skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
$100/sqft to make residential projects viable? That’s quite low. They also say conversion would cost $1000/sqft, why would you need a million dollars to renovate < 100m2?

None of this adds up to me, appreciate if anyone has hard numbers for this.
I'm sorry. English is not my native language, and I lack confidence in it, so I used ChatGPT.
All of Asimov, Philip K Dick, Jules Verne.
Having all these easily accessible on the outside of the building (instead of having to open up walls or floors) sounds like it should make maintenance easier, not harder. Although the "structural system" certainly sounds like something that should be weatherproofed.

Perhaps it was complicated by aesthetic concerns: when you put these internals on the outside, there's some pressure to arrange them in a nice- looking way rather than in the most functional configuration.
Read it again "only install the aforementioned apps plus Netflix and Amazon Prime."

Agree having Jellyfin/Plex you primary way to consume media makes life a lot easier.
I suppose it should've said 'digital' instead of 'virtual' to make the neologism clearer.
I would honestly bet it'll be good for the economy overall (a reset to healthy prices) not a ripple effect to cause an overall american crash
Has Chicago ever had a tornado? And a blizzard is really that bad? Nothing compared to an earthquake or a forest fire.
On Linux you can prevent being ptrace'd or having your core dumped by setting PR_SET_DUMPABLE in prctl. I've seen this used in places you'd expect like ssh-agent and GNOME's Keyring password manager.

Ctrl-f for 'PR_SET_DUMPABLE' in the manpages:

- https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/prctl.2.html

- https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/ptrace.2.html
> Fact remains, 90% of teachers can't afford buying a house with their current salary and market conditions.

Is that any different than general population today? Most people cannot afford to buy a house in today's market.
Yes, in Sim City.
I think you may be calibrating for the wrong thing in terms of sampling. The idea that this is "just one building" doesn't mean that it isn't a representative sample: this one building represents hundreds of leases, if not a few thousand. If the aggregate value of those leases is down 75%, that means something.
Mixed "residences, offices, shops, restaurants" in a building describes many of the ~6 floor apartment blocks around me, but a city also has industry — workshops, chemical processing, car repairs, factories — and if that's in buildings shared with residential then I've not noticed.
Ruff [0] is the best linter around for performance but I'm not sure how well it fills the static analysis role. It has a vscode extension which updates the linting with no noticeable lag but it isn't a full fledged type checker. Their suggestion is to run ruff through the vscode extension and then manually run mypy or whatever type checker on occasion (maybe as a pre commit hook?).

[0] https://github.com/charliermarsh/ruff
Teachers aren’t robots, it’s not just an important to have a bum in the seat. The quality of the teacher has a large impact on student outcomes, and if reasonable wages aren’t available many potentially excellent teachers will do something else while only the most incompetent will go into the profession.
I love the Y2K disclosure. I was a kid at the time so all I remember are the stickers on everything.

> YEAR 2000 READINESS DISCLOSURE

> The WinLinux 2000 Program has been designed and tested to work for our customers in the Year 2000. We will continue to provide detailed information to customers about Year 2000 readiness, but contractual warranties specific to Year 2000 readiness are not appropriate given the nature of Year 2000 issues and the simple fact that a single technology provider, even one as well prepared for the Year 2000 as JRCP USA L.L.C., cannot solve all issues related to the Year 2000 transition, and are hereby expressly disclaimed. The information we disseminate about Year 2000 readiness does not constitute an additional warranty for the WinLinux 2000 Program; JRCP USA L.L.C. merely provides this information to assist our customers in evaluating and correcting potential issues for using dates into the next century.
What a bummer ...
Spotify Dropped Support for Linux
I want to note that they themselves don't need to be operating those malicious devices; with prevalence of dynamic IPs or NAT with ISPs just being assigned dynamic IP from same block is enough to trigger any filter by IP.
I probably have a few things that contribute to a case of CPTSD. Some things can help me (parts of CBT/DBT, zen koans, meds..). But it's also difficult to change a thing that is a feature of you, in that it has been there for so long that everything else was built around it.

