jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Launch early, upgrade often and kick their ass. If they have a small team and have accepted VC money the clock is ticking for them. For you? Well yuou have time and options. Pick your new features well and give em' hell.
Construction value to land value ratios are conventional not "functional".

So you can bypass convention and build $100k worth of improvements. But once the property hits the market again, the economic odds favor a buyer coming along with $600k who puts in $1200k worth of additional improvements. And then the property is at $1.8 million. It's casino odds, so to speak.

The general term is "highest and best use" and that's where property heads over time. The real estate business naturally accelerates that process because there's usually more net revenue on $1.8million properties than $600k properties, but the amount of work required to develop and sell a property is roughly constant regardless of price, e.g. it's about as hard to get a building permit, secure financing, or close a sale for a $600k project as a $1.8million project.
Not really. Walt Disney bought up a pile of unwanted swamp and made a company town. It doesn't even go close to 'cornering the market'. They just own a big chunk of land.
"“Abject poverty had kept my drinking reasonably contained,” says Mike, “but with a full bank account I tend to drink until I get sick.” Instead, he’s indulging in music. Mad Mike immediately moved his mom’s sofa, love seat and ottoman out of the living room and replaced it with thousands of dollars worth of brand new, gorgeous musical equipment:"

Love the idea of this. Ditch the furniture for creative tools.
I feel alien reading this too and I have ~500 friends on Facebook.

I don't see people doing anything like this. Maybe I'm selective but really next-to no friends share their consumption. I think the share-your-sunsets-and-dives-into-waterfalls is the movie version of Facebook. We wind up sharing cats, snark and sad moments.
Another good question: Why are S&P500 stock dividends so low? The average S&P500 stock dividend yield is like 2%. In theory, you buy stocks to receive earnings. But if companies only give out a fraction of those earnings, you as an investor are not really getting much. So how can companies get away with a 2% dividend yield?
You could run your own Android app DNS server locally, and change your route so your phone responded to requests to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4.
Ha thanks! I copied it off my Twitter profile, but it's forged with my bare hands in Vim :)
"Due to inflationary pressures the standard work day has been extended another hour". I didn't downvote but suggesting a fudge factor is never going to fly around here!
In general, no. When you start assuming everyone is a bad guy you end up with everyone from journalists to drug dealers to captains of industry trying to make sure their own secrets are safe from the surveillance machine.

The surveillance people have a saying. To find a needle in a haystack first you need a haystack. But you don't want a bleeding haystack, you just want the needle -- and now you've put a haystack on top of it. Now all the good guys are developing and using anti-surveillance methods.

The bad guys were already assuming they were under surveillance. They aren't being deterred by surveillance of everybody else, they're just getting access to new tools developed by the good guys, and are aided by the fact that anti-surveillance methods are no longer suspicious.
I searched for this so many times. I thought it was a blog post, not a ML one.
'96 article by Neal Stephenson. This should be interesting after just reading Cryptonomicon which has a good bit on under-sea fiber.
I thought about that. But it would have diminished the point I was trying to make: Always test with different versions as performance may differ by a LOT.
Comcast doubled their speeds throughout the Salt Lake metro area a few months back (around the same time Google announced Salt Lake City as a potential Google Fiber location). I'm on a 100 Mbps download now. It's a nice consolation prize for those of us between Salt Lake and Provo because while we aren't on the Google Fiber roadmap we still (seemingly) reap some of the competitive benefits of it being nearby.
For when the custom operators you can define in C++ are just too intuitive...
But a longer a timeframe where? I think waiting on signing docs after agreeing to them is far from ideal, same goes for waiting on wiring the money, unless agreed in advance.
Here in Queensland, Australia the Taxi Council Queensland have been going after Uber quite hard. TV, radio, print and in-taxi advertisements claiming that Uber is unregulated, uninsured and unsafe. However, if this deal struck with insurance companies in the US spreads to all of the other markets Uber is in: this really puts a nail in the arguments of interests against Uber. What other argument would there be? If passengers are covered by insurance, then what other arguments against Uber do Uber decriers actually have left?

