skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the UK a significant number of people think there's no need for more housing, not just in their back yard, but anywhere. They're BANANAs.

The excuses are typically a mix of

1) Too many immigrants

2) Lack of rent controls

3) Greedy developers

4) AirBNB

5) Empty houses

Depending on their political views.
Germany has legally guaranteed housing, the state will cover your rent, electricity, water and food.

Yet homeless people still roam the streets and they have encampment under bridges or in subway stations.

Even maximalists safety nets don't resolve homelessness.
But will robots survive a nuclear war's EMP?
Worth mentioning that Maestral doesn’t do an accurate sync of files, because they use the Dropbox API which doesn’t provide every detail.

For example, an executable script synced with Maestral will lose the executable permission.
I’m with you. On the Internet today, a web browser is a thing that runs JS. Clients without it are HTTP browsers. Given that no browser maker has shipped that as a default config in what, like 20 years?, that ship has sailed.

JS came out a year before CSS for Pete’s sake. It just turned 28. It’s finishing its residency and can rent cars. I get why people didn’t like it nearly 30 years ago. I didn’t because it didn’t run well on the Amiga I had back then. But complaining about it today makes me imagine someone complaining about “why don’t these so-called ‘web’ sites gracefully fall back to table layout for those of us who can’t or won’t use CSS?” I understand the fundamental difference. I just don’t think it matters anymore.
Loll thanks for sharing dude :)
Google actually has an office in Pittsburgh. That's the more or less the type of expansion I'm talking about - satellite offices for the large corps.

It's still an international airport, even if the schedule isn't as robust. The emphasis on in-person personal networking, and personal networking in general, is atrocious. Personal networking and the requirement to so it in person is a huge factor in many biases and discrimination. It's only going to get worse as the group-think and physical concentration increases while the job market gets worse.

Also, 25% is a big difference. I think we have to compare the commutable areas as well. Some places like NYC and SF do not have much cheaper areas in a reasonable commute. Other areas can have much cheaper areas in a reasonable commute. Many costs are largely the same due to the national brands - cars, electronics, appliances, etc. But things like housing can be massively different. An apartment in a commutable suburb can be close to 50% of what it is downtown in many cities. It's no secret that the salaries and property costs are extremely above average in the bay area.
I've been using Synchthing for >1 year. Works really well and it is P2P so you don't need a server.

Syncthing works quite well on Android.
On iOS you must bridge it with Mobius, but it kinda works.
>We could have rented them all apartments for the year for that price. It would have made more sense.

No, you can't. You can not give the homeless apartments and I do mean that literally. "I pay for your rent, food, water, electricity and give you money for alcohol" isn't a good enough incentive for homeless people to stop being homeless. If it were homeless people wouldn't exist here in Germany, yet they do.
There are a variety of differences between having representatives vote with your interests and voting yourself, such as practicality, time expenditure and access to advising and expertise, etc. That’s perhaps why many direct democracy systems (California, Switzerland, etc.) combine the two with direct democracy used for relatively few decisions.
Is this gleaned from a talk he gave? If so, is there a link to the audio, video, or transcript of it?
The people who didn't get a driving license in 2017 because what was the point if cars would drive themselves in a couple of years may care. Even more so if they finally have to wait to 2050.

Anyway, the question was about expectations - and those came with a timeline.
That sounds great. Part of the draw for app installs is loyalty programs and push notifications, are those available through WeChat as well?
I got a onedrive license with a new PC. I stored a large encrypted backup there and did nothing else. Nearly a year later when the free license was about to expire I wanted to access the storage again. It told me that the account had been locked because of violation of terms of service, e.g. spamming (???)

The cloud is someone else's computer. And none of the big providers is known for customer service.
I would suspect that in these countries labor is cheap enough that replacing it with robots would not be cost effective.
I'm coming to think that the wages that would have been paid to people who robots have replaced should now go into a sovereign fund to help fund UBI.
Homeless people aren't homeless because they can't afford housing.

