skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let me summarize all the problems here:

1. In most of the US it is quite literally illegal to build anything other than single-family homes ("SFHs"). This is a form of NIMBYism and reduces housing supply;

2. Part of (1) is that absolute necessity of car ownership in the US. This is by design to keep the riffraff (ie poor people) out;

3. We need robust public transit infrastructure to give people the option of living somewhere where they don't need a car to survive;

4. Pretty much anywhere you can build SFHs, you should be able to build multi-family dwellings ("MFDs"). Homeowners that own an extra unit or two on the same site as where they live is about the most ethical form of supply private rentals;

5. More states need to follow California's model of blocking a lot of NIMBYism at the state level. This requires towns to have an housing plan for affordable housing;

6. Ultra-luxury housing needs to be taxed punitively;

7. Cities and states need to be in the business in providing social housing as a significant supplier of housing. Americans in particularly have a kneejerk reaction against this as "socialism" or it'll be propagandized as slum housing. Vienna is about 60% social housing. Use that as a model;

8. Certain classes of housing should be illegal for corporations to buy. I'm fine with a corporation owning and running an apartment building with 200+ units with a management office onsite where they handle all the maintenance. I'm not OK with corporations constricting supply by buying up all the SFHs in a state.

9. We need to remove a lot of the tax benefits for investment property ownership (eg 1031 exchanges);

10. We need to remove a lot of beneficial tax treatment for home ownership period (eg Prop 13 in California caps property tax increases, inheriting property on a stepped up basis for CGT purposes);

11. AirBnB for anything other than a room in your house or a unit on your property (so you too have to live with the consequences) should be illegal.

This isn't a demand side problem. It's a supply side problem but we also need to restrict certain types of demand (eg REITs buying residential housing en masse).
> almost all the discussions revolved around different types of alcohol - taste, brewing techniques, etc. Needless to say, I had zero opinion on this topic and it barred me from engaging in most discussions.

Where was this? As much as I'd love to discuss brewing techniques with my colleagues in tech, most don't have the slightest interest in it (most people who drink, don't), and I'm very surprised it was the dominant topic of conversation at a conference—to the point where I'm nearly convinced it never happened or the author is highly exaggerating the matter.
Time to bring back the merchant marine
But renting also guarantees you will never have negative equity.
> software power/reset

And if your software hangs? Hard buttons are a nice safety. Even one can be wired to some simple microcontroller that'll power cycle the entire device is held for 30 sec or some such thing. Doing it via a much more complex interface (touch, etc) isn't as foolproof
With inflation 9.1% and no action from Fed to limit it, 2.25% interest rate is a joke, there will be no short period when things will be super cheap.
My pixel broke (was running CalyxOS, lineage before that), and I had to get a quick burner phone to make work calls. Got a $200 dollar used samsung. I didn't realize what utter trash nonsense is loaded onto normal phones. It's absolutely bonkers what Samsung did to destroy Android with no value add.
It tasted like it cost about $6 too much for what it was
People have been making this argument since 1990.

The Federal Reserve MANDATES that consumer prices go up 2% per year. If house prices ever go down, they'll be there - waiting - to pump them up.

Prices will rarely ever go down substantially for a long period of time unless the Fed completely changes (I doubt it).

You can either:

1) try to time the market (difficult in housing, I'd argue not as impossible as equitities)

2) buy into the bubble

3) hope that the US basically turns into a different country

4) be ruined financially by missing out on the biggest handout in the history of the world (the 30-year fixed negative real interest rate mortgage)

Pick your poison.
That just means they can’t sniff anything in transit. If the laptop is managed by Apple (they were an Apple employee) they have full access to an endpoint.
People want to live near peers. Low income housing creates problem areas and people don't want to live near problem areas.
I own mine. The costs are significantly lower than the rent I was paying until last year.

So you want to outlaw renting?

You could make an argument against private renting. Personally I think the right step at this point in time is a relaxation of anti-construction laws such as zoning or parking requirements combined with charging sky-high taxes for unoccupied units. I also think owning single-family dwellings you don't spend at least three months a year in should be taxed so outrageously it's effectively illegal.
And I think your hunch is about as correct as your rationale for posting the M1 graphic without reading the note below it or noticing that it jumped 4-fold in a single month.
>[the human brain] cannot be modelled mathematically in a way that allows them to operate inside a computer.

This would be one of the most significant discoveries made in the last century. For me, a layman in the relevant fields and subfields, to entertain the possibility I think I would need to be reading a news article about, like, a precocious Stanford grad student and his prepublication causing controversy in academic circles.
Without NASA there would not be a SpaceX.
In the UK social housing has a bad reputation because poor people are far more likely to just be nightmares to live nearby.

I lived in one throughout my entire childhood. Around half of people were OK, the other half just generally dickheads.

