skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
how hard would it be for Googs to do the search as requested, see no results, then try without quotes?

they do this for other things that annoy the F out of me. for example, searching for a phone number. it's a specific set of numbers that is unique. if there's no results for that number (or very few), it gives me results for numbers that are similar like same area code, same prefix, different number. nope. that's not useful. in this situation, I'd much rather see that no results are found rather than making me think there's a result but forcing me to look closely that it is what I wanted
Your link does not seem to support your thesis here, unless I'm missing something?
Marcs full of shit. This isn't surprising in the least
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TikTok is not personal for most people, it’s just a way to consume content.
That's an anomaly that has probably worked out pretty well for you right?
I don't think you're going to be able to checkmate-atheist me into sticking up for the Champlain Towers building. You said that developers don't have any skin in the community. I'm telling you: I do not need a personal, durable relationship with the developers building in my town. "Skin in the community" is a silly thing to expect. I need my car not to explode or lose its brakes while I drive it, too. I don't need Audi to have skin in Oak Park; in fact, the less they know about me, the happier I am.
When I first started my career, I was the tech responsible for something like this.

The "crippling" of GPS lookup times and accuracy in cell phones. This was network assisted GPS locations, and each hit to the assistance server cost the carrier money (just the way it was licensed from the vendor IIRC). But RIM added a free maps app that would allow users to look up against the assistance server without having GPS in their plan (when it was a separate option).

The funny part was, when I applied the change, the tests didn't seem to work, and rolled it back within an hour or two. This was overnight, so when everyone woke up, they started testing their GPS and decided they'd been blocked and made a giant stink on internet forums, and the entire project was cancelled and never re-attempted.
If a better browser comes along, great. But Firefox ain't it. Shrug. Nobody uses it because it's just not memorable or useful in any significant way, but it has more and more compatibility issues every year.
Not always! He seemed genuinely motivated to help society back in the Mosaic era.
Segregation actually probably causes crime, because crime is strongly associated with concentrated poverty.

Of course, you can't get rid of concentrated poverty without spreading poor people into rich areas, so no progress has been made there.
Not a delight if you’re raising a family, in my experience. I loved living in densely populated areas when I was single. You end up having to subject your kids to mountains of homeless folks’ garbage or explaining the irregular behavior of the local crack head to your curious 5 year old.

Then again maybe that was just my neighborhood and no other densely populated area has ever dealt with such things.
People spent significant periods of time away from phones, and those calling did not have strong expectations of being answered right away.
It is worse than that "just trust me bro, or else...".
Firefox users used to be the power user crowd, but "hardly anybody uses that feature so we removed it" changed all that. Nowadays Firefox users are little more than ideological contrarians.
Life long. Real estate values are in freefall. Many areas in the Bay Area are down 19% in 30 days. RTO is failing. Tech layoffs are ramping up.
remember when sites would load keywords up with the same font color as the background, or in divs with display:none or visibility:hidden type of shenanigans? they supposedly penalized sites for that. so you're saying that keyword stuffing is back?
You can make your choice without laws forbidding others from making a different choice.
It's much simpler than all that. Excel is just easy to use and quick to get results and powerful enough to extend, easy to share with others, and is a broadly accepted file format. That's why it works. Everything else is more complicated, more vendor-locked in and takes longer to get results or requires more technical skills than the average Excel user has. Is it the best for everything? No. But it's damn good enough for a LOT of things. Its survival is proof.
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The natural response to this might be that, of course, you should be able to live on an SFZ lot with a big yard and lots of distance from your neighbors. You just shouldn't be able to enforce that condition within walking distance of Palo Alto.
It's not even about the law, we just don't put kitchens or showers in commercial buildings, and retrofitting them in would be extremely impractical.

It's not impractical to tear down a house and put down a perfectly building code compliant apartment building.
Surely then you can agree to leave his neighborhood alone and note force it to become like yours?
That was indeed an idiosyncrasy of your neighborhood.
I'm looking at data projecting a very different reality for all, not partisan narratives looking into the past. Shoot the messenger.
Ah, the classic guy writes about how to solve a problem, said problem shows up on his doorstep, guy decides not to solve it, problem continues to exist and guy continues to wonder why.

