skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Burdensome regulations on housing construction have caused costs to skyrocket.

How much have costs increased, and what tells us that it's regulations, not many other causes?

Also, which regulations? Some are more valuable, some less, and inevitably some will misfire. I'm not just going to trust real estate developers, who have their own interests, to meet other needs.

> below-market mandates

I'm not sure we need more high-end development - those tenants have plenty of options.

> community reviews

In cities, new buildings can impact a community for a century. They should have a say, not just a developer from another city.
My heart skipped a beat when I read this — I have various scripts and things that interact with Gmail.

But it's okay. App passwords will still work, it seems. This is just removal of "Less Secure Apps" support, using the account's plain account user/password.

I shudder to think how much automation would die if Google truly killed off everything but OAuth.

I don't like the complexity OAuth. I enjoyed this Perl module documentation[1] that breaks down how the dang thing works, clearly written by someone as exasperated as me (:

[1] https://metacpan.org/dist/LWP-Authen-OAuth2/view/lib/LWP/Aut...
As a design student, I'm curious about what any designers are doing. (Design as in visual, graphic, or interaction)
Seems bad that government services depend on clod providers.
This goes the other way as well. While even the most basic rules of critical thought denies a flat Earth, no amount of critical thought or science can prove objectively what’s going on with the Earth. Anyone who says otherwise is massively oversimplifying and misunderstanding what science actually is. There is very little that is concrete in science (known as “laws”), everything else is our best guess and can change as time goes on. And especially when corporate interests are at play, it muddies the entire conversation.
I find it useful, in reading this stuff, to remember: the company he joined in 2005 had (apparently) 5,600 employees. In 2022, that number was 190,000.
Automotive engineer here. What the article and many posts here miss: one pedal driving is just another user interface mode to capture the driver’s intent. The system itself always recuperates energy instead of braking, if possible. If no intent to decelerate is given, sailing is more energy efficient than recuperating.
Definitely adding generative AI clients on my portfolio, then just using the latest tech I like.
I don't take side gigs unless they're AI, Rust or solid.js.

The focus is still on making products and live off them though, more than staying employable.

Staying employable is a nice side effect of training the "building products" muscle.

I don't think it will be too soon but at some point work done by humans will lose any meaning and we'll just divide in people with income/value generating assets and people without.

Better be rich by that point.
If only there was an article addressing exactly your concern!
> but we had gone through various scenarios and we fully accepted the risks

That's because you didn't fully understand the risks.
I wouldn't translate that phrase as such, it's more of a play on the word "deve". Therefore, "must" or "owes".

The meaning, in my view, is more akin to: "he who fulfills his obligations and does not owe anything can live in peace because he has no creditors or anyone who demands reparation or compensation".

This may pass as the same at first look, but it's more about doing what you've set out to do, rather than not worrying about what you haven't done. The key factor here is the verb "dever", it is about action not the lack thereof.

(edit: clarifications)

Source: European Portuguese native speaker
Regarding identifying as European, this is often in relation to something, and one can identify one selves as many things.

I identify myself as an inhabitant of my city compared to someone from a neighbour city. I identify as European compared to someone from United States. I identify myself as a westerner compared to people with a completely different culture.
Yes, in quite a few places.

Most pervasively, between any two letters and numbers. `unsignedint` is different from `unsigned int`, as is `inta` from `int a`. Similarly, `1 1` is not the same as `11`, `0x 1` is not `0x1`, and `0. 0` is not `0.0`.

`&&`, `||`, `<<`, `>>`, `++`, `--`, `//`, `/*`, `*/`, and all the `sign=` operators also don't allow whitespace.

New lines are significant for single-line comments (and macro definitions as you said).

Spaces are significant in escape sequences as well - "\n" is different from "\ n". Also related to string or char literals, newlines are also not allowed at all.

Spaces are also significant for an obscure feature which was officially removed in C23: digraphs and trigraphs. Before C23, sequences like `??/` (but not `? ? /`) were alternative ways of spelling many other characters. For example, this was a valid program:

int main() ??<
return 0;
%>

This also could be detected, as `??/` represents the `\` character, which, if it appears at the end of a single line comment, makes the next line part of the comment.

So, the following function will tell you at runtime if the compiler supported trigraphs:

int supportsTrigraphs() {
// detector ??/
return 0;
return 1;
}
>It's a big argument in the community about higher functioning austistic people speaking as if they represent all.

I've spent much time mulling this point and have concluded I don't give a damn. If people are constantly running into the problem of any specific definition of "Autism" not encompassing the entire population, the problem isn't me, the problem is that the word "Autism" itself is overloaded. I'm not going to spend even 1 second doing anything but trying to destigmatise autism and talk about autistics being strong and capable, I literally don't care if that makes people mad, they can come up with a new word to describe these more impaired autistics if they don't feel I'm representing their interests. I'm not going to sabotage my own interests out of some misguided sense of morality.

