skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We are a couple living in Cape Town. For the past 6 months we've been averaging 60 litres per person per day, with a downward trend. We don't have a swimming pool. We don't water the garden or lawn. It looks hideous, but those steps were easy gains.

It's our water closet habits that had to change drastically. If it's yellow, let it mellow. If it's brown, let it drown. We shower, very quickly, with 2 buckets and try to catch as much water as possible. We turn off the shower while lathering up with soap and would dip our sponges in the buckets if we need to add water to the mix. It's basically taking a bucket bath in a shower and a quick rinse afterwards.

We use the gathered water to drown the brown. Sometimes a quick flush with water from the cistern is necessary, but we can limit the flush by lifting the lever (unlike older cisterns).

Other people have installed tanks in their backyards to collect rainwater from the roof, but we don't have the space.

It's an inconvenience, but so far it hasn't been too difficult to get under the 87 litre target. It just required some attention, and very importantly, frequent monitoring. Frankly, I'm disgusted that more than half of my fellow citizens couldn't reach the target.
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As someone who writes web scrapers for a living, I have only come across one site where I have been unable to reliably extract the information we need. If we were more flexible, we would be able to deal with this site too. Defending yourself from scrapers is an arms race you are almost certain to loose.
Yeah, and if you're not right inside the Juniper - Spring St Corridor, you may as well live in West Midtown. Brutal.

Kicking myself for not trying harder to buy into the Metropolis back when 1-beds still went for <$250k
There's a lot of web and B2B stuff in Utah County. (Google for "Silicon Slopes" - yeah, the term is marketing hype, but there really is a fair amount going on.) I'm an embedded systems guy, and that's... not a roaring market, but fairly steady.
Economic freedom (which I'm presuming means "lower taxes"?) isn't much use to you if you're executed for possessing drugs, or indefinitely detained without charge, need a permit to assemble, can't criticize the government, etc.
Do you have a link for the Eve Online example?
And if an iOS app does request access to the user's location while in the background, it's required to have a specific explanation of why it needs that:

https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Ge...
The smartest people I know mostly have widely different goals, and mostly don't use money as a proxy for a measure of success (however I am not from the US...)

> competitions is usually the one with the most measurable success (money) for the least amount of measurable input (work)

I remember thinking this way during my education years, but out in the real world I have learnt otherwise.
Since I made the original comment I just want to clarify that I made no judgement on political savvy. My point was that there are a lot dimensions to smartness so "smart leader" is a meaningless word by itself. Smart in what way?
Doesn't seem that large a number. According to Wikipedia they employ 1,859.
It's your choice. If you don't like the "surveillance capitalism" of Google, don't get their devices, fix your DNS etc. to not be able to contact them, etc.
That's the cost of being economically successful. That's because there is more competition for workers which drives up salaries, and for living spaces which drives up their cost. So even if you don't work for Amazon you're likely to benefit from the more competitive marketplace.
> I don't know. Why do we push files to production on a Friday evening?

Because we worked for the whole week on it and now want that other people can see it on their weekend. Since we are so proud of our work and trust in its quality, we are willing to do an extra shift on the weekend, should problems occur.
If nobody cares about HQ2, then why is it all over the news? You're underestimating it's reach.

Even if people wouldn't normally care, they will care now because of the publicity and bidding process that has taken place. People in cities who do not win will be upset when they lose, and people everywhere, including places that were never in the running, will be upset if they put the office in Canada. You must not have heard of the "America first" line of thinking that got trump elected, in part.
Both are great. Originally I used react-bootstrap. However I switched to reactstrap to get support for bootstrap 4. Reactstrap is more barebones, which is good or bad depending on your style and needs.
"Basic necessities are met by the state" and "most people live in public housing" are pretty antithetical to libertarianism, aren't they?
You don’t become president of the United States by accident.
> Amazon and those workers will still consume city services. City's don't make a profit on average

I'd be very surprised if an Amazon worker making, say, $160k consumes more in government services than the sales/property/income taxes they are paying.
Wow. Mind blown. Thanks for this angle that I had not considered!
If you aren't keeping up with "current" you are going "backward". You can't build large headquarters for the worlds most successful companies somewhere and expect things to be the way they are.
Realistically LibreOffice is not really relevant competition for Microsoft. Google Docs is much more important, even though the capabilities are so widely disparate.
> Anyway I'm convinced there's a solid rationale for not doing it, but I'm not sure what it is.

That's usually my mindset.

I mostly see companies as very rational actors, and assume that different options usually have been looked into and discarded in a rational way. Therefore, whenever a company is doing something that doesn't make sense from my POV, I usually think (unless there's clear evidence against it) that there are solid reasons for that.

Sadly, most people (here on HN included) seem to act in a "I'm really smart, and if others are not doing what I think they should be doing is only because they are stupid, not because I don't have the full context from my armchair".

