skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's in large part (almost entirely?) because the laws make it extremely difficult to evict a tenant. It can take a very long time, so there's a lot of pressure on the tenant to prove they're not a future liability.

That's the big downside of heavy tenant protections - it goes so far, landlords take protective measures like torturing you with requirements.

Sure, there is a 'shortage' of housing - but all desirable, popular international tier 1 cities have this, so the word shortage is a bit of a misnomer. Although, Tokyo has something interesting to say about that, seeing that they are dealing with it better. That said my point above about purchase prices remains: you want to buy in Paris, you pay Manhattan prices with France wages. Good luck if you're not already a foreigner (partial topic of the news we're responding to) or very rich.

International rich like to buy and warehouse apartments in Paris for occasional use.
With the average life expectancy of a male in the USA being ~75, it makes intuitive sense to call "middle age" 37 +/- some years.

The fact that middle aged is defined as 40-60 is weird in the same way that the "mid-western" United States being almost entirely east of Mississippi river is.
Welsh speakers use TikTok to teach the language
This incentivizes storage and time-shifting usage to solar peak times, which seem to be needed in California. Does anyone know if there are pricing signals to help with that? For example, if I (as a power-plant operator or whatever) found a way to sell electricity right as the sun is going down, am I rewarded for that?

As an individual with a solar install, I think this also encourages people to use the energy they produce directly, which also seems beneficial. For example, if your house is well-insulated, you can probably pre-cool it a few degrees while your solar is producing so that you don't need as much cooling during the peak times. If you can be home during the day time, you could set your car to only charge during peak times.
Ample parking day or night?
This is a very suspicious statement for anyone unfamiliar with ketamine and it is exactly the type of text one would expect from a pharmaceutical company.

It is also coming from a throwaway account, so please take "the same dose was less effective" with a grain of salt.

I know many people with depression and anxiety that used ketamine and never experienced this type of response: extremely limited use and immediate reduction in effectiveness.

I don't buy it.

Edit:
Initial studies show even microdoses of ketamine can cause immediate and lasting (+2 weeks) reduction in depression and anxiety. One should not be going into a "k hole" which is regarded as somewhat of an overdose even to partiers
I've smoked almost daily for over 30 years. Can't tell any difference whatsoever between sativa and indica. It's routine now going into one of these fancy weed places and having them ask me this first and I have to find some way to politely say 'yeah, they're no different for me, sorry'. The junk science around weed is so cringey.
What would be your favorite way of standing up to the people who implemented the ban and their supporters?
In the worst possible case we just switch to the one time pad encryption, which makes things inconvenient but literally can't be cracked by any computer or algorithm(tldr: the length of the key is as long as the length of the message, so a message can decode into anything and you can't tell whether the text you decoded is the right one or not). So a scenario where literally no encryption is available seems far fetched.
Maybe I just don't work in a toxic workplace, but I love speaking with my colleagues over video. Keeping comms going in slack and speaking face to face are not mutually exclusive. You don't work with avatars, you work with humans.
That's informative, thank you. I didn't know about Cloudflare Workers or how relatively turn-key they are compared to Lambda.
Google researcher, long out of math, cracks devilish problem about sets
New story to me, at a guess he understood that the design had created a shorted turn so a cut in the casing would solve it.

The principle of the story is however exactly the same as one I've heard before about Picasso:-

Picasso is quietly having lunch at a cafe when this loud woman says "Hey, aren't you Pablo Picasso?". He replies, quietly, "Yes, Madam, I am".

Her: "Wow! Hey, will you do a little sketch on this napkin for me?".

Picasso demurs, but she's really insistent. She says "It's only take you a moment, and I'll pay whatever you think it's worth".

So Picasso whips off a quick pencil sketch, 10 seconds, hands it to her. "Here you are, Madam. That'll be $10,000 please".

Her: "$10,000?! It only took you a moment!"

