skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve been in NYC 18 years (went to college here) minus a 1 year stint in Miami. I grew up in Atlanta. I’m married with two kids under three. I absolutely love it here…

You either love NYC or you hate it and thankfully you will know where you fall within 1-2 years of moving. It can be intense.

I personally love the energy, diversity, ambition, serendipity and grit. I love being able to walk and discover something new every time, no matter how often I’ve walked the path. I love how much it is constantly changing. I love the museums, parks, theaters and art galleries. I’ve traveled all over the world and no city compares for me (Hong Kong is my second love).

If you are a homebody, this is not the right place for you. If you don’t enjoy meeting new people, likely not the place for you. If you thrive off of nature, hiking, surfing, playing golf, this is likely not the place for you.

The physical quality of life in nyc is inferior in almost every way, it’s the intellectual and social quality of life that keeps millions tied to it.

Happy to answer any questions.

Edit: Final item to add, in nyc there is no shame to having roommates until you enter a committed relationship and move in together. Even couples have roommates. To outsiders it seems weird but it’s a necessity here.
You are right. There a times when, if I have a local-only branch and there is no utility in keeping the error I will reset. It is rare but it happens.

If I went down a direction then tried something else, I prefer revert so I don't lose that. That said, tagging then resetting is probably just as good and might have the best of both worlds. You get to keep what you did and you keep the history clean. I only just thought of this now!

Tagging and resetting is of course a bit like stash, but I see stashes as very temporary. It is easy to lost them due to stash pop.
Or irssi/weechat inside of a screen/tmux session on a host with ssh to attach/detach at will?
Here's Alex responding to the verdict, and discussing it on air with his former lawyer.

https://theinfowar.tv/watch?id=62eee4000e67d64cfac9d44f
NYC native here (Have also lived in multiple other cities in USA and ouside of it). NYC is a great city to live in. There is so much stuff to do. And the energy you are talking about is real.
Those rent prices whoever look insane to me. I know that you can get a one bedroom apartment in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn (It is a nice neighborhood) for around $2K. Used to be $1,500 two years ago. I would give it a try. You should live in NYC at least once in your life.
Its an interesting idea as the biggest problem where I live is the cost of labour to repair.

By the time you get a serviceman out to take a look, order the part, come back and fix it the cost is approaching half that of a new machine.

I've fixed my espresso machine, washing machine and fridge with parts that are usually sub $50, but they wouldn't have been viable to fix if I had to get a serviceman in for it.

I'm not sure any of the repairs could have been made much easier, for example the front panel/MCU for my washing machine can be replaced in minutes, just remove about 6 phillips head screws to get the top and panel off, swap the connectors over, done.
I was thinking a solar canopy over the California Aqueduct [1] would be neat. Keep the sun off from evaporating the water. Oh hey, just googled that, I'm not the only one. [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Aqueduct

[2] https://www.asce.org/publications-and-news/civil-engineering...
The makers of Dion now work at Epic. My guess is they're contributing to Verse [0], a new programming language (environment?) being worked on at Epic, which could be of interest to people in this thread.

Verse is believed to include ideas from SkookumScript, which Epic acquired [1], and Simon Peyton Jones, a main contributor to Haskell [2].

[0] https://twitter.com/saji8k/status/1339709691564179464?s=20

[1] https://skookumscript.com/blog/2019/01-23-epic-aquires-agog/

[2] https://discourse.haskell.org/t/an-epic-future-for-spj/3573
I don't think your estimates are accurate. A comfortable 2 bedroom can be had in the nice parts of Brooklyn for 3.5-6k. Manhattan is somewhat more, but not drastically so.

