skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They would collectively be in really bad shape if that is the case. I don't think the average boomer is leaving much in terms of an estate behind. I expect a whole lot of HELOC and reverse mortgaging going on in the next 10-20 years as the severe lack of retirement savings of that generation comes into focus.
Is app UI testing broken?
I found that app UI test is usually really hard to set up. What do you think?

I'm currently working in an app company, where we spend most of the time creating new features. It becomes increasingly often that engineers break previous features, sometimes important ones.

Testings are almost always done manually here, as it's often considered impractical to write all the test cases given the time constraint.

To make manual testing harder to replace, usually new features introduce drastic changes on UI or interaction. Those changes really make it hard to implement UI auto test in any comprehensive way.

Is there a very easy way to set up automatic UI test for iOS/Android apps? Ideally I'm thinking about just showing it once and have an automation system repeat my actions.

Thanks
No idea, but if you entered a credit card number I'm gonna guess they did a pre-auth for $1 or something like that to verify it's valid.
I'm not sure if "it's been done" is accurate, but it's been attempted:

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/cdndevs/2010/03/22/sql-inje...
The Soviet advantage wasn't really even in better rocket science - it was in a greater applicability of military knowledge.

In addition to making earlier investments in ICBMs (because of their lack of bases for strategic bombers), the Soviets also couldn't miniaturize their warheads as much and so had to build larger-payload ICBMs to launch them. As long as the space race was all about Earth orbit, where repurposed ICBMs like the Soviet R-7 or the American Atlas and Titan-II were all that was necessary, the Soviets could do more piggybacking on their existing engineering. Once it came to designing a new rocket purely for space exploration, the Soviets didn't have the resources to pull off something like the Saturn V.

This advantage played out militarily as well - when MIRVs became practical, Soviet missiles that had been built for the older larger Soviet warheads were capable of throwing more MIRVed warheads than American missiles.
No wonder our culture is careening off the tracks, when contradictory metaphysics like Kuhn's are considered important to philosophy.
unlike the one-size-fits-all nozzle that can refill all petrol cars

Current petrol stations (in NZ) have 4 different 'one-size-fits-all' nozzles.

91/95/98RON + diesel, some places also have adBlue for diesel trucks.

It's wasteful to have multiple plugs but not the end of the world.
So the entirety of human existence can be summed up as "Regret"?
>Nice quote but it is literally survival bias.

It is, but it isn't as drastic effect as say the survival bias from war or something. The logic being that under today's circumstances, many people live to grow old without the serious threat of from large scale war, famine and disease. In other words, there is survivor bias, but it is significantly diluted by the fact that almost everybody survives. For survivor bias to be significant, you have to have a lot of people not survive.
I don't know reading this comments make me feel offended. I guess that's a problem with myself. But I can't help thinking if our parents didn't take care of us without our consent and waited for getting consent from us about whether we should be taken care of or not, would we be there to give them or not to give them consent?
I asked for no lectures. There was nothing in my description that would lead one to believe I thought it was wise not to have savings. You are being an ... and I said a few weeks..
Are you basing this comment on Firefox since Quantum? Things have changed dramatically in the past few months.
Maybe he was already in a lease and could not get out of it without paying money to the property management that he did not have. Your response demonstrates a complete lack of compassion and I hope you end up in his situation some day so that you may develop some empathy.
Someone who is very good at it.

There's a process for coming to group concensus on contended questions, in which individual volition and choice isn't possible. It's called "politics".

It's messy, but I'm unaware of any better options.
I have been doing private tutoring of senior high school students and first-year uni students for the last 2 years. Out of about 30 tutees, I have had 3 top students. Those 3 had one thing in common: they were super-organised. And to make it even more challenging, two had jobs - one even had a child - that they had to organise their study around. I was simply in awe that they could get more done than others (like myself) who had less on their plates.
They have to buy up the excess supply to keep the Ponzi scheme going. As long as it's lower than the amount they're able to get away with counterfeiting, it's just a cost of doing business. Even Ponzi paid some of his investors.

They'll keep buying back Tethers...until one day, they won't. And, I'd guess that day will come when there are a couple billion Tethers out there, and the folks running the scam decide it's enough to buy an island to retire on. What's that you say? There are already a couple billion Tethers? Well...I guess anyone unlucky or dumb enough to be holding Tethers ought to GTFO if they can.
I always thought the better parallel for lamda was cloud functions, but I might be biased.
so, being able to buy lunch from a food truck is a benefit of working at Amazon?
> I like the idea of a 'sane' subset of LaTeX that is easy to publish to the web.

