skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They sit empty because an empty apartment is still going up in value.

If you rent it out, there will be wear and tear (ie. after 5 years it'll need a full refurb), and you run the risk of having tenants stuck in your property if laws change and suddenly you aren't allowed to evict them.

Often the capital appreciation is so much greater in value than the rental income (after management, maintenance, etc) that it isn't worth risking the capital income for a tiny bit of rental income.
It doesn't matter now because my comment is [dead] which happens to me once in awhile. It's always interesting to see what people get emotional about.
Population growth control is also utterly pointless, it turns out that having babies is a lot of work and if given the opportunity most people don't have 6 of them. Rich countries that don't have a shrinking population do only so because of immigration.
None of this addresses the issues I raised with the GP comment, which did not cite a lack of original sources for Phelps or other scientists involved in related work as an explanation for the absence of Wikipedia articles on them. The GP also did not raise it as an issue at all that Phelps’ article might cross into the territory of sounding too much like a primary source.

Phelps is mentioned in many media sources so it would be difficult to claim she does not have enough original sources to support a wikipedia entry.

Here are some from prior to the creation of her Wikipedia page. The first 3 include the announcement of her winning an award, news coverage of the same, and a TED talk. https://www.google.com/search?q=%22clarice+phelps%22&rlz=1CD...
Most cities with severe housing shortages are pretty much plainly anti-density.
I wasn’t really trying to imply anything to be honest, I just consider all demos vapourware until they ship. I would say that Apple aren’t immune, eg with AirPower - that demo looked at least as real as the car one. But I do agree that Apple tend to ship their stuff and probably will ship something like what they demoed.
Meditation for example (vipassana in particular) helps you tune into information coming at you through feelings in various parts of your body. An ancient text said that good monks "always keep their attention on their bodies," for this reason. Antonio Domasio is the leading researcher on how taking the body out of the equation hamstrings humans in making decisions, whether about poker hands or what house to buy. His former students are doing some great work, too.
You’re just spitting out agitprop with no underlying point except “left bad.” It’s not well thought out or discussed with room to agree or disagree, or even based in fact, you’re basically just shouting into the void about something you don’t like. That brings down the level of discourse here, and belongs on Facebook where you can share memes with a bunch of smooth brained people that agree with you.
Next headline: AI better at sex than humans.
It has Windows 7 Media Player vibes but honestly I'm tired of everything being flat so if the interface structure is designed right, has consistency and is snappy, I won't hate it.

That said, I'm skeptical that it's designed well because there's a menu for climate control. These things should have physical buttons that blend with the digital UI.
Note that unless the us expats fail to report foreign income and so commit tax fraud, the irs and thus the us government know where people work. I would think this is a risky strategy but it’s up to those in the situation. And as I recall, the irs keeps its claws on people for 5-10 years after renouncing. So entering the us might not be safe.
To me science as a field is somehow more primitive and backward in that it's still first and foremost about building one's CV, like an explorer putting their name on places before the other guy gets there. This doesn't generally match the current environment where everyone is pursuing the same incremental advances and will get there sooner or later. Yet we pretend the one person who's paper got past reviewers first deserves all the credit for that increment plus the increments that follow. The first implementations often don't even work.

Presumably the reason it works this way is because the funding process in research rewards this approach. Elsewhere like in engineering, results are what matter. Science will probably evolve in this direction as we need more and more of it, and results are produced in more shared-credit environments like big labs instead of academia. Then it won't be so much about the Matthew effect which favors those who got started the earliest (which tends to be boys).
While there was important early work, fixed microwave telecommunications really didn't emerge as a significant component of the telephone system until after World War II. The high cost, short range, and demanding maintenance requirements of microwave systems made them impractical as a toll carrier except in rather narrow circumstances. Through WWII the Bell System, for example, was relying on buried cables (which they used with analog multiplexing, achieving fairly substantial capacity but at a high installed cost).

The first major landmark in civilian microwave telecommunications is 1951, when the Bell System completed the first transcontinental microwave route. This too was primitive by the standards of even five years later, and the large transmitters, inefficient waveguides, and basic antenna designs required that most of the equipment be installed in a hut at the top of the tower... and the range was only about 30 miles. The construction cost of these sites was very high but they already showed great promise to be more cost-effective than cable carrier.

Basically all of the advancements that enabled this microwave link came out of the military. Improvements in radio transmitters (such as the klystron) were significant, but likely more significant was the rapid evolution of antenna, waveguide, and feedline design. Improved antenna gains allowed for longer ranges (moreso even than increased transmit power) and lower-cost, higher-efficiency waveguide made it possible to locate most equipment at ground level... this type of design was pioneered by radar where steering of the antenna made it impractical to mount the transmitter directly to the antenna. It tremendously reduced construction and maintenance costs.