That has 0 to do with racism. Many UK towns have trivial populations of non-"White British".

The problem is mostly that over time (years or generations) poverty gradually turns people into a shell of what a well adjusted human could otherwise be.
Yes. Encrypt everything everywhere always. It's easy.
No this is not true, you can’t be denied medical treatment in the US even if you don’t have the ability to pay it.
There are different ways to cook the numbers. In particular, there are different kinds of costs.

In nukes, capex (capital expenditure) absolutely dominates. That has to be amortized over all energy produced over the working life of the plant. Opex (operating expense) in nukes is also high in comparison to renewables', dominated by maintenance: overhauling steam turbines, inspections, repairs; and 24/7 staff and security. Fuel cost is low compared to coal, but far from negligible. There are hidden costs usually not counted, such as liability insurance always paid directly by taxpayers. Paying that out of revenue would price nukes' power completely out of the market, assuming any insurance company could afford to cover it at all. And there is decommissioning cost, a substantial fraction of capex.

If the plant is mothballed early because it cannot produce at a competitive price, its cost for all the kWh already delivered suddenly jumps because its capex can be amortized over only those kWh. Similarly, if it is operated only at night, its per-kWh cost doubles because it costs about the same per day whatever its output.

Usually existing nukes are compared to renewables with the nukes' capex, liability, and decommissioning costs artificially pinned to zero, but counting the full capex of the renewables, because those have to be built before they can produce. Renewables' opex is very close to zero.

Maintaining a big steam turbine is remarkably expensive. Nuke plants are built with spares because they spend so much time down for overhauling.
Understanding Authentication, Authorization, and Encryption
"Let's only talk about what everybody likes. If someone isn't into it, they will feel excluded."
DirtyCred' Vulnerability Haunting Linux Kernel for 8 Years
I don't think it's very fair. As a library developer myself, you try to make you user lives easier, which implies being flexible in what you accept when possible. A couple of examples I struggled with recently:

Documenting https://umbrellajs.com/documentation#addclass. The way I documented it is by opening with a code snippet with many of the possible options (which can also be combined!):

.addClass('name1')
.addClass('name1 name2 nameN')
.addClass('name1,name2,nameN')
.addClass('name1', 'name2', 'nameN')
.addClass(['name1', 'name2', 'nameN'])
.addClass(['name1', 'name2'], ['name3'], ['nameN'])
.addClass(function(node, i){ return 'name1'; })
.addClass(function(){ return 'name1'; }, function(){ return 'name2'; })

This is pretty easy to do in plain JS, and of course if you are writing code and using it you just read the first 1-4 lines and know what to do for 99% of the cases, while also noticing there's few "advanced/flexible" ways of using it. How would you even do that in TS?

Then there's a classic initializer in JS that works like this:

function myLibrary(arg) {
if (!(this instanceof myLibrary)) {
return new myLibrary(arg);
}
...
}

This is very useful to create a library like jquery that you can initialize straight away without needing (but also being able to use) the `new` keyword, just calling it like a function and always ensures it returns an instance. To this day I haven't found a way of doing this in TS.
By 'the standard' do you mean POSIX? Or has that been added to a C standard?

Either way, in general I'd agree this is an excess of pedantry and I don't really see an issue with using _t for types if that works for you.
Wavelength - Apple platform group chat app centered around threads
I never said US is horrible: it is a magnificient country, and people are very friendly and welcoming to strangers (in familiar settings).

But they are also very fearful of others at the same time. The article talks of refugees encountering 5 other boats which wouldn't help them before the author did.

My (completely unsubstantiated, iow, my gut feel) claim is that they are a bit more fearful of other people being out to get them than people from most European countries. Think of it like 35% of Europeans would help vs 25% of Americans (again, numbers completely fabricated, or pulled out of my behind): a small percentage points difference, but a huge relative difference.
I feel like this archetype (wanting to have fun, make friends, etc) is actually very common, at least around SF/SV. I bet you'll find it soon enough.

If I can be candid (and hopefully still amicable) behind my random-string username, I do have to say: I don't get the approach, though.

Can you help me understand? Why does it really matter if you can share dank memes with your coworkers or have fun little in-jokes?

Isn't it far, far more important to find out things like: How do people communicate? How do people disagree with each other? Are people able to separate emotions and ego from the team's work output and outcomes? What values does each person want to embody in the work that they produce? Are people willing to sacrifice momentary comfort for genuine personal growth?

Maybe I'm a grumpy old man. Maybe I've just been burned too many times by companies promising a "fun" work environment where "everyone is friends" -- only to discover what they actually mean is an environment where harmony and comfort are valued above all else. The net result (in my anecdotal experience) is an atmosphere of passive-aggressive collaboration and mediocre work, because even the slightest hint of disagreement is shut down brutally instead of being talked through and genuinely resolved.