Germany will pay your rent, yet homeless people exist.
There's an archive version https://archive.ph/fpyEG
Conversely, how long would it take the average manager to re-utter any directions they gave the previous day?
Avast collected and sold user data.

https://consumer.ftc.gov/consumer-alerts/2024/02/software-pr...
I've seldom seen UTF16 text file even under Windows. Sometimes, but not that often.
Interesting that you added Pakistan to the list, have they ever been accused of espionage in the US? Or trying to hack anyone for sensitive information? Doesn't seem likely.

Have any reference to this?

I'm only seeing them in reference to India which would seem par for the course on both sides.
For basic stuff (I'm the only one changing files, I'm not expecting to change a file on my laptop and have it on my desktop seconds later, I'm only mirroring files between Apple devices), iCloud has worked fine for me for a very long time.

For those reading this looking for alternatives: nextcloud-aio docker image on a NAS or small server works well for syncing files across machines. It's overkill, so I turn off most of the features, but I find the clients reliable across OSes (mobile and otherwise).

I do not put Nextcloud on the internet -- my use case does not require changes away from home to be live synced to others before returning. By the time I've walked in the door and put stuff away, changes + photos are synced.
In my experience, if cannabis gives you a bad time like that you _should_ avoid it, as it's those people that I've seen go mad and never really come back. Not everyone has the same THC experience, and I'm convinced there are people for whom it's really harmful.

It's great for me though, helps with the suffering associated with chronic nerve pain.
True. But why pay 4% of income to live in forest hills when you can live in great neck and be in manhattan in about the same amount of time?
I dabbled in JS for 25 years. Last year I had reason to write some TS. What a breath of fresh air that was! I doubt I’d start a new project in bare JS now.
If you can't make your point as an animal avatar, why am I even in a meeting with you?
Agreed. Remove the useless middle one. It only adds danger when people aren't paying attention.
I assume this is being upvoted because HN thinks this is good? At least that's what I hear in AI threads...

AI just allows humans to work more efficiently right? The few fulfilment center workers left are probably now 100x fulfilment workers now that they can manage a fleet of robotic workers instead of human ones. As HN says, these types of innovations historically only create new job opportunities so there's probably loads of new amazing jobs these replaced workers can go do instead.

For those who are worried about the future we're creating for their children, don't worry, because when robotics and AI can do everything humans can do (and better) businesses will still want hire humans, because they still hired humans when the combustion engine was invented. I'm sure it will be the same this time. Don't be so anti-progress!
You should seriously try Anylist — it's been am amazing experience thus far.
Yeah, there was literally a Hackernews a few years ago who pretty much said what I said, but unironically: that there was music out there better than you've ever heard, but you'll never hear it because it's only released in print runs as few as one copy, and that copy is owned by a DJ who will never let it be heard again, and that this was by design because a wide listening audience would spoil the goodness of this impeccable music. I can't be arsed to find this comment just now, but I remember reading it.

See also: Prince's Vault (from which I believe his estate is now compiling material to be released).
They use GCP as well.
Synchting is awesome! What kind of speed do you get with relays?
Edit: Aften writing this long nitpicky comment, I have though of a much shorter and simpler point I want to make: Programming is mostly thinking and there are many ways to do the work of thinking. Different people and problems call for different ways of thinking and learning to think/program in different ways will give more tools to choose from. Thus I don't like arguments that there is one right way that programming happens or should happen.

I'm sorry, but yout entire comment reads like a list of platitudes about programming that don't actually match reality.

> Well, you can't write computer programs to do things that you yourself don't understand.

Not true. There are many times where writing software to do a thing is how I come to understand how that thing actually works.

Additionally, while an understanding of physics helps with modeling physics, much of that physics modeling is done to implement video games and absolute fidelity to reality is not the goal. There is often an exploration of the model space to find the right balance of fidelity, user experience and challenge.

