skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But I don't follow how getting rid of rent control would incentivize supply increases?

Leaving units empty, or locked into lower-than-market rates are going to reduce the average profitability of investments. Investment in new units is in part a function of how profitable they will be sell, or to rent out.

But honestly the incentive for bay area real-estate is there, what really is needed is the ability to build with fewer encumbrances.

> That seems like it would make for a pretty precarious living situation for people who can't find ways to pay the correct market rate, eh?

Yes, this is generally referred to as gentrification. But, renting, even to poorer people, nevertheless is still usually profitable, albeit with more risk requiring a larger portfolio.
I live along the UP west line and saw, for the first time in my life a week or so ago a mid-train locomotive. I think they are running longer trains than you imagine.
In general American houses seem to use enormous amounts of basically everything.
Or they put up with having to put in a little effort to figure it out themselves or look up the info in the internal documentation.
Hum... He clearly says that engineers have ideas that are antagonistic to interaction design. There is an implied message that they can learn not to, but one message is explicit, the other is implicit.

And it gets much worse in "The Inmates are Running the Asylum", that says engineers shouldn't do design right in the title, on the most sensationalist way possible.

Later he toned down that message a lot. Nothing from his group will say that anymore, and you will get a clear message that making your engineers think about design is better than nobody thinking about it. It still carries a message that you should leave design to experts, but you won't find anything there saying that engineers can't be UX experts anymore.
I'm in a rural area and they'll definitely get away from me quickly when I come across them, usually by scampering up a tree.
So far my portfolio is only been hit 10%. I’ve decided to move everything into bonds for the next year and ride out the storm.
And people ask me why I want ability to disable all automatic firmware updates (so i can vet them against people's comments when they roll out to others) and prefer to buy non-internet-connected things.
I think someone is going to have to come up with some actual scholarly citations, because you and the top commenter to which I am referring are explicitly disagreeing and up until this point all anyone has done is make baseless assertions
Amazon Turk is more of a platform for small business to hire other workers for micro-tasks. Raterlabs is used only by Google to improve their core product.
It seems best if every household and business got a set quantity of water for free based on their realistic (or typical) need for water, and beyond that water would be priced much more expensively based on how much water is actually available.

Shutting down hydroelectric power is really wasteful since they already are incurring the negative environmental effect of the dam, but without the benefit of getting clean energy.
Tl;dr

Even if you are #1 of 8,000,000,000 , you are still just 1 in 8,000,000,000

To be perfectly fair I think many of the leaders cited in this piece know perfectly well that they are easily replaced.

Like, take the most traumatic instances such as JFK or Lincoln being shot. Yes there were a couple of days of sorrow (or better yet fake sorrow) but after a couple of days everybody moved on.

Pyramids were supposed to be monuments to the Pharoahs, but after a while the fame of structure managed to surpass the fame of the person buried underneath.

When there are so many humans the marginal value of any human plummets to record lows.

Take Jesus, he's unrivaled at #1, but if we are being honest what's really the % of waking hours that humanity as a whole spends thinking about him during a fiscal year?

It gets diluted into almost insignificant levels of attention.
“””the Bureau of Reclamation will release an additional 500,000 acre-feet (616.7 million cubic meters) of water this year from the Flaming Gorge Reservoir upstream on the Wyoming-Utah border that will flow into Lake Powell.”””

Per the article, sounds like they also have about 80% of that in an artificial lake that they’ll not release for now.

As someone who’s lived his entire life in the southwest: this is bad. The importance of water to life can’t be understated but can go unrealized if you’re “in the land of plenty” of water. Lack of water has felled societies and started wars throughout history. “People will say they’re going to war for all sorts of reasons but ultimately it’s for of water, food, or resources.” (Paraphrasing)

Further, the answer is probably not to tell people to simply move. That’s not a solution for the number of people at stake. Further, this is some of the most renewable energy rich land in the US. Solar panels and some pipes could probably push water in from the oceans reliably enough-levels of renewable energy.
Did you make htmx? I love that thing.
Future, past and present. What should we focus more on?
There's a single one in my country (Boursorama). Even more infuriating, banks are now forcing clients to use their apps to add beneficiaries without an artificial delay or to make an instant SEPA transfer.
It's very slow, particularly since introducing byte weaving to introduce chaos in concurrency-sensitive places. Presently it takes a single thread in the region of twenty minutes to simulate a cluster from startup to shutdown, and to run a thousand linearisable operations (down from a couple of minutes prior to those changes). I haven't got any numbers on the rate of context switches per second, but it is certainly a great deal less than 2.5M/s.

This kind of approach is in my opinion a _requirement_ for work on distributed consensus protocols, which the Cassandra community is improving at the moment: the upcoming 4.1 release has some major improvements to its Paxos implementation that were validated by this simulation, and the following release is expected to contain a novel distributed consensus protocol we have named Accord, for supporting multi-key transactions.

