skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But building enough housing won't happen because people rationally conclude it's in their best interests. It will happen when the decision-making levers are removed from local government.

> More on why community input is bad.

This honestly strikes me as kind of insane. Community voice in community matters is bad? Local community decision-making should be removed from local governments?
Not Javascript because it's objectively a lousy language. (Imagine if Eich had been allowed to embed Scheme!? What a wonderful world that would be. I'm not going to look if there's a Scheme implemented in JS, I assume there is.)
An interesting question is why Elm instead of Scheme-in-JS or Scheme-in-WASM?

The answer is to that is also the answer to "Why Elm?"

Elm is extremely user-friendly, domain-specific language that makes it nigh impossible to write buggy code. You can write code that does the wrong thing, but it will do it correctly. In practice, what this means is that Elm web apps have had zero front-end bugs.

If we allow that end-users and management do not care what system we use to make the website "go", then it's pretty obvious that they could make do with a much cheaper solution than the JS ecosystem. Elm is so simple and easy that anybody can use it to maintain their own web sites or web apps.
Please check these two books on technical writing from Springer.

1) Docs for Developers: An Engineer’s Field Guide to Technical Writing

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4842-7217-6

2) Requirements Writing for System Engineering:

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4842-2099-3

Currently there are 50% off until 29th August for selected books for back to school discount offering.
Why would anyone want multi-unit housing?

Serious question. I understand if you cannot afford a single unit, sure. But why would anyone actually want a multi-unit?

People are noisy, smell on occasion, etc. if a city is too crowded, find somewhere else. You’ll be better for moving where you can afford. Moving somewhere just to be in the “hot spot” or something is silly. Go move to a single family residential neighborhood and you’ll be far happier. You can have a garden, put a hole in the wall and expand a room, get a dog.

Beyond personally never wanting to live that he’ll again; I personally would never want a multi-unit home in my neighborhood. I don’t want the density of people. Don’t need the problems that entails, don’t need lower property value. It makes a worse quality of life, that’s why the value drops.

People who want these units want to live in a particular location, but don’t want to pay prices. And the location is more important to them. I get it. That location will be ruined by those homes; at least it will change the dynamics. That’s the unfortunate part.
Tether reports on what it is backed by: https://tether.to/en/transparency/#reports

USDC reports on what it is backed by: https://www.circle.com/en/usdc#transparency

There is a fair argument that USDC backing assets are higher quality than Tether, but in both cases it is not reasonable to say there is "zero accountability for whatever the asset is leveraged against"

I think this is very different to algorithmic stable coins which are backed by the value of crypto assets. There are dangers there that aren't well modeled.
I sold my Tesla 3 weeks ago, primarily because I couldn't get condensation in my taillight fixed after 4 cancelled appointments and a no-show. I was getting tired of things breaking, and the no-show put me over the edge. I'll let the dealer I sold it to deal with it.
> "Competition" requires competitors to actually compete. Firefox is clearly not interested.

I exclusively use Firefox because of ublock on mobile. Other browsers cant compete. I have no issues using FF, and major annoyances when I use chrome on someone else's computer (wrong shortcut to open a new private tab, can't press backspace to navigate back 1 page in history, etc)
The median house price in my city is $3m, that’s pretty absurd based on prices 10/20/30 years ago. And that’s not even the issue, when a house does go on the market it’s sniped by the ultra rich - like Zucks housing complex he’s built from single house properties to get around planning rules.
They’re being lazy and irresponsible. Non tech savvy people don’t use delimiting quotation marks, nor should they. They are a technical feature for narrow searches.

Google Search has always been the dominant bridge between users and sites. Given the obvious complaints over search results, for a company of this stature to talk about explicit search performance during these times is pretty tone deaf.

To me it’s a clear indicator that Google Search is many years away from being their flagship product. It’s truly unfortunate to know there are thousands of people who’d like to change that by working together but simply can’t because Google put their flag up first. And it’s all because this once curious academic project has devolved into a surveil marketing machine.

Fuck Silicon Valley and brogrammer culture
Stack Overflow Launches (2008)
Configuration is still code, but maybe in a non-Turing-complete language (but maybe not, depending on where we are in the cycle of configuration fashions at the moment.)
I think in this case, it's a bit galling since Apple clearly does and has eaten the cost of codec licencing - HEIF/HEVC, and AAC before that.
Everyone assumes multi-family development means 10-story apartment buildings, but SFZ rules prevent duplexes and town houses from being built too, and some of the most charming, walkable, vibrant neighborhoods in the country are defined by those kinds of buildings.