Software writing is absolutely mostly thinking, but that doesn't mean all or even most of the thinking should al always come first. Computer programming can be an exploratory cognitive tool.

> So, the first step in becoming a good computer programmer is to learn as much as you can about everything else. Solutions to problems often come from unexpected places, so don't ignore something just because it doesn't seem immediately relevant.

I'm all about generalist and autodidacts, but becomming one isn't a necessary first step to being a good programmer.

> The second step of the process requires explaining what you know to a machine that has a very rigid view of the world, like young children do.

Umm... children have "rigid" world views? Do you know any children?

> Let's say you're trying to get out the door. You ask your child, "Where are your shoes?" The response: "There." She did answer your question.

Oh, you don't mean rigid, you mean they can't always infer social subtexts.

> Flexibility and the ability to make inferences are skills that children learn as they grow up. But computers are like Peter Pan: they never grow up.

Computes make inferrences all the time. Deriving logical conclusions from known facts is absolutely something computers can be programmed to do and is arguably one of their main uses cases.

I have spent time explaining to things to children of various ages, including 3 year olds, and find the experience absolutely nothing like programming a computer.
There was something like this using Scheme, maybe 20 years ago, but I don't remember any details and don't think I ever tried it.

Edit: see http://www.abstractnonsense.com/schemix/
No, but they have free healthcare and time off to recharge their batteries
The LIRR is good yes but there seems to be extremely few apartments available for rent in Nassau County. Or maybe it's just that I always filter by Allows Pets, I'm not sure.

If it were solely up to me I'd be fine living in Bayside/Little Neck, taking the LIRR, for the great Korean and Chinese food and the parks. But my wife prefers to stay where the subway is.
How is this related to tech and hacking or anything with innovation?
I spent a couple days with Syncthing. The UX and general process of setup / adding devices is one of the most inscrutable things I’ve ever done. I have been using computers since the early 90s, and I have not had an experience like that since maybe setting up networking in the early nineties with no internet to help.

It’s open source, and it purports to sync resource forks which is very important to me - but they should really sit down and figure out how to make the process easier for newcomers.

I ended up back on Dropbox which also syncs resource forks. One of the few services that does.
I raise a family in NYC and have watched some of the authors prior videos.
He’s correct in pointing out the issues with the mental health crisis, which results in mentally ill people roaming the streets and subway. Taking our kids on the subway, it’s not something you’d engage with on a regular basis, but it’s there.
On the other hand, we are happy with our kids schools and enjoy our social engagements in the city, dining out, etc.
the preK bit sucks, they need to do a better job there (although I know many parents with kids in preK programs) and the migrant situation definitely needs to be better addressed.
I guess it comes down to how much pain you are willing to withstand.
> If I give you the diff, how long will it take you to type the changes back into the code base and recover your six-hours' work?

The diff will help, but it'll be an order of magnitude faster to do it the second time, diff provided or not.

For the same reason.
I doubt it. In fact, I think Tik-Tok is of concern because young people are outraged at what's happening in Gaza and the current leadership is committed to defending the oppressors. Sorry to bring politics in, but it's a political topic and I think this is much more of a motivator than any "fake" content.
Probably have wet sump.
I don't know why there are all these ex-NYC residents who all but cross themselves and shudder when remembering their time there and then it turns out that they never tried to live anywhere other than the busiest parts of Manhattan or, apparently, shop at anything other than bodegas.

(I'm with you on the garbage and crazy people, though.)
I’ve actually only ever heard people from the outer boroughs refer to Manhattan as “the city” or “NYC” or similar.
Idk if you read the actual letter, there doesn’t seem to be any racism in his intention, but rather a caricature of cancel culture that when taken completely out of context reads like a racist rant. It’s unfortunate that we have become so superficial that we cannot see beyond sentence fragments to see meaning.