Interesting move. Will be even more interesting to see how the taxi lobbyists react to this.
Didn't Woz have the original Apple computer outputting letters to an oscilloscope before he made the circuits to output to a television?
In all fairness, it would require a major sea change for, say, Microsoft, to get to where they could make remote workers a significant portion of their development staff.
I've always admired the writing style in the Economist: http://www.economist.com/styleguide/introduction
Really nice to see so many little useability improvements -- like easy temporary envs, syntax highlighting in dependency conflict errors, and more partially-applied functions -- as well as more significant language development on threading, stack allocations, and reducing latency.
The very worst part of this story is that the manufacture vigorously defended their machine, threatening individuals and hospitals with lawsuits if they spoke out publicly. I have zero doubt this led to more deaths.
The story told to the general public was obviously not the story to be closest to scientific truth, but instead the story that was thought to lead to the least severe outcomes. Nobody really knew the real fatality rate last year, the numbers could range from more than 10% to about 0.1%. If they turned out to be about 10%, quarantene would be essential in stopping the spread of the infection. Also, higher fatality rate would mean that the infection rate would be relatively low (as the number of dead were known), meaning that it would be realistically possible to exterminate the virus. On the other edge of the spectrum, the fatality rate might be near 0.1%, but the infection rate would be much higher. If this held true, flatting the curve would actually be a good strategy. Finally, if the true fatality rate would be around 1% (roughly the real number), the one would "flatten the curve" until a vaccine could be provided, as if hospitals had been flooded way behond what has happened, the fatality rate could easily be 2-4x higher. In the case of the US, that could mean around 10 million dead by now, if no lockdown or social distancing had been attempted.

Of course, had no action been taken to slow it down, and millions had died last spring (in the US alone), the public opinion would strongly demand a lockdown, as well as become so scared that they voluntarily self-isolate.
For me, F# is a beautiful, goldilocks language that has both the expressiveness and elegance of Python/Ruby and the strictness/compile-time safety of a statically-typed language, all backed by the .net ecosystem. There's also low ceremony to get things done in F# and I use it for everyday tasks, like reading CSVs and loading relational databases.

If you're into domain-driven design, I find F# makes it easier to model your code after your line of business. I also like how F# nudges my code into an "onion-layer" architecture, where the domain of my business logic is at the core and is wrapped around with functionality like reading and validating inputs from external sources.

I also like Elm and the idea of ReasonML, so I plan to seriously check out Fable, which compiles F# to Javascript, and Elmish. There's also Saturn, which is built on top of asp.net-core
I'm one of those people who gets paid writing B2B CRUD apps, so I certainly have economic incentives to keep CRUD in the hands of professionals. However, back in academia I spent a few years working on two different no-code platforms whose target users were PhD researchers, ie smart people with a professional interest in learning how to leverage no-code platforms.

Both projects followed the exact same trajectory: users ultimately rejected the no-code platforms and sent all of the programming work back to professional developers. Now the professional developers were hamstrung by layers of abstraction designed for non-developers and both parties were miserable.

Excel is the shining example of no-code enabling non-professionals to create powerful tools on their own, but it may be the exception and not the rule. Ultimately the challenges of programming are not the code, but thinking abstractly about data, and that's a real skill that developers have trained and non-developers have not, and I don't think it is solvable with tooling.
> of secret management, load balancing, config management, routing, orchestration beyond workloads (e.g. storage), rollbacks/rollouts

Nomad does all of these either natively ( rollbacks/rollouts) or via external tooling ( Vault, Consul, a load balancer). Unix philosophy and all that, and besides, Kubernetes doesn't do load balancing, and secret management is a joke.
> But I also support forcing people to grapple with the cost of government once a year.