If it's me, I'm authorizing all the 10-story buildings too. But we don't have to rip the band-aid off all at once; municipalities could start by letting up just a little bit and letting two households share a lot.
:) I'm completely aware that smaller companies are using Google. My last two companies used it! (Right up until we were acquired by a large enterprise and got moved to MS).
A lot of phones, iPhone and Samsung at least that I know of, save photos in HEIF format by default, which does require HEVC to decode.
You might enjoy this book: https://islandpress.org/books/arbitrary-lines - he makes the case that we should get rid of zoning. Of course, there's some nuance to it, but it's worth a look. He's got a lot of expertise.
In the same way San Francisco allows ice cream shops (or any business) to object to new competitors in their area, yes many “communities” also write rules that monopolize land in order to keep their property values high.

See: https://www.sfchronicle.com/local/heatherknight/article/S-F-...
The reality is, often times, some for profit real estate developer with zero skin in the community want to parasite off of and compromise communities(past & future) with no regard for anyone. They often yield extreme gains where they are successful, often in proportion to the challenge of achieving that end. Additionally, property values, that serve as the basis for taxes, are derived in no small part, by the laws that define property in that community and the bounds of the community itself. The desirability of communities is a derivative of their value and the value they offer participants, is the most material factor in determine supply / demand imbalances; why for example, there is no shortage of remote deserts offering plenty of room and approval to build. Throwing those out the window obviously has instances where it is best done with caution. Out of context acronym label assignment, especially for clicks, is not always the best path.
It's understandable it feels that way. That list is actually old, and we should have added a lot more now.

Here are some randomly-chosen examples of engineers at my fav developer-oriented companies:

Cloudflare — https://codecrafters.io/users/AkshataDM

Docker — https://codecrafters.io/users/rumpl

AWS — https://codecrafters.io/users/JohnHVancouver

Stripe — https://codecrafters.io/users/shaldengeki

Microsoft — https://codecrafters.io/users/vladtenlive

Vercel — https://codecrafters.io/users/jaredpalmer

SourceGraph — https://codecrafters.io/users/daxmc99

You get the picture :)
This is probably his best interview, IMO. Keller was allowed to go very deep into interesting topics and by the end of it you get a solid perception of what CPU development was like in the earlier days (DEC, AMD Athlon) to how it has evolved with modern synthesis tools and large teams. As well as the business overall.
It's gone well beyond California at this point:

https://www.npr.org/2022/07/14/1109345201/theres-a-massive-h...
Why would there be sources? [Unrecorded] phone call / encrypted-channel deals happen all the time. Do you want to pretend it doesn't happen and the world is actually fair? What a nice dream.
I'm still wondering why there isn't a bittorrent for git
Cool! Based on your description, I thought I can give the generator an image and it'll return the prompt. Would that be possible?
Personalizing helps highlight the hypocrisy of wealthy, influential people like Andreesen.

I agree that the post was right, but it discredits the author when they act so diametrically opposed to the words they write and, specifically, the action they call for.

Did he not mean those words in earnest? Is there some other play he is angling for? It begs everything to be questioned.
guy's just a commoner with some extra cash, if he thinks anything else he's a fool
Wealthy people hoard money. It's an obsession. If it was food, newspapers, boxes, or old clothes, their homes would be overrun with stuff and would likely be considered a problem. But because it's not (usually) physical junk, it's not apparent. Remember the end of Citizen Kane, where the workers toss piles of stuff into a furnace?

I knew a guy who had to know the price of everything and calculated everything by its monetary value. Whether or not he ended up really wealthy I don't know, but he was already pretty well off when I knew him.
The things it takes to be an expert [video]
Land value tax would solve this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax

Why?

Everyone on earth is a NIMBY when they believe they won't be sufficiently compensated for the negative externalities of a new development. Everyone on earth is also a YIMBY when it comes to developments with positive expected externalities.

This is not a moral problem, this is an economic incentive problem. We need to debug capitalism so that externalities both positive and negative are internalized, and everyone becomes IMBY-neutral.

This just happens to have the side-effects of removing deadweight loss, rewarding builders and penalizing squatters, encouraging development and discouraging speculation.
Weird. This is not at all my experience. I haven't been using Firefox for 30 years, since it hasn't existed that long, but I've been using it since it was first working.
Great quote (given the context) - gonna go give this a read now, thanks.
Why is it a mistake? Genuinely curious.

If some “gizmo” has the potential to make something better for a little investment, why not consider it?
Temperature based sex determination was new to me, so I went searching for more information. This book chapter describes the mechanism:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK9989/

But left me wondering what the advantage of such mechanisms might be. Elsewhere in the same book they state:

"One advantage is that it probably gives the species the benefits of sexual reproduction without tying the species to a 1:1 sex ratio. In crocodiles, in which temperature extremes produce females while moderate temperatures produce males, the sex ratio may be as great as 10 females to each male (Woodward and Murray 1993). The major disadvantage of temperature-dependent sex determination may be its narrowing of the temperature limits within which a species can exist. This means that thermal pollution (either locally or due to global warming) could conceivably eliminate a species in a given area (Janzen and Paukstis 1991).

