skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have "built" 3 homes. By that I mean 'I served as my own general contractor'. I initially wanted to do the work myself. After taking the local owner-built-home adult education course, I concluded that there was way too much work to make it practical.

After "building" my first house as my own general contractor I did some calculations and found that there was about 10 years of labor involved. That was with pro subcontractors.

As my own general contractor, it took about a year. I might be possible to do it in as little as 6 months, but that would be an intense grind.

I have known people who did much of the work themselves, but they still used some subcontractors and hired help. These houses often spent years with a finished exterior and severely limited finished living space. The rest of the interior was just empty space. There were treats of divorce along the way before it was eventually finished.

With finished walls and roof, it looks like you are nearly done. Not by a long shot. The most money and time spent is still ahead.

I strongly recommend serving as your own general contractor. You can save 20% to 30% and get the house you want not what someone thinks will sell lots of copies. Find an owner-builder course. I took the same course half a dozen times to keep focused and motivated. Believe me you will get enough opportunities to hammer some nails, lay some tile, install cabinets, etc. to satisfy yourself. Once you are done, you will know you built a house. Believe me. It's a lot of work and worry.

If you insist on doing it "yourself", try to find a design intended to be build in habitable stages. The saltbox design from America's early days is an example. The first stage was a very basic shed. When the opportunity arose, the next stage was a connected tall gable roofed structure. The shed became the kitchen. As the family grew and the opportunity arose, a second story or loft was built inside the second stage. You get the idea.

About multiple stories, figure a big cost increase.

Don't feel down about this post. Building your own house, no matter how it's done, will entail lots of ups and downs. This is only the first. You will get back up, and do it again and again. Once it's done, it's an awesome experience. For me it was always a bit of a surprise that I was done. You just keep your head down and pursue each task as it comes. Then finally your are done.
"I wrote an ebook in 2016 that sold about $8,000 worth."

This is no small feat! But I'm curious: was the time+effort to create and sell that ebook more or less than the time+effort it would have taken you (back then) to sell and deliver an $8k consulting gig?
Not going to work for most founders. The point is that VC money chases where founders and their talent are, which is why the SF Bay Area has had such as stronghold for such a long time. As the US makes it more difficult for founders and talent to come to the US, VCs will focus on areas where those founders actually are. And if your option is - stay in your home country and take local money, or try to move to the US, maybe having to figure out all sorts of loopholes to speedup the process and still spend years doing so...which do you pick?

Combine this with major new technologies on the horizon (especially around autonomy, AI - potentially, and others) which give opportunities for new players, and an incredible amount of recently created wealth looking for new growth opportunities in China and India and you have the recipe for a massive shift in balance.
Can people use proxies through other countries to see unfiltered results, or are the results removed in all countries?
>It's absolutely insane what they are doing (EU). Should libraries remove newspapers with my name if I don't like what's written there about me?

That would be insane if that was how the law works. It's not how the law works.
No warranty, written or implied.

And since this is a convenient excuse to regulate shit, this mentality becomes very Useful.
It's backwards, though, because Bootstrap and Squarespace are Brutalist (to whatever extent that word really applies to the web at all): cheap, egalitarian, and simple to use.
Exactly. It's a nice thing to say until someone proposes it being done.

I think most people don't realize how thin the margins really are on food services stuff. Or even most services.

To increase salary of fry cooks and drivers to be better. You need to charge more. But if everyone else is already on tight budgets then they also need increases in salary as well.

And now it becomes a bigger economical issue. I know it's not a zero sum game and I'd like to see everyone's wages increase. But it's a hard bigger problem.
> If I want to hire somebody to supervise women or children, I'd like not to hire somebody who (at any point in their life) victimized women or children, because it's not too much to ask!

Sure. But let's make that list formal, with recognised judicial ways of getting on it, and recognised judicial ways of getting off it, rather than just "this newspaper said it", which leaves people without recourse unless they can afford lawyers.
This 1,000-Year-Old Shirt Has a $700,000 Story to Tell
I'd think a more plausible explanation would be that birds prefer a location difficult for predators to reach undetected, and which has a wide field of view. I think it's also presumptuous to assume that just because an organism can see something better, means they prefer it. E.g. There's no doubt that humans can see bright flashing multi-colored lights better than sunlight on an overcast day, but I don't think anyone would argue that humans would prefer the blinking lights over the natural ones.
1000 years of grandmas passing down oral history is a great source of experiment ideas, but the one about only hiring/funding people that can publish a positive result in a high-impact journal needs to get tested ASAP.

Getting rid of the useless cruft lingering around from the past is just as useful as advancing the frontiers of knowledge.