Early microwave telecom systems (through the '70s for the large part) were analog FDM, not digital, and based mostly on established FDM techniques for open-wire and cable but benefiting from the large bandwidth that microwave offered (AT&T would apply similar techniques to both buried coaxial cable and buried microwave waveguide, although the latter is sort of a famous failure). But, the AT&T lineage of digital telecommunications is also a product of WWII, with Bell Labs having developed a practical PCM method for cryptographic use. Innovations from radar design were instrumental in the development of digital radio systems later on, as radar drove a need for increasingly complex modulation techniques and equipment that supported them.

This is of course a very US-centric explanation, but the GPO in Great Britain followed a broadly similar timeline to AT&T. Important radio innovations were made there was well during WWII, and imported English equipment (e.g. from General Electric, the London one) was common in US radio telecom equipment through the mid-century.
One negative impact is the administrative burden of moderating those pages. There are disputes, there is false information, intentional misinformation etc that 'editors' need to remove. The positive of having Muhammad Lee have a page on Wikipedia is I think less than this negative.

We already have social media profiles for non-notable people's life and accomplishments. That should be enough.
If you fully account for everything, renting doesn’t always lose - it’s just we’ve had absurd appreciation for so long.

Once you account for maintenance items owning becomes decently more expensive than a simple “mortgage + utilities + insurance + taxes” calculation shows. A $10k furnace every 25 years adds something like $40 a month and that’s only one of the many wear items there are.

There are other non-tangible benefits to ownership, of course.
The problem isn't "the algorithm," the article is exceedingly clear that the problem is "the company" and "the captured market" but mostly collusion by proxy.

But in this case, it's also the algorithm -- the article has multiple quotes where "empathy" is seen as a problem and that getting humans out of the loop is a boon to profit. The algorithm itself isn't the problem, it's the bloody-minded profit-seeking where capitalists leverage trust in the algorithm to extract maximum rents by leaving properties vacant in the midst of a housing crunch.
I can recommend the puzzle books by Raymond Smullyan [0], for example "Satan, Cantor and Infinity". Among others, this contains puzzles about infinities and apparent paradoxes associated with them.
Reading is mostly a form of consumption and therefore not really suitable to train your working memory. For this you have to solve mental tasks on your own instead of following the thoughts of others (without implying that this can not be valuable as well).
Smullyan's books contain humorous puzzles of increasing difficulty, that are mentally challenging but still fun to read. I learned of them after finding here on HN Smullyan's article "Is God a Taoist?" [1] and wanted to read more from him.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Smullyan

[1] https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/godTa...
I use stars as bookmarks. Anything I may want to come back to in the future may get a star. Projects I'm deeply familiar with won't need one.
Have you actually watched the presentations? They are not the NSA storing all data from all cars on a giant hard-drive.

They are deploy code to cars to search for potential interesting, take lots of sample, curate and create a test and training set from that data.

Also how do you know what the Tesla compute bill is? Given their investment in GPU clusters and their own development of Dojo their cost may well have grown exponentially.

> He’s a marketer who is constantly bending the truth.

He is also a CEO of two major companies that have a good track record of achieving interesting technology and growth. So just denigrating him to a 'marketer' says more about yourself.
At that point not being a floppy disk would be confusing - when the Tango Icon Theme was used widely, it had some weird "arrow to a box" (i think it was supposed to be a hard disk) as the save symbol and despite using such programs for years it threw me off very often when trying to find and hit the save button in a toolbar. Actually it still does since some applications still use the icon set.
Ask HN: DBA's of HN, looking back, what learning path would you recommend?
I've been a data analyst for about 7 years and used SQL a lot (building queries, mostly) and would like to become a DB adminstrator. I started looking for some literature to read and I'm already lost:

My current employer is using SQL Server 2014 but from what I can see, there is already 2022 version available. Should I get some literature on the most recent one or starting with 2014 is okay? Is it better to start with theory first before diving into a specific DB like SQL Server?

Looking back, if you could instruct your young self how to approach this, what would you recommend?

Any literature would be appreciated! I'm already 35 and my only experience with DBs is that I can build SQL queries. Not sure if I'm trying to shoot for the moon or it's a doable task.
Google, being US-based company, is legally obliged to provide all the data they have to three letter agencies, without any real oversight. They can’t refuse even if they wanted.
Well it's mastered for 5.1. True there aren't usually Atmos objects, but sometimes there are, but also there don't usually need to be. Are you taking issue with "5.1" being called spatial?