Waiting for the follow up "It's time to build in places where people allow it"
Sounds like a great opportunity to do it better!
Have you tried living in rural areas close to surbubia? Can get your own large property which no one will come near, no randoms walking down the street, and lots of privacy.
Maybe a decade ago, there were feedback pages. I recall when Google Maps changed its format. (I forget now what the change was, maybe scattering controls all over instead of having a sort of legend where all the controls sat.) There was a place where you could provide feedback, sort of like a Usenet page. Anyway, after the change there were thousands of posts, and after a few days tens of thousands of posts--every last one of them negative. (Well, there were one or two positives, but they were /s.) After a week someone from Google showed up and said they were listening. They eventually changed some very minor part of the format to look sort of more or less a little like it used to, while not budging on most of the changes they had made. At that point, people started posting alternative map sites.
Most incredible thing to me is that this is his main point of contention :

>They will MASSIVELY decrease our home values

I get that mansions, like SFHs, are seen as investments. And I suppose this is just how they want to bring locals/voters/officials (who might not be as uber-rich?) on board while muffling the quiet part ("quality of life", i.e. mixing classes). But if it's even a remotely honest sentiment, how damn much is enough? He's a (multi-?)billionaire and still gives two shits about his house's appraisal? So shallow, but I guess in character for someone who just bought a $177M palace ("priciest home sale ever in CA") with the money of retail bagholders.
The "is Coinbase layer 1, 2, or 3" is a particularly dumb one and a good example of how eye-rollingly bad his questions can be. It's hard for the guest to get into the interesting details when interrupted with a question that's wrong in a bunch of ways that betray he has no idea what he's talking about. It just feels like he's full of shit.
The flipside is equally ridiculous. Consider the homeowner who happens to be located along a newly proposed subway line. They may see their home values double or triple as construction completes, without spending a cent on improvements--in fact purely on the public dime.
As an accountant, I can confidently say that excel has at least another five years, more than likely more of being essential in the business world. It's one of our most used and basic apps in accounting. Gusto, paychex, ADP, netsuite, QuickBooks, haven't really come close to replacing it yet in terms of market share I speculate.
Firstly, Microsoft's profit margins are significantly higher than Apple's, so this doesn't make any sense to begin with.

Second -- how much do you think Microsoft makes from selling a $99/$139 license?

They can most definitely, absolutely, without a doubt afford to eat the cost.
As an introvert myself, I quite prefer Density to Over-crowding. There's a difference[1]!

Millenials moving back in with their parents because there isnt enough housing is the true introvert nightmare playing out right now tbh.

[1] https://twitter.com/cayimby/status/1259679621785759744?s=20&...
Okay, Google
Would love to see this argument quantified.
This is good thinking. My children will be the fourth generation living in the same basic area. My dad went to school with ice on the ground and rare but occasional snow. I saw occasional ice, and only once a hint of snow. My daughter will hope to see some rain, and likely never see any ice in her hometown.
What California is moving towards strikes me as eminently sensible: the local community may decide where to place the housing, but it must zone for enough housing somehow. This preserves "community voice in community matters" and "local community decision-making" while eliminating the ability to be exclusionary.
Oh plenty of us figured out how to get out and have fun/cause trouble.
Dude's Dad was a property tycoon. Quoting wikipedia:

Arrillaga established his career as a real estate developer starting in the 1960s, partnering with Richard Peery in acquiring California farmland which they converted into office space. Their partnership took off with the growth of the semiconductor industry and other high-tech businesses, such as Intel,[2] in what became known as Silicon Valley.[6] Arrillaga and Peery converted thousands of acres of farmland into office space in cities such as Mountain View, San Jose, and Sunnyvale to meet the industry's needs.[2] Over a period of 50 years, their partnership, Peery Arrillaga, built over 20 million square feet of commercial real estate, becoming one of Silicon Valley's biggest commercial landlords.[9][5][8] In 2006, he sold over five million square feet of his real estate holdings for roughly $1.1 billion to the real estate division of Deutsche Bank.[6][2] In 2020 Arrillaga ranked No. 339 on the Forbes 400 list of the richest people in America.[6] In October 2020, his net worth was $2.5 billion.[6]
Sea Cliff or Pac Heights?
I’ve always been too cheap to do this but it sounds like a valid plan.
Growing up in Middle America was nowhere near as depressing as you’re describing it. We had bikes to get around, woods and empty lots and big backyards and parks to explore. Not to mention friends on the same block. Of course NYC would be much more exciting once you’re allowed to ride the train on your own.
that sounds frustrating but it’s not the same as being with an abusive partner
Yes, local communities across the United States have demonstrated that they cannot be trusted with control over local zoning, so the power should be moved to a regional political body. Voters will of course vote in their own best interest, and everyone wants their property values to increase, resulting in every local government restricting housing construction and a general lack of construction across the board. This creates regional-level economic problems that should be addressed by regional-level government bodies.
Quoted search is provably broken for some queries, try a google search for "[::]" (with the double quotes), it has no results. Similarly, try a search for 'linux next hop "[::]"' (with the double quotes), none of the results will contain [::].

