skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Austin's great, but cost of living has far outpaced the value of the city.

The average home in a central area is about $7k/month now. Though housing inventory is skyrocketing, so will be interesting to see how it plays out over the next few years. Almost certainly will see big declines without rapid disinflation/soft landing

The draw for being an accessible family oriented place has evaporated for non wealthy folk.

Austin is too small to warrant LA/NYC level pricing. If you're young and dating, you'll hit every decent restaurant within a few months. There are some cuisines without a single good restaurant in the metro area.

And your only options for weekend trips outside of Austin proper area, are Dallas, Houston, San Antonio. Much less diversity in short trips compared to the coasts.
So far, only Facebook (G+) or Apple (Android) has stopped Google. They've spent the last few years successfully killing travel websites and shopping websites. Unless you have the resources and customer lock-in of a Facebook or Apple, you're probably doomed if Google looks your way.
Unlikely seeing as they blacklisted Gizmodo for life and (afaik) practically busted down the door of one of their reporters.
Use cash. The moment you go through a computer, you're already screwed.
I have been using Refind for years. Happy with it.
From what I've seen of Rust though it adds its own brand of complexity due to its basic requirement for maximal efficiency which precludes having a garbage collector.

I don't think I would want to use Rust unless I really needed a language with near optimal performance. OCaml on the other hand seems suitable for programs where correctness is important but performance isn't the driving concern. At least I'm considering using it for that type of application, though I'm not yet a serious OCaml programmer (still working my way through this course actually).
LaMDA and the Sentient AI Trap
Yes, with Feedly. Before that Google Reader, and before that NewsBlur.
RSS feeds to automate movies/series downloading.
I guess you mean a traditional Reddit clone could also pay the mods?

I'm not sure.

1: It is quite a lot of bureaucratic work to set up a business that can pay small amounts to many people around the world.

2: Signing up as a mod would be way more complicated. There would be a KYC processes. A different one for each country. There would be VAT and invoice processes that are different for each country. Some countries could simply not take part. As there are many pairs of countries A and B where A has a law "Business with people from country B is illegal".

3: As a mod, you would always be living in fear that the company that runs the system kicks you out. And all your hard work (maybe of years!) goes down the drain.

4: Earning small amount of fiat money is also very annoying if you do not already have a business. Suddenly you have figure out all the complexities around how do declare taxes. It would probably usually not worth it for mods who are not already running a business.
> I want to be able to buy stuff without centralized entities following me everywhere.

Use cash.
Thank you for this. It really infuriates me when white guys (and I am a cishet white guy, but I have empathy for those who aren't) treat issues like gay marriage and abortion access like "culture war" nice-to-haves, as if for any controversy the center must be the right place and both sides must have a point. It ain't so.

Some people in our society really want to turn women into passive baby-making machines, just as some people in our society want back the legal right to own people, just as some people think capital's leverage over labor is morally legitimate. Human rights and civil rights are non-negotiable and we must give our adversaries no quarter.
This has not been my experience with my mail processor (possibly because they enable you to establish residency/domicile as part of your service and have the address put on your drivers license or state ID). Don’t tell Fidelity or American Express shhh.

(humorously I work in risk mgmt at a fintech and AML/KYC controls are a part of that)
Lowest Oat harvest in 150 years cause by drought (2021)
I've mostly associated Tweag with Nix-related content, so this is an interesting change.

That said, it's interesting to me that there hasn't been a better Nix-Bazel bridge. Right now the story for packaging Bazel projects in Nix is really awful. You basically have Bazel run its "deps" phase, and all that stuff gets stored as a singular, gargantuan, fixed output derivation, and if you ever try to change the deps, you have to just know that you have to twiddle this magic hash [1] or it'll happily go on with the cached deps. But then, of course, every build is from scratch.

A "real" Bazel story for Nix would integrate the two binary caches together, so that Nix would be aware of what Bazel was building, and the individual cached elements of it could go into the Nix store as separate entries— then you'd be able to actually get incremental builds. But I assume this would require Bazel's binary cache implementation to be pluggable.

[1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/21321a6381fd8d3660fe1c...
Daily via Inoreader.com (great site and app!).
Wait, why would Microsoft have a better reputation ?

Because (NSA aside), they have been caught less often transferring private information and "stolen" company secrets to third parties ?
Sure, that's fair. I apologize. While I still find the self-linking a bit distasteful, this is clearly subjective. It was wrong to be snarky about it.
I'm a fractional CTO consultant and have turned into a major shill for Linear — I always recommend it to teams of the right profile (3-4+ developer teams open to change and eager to improve efficiency). It's such a refined product, that a lot of process and communication issues tend to dissolve after switching (from say Jira) to Linear.