Just like maths problems, getting to the core of things often requires making your life harder for a while before coming back to the surface - and I can't always afford to do that unfortunately. The brain really is a weird and fascinating thing..
Most mirrors (at least within the US) are now up-to-date. I finished installing pacman 6.0.2-7 a few minutes ago.
Correct, it's not the bust that's the problem - it's the boom. The buildings were never really worth that much.
Where there are only four months that with average highs >10 degrees Celsius? Where there are was a tsunami with 7m waves less than 100 years ago?

I love Nova Scotia but I don’t think it’s the perfectly safe and livable paradise people should apparently move to.
> the whole ecosystem is always getting better and better.

That is debatable. In many ways the ecosystem is getting more enterprisy, more ceremonious, overall "heavier". I feel Python ecosystem is rapidly losing its winning characteristic lightness that was so defining for it 10ish years ago.

I don't think "modern" Python code like in the article would inspire comics like this https://xkcd.com/353/
The only interesting example that I saw was of a 60 mb survey data being analyzed and report being generated. In many real world cases that I have worked with, the clients hardly know which question to answer, and how to collect the data to answer that question. That being the case, I think this field will be around for a few more years to come.

Ample time for us to evolve and transition.
Are you using 36 or 42 key? I’m looking to get one soon and was initially leaning to 36 but I’ve heard reports that 42 is the better way to go because the shift buttons can be frustrating as a home row mod on 36 key?
>> Chat-GPT is already such an outstanding lawyer that the field might be (and hopefully will be) irreversibly changed by then.

ChatGPT cannot tell fact from fiction.

Anyone who would trust the current versions to replace their doctors or lawyers is foolish.
> I'm drawing a blank

Because it doesn’t exist. You don’t build a city where you fortress. The oceans that give rise to natural harbours and ports also bring risk of floods and tsunami. Similarly for fertile riparian. The same seismology that raises the mountains which squeeze rain from clouds and provide stunning vistas also level badly-built homes.

The risks can be mitigated, but never eliminated. Look at the list of natural-disaster safe cities in America, and find a sea of low GDP per capita [1]. In an unexpected place we find the old adage reaffirmed: risk and reward come together.

[1] https://www.rockethomes.com/blog/housing-market/safest-place...
It is implemented (sandbox permissions), but it's controlled by developers.
Those poor landlords shouldn't have made risky investments. Thoughts and prayers.

It also sounds like there's a lot more value saved by not having an office downtown with more money to be spend on QoL improvements than renting office space
> plus everything else is more expensive too

But everything else is definitely not more expensive. If you compare household spend from now to, say, the early 60s, most consumer goods are much cheaper on a relative basis, e.g most people spend a heck of a lot less as a percentage of income for things like food, clothing, appliances, etc. It's primarily housing and service costs (education and health care) that have skyrocketed.
Sometimes there are tax incentives to this.

And the homeless population keeps going up.
This is the more interesting part of the article IMO:

> The glut of downtown office space, combined with San Francisco’s high housing costs, has led many to envision converting downtown commercial spaces into residential buildings, but not one residential development firm bid on this property. One residential development group that considered a bid was Emerald Fund… [that] ultimately viewed the prospect of a residential conversion as too risky due to the city’s high fees and its low-income housing requirement. Presently, the city requires 23 percent of the units in a large development be set aside for low-to-moderate-income tenants, but this means that developers would need to charge a substantial premium on the market-rate units for the project to pencil out.

> …

> Developer Eric Tao noted that permitting and other city fees, together with the city’s affordable housing requirements, are so costly that the purchase price of the building would need to drop to less than $100 per square foot… to economically justify a residential conversion.

So you really have a market that is “upside down”: Employment (represented by office space demand) is way down, and that in turn softens the market for residential space, and on top of that the numbers just don’t make sense.

