skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s been a rough year for me. Was burnt out from working 70 hours a week at a small startup so I decided to start interviewing.

Hit my head and had severe concussion symptoms for about four months. It was extremely difficult to manage work and still try to prep for interviews. Kept putting them off til January. Those several months were really crappy and I missed out on a lot of nice things planned with friends and family.

I interviewed a bunch in January and got a bunch of offers!

But my grandma died. Not too bad because she lived a long and healthy life but still sad. Silver lining is that I flew home and got to see my whole extended family. Also nice to see my core family since COVID interrupted our holidays.

2 days after flying back and accepting a job offer, my dad died of a heart attack. No words to describe it really.

My mom was dependent upon him and I’m the oldest child so pretty much everything has fallen to me. It’s been stressful managing the finances which are a lot worse than I thought. Fortunately my dad ran a small consulting business but I’ve had to take it over and it’s all unfamiliar. I’ve finally gotten it to a mostly stable place and we’re hoping to renew our contracts later this year, but I’m afraid that process will be stressful too.

The job I accepted is at a certain well known company that’s been experiencing a bit of a circus in the media and my job security is now at risk.

I also just got COVID and had to miss my partner’s family reunion. My other grandma just died and I’m starting to get worried about what’s next.

Overall it gives perspective I guess but still sucks. I keep a journal and it’s sad how long it’s been since I’ve had a pleasant weekend. Hopefully things trend up from here
No, these buildings are completely full. The average vacancy for the apartment buildings in my neighborhood is less than 1%. Also, you're ignoring the bit about the waitlists...

See also LAT article on this phenomenon, but across the metro area as a whole. https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-05-17/california...
> Playing SimCity as a young kid taught me that raising taxes too much means people and businesses leave. Maybe the SF lawmakers did not play SimCity growing up.

That may be so, but SimCity didn't teach you about the real world, it taught you about SimCity. The simplified worlds of simulations often have ideological assumptions baked in, either deliberately or inadvertently.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31510821

(posted yesterday, 164 points, 66 comments)
I went to SF over last weekend and thought of stopping by Walgreens (Pharmacy) to pick up eye drops. I had to call the associate to unlock the cabinet doors to pick them up. Took 5-10 mins to just get hold of someone with a key ring the size of a coconut. Every cabinet was locked from toothpaste to tampons. This is at the Walgreens near Union Square which is still better than other areas.

People are leaving because of the decline. I wish San Franciscans would stop defending themselves and admit that things are actually worse and whatever politics they're advocating hasn't worked. This extends more generally to California (and other west coast states).

I voted for Shellenberger for Governor of CA. Felt right.
Web conferencing and instant messenger applications have a short half life. It seems that they get them working and then quit maintaining them and they fall behind. When's the last time you've heard about

Go2Meeting

WebEx

Adobe Connect

AT&T Connect

Google Meet

Microsoft Live Meeting

Microsoft Teams

Skype

Skype For Business

Zoho

?

Unless Zoom really breaks with precedent it too will pass.
My team is hiring a remote full-stack developer. Shoot me an email hn at josh.ml and I'd be happy to discuss with you.
If only we could have developed some machine that are good at doing repetitive work. One can only dream. /S

But yeah, I get your point. The fact that we still rely on sweatshop imports proves there's something wrong with our society.
The large and very visible homeless and vagrant population is the biggest issue. There may be a relationship to the housing shortage, but I have a hard timing believing if rents were 50% cheaper, these people wouldn't still be on the streets.
Maybe consider moving to Europe and learning a local language?
Pay may not be as great, but life does flow slower here, and people come off as less materialistic and career focused.
I traveled through Europe all through 2018.

The only bit of trouble I had throughout the entire trip was me trying to be a good Samaritan.

Someone approached me, lost, asking me for directions because they didn't have a phone. In my American naivete, I pulled out my phone and help them look for this fictitious restaurant they were supposedly looking for.

During the conversation, the person got close to me and before I knew it had pick pocketed 50 euros out of my pocket.

I'd still do my best to help in the future, but I can definitely understand why people are reluctant to help others in foreign countries.
The Nix language is basically JSON with functions, similar to Jsonnet. Despite the language being small, it makes it surprisingly easy to deal with large scale configuration. The Nixpkgs repository [1], which contains "over 80,000 software packages," consists of a single large Nix expression spanning thousands of files and somehow manages to be comprehensible.

[1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs
Some kernel debelopers think that the Nvidia driver violates the copyright and should be GPLd.

Nobody has tested it in court yet.
When I search for "Absolutely Mental" and click on any season, it leads to this error page: https://podbabble.com/podcast/undefined
Right, which is why you get out while things are still liquid
Ask HN: Why do web searches for AWS commands return deprecated versions?
It seems like 100% of the results for the CLI commands that I look up return the page for v1.x. Each of these pages has a block notice at the top of the page announcing the old version deprecation with a direct link to the equivalent current version. So at least there's that.

