skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> is meant for affordable housing and to move vote banks from other counties

We have this in New York. It's far from as cancerous as the situation in California. When Marc Andreessen is talking about building housing in California while screaming about it in his backyard, you have the poster child for the problem [1].

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-18/atherton-...
So how many projects do you build in Brainfuck?

After all, you don’t care about the details, as long as the language enables you to output something useful, and Brainfuck is Turing complete, so that checks your only box, yeah?

…or maybe using the wrong tools is a terrible idea, and you really ought to care more about the details.
I always thought Hello World was the dumbest example. Useful examples are always better.
If you happen to ever be in Pittsburgh I recommend Cafe 33. Excellent mala fried chicken.
This argument is patently ridiculous - according to this logic everyone has "free speech" in that they are able to express themselves even if they are attacked for it with physical violence.
USB has incredibly high latency, and more importantly, non-deterministic latency

Seeing that RME's USB 2 interfaces manage to stream like 50 or more 24bit audio channels at 48kHz with buffer size small enough to get latencies in the mSec ranges, I always wonder: are other manufacturers just doing it wrong? I know that doesn't completely cover the non-determinism argument, but 'incredibly high' seems to be covered pretty well.
Thanks for this resource!
I would just like my dog to align with gravity when pooping. Come on dog, that's going roll right back into your feet..
That's a fundamental problem with jet engines. They can be made smaller, but they don't get proportionally cheaper. Many people have tried. But human-rated jet engines don't seem to get cheaper below 6-passenger bizjet size.
This is why light aircraft are still mostly powered by reciprocating engines.

NASA and Williams tried to crack that problem in the 1990s, without success.
The problem is gas is cheaper and more reliable than any alternative. It could have gone with Nuclear, but then it would have priced itself out of 101 industries decades ago. You can't blame them for taking cheap Russian gas to keep jobs and prosperity for a few decades...
I’m sure they’ll eventually make those available on gnu.org. This doesn’t look like an announcement that the book is generally ready, but that the first draft is ready enough for people to make suggestions. I’m sure they’ll have PDFs and webpages on gnu.org eventually, right next to their other manuals.
It's also a bit less relevant when everything is so fast. I used Gentoo on a cheap-for-the-time Pentium 133MHz. Gentoo was basically the difference between a modestly pleasant system and an unusably slow system if I tried to run a standard still-compiled-for-386 distro on it.

I've long since stopped worrying about it because on the systems I run, which are not top-of-the-line but aren't RPis either, it's not worth worrying about anymore for most programs. At most maybe you should target the one particular program you use that could use a boost.
If housing is not an option for reasons articulated comments, could all this empty very (eventually) cheap high rise real estate become vertical farms? At what price point do the economics work for this?
Replying to myself, seems like I went to 1password.community which is the first result I get when I search. I guess this goes to show for the perils of having to be high in the search rankings.
Show HN: A simple plug-in webhook module for Golang
Hi HN!

iron hook is a module that abstracts away some of the pains of implementing webhook functionality in your webapp.

It features a simple endpoint verification procedure, it can accept your own pre-configured http client and persists state using GORM.

This is one of my first OSS contributions so I'd love some feedback :)
SMILE NOD AND AGREE
Except people will pay extra for windows...
Google is not really the point. The point is that there’s a single standard. Doesn’t matter who’s it is to me.

> The "fragmentation" you're talking about here is competition though, there isn't really any downside to having a bunch of different popular browsers and the upside is that none of them get to do anything crazy knowing there's no serious alternative so you can't leave.

If this is your opinion then what difference does it make if there’s a monopoly? You can use Firefox or Safari no?

Not to mention chromium is open source. Anyone can fork it, like Brave in FTA. I don’t see any downsides, given that you can disable and features you object to.
> Crime is rampant

According to the data, crime in SF is lower that it was a few years ago: https://www.city-data.com/crime/crime-San-Francisco-Californ...

> Drug use and filth is everywhere.

Voters can’t seem to wrap their head around better housing policies to get people off the street. It’s disappointing, the entire Bay Area is guilty of this.
I still remember in 1996 searching for GNU online only to discover they weren’t running on their own domain, instead something buried on (IIRC) mit.edu.

I also couldn’t find any gcc binaries for Solaris online, had to steal a copy from my school’s IT administrator to help get a startup up and running.

