skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The other way of looking at zoning changes is as a gift for the future. It's unlikely to ever be subsequently down-zoned (network effects of utilities, tax revenue, etc), so it's a one-time battle. Even if per-parcel.
I grew up in a dense urban core and can’t imagine putting kids through it.

Little to no green space, no riding your bikes down random streets until it’s get dark. No exposure to nature. Cramped in tiny $1M apartments immersed in the rat race.
Gitlab's approach also sounds like an easy way to hijack dormant projects to inject malicious code and let unsuspecting users download "updates"
We might just start having a more open landscape where code can roam freely to wherever you want to host it. In other words more than just two full-service providers to choose from who lock you in by network effects and FOMO, made worse because the entire software development tools vendor ecosystem is based on them too.

When it comes to open source and free software projects both of these platforms are not your friends. The "free" services are just an enabler for their revenue models, part of the business plan. Especially Microsoft is well-known for their long game and EEE strategies. If it is up to them we'll move to GOSS, Github Open Source Software, that is so dependent on nice GH services that it can never move away.

I have my hopes in more open technologies, be they low-level like DVCS, or taking care of social aspects of software development, like ActivityPub. On this last bit cool developments are taking place. Extensions to ActivityPub that will allow code forge features to federate with any vendor that supports them. We'll get decentralized software development if that is done well.

Some FOSS projects and communities are taking first strides here. A report of their activities is in this blog post of the Forgefriends project:

https://forgefriends.org/blog/2022/06/30/2022-06-state-forge...
I read this book years ago and was interested in rereading. Any good JS books you would recommend for modern day that would be just as good?
With markets weighing heavily against the current administration, of which cftc is a part, this is a no-brainer.
Tiny $1MM apartments aren't the alternative to SFZ.
It probably wouldn't be too surprising if at least one error was lurking somewhere in those 900 pages. But if such an error were found, the authors would almost certainly be able to address/patch it very quickly. They have very good intuition for the "hard" parts of the problem and focus so much on those parts that it would be highly unlikely to overlook a critical error.
Yes, that's the goal they wanted to harness the power of “thousands of programmers on the internet” for. The quote doesn't say anything about who the founders were beyond their activist goals.
A while back I set a catchall address forwarding to my day to day gmail account, as part of a transition away from using my personal domain. TBH the only reason I noticed this. I've also been amused at some of the spam I receive now, messages to random nonexistent accounts telling them they need to log into DOMAIN.
Just going to leave this here.

https://whywontgodhealamputees.com/
Anyone can buy an IMSI catcher from Alibaba for less than $3000
As an outsider, it seems like Google makes it easier to start something new. And, it's also heavily encouraged through promotions, "20% time" that doesn't quite exist anymore, etc. There doesn't seem to be a process anywhere that stops people from making another messenger. Or stops a lot of other things.

Working at other big internet companies, it was a lot harder to get a new thing going, and promising ideas would get abandoned after a while unless there was a way to work it into an existing product.
It's funny how your brain is able to convince you that the immediate consequence of "get fired" is "become poor," even though you have a five year buffer in which to regroup.

I'm afraid there's simply no amount of money that can possibly remove the feeling that everything could collapse at any moment. If your sense of security is predicated on continuing to possess money, you will always be vulnerable to the fear of losing it, no matter how much you accrue.

If you won the lottery tomorrow, what makes you think you wouldn't worry about losing that money too?
indeed, Exercism is a good resource — but our approaches are pretty different
It was pretty innovative, but it also showed such incredible hubris.

The famous post (now gone but referenced from [1]) about how they spend who-knows-how-long reimplementing scroll bars in the browser when the app was so janky it barely worked was the kind of thing that doomed it.

The HN discussion at the time is interesting too[2]

[1] http://ignorethecode.net/blog/2009/11/15/google_waves_scroll...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=943947
I’m interested in these “gRPC but we care about devs outside of Google” kind of libraries!

I see you’re working on generating idiomatic Typescript from Proto3 - but have you thought about generating Proto3 from Typescript? At Notion we have 1000s of lines of TS types and many TB of JSON stored in those shapes already. Rewriting all that to Protobuf by hand is kinda a non-starter. So we need to go the other direction at least initially.

I started on a Typescript type -> Proto3 compiler that’s very much still in the “toy” stage. I’m also working on compiling Typescript typed to Thrift, JSOMSchema and Python; I plan to experiment with Kotlin as well after the Proto3 target is a little less janky.

My work in progres branch is here, in case this is useful or you want to collaborate!

Proto3 compiler: https://github.com/justjake/ts-simple-type/blob/jake--compil...