So, I'm not sure it has affected the speed or ease of shipping improvements, rather than enabled a class of work that would have previously been impossible to do safely (IMO).
I love preview, but it has bugged comments/annotations in PDFs, which cost my like 1h of work last week, so, yeah, don't use it for that.
Afaik the best predictor for ETH hashrate is memory bandwidth. AMD's latest generation of GPUs actually employs a large on-die cache combined with slower memory compared to the 5000 series (and the NVIDIA 30 series), resulting in a naturally lower hashrate.
I just run an adblocker
> Why was it published then?

Was the publication sold to anyone? Why did Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir and Leonard Adleman decide to create a company using the concept rather than just sell the publication itself?

I think you just proved my point.
> It's just a very foreign concept to me as a european.

But it comes from Europe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_endowment#History

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_endowment#Modern_col...

> incomes, expenses and a budget

Government-provided healthcare also has an income, expenses, and a budget. They don't just spent whatever they want with no planning and no income.
> if you encounter it frequently enough

That's a huge if!

So abstracting a one line in a function is actually good. Putting it up on npm is debatable.
Absolutely! You're more than welcome. Thank you.

https://github.com/team-reflect/beginning-of-infinity
The strategy I've adopted is to first be polite by writing "hey" back [0] and then helping them with whatever they were asking. But THEN I end the conversation with a link to nohello.com to politely ask them to just directly ask next time. That's not being difficult but has the potential to improve things over time.

[0] If I'm in a bad mood I reflect the exact sentence back, meeting "hi" with "hi" and "Hey how are you?" with "Hey how are you?", but still, it's a reply..
Fitting Everything Together
I can tell you as someone with an MBA, we are not taught to think about workers, or safety, or anything except the bottom line. We are taught to stretch everything to the absolute breaking point, supposedly within the law, all in the name of shareholder profits. Even our management classes were under the moniker "human capital." We were never told to look at employees as anything beyond tools to be used to their maximum potential. We were taught that they were a cost to be minimized as much as possible.
I am sympathetic to companies that keep backups of their data, but don't have comprehensive plans to restore that data after an attack. A company that plans properly might be up-and-running within a day or two, but getting to that point isn't easy.

But getting to the point of needing to shut down entirely because of a ransomware attack seems like negligence. If your data is that vital to you, you really ought to have some backup of it.
Cold calling 100 people a day every day for 9 months, except Saturdays and Sundays: Saturdays it was 50, Sundays I took off.

I sold insurance and investment products, and would grab the phone book and just pick a section and call the numbers/people in it.

Day 1-10 I wanted to crawl into a hole and never come out. Rejection is personal and becomes internalized at this point. It sucks A LOT. You either get through this period and build VERY thick skin or you quit and decide sales is impossible and only doable by those "born with it".

Day 11: You realize talking to people is becoming easier and you are stuttering/stumbling/mumbling/apologizing less. You know 95% of all objections to your sales pitch. You realize your sales pitch either sucks or is non-existant, but you can verbatim introduce yourself and explain your product/service. However, you realize you are not actually asking for a sale effectively or handling objections properly. You are beginning to see the problems with your approach.

Day 11-30: You experiment with various WRITTEN sales scripts and objection handlers to see what works best. You weak this script until you have something you are comfortable with and works effectively to

1. Introduce yourself and your expertise,
2. Explains your product and service succinctly,
3. ASK for the sale effectively,
4. "Handle" prospect's objections and reiterate your service's benefits

After a month (hopefully much sooner) and after perfecting your script, you will learn that not everyone you speak with is worth your time nor is a potential customer. You will learn what makes a potential customer and how to qualify a prospect before asking for the sale and once you do this, you will vastly reduce how many objections you need to "handle".

You will also learn very quickly that sales is a numbers game: The more prospects you talk with, the more potential customers you will find, and the more sales you will make. If you understand that not every prospect is a customer and it typically takes 100 prospects to find 1 customer, you can gamify the process. My numbers always looked like this:

100 prospects -> 30 talk-tos (actual people i spoke with) -> 10 appointments set (people said they'd meet me/seemed interested) -> 3 appointment show-ups (actual interested people that showed up to meet me) -> 1 sale

End of day it takes practice and incremental improvement. I tried reading books, a lot of books, but realized I was simply wasting time trying to find a process, when the only thing to do was actually put in the work and improve the process I was already doing.
This is basically how I see most cases. I did work a part-time job for a few semesters, but it was really easy and I never felt I was sacrificing my education. I dropped it after holding it for a few of my early semesters to free up time to maintain a happy study/free-time balance.
> Some experts say the term drought is inadequate because it suggests conditions will return to normal.