They definitely have serious challenges with inertia.
"radio" in this case refers more to 'cheap equipment played in a noisy environment'. Back in the 70s ~ 80s that meant car speakers playing over road noise. Now it's cheap ear bud or tinny bluetooth xyz playing over road noise / transit / coffee house ambient noise. It's not how the music gets to you, it's the environment you (most people, that is) hear it in. And on top of that, for most of the audience, it's background noise. So to catch your attention, it gets mastered as 'loud' as possible. Because the next / previous tracks in the playlist are. And so it goes.
Elites constrain candidate choice and voters are too distracted staying afloat to demand different. City officials are not expected to do better.
The Content Brain for Creating Online
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I suspect this will inevitably be blamed on greedy capitalist building owners, but the crazy tax assessors have some blame here, too. They value these buildings in the hundreds of millions of dollars and asses taxes based on that valuation - and that was "ok" because the building owners could extract that kind of value from the buildings by raising the rents. Now they can't - but the valuation and the taxes owed stay the same. If they hadn't tried to squeeze every last tax dollar out of the real estate market in the first place, the buildings wouldn't have become so expensive to begin with.
Can we prevent a volcano erupting? No. Can we prevent a lab leak? Yes. I wonder why people are soooo resistant to this idea and make up a myriad bad arguments.
What crimes will drug users commit if drugs are legally available like alcohol?
On September 12 I'll be officially starting as President of Signal
Methane is useless as a fuel without oxygen.
Agree, but will never ever happen thanks to commercial RE mafia errrr lobby...
Most of the commercial RE is vacant but still somehow get tax breaks and they also keep the rents very inflated. I don't buy this argument of "this is not fit to be a home" - neither are the streets, parks and sidewalks. The commercial RE mafia err the lobby is very powerful and they will protect their interests no matter what. These spaces are already up to code for fire and habitability. They have bathrooms. All you need to do is put more bathrooms and have small 10x10 rooms like they have in Japan with a bed, coat hanger, table and chair. This is just temporary to house the homeless and get them off the streets. Give preference to folks that have a job. To make is sweeter for the owners, the city can keep the tax breaks that they already get for keeping the place vacant and get rid of all other tax breaks given to the commercial RE folks.
"Could"
> New developments blocked by renters.

I wonder how much of this is renters who feel they are just one IPO or acquisition away from being owners.
Does https://workflowy.com/ have enough features?
Yeah, I think the "ambiguous cylinders" are more impressive. I've implemented some of his figures and made available for download here: https://github.com/Matsemann/impossible-objects

What's cool about these is that they're tangible. And for some of the shapes, it works well even when looked at with two eyes (which supposedly should tell your brain the trick) and from not the perfect angle.
Be a smidge more tolerant and don't worry about it.

Unless someone is actively trying to get you to join something ...

From an atheist perspective religion is just another form of ideology and there is plenty of that going around. 'Socially acceptable' ideologies with respect to all sorts of things are common in the workplace, we mostly just go on about our business because it's usually not hugely relevant.

The world is full if interesting things, be thankful you're not being pressed into the Russian Army or thrown in jail because you look a bit different.
It's fine to block new residential developments if you also block new commercial developments.

Maintain a ratio of residential to commercial and you don't have housing crunches and can keep your city at the density your residents choose.
Right, but I often leave notes in my login items themselves. If the account doesn't use an email address to authenticate I might just put the email address in so if that email ever gets shut down I know which accounts need to be migrated, as an example of why I might do that.
You're avoiding the question. Your claim is that making DDoS attacks illegal infringes upon your right to freedom of speech. My question to you is, since freedom of speech is the freedom to express ideas, what idea does performing a DDoS attack express?
The link is to the git hosting platform for GNU that contains the texinfo source and seems more intended as an announcement to those that want to get in early and build the manual for themselves. I'm sure it will ultimately be posted in html form on gnu.org, like every other manual.

I'm honestly shocked to see rms using git. He used to refuse to use it.
They published the home address of the family of a trans child and their members physically showed up in person to harass and intimidate that family for years for the crime of existing.

https://old.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/comments/x76vck/...
I've being wondering about this myself for a personal project.

I don't want to have to code the project in multiple native languages, and likely wouldn't be able to without massive amounts of time learning each language.

Similarly I want access to native APIs, some of which browsers don't have. And I don't want to run a website to host my app.

I'm currently learning dart/flutter due to this. IMO it is the answer. You may disagree.
It looks like they get annual shipments. That requirement seems like it would be a show-stopper for Mars, right? I mean we can queue up shipments so that they get a constant yearly train, but there will be times where the trajectories to Mars aren't very favorable I think...

McMurdo is useful at least as a science mission, in the sense that it studies a part of the planet that humans live on. There is basically an infinite number of empty, dead rocks out there in space -- we shouldn't waste research focus on this particularly large one that happens to be nearby.
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Look at what happens when drug use is legalized and regulated. Did crime spike with weed legalization in any major city?

Other drugs are worse on both user and their environment (including alcohol), but they're not the source of the other problems. Rather, we are, when we reject such people and force them to live in squalor with no options.

