skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Treat contract negotiation as a trial run for your future relationship: Do they try to slip nasty stuff in there? Do they do stupid shit? Do they refuse to answer questions clearly? Is it a hassle trying to get them to make modifications? Are things vague, open to too much interpretation, or missing key information?

How someone behaves during contract negotiations is an indicator of how they'll behave generally. If you can't start building that trust right out of the gate... Red flag. Even if they're not trying to be devious and are simply being naive or sloppy.
Not sure I understand your point. 2 will happen because of the market anyway. My point is mainly that without 1, people won't return, so then both the current owners and new owners of the buildings will go bankrupt and SF will become another Detroit.
> I paid for it, it's mine

Funny misconception, that. You paid for it, but Apple controls it. You trust Apple to do the right thing, but you cannot prove that they do. You cannot hold them accountable for doing the right thing, either.

So, how can you trust it as an extension of your self? I understand your argument, but you've based it on a misconception if you think you're the ultimate user with the greatest authority over your device. Apple makes the rules, the only thing you do as a user is agree to play by them.
there are plenty of reasons to live downtown. maybe there will be more coffeeshops and coworking spaces. I'm in Barcelona right now but whether here, medellin, bangkok etc, there is a huge demographic of educated workers who like livign in the city area but wan the freedom to walk around a beautiful economically diverse environment. I for one wouldn't mind a apartment where I can walk to a number of parks and cafes and social areas. The problem in SF is one found all over america. we don't have have proper third places. The closest thing I have to a hangout whenever i'm back stateside is the gym or starbucks.
> fundamentally though, there is no reason a computer cannot think.

This is true, but I think there is also a fundamental reason computers cannot understand us. If I tell a future AGI "I am sick" or "I am happy", the AGI may have a conceptual understanding of what I mean, but cannot empathize with my condition. Many human experiences are intimately tied to our bodies and our hormonal systems. How do you explain a concept like "pain" to an intelligence that has no nerves?
I get what you’re saying, but I think what you’re describing as the “realness” of a company is just the sustainability of its competitive advantage. Which is a good metric to understand their long term financial position and susceptibility to market changes and layoffs. Others are pointing out that yes MS and Amazon make physical things, but we all know those aren’t their core business - that’s beside the point.

Tech companies are largely “interface” providers - they simplify the interface between a human and some other thing. Twitter simplifies the interface between one human and all other humans on Twitter. Microsoft enhances the interface between one human and other humans within a company. Amazon simplifies the interface between humans and retail goods, and AWS simplifies the interface between humans and scalable compute and storage.

Apple simplifies the interface between humans and personal compute, which is the entry point to all of the above (although the relationship with Microsoft is obviously more complex than that). So Apple is just further up the tech value chain, where transient effects are softened and delayed, and where competitive advantage is less easily displaced. Twitter is really only protected by network effects. Microsoft is protected by lots of UI/UX implementation moat and strong vendor lock in. Amazon is protected by others’ ability to scale physical logistics, AWS by backend and interface development and also lock-in. Apple is protected by all of the above plus hardware engineering, and the hardware is an especially difficult one to catch up with or copy.
I was reading your comment and wanted to comment about creatine until I saw it added at the end. With over 20 years of gym training and taking massive amounts of supplements, I totally agree. Apart from protein if you can't get enough from food, I find that everything else is either useless or not worth the price.
IMHO, modern IBM (inasmuch as it exists) is the textbook target for Java, from a professional services standpoint.

And it's snide and isn't.

There's a lot to be said of being able to shovel programmers into a furnace and produce something functional. Decreasing risk to timeline and of failure makes large project PMs very happy. And generally makes stakeholders happy, because things don't outright fail as often.
> If downtown becomes some safe green utopia, rents triple

Nothing is static. It is called gentrification. Rents have to get cheap to get some people to move back despite the crime and the government needs to get the crime problem under control. Then things slowly improve and rents slowly increase again reflecting the lower crime risk.
Just an FYI. You can now use OIDC to authenticate to AWS. This removes the need for hardcoded IDs and KEYs.
I really don't understand the argument for this situation. The drives are encrypted, right? Why can't the drive just be formatted and the system reused? The data is the thing that's important here, no?
I've always thought that these types of studies / meta-analysis are conducted in a backward manner. A study is proposed, funded, performed - possibly with a particular objective in mind. The results are published (possibly used in various marketing materials), then almost enviably, methods and rationale are questioned by others post hoc. The end result of the exercise is often no knowledge gained with diminishing public trust in science.