Example input and output: https://github.com/justjake/ts-simple-type/blob/jake--compil...
This all screams building shortage to...? "Downtown Oakland’s vacancy reaches 32%"
https://therealdeal.com/sanfrancisco/2022/07/27/downtown-oak...
I don't think people really value online privacy all that much. They choose to use Facebook and Google despite everything. And there's always Chromium spinoffs like Brave and Edge with much better compatibility and similar protections. Firefox offers nothing special anymore.

And while Google isn't exactly benevolent, Chrome doesn't spam you with ads the way Firefox constantly does with its suggestions and whatever the hell Pocket is.
>Firstly, Microsoft's profit margins are significantly higher than Apple's

I was talking about profits Microsoft exclusively makes from selling the $99/$139 Windows licenses to consumer, not the profits of Microsoft entirely. Two different vastly different things.

>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.

I dunno. How much does it make selling an OS at the price of two video games, while supporting it with updates for 10 years and paying devs US salaries to work on it for those 10 years?

Enterprise customers are Microsoft's bread and butter as those also buy the full AD, Azure, O365, Outlook, etc. package plus pay for support, but I can't imagine they make much money selling just an OS and 10 years worth of development for only $99/$139 to consumers who don't buy anything else out of the Microsoft ecosystem.

Keep in mind that Windows 95 retail box would cost consumers $209($409 in today's money), and you imagine that Microsoft is now making a huge profit on selling Windows to consumers today at 25% the original price with the much higher complexity and development costs of today's software?

I wouldn't be surprised to learn that the consumer $99/$139 price points are actually loosing Microsoft money, similar how consoles are doing, but Microsoft is subsidizing it from the enterprise profits, to maintain the Windows market share monopoly, otherwise consumers would just switch to Linux if they had to pay more than a hundo for Windows.

In fact, you don't even have to pay for Windows (legal gray area). I activated my Windows 11 Pro copy with some CD key from Windows 7 I found online and it activated just fine. If Microsoft was actually making a profit on selling Windows licenses to consumers, they would have some serious DRM in place that would rival that of video-games, but the way I see it, it's not making them any money, which is why they don't bother enforcing even the most basic kinds of DRM, which in turn, explains to me why they penny pinch the $0.99.
There's different kinds of NIMBYs and they all have different motivations.

There's ones like Marc that are pretty classical.

There's also ones that will push back on the kinds of property people can own, but fully support saturating an area with rentals.

I don't think there's a challenge for voters here either. As the author points out, the real problem is listening to community feedback at all. It's undemocratic. Someone else needs to be in charge of how to fulfill the demands of the community at a higher level.
It's not about being a wall, or being uninteresting that gets me. Unlike most boring interviewers, he also positively makes me cringe. Like, I just can't.

I believe he is trying to emulate Prince Myshkin from The Idiot, but he has a profound misunderstanding
of what it means to be an Idiot in the way of the Prince, and so, he is only able to emulate the surface level behaviours but not the underlying identity.

I was watching his episode with Jaron Lanier, and because I loved what his guest had to say, I really had to push through all the cringe and force myself to watch it. The same thing has happened multiple times. Whenever I see an amazing guest on his podcast, I feel sad that I'll either have to skip it, or go through a painful experience.

It would be amazing if there was an alternate edited form of his podcast, where Lex is replaced with someone else who fills in whatever Lex is talking about in a concise way, just to keep the flow going. I would definitely watch something like that, solely because of his guest lineup.

Edit: I feel like this comment might be interpreted as too harsh, but just to clarify, I am not attacking his person. Interviewing is a skill, and I'm only criticizing his skills. If I tried interviewing, I might suck as well, but I wouldn't expect the kind of guests he gets.
Yes, that's the whole point of Land Value Tax, you tax only the value of the "unimproved land". This incentivizes density since the tax can be distributed among all the tenants.
I've been using it for probably 10+ years for planning. "Can my furniture fit and if yes, how?". It's kinda clunky to use but for free, I was always happy with it. Rendering a "photo" can be nice to imagine the place as well, even though the rendering process is slow and only on the CPU. Otherwise great program!
That's disingenuous, race is a protected class. High density housing isn't.

Sometimes we seem to like the idea of democracy, sometimes we don't. That's the tension here.
That’s a very expensive alternative compared to a VPN
You seem really angry at your employers. Because they whine and don't give away their money? Is it really partly because of their race? Hardly seems that serious. Or was it the contrast with your own wealth that hurt so much? Perhaps better for poor people not to live too close to rich people, for their own sanity?
That's an interesting find, did not know this was tracked. It also says there was a big increase in fatalites for all other races that were not black, white, asian, or american indian.
I like other people.
Stop anthropomorphisizing computers! They hate that!
Owner operators are very common, I think.

Anecdotally, as someone with a lot personal experience driving an RV down the road capped at 65mph, I get passed all the time by big trucks. I do see plenty that are likely governed at 65 though.
I don't think it is. Or that's not the only reason, because I've seen rich people waste vast amounts of money on frivolity and vanity.

