skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read some time ago an interview with a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and an article about the YIMBY movement:

• https://www.currentaffairs.org/2021/11/san-francisco-sociali...

• https://www.currentaffairs.org/2021/01/the-only-thing-worse-...

I'd be very interested if anyone knows anything further about the topic or knows of any replies to the criticisms levied.
Yep, you won't hear me disagree with you that he was very comfortable executing people extrajudicially.
I recommend reading articles before you publicize them
> No-one donates to Google

Wellll that's an interesting topic in and of itself. But OK I get what you mean.
I am a recording engineer and I will choose 32 bits over 24 any day when recording.

Of course you need the right (exceptionally good!) preamps to even make a difference here, but when you are manipulating audio 32 bits and upwards (for summing) are the default (for a reason).

Having something to store those files with a little bit of lossless compression is a welcome addition
The number one thing that voters anywhere do is to prop up sin eaters like Dean Preston. Then everyone is all like "The problem is DEAN PRESTON" as if one moustache twirling guy with an 8 year term could possibly be responsible for 40 years of policy.
Wow, this is incredible, this would be as if in fintech you let customers change their data of the onboaring information without checking again.
Did covid really do that? The iPhone camera app has been able to read QR codes out of the box since iOS 11 (released in 2017)
Not GP but I believe this is it: https://discord.com/category/engineering
> its only valid use cases were illicit transactions

What makes this argument different than the "I don't have anything to hide" anti-privacy argument?
I spent years using NetBeans, then Eclipse, then IntelliJ IDEA and Android Studio, and now back to NetBeans. The features that made me return were having full C and C++ support (at the time, now less supported) and super-easy remote debugging. Those features let me write, build, and debug a Java application that interfaced with a Linux kernel device driver on an ARM Kobo Touch e-reader. Neither Eclipse nor IntelliJ IDEA could do that so easily.

And as mentioned in another comment, the direct support for the Apache Maven POM can make life easier, without the messy import required by the others.

With the new Flat Look-and-Feel with dark mode and the generally much better font rendering in Java, it finally looks great, too. There was a decade-long ugly period, though, which was one of the reasons I was desperately seeking alternatives.
I'm .. suspicious of hybrid systems. I've encountered a company which was pushing them, and I don't like the idea that I'll be paying gas standing charge and installation cost for a very rarely used boiler.
> “US pulling X from Y’s orbit” has been happening around the world since at least the 70s

It's been going on for far longer than that and pretty much since the late 1940's.
This is kind of how Scruff (gay dating app) works. Change your profile pic? Lose your verified status and have to go thru verification again.
What you are doing here is a form of victim blaming.
I don't like reading liars. I don't pretend the words someone says are uncorrelated over time. Liars lie a lot.
The benchmarks should be against Aerospike or something similar not Redis, as it cooks the results vs what is the current highest performant OSS KV store.
something similar for java dependencies?
This is already the case, the verified name is the account name, which is always displayed just below the nickname. What's your plan? Add a 3rd name?
Most things are probably cheaper to replace than to bring back from the most remote area on Earth, and far cheaper to leave for someone else to use than make them bring their own. If unwanted, it’s trash - too expensive to move when there’s presumably an acceptable landfill right there (may sound environmentally unfriendly, but hauling trash back is likely worse).
Care to back up that claim?
I'm an actual right-wing conservative and no, most people on HN are definitely not conservatives. Lots of libertarians, but not many conservatives.
Go read page 24. It doesn’t say what you are claiming.
That doesn’t look abnormal for the time period. The first B-29 Super Fortress, for example, flew in September 1942, with the design started in 1938 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_B-29_Superfortress)

Also, Nazi Germany had a few designs that took way shorter than that to go from idea to first flight. An extreme example is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinkel_He_162#Prototypes:

“The He 162 V1 first prototype flew within an astoundingly short period of time: the design was chosen on 25 September 1944 and first flew on 6 December, less than 90 days later”

They did have to cut ‘some’ corners to get there, though. That Wikipedia page mentions that it used a highly acidic glue that would disintegrate the wooden parts it was intended to be fastening, that that caused problems on the first flight and a deadly crash on the second, but that it wasn’t considered important enough to hold up the production schedule for even a day.
…said people in 1870
I feel no surprise
>> Maybe "anti-racist" would work

> Clearly not, because it's an easily and frequently misunderstood term.