Edit: I also feel compelled to point out that “low-to-moderate-income” is measured relative to average San Francisco incomes, not to state or national averages. They might still seem very high to outsiders.
You disagreed with me, but at least you acknowledged there was risk, even though we could disagree about the odd or potential impact. Yet, folks like Yann LeCun ridiculed anyone who thought there was a risk AI could endanger us or harm our way of life. What do we know about experts who are always confident (usually on TV) about things that haven't happened yet?
Apple Pay was great from day one - depending on where you lived. In the UK contactless payments are the standard and already were when Apple Pay was released meaning I could use it in 99% of retailers, even small ones.
I have faith in the Builder's Remedy and how that invalidates local control when a required housing element plan isn't submitted. Papers in Marin are cringing about the high rise going up on Sloat Boulevard in SF's Parkside/Outer Sunset, I hope Marin ends up worse than Santa Monica with the remedy.
It's super cool, but at the same time for many folks an iPad Mini with/without external keyboard would be a more adequate solution considering processing power.
https://wgntv.com/weather/2-tornados-touchdown-in-chicago-ar...
I don't know how it was in SF but here in Toronto it got pretty bad and even now large tracts of downtown are devoid, Toronto has an underground pathway system (sort of like a mini-city) that connects a large part of the downtown core its designed so people can get from one building to another without ever going outside in the winter - as you can imagine it got pretty eviscerated during the pandemic. Even now, tons of new condos are going up in the city but the units at the street level (for commercial usage) remain empty even as tenants move in.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kowloon_Walled_City

The results were mixed haha.

Atlas Obscura has a really good piece on it.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/kowloon-walled-city
IMO, Phoenix is stretching the definition of "livable"
It's' been a few years since I used an Android phone daily. But one of the nice things about iOS is the granularity of permissions. For Android app permissions are asked once during install and you take it or leave it. iOS is constantly renewing requests for location permissions and other things. And it reinforces that you are in control of your device. If you don't want an app or site to have location data you don't have to give it.
Could you be more hyperbolic?
The original reported price of $3,000 is not unrealistic. If this BOM is real, a $3,000 price point would be roughly similar to the profit margins of their other hardware products. The past few months have probably seen a lot of closed-door headset demos, and I wouldn't be surprised if the price was a major point of feedback for many people.
In case it wasn’t clear, the app in question is KeePassMini.

Here’s the AppStore link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/keepassmini/id6446373282
Perhaps this will assist in catalyzing the transition for SF's economy becoming actually sustainable.
I remember there being some weird financial thing causing that as offering low rental prices could trigger loan conditions
GPT-4 has also been trained on images.
…Santiago, Mexico City, Rome, Athens, Seattle, …
Phoenix and Albuquerque don’t have water
The Minneapolis skyway system is similar in spirit.
You have this completely backwards. The lower a job pays, the more likely it is to be dangerous or disgusting. Some of the very lowest paying jobs are the most dangerous (lumberjacks) or the most disgusting (janitors).
“In 2015, a subsidiary of Amdocs was created, named "Vector Creations Limited", and the Matrix staff was moved there.[11]

In July 2017, the funding by Amdocs was announced to be cut and in the following weeks the core team created their own UK-based company, "New Vector Limited",[12] which was mainly built to support the development of Matrix and Riot, which was later renamed to Element.”

Its still the same people wether they are technically under the Amdocs umbrella or not.
> Pretty much all of the mid-west is susceptible to tornadoes.

And some good sized earthquakes too.

https://www.usgs.gov/programs/earthquake-hazards/new-madrid-... // https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34701813

And from https://www.usgs.gov/programs/earthquake-hazards/cool-earthq...

> Earthquakes occur in the central portion of the United States too! Some very powerful earthquakes occurred along the New Madrid fault in the Mississippi Valley in 1811-1812. Because of the crustal structure in the Central US which efficiently propagates seismic energy, shaking from earthquakes in this part of the country are felt at a much greater distance from the epicenters than similar size quakes in the Western US.