Instead what we should do, is to come up with a study design first, gain broad consensus that the study, if rigorously conducted in accordance to the design, would yield statistically meaningful results.

The challenge here is many studies would likely be infeasible (requiring millions of people or hundreds of years in order to attain a statistically valid result - or both). However, that is useful in it's own right as it would help us to direct resources at studies that do have a hope of increasing knowledge. Infeasible studies will just have to wait until we can accurately simulate biological phenomena.
Your having honor is not conditional on others having honor.
Yandex code shows that the company has redesigned its child porn filter so that the search results do not show bad things about Putin.
I believe you are undervaluing the demand for cloud, e.g. AWS and azure. Companies that "make things" use these services extensively. AWS and Azure are the quintessential shovels during the gold rush.

But even by your flawed definition of "making things" Amazon counts, because of Kuiper, Fire Devices, and Echo alone.
you expect a written explanation of an incomplete ongoing process

but 'written explanations' only really work for done and completed things, or sometimes for future things which we want to repeat; i.e. which are based on things we've done before
I can't see the difference between the first two "VS" examples you have above, it just looks like they are formatted differently (oh, one has annotations and the other doesn't. you'd use the annotated version. I guess you are cut-and-pasting from a migration guide that's for legacy code. "migration guide" means "I have legacy code". if you don't have legacy code, you have nothing to migrate. Go straight to https://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/20/orm/quickstart.html ).

The second example is a Core table. The new tutorial makes it clear that this is an underlying element that nonetheless you have to sometimes create directly.

the third example is gone. That style is not in the docs anymore *except* in a clearly marked side-box that is talking about a legacy version of SQLAlhcemy - you don't have to read that and the box IMO makes it as clear as it can that this is not the current way of doing things.

> Why so many styles? Why can't be like pydantic or Django and use just one style for ORM?

pydantic is extremely new and SQLAlchemy's declarative style pre-dates Python 3 entirely. So we have changed it. The old ways of doing things have to be maintained for backwards compatibility with millions of existing applications. You can't be around for 16 years and have exactly one way of doing things that never changes, legacy patterns for large software libraries are a fact of life.

as for django I dont know what they are doing, I am sure things had to change for them to accommodate pep-484 typing in models (if they have even done that).
Coworking spaces exist, and lots of people like having places to go nearby when they finish work. Not everyone wants to live far away from everything. Cities will be fine.
None of that actually solves the distractions problem really. The fact is that using slack makes it worse.

I've actually tried a lot of the solutions talked about here and none of them actually work.

Software like slack is literally designed to make people interrupt you and pull you away from productive tasks.
Wow cool. Mind sharing more info about your program / diet?
In early 2018, I made $105k salary as an entry level "Business Systems Analyst" in San Jose, CA.

Rented a studio in Milpitas for $1200 at the time.

I built a data integration system with NodeJS, and marketing/customer service enterprise software REST APIs.

It was my first professional programming job. No STEM degree, but a few IT Courses, plus digital marketing experience, plus self-taught full stack web app experience.
Maybe I was too naive to know. But the one time I was in SFO last year I was walking back and forth to the pier to the financial district. I didn’t feel unsafe at all.
In clean energy transition, Georgia is at the tip of the spear
In what context was that used, if you can elaborate?
by using the cost function somehow??
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The killer feature is that the fault-tolerant behaviour is something either implicit, builtin or bundled [Erlang/OTP] with the language, instead of something that you need to either reinvent or bolt yourself to both your own code and your dependencies code as a afterthought when things start to fail.
He got the Nobel Prize because the blue LED + phosphor enabled the use of cheap, energy-efficient LEDs for general illumination, whereas previously LEDs had been used mostly for indicator lights.
I don't think that's a fair bar. There are arguments for consciousness in non-human animals that don't depend on a full explanation of consciousness in humans.

But that also doesn't imply we should suspect any particular AI of being conscious just because AI in general could be conscious in principle. We don't expect worms to be conscious just because animals can be.
Yeah, the first two nights I woke up decently alert a couple times which I took to be my body telling me that something might be wrong and I should check it out.

I never felt a sense of uncomfortableness, it felt almost comfortable for me as if the tape was making me feel more secure, maybe? Similarly I didn't have the worry about not being able to breathe and not know about it. In both those cases, don't feel weird about wearing some around when waking and you can get used to it.