I couldn't disagree more about the "fake surround filter" though -- I love surround sound on my AirPods Pro, even when "spatialized" from stereo. It simply makes music and movies/TV so much clearer to listen to. Everything becomes more distinct and intelligible.

I understand how people rail against the "purity" of the original stereo mix's "intentions", but the reality is that when you listen to music on speakers, the amount of reflection and absorption in any room is already destroying that "purity". Spatial audio filters aren't "destroying" the audio anymore than speakers in a room already do -- the difference is that they're increasing clarity rather than muddying it all up.

I can't ever imagine going back to listening to flat stereo again, where the sound on headphones feels stuck inside of my skull instead of coming from outside.

Headphone fatigue is a real thing, coming from the fact that our brains aren't meant to process audio without all of the associated spatial cues. (Sound isn't supposed to feel like it's emanating from inside our skulls.) Modern surround filters do an awfully good job at restoring those cues. No more headphone fatigue.
Ugh why always this anti-everything sentiment on HN. I'll take nice sound in my car, thank you. I'm sure you'll still be able to drive your car, and listen to music at home, so don't worry...
I would submit that you are making a common mistake in applying an engineer's or programmer's mindset to the law.

What I am thinking of is that company that tried to get around copyright by having their customer's buy TV antennas located at their HQs and then they would stream the feed from the antenna to the customer. Every piece was technically legal but because the entire scheme resembled a patently illegal activity (profiting from distributing copies of copyrighted material) the courts shut them down.

Similar reasoning will be applied in this case. If enough of the market is using the same service to set prices, that will be struck down as collusion.

(All IMHO and IANAL)
Apple’s not a single dude working for $40 an hour into his broken savings account last time I checked.

Downvote it all you want, money printing is the issue - not “capitalism”. Sound money eliminates this problem.
Eh, infrastructure costs of growing horizontally are underestimated in the sense you demand everyone has cars, massive interstates, thousands of miles of water and sewer piping, pollution problems brought on by car culture, etc.
Among the most important books for me was Summa technologiae by Stanislaw Lem, oldie but (still) a goldie:

Despite its age and a number of inaccuracies in specific domains (e.g., mathematics, biology, sociology), the book has lost no momentum in the past years. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summa_Technologiae
The legality applies to American residents. I assume the surveillance can be uncontrolled with foreign citizens.

This then brings up the question about intellectual property. How do weaker nations protect their IP on important technologies against more powerful nations such U.S. or China?

This seems to lead to a widening information gap between nations.
Meal-in-a-Pill by NASA
Here’s mine: https://mtsolitary.com
There's plenty of supply - I don't doubt even the state of CA has more actual housing available than strictly necessary for all those currently living there, but it's natural for people to want to live in areas that are a) close to family and friends b) provide access to employment and c) have necessary infrastructure/ services/retail options readily available. All those factors contribute to making densely populated areas desirable - unless you can provide transportation infrastructure that enables millions of people to efficiently transit long distances - and just about the only countries that have achieved that are those with very high population densities anyway!
But there are definitely other factors that exacerbate cost-of-housing issues - income disparities that are further magnified by the degree to which banks are prepared to lend money being one that's rarely discussed. If someone earning $200k a year is able to afford to spend up to 5 times more on a house - and by extension the land it's on - than someone earning half that (and quite possibly 10 times more than someone earning 50k), then how can that not have a serious impact on housing affordability, which trickles down to rental affordability, as enough rent needs to be charged to help offset mortgage costs for landlords.
What seems to be missing from this article is the note that microwaves can only be produced by cavity magnetrons; and those were a WWII invention. Perhaps the most important invention of the war - certainly in the top 3.
Musk over and over again has shown that if something that he wants is expensive he will invest as much money as required in it to develop and to build it in large quantities. If Musk had thought lidar cost was the big problem, they would be building a lidar giga-factory right now. But they don't because not using lidar wasn't about cost.

He might be right or wrong about that, but he wouldn't just ignore lidar because its currently on on the market cheaply.
Good god that UI is such a waste of space with tiny buttons and half the screen used for background mountains. Why are the skip track buttons down next to the home button? What does the plus symbol do? What are the icons on the black bar for? Why does the whole thing look like Windows Vista? The auto industry does not truly understand how to build an interface.

Edit: If I spent that much on a car I would be furious to turn it on and find that interface.
Fascinating! This is the first
I’m hearing of the anti-Tesla sentiment actually being an oil industry psyop.

I don’t think that’s very likely simply because the media reports far far more on Tesla vis a vis Elon and EV tech in general simply because it’s new and has things worth reporting on.

