skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It doesn't have to. Housing can be affordable while going up in nominal terms.

For how long? If housing is a good investment, eventually the cost of housing will outpace the ability of new entrants to the market to afford it. If you're already "in the market", you might be OK. But if you're not, even the down payment may be completely out of reach.
Crime can be down but still remain rampant. Your own link says that crime in SF is "higher than in 94.1% of US cities".
Ouch. Two flags that should reasonably stop this, and neither do. This feels a bit like the time I was told "No, -wAll does not in fact add all warnings".
I think a turning point in my perspective as an adult is being hesitant to change. Current generations laugh at people who were resistant to telephones or something - but I’d certainly not want to leave Earth and live on the moon or Mars.

Edit: but cool technology I suppose
Was that really necessary? Like him or not, he is still somewhat of a legend. For all those denigrating someone as being too old, they might look in the mirror. You will end up "too old" one day too. And faster than you think.
A former boss still tells people about the time he emailed an address at gnu.org to inform them that a mirror was broken, and made the mistake of using "linux", and got a page-long rant from Stallman himself about how it was "gnu/linux"

...and nobody fixed the FTP site.
ACA plan quality varies a ton based on where you are, which can make it either an OK option, or something you only use as a last resort and try to get off of ASAP.

In my state, there are zero individual plans offered outside the exchange—you call insurers, you call brokers, they'll all tell you the same thing, that every company is completely out of the individual market here unless they're on the exchange—and most years only two providers offer ACA plans, and 100% of those plans have terrible "networks" (which hospitals/doctors/pharmacies/urgent-cares/testing-facilities accept the insurance, for non-US readers).

It's literally impossible to buy an actually-good individual plan in my state. Even middling employer-offered insurance is usually overall-better than the "platinum" ACA plans. I mean, I assume the very-rich have some concierge-type options that are good, but for normal people, having to buy individual insurance here means definitely having bad insurance, even if you pay a ton.
This sounds great right now but scary long term for employees. As talent develops across the country and pushes wages down, I guess the gravy train had to end for tech workers. I don't think there is any other growth industry left to achieve the American dream.
Yeah, Ruby. Wonderful, expressive language, but oh my God, so slow.
I don't think it's that different to any major city anywhere on the planet.
Most cities have rough areas and hotspots to avoid.
My personal experience is that it's a rather nice place apart from a few streets in SOMA.
> A pain point in upgrading the OS is that packages that were previously installed need to be reinstalled.

Which when you start having lots of OpenWRT based devices kinda gets a pain. And we hackers we solve pains, don't we? ;)

So when a new OpenWRT release hits the market, I usually just have to update the OpenWRT release-number at the top of my makefile, and Github builds all the images for all my devices, with all the packages and customizations I already have in place.

All devices upgraded in less than 30 minutes.

My setup, for those interested: https://github.com/josteink/openwrt-build/
Completely backwards reasoning here. The protocols (standards) and implementations are to be considered separate.
No, "prevent covid" means people didn't get sick, which is defined by symptoms. That press release isn't conflating SARS-CoV-2 (the virus) with COVID-19 (the disease); it says nothing about stopping infection/transmission.

That outcome could have been reached by either preventing infection or just reducing symptoms, and they made no attempt to claim which it was because they didn't test for it.
This is about as blatant as it gets. They were sued in 2018, lost, and agreed to make changes. They changed nothing, got sued again in 2020, and have now lost again. They deserve the max penalty.
> According to the data, crime in SF is lower that it was a few years ago:

I think the data on the page you linked to only goes through 2019.

In addition, anecdotally, there is a decent amount of property crime that is not being reported because it is felt is is not worth the effort as the police are not able to do anything about it.
It is relatively new so not many people know about it, but now libp2p (and Kubu/go-ipfs) can be configured with a Resource Manager that effectively can keep a lot of the resource usage at bay: https://github.com/ipfs/kubo/blob/master/docs/config.md#swar...
What browser engine did Apple give up on?
California passes bill requiring salary range disclosure for job listings
> For how long?

Infinitely. Wages go up in nominal terms, too. What matters is the real housing price hovering around zero. (Slightly above, localized, is also fine if balanced by migration.)
Heh. My first paid programming job was RPG II, eight hours a day, five days a week, for two and a half years. :-D
Electric Bike, Stupid Love of My Life
I love Bitwarden. Super happy about this. Congrats to everyone!
sounds like a potential privacy disaster of Google Facebook and others can just listen in on erroneously assumed privacy. I suppose the only reason Google/Facebook aren't pushing for it is it allows anyone to collect this data vs just the big players.
> Housing can be affordable while going up in nominal terms.