Why are the bots not being signaled for redirection to current version, or why are the bots not doing the right thing? Yet another example of how broken search has become?
It's a little better than that: the NE quadrant of SF is a city. It's also worse: the big blob has many holes.
What is the conservative solution to this issue?
It’s not a cause for concern. The rate of population growth in highly developed areas can be turned up or down simply by admitting or denying immigrants.
He gave exactly that as an option:

"3. No increase in sudden heart failure, but in 2021 we observed and catalogued cases more meticulously than ever"

but I am not sure anymore who is more stupid the anti vaxxer or the vaxx worshipper who will down vote and be against anything that could hint at the vaccines not being perfect.
Why would anyone want to recreate Reddit? Discovery can be its own app that is very good at recommending podcasts. This can be for discussions, like how forums used to be.

Keep them separate, because the world needs to get back to what we had with forums where people interested in subjects sought ought a place to discuss them. Back then actual discussions happened and the entire world wasn’t a giant flamewar.
Pretty sure the "monstrous" part is trying to denounce the idea of "humans are tools, if these peasants won't do what I want, I'll make them compete with peasants from a different country".

I do think discouraging thinking of humans as resources is a good thing, even if this has the potential side-effect of making things more difficult for immigrants.
My guess is that increasing life expectancy would retard (economic) growth, increasing the proportion of life that is healthy without changing life expectancy would improve growth, "longevity" can refer to one or both of those, and if you do both at the same time it's hard to predict the effects.

It seems like we'd be better off if we could evolve out of the need for growth, or at least the sort of growth that depends on limited external resources. That's tough to do because the most ravenous consumers tend to win out and be selected for, so even if you have a movement of people who are more efficient with resources (resources per unit of well-being), they'll tend to be shunted aside by the greediest segment of the population. More efficient bacteria can win out, but only if the inefficient greedy subset is made to be affected by the resource constraints.

To address that, I'll make a modest proposal: find a valley somewhere and get all of the people most driven by external accumulation to move there. Make them compete with each other, creating ever more ostentatious and expensive ways for them to demonstrate their superiority. Create cultural barriers to moving anywhere else, except for people who are willing to let go of the rat race. Let nature run its course. Speed it up by seeding the population with a gender imbalance and cultural pressures to maintain or magnify that imbalance, so that breeding opportunities are limited. This will produce a lot of churn and waste in the process, so make sure there's a sandy substrate to allow for good drainage. That last part got a bit metaphorical, and would be even more so if I referred to this valley's sand by one of its principal components: silicon.
>> would it all be undetectable to us if it were encrypted?

Encryption as far as i know does not deal with hiding information in background noise of communication channel. So most types of encrypted communication still can be detected (but not understood).
You would need aliens that are actively hidding their communication inside of natural phenomena, which is a little bit of a stretch to me.
Ask HN: What CRM do you use?
Please don't say hubspot :)

We're using orbit.love for community management at robusta.dev and it's great. We're missing features of a proper CRM though, so looking for something to complement orbit. Main goal is to handle inbound better and not drop the ball by accident because we're too busy and something gets forgotten.
You don't go to Harvard for an education, you go there for the network you will build. Grades mean nothing when you are friends with a guy who's Dad owns billion dollar companies.
We need a crowd-sourced solution for documenting and keeping up with Microsoft's bullshit. After every "cumulative update" I fire up WireShark and find new connections popping up from unexpected places. It's too much of a hassle and I'm just about ready to give up.

That said, Linux is not an alternative for me; I use Office daily, OneDrive, and Xbox Game Pass for gaming.

With a dedicated community we could distribute the work of reverse-engineering the purpose of each of these connections and classify URL endpoints by that (Ads / impressions / telemetry can just get blocked immediately; the rest can be documented based on what functionality is disabled / broken by blocking).
Are you suggesting that no part of SimCity is based on “the real world”?

See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31531997 currently front page on HN
This is optimistic. Consider the fact that the physical limits on growth cannot be moved or surpassed no matter the amount of brain power thrown at it.

For example. The speed of light. How much brain power do you need to surpass that speed? Many limits are actual limits and if you think anything can be achieved just by surpassing it with technology, then I think you're not looking at the problem realistically.

If you look at the amount of progress for the last 3 decades we are literally in the same place. Still driving cars and riding trains. The only area with massive progress is IT, but every other technology (including IT itself) looks like it's hitting some sort of hump in the curve. This is despite the increasing normalization of IQ scores across the world. On average, A person with 100 IQ today would have a higher IQ then the past.