Ferguson and Joanen (1982) speculate that dinosaurs may have had temperature-dependent sex determination and that their sudden demise may have been caused by a slight change in temperature that created conditions wherein only males or only females hatched from their eggs."
The context for the timing of this hit-piece is that he was recently a guest on the Joe Rogan podcast.
I don't need real estate developers in my town to have "skin in the community". I don't want them over for BBQ or at my block party. I want them to build modern buildings to code and to perform in their role of dialing up density where there's demand from it. If they want to fuck back off to their wealthy real estate batcave after they do that, it's no skin off my back.
Dropping support the day after you find an issue just means it wasn't supported. Pretty bad signal for anyone depending on your support.
> I understand if you cannot afford a single unit, sure. But why would anyone actually want a multi-unit?

There are definitely circumstances in life where a multiunit is great -- single people early in life trying to meet people and make friends, for example. But even outside of that:

Anyone can afford a single unit, it's just a matter of where. If you're the wealthiest of the wealthy, you can afford it basically anywhere. If you're extremely poor, it might be a shack in the middle of nowhere. Everyone else is trading off the variables of price, type of housing, and location.
Why bother? There weren't humans millions of years ago to record climate data or grape picking dates. Writing is 5500 years old. Climate change could have ended the Roman Empire. In wide terms we already know what will happen because it happened before.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-climate-ch...
On the one hand I’m in favor of building more affordable housing but I can understand the viewpoint of keeping the culture of your local community intact. See what Google did to Playa Vista, it’s a really jarring, sterile contrast with the rest of LA. Primarily soulless buildings, almost Soviet Style, to house their slaves.

We all need to push back against multinational corporations who would turn our local communities into the company towns of old, if given the chance.
Probably not true, but even if it is being a NIMBY is still bad.
> Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinking about, or worrying about, the speed of noncritical parts of their programs, and these attempts at efficiency actually have a strong negative impact when debugging and maintenance are considered. We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%. - Donald Knuth

This small inefficiency is not something worth creating complications over. The thing about baby steps is that when you use that sort of language you're already making things sound easier than they are. The first baby step is the hardest step to take. It takes months of work and many falls.

My hope is that they manage to write (+ 2 2) or something similar; I'm not trying to make learning the language hard.
No it isn't. The timing of it is that Jerusalem Demsas just wrote a widely circulated piece about why we need to take away control of SFZ rules from local communities, and she just got an excellent case-in-point. Demsas could give a flying fuck about people appearing on Rogan's show.
Wow, finally a legitimate use case for cryptocurrencies!

In all seriousness, this nonsense is exactly why I continue to support crypto to this day. Visa, Mastercard and some random court jurisdiction in some random country should not have a say in whom I transact with.
I have impossible to uninstall Facebook and Amazon on my LG phone. I deleted my Facebook account years ago. And Amazon? Well I live in Canada but the app is for the USA (phone was purchased in Canada though), so whenever I search for something online and click a link to Amazon it gets hijacked and tries to open the app, but wait! I'm not in the USA! And the app doesn't support Canada so it re-opens the link in chrome! And all attempts to remove the app or change the link behaviour are stymied. I am forever stuck with the slow and annoying chrome->app->error->chrome cycle for all Amazon links.
There is hope. Wheaton just approved a ~330 unit 7 story apartment complex downtown on a 2 ac parcel, which came as quite a surprise considering the housing composition in the area.
Unfair comparison. Unlike Microsoft, Apple doesn't sell the OS to consumers though, it sells you a whole device, or better, a whole ecosystem, who's profit margins are way higher than what Microsoft makes from selling $99/$139 Windows licenses to consumers, so of course they can afford to eat the cost.
This is a form of rationing in the face of reduced supply. Another option would be allow electricity prices to rise and people to make their own choices about how to respond to that.
Apparently they aren't using ci to build the releases. The existing binaries are old.
GitHub is owned by MS, not gitlab.
Well, that would likely lead to greater unhappiness…

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21841151/

I somewhat agree, it’s a delight for the wealthy or middle class. But the lower class often have a much more negative view (having come from said lower class). The reality, is the upper and middle class dominate in politics and try to do things that are the opposite of “good”. Take for example, “cheap housing for everyone”. Nah.. they want the opportunity to own a nice house, not a hand out. Frankly, you’d be right, if I had any faith the upper class wouldn’t have a god complex to try and “make things better”.
Huh? Every phone I had had photos in Jpeg format.
If you want video playback to work in software that embeds a system-provided video player, like Edge.
Impossibly difficult and resource intensive? Sounds like we need a reset of some kind.
What a jerk.
That is GitHub. This is about GitLab.
I like living in multi family housing, and I like living in dense neighborhoods. I don't give a single shit if you don't like it, and I don't have to justify it to you.
No, they obviously are not allowed to decide that at all, unless you think communities can decide that no Asians may buy houses within their borders.
> Mozilla was hijacked by political activists who wanted to change the internet and spend hundreds of millions of dollars on non-browser things.