To be clear, that second paragraph was mostly me being frustrated with the fact that a term which seems like it's so straightforward in its meaning is such a source of confusion and outrage for so many people. It's baffling to me that someone would assume "anti-racist layoff" meant "we're going to decide who to fire based on their race". At the very least that's clearly much more of a legal nightmare, and would be an extremely bizarre thing for a company to say out loud.
It's unlikely that PG suddenly discovered Twitter spam problem. Sounds like he's cultivating Musk, or at the very least, trying to signal that he supports him.

A couple of weeks ago, Matt Levine predicted that would happen:

> If you have something to do with Twitter, or you know something about Twitter, or you are in the business of counting Twitter bots, then you should take a few minutes and ask yourself: Well, do I know anything about Twitter doing any massive frauds? If you do… look, I don’t know exactly what you can do with that. (...) Still. I just have a vague general sense that saving the richest person in the world $44 billion is a good career move.

> So you should expect that, over the next month or two, as Musk’s trial date with Twitter approaches, people will be popping up to say “oh sure Twitter is a fraud, massive fraud, totally, I have proof, Elon, call me.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-08-23/amc-go...
Not sure I follow. What I do is let gravity push me downhill and I keep one foot in front of the other and I gallop, hopping down the hill but always keeping a leading foot so that I never have to do the full movement of switching legs like in normal walking.

Because I don't switch my feet I can keep up faster than I can run and I don't slip because I always have 2 feet on the ground at a time and it's kinda like surfing without the board.
The premise is wrong; I do not accept the premise that Twitter influences elections. If this is the goalpost it has not moved. But you are revealing more fallacious argument, which is not only your assumption that Twitter influences election, but that if I disagree with you then I have employed no true Scotsman. Both assertions are question begging. You are assuming the antecedent, not proving it.

Again, showing that Twitter broke some news that caused candidates to drop out is not Twitter's influence: it is the influence of that information. Twitter is not the information. nor does Twitter even create the content. If I posted that information on a billboard on the highway causing the candidates to drop out, it is not the billboard that is influential.

Your premise is false, your argument riddled with fallacy. And bizarrely you believe if someone disagrees with you, reveals your error and corrects your false conclusions then they're committing no true Scotsman.
You're correct; lossless formats aren't needed by the average consumer. But the problem they solve is a very real thing. Think of the difference between a repeatedly edited JPG vs. a repeatedly edited PNG. Every save of the JPG destroys information irretrievably, whereas every save of the PNG keeps it all. It's the same with MP3 vs. FLAC: MP3 throws away information each export, but FLAC doesn't.

For an example, music artists/producers can't afford to lose information when they "bounce" a track. FLAC solves that. "People" don't need lossless, but for those that do, it's great.
Btw there are alternative flac encoders, like FLACCL using GPU: http://cue.tools/wiki/FLACCL It compresses much faster than software libflac and gives smaller output files.
> They bought webtv, didn't they? Similarly, Microsoft was not only too early on tablet computing, but also never quite got it right.

They bought Webtv and also made Windows XP Home Theater Edition. Lots of technologies get purchased then improved upon by large tech companies, including OS X and Android!

Regarding tablets, one can argue that IPad Pro is slowly becoming what Tablet PC was back in 2003.