We used to distinguish between Aspergers and Autism, people can go back to a system like that if it makes them happy.
Again... western democracies jails "political opposition" all the time. It's just that no one cares because they're fringe weirdos. (Are anti-monarchists considered fringe weirdoes in Thailand? I suppose it has a certain prestige as it'd be seen as international/cosmpolitan, so not quite the same).

I imagine Thailand - just like the UK, Germany, etc - charges them with breaking a specific law, and the general public thinks nothing of it.
If you can’t switch to OAuth, you can use my proxy to allow any IMAP (or POP/SMTP) client to be used with a “modern” email provider, regardless of whether the client supports OAuth 2.0 natively: https://github.com/simonrob/email-oauth2-proxy. No need for your client to know about OAuth at all.
FWIW, the only person I've ever actually met with a 20% project was working on quantum
I assume we are talking about LLMs. Optimistically, it could help, given an appropriate, carefully crafted prompt. Realistically, most devs are lazy asses and as soon as AI gives them working code, they would move on to pumping out the next piece of crap that works. If we consider smarter AIs, that can actually understand code and logic, it could be much better. But here we should be more concerned about alignment of such AIs.
Speaking of TGIF, the day it moved to Thursday is where I start my "beginning of the end" counter.
What is the rate of injuries per fire in single stair multifamily buildings?
> Why did you leave off my next sentence from the quote?

I quoted the specific line I disagreed with?

> Can you please link to the definition you are using?

To be honest this issue is too complicated to be boiled down to a simple definition as the criteria have evolved over time across multiple Supreme Court (and lower court) cases. In this particular case the "iOS app distribution" market is considered an "aftermarket" in antitrust law (the foremarket being smartphones), and single-brand aftermarkets are rarely allowed by the courts.

If you are genuinely curious about the topic this is a good primer:

https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/attachments/us-submissions-...

As are these two court cases:

https://casetext.com/case/eastman-kodak-company-v-image-tech...

https://casetext.com/case/newcal-industries-v-ikon-office-so...

(Which were precedent setting and indeed referenced in the Epic v. Apple case.)
People have friends, co-workers than move on etc etc. If you work at a couple decent sized companies in the bay area there is a good chance you come to know a person or two at a lot decent sized companies.

And, the people at the bottom of the org chart often see it the clearest. They know what people are actually working on.

If you haven't worked in one of the super bloated companies, it's hard to describe exactly how wild it is. Really, people aren't trying to sound smart, they've just had their butt in a seat at one of the places.
I’ve never bought a car new.

I usually buy 2 ish maybe 3 years old, with <30,000 miles but I’ll probably go a little higher the next time I purchase.

When I bought the Infiniti though, my desired specs were based on price (I paid $18k when I bought my 2013 Infiniti g37x in 2015).

Having awd, and above 300hp.
My unexpected expenses have been wheel bearing replacements. But aside from that nothing major.

My next car purchase is a convertible probably a bmw m6, or a Mercedes amg 63 s.

I can’t get over knowing however that both of those are bad choices in cars to buy.

So instead I’ll probably buy something with less hp, awd, convertible, and higher reliability/cost to own. If it exists.
Recent houses here do have much larger elevators than houses of 50 years ago, which in turn had much larger elevators than older houses. I don't know if they can accommodate a stretcher but they can often fit a bicycle, which can be quite long. 70 cm of wheel diameter plus tires plus the distance between wheels. It could be close to 2 meters. A stretcher is maybe longer if completely extended.

I don't have figures, but my job, but for a multi unit house the extra space is probably not a problem. A typical one could be 10 floors, 4 units per floor. The extra expense for the builder of the house is divided by 40 and the extra space taken from each floor is divided by 4. The maintenance and electricity bills are higher though.
I think there are two ways. The first is basically what good sports teams do (or Netflix at least was doing) where you continuously fire people who don't perform wanted at levels but also do very rigorous hiring and pay very well. Then there is cut fast and deep and shuffle organization at the same time which also works if you do that when needed and very rarely like once in 10-15 years Facebook might have pulled this and the company looks like it is in much better shape than Google or Amazon.
Nonce reuse covers a whole bunch of attacks in different algorithms. It's weird to compare that broad category against two specific examples of padding oracle attacks
I hadn't heard from him in decades, but I knew him back when TCP/IP was starting up and his Fuzzballs were used as routers.

John Nagle
> There is little to no “this is an experimental project by x team”

They communicated quite clearly when products were in beta. For example, they communicated clearly that Gmail was in Beta until 2009 (launched in 2004). What’s less clear is what makes a beta, when a tremendously successful product remains in beta for so long.