Mozilla, like most nonprofits, has always been run by activists who wanted to change the space the org was focussed on, and it started out spending lots of resources on non-browser things, too.
Well, now you know.
I still give DDG first shot at my searches, but their results have been getting worse and worse. I'd blame the people they scrape their results from but nobody is stopping DDG from handling search operators correctly so we can narrow down whatever gets spewed back at us. Even worse several times recently DDG just returns a blank page.
Carmack is literally a legend from a completely meritocratic perspective. His respect is 100% something he’s earned by being a master at his craft and a deeply knowledgeable person who has continually pushed his field forward for decades while being an accessible and mentoring individual.

In short, he’s a “nerd’s nerd”.

It’s hard not to be enraptured by someone like that. It would be like listening to DaVinci discuss theoretical aerodynamics for three hours.
As a New Yorker driving around middle america is super depressing. I can't imagine growing up trapped in my own home on a street with no sidewalks, only being able to go where my parents take me and finally growing into driving age so that I can go from parking lot to parking lot.
We've had some successes in Oak Park, too, and I'm really grateful to our board for navigating the onslaught of negative commenting and campaigning to get new multifamily developments approved. But the fact is that it's too much work, and not reasonable to expect sane, pro-development people to be permanently vigilant and organized against the too-powerful default of saying no to these things.
Yeah, to get 2010 search performance, you’ll have to buy the new Google+ Premium Service package for $5/month
This is such a bummer, but not shocked they're out-of-bounds given the bullets in the letter and how big they've become: https://www.cftc.gov/csl/22-08/download
Firefox has consistently been the only browser protecting people from the Facebooks and Googles of the world.

There are a few sites that don't work in it, but it tends to hew closer to the standards than the proprietary lock-in browsers.
That was a lovely bit of counter intell psyops by Ada Lovelace & the clackers ...

Still imortilised to this day in the innermost ring of GCHQ.
Yep:) I feel silly writing a Makefile that runs `go build`, but I still do it:)
But evidence is not proof.

Hitchens made a choice to propagate his own faith system, but what evidence has he presented?

Did he present any historical evidence for the absence of deities, or was it simply an opportunity to have a philosophical debate, or even perhaps get famous and have people fawn over your brilliant arguments, and follow you?
Well, this is terribly disappointing. I always liked Marc's Is Time to Build essay, it felt like the right sort of spirit. And now it feels like utter hypocrisy.
I've also listed out some of the folks with public CodeCrafters profiles from some the highlighted companies here (Cloudflare, Docker, AWS, Stripe, Microsoft, Vercel, Sourcegraph) — randomly selected.

If you look them up, you'd get a sense for their background / role, etc :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32351531
I will ramble a bit, but for complex data transforms, you can use PowerQuery instead of formulas. For semi-serious programmers like myself, I started doing C# add-ins to Excel using Excel-Dna. There’s also Query Storm. :)
Is this a serious question? Because the density afforded by multiunit housing allows for urban amenities, walkabiliity and useful public transit. And well-built multifamily won't have noise issues.
GPT-3 authored content was already top of HN not long ago

https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/16/21371049/gpt3-hacker-news...
There are advantages to multi-unit housing that you have not included in your analysis:

- No garden maintenance / snow removal

- Dedicated maintenance staff / landlord pays for it

- Generally lower intrusion risk

- Smaller footprint than most single unit homes: not everyone desires to clean several thousand square feet

And the disadvantages of multi unit housing you listed have their analogues in single unit homes:

- Neighbours are still loud and smelly

- Putting a hole in your wall and fixing it is expensive unless you have the tools + experience to do so yourself. Not everyone enjoys this.

- Commuting becomes more onerous the farther out you live

For many people there is no living situation without it’s compromises. But for some, single-unit is ideal and for others multi-unit is ideal.
VLC's inclusion of HEVC and DSS likely make it legally dubious in the US and many other areas. They claim that their jurisdiction does not believe in software patents and they do not owe license fees, but while IANAL even if true that makes zero claims about use of the software in jurisdictions where those patents do exist.
I'm curious as to what these specific issues you guys are mentioning are. I browse the web largely with a Chrome UA string on Firefox and I don't think I've ever seen an actual problem. If I don't use a Chrome user agent though, I get a lot of "This site will only work in Chrome/Edge" or "This site doesn't work in Firefox" popup nonsense, which is especially funny when the sites function otherwise completely fine.
I'm not sticking up for him! I think that's pretty apparent from my comments on this thread (this is one of my hobbyhorse issues). I'm just saying, in this particular situation, Andreessen is behaving like the overwhelming majority of suburban homeowners.