Housing cannot be affordable if it goes up in real terms though. In an ideal world house prices would increase 1:1 with wage growth from an affordable baseline.

There are 2 ways to fix it: either crash the market or introduce policies which will cause either stagnation or below inflation growth in housing prices for at least 20 or 30 years.
> that lack of density forgoes real economic opportunity.

Which is why SF is so poor and underdeveloped.

> It also creates an easily-identified cause for the lack of housing supply.

An easily identified excuse. Now do suburban Tennessee.
Ask HN: Why does every company have the exact same corporate value?
I have noticed thousands of companies now have an explicit corporate value of "Do The Right Thing". (https://duckduckgo.com/?q=corporate+values+%22do+the+right+thing%22&ia=web)

When did this start? Why do they all use these empty platitudes to pretend they have real values?
Violent Crime IS low in SF. It's pushed into Oakland. Property crime is insane and artificially held low by apathy with regard to reporting and redefining offense levels.
I think this point often isn't mentioned enough to be fair.

Chromium is a ridiculously complex project. Most of these "independant" browser teams are simply not capable to create a browser from scratch.

I'm not saying people should praise Google or anything since they obviously have interest in it, But Google is still the one who (mostly) build chromium and leave it open source (I understand they have to since it was originally a fork of Webkit, but I feel Google can do it from scratch if they wanted). Without it none of these browsers would exist.

If anything, why almost no one uses Gecko/Firefox as a template/start point instead is a more interesting question, TBH.
I actually envy him for being able to do so.
I want to be able to visit a website, select my hospital, the procedure, and my insurance, and see what it will cost. Next to the result, please show me how much the same procedure would cost with the same insurance at other hospitals near my location.

You will literally save American lives.
This works for an architecture which has been well tuned and studied before, like LSTM or Transformer.

Once you do research on the model, testing out things, it often tends to become such kwarg monster in many frameworks.

Having everything (relevant) in one file (even in the config file itself with hyper params) allows you to copy the file for every experiment and modify it inplace. This avoids the kwargs mess. But then the config files are very complex, and can become messy in other ways (esp for research projects). Example: https://github.com/rwth-i6/returnn-experiments/blob/master/2...

Such approach makes it much more flexible and does not mess with the baseline code. As you say, it's more like an evolutionary DNA-like approach, where you then tend to do crossovers with other evolved good-performing configs, etc.
Florida is not a good environment for companies that have female employees, as due to FL's draconian anti-abortion law, state surveillance of pregnancies is now required as miscarriages past 15 weeks now need to be treated as potential homicides.
Is there a web browser based on Brave but without the crypto scam features?
You are quoting the discussion part I was quoting - which is the point I was trying to make. Their conclusion there is on-par with existing scientific consensus and nothing new.

The silly part was the misleading title/abstract - the reason I was pointing to the (obvious and well established) conclusion of "people who don't eat meat need to supplement their diet with fortified foods or pills" is the claim "Approximately Half of Total Protein Intake by Adults Must Be Animal-Based".
> If you get a nasty February ice storm that cuts a power line, you can be without electric power in 0F weather for up to 5 days

I live in Indiana and we've had power outages like this during both winter and summer. What sucks is that newer (last 25 years) gas furnaces have fancy-dancy blower motors (power vent) and if I lose electricity, I also can't run the furnace because the power vent won't work. My gas water heater was the same way. Last time it failed (they only last 10 years these days), I switched to electric because the power vent on the gas water heater was so noisy you could hear it throughout the entire house.

My house is somewhat livable in the summer heat with a power outage because I have a basement, but in winter, forget it.

Having said that, I'm not so keen on spending $10-15K to convert two gas furnaces to heat pumps.
It’s my understanding these prices are negotiated to some degree, so it’s probably both sides at various times.
We decided to build WunderGraph Cloud in public
It seems the faster people leave, the cheaper the housing gets which attracts more people.

Will the millions of people clamoring to move into SF or any dense US city turn into a negative number?
It is what happened in several neighborhoods that I used to live in or work near.

New construction was expensive, so they geared the apartments towards the upper end of the market. Rents at existing places didn't go down; if anything, it gave them an incentive to go up since they wouldn't be the most expensive place anymore if they did.

Loans and what not put a price floor on the rents of new units; given how hard it is to evict bad tenants (especially with the current backlog), and how hard it is to bring prices back up in rent controlled cities, they're just as well off leaving units empty at full price as they are renting below cost just to stop the bleed.
I'm raging against the people here who are using it to suggest that this study answers the question of relative safety of the vaccine vs the virus.