Grew up in the midwest and moved to Brooklyn from Philly. Absolutely love it here. City is truly alive with energy and the job prospects are fantastic. Your mileage will vary though depending on how much you make.
Trojan Source and Bad Characters: Invisible Hacks and Reluctant Patching [video]
I agree with this advice with the caveats that you

1) Take care of your mental health first and foremost
2) Ensure you don't tie your self-worth to your income, as so many do on that app
In case people don't know this story, here's what happened with the development of Dual_EC_DBRG:

> Sometime before its first known publication in 2004, a possible kleptographic backdoor was discovered with the Dual_EC_DRBG's design, with the design of Dual_EC_DRBG having the unusual property that it was theoretically impossible for anyone but Dual_EC_DRBG's designers (NSA) to confirm the backdoor's existence. Bruce Schneier concluded shortly after standardization that the "rather obvious" backdoor (along with other deficiencies) would mean that nobody would use Dual_EC_DRBG.[4] The backdoor would allow NSA to decrypt for example SSL/TLS encryption which used Dual_EC_DRBG as a CSPRNG.[5]

> Members of the ANSI standard group, to which Dual_EC_DRBG was first submitted, were aware of the exact mechanism of the potential backdoor and how to disable it,[6] but did not take sufficient steps to unconditionally disable the backdoor or to widely publicize it. The general cryptographic community was initially not aware of the potential backdoor, until Dan Shumow and Niels Ferguson's publication, or of Certicom's Daniel R. L. Brown and Scott Vanstone's 2005 patent application describing the backdoor mechanism.

> In September 2013, The New York Times reported that internal NSA memos leaked by Edward Snowden indicated that the NSA had worked during the standardization process to eventually become the sole editor of the Dual_EC_DRBG standard,[7] and concluded that the Dual_EC_DRBG standard did indeed contain a backdoor for the NSA.[8] As response, NIST stated that "NIST would not deliberately weaken a cryptographic standard."[9] According to the New York Times story, the NSA spends $250 million per year to insert backdoors in software and hardware as part of the Bullrun program.[10] A Presidential advisory committee subsequently set up to examine NSA's conduct recommended among other things that the US government "fully support and not undermine efforts to create encryption standards".[11]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_EC_DRBG
Have to first make the clay tablets to feed into the punched reader.
Unfortunately, analog watches don’t allow me to leave my phone at home when I go for a run and let me listen to music, take phone calls, get directions, track my speed, etc.
Nick Gillespie is one of the finest interviewers currently working. The quality of his conversations is excellent and he is a first-rate intellectual that has deep knowledge of the western canon.
They’re going to court, because Twitter holds all the cards here and have the strongest legal case, so it’s in their best interests to have this adjudicated by a Delaware court.

Musk is trying to pretend the mDAU = number of active bots. It’s dishonest, and likely designed to hurt the company and tank its share price and therefore bully it into conceding. Given the strength of their case I don’t see that happening.
Safeway forever!
I used to live in NYC in my late twenties/early thirties. I was single, I made very good money, I loved it. For a man, it’s a great place for dating too, with a significant surplus of women.

But I also don’t regret moving to the Bay Area at all, where I enjoy living in a large house on a quiet street, close to the hills, with year-round great weather. I don’t have a desire to go clubbing anymore, a neighborhood BBQ is just fine.

It was much easier to make friends in NYC, but friendships were transient too: there’s a lot of coming and going. It gets exhausting after a couple of years. I still like going back once a year or so, but a long weekend is enough.
How about forcing companies to do being so wasteful with badly, badly oh so badly written software.

Sure advances happen but nearly nobody _needs_ the equivalent of avx2048 on a phone.

Windows XP lasted almost an entire generation in computing terms. Sure it probably wasn't the most fun thing to work on by the time it was retired but Microsoft kept that going as the 64bit era launched and pcie and x86 multicore became the norm. Saying it can't be done is just excusing not wanting to go back and fix things or maintain stuff.
Denying the validity of the concept of sex, on color-of-medical grounds, is ubiquitous (online anyway) by now.

I had a brief and unsettling flash-forward earlier. Twenty brief years have passed, and I'm a card carrying senior citizen. The way that the young speak is the good and enlightened way to speak. The prevailing ideology is no longer comprehensible to me. I still think of myself as a good, compassionate, and open minded person, the same as I was when I was their age.