IMHO my 2003 Tablet PC experience was amazing. Everyone back then thought I was insane for having a laptop with "only" a 13" screen (17 and even 21 inch laptops were popular back then), but my laptop had an "incredible" 3-4 hour battery life! Heck my tablet had directional mics, I could specify from what direction I wanted audio recording focus on, it was amazing for recording lectures. I haven't seen that tech in a consumer product since. :(

Microsoft not being able to realize they could ship more than one successful OS has hurt them many times. Windows has to be everywhere. Apple got it right by forking the OS and realizing if people wanted to give them money for iOS based devices, let the cash roll in.

MS is better about accepting people's money now days. :) See Azure and Linux hosting.
Is this some kind of annoying autoreply for everyone who mentions RMS? Sorry for saying the guy who started the Free Software Foundation started Free Software, and not Open Source. Open Source, which is different from and often hostile to Free Software, which is also often hostile to it.
> I have seen stuff like "defendant had TOR installed - a popular program for criminals" in court filings. ...and judges and juries accept that as fact because they just don't understand the technology. For example, having a bookmark for "Hacker News" would absolutely show up in court.

Both of those are really good examples of how a statement of fact that is literally true can still be a lie. Politicians do this kind of stuff all the time especially in their attack ads that make TV unwatchable around this time of year in every even numbered year. Amazingly what gets a politician called out by the other party's press as a "liar" is the opposite of this kind of statement: something that is fundamentally true but where the politician got one minor irrelevant detail wrong. That's also a major reason why it isn't a good idea to represent yourself in court or to explain yourself to the police when you get arrested because people are prone to accidentally getting minor details wrong or misspeaking even when they're telling the truth to the best of their ability.
YouTube's 'most replayed' feature is useful here. Huge spike when it happens.
100 Years Ago in Photos: A Look Back at 1922
Yes, as someone in his mid 20s I am pissed that everyone before me kicked the can down the road long enough for this to become my problem. It’s not just SF, it’s a Bay Area/California/National problem - at varying levels of severity and impact.

Of course nobody forces me to live in SF. But if I leave someone will just take my place - this isn’t just a housing problem, it’s also a mismatch in where jobs are relative to where housing is. My desk will get reassigned to someone else who will likely also live in SF (because we can afford it, but the people with families making my food can’t).

The least we can do now is fix it forward and make sure it doesn’t get worse. Even for people like me and the hypothetical low wage worker with a family, the sooner we fix this the sooner we can reap the benefits.
I'm super hyped about this, I've been working on this for the last couple-few years and I'm optimistic about the return to being primarily an open-source thing.
Now the most important platform is not Windows but Chrome (and, secondarily, Mobile Safari). That's why my technophobic mother is using Linux now, on a Chromebook.

When people at Microsoft saw Netscape and Java, they understood that this would happen.

But Microsoft was able to delay their irrelevance for about 15 years by sucking off Netscape's oxygen, getting the W3C to rubber-stamp IE's implementation bugs and shitty API designs as official web standards, sidetracking the W3C for years on the make-work of XML and things like RDF schemas, introducing platform-specific extensions in Visual J++, splitting the Java developer base into Java and .NET, mugging Fortune 1000 CTOs behind closed doors with patent lawsuit threats for using Linux, and shipping a really shitty broken browser for 20 years. That was long enough to kill Sun too.

And now they own GitHub, which controls the namespace of most of the world's free software.
Nice! I (ab)use FLAC to store waveform data that isn't audio, but compresses better using audio codecs than with general purpose compression algorithms. This will let me remove some hacks to compress 32-bit data as multiple channels.
BREAKING: It appears Kazakhstan might be finally leaving the union they had with Russia; China just acknowledged they will guarantee Kazakhstan's security, which essentially means a huge middle finger towards the "second army of the world".