I'm not really disagreeing with you, because, like I said, I've seen so many people who want what you describe. I only wonder: How does it work? What happens when a colleague treats you unprofessionally? What happens when one person is dragging down the team?

In your live/love/laugh philosophy, how do you have meaningful, uncomfortable, worthwhile conversations that result in a genuine, deep relationship forged through facing hard truths together?
No idea about if it’s the last train out of town but home ownership in the US is extremely high[0] (it ought to be we subsidize it like crazy).

If you go back to 1900 you see home ownership rates in the US at less than half of households[1]

The interesting thing to me is how conflated home ownership has become with housing affordability. As we’ve doubled the numbers of home owners we’ve dramatically removed the options for housing.

[0] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RHORUSQ156N

[1] https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/dec/coh-owner...
Horrible ideas spread even when challenged, because of human failings. Terrible people will find ways to justify or simply not care what others think of their beliefs. Sunlight does not always disinfect.
Absolutely. Levelling up is a case in point. Sounds good and wins votes but never any serious intention to follow through.
You sign with your private key. You’re using the public key as an identifier to tell your git client which key to use, since git can use the public key to confirm it’s using the right private key.
I don't know if I am too stupid or too smart, but I use signed when some number can be negative and unsigned when it cannot. Of course I am aware of their differences other e.g. when they wrap, and act accordingly.
It's unfortunate, but there is no solving it. There will always be a topic that lots of people are focused on in practice or discussion that is going to be annoying for others.

For me, in the southeast USA, it's football. It's the primary topic for a lot of people in most social settings for 1/3rd of every single year. I don't know anything about it and don't care, so I just have to leave those conversations. It's unfortunate, but it's how it is.

Alcohol is even harder, because the vast majority of places set up for casual socialization are focused on food and drink. Even if you have events at a park, rock climbing gym, or art studio, the people who like alcohol are going to want to have drinks available, and if you don't have drinks available fewer people are likely to come.

Not drinking is an incredibly healthy choice that I respect people for making. But you are in the minority in a lot of places, and being in the minority means still having to interact with the majority, who is going to want to partake and discuss their mutual interests.
If you can repair a modern mac, you can follow a guide to fix a 10 year old one just fine. It's just screws, flex cables, and glue in more recent models. The supply chains still exist though through third parties. I bought a flex cable on ebay for a 10 year old computer that was $7 from China.
People who want privacy use Tutanota & Protonmail, not hackers. Maybe some hackers use those services, but the majority I imagine are doing it to stop their inbox being read by arbitrary surveillants.

Also many hackers are cypherpunks and love anything encrypted, so I can see the correlation to be made there, but again, those people are like 0.001% of the encrypted inbox users.
That's an empirical question and I am not sure we know the answer to that yet. Impossible Burger definitely sound worse for cardiovascular health than broccoli or beans, but is it worse than meat? I am still agnostic.
Knocking-out twitter (used by journalists and govs) during a crisis IS a security concern.
America is not Europe. It will never be Europe. Things that work in Europe may not work in America, and vice-versa.
first, if you truly believe that, i have a bridge to sell you in arizona. economists make unwarranted claims buttressed by biased models all the time.

second, that's ultimately a racist argument disguised behind safetyism, neither of which have a leg to stand on. every unwanted child still wants to grow up, be they poor or brown or whatever. let's welcome them rather than paint them over with disgust and wanton disposability.

besides, the point was not to debate abortion, but that it's an (wedge) issue used to distract and divide, rather than focusing the populace on the most pressing problems we face. covid, mass shootings, or climate change (as opposed to pollution) are suitable alternative distractions to consider in place of abortion.
Yeah - but that's dumb bullshit. He can't legally pull out because of that.

He waived all of that to force Twitter to agree to the deal (because it'd be basically impossible for the board to reject it). This made sense at the time, because the board was looking for ways to weasel out of it because (imo) they politically don't like Musk. Then the market crashed and suddenly he was overpaying a ton for Twitter, then he complains about bots (this isn't new information from when he made the deal).

Whether or not the bots thing is true isn't even relevant based on the deal he put forward.

I think he earnestly wanted to buy Twitter for principled reasons around speech which I agree with. He structured the deal in such a way where Twitter's board couldn't reject it (because it was so favorable to shareholders). Then when the market tanked the deal way overpriced Twitter, but he had already committed to it so he's trying everything to get out of it. I suspect he actually believes the things he's arguing (he's always seemed pretty earnest to me), I just think he's wrong in this case and it's mostly driven by motivated reasoning.

