skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What exactly should be the relationship between the person who owns a home and the person that lives in it then? One of charity? Or do you think private home ownership is in and of itself wrong?
Some QR plates have set screws that can be tightened down to reduce twisting. For example, you can see them in https://uniquephoto.azureedge.net/resources/uniquephoto/imag...

These positions line up with some locations on various medium and large format cameras (where there is a lot of weight in play).
Fourth gravitational wave detected
California airfare war erupts: $59 roundtrips
The reason to rent is for the ability to move on demand.

If a family is renting in the same place for decades, that is their problem. The moment you realize you are going to stay in one place for an extended period of time, there is no reason to continue renting. Sure, not everybody can purchase their dream home. But they can purchase something small, build equity, and upgrade in the future. The government also has programs to help first time buyers, especially those with less income.

Again, the primary reason to rent is so you can relocate. If you are not planning on relocating in the 5-10 years, you should own, or be working on owning.

Furthermore, the landlord is taking on risk (risk of the market moving against him, risk of the tenant not paying him or the place remaining unoccupied after a tenant leaves), is paying property taxes, insurance, is responsible for broken appliances, and is also often taking on a loan with higher interest rates.

Should all of this be provided for free?
ARM isn't x86_64...
All those investors could actually invest in something with a future.
I'm actually at a large-ish enterprise that needs a new knowledge system ASAP. I wouldn't really consider Shelf as I can't self-host (security concerns, BCP concerns etc), and even if I were to pay for something cloud hosted, Confluence looks more professional.
• I don't want a fire stick or whatever it's called.

• I want to pay a flat fee for access (Netflix), not pay-per-view PLUS subscription fee (amazon prime video).
I'm honestly surprised that's still going.
"ID-check failure" ?
Did you get that information from the lock company publishing specs on their website, or from people reverse engineering it?
This only appears to be for VOD.
https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-cloudflare-streams/

How they deliver the video is pretty innovative:

> How we accomplish this is by dynamically assigning data centers IP ranges based on which are currently being underutilized. Then videos are loaded alongside a manifest file, pointing the player to where they can locate the different chunks of the video for each bitrate. (As we described earlier, this is how adaptive streaming works: the player uses this manifest file to quickly locate different bitrate formats and switch between them as network latency changes). That manifest file is dynamically generated to point to the closest data center using Cloudflare’s default Anycast IP for the first chunk, then to the underutilized data centers for subsequent chunks. The final result is that the first segment is fast, with low cost subsequent segments. This allows us to offer a video solution that is at the best price, because let's face it, enabling video today is really expensive and unpredictable and it doesn't have to be.
The scale of software tool utility is pretty much unparalleled by traditional tools. Traditional tools such as livestock and machines require breeding, mining... some sort of "manufacturing" process. Okay, software has manufacturing cost too, but typically only once to create, and once to maintain. Imagine if you could dynamically spawn livestock without the overhead of mining, breeding, and trading. The jobs that software has/will eat are, imo, beyond current human comprehension.
Relicense React Native to MIT Along with React
> My final thought is that part of the problem is the prominence of finance people in pubic decision making.

Indeed, I've read a few articles in NYTimes/WSJ now on the sale of public services in the US such as fire and water services to private equity firms. And the whole thing is told as a cautionary tale about banks and capitalism, which misses the bigger picture in how these things always start.

Typically the problems start because the government was overleveraged from taking on too much debt, typically due to poor financial management fueled by initially cheap capital from bankers operating in and out of government. Then when hard times come they continue to seek the easy answers from the bankers (instead of making hard choices like spending less) and end up selling off public resources giftwrapped in pseudo-market sounding language with very little of the actual benefits of markets: competition, private salaries, flexibility, etc.

These "banks" are famously like an octopus wrapping their tentacles around everything. We have some old effective methods for handling this type of behaviour when it's used improperly in the private sector, and there the harm is limited to a few usually wealthy parties. But it starts to get dangerous when these half-baked financial schemes that have worked in private markets get pigeonholed into government. Critical services like emergency services or drinking water are often ill-suited (and more importantly ill-prepared) to handle the potential downside.

Hopefully one day politicians will learn this lesson and learn to keep things simple in the public sector. Governments everywhere have a consistent track record of not managing money well and have a high-turnover of executives by design, so any complex financial instruments are just setting them up for failure and exploitation. Anything to do with government should be made dummy proof and straightforward. Public services should be run like public services. Mixing of private/public should be the exception, not the standard. And I say that as someone biased towards the private sector.
Per Dan's suggestion, you should start with the actual docs.

After that, I keep a big list of links to high-quality tutorials and articles on React, Redux, and related topics, at https://github.com/markerikson/react-redux-links . Specifically intended to be a great starting point for anyone trying to learn the ecosystem, as well as a solid source of good info on more advanced topics. It includes links for learning core Javascript (ES5), modern Javascript (ES6+), React, Redux, and much more. I also published an "Intro to React (and Redux)" presentation at http://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2017/02/presentation-react-... , which is a good overview of the basic concepts for both React and Redux.