Unfortunately it also means Armenia is screwed. That's what you get for putting trust in Russia.
Its textbook definition and how it actually manifests itself in reality are never going to be the same thing.
The GP had an issue with a particular "breed of capitalism". Capitalism is an ideal just as much as socialism, and humans aren't great at living up to ideals. "Particular breeds" are all we are ever going to have - our best bet is likely to fix the "breed" rather than attempt to replace the system entirely. Social democracies that can harness the wealth-growing capabilities of capitalism tempered with a degree of socialism so everyone gets to enjoy the benefits seem to work pretty well in much of the developed world.
Why the Future of AI Will Not Be Invented in Europe
I'm not a huge fan of spotify or any streaming service for "music discovery" (maybe would've said different a decade ago). But I really like listening to the radio for music discovery - especially handy with the Shazam app.
College and local radio stations are quite varied in the playlists so I'd recommend checking them out either on the fm dial or online - given my background I'd recommend KDVS and KALX college stations (available online too) along with "local" station KEXP (available online).
KEXP also has a wide assortment of "live in studio" performances available on their website and youtube which can be good for digging more into an artist.

But some of the best songs/artists I've discovered have just been hearing the song somewhere and using Shazam - then spotify to dig more into the artist.

Good luck in your endeavor
I think Racket is pretty awesome, but I will admit that I think Clojure is a ten times easier sell. The value of being able to interop with existing JVM languages really cannot be overstated, and it makes employers substantially easier to buy in.

That said, when I'm doing personal projects, I don't particularly care about what my employers think...but I still prefer Clojure. I think the native hashmap data type makes it just an exceptionally appealing Lisp, and I find that the language never gets in my way.
Affirmative action in hiring for jobs in the US is illegal. University admissions are different, but it is straightforwardly illegal to say, "I'm hiring a software engineer, I have two candidates, I prefer the one who is black because of his race."
Annoying such people is probably a price worth paying: https://news.sky.com/story/tories-criticised-for-misleading-...
>it's a bad idea to take pictures that show the street where you live

Reading this it just hit me that GeoGuessr is basically doxxer training.
Well, where exactly are you on the RGB scale? This a strict 8 bit operation. If you expect HDR level fidelity here, just move along.
How much do you get paid to do content moderation for Google? It may be a good side hustle if the pay is good.
Does YimbyAction.org support the 'inclusionary housing' permitting requirement cited in above article? (Based on the site, certainly seems so.)

The article describes these mechanisms as the "800-pound gorilla" in what makes development in SF unaffordable (and therefore economically unviable), so having trouble aligning this advocacy with the root cause of the housing shortage.

What am I missing?
Yes, "better" means different things to different people.

But Porsche's history is just that, history. If a Porsche 911 would send all my data to Porsche it would not be a very good car in my eyes.

I don't think the UI of Matrix is meaningfully different than the one from Discord though. It's a bit like clothing IMO. Mainstream users are very brand-sensitive. They buy Nike shoes not because they're good quality but because it says Nike on them. I bet it works the same way with services.
> It must match the government-issued ID / business documents / etc. that were used to verify in the first place. If you want to change it, send updated verification documents.

That seems like a bad requirement, because I'd imagine a lot of these legitimately-verified accounts go by professional names (e.g. actors, authors with a pen name, etc.) not legal names.
My stepmom sponsors my podcast. Brazzers made an episode about our arrangement.
Sure, you can pretend to have a uniform prior.
What data are you compressing?
Drug Turns Cancer Gene into ‘Eat Me’ Flag for Immune System
Magnets have been used in people moving and cargo moving systems. It’s not that ignorant.
Clarity is certainly important, in which case I could have said “OOP should have been...”

Except: Smalltalk still lives (Squeak) and Erlang takes messaging to the extreme.
In any case, your phone provider knows - co-occurring presence of the same two phones in the same grid cell at the same time (esp. night).

By implication, what your provider knows, governments also know - they have a direct line.
They’d just change the image and name slightly to pass the filters.
California Files Antitrust Lawsuit Against Amazon
FYI: When someone uses the term “YIMBY” all I hear is “LANDLORD” and I don’t think I am alone.
This conversation is about housing, not golf courses. In particular, it's about housing in areas where housing is already built.