That's probably the only approach that really makes sense:

During the past decade I was surprised to learn that the writing of programs for TeX and Metafont proved to be much more difficult than all the other things I had done (like proving theorems or writing books). The creation of good software demand a significiantly higher standard of accuracy than those other things do, and it requires a longer attention span than other intellectual tasks.
The first sentence of the fourth paragraph is not even necessary given the first sentence of the post. That's not a criticism, and I'm not heartless. It's just true :)

More seriously, what you're supposed to do is undermine yourself. Support efforts to substantially decrease the market rate of housing.

As a very, VERY purposeful non-landlord who has never missed a rent check or mortgage payment, I don't have any sympathy for land lords. I understand your financial and moral viewpoint, but I don't find it redeemable.

So. That's the analog of your viewpoint. Not deadbeats, but your financial equals who don't see anything redeemable about lordship.
Those names are alphabetical, so I think he just wins by virtue of his natural name advantage :)
Which part do you think is illegal? Reselling at a higher price like that is called arbitrage, and it is perfectly legal.
I just thought of this a few days back !
Shopify for personal trainer and workout programs .

You can evolve the product to have a chat messenger, video chat, billing,etc.

You should apply to YC with this.
> while a train commute is way better than a car commute, being home is better than both

I personally agree, but having taken commuter rail for several months a few years ago, I noticed that quite a few people with longer commutes (~1 hour each way) seemed to really enjoy their (evening) train commute, treating it basically like a social hour at a bar. They frequently had beer. (Never saw anything like this in the morning.)

I didn't know enough people on the train to get into that, but I can see the appeal.
The terminal application still includes ftp as an option in the "New Remote Connection" dialog, but attempting to use it pops up a dead terminal window with a "Command not found" error. Whoever decided to remove the command-line ftp program didn't to a good job of cleaning up after themselves.
> ... or in the best case simply incompetent in not realizing ...

From looking at the rest of the project and the author/OP's GitHub and company web pages, I don't think it's incompetency at all.

I mean, it could be, but... he got everything working right EXCEPT that hard-coded wallet address?

That's a helluva coincidence. Others can feel free to believe it was just an "oops!". As for myself, well, I'm not buying it.
Hackers are making U.S. ATMs spit out cash like slot machines, report warns
I decided to get my garage queen back on the road after 10 years. The tabs being expired, I went down to the DOL to get new tabs. They claimed that the auto records were purged after 7 years, and that there was no record of my car in their system. I needed to present the original title to prove the car existed and was mine.
It’s highly unlikely it’d be that short. Possible, but very unlikely.

And yeah, you said no lectures. But I chose to ignore that because I genuinely want to know: why is it fair for you to break your agreement and just assume that the other party will cover you?

And more to the point: this is actually part of why you serve demand notices (what you received) immediately. One reason is to kick off the process so that eviction can move forward if needed. But more importantly, it’s to send the clear message that you intend to hold the other party to the terms of the agreement. After all, you’re making changes to avoid paying late in the future, so it seems like they made the right call, doesn’t it?
I would assume the NSA/CIA had even more sophisticated tech; maybe the soviets did too. We only find out about the ones that got discovered or leaked.
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it would be cool if big tech companies invested in creating public spaces rather than biospheres for insulating their employees from the world
If you portray evil as being done only by people who have pure-evil motivations, that gives your audience the impression that they can't do evil. After all, _they_ don't have evil motivations!

I think it is in fact important to show that conflicting motivations can lead to evil. Heck, even _good_ motivations can. That way people might actually stop and think about whether what they're doing is in fact evil.

Or to put it in Godwin's Law terms, your typical Nazi was trying to balance conflicting motivations. The right lesson to be learned is not "Nazis were evil, so they did evil things" but "we better watch out for conditions that cause people to behave like that".
> "all of your data on everyone forever"

As far as we know (which is as little as possible), they can get all the data on you as an individual, if you’re on a data retention list. This is outside of data you generate happening to hit certain search terms

I qualify for such a list; I was/am a subscriber to The Linux Journal, an ‘extremeist publication’ according to the NSA, at least at the time of the Snowden leaks.

Am I still? It’s illegal for me to know. But it’s reasonable to assume that the maximalist approach to data collection is shared by the government and Google et al quite happily.
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Which would result in getting instantly pulled over then?
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Who says it's a scam? Most things fluctuate in price.

Amazon themselves sold me this sapphire ring ( https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00OJ2BS10/ ) for $6. As I type this, they're charging $35 for it. It's the same product and the same vendor; the price varies intentionally.
In the free tier, is it "fair game" to run 10 instances of the f1-micro?

I would like to test the throughput, measure uptime over a few months, and check how well it handles DDOS. I would configure 10x static IPv4 and IPv6 to make sure it does not impact anyone else.