The other mindset to have is remember that our bodies are really incredible at things after millions of years of evolution. Nose breathing especially is something we're able to do. That acknowledgement and trust can go a long way mentally.
> Handaxes were made by chipping bits off of a stone to make a sharp edge.

As I understand knapping, in theory it's "chipping bits off" but in practice it's "chipping off small bits now in exactly the right places so you can chip off a large flake later", or worse, "chipping off the slightly wrong bit, and now instead of a large flake that resulted in a nice long sharp edge, you have to go back and start over with the small bits".

Analogies with software development are left as an exercise for the reader.
You get what you deserve! Justice has been served today, a cold and bitter dish
Yeah they mention that in 2 of the 6 points arguing in favor of behaviors:

2. The application programmer writes sequential code, all concurrency is hidden away in the behaviour;

4. Easier for new team members to get started: business logic is sequential, similar structure that they might have seen before elsewhere;
the current tutorial and quickstart guide should make it exceedingly clear, how is it that people are still confused?

this is the quickstart:

https://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/20/orm/quickstart.html

that's the one you use. That's it! There is no other style listed there

lots of people still want to use other styles or still have to because they have legacy code. So these are documented also. However, SQLAlchemy wants you to use the style at:

https://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/20/orm/quickstart.html

that's the only style we would have if we were starting now.
Sun was the one creating and designing Java....
Is there a name for the art style depicted on these covers? They're beautifully done
gen_server to me is “generate a server”
FACT0RN Blockchain: Integer Factorization as Proof-of-Work (PoW)
Co-working spaces are really really nice but I suspect they will prove to be just an eccentric, boutique-like, expensive things that companies actually hate to use.

Vast majority of them would prefer to sign a lease for 7y for a building instead of overpaying for a small space with nicer interior. The reality is that companies really want assembly lines for office workers.
on a similar vein but with software we wrote about hooking Microsoft Windows functions to capture printing details [1].

[1] https://blog.nektra.com/main/2012/05/18/logging-printer-acti...
Also known as the “app junk drawer”. Terrible design pattern in my opinion, particularly when they’re used in place of a proper menubar in a desktop app.
On macOS, I've found that the middle of the road of running my own code natively with all the infrastructure components and their config (db, redis, etc) in docker-compose gives me the best combination of performance and ease of setup.
Ah, shame. I was hoping to find my own comment on the subject linked:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15961291

Basically the same advice, but in a more condensed form.
That's 1/4 the actual number of homeless people in the entire United States.
The only flaw I can find in this is that I would have expected the person finding this out to have left just one enemy on screen, not two. They're much not dangerous in pairs, in my experience on Galaga...
Regardless of relative value, in most cases it is cheaper to just demolish and rebuild office space than gut + renovate. SROs/boarding house cases make a little more economic sense for these conversions but are more unpopular uses.
This is most likely because geocoding (converting an address to lat/long coordinates) is a non-trivial thing to implement, and any 3rd party service that might offer an integration point to provide this directly in OsmAnd probably wants money, wouldn't be compliant with FOSS licenses, and could easily introduce privacy concerns.

I typically use an online geocoder website (there are several out there) to convert an address to lat/long and then enter those coordinates into OSMand. It's a less-than-ideal workflow but it works.
This is the part I have to disagree with. If AGI turns out to be emergent and depends on scaling up simple mechanisms, that emergence is all the "explain consciousness" you need. Dogs, corvids, octopods, bononos, etc. do not have human intelligence but they all have brains that perform some tasks our brains perform. That suggests that a combination of scale, a particular set of architectural parameters within the range of possibilities of mammals, and, maybe, some unique variation is what it takes to make a human intelligence. Nobody explained consciousness before we labelled this thing "consciousness."
Wow, their pricing is super high. I can't imagine who the target demographic for this is when google maps / etc are free.
Apple Indefinitely Delays AR Product
ChatGPT: Are AI-generated cover letters the way forward?
You could actually skip the button altogether and just make the checkbox input keyboard focus-able but visually hidden. You also avoid the issues with the hash also, as the user is then directly interacting with the element that toggles the menu. With some massaging (ensuring what is read for screen readers is set and that the visual focus state still appears to be on the hamburger when the checkbox is focused), it works quite well both for screen reader users and for non-mouse users. I don't have a current example (looks like it's been redesigned since I worked on it), but I've done something similar to this in the past on extremely large websites (thousands of views an hour in at least one instance) with much success.
There is some truth to it. I personally don't read most blog post, including medium. The quality of content is IMO proportional to the author's experience and their effort in producing the content. On medium/Twitter/whatever blogging platform it is just too easy to create crap, crap that aims to "build up audience". Flood them with AI generated content might hint reader to go somewhere else, hopefully somewhere with more depth.