Another product that came out of beta in 2009 was… drumrolls… Google Reader[1].

[1] https://www.alphr.com/news/home-and-leisure/125603/google-re...
Peregrine lander: American Moon mission destroyed over Pacific Ocean
The article literally says:

Last year Ubiquiti Networks hired me, Paulus Schoutsen, the founder of Home
Assistant, to work full time on improving Home Assistant. This has really helped the
project make big leaps towards getting to 1.0. During this time, Home Assistant added
an authentication system, the concept of devices and areas, a UI for configuring
integrations, and the new Lovelace UI, just to name a few things.

... along with:

We left on friendly terms and I want to thank Ubiquiti for this tremendous
opportunity, it has given the Home Assistant project a significant boost.

Sounds like it moved the project forward in good ways that wouldn't have happened otherwise.

Personally, I'd call that a win. :)
Show HN: The LeadSavvy Pro Story. For Facebook Marketers
Hello, I'm Tim, solo founder of LeadSavvy Pro. I wanted to share a bit of my journey as a solo entrepreneur, the challenges faced, and the creation of LeadSavvy Pro – a tool born out of a simple idea to make accessing Facebook Leads easier for everyone.

I'm hoping to get some feedback and ideas on how best to market LeadSavvy Pro.

LeadSavvy Pro is the most cost effective and simply way to sync and access your Facebook Leads. https://leadsavvy.pro

My journey started with a realization: businesses needed a straightforward solution for accessing leads. Facebook Leads access is quite difficult on a mobile device and the most robust way to access your leads is by downloading csv files (again a challenge on mobile devices). With that in mind, I set out on a solo venture to develop a tool that simplifies lead management, reducing manual effort, and making life a bit easier for businesses.

I started grinding 6 months ago. The road wasn't easy, especially with a day job. Late nights and overcoming technical challenges were part of the process. Yet, each hurdle became a learning opportunity, helping LeadSavvy Pro evolve from a concept to a robust tool.

LeadSavvy Pro isn't just about features; it's about being user-friendly. I aimed to create an interface that even those without technical know-how could navigate effortlessly. The goal was to empower users without overwhelming them.

LeadSavvy Pro emerged as a simple solution to send Facebook leads directly to Google Sheets. No complicated integrations or premium zaps – just a straightforward, cost-effective tool designed to make lead management hassle-free.

Going beyond lead transfer, LeadSavvy Pro includes a built-in lead viewer and the beginnings of CRM functionality. Now, businesses can nurture leads within the platform, creating a central hub for efficient customer relationship management.

This solo entrepreneur journey has been about turning an idea into a tool that simplifies a small part of business life. LeadSavvy Pro isn't a grand revolution; it's a personal project aimed at making lead management accessible. Given time, I would like to make LeadSavvy Pro the go to tool for marketing agencies and their clients alike.

If you have any feedback or some interesting ideas on how best to market and get the word out, I would love to hear them.

Cheers,
Tim
Will there be a "No search app, thank you" option?

The unremovable search widget on the home screen is probably the most annoying thing about "clean" Android phones

(Yes, I know that you can install a different home screen to get rid of it)
You get what you pay for. You own what you possess.

AWS is expensive and not without trouble but in my experience they’ve been best of the pack.

Otherwise, on-premises + collocation is never a mistake if the maintenance and upright expenditure is in your budget.
An inventor named Royal Rife experimented with destroying tumors by finding the resonant frequencies of the cancer cells.
https://gcemetery.co/
Google’s reputation is not only in innovation
> 4. Because Java has CLASSPATH (sort of like PYTHONPATH but probably better, and it probably inspired PYTHONPATH because I'm sure the Java CLASSPATH predates it)

Just pointing out that Python predates Java by a few years. Not sure when the PATH concept was introduced, though.
Maybe my “personal” newsfeed is not upto scratch but Insimply did not know this was on the cards, been launched let alone in trouble.
worst are the companies/people which don't even have courtesy of telling you the result of the interview if you are not selected.
I believe this community would be different: https://www.recurse.com/

Based on their social rules: https://www.recurse.com/social-rules

However, it might be difficult to get in...
> said all over the world

Not in america. In america, people understood. In america, people did have an idea of the far reaching consequences of those words. Americans literally founded their nation on ideas born from understandings just like this one. How could they not understand? If you uttered such words in america, they would laugh at your barbarity. And they'd defend to the death your right to freely speak such barbarous nonsense on top of it.

That's what I thought, once.
> If historic Broadway theaters in NYC transitioned ...

We should get a "Landmarks Preservation Commission" for corporate cultures.
Fortunately I haven’t been saddled with enormous bills yet. We somehow qualified for public assistance. Granted we have also spent a very large number of hours on the phone and had to jump through many other hoops, and this is far from over.
If anything OpenAI demod just how quickly culture can be changed by paying massive salary packages.