It's one of the aspects of game theory that I like the most: you have to force yourself to consider other agents rational and intelligent actors who will (in the context or corporations) chase profits just as you would.

That's why I trust companies far more than people or the government: I can always trust them to chase profits.
No such assertion was made.
Are we still usig IQ as an argument un-ironically?
That's why we need to have ML for project management first
I haven't seen a beggar accept cryptocurrency (yet), but I've seen them accept mobile payments. Along with informal farm vendors (e.g., guy on the corner with a bag of oranges on his shoulder) accepting mobile payments.
i don't mind google's data collection. the ergonomics of user-interaction can be a bit annoying.

that said, assuming we're safe and private because we turn stuff off, or opt out of things, just seems silly. the nsa (or whichever agency) just invokes 'something something national security' and they can track you just the same, and google (or your carrier, or various other intermediaries) can't even tell you about it.
I did this same switch years ago (probably because of unity) and never looked back. I love debian.
Also, smart-asses have money.
2017 – Harvest
The underlying work, published in Journal of Applied Psychology, was explicitly meant to the test the idea that the tipping point is a multiplier of the team's IQ. From the abstract:

"Following Simonton's (1985) theory, we tested a specific model, indicating that the optimal IQ for perceived leadership will appear at about 1.2 standard deviations above the mean IQ of the group membership."

The researchers' findings are consistent with this theory in the group examined ("midlevel leaders", which I think means middle management); they say future work will test the theory with other groups who have different median IQs.

http://psycnet.apa.org/record/2017-14279-001
The architecture in TIS-100 might not be binary. I think it mentions that somewhere.

It's sort of a perfect puzzle ISA. I think it works extremely well for the problems given.
Kind of unrelated, len("two dozen") vs. len("24") doesn't seem very efficient.
Mastering Bitcoin 2nd Edition – Programming the Open Blockchain
Government intervening in the market to internalize externalities is not libertarian. At least, not by the definitions used by any self-identified libertarians I've encountered.

The libertarian approach is to privatize recovery of social costs so that instead of government internalizing the aggregated social cost into the transaction, each individual who can demonstrate an unlicensed adverse impact from the transaction has a personal cause of action to recover damages resulting therefrom.

A particularly generous libertarian might recognize a class action as an appropriate mass venue for aggregating such claims.
The Cislunar Economy
> People drive. A lot. It’s just widely accepted that this is what a car costs.

I think this is a key difference between Denmark and USA. Here in USA drivers don't think they're being subsidized. A common argument against transit is that each ticket is subsidized.

There's a highway that just opened in Virginia where they increase the toll to the point where traffic flows at 45MPH. The highest toll on day 2 was $40(!!). This gives you an idea of the value of what is typically given away for free.
But that's the "issue" with democracy. There's a lot more of "average Joe's" than "really smart people" and the former gets the same number of votes (1) as the latter. So for the politician who wants to do something good for his country there are just two choices: pretend to be an idiot in order to win Average Joe's votes, or watch an actual idiot beating you to the office. I'm not exactly sure which one of those to cases we are now experiencing in the US ;)
> but dumb he ain't

He puts himself in trouble all the time via tweets. That's pretty dumb in my book.

> Underestimating the guy is unwise

I agree with that. Underestimating someone with as little honor and ethics as Trump is dangerous.
Given the choice between hearing a stranger talk about stuff you don't understand on TV, you'd choose the one you 'like' more. It's that simple really.

Trump is no more a leader to you or me, than Brad Pitt. It's just some person on TV you never come in contact with.

A better question is why is there voting for a president, by people who don't understand anything about what it takes to be good at that job. Absolutely nothing for the vast majority.
Interface-oriented programming in LibreOffice: automate tasks with Python macros
Yep, we've been using GPUs for quite a while (even before the alpha support in Kube), both the K80s in Azure and some Pascals in our own clusters. With the support in Kube now it's quite seamless.
I'm a bit confused by this. Microsoft normally has excellent offline activation capabilities for all the three letter agencies that buy their software and run it on internal networks.
Full archive of How It's Made (season 1-17)
How do you handle key and/or certificate storage at the client side? Depending on the threat model, the update verification step can be subverted.
This is an article from this summer. The negotiations ended at a tax rate of 85% for cars priced up to 185.000 DKK about 30.000USD. And 150% tax for the rest.

There are som deductions for safety ratings, mileage etc. but these are now the current taxrates for cars. Beware before the car tax, the cars are subject to 25% sales tax. So expensive cars are +25% + 150%. (it used to be even worse)
Retail is a contracting industry in many parts of the world (US and China included) that has retail investors in China super worried because e-commerce is how even middle-aged people like my mom choose to shop. Thus, the increased investment in experiential businesses, such as movies, restaurants -- stuff you have to go to a place in person to enjoy.
As a SaaS vendor with customers in the EU, bank transfers have been a huge pain for us. We have to log into the bank website to confirm we’ve received an amount. Then we have to match it up with an invoice, mark it as paid, etc.