When people can stop waving crystals around and dipping their fingers in oil, they can finally get better results from pushing the big green button on an inscrutably opaque black box that goes "ding".~
Well, new songs on a radio are ads. Same for movie trailers. Some people watch Superbowl ads because they are a cultural product.

In the context of the NewsFeed, you switch context between each story, so ads are not out of place — the way that they are in the middle of an article.

I find the few ads that I see enjoyable because they generally cover services that I am interested in.
This.

Brutalism is inherently utilitarian. Content over presentation.

IETF RFCs are brutalist.
That's been a while coming. I first heard the MAME allegations a few months back and, at that point, it seemed like only a matter of time before his titles were stripped. It's just way too easy to cheat playing on an emulator.
Really? Which news outlets had dozens of news anchors read, word for word, the same script that was given to them by their owners and played as if it was a local independent news story?

It's unprecedented. It's not about which politics the story supports, it's about the media and public being manipulated. Ajit Pai's response shows he either doesn't understand that or wants everyone else to think it's about something else.
All media companies say "we are the best media source", there is nothing weird with that.

It is questionable when a monopoly of unheard of before size is saying "most other media sources are dangerous for our democracy", especially when it involves gaslighting.
What does "Philosophically and aesthetically brutalist and uncomfortable." mean?
To be fair, I only use obscure type-safe functional programming frameworks. That's what I'm employed to do, and this obviously impacts my feelings on the matter. Personally, I think it's irresponsible to use anything that could be this unsafe. This doesn't mean everyone needs to use FP, just that frameworks and libraries should be chosen so as to guarantee safety. There are easy-to-use libraries for all these things in every language.

In no other world of engineering is this attitude okay. If you were a civil engineer and had to hold a license to practice due to the danger your designs could present to society, this attitude would eventually cause you to lose your ability to practice. It's becoming more and more clear that software can have similar levels of impact, and software engineers should practice as scuh.
Yeah, I managed to miss a digit when I ran the numbers myself so I was off by an order of magnitude when I wrote my post. Glad you checked it. Fucking hilarious what these guys will say - of course, I think that's a goal, to shock anyone remotely reasonable or who even tries to do back of the envelope math out of interest in it.
consumers are happy because no one listens to music from an echo dot
I don't see anything there that contradicts my point, which is that a lot of this crypto stuff is no different than what has come before, so there's no reason why it shouldn't be following the same regulations.

As for why those regulations exist, you can look back in history to see why those regulations were initially enacted (lots of fraud in the securities space), or just look at the more recent history of crypto activity, and see many instances where they tried doing the same things, and those that were duped by the scams found out why those regulations exist in the first place.
Gmail's New “Confidential Mode” Is Not Confidential
I can't resolve the domain debuggerdotbreak.judahgabriel.com
> Does this (or any other) advantage of Go help people who are writing software that cannot have a GC in the loop? No, it does not, so it's really not a valid comparison imo.

This is also a very strange rationale, for several reasons.

1. You can program in Go without a GC

2. There are no applications that prohibit GCs; there are _some_ which prohibit long and/or nondeterministic pause times

3. Even if you were right about 1 and 2, these still wouldn't be reasons for not comparing Go and C++. In particular, your argument is in the form: "You can't compare Go and C++ because {comparison between Go and C++}".
Name literally one example of that being true. I'll wait.
One difficulty is that it is much harder to live in the US without a car, while Sweden has a much better public transportation system.

Take away someone's license in the US and it can be almost impossible for them to buy food, go to work, etc. I tried once living without a car for a month, and it only reason it was possible was because I lived near the center of town ... and because I bummed a few rides when I didn't feel like making the 45 minute walk home at night.
Brutalist design encompasses both Craigslist and these examples. There are commonalities there, as well as differences.
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> I can't tell if you're arguing that all Turing complete languages are equally useful, or that "utility" is a bad metric for evaluating programming languages.

I'm not sure why you think my argument is constrained to these two choices?

I never said utility is bad. My argument is that critique of a language can be constructive even if the language has utility. In other words, I am against dismissing critique of a language simply because the language has utility.
I switched from Go to Elixir, and eventually over to Haskell. Never looking back.
Dont fix what aint broken ;) Email is not doomed. Actually it is getting more and more relevant, this picture might shed some light:

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/chat_systems.png

All the chat programs are making all the communication pain in the neck and the only way of communicating that you can rely to are old school phone calls, sms and email.

There is also other side, with email you actually think what you are writting as you don't want to flood someone, with chatting it is all about smileys or everybody would be still using irc, I still need to see chat program catching the amount of irc features (actually I would bet Telegram is just front end for irc servers in backend).