Still, it was an example of thumbing of the nose to the cancel culturista, an act of defiance that apparently wasn’t taken in stride.

With the censors, It’s not so much what you say, but rather not speaking in the way that “they” want you to that brings out their ire - you can (and cacelistas often do) say the most racist drivel, but as long as it’s said using the right language, it’s acceptable, even laudable.

I have come to think of this faux-left movement as being an effort more to reshape culture by pruning meaning and prohibiting discussion, a mentally lazy revolution that pretends to solve problems by hiding from them.
yeah, i just sketched out some code ideas on paper over a few days, checked and rechecked them to make sure they were right, and then after i wrote the code on the computer tonight, it was full of bugs that i took hours and hours to figure out anyway. debugging output, stepping through in the debugger, randomly banging on shit to see what would happen because i was out of ideas. i would have asked coworkers but i'm fresh out of those at the moment

i am not smart enough this week to debug a raytracer on paper before typing it in, if i ever was

things like hypothesis can make a computer very powerful for checking out ideas
Thanks- commit then rebase reorder is a simple but great idea!
In what kind of way are pure software companies insane and non-software companies not insane as a dev? Just curious
Excellent hack. It makes me happy to see that the hacker spirit is still alive.
The author is walking around in Jersey city. Assuming he lives there, it’s a pretty nice place. I lived there for many years.
There's times and place when I don't have time, patience or can't due to circumstance watch a video so just seeing a couple of pictures is enough.
I self-host seafile, using it to share various folders between iOS, Windows, Linux, and macOS, and can recommend it.
You might like Here: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/here-nyc-subway-arrivals/id644...

I use it because it opens instantly and just shows me nearby train arrival times. The other apps have always taken too long to bother checking.
I thought so too, but now I have different opinion.

Programming has both analytical and creative part, which should be balanced. If you are over-analytical you don't get stuff done quickly.
If this happens, couldn't you just steer the cybertruck into a car wash, I've heard that disables them.
Most teachers are kids who go to college at 18 with no idea of what they’re capable of, who spend a pile of money to be a teacher because of idealistic principles inside them combined with an interest in teaching. They are certified, highly trained, and even highly specialized for their grade level and content.

Teaching isn’t a field littered with people who failed to launch elsewhere. The four to six year college barrier to entry (that’s four to six years of teacher focused classes, in person unpaid internships and full time unpaid student teaching that ranges from 3 months to more than a full year of unpaid full time work in a classroom as a teacher, certification testing, etc) all for a job that is critically underpaid and unappreciated, attacked both by the children in the school, and by people like you who tell them their noble decision to dedicate their life to educating your children means they’re a failure or a loser in some way. That isn’t something a “failure” is going to chase.

These teachers achieve a bachelors level degree (or higher) in education, are specifically trained teach through a multitude of specialized classes, have to spend upwards of a year doing completely unpaid in person full-time internships, and are as highly trained and educated in their field as any college graduate who achieved a bachelors or higher.

Most teachers cannot afford to live in the communities they serve with current housing and rent prices. The current state of education funding and school overcrowding means many of those teachers who put their heads down and soldier through are coming out of pocket with hundreds or even thousands of personal dollars just for basic school supplies like paper, while teaching class sizes that have ballooned to unreachable levels. I had classes with more than 40 students in a classroom that seated 38 max.

“Couldn’t make it in their own field.”?

Teaching IS our field, and the things that are killing our education system are not teacher-lead.

Maybe stop spouting nonsense and go look at a school. The young teachers are bright eyed idealists with tens of thousands in student loans who are fresh off bachelors degrees, and the old grizzled teachers are the young ones who survived and stuck around - they have been doing their job for literal decades. The places you find uncertified teachers (the human beings you’re denigrating) working in classrooms are usually the extremely underserved, underpaid, and desperate schools and communities and states where it’s extremely difficult to find any certified teacher (like a rural town with high housing prices, nothing in town to rent at a number a teacher could afford, and a sub-$40,000 starting wage for teachers in the year 2024).

