skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Santa Cruz native here: I can understand the author's frustrations coming to Santa Cruz from the outside but there's more to it. He's describing a UCSC problem because the university is expanding without building enough dormitories and relying on development in the city instead. This is causing unrest among the natives who resent 5 story huge San Jose style apartment blocks going up in their beautiful city.

The second problem is Santa Cruz by the sea is a very desirable place to live and within commuting distance from Silicon Valley, so wealthy tech workers can buy up or build very expensive first or second homes here. However, Santa Cruz since the 70's has been a very environmentally conscious no-growth city that recognized that San Jose style growth would ruin the city. This means demand far outstrips supply.

With the lack of supply, natives and others who work in services and support Santa Cruz's biggest industry (tourism) can't afford to live here. It's a dark joke among family and friends that once you leave Santa Cruz you can never afford to move back. I have family that have moved away and the next generation like my kids and nieces and nephews will never be able to afford to buy a house there like my father did.

Homeless is a problem but Santa Cruz tries to handle it a progressive way, for example, by setting up the homeless camp next to the courthouse and providing it with services

Lastly, long time Santa Cruz residents are generally are not sympathetic to complaints from students that come here from the outside, because they consider UCSC to be a big part of the problem. People considering UCSC would be advised to secure housing beforehand or choose another university. I hear they opened a new nice one in Merced, which has more affordable housing.
I see Biden's talk as soft power rather than threats "they'll shut down NS2 themselves, we'll make sure of that". It's not like the previous administration hasn't warned Germany and the EU about NS1/2, Russian gas bad habits.
With the technology we have at this point in time, we should not be.
Maybe we should stop assuming that buying a home or getting married are huge contributors to sex.

And then just ask.

Don't ask them if they want to pursue your expectations. Ask them what they want.
A VPN should never be used for privacy unless you can prove they don't log, which is difficult. You would literally have to be in their datacenters and audit all their infra.
People pay for online courses all the time, why wouldn't they pay for tutoring?

Anyway, if you are going with this, billing by the question and gathering your answering team by random are sure ways to break it. You have to somehow limit the amount of questions people can ask, have long term relationships with both sides, and make sure the asking ones won't expect that every single question can be answered.

Personally, I would bet on Stack Overflow being positioned in a way where trying this would certainly fail. It looks way more likely that something like a "Red Hat School" could do it.

(But when one can make a comment saying "I know who can enter this market! It's IBM!" that's clearly a problem.)
> people who are poorer and have gone through extreme hardship prioritize family and having children far more regardless of their financial status

Yep, nailed it. It's an expectations/reality gap for the developed world. Any of these people can physically have children, raise them in their financially hobbled state, and still provide more comfort on average than the majority of the families in the developing world. The difference is that in the developed world people are delaying or canceling their plans because their expectations of what parenthood should look like is radically different from what they believe they can afford.

Maybe you won't be able to send your kids to private school, or pay for their full ride to private university, or the best daycare, or live in the perfect house you grew up thinking you deserved. But you can afford to have a family. You just can't afford to do it with all of your requirements.
I was just impressed by the 4k video in this appeal to help secure a chalk stream:

https://youtu.be/kmRRn5l8GNo

It seems strange that nearly all are in the UK, is chalk just a geological formation in Northern Europe.

Denmark, and Germany have chalk, as does France. I would have thought there would be a lot more in the world.
Yeah, but no manufacturer has implemented it to my knowledge. Also I believe that requires being installed on the car's head unit itself
Not sure what your point is. Anti-bribery laws are being expanded around the world. The OECD covers 2/3s of the world’s GDP, and is actively working to bring all its members up to the same standards. It’s not some “feel good” fantasy, it’s good for the bottom line. Banks and investors don’t want their profits skimmed by corruption, and are pushing for higher integrity.