The non profit people never stood a chance.
The United States maintains a no fly list, which is fairly easy to consider an official state punishment with no due process. Aren't a lot of people on it despite breaking zero laws, because of what they say?
> they’re just an investment vehicle now managing assets.

or abusing monopoly and network effect.
It's interesting. When I moved to California in 2012, Google was exciting. They had hot stuff, new platforms, very exciting. Six years later, you were hesitant to hire Google people. Today, it's the Bay Area retirement home.

No one takes a Google resume seriously and everyone who works there talks about little they work.

In a sense a massive transfer of wealth from capital to labor: the finest example of redistribution in the world.
Automatic feature of ghost blogs, not something I put there for what it’s worth.
> The real value and security in tech is in the edges, not the mainstream.

disagree. fewer jobs. less turnover. like yourself - 3 decades.

better go for the next big thing. whether AI, VR or something.

long as it has a barrier to entry. even just complexity.
I think Valve does have a reputation for having this type of model. They've famously expressed an intention to not go public or sell the company to anyone else. This is also what leads to them being a fairly small and selective company that can afford to cherry-pick employees, and that also has an allegedly more employee-friendly culture than others. Just like the recollection in the original post, they might have that "infinite abundance" mindset - their initiatives in game development, hardware and VR are probably subsidized by Steam many times over.
Agree on the principle - but management is another very replaceable skill.

It may protect you from offshoring because the stakeholders don't want to talk with people in third world countries and want to zoom with someone in a nice office paying 2k rent per month for a studio.

It won't save you from AI. We jokingly built a chatbot to write in the style of our product manager and engineering manager and it's shockingly accurate, especially if you consider both figures ask what the stakeholders want and technical feedback to engineers who knows what they're doing and meet the requirements.
I also have an instinct to avoid standing where I could fall a long way - it's probably a good instinct. You haven't provided evidence that the instinct regarding fire safety in single-stair buildings is flawed.
Isn’t it obvious? When the company had 1000 people or fewer yet was printing money, it could of course use Putnam questions or Matin-Gardneresque puzzles or ICPC programming problems to pick the brightest and smartest, and maintain a geek culture. But when the company grew to 130K people yet still managed to hire another 25K in a year, the culture was destined to change, if not deteriorate.

> he most incredible and unusual thing that struck me about Google's early culture was the tendency to value employees above all else

At that time, those employees are Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Rob Pike, Paul Buchheit, Lars, and etc. Nowadays we got employees who bragged about their “lifestyle” on TikTok
How do they do it now?

The one at my work sends the PDF as an attachment, from its own email address.
A regulator employs a handful of staff who estimate the number of offences and hands out the fines. If Google disagrees, they can have their day in court instead, where a judge rules on a representative selection of the alleged offences.

The regulator gives everyone a break on the first, say, $100 million of fines a year, to recognise that some things will fall through the cracks.

The regulator is publicly funded, and the fines also go back to the public purse.

The regulator employs some mix of low-level data analysts who click links all day, technologists who build automated review systems, and bureaucrats who update policy documents and talk to politicians and companies. A revolving-door system develops between the regulator and the content moderation industry. The regulator is a generation or two behind tech giants in the sophistication of its systems, but that doesn't matter - it only needs to catch the most egregious offenders.
Take it a year at a time, and always pay attention to the job market & put out feelers every year or so to gauge where I stand.
Someone I used to work with was acquihired into Google, despite being one of the most manipulative, conniving, duplicitous people I’ve ever met. A person like this can get found out at companies that value talent (he has none), but at Google, he’s thriving.

This ruined the shine of a Google resume, for me. It’s still great, but it’s just a job now. I look at the specific skills applied during an applicant’s time there, as opposed to previously presuming some level of excellence as a result of working with what I at one point thought were other great engineers.
OAuth2 Overview (2013)
Military != 'all their industry'
The question is whether some kind of bulk generator is running up those numbers.
A very small number of people can generate 100K spams per day. Historically, when spammers have been found, they've been small operators making a lot of noise.
From what I've heard in the Patreon updates from several YouTubers I watch, it's that YouTube ad revenue has dropped precipitously in the past year. Like, it's down to 20% of the peak 2020/2021 income. Now everyone is relying on diversified income like merch/brand deals and other projects or just living off of Patreon support. If you've already made lots of money so that you can retire, it seems obvious that just quitting is better than burning yourself out further for pennies.

The same thing is happening in podcasting - podcast advertising has almost completely dried up.
It's definitely not the same as driving a manual, but adjusting the regen level in my car sort of feels like shifting. e.g. "shift" into full regen to stop, shift into no regen to coast when I see brake lights but they're still a mile ahead.