One or two hundred years does not normal make. The fact is, this area is now returning to normal. The dams, water supply, etc. were all based on overly optimistic / false assumptions.

If gov / leadership don't have the wherewithal to break this down for the masses, we're never going to get honesty and transparency about climate change.
Lex de Haan and Toon Koppelaars, Applied Mathematics for Database Professionals -- a fairly gentle introduction to database theory starting with logic & discrete math

Ralph Kimball and Margy Ross, The Data Warehouse Toolkit -- even if you're in an OLTP context, it's useful to know about warehousing techniques

Dmitri Fontaine, The Art of PostgreSQL -- cookbook approach to modern SQL with plenty of explanations

Not a book but Heinz Klein and Kalle Lyytinen's paper "Towards a New Understanding of Data Modeling" in the Software Development and Reality Construction remains a must-read 30 years later. The organizers of that conference have published a free PDF copy of SDRC if you look around a bit.
But videos are crawling with ads from the content creator themselves? So you aren’t getting an ad free experience for that 10$.
Related. Others?

Etaoin Shrdlu - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29071164 - Nov 2021 (33 comments)

Farewell Etaoin Shrdlu (1978) [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23538028 - June 2020 (46 comments)

English Letter Frequency Counts: Mayzner Revisited or ETAOIN SRHLDCU (2013) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20541263 - July 2019 (10 comments)

1978 – 'Farewell, Etaoin Shrdlu' - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16907778 - April 2018 (2 comments)

Farewell – ETAOIN SHRDLU (1978) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15806072 - Nov 2017 (1 comment)

Farewell – ETAOIN SHRDL: The Last Day of Hot Metal Typesetting at the NY Times - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13070183 - Nov 2016 (1 comment)

Etaoin shrdlu - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9958143 - July 2015 (1 comment)
The LA basin, OC and San Diego aren't technically deserts. San Diego gets 20% more rain than what generally qualifies as a desert(10"/yr).

I agree in spirit though.

We have seen an increase in reservoir capacity over the last 20 years in SoCal though. San Diego seems to be doing fairly well, water wise, with toilet to tap and desalination.

We really need a national water grid(https://www.osti.gov/biblio/963122) though. Climate change is coming. We need infrastructure for moving large amounts of water around the country so we can continue to grow food in the sun belt.
It’s one of those transformative little features. But it’s especially great in PDFs where it’s not a “real” PDF but just a collection of page sized images so you couldn’t normally select the text before without OCR software of some sort.

Having it built into the OS is so handy.
That quote demonstrates enumeration fallacy (using examples to argue that the US ranks lower without any context about the countries against which the US is ranked).

Moreover:

> [The US's classification as a high-trust society] might have been true 10 years ago, but now (just from the wiki examples): ...

This seems to unambiguously argue that the US is not a high-trust society. With the additional context of your quote "not sure if the US could be classified as a low trust society...", it's possible that the parent is contradicting himself or that he's arguing that the US is certainly not high-trust, but middling or lower. Thus the parent is either unclear (contradiction) or he's arguing by enumeration. Even if there is some alternative interpretation, this very debate suffices to prove unclarity.
The incumbent crop of senior ICs and managers got there on verbal rather than written communication. I don’t think they will lead an enthusiastic transition to a working arrangement that exposes their sometimes below-average writing and reading comprehension skills.
If we write really extreme hyperbole, it's witty (not really anymore) but doesn't actually support the argument. Millions still lived there; it remained the national capital of finance, publishing, business, arts, etc.; the nation's leading city and one of the world's; a magnet for tourism.

> The "broken window" approach to law enforcement started a reversing trend.

It's a popular claim but AFAIK here's no evidence of that and it's one of those claims that was repeated without anyone looking at the most basic data: Crime dropped nationwide, both in places that used 'broken window' policing and without it. It's like today, where gun crime has increased relatively evenly everywhere, red states and blue, urban and rural areas, but certain political media campaigns have successfully associated it with a certain political group and cities (and by implication, a certain minority). Also, 'broken windows' often amounted to 'harass and drive away people that wealthy white people don't like'.
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If anyone wants to dive deep into the water rights and history of hydrology + politics in the Colorado River Basin, I highly recommend Where the Water Goes by Davin Owen. The books starts at the headwaters near Rocky Mountain National Park and follows the river down to the Gulf of California. It addresses every major issue, water right and major construction project along the way.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/317824/where-the-wa...
One hell of a way to avoid your CS exam.
You might like my Lisp compiler series in C: https://bernsteinbear.com/blog/compiling-a-lisp-0/
It's also very tedious compared to a parser generator.

