skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I frequently do day trips, or at one point monthly rentals, to various cowork offices to get that interaction with “more senior people.” While I couldn’t ask overly specific questions of those around me, we all tend to help each other the best we could. I don’t live in SV (Florida here), but it was kind of interesting. It’s not a complete solution to the problem you’re describing, of course, but it built network and I have some friendships that grew from it. Also YMMV on how social people are around you, we kind of had an unofficial card system, red meant don’t interrupt and green meant I was open for chatting.
I thought about this too, but there are a few things to consider:

1) you need to separate any non-queryable data into it’s own table. So you’d need _public and _private tables for most data types

2) any type of filter query will need a JOIN, which leaves you vulnerable to malicious long running queries

3) some tables you don’t want people to run SELECT * on, otherwise they can get your entire site data

4) you need to be really careful with DELETE, UPDATE and INSERT queries to prevent malicious behavior

Maybe one way would be to write a bunch of whitelisted regex patterns for allowed queries, but you’re definitely playing with fire allowing someone to send SQL queries to your DB.
Disagreement would be the wrong word, since that is the pleasure that drives the contrarian. These acts of courage are not about pleasure, rather about fidelity, the expression of which may in fact entail social pain.

It is difficult (but important) to self examine one's motive to insure it is not pleasure that is motivating one's standing in contradiction to (asserted) social pressures. And after that determination, it takes courage to be true to one's self.
Twitter and other social networks have rules against hate speech, but their algorithms do everything they can to provoke their users to express hate speech.
There are niches where db schema IS the app schema.

Some time ago I wrote a REST wrapper for the .NET SQL connectors which allowed me to post and query data from the database. It was more than enough for my usage and I could interact with that 'service' from anywhere in the network without bothering on installing and configuring the SQL connector on the endpoints.
A business writer friend of mine told me a month or so ago that, based on a sampling of key swipes, office occupancy is down about a third compared to pre-pandemic although I'm sure it varies a lot.
This is my experience as well. Though, whenever I care about documentation and stuff like that, I'm usually able to return after half a year and can continue.
Why do you feel like a factual comment (AFAICT) was "taking a crap on America?"

The information is new to me, I assumed human trafficking in the US was exclusive for sexual exploitation/prostitution, not labor.
Wow, really? Are there 16MB SIMMs that fit?

I seem to recall I had thought the MacOS GUI subsystem limited it to 16MB, anyway, by packing data into the high byte of addresses... Maybe a later release fixed that?
Embassy of the Free Mind, Amsterdam
Unique collection of books on Alchemy, past forbidden texts. The roots of science.
> The fact that I had to ride a train twice a day just to take those zoom calls from a local office was always an annoyance.

This exactly. I was already working more or less remotely before the pandemic, but from an office 1 hour from my apartment. I often worked from home anyway and nobody noticed other than my manager, who usually was also working in a different office from me (1 hour drive away) but who insisted that I come into the office whenever possible. Covid gave me the chance to stop wasting my time and energy on the train just to keep up appearances for the person who did my annual performance reviews.

My current job is a bit different. Our team is "global", but several of my coworkers actually work in the office near where I live, so going into the office is actually a nice experience. Also my commute is 1/3 what it used to be, which helps.
I don't like it being flagged, even though I don't agree, since too many HNers believe this nonsense. Ignore the evidence about the dangers of saturated fat (including plant saturated fat) at your peril.
It’s obviously because the proctor recognized Rep. Don Beyer, who is well-known in the area, and wondered why a sitting U.S. Congressman was taking an undergraduate college course.
Maybe we can require people take selfies in sunlight with a known camera sensor and white balance and exposure to accurately gauge their natural skin color, then have a corrective calibration factor sent to the watch's oximeter.
Metafilter is a pretty interesting case -- deliberately limiting growth seems to have worked out pretty well for the site over most of its existence, and growth goals have always been about other qualities than sheer numbers. It doesn't need to compete with anybody else on scale.

I'd say HN is one of the few forums competitive on quality of discourse vs metafilter, but its business model is essentially loss-leader for VC/incubator activities, so it's a bit of an odd duck itself.
step 1 can encompass all people. lots of people with idle time choose to do art and not only for profit, this is very common and many of our valued cultural products have come from those kind of conditions (which no longer exist like they did in places such as england).
Hmm, do your own research, but seems like Toyota possibly sells more EVs than Tesla? https://www.statista.com/statistics/1155914/toyota-unit-sale...

Tesla didn't break 1m last year btw, and IDK what their numbers will be this year - but on track to be a little higher, but not the growth they have had to date. Definitely slowing down considerably.
This is no news, and not limited to kindle. All digital goods can be gone the moment a company decides to wipe your account. Books, videos, music, apps...they all can be lost at any given time for whatever reason. There is no law protecting you anywhere in the world, at the moment, AFAIK. IIRC there are laws made at EU-level at the moment, so European might have some protection in some years. Also, depending on your country, you might be able to sue a company for compensation, but this is not fast and cumbersome.