But that was the past. I'm the past. I'm the Boomer now. I'm the bad old days when people considered the unthinkable normal. How could we have? And why are we still in power in Washington, anyway? The world will be a better place when my generation and our dated ideas have shuffled off to keep company with all the other ignorant oppressors of the past. I wasn't always, but time moved on and yes, I'm the bad guy. I'm the problem.

It was the weirdest feeling. Like deja vu or trying to remember a dream that's fading.
Also outcomes. Even under perfect settings/conditions in which everyone has equally access and opportunity, huge disparities in learning ability and achievement will remain.
I thought with higher voltage power lines, transmitting power over longer distance starts to be feasible.

The environmental impact of building solar farms in the middle of the desert didn’t seem very high compared to impact of global warming (or like they said growing grain for ethanol).

Regardless, the answer should be yes to anything that will move us along towards more clean energy.
Planned obsolescence for electronics is a recent development in terms of human history. My parents remember times where hardware was incredibly reliable and could've bought electronics and products that lasted for decades.

Nowadays there are deliberate design decisions in every product that cause these things to break down before their time.
Smarter greener move is to not have surface-level parking in the first place.

We know how to build green. We know what it looks like. It looks like dense, urban living. There's a reason the lowest carbon state is New York, and the lowest carbon nation per-GDP is France.
No you are assuming I am against space exploration, I am not. I didn't create that dichotomy, the OP was suggesting earth is no longer suitable. To me at least they were implying colonization is our way forward. If anything my reply was more in line with what you are suggesting, fix our planet with what we have around us. Maybe that includes mining asteroids, space based research, maybe even power generation or transfer, living quarters supplied by the earth.

What I was saying was more of a challenge to our competence, if we can't pull off making earth work, with it's vast resources, and existing infrastructure, how could we move from earth in a meaningful way?

One example, OP suggests we have no room. We have heaps of room, it's just not arible or hospitable. Guess where else isn't arable or hospitable? Every other planet in our solar system! So they gave up on earth in their mind, in favour of somewhere even less hospitable
Yes because a 99 section 11 chapter law whose only affect is to make the web worse with cookie banners everywhere is a model of government effectiveness.
Source for your claim? I have a source that says the opposite.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/sep/29/so-is-it-nat...
Are the Colors in Webb Telescope Images 'Fake'?
The article says these states "actively" discourage rooftop solar, but "actively" may differ from what most readers think:

> They typically make it difficult for homeowners or property owners to install solar and connect it to the grid, or they prohibit a third party from paying for the installation.

The "net metering" takes active work and costs by the utility to support, so some states never enacted it.

The "pay a third party" prohibition stems from existing utility monopoly rules that allow only the utility companies to sell electricity. So what they "actively prohibit" is not just solar - they actively probihit anyone but approved utilities from selling electricity in the state.
Scala is a difficult language to learn but, once I got past the learning curve, I found it to be enjoyable and powerful. The cats effect [0] framework is a no-brainer for chaining side effects.

[0] https://typelevel.org/cats-effect/
In this case it’s really on the executives at the utilities, who have a lot of power over the local politicians. This podcast did a great explainer: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/howtosaveaplanet/dvhz9ab
I'm actually really bad...

git stash
git pull
git stash pop

# running away to hide myself from the git gods....
For a layperson, this seems like such a no-brainer: you're basically upgrading open parking lots to car ports. Drivers should love that, no?

The lobbying angle explains A LOT. Of course, it's entrenched players clinging on to their profits. Oh well.

The cost argument is interesting.. one would think it would be cheaper to build on already-developed lots, since no earth-moving and other infrastructure work is required -- but it looks like the structures must conform to a higher standard. Nobody cares if a panel topples in some remote field, but it one falls on someone's car, bad press and lawsuits.

I certainly hope things move forward and we see more solar over the desolate landscape of the endless parking lots in North America. If anything, the promise "free" power to the lot owners could tip the scales.
Same here.

I am always dismayed at anti-intellectual perspectives and approaches to education.