Parsing combinator libraries are a good middle ground between a declarative grammar and useful error handling.
Exactly - though I think I would go even further with the metaphor and say this report is pointing out that we can see the Kaiju on the radar right now but we are choosing not to build the robots! So it is warning that, given the Kaiju we can foresee, the projected output of our industry is going to dip into the negative.
I had a city issued smart water meter at my last residence with 5-6 residents. I set a text message alert at 400 gallons per day, as that was a very unusual event that might warrant attention. I had high efficiency showers, toilets, and washers. I only ever hit it, and well exceeded it, when I did something like water the lawn a few times a year. A high watermark estimate (har har) would be 400 x 365 = 146000. I suppose two households is plausible, but I'd guess more like three to four for 326000.

Where I live, in a very wet part of ther United States, water is still too expensive for watering the lawn regularly. This is usually because the meter reading is used to assess charges for sewer as well. Those who do have irrigation systems request second meters to avoid sewer charges or even tap into the gray water supply.
That’s not a multiset, it’s a set containing tuples. A multiset (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiset) allows you to add identical items multiple times.

You would use that to, for example, store the knowledge that 6 can be written as 3+3, by using a multiset {3,3} instead of a tuple (3,3)
In Northern California, there are neighborhoods (like mine), that aren't even on water meters. It's flat rate water usage. Only recently have water districts started installing meters due to state regulation to have all water metered by 2025!
I can only believe that organized Religion has that much staying power. Nothing else could last through 20 generations.

I think religions are valuable because they give their adherents a common foundation on which to base their decisions. So if they live in a community with a fellow believer, they can be reasonably sure how they will behave over time - which has advantages to them.

It's noteworthy that the thinking around climate change has some similarities with religion.
I figure a “progressive” water bill would make more sense like our progressive tax brackets. If someone wants to pay $100/gallon for their 1,000,001st gallon so be it.
Having complete control over the vast majority of internet video content
Agreed. There's a bit of an authentication problem; and some practicalities: which pond?
Had to look it up so here it is, from the TV show, The Expanse:

"Belter is a term used to refer to persons born in the Asteroid Belt or the Moons of the outer planets. An inner usually refers to someone who originated from the Inner planets of the Sol system, but usually meaning from Earth, Luna, or Mars."
My exposure is primarily through growth and income mutual funds, domestic and international. I'm continuing to make monthly contributions and trying not to check my balances.
Add to that list "Where the Water Goes" by David Owen.
There's also a really good Freakanomics on this: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/in-praise-of-maintenance/
Silly to punish the urban water users when they only account for 10% of usage in the entire state.
Yeah. My TSB bank recently implemented this:
- enter credit card details on the website
- got to the mobile app, enter second password
- receive an SMS to my phone number with 2fa code
- login into the app, approve the payment
- enter first account password
- go back to the website and click continue

That’a all together with iOS FaceID enabler. Monzo is actually way simpler.
Nope it’s an exact equivalency. If you don’t like the comparison it’s because you see how dishonest the tactic is
counter point: Microsoft is leading the charge with Blazor, bringing full single stacks to the front-end for the first time for non JavaScript developers.

For applications its hard to see why this model wouldn't be more preferential. Most .NET applications are monolithic in nature (though you can enforce really good module separation with relatively minimal effort IME). You can look at Rust too, for its developing some Blazor-like frameworks. I could imagine for example, the next GMail being written like this, or other deeply interactive applications.

I think people want to work in a singular language / framework more than anything else. One of the reasons I think JavaScript still prevails today, is it was the first language community to largely achieve this in an accessible manner. Others are now coming forward.

I think pre-rendering is still the best approach to truly static content though, using web components to progressively enhance features of a page for light interactivity, this is one area they really shine.

I could be very wrong though!
In the modern world, it’ll take a disaster for anyone to pay any attention at all, but all they have to do is wait a few weeks for everyone to pay attention to something else.
Bitcoin price crashes to 2022 low amid crypto market collapse
This is almost unreadable in Windows/Firefox. It's fine on iPad/Safari.
> Web is still there and better than ever, and works on every platform too (as it always did).

We're talking about an MFA solution, no? There's really no way to do that with pure HTML/CSS, you need some sort of TOTP generator.

IMO, this is why 2FA should always be optional, but the rest of the world seems to disagree with me...
Birmingham comes to mind. Lots of concrete, big ring roads cutting through everything.

It's unfortunate because there's still a few historic buildings from before that era suggesting what might have been.
This is the kind of dry humor that keeps me reading long HN comment threads. Well done.
The Story of Web Components
I've written a couple this year, and at least one last year. So it really depends on what you're doing.
None of that really matters. Agriculture uses so much more water than people in LA that focusing on those people (whether rich or poor) is a waste of time and energy.
I do not see why a startup would not go with microservices today. It is a nice way of separating concerns. The knowledge on how to do this in a good way is out there. It allows for smaller isolated changes, feature focused development and much shorter time to production.

Just build services that are not too small, avoid dependency hell between services and never build platforms.
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