Proof: https://archive.ph/AAa6k and https://archive.ph/9WGe7
I recommend clay tablets. Fire them, and they'll last pretty much forever, or at least a few thousand years.
Remember to wipe after using equipment at the gym
But you can have almost all of that while still having cash! I can see the benefit of security for some people (eg train lady) and that could be one of exceptions but I believe most places should be mandated to take cash payments as privacy and redundancy should prioritised more than ever.

We know from experience that government, whether totalitarian or not, can abuse any power they have. That’s why we have checks and balances everywhere in our society like judicial reviews or ombudsman. Cash is one of those checks and balances.
I read all of this in Rodney Dangerfield's voice.
When we don't have enough housing it means people end up on the street. But people on the street is an argument against more housing?

The crackheads on the street phenomena is an American thing, not a dense housing thing.
The problem I've found is that they're never really looking to solve big problems that lead to the issues like the ones detailed at the end of the article. I find that when I talked to people who work in customer service at the actual customer facing level, surveys were more used to justify performance bonuses. As someone who feels that customer service people are already underpaid it feels weird not to just blindly hit five stars or whatever equivalent. Often times the reason I'm having issues is because of a corporate policy or a flawed piece of software that they use which they're not soliciting feedback on.
Reading Files from a FAT12 Partition
"Bay Area home prices see largest May-to-June drop on record"
https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/07/26/bay-area-home-prices-...
Trolling is not per se bad. A good troll upsets people using their own arguments. A great troll however does this without them realising. A good troll results in downvotes and being called a troll. A great troll doesn't.

So, a good troll, but not a great troll. Not however a bad troll. Nothing mentioned was not arguments people have not used. Perhaps apart from the cannabilism part.

I vote '+3 Troll' if we're doing /. style meta voting/commenting.
This election really renewed my fucking optimism, at least locally for Australia, though globally it still feels dire.
Do you people ever get tired of defending the rich scumbags who don't care about you
Notably: "Stack Overflow won’t have the problem of other sites where obsolete or incorrect answers have high Google PageRank simply because they’ve been on the Internet for so long". (14 years on, StackOverflow is full of outdated but highly upvoted answers).
Google should pay me a 8 figure salary as a product manager to tell them to add phone number login to their existing app and put it behind a region restriction if required rather building a second parallel app since apparently no one there is willing to say it. And before people point out the benefits of having a clean slate I'll point out all the cash they burned doing it this way, which they could have saved by just giving me 10 or 15 million dollars.

DMs open for anyone else who wants my genius-level advice.
This could be "an exciting new hardware platform for FreeBSD people" more than "an exciting new OS for Apple hardware owners."
The same Canvas code runs fine on Webkit and Blink, but really really slow on certain Firefox builds (dependent on OS and CPU architecture). I'm not at work and don't have the bookmarks handy, but you can search their issue tracker and see dozens of open issues along those lines, stretching back more than 5 years and still unresolved.

I'm sure Firefox works fine for most sites, but if you're one of those that it has an issue with, well... just like IE, below a certain % of usage share, we just have to make the decision to not support it.

Actually, this was a learning experience that caused one of our devs to switch from Firefox to Chrome too. We didn't realize how far behind Firefox had gotten until we had to debug the issue and read through their tracker. Mozilla just ignored the threads after a while and they kept building and building.

We haven't put up a warning banner yet but probably should. It's like IE all over again lol.
Not parent, but I've been using GL-AR750S-Ext for 3+ years, and it's rock-solid. It has OpenVPN/Wireguard, powered by a simply USB, etc. It now travels with me everywhere I got.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07GBXMBQF/
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/hevc-advance-announ...

I don't get why Microsoft is charging for the CODEC when it can be distributed for free.
https://archive.ph/OvrXn
Like many others, QBasic plus some library books comprised my start to programming and totally changed my life. A few of my most vivid childhood memories were sitting in a closet with a humming MS-DOS computer, smelling hot plastic and finessing how to use SCREEN 7 so I could place my game's background on one page and sprites on another. A huge "aha" moment was when I learned what arrays were, as they allowed me to use the same "enemy sprite" logic to place multiple enemies on the screen at once without requiring separate code. Another was when I devised and designed my own Zelda-like tile system so I could draw various map elements once and then encode each game screen as a simple string of letters. Nothing but love for those days and how they got me comfortable messing with code.
A 19% decrease in housing prices, even assuming that that number were true (it's not even close to that for the SF property I own, for example), is not nearly enough to make SFBA affordable. Your argument was stronger when you were simply expressing your aesthetic preference for lower density instead of denying the existence of the housing crisis.
Here you go. Here is actual data showing that housing is expensive which in turn leads to not many people being able to afford them which then leads to a "housing crisis".

https://www.longtermtrends.net/home-price-median-annual-inco....
Exactly… no zoning is the best zoning! You wanna be low density, but out all the land and pay for it. If the market supports low density, so be it.