My only regret is that teachers failed to teach you to recognize the Fox News style propaganda you’re regurgitating. Bashing teachers does humanity no favors. We should strive for livable wages, functional safe workplaces, reasonable commutes, and affordable housing for all workers, regardless of career, because a functioning society needs all of us, from doctors to burger flippers, and especially teachers.
This is also relevant in the context of using LLMs to help you code.

The way I see it, programming is about “20% syntax and 80% wisdom”. At least as it stands today.

LLMs are good (perhaps even great) for the 20% that is syntax related but much less useful for the 80% that is wisdom related.

I can certainly see how those ratios might change over time as LLMs (or their progeny) get more and more capable. But for now, that ratio feels about right.
"Everyone has a meal plan until they get a fruit punch in the face." -Tyson?
Will give try it a try. Mail works fine via IMAP for me. I always had problems handling outlook invites, team calendars and other peoples availabilities correctly, why I went back to outlook.
Wouldn't say so.

An iterative model which has been up-front loaded with a firm architecture, feature elaboration, a rough development and testing plan, resources allocated and some basic milestones to hit so that upper mgmt. can get an idea when useful stuff might land.

The development _process_ can be as agile-y as you like, so long as the development of features moves incrementally with each iteration towards the desired end-goal.

But you have to be strict about scope.
My piece is a little paradise. Education is top notch, roads are taken care of. Even our average RWNJs aren't as RWNJ-y as they are most other places, probably because of point A. Were you hanging out in the left lane or something?
are you talking about the modal text editor for emacs
Like do they worry about the future and think about the past? No.
Does this finally allow to write firewall rules in a sane and flexible language?
They’ll just need oil cans instead.
There are about 45.000 flights a day [1] in the US or 16 million a year, and that's just commercial, not including GA the 2010 dataset [2] is the newest I could find, it assumes 1/3rd for commercial, 1/3rd charters and the rest for GA, military and cargo, and I assume that this ratio has been roughly the same in the last decades.

So, a surcharge of 100 dollars per flight to fund FAA controllers would lead to a whopping 1.6 billion dollars a year while only adding less than 50 cents in ticket costs per passenger (assuming an average of 200 people per flight). Further income could be made with a lower surcharge for cargo and charters (let's say 50 dollars), and a very small one (let's say 10 dollars) for GA - assuming the above roughly 1/3rd split, you'd have an additional 800 million dollars from charters and cargo, and 160 million from GA, leading to a total of about 2.6 billion dollars.

Increase the fees to 200 dollars for commercial flights and you'd get 4.2 billion dollars - an about 20% increase of the FAA's current 19.8 billion dollars. That's a lot of money that even the most price-sensitive, high frequency fliers will not really feel. Assuming some rich executive flying twice a day for 250 working days a year, he'd pay 1000$ more in travel costs, a tiiiiny fraction of his expenses. A hobbyist pilot with his PPL needs a minimum of 24 hours and a checkride every two years, so ~12 flights per year, so their FAA surcharge cost would be around ~120 dollars a year - not very much compared to the cost of getting and maintaining a PPL.

In the end, the whining is pointless (especially as I've shown the actual impact is negligible). Either the government subsidizes air traffic of all kinds (similar as it does for road and to a lesser extent rail traffic) and distributes the cost across all members of society, or it makes for a self-sufficient system, or a mix of both - but the status quo of keeping it on life support is no longer sustainable.

Personally, I'd prefer a self-funding mechanism, alone because governments (not just in the US, it's just most pronounced there) seem to be completely incapable of actually governing, and preferring to cut costs even where it's actually life-critical.

[1] https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/by_the_numbers

[2] https://sos.noaa.gov/catalog/datasets/air-traffic/

[3] https://www.transportation.gov/sites/dot.gov/files/2023-03/F...