Tools don't solve everything with any team, but bad tools can encumber a team and hamstrung potential.
I have to agree. Food in Austin is really mediocre, and it pains me every time someone happily announces they found the "best" restaurant in town. Went to Seattle a few months ago and it is just so much better.

Same with the weather. Too hot and humid most of the year, and recently we have been having really cold winters.

But the thing that gets me is what to _do_ here. Whatever half good thing you want to go, is already crowded or sucks or both, and there are not many in town anyway. Children really don't have many options here either. Hell, I grew up in a smaller town, and we had a science museum and an aquarium there.

I guess that Austin is just a college town trying to be a tech hub, which fits somehow if you are in your late 20s and early 30s. For the rest of us, it's just another city with plenty of jobs.
Bitcoiner Saifedean Ammous vs. Nassim N. Taleb (2021)
So what you're saying is

>he does it for free
About ~20 years ago, I discovered that using WinSock's "select()" on Win2K can give you microsecond sleep resolution with reasonable (100us or so) precision. It was still that way on XP, I have no idea if it stayed that way for Vista/7/8/8.1/10/11
What exactly do you mean by "the real surveillance"?

Coerced 'acceptance' into this sort of shit after you sign up for a class is unconscionable. And that's aside the medical disabilities, bathroom needs, being black, being asian... Frankly, being anything not white and no medical issues.

> This ruling is just going to make edtech companies way less likely to use their product data to support product improvement.

The ruling will scare these lousy administrators from even buying seats to the software, let alone using it to "improve educational outcomes".

And to that, I say "Good riddance". Burn that whole surveillance market. Completely.

And yes, I've also worked for a while in an educational setting as a systems engineer. There's a reason I left that space. It's corrupt as fuck, nobody actually cares - its just a bunch of sycophants making non-changes or bad changes and looking at beneath-noise rates of margin of errors.
It's funny how our perception of "this is how this place is" is really just based on our preferences, which change over time. You will probably find any amount of "culture war fighting" or "those who prefer sports to drinking" depending on what you look for, regardless of the location.

Find the good and avoid the bad, whatever those words mean to you. Or whatever, move if you want, but you're still taking YOU with you wherever you end up. I don't have much to say about Austin, I visited in the 2010s a few times and liked it.
Pattern matching without ADTs though loses a lot of the power. The fact that you'd still have to handle null/undefined cases means it's still annoying to use and hardly exhaustive.
Awesome, nice to see a former customer here! =)
Yes, with Feedly. It's how I keep track of my favorite blogs and YouTube channels.
Firefox Addon - Feedbro
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/feedbroreader...

(available on chrome too)
You could argue that graphics code should just activate VSYNC and run as fast as possible otherwise. The article hints that that doesn't always work in practice, but even if we pretend that it does that still leaves physics engines and other simulation code.

That kind of code usually works best with a fixed "framerate"/tickrate, but for performance reason that rate is set at something like 20 ticks per second. If your framerate is a multiple of that and graphics and physics runs on the same thread that's trivial (e.g. do physics every third frame for 60fps), but what if you move it to a different thread and some of your users have 75hz monitors? Now you have to sleep, or waste resources.
Absolutely! I found this post via my RSS feed for Hacker News.

I really like the https://feeder.co/ extension, and even pay for the Pro license. There are a few minor bugs, but overall it works extremely well for me. I don't often use the account Reader feature, but the extension has a nice way to organize various feeds into categories/folders. You can stay on the free tier forever if you'd like, but to sync across multiple machines you'll need to pay.

FWIW, the Chrome extension is named 'RSS Feed Reader' if you want to search for it. For Firefox, Edge, and iOS, it's just named 'Feeder'; Android - "Feeder.co"
Quoting Paul Graham simply makes you look as incompetent as he is, watch out.
If you take a book, start photocopying it and giving away the copies you may well be.

There are limits even there.
> Context: I'm natively extremely lazy (phisically, not intellectually), I find any phisical activity a pain an a nuisance, I derive zero pleasure from any kind of sport and phyisical exercise (except hiking and skidiving, but not the phisical effort aspects of them), the release-endorphines-on-effort circuit is 100% broken for me or I just lack the receptors for those endophins

It's good to know that I'm not the only one, it's a bit sad to know that there doesn't seem to be anything I can do about it.
Wearing flashy/status clothes makes people less likely to cooperate with you
I use Inoreader and it's a delight.
Yes, every day. I started with Google Reader and now use NewsBlur as well as some scripts that aggregate RSS feeds and send me daily email updates.
So I actually can believe it happens to Americans as much as anyone, but that story is a bit different -- the Apple employees were testing the devices "in the field", bringing them along with you in your daily activities including the bar was intentional and part of the assignment.

I don't know why you bring a USB stick with half a million people's data with you to the bar. Why is that even leaving the office?