Sure, there still are places like Russia that operate within a Machiavellian worldview, but most of the world has now recognized the value of fair systems that lead to win-win outcomes.
Oracle pays $23M to the SEC to settle bribery charges
For a long time now, the UC system's spirit has been "hey, our total lack of concern about our students' well-being is feature, not a bug. If you graduate here, you've shown you're a survivor (or that you have money to soften the blows)". I felt that ethos at UC Berkeley forty years ago.

And sure, if UC solved the housing problem for their students, it might solve things for non-students, which might reduce house values and no one wants housing prices to decline.
I feel like tutorials should make it clear when they're giving you correct technique or some quick and dirty hack.

One of the images shows damaged insulation and too much solder. https://content.instructables.com/ORIG/FES/OFV3/KZ7C3ZX0/FES...
How to obtain methane gas from sodium acetate and sodium hydroxide
Developers: I would pay for a firefox or chrome extension that lets you just toggle the whole browsing session or tab into reader mode
I guess I should clarify that I've been looking at weird things like Chuck Moore's Forth chip designs, the Smalltalk-80 virtual machine, the HP 9100A, the Burroughs 5500, and SeRV, but although I've implemented a virtual machine or two in C and carried some design sketches down to the gate level, I haven't run them on an FPGA or a breadboard yet.
Maybe sabotage with something like this?: https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgy4q7/mysterious-sea-drone-...
We used to have a retail chain called Consumers Distributing. The showroom was just catalogues. You would take a slip of paper, write down the product code and take it to the desk. Someone in the back would the pick your order and it would arrive by conveyor belt to the cash.

Actually worked quite well but they didn't get the impulse buyers that regular retail has.
Meta busts first Chinese campaign prodding US midterms
It’s funny how Apple CarPlay is basically the Android of the car world. While Tesla is more like IOS/iPhone, controlling both the hardware and software.
Tandy 3000 is where it all started for me. My fam got it late in about 95.. A hand me down from my dad's friend.

We had a vic(?) in 92/93 but I don't recall my dad ever doing anything with it and I only ever got a simple sample program running from the huge manual. After much trial and frustration; was 7-8.

So Tandy. DOS, a commander like compressed launcher... Everything had to explode before it ran haha. Loaded with stealth fighter and some other games. Monitor had to be banged to get the colors right every so often.

Sierra games. Ran up huge help line bill. Father was PO'd; we didn't have a lot of means haha.

486 came with second marriage. Got video game programming in 21!days box bundle from Sam's publishing for Xmas. Nothing worked properly on windows 3.1 ootb back then. Really turned me off programming for a long time.

Ah the memories.
So just take on the whole of Europe for fun ?
Yes this doesn't appear to be so egregious that I would cancel the interview, still worth giving them a shot for the phone screen.

That said, as a bootcamp grad myself, it personally irks me when I see other bootcamp grads try and misrepresent their bootcamp projects as work experience. I know that some bootcamps direct their students to do exactly this, but that doesn't make it okay.

I guess it works though. I feel like I'm always the one pointing out to our recruiting team that certain jobs on a resume are not actually jobs. If someone else is doing the tech screen, they may just make it through.
I wouldn't say "completely separate"; they're doing the same things, but only on Apple's combined hardware/software. That apparently makes the situation very different.
I'm curious how to compare this with a PyPy FAQ:
https://doc.pypy.org/en/latest/faq.html#would-type-annotatio...
which describes a bit about why type hints aren't as helpful to optimize code under PyPy as one (including myself) might think.

Can someone explain more about how mypyc is in a better position to produce better optimizations than pypy, or am I confused about this?
No transliteration: Dutch uses the Latin alphabet.
Wrote a paper about him for a history class in college, nice to see it pop up on HN.
Some VPN providers work around this by providing so called 'virtual' locations where the IP you are assigned is Indian, but the actual traffic is routed in other countries.
I don't know. It would depend on the depth, but not even that necessarily.
Now those pipes are no thin drinking straw, but think of what a bundle of fragmenting hand grenades could do. Packed watertight, with ballast, if need be.
Downed from some trawler, yacht, whatever with good sonar to see where exactly, combined with with some contraption, maybe mechanical timer and CO2-cartridge blowing up a balloon which is pulling their pins. Or something more professional, which some rogue Spetsnaz surely would have access to?