Book is where I find the most value.
i barely read human generated content as it is.
Why Companies Can't Quit Jack Welch's Much-Hated Employee-Ranking System
Fair point, but I don't think my constraints are _that_ extreme. I think it's doable, but we'll never know unless someone seriously attempts it.
Certainly come a long way. When I first drove one, we struggled to make 100mi.

These could be enough for most ride sharing services, yea. We'll see, I haven't seen one used as an Uber. No Leafs, either.
You're right - I guess I assumed they'd added that in the full codepen.
https://archive.is/OjclP
You can do this:

<a href="#something"><button>menu</button></a>

Or maybe:

<form action="#something"><button type="submit">menu</button></form>

Not sure either of those options are better than the original post though :)
America has experienced flight to the suburbs and urban price crashes in the past (iirc previously due to crime too) .

Eventually the price gets low enough that people come back. Then we get mad about "gentrification" and create policies that invite crime back. Rinse and Repeat.
It's ironic that Andrew Grove, the former CEO of Intel wrote a book called "Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Identify and Exploit the Crisis Points that Challenge Every Business"
Wikipedia has support for different skins, including the old one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34431533
>Slowly increase

As someone who just got their second 50% rent increase in NYC (33% higher than pre-pandemic). When people wan't back, they wan't back, and the landlords do not hesitate
Isn't Erlang's model a giant ball of microservices?
Dwarf Fortress reinvented itself after 20 years
Silliest Acronyms in Games
If Metaverse is the future and could a couple of companies rule it similarly to IOS and android now?

What is Metaverse

The Metaverse is a term coined by Neal Stephenson in his science fiction novel Snow Crash. It describes a virtual reality world where people can interact with each other and with virtual objects as if they were in the same physical space.
To me, the biggest use of channels is "One place I would ask a question about {major category}"

F.ex. at my company we have #help-{product} channels where engineers from each product team hang out and answer questions once a day or so

I guess the primary utility is roughly grouping queries and distinguishing question from general.
Is the first part actually true though? YouTube goes well beyond just moderating actually dangerous or undeniably extremist (think Isis videos) viewpoints. And to what profit? Have any major platforms failed due lax moderation policies?
Add this to the reasons for why I struggle to take the stock market seriously.

Can you make money off trading stocks? Absolutely. Can you successfully use the stock market as part of your retirement plan? Probably.

However, I don't "believe" in it. In no way is it operating on any intuitive sense of what would make a stock worth more than another. Today it seems entirely driven by keywords, inverted logic, and the intent to short. I don't see how artificially pumping up the market with institutionalized retirement plans helps either, besides to keep money out of the hands of the middle class and in those who can manipulate it. What's worse is stocks are becoming one of the few ways that said middle class can even get ahead; bonds have a very low yield and could even implode if the US dollar declines, inflation eats at savings, and wages struggle to keep up with said inflation.

Articles like this one are going to appear in (the equivalent of) textbooks in the future and people will look at it and wonder how we could not see what's coming for us.

On the bright side, I hope this is the beginning of the end for the flurry of bullshit on the internet. Not that there won't be plenty of bullshit to go around, as was the case pre-internet, but the combination of SEO and AI may turn into an ouroboros that consumes itself.

Though I think the ouroboros is supposed to represent the cycle of life, so maybe an "ant mill" is more analogous.
youre welcome, glad it is of help
It’s hit or miss block by block, but if you do it daily you’re going to feel unsafe at some point. I remember walking past someone sharpening their axe on the corner of 4th and King (Caltrain) at 9am during peak commute.
So now to work from home I’m a dense urban environment I have to find a coworking space? That sounds a lot like an office, only one with random people and no place to safely leave my laptop when I take a piss?

Seriously, why would anybody live in a tiny downtown flat if they either work from home or have to find a half-assed “office that isn’t an office but isn’t at my cramped alartmen?

It makes no sense.. WFH requires a big house with a comfortable private office. The amount of people willing to live in a sense urban environment and somehow manage to work outside a formal office is incredibly small.

WFH is a suburban developers wet dream.
Seems like not much of an outlier at 19% vacancy. I wonder why SF made the headline when Atlanta is at 20%...
What do you think tire dust is made of? lol

Do you work for Big Unreliable Energy & Big Luxury Only Unaffordable EV?