I bring this up not to talk about differences between Americans and Japanese (boring, I think they are probably exagerated), but becuase these are different "threat models". You handle the "USB stick with company data" on it "threat" by training people... not to just stick sensitive data in their pocket as they go about their business? It should be on a USB stick for as little time as possible and that USB stick should be treated like it's worth a fortune (because it is). There's no reason you should be carrying that thing with you to the bar in the first place.

The iPhone case... eh, if you ask people to carry a device along with them in their daily lives, it's inevitable that someone will forget one someplace at some point. Maybe some kind of proximity alarm that beeps if you walk away from it?
Except you never had any wipers installed because why bother when destitute people will clean your windshield for free. So if they ever stop, your car will crash into the first available wall.
In the US, congressmen make $170K a year, the president makes around $400K a year. Junior developers at large tech companies can make $170K easily in year one or two. Senior developers at tech companies make $400K+. Is the government going to pay tech workers enough to compete?
Public buy printers. Good printers last a long time. Printer company offers online services (drivers / patches / APIs - see original post) which have on gong cost. But revenue stops after printer is sold. Printer company's remaining income is ink, ink sales undercut. Printer company goes bust. Printer company, who make printer, force you to use their ink. Printer company does not go bust.

Alternative (game console model) printer company license right to make ink for printer. Printer company does not go bust.

Cost of printer is printer + driver + server over life time of printer... what the public pay; a single one time purchase price.... model doesn't work.
We were fairly aware of our usage and strain potency back in University in 2007. But this just might be what happens when you get a bunch of stoner biology, engineering, and tech students all living together.
What are they using for creating the static content pages from the .md files?
Same, lived there in the early 2000's, and coming back recently it's almost unrecognizable. The music scene is largely gone, tech bros everywhere, the traffic is even worse than it was before, housing is ridiculous. The "Keep Austin Weird" charm, which used to be real, is now a faded memory that's packaged up to sell at the airport gift shop.
How fast is it? As someone that's only used their Youtrack to look up information about their IDEs (like by landing there from Google) I've found it glacially slow.
Daily. I find it a great way to follow many low frequency blogs without having to fill my twitter feed or email with them.
oh they're still doing it. Karen's are making youtube videos of themselves crying while listening to rap because "as a mom" it hurts them that their kid could hear it.
I think the fact that you must give a thread topic to send a message.

It's not particularly difficult concept, but different from every other chat app. And for a large user base being confronted with this demand "when they just want to send a message" is frustrating.
As soon as a person who views bored ape billboards as a good indicator moves in, your city is toast. Run for the exits.
> Very few people speak clearly enough for accurate captioning.

If this is true of most people, then maybe the finger of blame should not point at the people. Software sucks. That's why we all have jobs.
It really depends on running form and individual physiology. Some runners are more resilient than others, and using good technique makes a major difference in injury risk.

But my point is that you can run reasonably fast in races with fairly low running mileage. Do most of the base and tempo workouts cross training on an elliptical machine or something, and save the running for interval workouts.
There's not though, quite to the contrary. Did you witness the handling of the Fukushima accident?

The Japanese proverb for it is: "Kusai ni futa wo shire" - if there's a stink, put a lid over it.
My dudebro, you are the living answer to your own questions.

You couldn’t pay me or my wife enough money to move back to Austin, let alone anywhere else in Texas, and we called it home for longer than anywhere else we’ve been since. Enjoy the hellhole.
This is why I sincerely believe that you can’t really judge a city without living there. Some cities are geared towards tourists, others towards residents and it shows.
Maybe it's supposed to be a cycle of elites climbing to the top and being overthrown. Maybe that's like the seasons, it just happens every few hundred years. Sucks for those involved, but that's what human societies do.

We even had the cycle of elite-formation and power-accumulation into civil unrest and collapse happen in the Soviet union, which was literally engineered to prevent this exact thing from happening, complete with profound socialist indoctrination of the population. They weren't supposed to be self-interested, yet when it came down to it, they were.

Overall I'm fairly skeptical toward the notion that societies can be designed at all, to a meaningful degree.

What fundamentally shapes the human societies is human nature which is self-interested and largely immutable. You can try to force it, to artificially make societies that contradict human nature through the imposition of rules, but that's if anything even more volatile, because that makes all their citizens unhappy, like animals in a zoo.
I'm not sure if the parent comment really meant specifically settlers, since some people consider all of Israel to be "settling on land stolen by Palestinians".

That said, you might be right about parent's intention, in which case I agree with your post. Israeli settlers are definitely considered to be doing it partially as a political move, though some are doing it for economic reasons.
100% - I use Reeder (mac app) with native/local vs a service.
> The main point is to feel energetic and rejuvenated after the workout.

The only thing a workout has ever made me feel is sore and tired. Light or heavy, long or short, cardio or strength. Doesn't matter, that only changes how sore and how tired I am after, and how long those feelings last.