> Can’t wait for the apologist to appear and explain why this is just totally fine

Obviously this is beneficial for the economic, because you will replace the lost goods and buy the important ones again. This will drive the numbers to signal bestsellers, and let unimportant ones dwindle into oblivion, or so...
How has the commercial office space market been fairing? What's the play if one thinks it will crater?
This is one of the reasons why I look at nutritional and medicinal guidelines recommended by other countries outside the US.
This is what makes modern Nimbyism even more destructive.

We’re heading to a new urban death spiral. With no commuters and empty office building. Residential density could salve some of the issues that creates for cities. But nimbyism will of course prevent that, and leave cities the decaying while stodgy citizens delay any solution and argue against density.
I mean... you're eliding a lot of stuff with that "basically", but I suppose you could contrive that analogy?

Geocities didn't do a "global" or "following" feed with every user's content updates being represented as a reading list. Nor did it simplify the site's content management with "article"-based fracturing so that only relevant changes were presented to relevant parties.

Geocities is "basically" this other site in the same way that a peanut butter sandwich is "basically" a hamburger. Apps, as with entrees, can be so different as to be unrecognizable, just in their expression, much less their contents/functionality. But, by all means, if the Geocities framing helps you contextualize it better, more power to you!
This is common complaint at science conferences. Research dollars often go towards shiny things instead of knowledge that will advance diagnostic theory and serve the highest good. Without accurate theory, we cannot advance. The Mediterranean diet is a classic example. Once the researchers were able to show it had some health benefits, it received huge amounts of funding for years. They were able to publish again and again, gaining publicity, gaining more funding and giving the illusion of superiority over other, less-researched, dietary and nutritional tools. Imagine if they had sought to understand how it actually works? We need to ensure that research dollars go towards meaningful projects that seek truth, maintain objectivity and advance knowledge, not agendas.
> Or just "rent" because that seems pretty close to the reality of the situation.

Rent has a defined time period. Buying a license in this case has an indeterminate time period. Buying a license is still very different from renting or leasing it.
good title for a springsteen song?
Musk getting very political is going to have an impact on people who drive EV's for reasons that may be somewhat political, and politically opposed to where he's going. Will his politics draw in people on the other side who were previously skeptical of EV's? I have no idea, really, about the numbers involved in either case.
As a senior engineer I completely agree with this. A few days/week remote is fine. But full time remote is a disaster for junior engineers.

As you alluded to, it's not just easier access to senior engineers. It's also feeling like you're part of something that matters. I've been lucky to have those kinds of jobs in the past. Now I just have a job, I'm fully remote, and I hate it. It would be even worse if I was just starting out.

I suspect that some companies will eventually migrate back to a hybrid model because of this. I can't be the only senior engineer who feels this way.
It is woefully inadequate. It uses exclusively the present tense and misses the vast majority of the language's grammar.
So I've had a kindle since 1st generation. Love it.

BUT I never ever have my kindle on wireless. Always buy books from amazon w desktop computer, download manually, then remove DRM, then manually transfer them via usb.

Never had a problem.
I think there is a big step made from recognizing the issue to concluding that it is normal. Indeed, scratching beyond the surface, the entire concept of normality per se is pretty difficult to justify.

First, let's call it what it is -- corruption -- and let's not pretend that "the American project" makes it morally any more appropriate than corruption in, say, eastern European or African governments, to reuse old stereotypes.

Yes, special interests have captured the levers of power. It seems as if the Framers had the idea to structure government in such a way that there is a healthy separation between the demos and the control of governmental policy, but they only imagined landed gentry, and not abstract superstructures-cum-monopolies of the rich and powerful, would be the managers of this "democracy".
One beautiful bit of the Plex UX is having the clock time in the top right corner of the HUD in the player. It's very convenient and I don't think any other service (in the UK) has it.
Odd flex, but ok.

Assuming the question was

> How much time in day, do you think you spend reading what random people you dont know are saying?

Rather than "so what?", which I will come back to later: For me, probably several hours per day. It's not just here, or twitter/fb, though that's probably an hour by itself, it's also:

• Blog authors (parasocial relationships!)
• Newspaper writers
• Wikipedia editors
• Review writers on Amazon, Google maps
• Question and Answer writers on Stack Overflow
• The first few comments under some Youtube videos
• Comments sections on news stories

(Technically also book authors given the way you phrased that, but that's a different issue and current generation text generators make no difference there anyway).

Now assuming the question was "so what?", because that dovetails into the rest of your spiel:

The problem is not usefulness to you, it's "can this be used to automate convincing you?".