Same delivery method, no divers needed. Could be almost anyone.

(shrug)
FCC advances plan to require blocking of spam texts from bogus numbers
Yes :(

Looks like about 3 hours ago, Hacker News changed some HTML again.....no idea why they are doing that.

Fixed it. Already submitted the update to Apple and Google again. Hoping to have it approved soon.

I am really sorry about this inconvenience.

@dang is it possible to keep track of these changes? Or be notified of upcoming changes?
This is probably true for scaled production, BUT...

Most people following Instructables for tips on soldering wires to vector boards aren't likely to need to maintain their prototypes, and roughly 0% of those prototypes will be in a high-vibration environment.
The phone has to check in with WhatsApp every 2 weeks for any linked devices to keep working.

https://faq.whatsapp.com/579413796526134/
I guess the Russians never really got over having to leave Bornholm, cue the bad excuses for having to get close to it again :P
Well, you wouldn't write 1.000m on it either.

That one would certainly lead to you getting something other than you are trying to design. Unless the machinist misreads it, or it gets assigned to that one machinist that likes searching people out and talking to them.
This is true. I would say, however, getting into phones meant dealing with carriers and such. That is still not to the same level of complexity of a car, but I could see Apple partnering with an existing maker to help fill in areas that they don't have skills in. They did that when they partnered with Google for webservices during the iPhone initial release.
Of course.

Very few teachers take any interest in the students who do well in math. In fact, they'll often find them annoying.

Yes, there are some teachers who do take an interest and do their best for those students. They just aren't the norm, and they don't get much support from the administration.
Normal, healthy views on it aren't what's stigmatized. Creepy, unrequited, harassing behaviour sometimes is, in some contexts, and its practitioners love to fall back to the 'Just being nice/don't you like the attention/just boys being boys' defenses when called out on it.

The people responsible for it, of course, see themselves as victims, and cry to anyone who will listen about how unfair the world is to them.
In that case, there comes a fundamental question of why do even V[Private]Ns exists?
Andrew here. Connor, thanks for releasing this on the orange site.

This story is also more fun from my position. I've been applying to internships and interviewing every week. They're mostly rejections. They're the same questions over and over with minor variation (sorry to top comment for "impersonating" your comment style). My days are deteriorating from a colorful sphere down to two points. In fact, down to two pointers, left and right, iterating over a list of heights to find how much rain water it can trap.

I'm about to repeat the experience for the 10th time and I'm 100% on autopilot. But suddenly, a man reaches out to me on email and offers me up to $80/hr to be his senior engineer. This feels sketchy, my girlfriend tells me, "you're good but let's be honest here...". Anyways, I proceed, it might just be the start of a beautiful thing. I'm asked to interview as one of our developers because English is not their best language. I'm a little bothered, but I was fine with it. But then I see the developer name: Connor Tumbleson. My laughter bursts and so does my suspicion: With a name like that, no way the guy doesn't speak good English. I look up Connor Tumbleson on linkedin, and my suspicions were proved correct. I detail everything to Connor, and now this is on the top of HN. I lost a opprotunity but gained a story of the lifetime.
DW took our car to Costco for a free scheduled tire rotation (mandatory to maintain the tire warranty) about a month ago.

She called saying "they're saying 'the lug nut broke'"; I was thinking (and asking) "how is that possible (it can't possibly be a defective lug nut)?" 10 minutes later "the stud is broken"; 5 minutes later "they [Costco] admitted to breaking it".

The resolution was to have a local shop replace the lug stud and get reimbursed for the repair cost: $125 (the part might have cost $2)!