Picasso: "Au contraire Madam, that took me my whole life."
Absolutely not true. Program maintainers can create immutable programs, most just choose not to. It's a user issue more so than a protocol issue.
After driving a new rental Model Y for 1000+ miles recently, my biggest complaints are:

* The sound proofing feels as if it did not exist. The cabin noise in my family's old minivan is even quieter than in this car.

* The ride is incredibly bumpy (I hear this issue is specific to the Model Y?). You feel each and every bump, even on newly paved roads.

* Autopilot, at least on the roads I drove on, was significantly worse than other manufacturer's lane-following systems. I was driving on straight highways that frequently switched between one lane and two lanes. Without fail, every time the two lanes merged into one, autopilot would get confused and jerk the steering wheel left, steering the car past the double yellow lines (USA) into the oncoming traffic lanes. The screen's depiction of what the car saw did not match reality at all in this situation.

* The automatic emergency braking triggered at least once every time I was on the highway.

There were definitely things I did like about the car, but I would never consider personally buying a Tesla for the reasons above.
> Perhaps you should ask why two-fifths of adults aren't doing their share of the labor?

Careful that you don't cut yourself with all those edgy takes.
Brazil to Reopen Fraud Case Against George Santos
This is a tech accelerator live-in community/apartments that you pay monthly rent for?

They offer shared workspaces for you to mingle with other tenants/technologist/doers? Maybe hold events and mixers too?
Whether you agree with it or not, OLCCs role is to regulate the entire market - including supply and demand. They do the same thing with liquor. Oregon is a controlled liquor state where everything sold has to move through the government. I think they're draconian and heavy handed, but it's absolutely part their job.

Philosophically, I agree with limiting the supply via regulation and licensing for at least the first few years. Everything else was already highly regulated: it's a schedule 1 substance that can't be sold out of state and can only be sold to 21+ in state. Some of the biggest players in the existing black market were the Mexican cartels, and they absolutely were trying to take advantage of the legal status to hide illegal activity.

Nothing about that market says it will go well with an immediate free-for-all. Long-term that may be ok, but short term that was just unrealistic
I find the responsibility & authority angle is very helpful in these conversations. It doesn't take a lot of convincing (in a reasonably healthy organization) to say that these should be broadly aligned, and that if you can show people a place where they are either currently grossly out of sync, or are going to be out of sync if we move forward with some particular iteration of the plan, they start thinking more about how to bring them in sync.

The good news is, pretty much everyone has been on at least one side of that balance being broken (that is, having responsibility without authority, or being subject to someone else's authority without responsibility), and a lot of people have been on both, and once you bring it to their attention that they're creating another one there is a certain amount of motivation to avoid it, even if it is a bit more work for a them. You can actually use people's experiences with bad organization to convince them to not create another one, if you are careful and thoughtful.
I was giving you the benefit of the doubt in the previous reply but this is so arrogant it's quite silly. If you want to force your preferences on others be my guest but don't be surprised when some people respond negatively. Verbal communication is often imprecise and vague. I can't count the number of times I've had to write up a detailed summary of a meeting to ensure that two different stakeholders didn't just take away what they wanted to hear from the conversation. There have been many times where having a paper trail of my conversations has me allowed to prove that, yes, I did indeed inform so and so about that problem weeks ago. There are also many people, myself included, who have difficulty processing and producing spoken language (either through speech and hearing impairments or ASD or any number of other conditions). Your preference is just that, a preference, not a universal truth.
It sounds like creating problem, then spending time=money on fixing it and calling it a win?

There is a point when it all starts to make sense. But that point is when you go into billions worth business, hundreds of devs etc. And going there has large cost, especially for small/medium systems. And that cost is not one off - it's a day-to-day cost of introducing changes. It's orders of magnitude chaper and faster (head cound wise) to do changes in ie. single versioned monorepo where everything is deployed at once, as single working, tested, migrated version than doing progressive releases for each piece keeping it all backward compatible at micro level. Again - it does make sense at scale (hundreds of devs kind of scale), but saying your 5 devs team moves faster because they can work on 120 micoservices independently is complete nonsense.