I don't think _anyone_ has a legitimate justification to be smoking mystery substances on the street corner like I see, but that alone doesn't make them criminals unless _we_ make it so through our policies.
The religion analogy is unnecessary. The FSF is a non-profit with the goal of fostering free software. As a non-profit, their actions and their investments are focused on their goal, not on becoming profitable.

As an example, RMS himself actually recommends the dual licensing model of Qt for organizations looking to make a profit and contribute to the free software movement. With that model, the software is available under a copyleft license (GPL) and a proprietary commercial license (for those willing to pay)

But as the FSF is not focused on profits (again, because they’re a non-profit organization), all of their software is exclusively licensed using copyleft licenses like GPL and LGPL. Not because it’s a “religion”, but because it’s literally the entire goal of the organization.
Modern space elevator designs (starting from Brad Edwards’s NIAC study in the early 2000s) propose something much closer to a tether than a tower, maybe some hundreds of tons in total mass and shaped like a gossamer-thin ribbon. The worst-case failure mode of such a design would be rather anticlimactic.
In The city
You're screwed when you rent a home or office.
You're screwed when you own a home.
You're screwed when you eat.
You're screwed when you drink.
You're screwed when you commute.
You're screwed when you walk the streets.
You're screwed when you (pay) park your car on the street.

homeless? neglected
commuters? neglected
business owners? neglected
public workers? neglected
tourists? neglected

I just don't know what sort of people the city wants ?
First off, thank you for the comment!

I was an early adopter (0.3 !) of go-ipfs. I was experimenting in shifting massive public scholar data archives to it, and then referring to blocks to remix content in other archives. Naturally, I was thinking this could be applied to Internet2 for even faster transport of bulk data. (I was also playing around with private IPFS clouds for sensitive data.)

At the time, on a 1Gbps connection to the internet, I was getting consistently 115MBps, or 92% of linespeed!

However, when I poked further at the protocols, there were definite things I wasn't happy with. Naturally, without providing metrics to point at (and refute... sigh "fud"), I did notice that go-ipfs was a HOG. We all know it. It's getting better, for sure, but yeah. Found that one out when I got TOS'd off of a VPS provider when I started using 80% of cpu and 90% ram. Then again, $5/mo dealer :D

Outside of an academic setting, my other concern for me-hosting was that when I joined the network, it was putting every network adapter into the dHT as my machineID. I get why, so that local nodes could talk with each other to reshare highly requested content. But I'm definitely a "least surprise" kind of person, and having my internal IP4 and IP6 addresses put online was definitely a big surprise.

I also remember the old discussions of how to handle the /tor/(onionsite) network connection, and how it appeared to get tabled/scrapped, over issues on how to do so without violating anonymity beyond the onion-name. I remember back in the day on IRC helping 2 people who mostly figured that out, or at least got it to emit a sacrificial IP.

Again, I still disagree with not putting something like Tor or I2P in the limelight with "Offer these files via Tor/I2P". Doing this would allow all the peer command to probe who's offering and who's downloading a way to do so without outing your whole network. It would also have a nice side-effect of increasing the size of Tor/I2P and thus also strengthening those networks.

And quite frankly, given that FileCoin was meant to pay others to host your content, its the cryptocoin I have least issues with. It makes sense, and seems to be grounded in reality of finite storage/bandwidth. And IPFS is completely usable on your machines without paying a cent in filecoin. Seems like a win-win, honestly.
> "Housing is an investment that should only go up in price" will eventually kill any market

It doesn't have to. Housing can be affordable while going up in nominal terms.

Neither do I think most San Francisco homeowners think about housing supply strategically. They're pissed off about a specific view being blocked. Or construction noise. Or their area's average rent going up. (?!?) Alternatively, they're comfortable and can't imagine someone might be better off housed in worse conditions, cheaply, than struggling to make rent in a decked-out flat.
By what metrics is NYC doing "great"? The amount of crime and visible urban decay/blight seems just as pronounced (in Lower Manhattan) as it does in San Francisco
> One has also to acknowledge that the economic sanctions and the military support for Ukraine are also very hostile moves.

Indeed. It is a good start but shame we aren't doing more.
I do ask myself how long the WFH trend is going to last. My hypothesis is that at some point in the next 5 years we're going to starting seeing articles on HN promoting the productivity and well-being benefits of in-person interaction with your co-workers.

From where I'm standing, productivity doesn't look so great. It's an open secret in my remote-heavy, North American west-coast social circle that everyone knocks off at 1-2pm when the east coast people are definitely logged off. Probably the east coast people are doing the same thing, but in the morning. Lots of happily phoning it in.

And many of these same folks have a propensity to being shut-ins. A few of the more outdoorsy types are out there living their best lives.

But from a large-scale, long-term economic competitivity standpoint, this arrangement doesn't feel sustainable. I pose myself the question: What will be the confluence of circumstances that will demand that we take our jobs more seriously?