Also, the Reactiflux chat channels on Discord are a great place to hang out, ask questions, and learn. The invite link is at https://www.reactiflux.com .
Crouton is just a chroot to some linux distro. It doesn't use any sort of virtualization.
I agree, they are taking a lot of Google and are just trying to block them. Not mentioning forking Android and all other things related also.

Google is way too nice for amazon
Why Decentralized Exchange Protocols Matter
Yeah, I think on the surface it could seem contradictory. MMM does advocate frugality but he also advocates spending money on things that increase happiness and don't hurt the environment. I'd say many (though obviously not all) YC companies actually do check that box.
Since when is providing a way to identify people facism? This isn't the 18th century. Economics are global. You cannot just use the fact you've known the shopkeep your whole life as an authentication service.

Either we have a good functioning way to uniquely identify people or we don't. If you have the former, you could use it for evil, in much the same way as how with the later it is used for evil a lot with the various frauds talked about in the OP.

If the government wants to do evil it will do so with or without national ID, but the ability for fraudsters to do evil is dependent on there being no effective and secure universal identification.

I'm going to guarantee that the NSA tracking profiles on every US citizen don't need national ID cards to pick you out of a crowd. They could build a comprehensive identity database from CCTV and store cameras whenever you buy something to build a complete and hardened profile to identify you with. They have access to way more than enough material to start branding the "undesirables" and having them carted off to gas chambers within a week. We just suffer in the meantime under this false belief that ID cards are the make or break of liberty.
It's not different. But all of those things involved massive crashes in certain sectors of the economy.
Delta adds free inflight text messaging worldwide
New Gravitational Wave detector makes its first discovery
The copy could state more explicitly that it does work as a regular phone with your number and SIM, but it is explained under the section "A No-Carrier Phone?":

The Librem 5 can be used in any of three ways:

- With a cellular carrier provided phone number, data plan, and WiFi

- With a cellular carrier data plan, and WiFi

- With no carrier, and using only WiFi

WiFi calling and VoIP calling will be able to be provided in WiFi or data plan modes. We expect to offer call-out, and call-in with phone numbers in all of these plans as well. If you still require a “traditional” phone number through a carrier and want to make unencrypted phone calls or messaging, it will be an option you can choose, but is not required (we recommend avoiding unencrypted phone calls).
I would assume that an important part of trying to retire early is to choose a career path that doesn't max out at $50k per year.

From what I've seen he suggests two things are necessary to retire early: 1. Save lots of money (which requires making money that you can save). 2. Don't spend lots of money. He seems to be pretty transparent in how he does both. If you want to save lots of money, but choose a career that leads to a $50k a year job, it is necessarily going to take you longer to retire than someone who chooses a career that leads to a $150,000 per year job. I'm not sure that makes it a pipe dream--just that if your time horizon is going to be different based on the decisions you make.
How will in store analytics revolutionize customer experience?
> Vid.me

Unfortunately, simply cloning youtube isn't a competitor without also cloning youtube's bankroll. For a very good explanation of why, see Folding Ideas video essay "VidMe or Why Platforms Aren't Your Friends"[1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3snVCRo_bI
Ease of scale basically.
Android is open unless Google says otherwise.
I've seen poorly coded ad scripts do that, they assume you're scrolling over them if you've gone past by the time they load and pull you back up the page.
Xenofeminism – A Politics for Alienation
They do still sell them ($8000 now), not sure if they're still sold in Russia but they sell very well in Uruguay. The BYD F3 is ridiculously cheap! (and good looking, I'm actually considering it when I manage to sell my 15 year old Renault)