My view is perhaps a bit of a "no true Scotsman", but I think if we're not measuring positive outcomes from more education, we're either not educating effectively, or we're not measuring the right outcomes.

It's also admittedly true that it will almost certainly never be possible to "properly educate" everyone, but I do think we'd do a heck of a lot better if society valued "education for the sake of education" as much as it valued the Superbowl, or the Kardashians, or whatever mindless vacuous thing is hot on TikTok these days.

What the heck happened to being curious about the magical wonders of the world? Why do people not care about science, maths and technology? It boggles and frustrates my mind!
Rents superficially look ridiculous, but unlike other cities where you feel like you're failing unless you eventually own your own big place, here I find it's almost a badge of honor to live in an interesting apartment that's no bigger than it needs to be. I share a studio now with my wife, which as a Bay Area person even 10 years ago I would never fathom doing, but here it doesn't feel unusual at all.

You'll pay more here, but have an experience that's hard to get anywhere else in America. It's definitely worth trying out.
git5 or something - is this still supported? g4 was awesome (still miss it, now just on perforce...)
Need a language named “multiply” so we can quine Go, Forth, and Multiply.
Is it good or bad to be a single straight male in NY?
Up to your mid-thirties if you're single, then move somewhere cheaper.
I see there are already multiple people busy Motte N Baileying you. Don't you like goodness and light, gatvol? Why don't you like progress, gatvol? Why? All we're asking for is good. What's wrong with good?
I'm using and developing on a 2013 MBA, thank you. Phones become obsolete because the underlying tech has been going through large changes, but I can certainly get more than 5 years out of them. To top it off, I live in an affluent country. Imagine those countries where a $500 phone is a gigantic deal.
As long as you don’t care about things like battery life, heat, or your laptop sounding like a 747 under load.
Check out Jonathan Edwards' "Subtext": https://www.subtext-lang.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subtext_(programming_language)
I’ve seen solar go up in CA school parking lots: https://timesofsandiego.com/opinion/2017/03/11/solar-power-i...
Like where else even has close to nyc levels of being able to live without a car ?
Different strokes. It looks an unrefined, unskilled imitation of 100 year old art styles to me.
I agree with you, but nothing you said precludes copyleft.
You may wish to consider other large American cities if the only criteria is “good food and has ‘energy’.” For example, the weather in LA is fucktons better than NYC, and LA easily meets those criteria, but you have to be OK with a certain amount of ubiquitous plastic surgery (and equally fake personalities), and you will probably need a car.
Shopping centre owners in Australia have been completing lots of solar canopy projects lately. The incentive is to power their shopping centre and save on electricity. It makes sense here because electricity is pretty expensive, so you get ROI really quickly. You also get paid for any excess generation you put back into the grid.
I've lived here (Lower Manhattan, BK, and now Astoria) for the last 10 years and wouldn't move anywhere else.

For reference, I lived in SF (Pac Heights) for ~4 years during and after grad school and a couple of other metros tooThe density of stuff to do / people is much higher in NYC. The diversity of people, language, backgrounds is amazing. You are signing up for dirt, grime, homeless people, weird smells and terrible traffic. But also new restaurants, an amazing music and art scene, very interesting people and an increasingly growing tech scene. On housing:

- You don't need to pay $5K for a 1 Br. Greenpoint/Astoria and even UWS has good-ish places for cheaper. You can find a 2 br in the 80s-90s on the west side for 5K, 1 br should be meaningfully cheaper.

- Look at more neighborhoods. Start at times square, and make three circles that are a 20-30-40 min subway commute from there. Not that you would ever go to times square, but it is central and gives you an idea of relative distance.

- Don't live in Jersey City or Hoboken

- Don't expect a lot of space. I know you think you are used to small spaces in SF, but expect smaller. Prioritize clean and quiet over space.
I think more people are wising up and doing the ROI on unpaid overtime.

Thankfully I did it within my first few years in the workforce, I worked my butt off for a project, got a lot of praise but a disappointing bonus, calculated my overall rate per hour and realized I was being stooged.