Conversely, with a debit/credit card that’s all automated. No manual labor involved.

Could we automate international bank transfers? Probably. But customers end up using a debit/credit card because it’s the only option offered.

We recently rolled out ACH bank transfer payments (US only) and offered an amazon gift card for anyone who wanted to switch. <5% of our customer base utilized this option.
This is a great format for drilling down! A few recommendations:

* Hovering out instantly resets, which causes you to lose your place. How about a (user-configurable?) timed gradual reset so you can get back to where you were if you accidentally hovered out for a second.

* I am having a hard time wrapping my mind around a flat list as nested - this just might be old habits. Maybe a user setting to indent nested children?

* The colors indicating score could be on more of an obvious scale - I'm having trouble instantly identifying whether green is better than purple, etc. To me, a pale color is less exciting than a 'colorful' color, but pale is used to signify most popular here.

* Maybe you can click+drag to pin multiple comments. The singletons have tiny slices and there's often many of them - it would be nice to view them all at a glance.

* Related to previous, maybe a filter for how deep the subtree is, or by score. Sometimes you don't want to see it all, or want to see only the best (or the worst).

I really like (in the radial presentation) that the newest comments are as accessible as the oldest, and that multiple sort options are available at once without the need for a round trip back to the server (the radial presents age, colors in the radial present relative popularity, the side bar presents global popularity).
If +/- a few thousand workers isn't a big deal then why is it being made a big deal by all these comments? Obviously it's going to make an impact. My point is that the corporation and workers and associated economic multipliers will be adding a net positive to city revenue. If it wasn't going to do that I doubt hundreds of cities would be competing for it.
> That's the cost of being economically successful.

This is a cost disproportionately borne by low-income renters currently living in a city. If they have a choice, why should they pay it?

> That's because there is more competition for workers which drives up salaries, and for living spaces which drives up their cost.

Amazon workers will always outbid locals for housing. Unless 50,000 housing units will be built in the next few years (Contrary to the interests of property owners), this will reduce the quality of life for people not working for Amazon. They'll get to enjoy higher rents, longer commutes, and smaller disposable incomes.

People getting gentrified out where they live rarely benefit from the more competitive marketplace, or from coffee shops selling $14 avocado toast.

Adding jobs to an economically depressed area, with a surplus of housing benefits most people living in it. Adding jobs to an economically vibrant area, with a shortage of housing harms most people living in it. An Amazon office in Detroit would be great for the city. An Amazon office in San Francisco... Not so much.

Disclaimer: I don't live in Philadelphia, so I don't know where it is on the spectrii of 'economically vibrant' and 'housing shortage.'
Perhaps it was the team that pushed out the latest UI update. Honestly, it is so bad that nearly all my friends have stopped using it for stories.
Webpack examples for decreasing front-end size and improving caching
Had to check up on Wikipedia. It was set to 180% in 1977, with no real reason. I'm pretty sure it was meant as temporary.

But yeah the fact that we have no real lobby apart from dealers and the car owners association.
That and the fact that quite a lot of people hate cars.
Being from the rural parts of Denmark where cars are a nessesity and moving to the second biggest city in the contry was quite a shock to me.

The 180% tax is not that big a mystery to me any more. I don't talk taxes with many of my old dorm friends as they simply can't see the need to lower it. But that is easy to say when they live within biking distance of everything they need.

I still see them. At least when they need a car for moving.
I wasn't trying to be snarky. I genuinely don't see how his multiple warnings about particular regulations in that short passage doesn't contradict the author's claim that he opposed the unregulated market position. If anything, it supports the notion that he supported unregulated markets.

>>So it seems you don't read that particular quote as endorsing unregulated markets in the face of state interference. It sounded like you did, thus my surprise.

If "unregulated markets in the face of state interference" means that markets being unregulated and free of state interference, yes I do read that particular passage as endorsing that view, for reasons I've articulated.

>>Also, people in the 18th C from the same trade having a meeting, is so far from what we imagine by "unregulated markets" that..well, two things could scarcely be more different.

I don't understand what you mean by this. Could you elaborate?
Every time blockchain has had a hype cycle over the years I start thinking of ideas to build on it. Then I realize all of my ideas would just be simpler, better, and more monetizable (minus Ponzi hype) if I just built them on traditional technologies.
> you pay flat €50k in taxes if your car costs more than €50k.

That would be the same as capping income tax: you pay a 20% rate up to $100k of taxes, after that, no incremental taxes.