I plan to setup a nginx serving a few static pages with a Round Robin DNS on a subdomain.
Having access to the significant diversity of food choices that downtown Seattle offers, that non-urban campuses do not, is the obvious perk.
Are there futures on Tethers? One could short Bitcoin, but it's hard to predict how soon this is going to come crashing down. I sold nearly all my cryptocurrency a couple of weeks ago on the belief that Tether would collapse the market, but others sold long before that...and before the massive run up to $10k+. Had those folks shorted back then, they would have had to close their positions...and would have lost a lot of money. Even though they are (I believe) long-term right.

I'm just saying be careful with shorting something with unlimited potential upside...like Bitcoin. But, if I could short Tethers, I would, though I don't know who'd take the other side of that deal.
Hackers stole $400M from cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck
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This looks cool. I wonder how does the sandboxing work since it looks like docker but some things are different.

I am curious because we made a somewhat similar tool for conducting interviews[1] but ours has collaboration too.

[1] https://codepad.remoteinterview.io/
Apple engineers often make technical decisions that affect developers but go unreported for various reasons. This seems like a classic example. When I worked at Apple, some of us had a saying: "Apple knows what its users need and we give it to them -- good and hard."
It's an often told story but I have not seen actual sources. Vodka had been made to "polugar" ("полугар",literally "half-burn") measure long before Mendeleev has been born. "Polugar" was a spirit, which could be burned down to half of the volume (when heated almost to boiling, of course) and it's about 38% ABV. More plausible theory is that when the better methods of measuring alcohol contents became available the standard had been set up to the "round" 40%.
My impression was she was making a statement about some nerds, yes, but people may interpret it as entailing a general slur.

Was it also deliberately deceptive to interpret Trump's famous statement about Mexicans as a slur on the whole group? I don't think so.

I observe people of all sorts making ambiguous statements deliberately in order to express bigoted opinions while not engaging with those who may be offended.

None of this implies I think defending "nerds" as a class is important - but I don't think being offended is necessarily "deliberately deceptive".
There is a formal definition, but not everyone will agree building and location are perks.
I've been writing animation software for 3 years, about 4-12 hours / day ( I also freelance 4 hours a day for money ). Before I started, I was a guy so obsessed, he was spending weekends and evenings writing painting apps, and 3d programs for fun. I have always likened myself to a carpenter building a house.

Anyway, I've re-written most sections of my app 5-10 times. I'm re-writing much of the 50k lines right now (I'm adding in redux + immutable, but also refactoring lots and cleaning up lots).

At this point, I'm fairly convinced you can't pay people to make an app like I'm making(to the same quality). I'm also fairly convinced if I was on a team, it wouldn't have worked either. Let me explain why...

Re-writing the same stuff to get better code, to help enable things to work a different way, this feels bad, like wasted work, but it moves the project forward. It feels bad even though I'm re-writing my own code. If I was on a team, I think there would be more negativity around it.

If I was paid to do something, I would focus my time on adding features, but not really on refactoring. I'd do enough to show results, but I'd paint myself into a corner, at which point development would slow down. It would be hard to get 'cleanup' projects approved. Management wouldn't understand.

So, back to general stuff on being a craftsman.. something I've been going through was this constant sensation that "launch is coming", "launching next month!", but it was always in the distance.

For a whole year, it felt like I'd launch was one month away.

I think the lesson I was supposed to learn from this, was that I need to be hungry for the work I'm doing. The work is the reward, learning to enjoy the process.

The work is my food, and I'm learning to be hungry.

Loving the work, getting to the point where if I'm allowed to work on it, I've won, that's craftsmanship to me. Steve Wozniak is my hero in this sense. He loved the work, he loved "getting close" to the work and the code. He encouraged going over sections you already knew were pretty spiffy, just to get that much closer to the code.

Anyway, I think all the "work less" movement is because people haven't actually found work they actually like. I make animation software, and it's been a hard school to learn to like it, which you would think would be easy.

When the definition of anything changes to "work", it almost innately becomes harder to enjoy. I think the real lesson of the next decade is learning to enjoy work, especially when it becomes very difficult and harder to enjoy. To enjoy the unenjoyable is perhaps a secret to living.

When I release my software, I want to be standing beside it straight and tall, beaming at the craftsmanship. Part of me hates sales, and in a way, it goes with the craftsmanship part, knowing that only a truly great product is worth selling, and that product does much of the selling itself, after the initial people have used it.
I'm guessing you haven't seen The Book of Mormon. It is not about the story told in the actual Mormon bible. That is just a southpark episode.
The difference is, I’ve been on both sides. I’ve never owned my own residence, always rented. If you had bills to pay for rental properties that you bought, you might understand my side a little more. But maybe not. It kind of sounds like you’re just upset about rent being too high (me too!) and think individual market sellers should charge well below market rates to “do something”.