But that's one-sided: people do not have the same requirement to "grapple" with the benefits of government once a year. That feeds right into known cognitive biases, where we underweight small but steady effects and overweight concentrated effects.

If you had a "yearly day of reckoning" with your partner where you re-hashed every argument, fight, or disagreement from the previous year without commensurate attention to the benefits, I daresay it would not be good for your relationship.

Moreover, this approach doesn't even seem to be effective at instruction. In particular, many people don't seem to understand the difference between marginal and average tax rates (link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5724773/), which is a precondition for understanding the system as a whole.
It might worth to add a 2019 caption
Its unusable because crazy pop ads
GitHub Repo : https://github.com/nuwandavek/you
1) Make everyone around me more happier (my family, friends, clients, etc)
2) Contribute to the society
3) Work towards making my business more profitable
4) Exercise, keep fit and and healthy
Tell him to join a local open source community and learn to work in group projects and to code in a team close to other people (Like the GDG, for example. It's free and in my town every week or two they organize meetings, hackatons, workshops and many interesting talks which they post on youtube in case you cannot attend that day). He can be useful even if he knows nothing, by being assigned the most trivial tasks or watch and help. Tell him to find a mentor and to get used to version control, code reviews, test writing, quality assessment, applying design patterns. Those are every bit as important as just learning how to code algorithms. I believe coding by yourself tends to make you a "bad" coder, in the sense that unless you are amazingly self disciplined you can take on a lot of bad habits that are very difficult to get rid off later on.
>In the UK the equivalent product is sellotape

It's true that Sellotape has become the generic name for adhesive tape, but Scotch tape is a well established product in it's own right in the UK market.
Given that he works off reputation and recommendation, he probably won't want the reputation of getting paid for not fixing a system. The odd loss on a project now and then is probably worth less than the loss of recommendation, it creates a good feeling with the client, and I'm sure his risk analysis / due diligence before a project minimises the risk.
The opposite for me, then again it's not a 'plan' for me.
You shouldn't write anyone a free license to collect as much money as they can by monetizing the Wikipedia brand. The money has to actually serve a need and be spent in a way that benefits the reader.

And there have been germane questions asked about that, even by Wikimedia's own outgoing director:

http://www.dailydot.com/business/sue-gardner-log-rolling-cor...

The reason most of the Wikimedia Foundation's expenditure goes on salaries these days is that they have vastly expanded their staff. Staff expansion isn't bad, but it shouldn't be an end in itself, and the staff hired should be qualified and deliver value for money. And here even Jimmy Wales admitted that their cost/benefit ratio needs a lot of improvement:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Jimbo_W...

The main thing to bear in mind is that donations are not needed to keep Wikipedia online and ad-free, as the fundraising banners say. There is more than enough money for that; it's a very small part of the Foundation's expenditure today.

It used to be different:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQR0gx0QBZ4#t=275
Long term, I think it's infrastructure changes and a more engrained bike culture that allows people to bring their bike inside with them more often. (Of course, maybe we just bring the thieves indoors then, but I bet the reduction in ease and opportunity corresponds with a reduction in theft.)

I ride two bikes, one worth stealing that simply never gets locked up outside, and another that nobody would ever want nor would I miss. When I ride the former, I only ride to places that allow me to take my bike inside: Roomy coffee shops or offices with storage for bikes.
Yes, I have seen that. This is why asked what those words meant. The words "physically" and "based" as they are used here do not fit my understanding of the English grammar. I am not a native English speaker. I just want to know why is this sequence of words meaningful?
There are good uses for page content to know what's in the JWT (display username, show logged-in status, etc). Cookies also have stricter size limits. Additionally, cookies by themselves are uniquely vulnerable to CSRF, although I guess these days using SameSite property correctly mitigates that.
You can't. Lockdowns.
They don’t seem to work for me on iOS Safari.
So, rather than calling it non-linear, which is clearly somewhat confusing, perhaps it would be more clear to state that it handles affine functions like F to C...?
That's awesome and yet awful all at the same time.
It's not just certification, it's also the human/social part of education. There's an enormous jump between having the material available, and actually putting in the years of investment necessary to make yourself employable in that area.
I love Pinterest.