> If the species can only be found in one small area then there’s no rubber-stamp process that will protect it.

So don't zone that area for housing. Problem solved.
probably meant databricks
> Saying something is slow is meaningless if you don't compare it to something else.

I think an obvious comparison is between Tillman's project and the (still abysmal) averages listed later in the article. I.e. Tillman's approach turned out to be slower (or a dead end) for his project; lots of projects are "faster" but still ridiculously bogged down relative to other cities.

> But eight years later and after countless community meetings, hearings, appeals, studies, a legal challenge and a court settlement—the site of the former laundromat at 2918 Mission St. still sits empty.

> That timeline is far from unusual in San Francisco, where it takes more than two years on average to permit housing projects—an unusually slow pace compared to peer cities, according to a draft study published last year.

So his approach was at least 3-4x slower than average.

> What avenue for reform in SF would be faster?

A legal challenge might be a pretty good way to achieve some reform! I also think criminal cases for corrupt city officials are appropriate. But the article isn't claiming to be about how slow it is to reform city government -- it's about how slow it is to build housing. But it picked a project to highlight which seems to have tried to do a little of both.
I had no idea FLAC didn't store 32-bit. I'll need to look over my library and make sure nothing strange is going on.

I'm curious if sites like Qobuz will suddenly replace some of their existing files with higher-bit copies if they already had them and just had no way to encode them as FLAC.
Tell that to the Hoh tribe, and many similar, who had zero data connectivity until Starlink connected the tribe to the world for just $150/mo.
Fortunately, we don't employ eminent domain because some guy on the internet is sure that something better should be done with the land.

Golf courses generally underpay property tax and services, so you could try and tax them out of existence, the ones which aren't municipal at least. Progressive water bills is an option for the dryer parts of the country.

This would be a quick education in the role which golf actually plays in society, I expect.
Where are Microsoft engineering involved in this? It's developed by Paragon Software for Linux.
Do you think it is people moving or do you think it is people moving and then voting in people to enact the same policies as the location they moved from?

If person A leaves a location because of crap/idiotic policies/laws, moves to a new location, then votes in people that will institute those same crap/idiotic policies/laws the just fled again, is person A not the problem?
Sad to see that on "hacker" news the top-post is essentially, go to kinkos. I am legitimately interested in the understanding the scope of the work and what it would entail to solve such a problem successfully. And, maybe I only have enough resources to solve the elementary steps but that's beside the point.

Also, this is a relatively new post so maybe relevant information will eventually bubble up. I am starting to see some interesting comments.
One way to think about macros is custom syntactic sugar that you can build yourself. So for example, I don't think rust has parameter array (see params/param arrays in c# for an example [1]). So for things like their println that takes variable number of strings to inject into the string where it finds {} it uses the println! and format! macros. Because the parser doesn't support the sugar of a comma separated list and turning that into an array the way c# does (or however other languages handle the same idea), the macro pass of the compiler instead generates the code necessary to make that number of arguments work.

There are likely other uses I've never considered, but that is a simple one.

[1]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-refe...
I particularly enjoyed the history aspect of it, these things give you broad contours of where pools of experience exist and what specific organizations were responsible for driving and advancing things.
Sounds like most of the direct support to communities is the work of salaried Wikimedia employees? Which seems plausible to me!
There's an interesting discussion in the book The Sum of the People which argues that the disorganized recordkeeping in France was a ruse and a deliberate attempt by Rene Carmille to embrace the concept of population registry but to undermine the Nazi policy (Chapter 4, "Paper People"). In particular, Carmille apparently didn't enter the religion data from the census on the punchcards and never delivered lists. Carmille was arrested by the SS in 1944. It's not an entirely happy story though because there were absolutely others in France who collaborated to produce as many lists as they could, especially of Jewish immigrants who were easier to find in the records.