Something like fusion which is the biggest technology changer I see on the horizon still requires targeted a huge amount of government effort and resources to achieve. Such ventures are less likely to arrive purely out of the commercial sphere.
> I think "protect the weak, engage/debate the strong" is worth way more than the reverse, for no reason, it is just an moral intuition.

Totally agree. Though you didn't answer my question, how do we figure out what our _community_ values are? Those are individual values. For example, I would say that a 16w fetus is weaker than the woman who carries it whereas you might say the 16w fetus's rights aren't important because it is unborn. How do we tell as a community which of these contradictory views wins out for the purposes of... location for a tech conference?

I agree that weakness usually poses a risk to rights. In theory the weakness of a community is irrelevant to their rights, their rights should be protected regardless, but I see your point. The problem is that the Florida bill is about elementary education restrictions on sex education, it isn't "against" LGBTQ people and can't be because they aren't referenced explicitly or implicitly in the bill [1].

[1] https://www.npr.org/2022/03/28/1089221657/dont-say-gay-flori...
The capitol corridor train is pleasant enough, even if not the most convenient of bay area transit options.
They are even more wrong than i thought then. The longest crisis was caused directly by hard money, it lasted more than twenty years.

And it was NOT a production or energy crisis. That what people seems to not understand. Yes, 2008 was a bubble, but a lot of bubble bursted since the 70s and none of the burst created a depression like 2008. The only reason 2008 was this big is because it was an energy crisis, almost four time worst than the oil crisis of the 70s (which is also the first energy crisis). The gold/silver standard manufactured crisis (not helped with fractionnal banking tbh) that had no reason existing at all. Just made people poorer by design. This wasn't even caused by a famine or a war.

Here is my advice: unless the expert/advocate is an historian specialist of the 19th century (or even better: specialist of foreign trade or economics during the 19th century), do not believe anything he said. Don't believe me either, but "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it", so look it up, just read on how interesting where the time of hard metal, how easy it is to raise interest rate without impairing trade when you have a gold standard. 19th century financial crisis in the western world despite the huge production boost from pillaging colonies workforce and ressources...
One thing to note is that the 2021 population is an estimate, and if you are a Census buff as I am, and compare the Census' 2019 estimates to the 2020 actual populations (as calculated from the census), there are often very large differences.

The article also says that CA's estimate of the population decline is much smaller, and arguably CA itself would have more accurate data for this particular metric (residency and voter rolls).

So while I'm sure the gist of the argument is true, there is probably a larger margin of error on the calculation than you'd think at first glance. I'm not quite going to say the article is sensationalist, but if you look at the totality of the data (house prices, rental prices, CA's population estimates, etc), I'm not sure the "SF is in freefall" narrative holds up.
You're re-contexualizing an Abraham Lincoln quote about the government to justify threatening the life of a private citizen. If you have an issue with the government not doing what you feel is its job, then maybe you should petition the government instead of advocating for some bizarre lynch mob (that, ironically, would be put down swiftly by the very government you should be petitioning). That's how "exhausting all other avenues" actually works.
Unfortunately I can't really afford "brain fog" at the moment, and we're still apparently finding out new information about long COVID and vaccines, so I guess it turns out this wasn't actually bonkers.
Do you mean they get to enjoy the fruits of modern life, and hence shouldn’t complain? Again, that’s not a valid argument.

Let’s use some data, for example wealth distribution (1) - the lower classes have stayed lower income, and the middle class is rapidly transferring wealth to the upper classes. How is this sustainable?

(1) https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2020/01/09/trends-...
It's not just safety concerns in general (though it could be in DC): the other problem is that road damage is approximately proportional to the fourth power of axle weight. So doubling the weight of a car causes 16 times the road wear. And a car twice the size takes up twice as much road room and parking area too. So there are externalities with bigger vehicles that are beyond that of mangled pedestrians and which their owners could reasonably be required to pay for.

Of course, these are even more true of large trucks, which we would find much more difficult to eliminate, even if we wanted to. So it's always going to be a matter of judgement how to proceed.
As a non-US citizen, sometimes I ask myself how did California end up like the country where I am from, which is located in the so called third world.
Even if you like San Francisco on balance, it's hard not to ask yourself if you like it so much that you're OK with paying for some of the most expensive housing in the country when you don't have a reason you have to be there.
An AR-15 is not a shield of invulnerability. A CCW holder with a handgun and the element of surprise can get the drop on someone with an AR-15.[1]

I know Betty the lunch lady is supposed to be a strawman of sorts, but women are actually pretty good shots. It's amazing how quickly criminals, even when they are armed and outnumber you, will fold once you present armed resistance[2].

[1] https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/police-man-shot-colorado...

[2] https://sandrarose.com/2016/09/georgia-woman-shoots-three-ho...
Meyda: A JavaScript audio feature extraction library
I love SF and I'm happy the population is going down. These articles are posted once a week and trumpeted as some sort of victory and I can't imagine who they think is shedding tears over this.