This study doesn't do that, it can't do that, so it can't answer that question, so it really isn't worth posting that little nugget.

Those are the requirements for answering that question. The study cannot meet those requirements. The study cannot answer that question. Dunno why this math is so difficult.
With a fine per violation of $10,000 who cares? They say Meta did hundreds of them... so a few million dollars. What's that, two engineer years?
Ah, gotcha. I'm not sure if they post descriptions like the one you hypothesized, but even if they did I don't think that would be actionable.

For example, there are plenty of prestigious law firms that require "a JD and X years of experience", but in reality never hire outside the top 10 schools. I don't think they could be sued for not explicitly saying that no one outside the top 10 ever gets hired.

Also, in your example they aren't lying, since they apparently accept non-CS majors (just not humanities) with the relevant experience.

I could be wrong though — I'm not an employment lawyer.
This is indeed crucial and when I first researched this after the invasion started, I arrived at Russia reacting. I can however no longer tell how I arrived at this conclusion. If I find some time, I will look into this again, as it is pretty important for my understanding and explanation of the conflict. Ad hoc I am not sure if this would completely break my point of view.
a web view for caldav is just fine (and how I use outlook currently); but for notifications a proper program is definitely preferable.
Not every thing is about ease of use. Sometimes doing things without a nice GUI interface forces you to understand the system better.

All the UI's and documentation systems are taking on the same boring corporate gloss. It has its uses, but it feels dead. It's not invigorating.
How is the user experience of bitwarden vs lastpass?

I find lastpass clunky.. ipad app is flakey (or is it the iOS integration layer itself?)

Integrating with chrome, iOS, etc, I assume is a difficult problem so I've assumed most password managers have the same issues. But it drives me crazy they haven't innovated much either, e.g., searching for specific passwords in my vault. I have to export it to excel and then look for them, then make sure / hope that the excel file didn't drop any temporary file copies anywhere.
Firefox market share is dying because of this mentality that is killing it. Self-fuffiling prophecy.

The standardization is in the standard, not the implementation. You do not need everyone to use the same implementation in order to have standardization: that just allows the implementer to bend the standard to his will.
The last mars rover and its drone run embedded Linux, the JWST runs javascript (not node.js though!). NASA is already working with much more powerful and capable software stacks.
This is an idiologist's moral choice, not a choice of the most convenient technology, though, right? That's his "whole thing."
>The point is that there’s a single standard

An implementation isn't a standard, though... and the concern is that Google are using their dominance here to push more half-baked ideas (some of which they then discard, see HTTP2 Push)
Most fertilizer starts with natural gas. It's a HUGE portion of agricultural carbon inputs

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2935130/
I feel you. In the 90s I came into possession of a strange floppy disk with this on the label:

Dear Friend,

Please tell my story.

Sincerely,
Dave Koresh

After doing a thorough virus scan, I examined the contents of the disk. It contained a bunch of stories and essays by various authors in text-file format, nothing dealing directly with David Koresh or the Branch Davidians.

But the FBI raid of the Branch Davidian compound in 1993 caused... unrest in certain pockets of the American politisphere, primarily on the right but groups like the ACLU also got involved, and Janet Reno was mocked on SNL for her role in the incident. Nobody liked the Branch Davidians, they were a weird-ass cult preparing for an apocalypse that never came except maybe in a parrot sense[0], but there were concerns that the FBI (and potentially the ATF before) acted too aggressively, overstepping legitimate law-enforcement bounds and violating the Davidians' rights, and that caused a lot of political introspection: on our status as a freedom-respecting republic, the competence of our federal law-enforcement apparatus, what is the threshold beyond which the government legitimately could or should take action against weird-ass prepper cults. So there was a lot of philosophy and politics stuff in there, often in the form of USENET postings and other 90s internet copypasta, that dealt tangentially with those issues.

It felt... kind of weird and awesome to have and to read that stuff. Cyberpunk. Here were thoughts that people felt not quite safe transmitting or discussing openly, so they were copied and distributed as floppy-disk samizdat. It was a mysterious object, alarming at sight because it suggested that Koresh might still be alive somewhere (and the shortening of "David" to "Dave" made him seem... humbled?), whose contents held even deeper and more thought-provoking mysteries.

[0] "I heard tell once of a Jefferson City lawyer who had a parrot that would wake him each morning crying out 'today's the day the world shall end as scripture has foretold'. And one day, the lawyer shot him for the sake of peace and quiet I presume, thus fulfilling, for the bird at least, his prophecy." -- Daniel Day Lewis as Lincoln in Lincoln (2012).
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Speaking of energy I think energy saving software could be something. Native Apps on the PC/Mac without Electron might have a comeback
Who is doing all the screwing??
The political class and a big section of the electorate (mostly boomers that have been living here for a while) have been hell-bent to squeeze all the juice out of the tech boom while providing little value to the rest of society.