In other words micoservices make sense when you don't really have other options, you have to do it, it's not good start-with default at all; and frankly Sam Newman says it in "Building Microservices" and so do people who know what they're talking about. For some reason juniors want to start there and look at anything non-microservice as legacy.
It also has to reach a critical point. Serving maybe 100k unique visitors and 1tb in a month isn't that big of a deal, but 100x that might be enough to where you're using a lot more than every other free customer.
> Worker cooperatives exist and are perfectly functional and successful. Which means one economic system that isn't often spoken about might be described as "Free Market Socialism", in which businesses are governed democratically by their workers in a free market.

Yes, in capitalism. We have worker coops, there is absolutely nothing in capitalism that prevents or restricts them.
As someone who started watching porn when he was 10 and wishes he hadn't, this seems like great news to me. Hopefully sites like reddit follow suit
at about 10c per gigabyte though?
Agreed.

But how would the movie end?
A fucking blog? So, like an onlyfans blog?

In all seriousness, I don’t understand the reason to use profanity in the name like that. Everyone knows that a large percentage of the population is turned off by profanity. Why limit your potential audience right out of the gate?
Brazil has a unique thing "combo cards" in which a single card number can be tied to different accounts. So selecting credit draws from a line of credit while selecting debit draws from a bank account (checking or savings) holding cash.

In the US, though, both options draw from the same bank/checking account.
First Dutch Computer Commemorative Plate (1952)
> FAQ
What do grant recipients get?
A $25,000 investment with a no cap, no discount, MFN SAFE
Sqlglot is fantastic, and a super readable codebase to learn from! Thanks @captaintobs.

With the comparisons to calcite, I was curious if you've considered implementing sqlglot in a native language too? Something compiling down to a small wasm extension would make it accessible to web apps.
Why would using microservices reduce the chance of outages? If you break a microservice that is vital for the system, you are as screwed as with a monolyth.
I think this will also be true for California and Texas in 2024 (not just porn, any website with user generated content)
>doesn't monolith usually refer to one really heavy app?

No. Backend Server clusters are around almost as long as the internet exists.

>I would guess most of the time there's a high expense (lots of memory) in duplicating the entire monolith?

That's right, but there's a gotcha. Everytime you split your monolith into parts, that doesn't mean that each part will consume 1/n of original monolith startup resource. There will be a floor of memory usage.
Consider 1 monolith that eats up 1GB to startup vs 4 microservices that uses 512MB each. Right from start you doubled the wasted memory from 1GB to 2GB. That only gets worse the more services are created.
Another problem is that microservice/cloud folks loves to create anemic machines. Usually setting up 512MB RAM and half a core cpu to a service that needs 380mb minimum :) Thats 75% overhead and 25% of working memory. It's bonkers.
When sentiment is low, I remind myself that for the price to remain where its been for the past three months or so, people have been purchasing the 900 Bitcoins mined a day, paying $16,000 each, or $14 million a day. This is the best use for these dollars that these people can come up with: swapping them for digital property, a slice of 21 million.

Thankfully (for us all), it seems that this story is not over! Our ancestors will look back on this absurd period of soft money and wonder what we were thinking entrusting something as critical as money, the lifeblood of civilization, to politicians. May it be brief!
I'm with you in spirit, but practically speaking it's an excellent idea to have a friend with experience to accompany you during your first session.

