanity and stability in the long(er) run.

my 2pence.
According to my water company I used about 67,300 gallons of water the past year, which is about 300,000 L. It's not out of the ballpark.
Be a bit aggressive and assume the number is 365,000 gallons - that means 1000 gallons per day. Statistics from a perfunctory Google search seem to indicate around 300 gal/day/household, so it seems about right if a bit on the high side.
>> I have read recently that the southwest is experiencing the beginnings of a long drought that's been cycling for thousands of years. Is this true? And if so, perhaps the best measure is to adapt and move on, as civilizations untold have done so for a million years.

Can you site a source? I'm not even skeptical, but if that's true it would be nice to stop blaming climate change.
I thought it meant 1 acre-foot provides enough electricity at the dam for 2 households for 1 year?
The pushback is because all of the shows I want to watch are still half ads. The content creators insert them, surely they have a rational reason, but I’m not interested in the economics if I pay for ad free I want ad free. I would pay quite a bit more than 10$ for this, but the option just isn’t there.
Back of the house tends to be paid poorly in food service. They essentially pay for the privilege of not interacting with customers and/or having personality traits that make putting them and customers in the same room a bad idea.
https://extension.colostate.edu/topic-areas/family-home-cons... :

Water supply planners estimate that a typical household needs 0.4 -0.5 acre feet of water per year (approximately 150,000 gal) to satisfy the demands of a home and landscape.
> But with your nested relations example, wouldn't getting a user always return its nested relations?

A central point of REST is that any resource (e.g., user) can support an unlimited number of different representations. This isn't just true on the level of, say, XML vs. JSON but also formats which embed and do not embed subordinate/related entities.

> You could do that with query params sure but IMO that's a workaround with what the frontend really needs, a declarative way to let the API know that for this specific request, this is the exact data I need and its shape.

How are query strings a workaround and not a declarative mechanism?

(I mean, it would be better if HTTP had a verb that was like GET with a body so that you could define one or more media types that could be used to specify details of the resource representation sought, and that's what the QUERY draft [0] is about. And I can see the view that query parameters are a workaround for the lack of a QUERY method. But that's a slightly different story.)

[0] https://www.ietf.org/id/draft-ietf-httpbis-safe-method-w-bod...
Hi Kamrani - I'd love beta access.
I think average US household water usage is around 250-500 gallons per day. So 326k gal per year for 2 households isn’t that far off.
I love the beer game as a management simulation. You get to see how difficult communication and future uncertainties can create positive feedback loops in supply chains. Those positive feedback loops cause the supply chain to break completely, and, in most cases, never recover.

My mother and I actually "solved" the beer game a while ago based on the simplifying assumptions that the beer game makes. It turns out that the actors other than the factory actually have no power over inventory in the system, and since inventory costs the same everywhere, you should be holding 100% of inventory in the retailer and just passing inventory along the supply chain. The factory is the only player that should be making decisions about how much to produce (everyone else should just order what is coming along the line).

That reduces a complicated system into a fairly simple control system with a long delay, which would be hard to solve except that the beer game is based on having almost no dynamics! The relative lack of dynamics lets you easily create a stable control algorithm at the factory to keep system-level inventory and backlog at 0.

That said, the facilitators of the game will often taunt you to try to create dynamics, and you are not supposed to communicate with other members of your team (except when setting initial strategy and meeting each other) so chaos generally ensues.