And just to mention this gmail feature, it is just nonsense, it will work in their cough spy.. cough ..ing... email system, immediately when it leaves it, it is probably just a mime header which I will gladely ignore. And self respecting techie shouldn't use the gmail (and should be proud not to use it ;) ) anyway.
I suppose it’s the same as Apple Watch which initially “didn’t sell” and now dominates the smart watch market and is pretty much the only sane choice for non-nerds.
> the valid complaint of users not being legally allowed to repair their own devices. Apple has never been against that and isn't fighting that.

Hmm, what? Apple is actively fighting that by making devices incredibly difficult to tear appart, not selling replacement parts, and, yes, suing every mom-and-pop repair shop.
The problem I've seen with the current system is that Google is the record of truth even when the accused is proven innocent or the case is thrown out completely. Perception is reality and all people see are news stories about false claims. Someone being accused of a crime is great news, but rarely is an acquittal worth printing.

Then anytime a new story comes out with that persons name, the news outlet links to every other related story about them so they get more traffic and ad revenue at the person's expense. If Google and shady local news outlets are going to be the record of wrongs and control peoples careers and destiny, there needs to be some checks and balances.
Call me crazy but it's time for a legal definition of news (vs editorial) and then have that definition forced. If false advertising is a faux pas then news that's not attempting to be objective and forthright should be labeled.

Most of the so called news / journalism isn't news / journalism any more than Aspartame is sugar. If you can't call Aspartame sugar then consuming content should be forced to be as transparent.
> Every centralized app preserves an ability to eventually spy on you. End-to-end encryption doesn't take it away.

Never said anything like that.

> If a government wants mass surveillance it either asks/coerces someone from the company to implement a backdoor or blocks the app in the country pushing people into mass surveillance friendly alternatives.

Yes.

> So end-to-end encryption cannot possibly protect from mass surveillance.

Are you arguing for mass surveillance friendly software? Decentralized software? What are you arguing? I'm completely lost there.
>> the state _has_ to have a monopoly on violence

I think that the whole point of 2nd Amendment to US Constitution was to prevent government monopoly on violence. The possibility of citizens making successful military rebellion against the state was supposed to keep the government in check.
Since the tasks are identical, the only real value such a metric would have is in considering memory allocation for green threads and other issues around memory pressure and resource pooling.

Usually, it doesn't matter why the consumer finds it slow; it could be anything from an unusual I/O issue (AWS is notorious for brief but painful networking issues) to a VM peer suddenly becoming ill behaved before being throttled.
Louis Rossmann, who openly admitted to using illegally obtained schematics and internal documents from Apple? I wouldn't be throwing that name around as a talking point at all in this discussion.

The reason why Apple doesn't want any Joe-schmoe just yanking and replacing caps and other components is simple: quality control. I can barely count on two hands people I would be comfortable working on the innards of a PC, let alone my phone and even then let alone desoldering and soldering new components onboard.

Apple isn't doing this because they don't want people to repair their stuff, but because for most consumers it isn't feasible without ruining the rest of the product. These are small, compact, and complicated devices. It's not like swapping out some RAM or a GPU on a desktop rig at all.

So yes, replace the whole board and recycle the old (as Apple does with most of their parts).
An email server discriminating about what messages to accept is not breaking anything about the protocol or standards.
My point is that the law is important even for the cases that the parent agrees with. There are clear categorizes for what qualifies for RTBF and they were examined well in this case. The judge rightfully determined that one person has likely changed and shouldn't be burdened by their history, but that another should.

This isn't just a blanket "you can erase things you don't like in the news about you" that some people have made it out to be.
> We're rapidly moving to a point where an official (government) criminal record is not important to folks you want to interact with -- landlords, employers etc. They will instead turn to Google. As such, Google might as well be the official record for many people.

Based on... what?

Google can't search through Facebook data, much less other social networks. It also can't deduplicate common names like Frank Thompson, or Bob Michaels, or even tell you which one is from where. The data set is hopelessly flawed, and from a landlord or employer point of view, it's frankly the worst possible data set they can use to determine the reputation of an individual.

For notable people that have unique names and professions, maybe. But it still doesn't provide enough visiblity into their personal history to be of any use for the functions you suggest.
The ZK/U site (in one of the thumbnails) is one of the better examples, I thought: http://www.zku-berlin.org/
In a Leaked Memo, Apple Warns Employees to Stop Leaking Information
But the article states quite clearly that he is NOT claiming to use genuine parts.

“PCKompaniet has never removed the coverup of the Apple logo on the screens that have been imported and has no interest in doing so. PCKompaniet does not pretend or market itself as Apple authorized and does not give any indication that the repair comes with an Apple warranty.”