I'd exercise way more if I ever felt "energetic and rejuvenated" after a workout. The only thing keeping me doing it is knowing how critically important it is to me long term cardiovascular health.

Some context: I'm overweight and could definitely stand to be more active. But I do value exercise and a couple of months ago started going to fitness classes, have played sports casually but regularly in the past, used to regularly go to a gym, and have dabbled with a few different kinds of home workout, including running. The game aspect of sport is fun, but the physical activity involved still only left me sore and tired.
Agreed, the one exception to my take on purpose-built tools is if you're the only dev and working with non-technical folks.

Having workflow enforced in the dev tool is important when it comes to a team of devs imho... especially if you're managing the team.
Yup. Vivaldi's inbuilt feed reader here.
Awesome start! Really helpful to help our teams regain trust in our data.
They shouldn't. Just make a good product and ask a price for both printer and toner that properly covers costs and allows you to turn a profit.
With OCaml type system permanently burned in my mind, I parse that error message as "there is an ` _ -> Result_set.t ` arrow type which is not compatible with type `Result_set.t`". Do you think that the issue is that the arrow `->` is too hard to spot?
The key difference here is that every player is forced to give money each tick, whereas in your implementation players are randomly selected to give money. The following implementation does yield an exponential distribution:

for _ in range(10000):
for i in range(N_players):
if W[i] > 0:
j = np.random.randint(N_players)
W[i] -= 1
W[j] += 1

Fwiw your implementation will also relax towards an exponential distribution (try 10000000 iterations); it just converges at a different rate.
Tiny quibble that I wouldn’t normally post but I think illustrates the readability issues here:

Should that be “Result set type was expected”, not “list”?
Monroe and Florence Work Today
I started to work on something similar but way behind your project. I really believe AI models can help us as humans learn better! Do you have a blog or any other writeups on how you approached these problems?
I have been a block captain with the Democratic Party in Austin for almost as long as I've lived here, and a voter deputy registrar since 2018. It hasn't made a bit of difference, and that's intentional. Anything good you do at the local level, the state government preempts. And the state legislature is so gerrymandered that even if you flipped the governor and lieutenant governor, you still couldn't roll back any of the awfulness that's already been passed. And there is no ballot initiative -- all the amendments on the ballot have to be proposed and approved by that gerrymandered legislature. That's why Oklahoma, Missouri, and Utah have medical marijuana and expanded Medicaid, and we don't.
Exactly. If Apple is required to open up iOS to other engines, Google should be barred from aggressively promoting Chrome with their own services as well as ensure that their sites perform well on competing engines (currently, they don’t) with the same stroke.
Apple's “game-changing” VR headset coming out in January, says analyst – iMore
Using the file system for your notes (2009)
I like that Mattermost treads Channels as Groupchats, and you can reply to a Chatmessage or just add to the Conversation where in Teams you have Conversations where you can reply to or start a new one, this leads to people replying via new conversation or replying while it's a new conversation.

I also dislike the notion of Teams with Subchannels in Teams and the hard cut between Chat and Teams - I like the way Mattermost does it more: a <hr> Element between Channels and Chats.
Speaking as a non-American, to the rest of the world those are indeed wacky right-wing laws. You have to have been brought up in a political monoculture not to see that.
Been using RSS for close to if not over 20 years. Now on Feedly, before that it was Google Reader.
To a first approximation nobody plumbs toilets into the storm sewers for practical reasons.

# Solid human waste will clog the smaller pipework and now your toilet waste is overflowing inside the home and the occupants are very angry

# The fittings don't "fit". The local plumbing supply store has the adaptor you need to run grey waste into rain water drains, even if it says that's not what it's for, but it does not have adaptors to run a large diameter soil pipe into the storm drain, that's a recipe for disaster they want no part in and the part has no other purpose.

If you indicate that you've got some "good" reason to attempt this, they'll sell you an expensive macerator which solves the first problem by grinding up waste, and as a result the output is smaller diameter waste pipes - but now your project is more expensive and more complicated to install.
Yes, we subscribe to a few CS/eng blogs with our company Slack and use the threads for discussions. Sadly https://blog.acolyer.org/ doesn't update any more but that was one of the favourites.
People have strong feelings about architecture.

I think a lot of people feel alienated by "modern" architecture, particularly the "international style". Conversely when they want to tear down a "brutalist" building people frequently come out with a lot of support to keep it: even though a building like that might be ugly people feel there is something honest about it.

In the big picture postmodern architecture has won, particularly the "decorated shed" when you build a building with a very ordinary frame but just decorate it on the inside and outside. That's Versailles for you.
Do note that if you need to target macOS 10 + Safari, WebP is not available.

WebP is available for macOS 11, even with overlapping versions of Safari, but Apple relies on the OS image library to render some images and they haven't backported WebP supported when they updated Safari.