Make a half-decent sales pitch personalised at whoever for whatever: "Boiling eggs? Yeah that's easy, but I find organic is the best and well worth the cost", or "Oh, you're visiting Berlin? Yeah, I had a really great time at $insert_restaurant_here" or "Don't fall for the Lib Dems, they keep saying they can beat the Tories but look what happened when they got into power. That's why I vote $insert_uk_political_party_here". All personalised to just you, in the form of a friendly looking and natural response that probably seems more natural than any of my examples, because chatGPT is only reliably worse than domain experts and I'm not a domain expert in sales.

Also: You replied to me, and I'm a stranger, so we both know you engage with strangers on the internet, QED there's a place where you might get a bot trying to sell you a product or idea while pretending to be human.

Don't make the mistake of thinking the status quo is a good reference point here: Current advertising categorisation on social media sucks (easy way to find out: make GDPR request to FB or Twitter for all the data they have about you. They think I'm interested in languages I can't speak and politics of countries I don't live in).
Technical correctness, the best sort of correctness
I'm not saying we should turn a blind eye to disappointments because "that's just the way it is." Work itself is a process of taking things that are not good or disappointing and correcting them. But maligree is getting at the idea of finding ultimate fulfillment at work. I'm convinced that even a thousand years from now we'll still be experiencing disappointment at work and if we wait for disappointment to be gone from work so we can find ultimate fulfillment in it we'll never get there.
Ideally, yes, it would definitely be best to not be exposed to the risk of prosecution for some data glitch.

But you also have to look at the risk of getting fired because you missed an email if your self-hosted solution goes down, losing your wallet because you didn't have Tile tracking, extra risk of getting sick because you didn't get enough sleep while dealing with some last minute tech issue to make your more-private system work, getting lost because the open source app had worse data or compass calibration algorithms than Maps, getting money stolen because you used crypto that can't be reversed, etc.

The current suite of nonprivate tech offers an insane amount of power, especially for those of us without a good memory or navigational skills.

I guess it's the same issue with unions and protests, people who are one paycheck away from the streets won't risk a strike, because they'll lose everything by the time they get the benefits.
It's ridiculous to even consider this in New York, where they could have just been building normal apartments instead of luxury condo towers for the last 10 years.
The Nuc is excellent, and the big ones (ghost canyon etc) take a pci card. With 10gb networking and Proxmox or ESXi you have a great little server that is pretty portable.
People talking about copyright exclusively talk about revenue.

Copyright isn’t meant to gatekeep people from copying each other just because it’s fun to gatekeep. The entire reasoning we give to continue using that system is based on revenue.

So, the answer to your question is: everyone.
To be more specific, his district includes the “National Landing” development which will include Amazon’s HQ2 and a Virginia Tech “innovation” campus, as well as the Thomas Jefferson magnet high school, the CIA, the Pentagon, Fort Belvoir… and many surrounding neighborhoods.
Last I heard the ID Govt had forbidden excavations.
I’ve loved webcomics since the early days. There’s huge amounts of truly amazing work. You can find incredible horror stories like The Sword Interval or Stand Still Stay Silent (two of my absolute favorites). There’s long-running diaries like Real Life Comics or serials like PVP. Practically everyone knows Penny Arcade, but have you heard of Three Panel Soul? The rabbit hole runs deep.

However, the tech behind it has lacked. Hosting has been a pain, and aggregators like Webtoon have their drawbacks (and advantages too). Creation is getting easier, but lots of barriers remain.

I’m glad to see some new tools come around. The market for something like this is surprisingly large and highly underserved.
Since most comments are personal stories, here's mine as usual. Until I was 29 I didn't know how to drive, and walked/bike/took transit everywhere, living in Moscow Russia, downtown Vancouver BC, Bellevue WA. I also derided suburbs to the point where my most non libertarian belief was that they should only allow short term rentals for personal-use cars, via a very large tax on ownership like iirc in Denmark but higher - so you could rent one to go to the mountains or such, and nothing else. Phase it in over few decades so society reorganizes and car-centric areas die. When I learned to drive and got a car, I kept living in walkable areas, and my opinions didn't change much.

Finally I moved to semi-suburbs (not even real suburbs, walkscore in the low 60s - not that I actually walk much) and realized I was wrong most of my life!

The walkable areas are awesome for (1) children who can't drive, (2) frequent drinkers - so me until about ~26. After that, it was just inertia. For anything else, car-centric life is vastly better and walkable areas/transit mostly suck. I didn't even realize how much inconvenience I used to endure, it's like living without good heating and considering indoor layering and being cold the normal life, but then getting good heating.
I appreciate many of the comments here. I don’t feel alone.