Even if your friend just sits there for four hours while reading a book, it's comforting to know that someone you trust is there to say "yes" when you start asking "is this really happening?" That can make the difference between a wonderful experience and an alarming one.
I just learned about virophages a few days ago. Viruses and their relationship to other organisms or viruses is bizarre.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virophage

I wonder if virovores could be exploited for medical purposes?
Even if this particular scheme doesn't work at scale, the writing is on the wall for conventional crypto. If you are encrypting data that will be at rest for more many years it's time to start think about migrating to post-quantum crypto so you don't end up one day discovering you're entire corpus is vulnerable.
I disagree. Most status meetings are useless at best and harmful at worst. If there really are blockers then people should be raising them immediately, not up to one full week later in the next scheduled sync. And if all blockers are addressed promptly as they should then what is the point of a delayed status update?

Like the parent post mentions these kinds of meetings are for the benefit of managers and executives, not people working on the project. And this validation shouldn't come at at the expense of everyone else's time.
Underappreciated challenges with Python packaging
The buyer is planning on hodling it until it inevitably rebounds to $2.9 million.
> That could wind up in a bidding war that could end up affecting ...

If he called up a competitor and complained about them undercutting prices on competing products, and threatened "This means war", would you be explaining how tolerating competitive bidding is bad for the company? Everyone knows that, and knows, I thought, that the only legitimate response is "Tough shit."
A note to cast further suspicion on the immediate risk severity:

The researchers indicate use of a computer built with superconducting qubits in the abstract, to that, superconducting qubits present barriers such as

- limited coherence time due to common atmospheric muon events, and resulting phonons

- limited topological connectivity, further increasing needed coherence time.
This is monstrous. No other word for it.

That people can justify this in the name of some sick version of bureaucratic efficiency... Who are the people that go along with implementing this?
I work with data, so it's not uncommon to load a large file either deliberately or accidentally. Highlighting isn't the issue. Even a CSV on the order of 100-200MB kills VS code dead. I assume this is because it's an electron app. Other apps do not have this problem.
Hmm, I've never heard of such a setup, actually. Usually these kinds of generators are called "behind-the-meter" because they are literally behind the electric meter, so any generation you make is directly used by your house, and any excess crosses the meter. At least this web page (from a utility in NE-ISO) indicates that solar generation is still behind the meter even in a net generation setting: https://www.bostonsolar.us/solar-blog-resource-center/blog/w.... It could vary from place to place, though.
USVI fires Attorney General after she sued JPMorgan re: Epstein
Those are very generous terms.
No, nothing I’ve tried in the last 16 years of professional life has worked, other than legitimately good opportunities which do not inspire procrastination.
I've run SQLGlot on the browser using Pyodide or something before. Since it has no deps, it didn't have any issues.
If you're not convinced, I can also point you to a more recent piece by Matthew Yglesias that I found compelling that drew out the relationship between housing/rent prices and homelessness.

https://www.slowboring.com/p/homelessness-housing
This is now my new favorite apocalypse.
Viral Parasites of Giant Viruses
Sounds like it's working as intended. They don't want any more echo chambers.
Ok, so adding in another $200 a month lost opportunity (say for 7 months. We're now at $2500... So I guess these details are adding up, still not $5k, but the case for a discount is definitely growing.
At sufficient doses. You don't have to trip every time you do it, you can take enough to just be stoned.
Treating people like cattle isn't a problem for you?
Here they are:

Linkhut’s API: https://docs.linkhut.org/overview.html

Pinboard’s API: https://pinboard.in/api/

Delicious’ API: https://github.com/domainersuitedev/delicious-api
BlueHeart Energy ( https://www.blueheartenergy.com/ ) from Netherlands also has developed a new heat pump that uses thermo acoustics. The technique consists in creating sound waves in a closed circuit to generate heat and cold.
It seems to me like this is a crime. Why are there not more formalized procedures and criminal penalties for those in the justice system for the state choosing to turn a blind eye to documented crimes within its ranks?
I'd do learning how to learn again unless you specifically hated it. It's really good and even if you still remember 80% of the material I think that last 20% is going to be better than most other courses/books/articles.
Looks like it’s named after the street where their office is? Still, it takes some chutzpah to give your brand the same name as a pre-existing huge thing.
Back when I was a software engineer, I used to constantly hear how bad cplusplus was. Yet, in spite of this, I'd fairly often find myself using it because the results were just so much easier to parse.