You’re absolutely right that Tesla stans have a persecution complex and it’s not at all unexpected because you take the literal years of the Tesla evangelism strike force, and “Tesla Face” where any and all criticism of EVs not being a solution for every driver and Tesla not being gods gift to the car industry and, and Elon not being EV Jesus breaker of business models met with dogpiling by Tesla stans that would make kpop and mcr fans blush. It follows the formula exactly that today with Elon making an ass of himself publicly on the regular and the reality of the actual cars being just kinda fine that the internet is having its moment of having a laugh at their expense which would put any fan on the defensive.

Tesla is going through all the normal obsessive fandom phases like you would expect from 14 year old girls in 2014 on Tumblr obsessed with Dr. Who. It has almost nothing at all to do with the cars.
> What do you mean by “paying forex bill”?

It allows capital flight to occur without draining the official central bank reserves of dollars.

> But more importantly, all of that cash going to Canadian real estate and property owners is money taken out of the domestic Chinese economy.

If you read the article it talks about how the money is used to buy goods in China that are then sent to Mexico so it's not a total loss.
Have a conversation with someone who can recognize the experience, and not be threatened by it. Look for the candidate to tell war stories about technical challenges, leadership challenges, interpersonal challenges and how they solved them and what they learned. Read their resume and recognize multiple stints of increasing responsibility at quality companies means something.
I can:

A) Relate to the GP, and

B) Answer the question

For (B), my experience was that LeetCode was worthless, as I was looking for a senior-level engineer, to come into an established team, and start being a contributor, ASAP.

I spent 25 years, hiring experienced coders, and ran an established team, that was part of a much larger, established organization. Headcount was really difficult for me to get, and the company was cheap. They were a huge name, and assumed that everyone was fighting to join the company.

If you were a photographer, that was the case. If you were a programmer, that was definitely not the case.

So I had a challenge.

I suspect that the low-end salary chased away most people that were only looking to hop onto a short-term, salary multiplier gig. Pretty much everyone that I interviewed was serious about getting involved in some extremely interesting work (C++ image processing pipeline development).

I got folks to talk about their passions and projects. The best way to figure out how folks work, is to ask them to wax eloquent on problems they've solved, and projects they wrote.

I would have killed for large GitHub portfolios. I loved long résumés, and would definitely have spent a lot of time, reviewing them, if they were offered.

I think I basically made good choices. There was never a technical misfit. In a couple of cases, the person couldn't integrate too well into the team. I had a very relaxed environment, and each team member had their own proclivities and workflow. We made it work; I suspect the fact that they all had decades of experience, helped.

I kept people on board for decades (not an exaggeration). Remember I said that headcount was such a bitch to get? That was a big reason for me wanting to keep people. Also, the Japanese team would barely acknowledge their existence, until they had been at the company for at least a year.

In my experience, someone who is good at interview tech questions, is good at interview tech questions, but that does not give me any clue, as to how they will be, when they hit some of the rather hairy (often threaded) algorithms we had.

I had to take risks. If an employee did not work out for at least a couple of years, I got grief. So I got highly competent, experienced C++ engineers to join, for low-ish salaries, and I kept them, for many years. I guess that's not a valuable skill, in managers, anymore.

I think I did OK.

[UPDATE] I made it more about me, to try to make the comment a bit less abrasive.
In the past this would cause other places to become “more San Francisco-like” (arguably Seattle itself has changed since the 80s and perhaps in this direction). Why that doesn’t occur could be interesting for discussion.
Why We're Breaking Up with CSS-in-JS
Before I switched to better living arrangement, the property manager at my apartment complex had the goal of sending my account to collection with a 100% fee for collections paperwork. These people don't have empathy or compassion.
The most problematic thing about the state of the world for web framework benchmarks is that some of them drop a lot of real world requirements while showcasing high RPS.

E.g. a signficant number of frameworks on the techempower benchmark don't run with any timeouts in the various stages of a HTTP request lifecycle. That would mean if one would deploy those in the real world the server would sooner or later run out of memory or fd's due to broken client connections. Once you add timeouts, performance would already drop.

Then there is logging and metrics, which are absolutely required for any production setup, but never included in any of those proof of concept setups.

If the performance after those mandatory things is added drops 2 to 4x, the conclusions from the benchmarks can be very different.
>If you're in mainland China and the authorities decide they need to confiscate your phone, you're already fscked.

Funny how you specifically mention China, as if it worked differently in USA - the country where you can get four years of jail time for talking back to police.
Perhaps we should work from a different angle, we have become so used to the word "save" that we don't think about calling it something else. How does somebody who has never heard the word "save" describe saving a file? Maybe think more in the direction of "remember" or "memorize"...