That banner is user hostile and makes me not love Pinterest. The experience on mobile is worse. There's bizarre behaviour where an appstore link can seize focus. You're in Chrome, browsing the WWW, and suddenly Chrome minimises and the app store opens. Pinterest does this and it is horrible behaviour.

If you install the Pinterest app you get asked if you want to open the page in the app instead of your browser.

I would use Pinterest everyday if it wasn't for that.
The hashes are not being "wasted", it's the cost of Proof of Work. By definition, it can't be useful for something else. It has to be "wasted". I can't understand how you can see that it's being used to secure the first decentralized digital currency ever, that people all over the world are already using, and at the same time say it's being wasted.
For the MAC, the article suggests an exception to github.com. But it looks like an exception is required for the Kex protocol as well. I see this error:

Unable to negotiate a key exchange method

If I understand correctly the response from ssh -v -v, github.com only supports the following Kex protocols:

ssh-rsa-cert-v01@openssh.com,ssh-rsa-cert-v00@openssh.com,ssh-rsa,ecdsa-sha2-nistp256-cert-v01@openssh.com,ecdsa-sha2-nistp384-cert-v01@openssh.com,ecdsa-sha2-nistp521-cert-v01@openssh.com,ssh-ed25519-cert-v01@openssh.com,ssh-dss-cert-v01@openssh.com,ssh-dss-cert-v00@openssh.com,ecdsa-sha2-nistp256,ecdsa-sha2-nistp384,ecdsa-sha2-nistp521,ssh-ed25519,ssh-dss

Edit: By trial and error, I find that this works for github.com:

KexAlgorithms diffie-hellman-group1-sha1
I am of the opinion that instead of spending $10k at a bootcamp, you can learn the coding yourself with books and free information readily available online
Ten years ago, HTC had phones with touchscreen, WiFi, camera, installable apps and miniSD support.
> How will you locate a building. Numbers, street names - map or GPS : those are the usual way.

That would only work if you knew ahead of time you were specifically looking for that particular location. There's been plenty of times I've driven by some place and decided to go take a peek inside just based on their name alone.
One failure from one drive bought for me too.
This makes me want to get a dev kit and create a prank exploit that puts a 3d clippy in the corner of your view that you can't get rid of. :D
Asimov wrote on Newton in particular, as the greatest scientist of all time. All others compete for 2nd place. Optics, Physics, Calculus. Nobody holds a candle to that accomplishment. Also, he invented the doggy door, and milled edges on coins (to discourage filing, a common 18th-century way to steal precious metal)
What concrete evidence have you for GG killing dogs, SWATing and bomb threats?
Sure in the real World with stakeholders and bosses good luck
> WHY. WHY DO PEOPLE DO THIS.

Because too much contrast can be jarring and distracting, making it harder to read.

These kinds of things are subjective.
I’m wondering if a clever solution of presenting the Windows ABI to drivers but translating to Linux calls under the hood would be feasible?
For context, it looks like this is the original tweet from one of the video creators: https://twitter.com/shivakilaru/status/1372941623609282561

Cease and Desist over Instagram.
Because you can still catch COVID and give it to someone else. This is especially true of variants such as the SA B1.351, which appear to escape previous "natural" immunity even in recently recovered patients (3 months). You would be knowingly exposing other people to possibly deadly harm for personal uncertainty in now a fairly well demonstrated (multi-million person trial) safe procedure. The stabilized spike protein vaccines (not AZ or the original Sputnik) have shown significantly better effectiveness against those variants. It's not different from polio or measles as a school child.

So long as you're not a licensed professional or someone (in school) who is required to interact with the public, then I'd agree if you're willing to self-quarantine and mask and social distance whenever you go out, when you're free (morally) not to be vaccinated. If you want the privileges of regularly interacting in a society, however, you have to respect the rights of others in that society as well.
The point of freedom is to be free to take decisions about your life, including injecting substances in your veins.