Just as an example, cppreference doesn't have a page dedicated to std::string (when you search for it on Google, it tkes you to std::basic_string) whereas cplusplus does.

Even comparing the two pages, cplusplus immediately gets to the point that std::string is just a std::basic_string<char>, whereas cppreference has three paragraphs of technical minutiae before it finally points out what std::string is.

Even though cplusplus is out of date and incomplete, it's still often more useful than cppreference when you're trying to get your head around STL for the first time.
SBF Pleads Not Guilty but He's Guilty
How many of these people are you running into? I don't think I've ever heard the word entheogen spoken.
Don't do it. Eventually a conflict will be fabricated and pushed to the breaking point.
You can install the drivers but the control panel with all the useful features is a UWP app.
>Simply being a member of a minority group does not make your opinion correct.

Nor does being a member of the majority make yours incorrect.
This is very serious.

My brother's schizophrenia started while I sat with him on the grass trying to comfort him after he had taken mushrooms.

This led to moment after moment of things that are difficult to for me to talk about. My family spent 3 Christmases at the state hospital to be with him. Thanks to the help he was able to get at the hospital and through continued care, he's now able to live with my parents.

Please be wise.
> Five people died constructing the Empire State building. Do you imagine the uproar if that happens today?

People still die on construction projects all the time, on relatively uninteresting things even. eg, in 2019 four people died when a crane working above a Google office building in Seattle collapsed. It was local news for a few weeks, but I'm not sure it had any other effects, regulatory or otherwise.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_crane_collapse
A well-known home improvement retailer has a similar rule: you take the time to help anyone with an issue resolve it, or directly hand them off to another employee who can help. No pointing and then ignoring. Or email forwarding and then ignoring.

Granted, everyone is busy and it isn't always followed, but as a guiding organizational foundation one can do a lot worse.
cf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARRA_(computer)

As a connection to modern times, GvR was at the CWI when he developed Python.
The title of the article is currently: "Two children and two adults survive after Tesla plunges 250 feet off California cliff"
You forgot to put SHOCK in all caps.
Why do you think AI cannot be as good as a lawyer for all these things? Take the technology to its logical end and it can be better than a lawyer
I recently quit a company where we were having daily morning meetings of 30 minutes or longer, plus weekly sprint check-ins and weekly sprint reviews, and quarterly PI planning events that were several days of 6-8 hrs/day.

I like technical work, design and coding and interaction with customers to understand their needs. I'm okay with approximately weekly status updates and ad-hoc quickie get-togethers to figure something out, but I hate stand-ups (so-called) that feel more like justifying one's job or trying to sound productive (I knew for a fact some of those fancy updates people were giving were just covering for watching Netflix and Youtube 4 hrs/day) :)

It seems to me Shopify's approach might have some merit, even if it seems heavy-handed and clumsy.
It also seems like "side project" is a stretch, as they appear to want you to have all other commitments wrapped up. The side project has to be your main project.

"To that end, all SPC members have wrapped up their jobs or previous commitments ahead of their onboarding sessions."
I'm surprised more people aren't talking about this, I find it to be far and away the biggest reason for me to avoid calls. so many problems don't just happen once, and I find that the people who prefer to jump on calls are also the people who prefer not to write or share any documentation about what they know. I take notes often, but it's always easier to just have the logs available.
Java came along with a free compiler and Meyer still insisted on charging for his. That’s what killed Eiffel. And a doomed a generation and a half of devs to shitty object orientes analysis, culminating in Design Patterns, and reaching its absurd conclusion in Enterprise Design Patterns (institutionalized architectural astronautics). Which incidentally was published after Alexander had already moved on to new organizational principles.