It's the opposite of progressive, actually taxing rich people less than poor people.

I'd even go and propose that cars over €50k should be taxed at a higher marginal tax rate than lower-priced cars.
EVs will sell just fine without subsidy once prices for long-range ones reaches parity with ICEs. I’m willing to pay a premium to drive an EV but perhaps 10% or so, not more. If subsidies are removed too soon, sales (increases) will flatten. A good reason for subsidizing heavily early on is to get critical mass in infrastructure with chargers etc.
Notwithstanding capitalization and Hungarian notation, you're complaining about IDA [1] not Windows code. Editing code with Visual Studio [2] is a largely pleasant affair.

[1] https://www.hex-rays.com/products/ida/

[2] https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/storage/temp/442...
Nationalistic swipes will get you banned here. Please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and post civilly and substantively, or not at all.
What Amazon does to wages
Are Google engineers getting Pixelbooks? Then just use Crouton or similar?
Generate a unified GraphQL schema from gRPC microservices and Protobuf sources
I can see why they let her go.
History of DataClasses in Python
One of the World’s Oldest Clocks Stops Ticking, Briefly
Moore's Law has to do with transistor density in integrated circuits. The analogue for storage is apparently something called Kryder's Law.
Apple Redesigned the Web Version of App Store
OK, but that is guaranteed to annoy users. Plus, I think you’re underestimating the intelligence of the people writing scrapers — obviously they’re going to visit the site manually and see what appears to be a fingerprinting measure. Then they’ll update the scraper to close that pop up. There are no effective solutions to this problem.
Back at the dawn of the US, the one with the most votes became President; the next became Vice President. This was a good idea, as it would at the very least encourage some bipartisan discussion. Perhaps the VP would be found more often on Capitol Hill, in the role of President of the Senate.
I think con men go after doctors because they have large incomes with few options to minimise tax and they tend to have minimal free time. It's not like doctors don't have to deal with uncertainty and their own limitations, they are reminded of this constantly trying to manage medical conditions.
I'm of the same cloth, I'm not fond of interpersonal politics in a working environment but I've came to accept it's part and parcel of live, work is no exception.

Politics is not so much about politicising ethics or your workplace. It's the nuances about creating a positive work environment, finding compromise in decisions, creating common ground and finding a balance between honesty and caring for others.

The nuance is there but it's entirely in the grey. It's not black and white.

There's a quote from Russell Brand that comes to mind who from what I recall, was quoting his own father:

"A man that says a space is a spade is fit only to wield one"
Not a problem. You didn't dismiss it as "easily distracted" or try to condemn me for some kind of moral failure, which puts you ahead of quite a few of the users in this thread.
> stupid political reasons

TBH I wouldn't call them "stupid political reasons". Debian is basically the institutional ONG of the Linux world; RedHat is a public company; they have wildly different targets and objectives. This is not "stupid". It's like saying "Firefox and Edge should merge, but it won't happen for stupid political reasons" - no, it's because they are very different things with very different aims.

Anyway, I'm curious: are you considering Snap for your products then? Sounds like a prime candidate. Although tbf I don't really know how it handles init systems.
That's oversimplistic. It is also depends on the quality of the city. Companies want to locate their best people in cities that are safe, have good airports, good schools, and reliable transportation where people want to live. This requires investment by the city, which must be paid for somehow.
> more expensive cars have more advenced automation and safety features, so their use should be encouraged

That would indeed be the long term play, but as most democratically elected governments, they have a 4 year window in which they don't want to be known as "The guys that cut away a ton of welfare, so people could get cheaper cars", since the immediate effect would be a loss of money. Unless of course, people started buying more new cars, but that is speculative, and a gamble that not many of the bigger parties seem willing to make :(
Durov had hoped working with the Iranian government and caving to their requirements would give him free rein over that market where Telegram was popular. After eventually facing backlash and blocking from there and realizing that strategy is not sustainable, so they are essentially pivoting to something that makes money quickly for them. I don't think there's a more sophisticated strategy to look for here. Capitalize on the brand, if it is really worth anything, and cash out.
You install manually / out-of-band (in my old job, you installed by copying to a USB stick from a desktop machine), and the updater runs within the OS, because you can safely write to the unused partition while the OS runs. So it has the full set of functionality that you ship with your OS - Python, OpenSSL, GPG, whatever. You're not downloading the update from the bootloader or anything (which would take too long).

Once the device has been installed, there is always at least one working partition on the device - the partition that was last booted. So you don't need a minimal recovery partition or anything. (You could build a recovery command-line option in, if you want, but it's just a custom way of booting the normal partition.)
The only participants seem to be in the NY-DC region.
What site?

I’d guess LinkedIn or Facebook.

I’ve had to make a lot of fake accounts to get just a decent amount of data from them.