This mostly came in the form of insane real estate prices due to restricted supply, making the city residential market essentially an oligopoly and filling the pockets of the landowners. But it also came in outright extortion of the tech scene: gross receipt taxes, income taxes, etc.

Every time they try to squeeze wealth out of tech they end up hurting the city.

The most recent one was the so-called Amazon tax, where TODCO's John Elberling (a local crony) drafted a bill to tax large e-commerce companies. His motivation was to "tax Jeff Bezos' ass"[0]. But instead the bill would tax small and medium retailers in SF... and would not tax Amazon because the guy was dumb enough to spend $400k on the bill without actually estimating the intended impact of the bill, let alone secondary effects.

Mike Solana writes about the extractive tendencies of the SF establishment quite clearly in his "Extract or Die" blog post [1].

I love San Francisco, and hate what the local establishment has done. I have hopes that the crisis will crater support for the establishment (perfectly represented by supervisors Aaron Peskin and Dean Preston) and boost support for serious organizations (e.g. GrowSF [2], Yimby Action [3]) trying to make this city as functional as it is beautiful.

[0] https://sfstandard.com/politics/san-francisco-housing-todco-...
[1] https://www.piratewires.com/p/extract-or-die
[2] https://growsf.org/
[3] https://yimbyaction.org/
I think it's ok to change an opinion, that's what science is about. However the tone was really dishonest, right? When it was brought up first time[1][2], it was more important to wall-up then truly communicate... on another hand, maybe it was just too many media coverage, everyone wanting to deliver the last news, demanding answers that weren't available.

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/0...

[2] https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20200608/who-changes-stance-...
I'm always leery of people who claim to be senior and have never spent 3-5 years on the same system, and this attitude is why.

It takes at least that long to really start surfacing the design errors that were made that kills productivity long-term in a system. As a result I very often will claim the difference between a skilled and unskilled developer is the ability for a system they built to be reasonable after 5+ years without everyone involved wanting to rebuild the entire thing from scratch.

IOW, this is a fundamental difference in perspective. I was speaking to creating systems that are maintainable over the long haul by actively trying to control complexity. You're speaking speed of initial development.

Rich Hickey went on a small rant in one of his videos (I think the one describing datomic, but could be wrong) in which he pointed out many things that are fast initially will hurt long-term. I agree with that sentiment wholeheartedly.

The fact that you called the less complex alternative the "lesser" alternative speaks volumes. It honestly feels like the whole "mongodb is webscale" devbro culture rearing its ugly head.
Drug use is absolutely associated with erratic behavior including violence.

I am pro-decriminalization but we need to be honest about the effects of chronic drug usage, especially methamphetamine.
> I don't buy this argument of "this is not fit to be a home" - neither are the streets, parks and sidewalks.

Are you proposing that the city rent out licenses to live in the streets, parks and sidewalks, or are you just pooh-poohing the entire idea of housing standards? How do you feel about food standards?
I tend to analyse my games after playing them, and I must say that NOT ONCE in a few hundred of games played at my level (~2500+ on lichess rapid) I have seen a forced mate in 10+ moves other than in end-game when there are very few pieces on the board left. And when you see such long checkmate, usually it doesn't really matter, because by then all is already clear on the board.

So no, I stand by my point that a specific choice of one of multiple possible checkmates is quite a poor indicator of using a computer to calculate moves.
The real real secret is Portugal, can't beat 10 years tax-free on foreign income.
In the Castro business owners are threatening to stop paying taxes. It could be another historically important example of San Franciscans using civil disobedience to great effect.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eSL-ZFmFpY
I was looking at Florida as a place to move to. After evaluating everything, I have no confidence in the State government to do well for families which means that I would likely end up putting my kids in private school which is not cheap. Also, Florida Man/Woman.
"The root of this—of course—is the pandemic and the way that it has completely transformed work patterns in the city.."

And, of course, insane delusional liberal policies that allow degradation of quality of life, violence and property crime, drugs, filthy streets, etc. The media never wants to address the elephant in the room.
I’m looking at a tree right now. It is not very big.
Brazil halts sales of charger-less iPhones, fines Apple $2.3M
Maybe the poop on the street has made its way into the water supply and that is affecting the management?
Sounds like a great way to prevent brain death brought about by the WMD (weapons of mental destruction) such as infini-scroll, etc.
I thought docker used the host kernel with a different rootfs?