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Trends/Next-big-battle-in-C...
Thanks for that perspective. Put on the list. Won't let them keep us from making money along the journey.
Does anybody know whether the transcripts are done manually or automatically? Seems to be a lot of work if it’s done manually.
man, what a weird pov. Start at the beginning - "nobody should do the 40 mile pleasanton to sf commute". I guess he means pleasanton to mv, because if you were to go to sf you'd just take the bart door to door. So do you know how many engineers drive from pleasanton, or in general east bay, to mv ? I'd wager its upwards of 100k, considering the backed up traffic on 680 between 8 am to noon. now are all of these engineers fools ? the majority of them have a nice tech gig in mv at the biggest tech firms - the sexiest startups and boring profitable enterprises, a solid 150k+ paycheck, stocks, 401k etc and are paying off their mortgage in the east bay on a large 3k sq ft house in an incredible school district. the tech companies themselves encourage this behavior by plying free wifi-buses on 680 so you've done your git commits en route. so which part of this is objectionable and why ? even if facebook builds a company town in san mateo or wherever, engineers are ultimately humans who have reasonable human desires to buy a house & get hitched & start a family & send the kids to school, so all of that isn't going to happen within the confines of a company town designed for the 20 year old median programmer crowd. in all likelihood, this 40 mile commute, whether to east bay or south bay or wherever will be the norm, because the alternative is what ? all of us moving to colorado and riding our bicycles to work?! i mean i envy your frugal no-waste healthy bicycle lifestyle, but i just don't see all these engineers with giant beer bellies either. they do the 40 mile commute because there really isn't much of a choice, and most companies do offer some form of on-site fitness regimen, so the majority does keep in shape. financially the outcome is positive as well - appreciating equity in a spacious sunny california home, 7 figure retirement accounts, kids in good schools. if the only downside is a 40 mile commute, i'll take that any day of the week.
I wish the SF font family included a Georgia lookalike with modern optimizations. Sans serif can become a problem in a wall of text.
Building an Offline-Only Website
There is no reason you can't have boot in under a second.
In reality, this doesn't make a difference though ;)
Is it time to replace REST with RPC?
Those are both pretty broad questions. Skimming through the code, I'd say it's a reasonable example of a React+Redux codebase. I don't think I could say it "leverages React to the fullest", because it's unclear exactly what that means, and this is not an overly complex sample application. But, it does serve as a useful example of something more "real" than yet another TodoMVC clone.
This is more important than a lot of people realize. "Just move somewhere cheaper!" is the battle cry which ignores "It's cheaper because there's no real jobs there."

Few industries are as flexible about working from home as the software development industry.
You are forgetting taxes (FICA, state and federal income taxes, etc), which would eat up a significant portion of those savings.
Perhaps I missed something but I didn't see the redemption in it. It seemed like two different articles patched together, one about the religion, the other about the lawsuit, trying desperately to make a compelling article. It just feels lacking in totality..
Where's your Wikipedia page then?
Presumably, the algorithm change was to make advertisers more happy. Advertisers don't want to advertise on some content, as much as the creators might like them to. The advertiser response to some people that get demonetized complaining is "we wouldn't have advertised in the first place if we knew, so count yourself lucky you got the money you did".

The reality is of course somewhere in the middle, and there's some content which some advertisers would not want to be associated with, while others might actually want to target, and the current algorithm may not be serving these needs well. Hopefully it's just a matter of a better system being needed that might come later.

Interestingly, which topic was covered recently in Mozilla's IRL podcast[1].

1: https://irlpodcast.org/episode7/
its about living within your means... you can't afford new cards, $1000 cell phones, AND retire on 50k, but you can pare that back... Life is about choices.
All over the comments section?

Seriously, nothing gets HN outraged like police tactics, draconian or otherwise.
Total nonsense rust makes it trivial to profile
Beyond all this noise that is patticularly annoying in this space, I really like articles trying, at least, to provide more fundamental analysis. Last week Chris Burniske provided an article about cryptoasset valuation: https://medium.com/@cburniske/cryptoasset-valuations-ac83479...
I think the point is to change the way people think about the situation. If you reframe the problem for enough people, it might become an issue politicians campaign with.
Drilling into the body of a camera that costs multiple thousand dollars to add a second screw seems like a risky maneuver and definitely warranty-voiding. I would personally advise against this.

Adding Velcro doesn't seem to me like it would do much for vibration or slippage (large rotation, yes, small scale rotation, not so much), since Velcro is not a rigid connection. Rubber or similar spacers can help but it's still not great. I use a plate that's got a lip on it to prevent twisting (which was a happy accident, because I actually ordered the wrong plate).
The entirety of his supporting evidence:

> We’ve had financial problems in America — let’s use America — every four to seven years, since the beginning of the republic. Well, it’s been over eight since the last one.

Well I'm certainly convinced!
3 Steps to Write the Perfect About Us Page
I don't code at work for programming language concept, you see you should use the tools that make sense for the task you're working on. I'm not being paid to have fun on using an academic language that no one use, have bad tooling, not enough libraries to work with. You never wonder why pretty much no one uses Haskell / Erlang if it's that great? Having the best language concepts doesn't mean a thing in the real world. I try those things at home not at work where $$$ is at play.
He would be a lot more credible if he could explain what will cause a crash. Basically, he is just betting on a crash every year for whatever reason. Doubtlessly, he is selling something.
Yes, most importantly, do your own research.

There are varying opinions as to the relevance/worth of commodities:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887323681904578643...
He may die first.
The Mexico Quake: A case study in the importance of earthquake retrofits
Sure, that is easy - 'meaningful and interesting scale' is the amount of streaming that the 1000th largest video streamer does! So simple!
I find it interesting that both he and his wife were high income earner earners. That makes it easier to save appropriately and get to financial freedom sooner. I think he even notes this in some of his blog posts that the opportunity to become financially free is limited. A lot of people don't have a 3 month or 6 month reserve which I think is the first goal. Get there first.
The only use case of Bitcoin (I think) will be store of value. Digital gold essentially. Ethereum seems more interesting and versatile.