And yes, while the entire west coast is red in the risk category... there is a good sized blob in the midwest.

https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/fs-131-02/CUShazard.html
>Yes some bigger tech companies are pushing back, but others are going all in.

Google, Meta, Amazon, Netflix, Apple, Salesforce, Twitter, Lyft, Spotify, Doordash, Snap, Uber and Ebay are hybrid or in-office.

Shopify, Dropbox, Coinbase and Airbnb are remote. Slack is as well but it's own by Salesforce so probably not for long.

So I think it's safe to say that overall tech is pushing for return to office. It's probably even more stark if you take the number of employees in these companies into account.
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/HPP/

I know it's only tangentially related, but Hudson Pacific is the largest commercial REIT for the San Francisco (and LA) area. They're down 80% on the year and still falling.

So, I don't find the 75% devaluation figure to be entirely unreasonable.

https://www.kastle.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Kastle_das... Currently at 44% (down from 100%) workplace occupancy based off of Kastle badge swipe data from pre-pandemic.
> This type of objection is only raised by people who have never seriously used Python before

How serious is “serious”? Because I’ve worked on millions-of-lines python projects powering billion-dollar companies, and I 100% agree that maintaining untyped python code that somebody else wrote (or that I wrote myself, 6 months ago) is a nightmare for exactly these reasons...
Within the last year I interviewed at more than a dozen tech companies and they were all remote jobs. The job I accepted had a local office but it’s entirely optional to go there.
Long addition is similar to calligraphy in the sense that its deprecation would have little effect on our civilisation's ability to continue functioning as is. They also both require patience to learn. The analogy is tempting.

However, contained within the process of learning long addition is a microcosm of our mathematical praxis: useful parables about logic, pattern, deduction, notation, communication, quantity, and more. There is a great deal to be derived from its study which, by scaffolding young minds, leads to more mathematical scientists, and hence value for society. I would have great difficulty arguing the same for calligraphy.

I don't always go out walking because I have somewhere to go!
How do you attest this without simply trusting the dev or monitoring package data transferred by the app?[1] iOS, differently from Android, doesn’t have a explicit network permission that the user can verify.

All apps have network access by default and there’s nothing you can do about it without jailbreaking.

[1] as many pointed out: open source in iOS is a moot point as there’s no way to verify the binaries.
No, absolutely not, the distribution of it should be prosecuted, not people looking at it. Criminalizing looking at things is a throwback from medieval times. And is a hallmark of totalitarianism, a police state.

No other person, or government has the right to dictate to you what you can read or not. It's a fundamental, natural right in my opinion. And nobody can take that right away from you.

They can say anything they like, make any excuses for trying to do so, they still don't have the right to control your reading habits.
Yeah, references here are usually just a simple
[1] and a link. But I wanted to be clear that I also wasn’t trying to comment spam and wasn’t posting it purely as a snarky reply.
That's wishful thinking. Given the estimated BOM of 1500 to 1600 USD, the originally leaked ~3000 USD end user price is much more plausible. The BOM doesn't include costs of development, marketing, or profit margins.
As a general contractor, I can tell you $100/sf is about what "average" houses get built for in much of the rest of the country.
Ask HN: How do you train thinking ahead?
I often find myself lacking the ability to think a few steps ahead at work, but also in simple everyday things. Sometimes I think people either do it naturally (because they're intelligent and their brains somehow just work that way) or they don't.
Do you have any ideas on how to train this kind of thinking so that it becomes second nature?
> A small city in a building would be awesome, if legalized.

No longer exists but: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kowloon_Walled_City
This is probably one of the better comments in the thread and I think a lot of people are glossing over it. It is not easy to remake your "community" as they say.
A new supernova in the Pinwheel Galaxy/M101, is the closest to Earth in a decade
I think VR keyboards are probably going to be more along the lines of tapxr, I could definitely see Apple baking something like this into the watch

https://www.tapwithus.com/product/tap-xr/
People thinking they understand economics because they took a 101 class is a major problem. Case in point: this post.
Kalief Browder

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalief_Browder
This is going to be huge
It is all subjective of course, but I will take the lower chance of the high severity event over the high chance of the somewhat lower severity event. I have had to dig myself out of snow many times already in my short life and I have been through multiple power outages due to rainstorms or ice bringing down power lines.