In terms of property tax, I thought there was some research that the best way to do that was actually irrespective of the development on top of it? I think the idea being that would encourage development because you’re not taxed on the improvements? Or maybe I’ve got it backwards.
FWIW, this is also an own-goal caused by dumb zoning policies. Regardless, the point that "we need to legalize the construction of residences to bring down prices" stands.
This article was long winded and indirect in a weird way I’ve never seen before. It wasn’t gpt 3, was it?

More interesting: in the future with gpt5 and image generation tech, how will we know if anything is real ever again online? Actual question
This puts outsized power in the hands of incumbent homeowners. What about people who work in Atherton or nearby towns and need to commute hours to get to their jobs? They sure would like to live nearer to their workplace. They generally aren't considered "community" and have no voice.
> Or they just went with Alphabetical order when signing the letter?

The letter starts out, "I am writing". A spouse will usually use "we" when contemporaneously speaking for both themself and their partner.

> you don’t put your name on the letter unless you really agree with what’s on the letter. Now it maybe possible that Marc never co-signed this in which case he will speak out hopefully and explain his stance better.

Also possible his wife included his full name for the cachet without first asking, but upon finding out Marc decided this wasn't a hill he wanted to die on. He wouldn't have been the first spouse to make that choice.

The letter would evince the fundamental problem with NIMBYism even if Marc didn't willingly sign on--people who oppose projects are typically far more aggressive and outspoken than those accepting of new development, who tend to be more passive; and this dichotomy and one-sided paralysis manifesting between members of the same household only makes the contrast more stark.

It's far more important that people appreciate that dynamic, whether it existed in this case or not. There's absolutely nothing new about people being hypocritical, and righteous indignation about hypocrisy, however sweet, doesn't lead to people affirmatively advocating for development, or any other policy for that matter. People will relinquish veto power not as a consequence of others' hypocrisy, but when they realize and accept that they, themselves, are not up to the task of counteracting NIMBYs, and the only practical alternative is to make their own, personal sacrifice (i.e. relinquishing a not insubstantial measure of power and control) for the greater good.
> It doesn't say it was founded by tech people, it says it was founded with the (activist!) intent to harness the power of tech people.

It explicitly says (emphasis added) "levels of innovation in the browser market."
> How annoying is it to deal with captive portals?

Zero issues. You go to your router's page, select the wifi (captive portal or not), and that's it. When you try to connect to an external site the captive portal will pop up, you authorize, and that's it. Moving forward any devices connected to your GLi router will have internet access (without requiring the captive portal on each device).
That is an 8 year old press release, not a perpetual legal license.
That's really not what I want quotes to do though, I want a definitive "not found". But it might be a good compromise. Their whole jam now seems to be zero UI except the box, no filters no exact match checkboxes etc. Stuff like that would be really nice to have on the main search.
Are you sure that’s not just all ghost kitchens? Or maybe a parking lot for food trucks?
"Now, a new report released by the city's(San Francisco) budget and legislative analyst estimates that there are more than 40,000 units sitting vacant." https://abc7news.com/san-francisco-vacancy-tax-apartment-vac...
pg_dump has an option to output one-table-per-file. You can use this for selective restores later.
The only thing surprising here is that he conveyed his views via a public letter.

Such views are usually conveyed over cigars, brandy, and prime rib, in private rooms (where smoking is not frowned at, even in CA) in very expensive restaurants.
I love what I do. A good day is one where I get to write lots of code. It’s one of my favorite things in the world.

I’ve thought about that. There were so many “what ifs”, you know? At one point I’d been accepted to the US Naval Academy, and I have a hard time imagining how that would have turned out. If it ever gets to the point that someone’s letting me drive a ship, things have gone very wrong in the world. And maybe I might’ve made a good doctor. Who knows? But I was never as driven to do that as I’ve been compelled to learn a language, or write a hobby project to solve some problem, or do the annual Advent of Code, etc.

All said, I wouldn’t change a thing.
It's not, in fact when I saw the source of the article I lol'd.

I literally refuse to visit techcrunch over their truly user-hostile and ad-filled garbage pile they call a website.

You can't even read their articles because they put so many ad breaks.
That's nice. Go to Zillow right now and search for properties in Palo Alto. Set no minimum, and then set a $500k maximum (the lowest Zillow will let you set for Palo Alto). See what you get. Then try $600k. Still nothing! Keep dialing it up until you find something.