I chalk this episode up to them hiring warm bodies lacking any mechanical experience or aptitude (to the extent of not being aware of "righty tighty, lefty-loosey") and handing them an impact wrench.
I think all the Genesis models have them
Annihilating? Please. Humanity grew an order of magnitude in about 300 years, and is currently hitting planetary limits. Now, the growth is slowing down, but not even in reverse yet. How can a reduction of an overblown population be equated to annihilation?
No. We're fine with half the number of people on this planet. Traffic sucks. Fix traffic instead.
> Has that attack ever been observed in the wild?

Yes: https://www.quora.com/What-is-a-coders-worst-nightmare/answe...

Also, I remember in the 90's, people talking about a virus that infect pascal source code files. Memory is spotty about it.

> While I don't know if the current incarnations of Nix/Guix will succeed, I think we are slowly making progress towards reproducible builds everywhere.

Fortunately, the answer is also positive here.
Qwik – A Framework Reimagined for the Edge
California can't support as many people as you wish it could and replacing its SFH suburbs with cramped mixed income efficiency apartments would be an aesthetic, ecological, and socioeconomic disaster.
If I'm understanding correctly, the abstract is a very convoluted way of saying:

Green OLED subpixels use less energy per lumen than red and blue subpixels, so if you're already doing foveated rendering, you can save some additional power by green-shifting the parts of the display outside the foveated region.

(But note that foveated rendering isn't actually used anywhere in practice, and the Quest 2 has an LCD panel not an OLED, so it can't save any power this way.)
One of the banes of my existence! There's no place for these stupid effing banners when browsers have inertia scrolling and infinite-scrolling sites have fixed headers (or footers) visible all the time. Maybe I wouldn't be so frustrated if the tolerance for what makes a header reappear wasn't ~3px, which is what I often perceive it to be. It totally misunderstands human behavior, which isn't to read an article word by word all the way through like a robot but to reread things to better comprehend them and jump around an article to make sense of connected ideas.
Daniel Negreanu: Poker – Lex Fridman Podcast #324
Wouldn't that be zeroth degree satire?
Yeah, that's Poland for you. If US asks us to jump we only ask if it's high enough.
It doesn't need to.

The WhatsApp authentication SMS message can be sent to your (real) phone, and then manually transcribe the auth code into WhatsApp on the Android VM.

I did this for a while.
Any idea what % of the rental market is students vs UCSC staff vs non-UCSC?

It seems like the college shouldn't be allowed to enroll more students than the city has capacity to house. At minimum, it should be building more dorms on campus (I have no idea if that's feasible based on town layout).
A $100M Deli? Not So Fast, U.S. Prosecutors Say
Previous discussions:

– Single New Jersey deli boasts a $105M market cap, despite $14K in sales https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26836367

– Everyone Loves the $100M Deli https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26867465
I reckon the initialism is "On Line Dating"
It would appear that they are either the owner or have some deep relation to it.
thank you for putting it together, keep the development up and running for so many years.
> I think if Golang would have been invented a couple of years later it def would have had sum types.

How to combine sum types and a precise garbage collector?
How do I change what spy service is MITM'ing my connection?
:) hmu on LinkedIn!
One way or another, the endgame is going to be websites which are nothing but a fullscreen WebGL canvas driven by webassembly.

Things will steadily devolve for users from that point.

Then we’ll need about ten years for the next generation of hypermedia to surface, which hopefully won’t have Turing-complete scripting on principle. But I’m not sure whether developers are smart enough to avoid repeating the same mistakes again and again…
>Is this a US thing?

If it is, it's also a Canadian thing, and a western European thing, at the very least.
Well, ok, but then isn't a CPU is also just an interpreter, traversing the object code text of compiled code?
TensorFlow Plugin for Metal
I've wondered about this myself, many many times. It's either a complete failure to understand the basic supply/demand equation which underpins all resource scarcity OR somehow voters feel it's in their interest to not change things.
As another user said:

> Keep answering the questions, but include a reference to the docs in your answer.