I'm not big on gold either, but like Bitcoin it has limited use cases aside from embedding tiny amounts into electronics and jewellery.

Speculation, probably. Alternatively, the returns could be due to the uncertainty: will it or will it not become a store of value. You're essentially getting compensated for not knowing and for the risk you're taking.

If you look at Microsoft, when it IPOed, it was worth $750M. Now it's worth $550bn. Companies IPO a lot later now, so unless you're seed investing, you can't get those returns by investing in the public markets. With Bitcoin, it essentially started from zero, hence the crazy returns.

Having something that is safe “outside of the system" is also pretty good. I know for a fact, if the Bitcoin price would be relatively stable (or comparable to normal gold) and it would serve as a store of value, I would rather own Bitcoin because it is 1) more convenient to move around (in comparison to gold bars, or no fees in comparison to an ETF), and 2) more safe from confiscation. And I say that without trying to sound like a conspiracy nut.
I'm certain some obscure optimizations were done from top to bottom for 140 chars. 280 chars will also require a different mindset and optimizations.
X100 cameras do too. I never find myself using it, personally, but I understand why some people would.
Hm. The iTunes feed might be easiest - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/y-combinator/id123690742...
> Call it what you want, but fraud committed in your name still harms you, and thus still makes you a victim.

No, it doesn't. If someone comes to you and claims that they are John Smith, and you loan them a thousand bucks, only to discover later that the person who you gave the thousand bucks to actually wasn't John Smith, then you, and you alone, are the victim, and you are out of a thousand bucks. Nothing of this has anything to do with John Smith.

Only if you then harass John Smith to pay you a thousand bucks by making fraudulent claims that you loaned him a thousand bucks and tell everyone that John Smith is not credit worthy, then John Smith becomes a victim, specifically a victim of you.
Depends on what you mean by "retire." Having complete financial independence is unlikely.

However a person with no debts or children can live a nice middle-class life as a single person or partner/spouse even in the Bay Area and still save $50k/year or more. With conservative investments that $250k in savings over five years can easily be used to have a few thousand a month in income. It won't replace a $200k per year salary, but it'd be enough to live very frugally in an inexpensive place. It's much riskier than having a salary, health insurance, etc. and I wouldn't advise it.
Selling is hard beyond any specific product criticism. Critics here in HN think it is more related to the product than to the marketing/selling aspects but 5000 are really few units sold.
That's a pretty good idea, especially if the camera body has indentations that the set screw can really bite into. A second screw socket in the camera body would be better, though. It would be 100% backward compatible and solve the issue completely.
I think MMM knows his audience, it isn't for me but I can imagine many people do get something out of it.

Really the main problem is there just isn't much to say, spend less than you earn, invest the difference, develop some self-sufficiency.
He has good ideas but I agree with your arguments.

Also, is he retired? How much time does the blog consume? How much income does it generate?
Sounds like your friend sacrificed the future for the today. But far, far too many of us are guilty of sacrificing today for a tomorrow 40 years from now.

Get rich slow when you're 70, or get rich fast by working your ass off and being accountable for your wealth.
>Cover your sneeze. Cover your cough. Stay home when sick. These are kindergarten-level cultural learnings.

Yes, fine, but none of these involve suppressing a sneeze. The goalpost has shifted.
Forex trading is certainly more speculation (or hedging) than investment
Optimizing React Rendering – Mutation Detection with ES6 Proxy
Yeah, I found the same with my GoPro, but you don't have to go to the trouble of setting up an AP, just get a UHS sdcard and pop it out and into a compatible reader.
Financially independent is the phrase I'd use.
Enough money so you don't 'have' to work to survive
Yep. just switched to uBO. Stylus is next. Does it work with userstyles.org?

Another good feature was styles sync.
Micropayments!
/s
The North Korean Threat to Our Utilities
Isn't his statement a tautology?
A good example of what I'm talking about can be found in the thread here about Citibikes in NYC: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15338098

A lot of people seem to have an incredible resistance to the idea of riding a bike in NYC based on pure nonsense. Biking is safe, fast, and cheap. We don't need self-driving cars, we need investment in walking, biking, and public transit infrastructure.
Several mirrorless and pro compacts at least have focus peaking built in. Not perfect, but something that can be worked with.
May I ask what makes Confluence look more professional from your perspective?

Like I mentioned somewhere else, I actually like using Confluence depending on the use case. It tends to require much more attention in making sure things stay organized and well structured. Shelf has this built-in by being more opinionated (for better or worse, depending on what you need).
Amazon has its own video service.