It's power and superiority. It's not that they care about a relatively insignificant amount of money they might lose on paper, it's that someone else might have caused that or might have gained from it. Doubly so if that someone else is a little person.
You had homeless people because you didn't build enough housing; it probably wasn't densely populated enough then.

(Homelessness is caused by most of the old cheap forms of housing like SROs/boarding houses being made illegal, causing locals to fall out of the system when they can't afford the nicer types - this is why you see it in cities and not in, say, West Virginia.)
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Because they’re idiots.

Since I came back to driving trucks I have noticed a distinct lack of simple common courtesy and professionalism amongst my fellow drivers. My working theory is that all the “old hands” have retired and the current crop of drivers don’t know what it’s like to get yelled at on the CB for doing stupid stuff.

Plus they will let you train new drivers with only six months experience which isn’t enough. And the multitude of people from other lands where driving rules are basically “the largest vehicle has the right of way” who I see all the time running up a few feet off a car’s bumper going 80+ mph.

I don’t even think I’m falling victim to the “get off my grass” syndrome, these people are just idiots.
That's CRE vacancy. $300k will barely get you a condo in Oakland; $200k won't, it'll only get you random patches of dirt.

CRE vacancies are unsurprising. You may not have noticed, but we just had a huge multi-year pandemic that moved huge amounts of work out of offices and into homes.
> I am sorry for insulting accountants and I realise what wrote is too harsh (but hey this is the internet so ...).

No worries. I didn't mean to sound angry. I appreciate the apology, didn't think it was necessary, and understand where you're coming from. I think you have valid points. I am very bad at reading and writing tone in quick comments online. I agree that having accountants and mba types in charge isn't a great idea most of the time or that accountants are necessarily the best people on average, but I am wee bit biased here against such blanket statements regarding my profession, as an accountant anyways.
I know a man who isn't a billionaire but probably in the 50-100 million range. He sat down with me at a recent party we were at and talked about saving money on fuel with dockets via apps he uses when shopping. I was polite and interested. It was not a thing I expected to hear.

My take away was to just keep driving my small car, and not require such hustle to fill up a Range Rover. :D
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The bus company doesn't set the temperature, the individual drivers do. That should explain everything.
Considerations:
- put some effort into healthy lifestyle to roll back the years and appear younger : Age discrimination laws means they cant actually ask you age - just say "old enough, but not too old"
- after 20 years in the trenches, you should have enough accumulated wisdom to move up the ladder to an architect / team lead position. The alternative is arguing technical trajectories with peers / managers who know less than you, which can be frustrating
- market your broad and deep experience and insights built up over the years when you interview
Hah, awesome! That’s exactly the kind of thing I would’ve written if you and I had swapped places.

In my crowd, it was well known that you wanted to spend your duty evening inspecting the ship’s kitchens. Make sure the officers’ mess cooks didn’t have too rough of a time and they’d make sure you didn’t leave hungry.
>Community voice in community matters is bad? Local community decision-making should be removed from local governments?

Yes, pretty much every country that has sane housing policies and gets shit done, like Japan has elevated this to the national level with the power to break down obstructionism. Local decision making is notoriously corrupt. Be it the police, school boards, some union run rampart, the mob, homeowner associations or some business cartel, it's always local.

In fact if you want to pinpoint the central issue that paralyzes development in America it's the parochialism.
Nix fixes this. See https://tvl.fyi for experiments with rebuilding goog mono repo infra as nix. Specifically https://code.tvl.fyi - which uses josh to serve the mono repro as micro repos. Presenting “views” which have super fast ci/cd implications.
You’re welcome! It was a happy memory to share.
I would be curious to compare land value in Manhattan with that in Atherton. It's hard for me to believe that in the long run density lowers value in the US. Less dense cities and cheaper cities go hand in hand - look at all the less-dense-and-cheaper cities people move to from more-expensive-denser coastal California.
Horrible cherry picking. Take the average family income in the city and go from there. Also, there is an exceptional dirth of supply relative to the transactions as a result of rapid fed rate increases; with real estate always being a slow mover in reflecting market prices.
Honestly, I found this a bit insulting.
And now those woods are a new suburb, the empty lots a new target.
Web archive doesn't forget (some of those links):

https://web.archive.org/web/20091012020227/http://www.easier...