Would you agree with that?
Similar here. My main home machine's CPU held out for years more than previous ones had. I didn't do much by way of heavy dev/test/DB work in that period[†] so games were the only big processing it did[‡], and they only used a couple of cores properly or were bottlenecked at the GPU.

I upgraded early last year because I was doing a bunch of video transcoding, something where going from 4 to 16 cores really helps, and had finally started to notice it bogging down more than a little elsewhere. There was a per-core performance bump too in this case, that R7 2700/x was excellent value for money at the time. Also there was a goodly increase in memory bandwidth with the new kit, to keep those cores' caches full of things to be getting on with, but again that wasn't a massive bottleneck for my other uses up to that point.

[†] which I had previously, but personal dev has dropped off significantly since developing out-door habits (when you properly get into running it can be very time-consuming!) and day-job work is usually done via VPN+RDC when I do it at home.

[‡] and even then I wasn't spending time & money on the bleeding edge, though I did upgrade to a 1060/6GB for those that were demanding more than my old GPU could give)
I use an ebook reader and it lets me configure the font, size, spacing, and margins.

I don't mind printed books and magazines because it's a constraint of the medium; but for websites it's a missed opportunity.
>At any level of deflation, suddenly it's a terrible idea to ever borrow any money, which means no new housing, no new factories, no new cars.

Why is this such a horrible thing though? Obviously, less lending is bad for the banks, but I fail to see how it would be bad for the consumer if they actually saved up money and paid cash for a car. Although I do understand why lending is important for starting a business; it would be hard in many markets to save enough capital to get off the ground. I'm talking about small stuff, like housing, cars, TVs.

I have little to no economics knowledge, but it does seem to me that this pervasive, cultural thinking that we need this now is the source of many problems. I know some retailers like Ford even attempted to curb the practice of buying on credit, but ultimately caved to pressure from customers wanting to live above their means.

So, can you explain, in a way that doesn't involve trickle-down economics, how borrowing money is a net gain for consumers? (I'm genuinely not being snarky here, just curious.)
Finder can go directly to paths with Go > Go to Folder… (Command+Shift+G) and search scope can be changed to current directory in Finder preferences. Hidden file visibility can be toggled with Command+Shift+. in both Finder windows and open/save dialogs.
First, that isn't what you actually said.

Also no it doesn't. It takes a fraction of a second on a single core for each block. It's 900KB for a full block. The only reason it would take a long time is a particular client using CPUs extremely inefficiently and leaving them idle most of the time.
This is true! But there are quite a few other projects in the “defi” space (defi meaning decentralized finance, although I’m not convinced that it needs to stay fully decentralized to be useful). Perhaps the invention of smart contracts will be as revolutionary as the introduction of double entry bookkeeping in Italy, the maturation of insurance markets in London, or the invention of the modern corporation in the Netherlands.
Their tagline was: “Flynn is an open source platform (PaaS) for running applications in production.”

In some way an alternative for using Kubernetes and managed services of cloud providers.

I think there is a need for something that is easier to use than Kubernetes. I’ve started the 5 minute production app for this. The idea is to use managed services and Terraform to make stateful services easy. This way you’re not locked in but have flexibility going forward.
Naively, I imagine it's hard to implement (efficient) overflow semantics for integers in C, without any UB. Rust provides operators for [wrapping overflow](https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/std/primitive.isize.html#m...), [saturating overflow](https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/std/primitive.isize.html#m...), etc. You can't use UB because then the C compiler can miscompile your code.

Semantics of loops might also be tricky. In fact rust struggles with LLVM's optimizer already on some infinite loops because C++ and rust diverge in semantics there.
How much of world semiconductor fab capacity is cryptocurrency mining using?
Cool hack but extremely fragile. It's actually pretty sad that people will consider using something like this in real projects.