Edit: speling
I didn't know NY set laws for the rest of the country as well.

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/myth...
It might be harder to find a better manager, but it's far easier to leave.
I think people who get their email on their own domain generally consider it as their permanent home and don’t think about what will happen when the domain no longer is registered to them. Using the apartment rental analogy works up to a point. With an apartment you can get the postal service to forward your mail to a new address. With a domain name there is no way to get this to happen. Whoever holds the registration controls the MX record and can do whatever they want.
(I’m outside of the edit window)

When I ask “how can you trust the company”, I don’t mean to imply that the founders have less than good intentions. But once you take VC money, the founders intentions don’t mean much.

I’m sure the founders of both Instagram and WhatsApp - just two companies that come to mind where the founders were idealistic and they were hit hard with the reality stick once they got acquired - really believed that their company wouldn’t change for the worse once they were acquired.
I write highly complex SQL for a living so I don't think I'm the best person to comment on it - I have found that pretty much anything you want to do can be done with pure SQL and the resultant mass is usually going to yield much better performance over mixed solutions... but I haven't used dbt so my comments are more directed at traditional mixed solutions (like sequentially submitted queries being stitched together in C++/PHP or pruning and joining multiple ORM delivered results into a full in memory data set). The way I usually like to write mixed SQL is preparation, execution, cleanup - have a blob of complex logic to preprocess the request into the appropriate SQL recipe - execute said recipe - then go back to imperative programming land to apply any different sourced joins (i.e. combine a DB query result with something coming back from OpenSearch, a memcached query or some other non-relational database source) apply any complex customization and value cleanup (like pulling data out of a JSONB blob and actually sending it as a plain array to the consumer) and then shuffling it off to whoever requested it.

Again, I don't feel comfortable commenting on any tool I haven't personally used and I hope that was helpful - if you have any other questions I'm happy to try and answer.
Thanks for the kind words. So, you use Conversations for SMSes too? The SIM card in your phone is just a mobile internet thing, you don't actually use it to make calls? I'm curious about your usage. :)
Good on you for validating the study!

FWIW, the study says they only do it when the magnetic field is calm, which was only 20% of the time (it says).
There is nothing admirable about actively blocking progress by refusing to admit that you are unsuitable for your role as a representative an ambassador of a movement, unpopular to the point of hundreds of organizations criticizing you remaining in a leadership role / refusing to work with your org until you leave, and generally being ineffective.

Stallman should have passed the torch twenty years ago. Open source as a movement would have progressed far more if it had been represented by someone with a more pragmatic view and a modicum of basic social skills, instead of an inflexible, dogmatic, anti-social asshole.
As someone who moved to ID because I have in laws in the area I can tell you it is a terrible place, no one should move here, the locals are rude and crude, it is freezing 8 months out of the year.

Everyone here is an avid Trump supporter and openly racist. They drive big pickup trucks everywhere. The mountains are too far away and horrible, everything here is terrible in every way no one should move here the entire state is terrible. The fish have 3 eyes and it is ugly as sin year round, again days 10 below are 0 are common and the roads are never taken care of. Thousands die every year trapped in their home from their houses freezing solid.

Again I warn you stay away Idaho sucks, tell all your friends. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1o33skCSN8

EDIT: Bug, bugs are everywhere, every horrible thing you have ever heard about any state multiple by 6 and Idaho is still worse. Everyone is carrying a gun everywhere, because you have to constantly shoot away wild animals and other people that try and maul you and eat you. If you've ever played a game in the Fallout series that is what all of Idaho is like. Idaho sucks tell all your friends.

EDIT EDIT: If you've already moved to ID it's not too late you can still escape to somewhere better, flee flee for your lives.

3rd EDIT: There is no shopping here either, Amazon can take over a week to deliver, we mostly barter at the country general store in potatoes, not to mention children are mauled by the dozens by bears just walking home from school, which is a one room school house 40 miles away. We have the worst schools in the country. Stay away if you value your children's future.
It'd be even cheaper if they'd quit doing drugs.
I was half-way ready to expect that this article is about about Millennium Tower
Yes. The two-step tables are really not that expensive and they enable features not possible with range and binary search, like identifying the category of a character cheaply.
I've known many marijuana and alcohol users in my time, some of them quite heavy users. I can't say any of it led to crime.
In Vancouver, Canada, you could have ordered your unsigned char at the C restaurant. It seems permanently closed now. EXIT_FAILURE?
Well, it's going to be a crash when all of our 401(k) and pension money that was shuffled into the "always increasing" real estate market last year disappears.
On an operating system in which everything appears in the filesystem and file descriptors can be passed between processes, isn't that just a file descriptor ?
I'm not asking for something full of animations.

I'm just asking for something modern and useful, like GitHub and Gitea.

The total opposite of Savannah.