https://web.archive.org/web/20100308003557/https://www.compl...
High density housing isn't protected because we choose not to protect it. But that's changing, thankfully.
The community that lives and pay taxes will not have a voice about what gets built in their community? Then HOA s should not exist either and neither should business and first class in airplanes. City planners need to thoughtfully rezone as needed and strike a balance to preserve the interest of the tax payers of a neighborhood as well as allow new population housing needs. But to simply demonize a set of residents who live in a particular place for voicing their opinions is middle age witch burning mentality.
Why couldn't you switch to Github or an alternative? You seem to be implying GitLab has something unique that make those others non viable.
I don’t understand why people waste time manually rebasing pull requests when you can squash merge with one button and get essentially the same result. Not quite as bad as merging a bunch of commits that aren’t bisectable because they didn’t pass CI though.
Those people probably don’t fully understand how pervasive the tracking is. If they did, they would care. When Apple launched the tracking prompt in iOS, Facebook took out ads warning people how bad it was going to be for them, and the results proved their fears right. When asked, almost everyone chooses “no”, and I suspect many of the “yes”es are misclicks.
It's going fine. Housing isn't intended to be fixed by a single bill, there's new ones every year and SB9 will be easier to strengthen now that it's actually passed.

Some significant legal victories too: https://www.yimbylaw.org/the-general-plan-rules
Could it be that Microsoft is selling the codec extension because MPEG-LA would otherwise ask them to pay a fee for every single Windows installation with the codec included? and since Windows is very often pirated Microsoft would be paying fees for installations nobody paid for, effectively losing money.
I somehow went thirty-eight years in this life without realizing there was actually a double meaning behind that phrase.

Thank you for enlightening me.
The origin is that Windows 10 was a free upgrade (as Windows 11). Microsoft had similar codecs as optional in the past. It's all about licensing.

OEM can have their codec from elsewhere as any modern GPU includes it and pays licensing fees.

As a reminder, also Apple had similar things back in the days. Sadly I can not remember what it was good enough to find it. It was related to camera or video codec maybe a long time ago. (Hope someone remembers what it was)
I live in a townhome in a street single family homes on a street with apartment buildings and duplexes, and it's amazing. My children's friends live in homes ranging from 4000sqft palaces to 800sqft apartments, all within a few blocks. Mixed housing types in a community can be great. Too bad Atherton will never know the benefits.
There are plenty of very livable US college towns with medium-density downtowns, condos for far less than $1M, plenty of green space, and streets I'd feel comfortable letting my kids (if I had any) ride their bikes around. Bloomington, Indiana, Madison, Wisconsin, and Davis, California (granted, that last one isn't as affordable as the others) come to mind among places I've been to. I imagine places like Ann Arbor, Michigan and Champaign, Illinois rank up there too.
Same, but also adding targets for testing which are usable both by developers and CI and prints the tool version before executing it.

Greatly cuts down on the "tests pass on my system, not sure while it failed in CI"
How else would you expect people to react to a steaming pile of hypocrisy like this?
This always is made to sound easy but I can count on one hand the number of "habits" I successfully built around things I didn't want to do. Getting up in the morning to go to work vs skipping morning classes back in college is the main one. But it's still unpleasant and I still just do it because that's how I get paid, not because it's a "default." "Not eating as much junk food" was a slightly easier one - because you don't buy it once when doing groceries and then it's not available during the week - but exercise or other un-fun decisions you have to make every day? Nope.
If you're experienced enough to be comfortable with *nixes, try OpenBSD (it's actually simpler and easier than Linux IMO, but smaller+more elitist community and less hardware support). If not, I'd say your choice of Fedora is probably a decent one - it has a graphical installer, large community, and RedHat backing.

Ubuntu is decent, but they've had their own metadata-harvesting scandals, so I would avoid it since you care about privacy. Linux Mint might be a good alternative if you want to take advantage of being downstream from Debian (not worth as much nowadays as it used to be, but still very big).

For search engines, there are a few different strategies: you can use small independent search engines and hope they don't go evil, use a search engine based in a political adversary of your home country (they probably won't give data to your government), run a meta-search engine like searx or a p2p engine like yacy, use a VPN+separate browser for all non-official internet browsing (to avoid fingerprinting), or some combination of the above.
>If they said tomorrow that we had to pay $60 a month to get what we're getting now

0 to 60 overnight sounds like a very disastrous thing for a company to do, like a big ol bait and switch. I would immediately stop using that company and find alternatives, and I am guessing it will be the same for a lot of people too.

At 60usd a month for 5 people, a developer should be able to buy a few servers(~4) for less than $30-$40, selfhost something like gitea with drone.
Honestly CA should propose replacing the mess that is property taxes, prop 13, and it's follow ups, with a LVT that is a net neutral revenue for the state. For 90% of people that would be a tax cut, for those who wish to underuse valuable space, they can pay for it.
Rebasing is not that complicated, usually. (if people sending PRs make sure their code is working for each commit)
That "probability density function for summer temperature" is scary.

It's a pity it probably isn't going to be easy to communicate to laypeople because it is undoubtedly the correct way to talk about climate data.