But I have never had to deal with an earthquake or wildfire (other than staying inside for a few days). And I have been through multiple power outages due to rainstorms or ice bringing down power lines.
I found his twitter thread discussing it. Very informative, thanks for search key.
Absolutely, but even then it doesn't really explain why no mainstream supermarket can figure out how to offer a non-premium tofu product, products that literally exist already in the country, other than "they just don't want to".
> Has Chicago ever had a tornado

Yes [1]. It also floods and freezes from its proximity to the lakes and rivers that make it a logistical hub.

[1] Has Chicago ever had a tornado
Try Helsinki. I'm not aware of there ever being a natural disaster here. Climate is definitely livable too, although maybe not everyone's cup of tea.
What Number Comes Next? Ask the Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
Ok, hear me out. Take Salesforce tower and convert the floors into shopping/office/restaurant/apartments. One building that I would never have to leave unless I wanted to. I think that would be awesome.
Yes,and usually keeps being forgotten, even though having an UNIX like OS, with a mix of Plan 9 and Oberon ideas, developed by UNIX authors, is a much cooler idea.
Better to destroy it and rebuild a new one
Perhaps they can be turned into living spaces instead, which were already at a premium in San Francisco.
The announcement coming from WWDC makes me think that the first wave is mostly for developers to build on, and then the cheaper/more advanced headsets coming later will be the ones marketed to regular users. I was on the fence until Palmer Luckey gave it a thumbs up, now I am cautiously optimistic.
Cheaper than Hawaii but with roughly the same risks, i.e. your home turning into a lava field.
Yes, to distribute, if produced for malicious reasons, but not to view. I personally believe that no part of the internet, if viewed or visited, should be illegal to browse, period. Everyone should be free to explore the entire Internet without any fear of prosecution, and encouraged to report illegal material so that it can be taken down promptly. As long you don't hack into anything, all of it should be legal to access.

I ended my career over this. I do not want to work in any industry that supports directly or indirectly the prosecution of such "thought crimes". Such prosecution has no place in a free society.

I will not work on any software (or hardware) which provides a traceability or logging facility that can be used to prosecute people for viewing or reading anything. Therefore participation in development of networking equipment is completely out of the question for me. To me it's no different from developing weapons systems, another thing I will not do.
Chicago is in the midwest. It has multiple each spring.
Miami has some of this... ground floor is shops and then it's residential beyond.
Tech companies have (historically) optimized on talent acquisition and therefore have to listen to, and appear to take seriously, the wishes of labor.

Other industries don’t cater to the demands of labor. Everyone is replaceable, but not so much in Silicon Valley.
There’s no “truth” to what a property is worth. It’s worth what the market will pay for it.

But regardless of that, whether the values were inflated because of a market flush with cash or not, it doesn’t change the fact that crashes can and do have ripple effects.
Perhaps, but then the tweet alludes to 400k+ units:

>Quantity: It is estimated to be 400,000 to 500,000 units in the second half of this year.
Denver started a study to look at a feasibility of converting empty off buildings to housing.

They selected 12 buildings with occupancy rates from 0 to 50%. Yes there are large office buildings that are completely empty.
$1.80 doesn't sound like a lot in the US, but I'm sure the government would want to spend the savings on teacher salaries and equipment rather than on trivial Windows licenses - especially in developing countries where every dollar counts.
Turn on Airplane mode and then enable Wifi.
Have tried ruff? It is a Python linter with a speed in mind.
Everyone in the replies to this comment are naming places so dark and grim in Winter that I personally couldn't survive there. A summer in the southwest US is easier on me than even a mild winter in the northeast.

HN confirmed for Hyperboreans.