If it's something like how to set up a local development tool, I'll post a link to our documentation and tell them it's near the bottom. I also let them know that if they run into any issues, to let me know and we can hop in a call.
Starting a hedge fund is a lot harder than beating the market by 20%.
Using the term "people" or "men" or "women" without a quantifier is misleading. I could say "people think the earth is flat" and it doesn't matter if it's one person or one billion people but the difference is very important.
Is there really much ambiguity about what is meant by "relationship" as part of the phrase "relationships and sex"? I think it's pretty obvious it means an exclusive romantic relationship or something approximately along those lines, and not a business partnership.
Most social services function something like a pyramid scheme. You need more people paying in than taking out.

There are ways to tweak the balance a bit, almost all of which have to do with finding efficiencies that reduce administrative costs- replacing in person visits with doctors with video calls to nurses, moving manual-process-intensive paperwork to less-manual-intensive electronic billing, that sort of thing.

Unfortunately, there's only just so much you can do when a greater percentage of the population is drawing on benefits and not working than there are people working and paying taxes. If the balance swings too far, something has to give- rationing access by adjusting age limits, declining certain types of care, reducing benefits, that sort of thing.
Boa Release v0.16
I wonder what the 65W performance is like. Still, pretty impressive they can achieve 5.8 GHz with an inferior process node to AMD
Ah cool, it should be more widely publicized. Maybe I missed it, but I don't recall seeing news about bribery whistleblowers being paid out. Maybe it should be a mandatory part of training programs for global companies.

I can't believe there aren't people at Oracle that would have happily collected on it. Or maybe that's what happened here.
???

Over half of American teens have had sex by 18, compared to under 20% in Japan. I've seen nothing to suggest that that is going to change dramatically.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/nchs_press_releases/2017/...
> just pay someone else to do it

Sometimes that's what you have to do. I generally like to have at least a cursory understanding of what the person I'm paying is doing.

> Well, it doesn't matter if it's easy to fix, we'll just recycle it and build a new one

Last night I've diagnosed the problem with a Z80 computer - the one I wrote my first lines of code in 1988. It cannot be replaced. I'm waiting for a chip to come from China to fix. Cost $1.50 + my spare time.

Some things just have to be recycled and rebuild. Batteries come to mind. Modern cars should be getting progressively easier to repair - they have onboard computers that basically _know_ what's wrong. But the parts we replace are getting larger and larger. Where we would replace a capacitor, we are replacing entire computers.
I agree that such anti-patterns exist but they ideally should not. If shareholders and customers are not interested in these anti-patterns and inefficiencies then we should work to eliminate them.
Inexperienced does not mean not horny.
Thank you for the detailed answer, much appreciated.

Some follow up questions/comments:

JS and therefore TS is the a key programming language of the internet. Where would you learn Typescript today if you would start from scratch? Is learning JS necessary for that?

Interesting to hear about your choice to opt for a dive into the .NET ecosystem. Would you consider F# a wise choice here, or is it better to forgo it and stay on C# for good?
> very environmentally conscious no-growth city

> growth would ruin the city

So I take it you'll be doing your part and packing your bags?
There’s a motion to add first class support for in-page popups. Ironically that could take us back to the good old days of having a consistent target to block.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32599583
anyone have an opinion on what color to paint the bikeshed?
Can't let you use Stage Manager on external displays because that might eat in to the `MacBook market. Damn I hate Apple
sketchy interview stuff is how ronin got hacked. I feel like impersonating other people in a job market or "fake interviews" will be more common. Really scary and a relatively common practice compared to the knowledge out there about it.
This is what I try to do, and I believe it works out well. Sometimes I can tell that someone is a bit annoyed that I'm not showing them just how to add CSRF protection to a page, but also why we do it and how it works, but I do believe that showing them how to do it and why is where leaning comes in and trumps raw repetition/memorization.
You override window.addEventListener? At that point I think you may as well just use nojs