In the following year my first performance review was bad, I just presented the numbers and my manager was pretty much unable to counter my argument other than risking my scope for promotions.

I just flat out stated I've proven I can work hard, promote me first, then I go back to that output.

TLDR; people now see through corporate bullshit, fuck you pay me.
> My theory at the time was this: GNOME won on developers' desktops, so most software was developed on Linux natively, with BSD compatibility (and performance) as an afterthought.

when i tried FreeBSD a couple years ago i was actually surprised that gnome worked OOTB. i remember some of the settings were gated off (Bluetooth? can’t remember the specifics), but the base desktop worked exactly as before.

maybe different in the early days though: dunno, wasn’t there.
In crowded city centers, i doubt wind would be fast enough to topple panels.

Even so, the frames are sturdy enough to hold the panels against strong winds.
I don't think you understand the extent of what's going on.

It's not that people are trying to make hardware last forever. It's that these devices are being deliberately designed to break down in a couple years. There are actual design decisions to force consumer behavior into purchasing new things every couple of years.

This doesn't just apply to things that follow moores law. Almost every product in existence nowadays is literally designed to break earlier then they usually do. Companies in certain cases actually spend more money creating a design that ensures that a product will break early so that consumers will buy a new thing within some years.

This includes cars, computers, phones, microwaves, lightbulbs. Etc.

Your personal need to buy a new car, new phone and new clothes is the result of market manipulation over the last 10 decades or so... morphing our culture from one where we kept tools around for years into one where we need to buy new things all the time. It was not like this at least 1 or 2 generations ago.

The result of this endless buying behavior is good for business and the economy but it has devastating effects on the environment and our resources.

Worth watching if you have 15 minutes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5v8D-alAKE

The actual story of how companies colluded to make lightbulbs not last as long.
Why would you expect it to be less offensive? They're accusing school officials, teachers, etc. of exposing children to sexually explicit material at too young an age to be ready for it. That's a core component of grooming. Whether they're right or not is another matter - but their intent is to cast these people as abusers.
> Bonus, attach a big knob somewhere, like on the joystick, for timeline control, which would be like undo / history. What do they call this thing on old video editors? Seeker? Spinner? I forgot.

Not just old video editors, my USB-C video editing keyboard [0] has one too! The marketing materials call it a "search dial" but I'm also used to hearing it called a "jogger." Wikipedia says it can also be called jog dial, jog wheel, shuttle dial, or shuttle wheel.

[0]: https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/key...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jog_dial
No parody, they're typically ultra calm when they're being held, and generally love play.

https://youtu.be/aw87M8MVGBM

https://youtu.be/wEK72aqu4Ek
Code Bubbles: http://cs.brown.edu/~spr/codebubbles/

Patchworks: https://austinhenley.com/pubs/Henley2014CHI_Patchworks.pdf

CodeRibbon: https://github.com/CodeRibbon/CodeRibbon
Good - women outnumber men by a noticeable margin.
> I have access to an API directly and can save bandwidth by only querying and returning what I explicitly want in the data.

I don't see how REST is not able to do this, not to mention that REST is very well suited for HTTP caching.
I even say that instability of the Linux desktop was a considerable contributor to the decline of Linux powered workstations.

People were getting used to the old reliable Gnome2 and the Windows-esque KDE desktop.

But there's always some team of developers thinking they are Apple and completely throw years of progress out the window by breaking compatibility because of some usability "feature" their own selfish conception of usability thinks is a good decision.
Some of then even go to the point of rejecting Merge requests to their supposed open source software because of that kind of Whim
Why transport energy from far away via expensive cables when you can just put some cheap solar panels right next to where they are needed?
This has become very popular in Australia with both of the big retailers, Coles and Woolworths.
Good on you. I need to start leaving yelp/google reviews for this stuff.
Cool to see this sentiment. Hong Kong is my first love, but the only other city that had a similarly energetic vibe to me was New York.
What's the risk in finding out? It sounds like an adventure either way. If you don't like it move on.

Have you thought about something more radical? South east Asia has all of the energy at a fraction of the living costs.