Sometimes I do that, actually. I have a tenant who has lived in my building since I bought it and I’ve never raised his rent. It’s substantially below market rate but he’s older and a model tenant so I just leave him be.

But your approach doesn’t make sense at a broad level. The cost of tech labor is too high for many startups. Do you negotiate a lower salary to try and do your part to lower the market rate?

But again, I’m irredeemable so not sure why I’m bothering to respond :)
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I genuinely want to know why the ... you think that I said that it was fair to break any agreement. I was just being honest about a real experience, even though I knew that someone like you would take the opportunity to use me as a punching bag. I hope that you will stop harassing me with these rhetorical "questions" and never have any further communication or interaction with me in the future.
There are also thousands of other companies in the city as well.
> the bombardment of pseudo-realities begins to produce inauthentic humans very quickly, spurious humans—as fake as the data pressing at them from all sides. My two topics are really one topic; they unite at this point. Fake realities will create fake humans. Or, fake humans will generate fake realities and then sell them to other humans, turning them, eventually, into forgeries of themselves. So we wind up with fake humans inventing fake realities and then peddling them to other fake humans.

People love a good story and Philip K. Dick knows this well, he writes stories to convey these thoughts through fake realities. Entertaining stories, movies, narratives and 'fake news' essentially, simplifies the world into a good/bad structure and let's you in on the good side. People love a tub of confirmation bias to bask in.

It is the same situation as to why good news doesn't end up on the nightly news. Good news can make people feel worse. Watch HGTV for a while then look at your house and you can't help but feel less than, same with too much good news.

People like a story, stories sell, facts and the entropy of existentialism is too much for some people all the time or many. Same reason religion exists, it is a simplification that allows people to be 'good' and frees up mindspace to think about less jarring things.

Whether the story is lying and fake or entertainment, people like it because life can take you into areas that are reality which is messy and sometimes completely out of your control, a good story is a gift.

America and the world, could also be going through a Hypernormalisation moment. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperNormalisation
I’m positive he was in a lease. I’m equally positive that it would have been better for him to break that lease and just not pay the fees than to drag this out to its inevitable conclusion, which cost everyone else more money in the end.

Also, why did he actually make them put his stuff on the street? Why not just move it into the storage space instead before they showed up?
> The increased availability of credit, and the increased willingness of markets to give credit to risky borrowers has forced people to extend themselves to the max in order to compete for social status.

This is optional, though. If you opt in to it, that's somewhat on you. Granted that our social systems could be improved so that natural human tendencies push people toward right actions. However, I think the injustice is far more severe in cases where there's no out that's within a person's power to reasonably grasp.

And "the girls at the next table in the bar," don't know about your friend's car or house, unless your friend is an insufferable jerk who carries pictures of his ride in his wallet. And they likely don't care that much either way.
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If you get good hardware it's a perk. If you get a hard disk and 8 gigs of ram you won't be as productive.
The license plate cameras are actually a special case.

If you don't like most types of surveillance there are a lot of countermeasures a concerned party can use. Run your own servers, use encryption, etc.

The problem with license plates is that the equivalent thing is to obscure your license plate, which is prohibited by law. So it's not just that the government is collecting publicly available information, it's that you're prohibited by law from not making the information public. Which is a different kind of thing that deserves to be treated differently.
Depends on what you plan to do and what you mean by “cheap”. Bottom shelf vodkas taste pretty foul and aren’t good for much of anything except getting drunk cheaply. Smirnoff, however, is perfectly good for most purposes.

You can definitely make liqueurs with vodka. It’ll take longer to extract flavors and the final flavor may not be as robust, though. Get 100 proof vodka if possible. The higher the proof the quicker and more efficient the extraction.

I would suggest you pop into some local liquor stores and check out the pricing for 150 or 190 grain alcohol. I can’t imagine that $60 is the right price for a liter of 190. I bought a couple fifths (750 mL) a week ago from BevMo for $20 plus tax each. That was a sale price but the normal price is only $24.
TL;DR the Tim Ferris phenomenon? Isn't he just the original blogspammer?
> his own behavior greatly contributed to his dilemma...

> ...the article...seems to clearly describe the state of the overall affordable housing market in the country

I'm not sure it does, because it leaves out a key piece of information: what percentage of the people facing eviction are facing it for the same kind of reason the author did? If most people facing eviction are facing it for that kind of reason, I don't think the problem is lack of "affordable housing"; I think it's some people's lack of ability to properly judge what they can afford.
> The answer comes back about as quickly as the speed reading on a radar gun.

This isn't surprising. Why wouldn't it? They just need to cache that day's data, right?