That doesn't mean Twitter isn't a disaster, just that they're in the right with regard to him having to close the deal.
Interesting thanks. Yeah, I had smoked products down as something unusually unhealthy compared to the taste benefits. Interesting to learn about liquid smoke.
I did not say this. I am not here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYnF17oKutQ

Tim Apple in the Eye Phone 9000
Are you talking about the budget deficit? It’s not really like a pot you only look into when times are hard since it’s constantly known.

I really like your metaphor, but it is misleading.
Airbnb: Vulnerability Management at Scale
I'm quite happy with Termux on Android. Allows me to rsync my data for backup or imports, I can ssh into real Linux machines, process images with ImageMagick, etc. Sharing documents from inside other apps works too (you can set up scripts in Termux as receivers). Sure, full control of a device would be great, but I'm better off with Android after I migrated from IOS.
I love how they act when their propaganda machine gets debunked

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32371080
The world needs more guillotines
I did some time ago. However by that time my bash version was better, and most of the interval timers were fitness based. I'll have to take another look.
"Although it remains unclear when the new superchip will be widely available, "
At the time, the "base rate" of vaccination was already up around 90%, so the 60% rate in hospitalised patients actually demonstrated significant protection.
I'm not talking about building in someone's front yard. If you sell me a piece of land that you own, and it is now legally mine, should I be able to build a house on it? That itself is practically impossible to do in 99% of cases in most major cities in the US. A city like San Francisco approves like 7-10 shovel-ready housing projects a year, and fewer actually get completed.
I have had a different experience in tech consulting. Networking was an explicitly required part of the job, and it was a category in my performance evaluation.
Feature being implemented
Ehh... the answer is it kind of works well, but it really depends on what you're doing since you're running an x64 application (Visual Studio) on an ARM version of Windows running on a Mac M1 in parallels.

.NET development and in particular stepping through debugging is particularly slow, though I guess we should be happy it works at all.
Should CEOs be politically public? An authenticity tax is emerging
The problem is not AI - many of the best "AI" publications are open source after all. The problem is that hardware vendors do not provide access to their signal processing chip's internals. It is damn near impossible to even make a phone call these days without some obscure binary blob or magic chips that nobody knows what they do but are able to control every aspect of a phone.
This is a matter of opinion.

I wrote a set of React components that gets 46,000 npm downloads a month and typescript is a godsend. My library is a bridge between two heavily popular projects, so my dependency tree is fairly intertwined. The library solves a real user problem and does it efficiently. It isn't totally perfect, but it covers 98% of the use cases.

I wrote comprehensive tests as I developed everything. I have good documentation. I have an example app people can play with. I have codesandboxes. Yes, it was a lot of work, but that's what building products is all about.

I've maintained this library for over 3 years now. I've upgraded it many times as the underlying dependencies have changed. A few times with backwards incompatible changes. I get outside contributors doing great work.

I do releases on a regular basis, without worry, because my test suite is that good and because I know that if the underlying types change, tsc will catch that too. These things have saved me countless hours of work finding bugs and fixing issues.

In other words, I call bullshit on this entire blog post. Ignore it. Typescript is the correct solution. What is the alternative? Just using JS and letting things break without knowing it? Come on.

Learn how to use types. Learn how to use a professional IDE, like IDEA, that shows you what's wrong as you develop. Learn how to write tests. Learn how to use a debugger. These are all things any decent developer should know and practice on a regular basis.
> I've never known anyone who would think less of someone for not drinking alcohol.

Eh, I don't know how "wasted/buzzed" people get a professional social outings but I think after about 2 drinks there's a pretty good disconnect between "I'm buzzed and you're stone sober and the conversation just isn't on the same level as if you were drinking instead"
We (people) must recognize that housing is a finite resource and is a variable in a major humanitarian crisis.

Owning a second house for rent-seeking behavior should require a license like using any other scarce natural resource.

Like occupying a river for selling bottled water or digging ground oil.

It should not be a no-barrier free-for-all speculative endeavor.
is there way to automate poster building? i mean i was looking for something like this?

a simple example would be how office diaries are made. the frontpage is same but the name is changed for each customer.

maybe your software can do this programatically mail-merge style? like we give a template, we give client list and boom, indiviual poster for each client?
I started working on this[0] a while back. Got pulled away by something that has a clearer business model, but I think "helping people drink less" (or not at all) is a real market. I'd be interested to invest in anyone that's building something that does this.

0 - https://stopping.app/
Should be linked to this previous HN story "Tracking Everything I Wore For 1 Year" from 52 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31957210

I noticed in that previous story that the author spent almost the entire year wearing dark monochromatic gray clothes and very very dark shades of blue.

One theory I would propose is followers follow, and if everything around a person from house colors to car colors to, well, everything, is bland and colorless, then they will follow, and drive even more people into blandness, until essentially everything is merely a shade of gray.
A lot of people will assume if you won't drink alcohol that you have a problem with overindulgence, not knowing your limits - not that you have some puritanical avoidance on principle.