Sometime people wave their hands towards sad homeowners who are ( maybe ) seeing their home prices go down but I own a pricy home in a pricy neighborhood and as far as I'm concerned it's funny money. Whatever profit I'd make from selling my home only matters if I move to a place where home prices haven't gone up at the same rate. There's no lower COL city that I'm interested in living in so it's all the same to me.
Sorry but no, it IS much easier to find a place to rent in the US.

In Germany, the scarcity is so high that realtors can afford to ghost you left and right despite you having money and then when you finally get to view an apartment there's like 80+ people viewing it and only the one with the best portfolio (full of your private info that they normally shouldn't be allowed to have) gets it. This madness is nowhere near what it's like in the US.
I first visited SF at the start of the .com boom in 1996 when I had friends living there. Rent controlled apartment, 3 bedroom for something like $1100 USD. Beautiful city, a bit grungy, with just a lot of neat stuff going on. Went to a few cool underground parties, ate well, saw a lot of good art, went to some good bookstores and other shops, and met some really neat people. I wanted to move there.

Within a few years almost all my friends who weren't tech industry people -- or married to one -- couldn't afford to live there anymore and almost all left.

The next time I got into to SF was about 20 years later and, yeah. Wow. Not the same city. So completely different. Many of the physical trappings were the same, but the atmosphere was entirely different.
If you can get beyond the clickbait title - what Gladwell is really trying to say is there are likely many highly qualified students who enter top tier university as STEM majors but select themselves out of STEM majors and into a generic liberal arts degree.

He's essentially saying at a societal level/personal income level - a STEM degree from a mid tier school > generic liberal arts degree from a top tier school. Particularly if the recipient is not truly passionate about the liberal arts degree and is using it as a backup plan.

I think what you are experiencing is a bit related to survivorship bias. You are being exposed to the people who passed the gauntlet of getting into the top-tier school and graduating in presumably STEM. Of course those folks are smart and there are reasons you'd be blown away by them.
Just ended a 10 year relationship, better than most people have in a divorce I guess as we were not married and didn’t have children - the major point of contention.

I wanted to start a family and build something lasting, and my partner apparently didn’t.

I now have to go ahead and learn all the new “rules” for dating, and seek a new partner with all the misses that it would probably entail. Not what I wanted at all, but thankfully the lifespan sciences are picking up speed and I would be able to (somewhat) maintain my biological age while I do this search, and not “loose” much.

At least I’m still in my 30s so I think I have time to do it right.

I am _sooo_ fricking thankful to be a developer at this particular time so I don’t need to worry that much about my financial situation and future, if I had to so so on top of what I’m currently going through, it would have been brutal…
Telegram prepares to drop its 'free forever' slogan
You’re probably thinking of rent control? Prop 13 applies to every property including commercial. You can also transfer reduced tax to your heirs or to another property of yours
This has been a bucket list project I have wanted to do for a long time, but fireflies are harder and harder to find in my area. Congrats to the team behind making this and in such an interesting location.

Edit: The "timelapse" portion of this title is misleading. There are a few long expsoure stills in the article, but not actual timelapse video. The footage is liveaction. Still very compelling to see nonetheless. Watching the blinking pattern "pan" across the screen is a very cool look.
Thoughts and prayers for Clark Kent
Why not HubSpot? I use HubSpot and am honestly really happy with it.
SF had less street crime and open drug use 20-30 ago. Definitely was more visitable for tourists at least.
Alleged violations of patents:

- 7,830,967 "Video Camera"

- 8,174,560 "Video Camera"

- 9,245,314 "Video Camera"

- 9,436,976 "Video Camera"

- 9,521,384 "Green Average Subtraction in Image Data"

- 9,716,866 "Green Image Data Processing"

- 10,582,168 "Green Image Data Processing"

Almost all patents use the following generic description or variations thereof:

"Embodiments provide a video camera that can be configured to highly compress video data in a visually lossless manner. The camera can be configured to transform blue, red, and/or green image data in a manner that enhances the compressibility of the data. The camera can be configured to transform at least a portion of the green image data in a manner that enhances the compressibility of the data. The data can then be compressed and stored in this form. This allows a user to reconstruct the red, blue, and/or green image data to obtain the original raw data or a modified version of the original raw data that is visually lossless when demosacied. Additionally, the data can be processed in a manner in which at least some of the green image elements are demosaiced first and then the red, blue, and/or some green elements are reconstructed based on values of the demosaiced green image elements."

IANAL, but this legal description is gobbledygook describing a video camera, that can compress video, in a visually lossless manner, by rearranging RGB data to be more compressible, and then being able to obtain original data from a "demosaiced" version of the RGB data.

RED clearly doesn't like Nikon's use of GREEN.