Unless you have evidence of the contrary, your argument is not applicable to this case.
Sounds interesting... But the overview doesn't say anything about what problems it solves or how... I think it should give some clue as to why one would read more unless you are only targeting people with this prior knowledge.
>Apple sues PCKompaniet

I assume Kompaniet is Company in Norwegian.

>Apple sues PC Company
We didn't re-implement it. If we do reimplement it, however, we are likely to lean toward Clojure, as it deals with a lot of routing of unstructured data. Clojure deals nicely with data, transformations of data, and asynchronous processes very well, including having an analog of Go's goroutines and channels, so there would not necessarily need much redesign.

A BEAM language would also be a reasonable choice, whether it is Erlang, Elixir, LFE or whatever.
I’m thinking isostatic is a fair bit younger than shubb. There is a marked change happening with regard to calls.
Since they are talking about departure from repetitive, orderly design maybe it should be called modernism. Or maybe they should drop the architecture analogy altogether, their point still stands though that the web is becoming so uniform that you need to look at the address bar to avoid confusion.
Why does the consumer of a remote resource care about an emphemeral root cause? It's a massive scope creep for your API, which has SLAs to keep.

For all you know you're in the middle of a horizontal scaling event and hit an overloaded box, and there is no problem.
Apparently it's against the email standard to send an expiring link as part of a message.
This looks like a direct ripoff of https://coinmarketcap.com/
> "we don't need it"

But the truth is you really don't need it. Based on what the article says, you could pave the place with security cameras and it would be decades before you caught another foreigner murdering one of your teenagers. It's not worth sacrificing your freedom and privacy.
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Remember Journolist[0]? The views of the major news stations and papers have been heavily aligned in one direction for several decades now. Journolist was hard evidence that they colluded in delivering talking points not just among one brand but multiple brands at the same time. Like I said, Sinclair are amatuers to what has, and we have to assume is, going on with most other outlets.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JournoList
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Impressive! So what are your thoughts on the technical merits of W3C's DOM approach? You agree with Google/Apple or is this just a case of them using their power to lock down the market?
So in talking with some Safari engineers a while back when iOS 11 first came out, they say it's a technical limitation (Safari is a somewhat different codebase than the "web views" are on iOS, the webViews being more integrated into the OS), and technically an app added to the homescreen is run in a webView.

That being said, it does really suck, and it's something they NEED to get solved before the possibility of taking Safari and iOS seriously in the web-app space happens.
Worse for who? Allowing Google to render someone permanently unemployable based on ancient or false information is definitely not "better".
Egypt's ISPs to be punished for not blocking media websites
Depends on the state. For example, Illinois has Firearm Owners Identification (FOID) cards which are required for possessing firearms and ammunition. One criteria for obtaining a FOID card is not having committed a felony.
Why wouldn't you just run weka or something locally?
How is this even a question? It's entirely logical that curing disease effectively decreases the prevalence. Did it really take a big bank to point that out?
> One huge advantage Chinese corporations and startups have is China's super lax (non-existent, in fact) privacy and data protection laws

I think it's more that the Chinese government will essentially gift you a monopoly if you are deemed strategic (which almost everything is at this point).
i dont get brutalist vibe
Once accused of a crime and it gets printed in the local news paper you're always a criminal on Google. Doesn't matter if you were innocent or not even if the court dismisses your case.
If you’re referring to the “ban the box” campaigns in Sf/nyc et al, I believe those just prohibit asking on the application (so the candidate has a chance to win you over), not checking for a criminal record entirely.
What would be the not-cherry-picked statistic then?
> This seems to be a software exploit...

Yes but it certainly is exploiting a major hardware(?) flaw in the Secure Enclave Processor and/or the secure boot chain. The SEP is supposed to hold the decryption key, seeded at manufacturing time and unreadable at a hardware level, and block brute forcing with a chip-enforced time delay. And the whole system including the SEP is supposed to have a secure boot chain so only Apple can authorize new firmware.[1]

The FBI could break into the 5c because the brute forcing was only a weaker software limitation at that point. But since the A7 the SEP was supposed to handle it.

[1] https://www.apple.com/business/docs/iOS_Security_Guide.pdf
Just because you don't use something doesn't mean a lot of other people don't. TV is still the most popular medium for getting news.

http://www.journalism.org/2016/07/07/pathways-to-news/
Yes, that one jumped out at me as an actually good example too!
When your garbage goes out on the curb it's perfectly legal for anyone - including law enforcement - to sort thought it.

I have to wonder if the same concept would / could be applied to such emails? The email might be gone from my account and yours, but it's still in a digital landfill somewhere. Free to be reviewed, sans warrants, etc. Perhaps?
Where I live they aren't allowed to ask anymore, I think. But they'll likely find out on a quick search.