I’ve been working on something for a couple years (off and on) and some days/weeks/months my motivation takes a nose dive to the point where I stop work completely. Eventually I get back into it but one of these days, I might drop it completely.
Except for remote positions, how does that work? Does everyone move when they change jobs in a city?
There are some twitter clients that allow you to follow other users without an account. I use Fritter on Android. It doesn't show ads and it only shows tweets and replies of those people that you actually follow directly.
I consider this book pretty much required reading for junior devs and others in engineering who don't have a decent handle on basic Unix skills for whatever reason--which seems to be a more common occurrence these days than earlier in my career.
Regarding 2, what is MPV here?
Can't read the article because I don't have a FT subscription - but I think this is a really bad idea from the EU. We saw what happened last time the Chinese government lied about a virus and allowed their citizens to travel en masse. Why does the EU think letting history repeat itself is a good idea?

They can say "oh no new variants of COVID have been found in these new visitors" but it's still too early to make that call IMO. The word "yet" should be tacked on to the end of that sentence.
It was only because of all the controversy over migrant workers rights during the prelude to FIFA World Cup in Qatar that holding your employees passports became illegal.

Before that, employers had the right to do so and it was (might still be) the norm.

Refusing to hand over your passport is like refusing to hand over your passport at immigration.
Which improves your chances of getting a retrial. Judges do get almost complete domain over their courtrooms, but if they make an error in judgement that sways a jury to a "potentially unjust" verdict, that is grounds for retrying your case.

Allowing an expert witness to testify and refusing to allow a dissenting expert witness to testify is one of those situations.
Ok, and there are significant downsides to using JavaScript, so pick your poison.
Examples:

- old beach lanes: https://shorturl.at/fty07

- apartment road network: https://shorturl.at/cikrR

- waste management access road: https://shorturl.at/bjM17

- one conceptual road; three physical roads and median bike path: https://shorturl.at/eJS68

- center lanes become a bridge: https://shorturl.at/tvxLU

- complex intersections: https://shorturl.at/fxAC4

- apartment entrance loop: https://shorturl.at/bgDKU

- technically a road: https://shorturl.at/eJNYZ

- checkpoint for an entire neighborhood: https://shorturl.at/vzLP1
That's also my perception.

Just by looking at buildings and job offerings, there seems to be more hardware in the South Bay, vs. the peninsula or SF. Not sure about the Oakland area.

The article defines Silicon Valley as "Santa Clara and San Mateo counties, along with the cities of Fremont and Newark." I would have split out the first two.
Just saw on CNBC that San Francisco office vancancy was 3.7% in Q4 2019 and just hit a record 27.2% for Q4 2022.
On the similarities between the academic job market and dating.
If you're downloading tv or books, then you should be okay as you won't be executing anything. I wouldn't trust software pirated from there (or other places).
All these studies are the same... A gazillion variables that they don't control for or that we don't even know about. On top of that some of those studies are paid for by organisations that have interests. Nutrition is nothing but junk science.
You have to actually look at person-days in an office. How many people are technically assigned to that office is pretty much meaningless. I haven't been been into my official office in 3 years (although I've very occasionally gone into another couple company offices).
Limited by what? There's a bit of a who-watches-the-watchman problem.
chatgpt brain implant
Oops yes I did, sorry Andrew.
New companies will be formed that are remote-only from Day 1 and stay that way forever. Employees who like remote work should go to these companies. I believe remote-only is superior, as I observe mentorship and frequent communication within my company, as everyone is dedicated to the remote-only mode.

I believe that in-person office work is not about communication or mentorship but mostly about providing socialization benefits (chatting, going out to lunch) that are not needed for a company to succeed. "Less authentic relationships" has nothing to do with company success and everything to do with your own personal well-being.

The correct move is to build a social life outside of your work - family, friends, community. As a remote only worker my social life is excellent because I did not tie my social well being to any company.
You mean the car-oriented suburbs?
Is it a vulnerability in a business or in a government service/dept?
Plant-based never meant the same as vegan, unless you're only talking about food. Plant-based is rarely used outside of food.
Do you feel that your responses to each subsequent comment have added value to this thread? Would editing the your parent comment have been the less selfish approach?
Why Ruby on Rails was the right choice for me to escape JavaScript frustration
First “virovore” discovered: An organism that eats viruses
Looks a lot like... slideshows
Wireguard protocol is specifically designed not to show up on port scans. See section 5.1 of the white paper: https://www.wireguard.com/papers/wireguard.pdf
Most office leases are for 5 to 10 years periods. I’m not surprised they are not seeing huge changes yet. It would be more interesting to find out how much of that space is actually occupied by meatbags. Most offices I went to this year were basically empty chairs.
Netgear Powerline: networking over electrical outlets
Submission to the automobile has already devastated America's Cities...
The question is, will they still come out ahead even accounting for the catastrophic shutdown? Maybe once a year is fine