skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think once you factor in property taxes for all of those years, it’s pretty close to a wash.
> This is a GSMA standard

There is notechnical reason we couldn't have e2ee in rcs as far as I know
Sweet, I barely write code at work now. So I should be setup well for this.
Democracy is, after all, the worst possible form of goverment[+].

[+] But for all the others.

(Churchill paraphrase.)
New hacks siphon private cryptocurrency keys from airgapped wallets
Apple has pushed a security update to MRT, the macOS malware removal tool
"US venture capitalist Sam Altman, who runs start-up funder Y Combinator, is organising a basic income experiment."

Interesting.

Also: Those uber-rich guys who like the idea should pony up some cash, maybe spreading it around the poor community of San Francisco. It'd be a great way to study the concept.
Any ham will tell you that if you transmit outside the frequency or power ranges for which you're licensed, you'll be getting a call from the FCC.
> asyncio is just one (really really poor) implementation of async/await coroutines on Python.

Are there other implementations or is it just that the one existing (asyncio) is just poor?

I tried to understand asyncio a few times and failed. Threading was easy, Promises in JS were easy and I blocked on asyncio.
I developed an automated actor replacement VFX pipeline back in 2008, and patented the idea of automated actor replacements. My desire was to create a Personalized Advertising service where you and your family/friends appear in the ads on streaming video services. The system worked, I acquired the patents, globally, but needed VC or other financing to create the advertising service and agency. I got financing nearly closed with a number of investors, but every time a clause that the technology could not be used for porn was cited as their reason for pulling out. That issue was debated and I did not cave, as I knew an automated "insert anyone into porn" service was nothing I wanted to be associated. I pointed out the endless other possible applications, all high revenue, but simply having any limitations placed on the investors soured their ambition on the idea. Simply getting investors to understand it was difficult, even after demonstrating live actor replacements to them, and even then they were skeptical. I ended up pivoting to a game avatar service, and am now using the technology for facial recognition.
It's neat, but practically speaking having a transmit only device isn't useful for GSM. Having to use filtering on the output is also a major pain.

It is perhaps more interesting for use as a data exfiltration technique. Simple devices, usually used without analysis, can punch out a signal which is easily decoded, with a simple (and seemingly accidental) antenna.
> As we’ve pointed out at City Observatory, there’s an inherent contradiction between the goals of promoting housing affordability and using homeownership as a wealth building strategy. Affordability requires that housing be stable in price; a good investment needs to appreciate. If housing is a great investment, its because its becoming less affordable. If housing stays affordable, it is, by definition, not an investment that generates gains.

I have thought about this before and really think we should stop treating home ownership as an investment. However, I can't think of a way to do that which is fair to those who bought homes already..
Oh my. I spent years trying to track down the source of that sample and eventually gave up and forgot about it. A John Carpenter movie I wasn't aware of? Thanks!!
To be fair, the people who have massive housing equity generally bought their houses when interest rates were sky high. In the 1970's, when you could buy a decent house in Palo Alto for $50,000, the interests rates were 15-20%. As rates have gone down, the prices have gone up. Mortgage payments as a fraction of income have gone up much less dramatically than the sales prices.
Google is bleeding cash trying to take on Amazon in the smart home
Good to know. Edited. My only real experience is NZ, although I know people that have been unemployed in Germany and France.
“The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks.”

— Jeff Hammerbacher
Probably not royalties, but we'd own the name, MS would have to trade under a different name in NZ (just as Burger King has to operate as "Hungry Jack's" in Australia), or come to some sort of accommodation.

BTW it's not "squatting" if you've come to the name for a genuine purpose, and as I said it was a pretty obvious name at the time
The existing CSS/DOM layer is for rendering documents.

It can be used to emulate a native GUI, just like languages can "compile" to javascript, and everyone can pretend it's really bytecode. But that doesn't mean this is a good idea, or that an actual bytecode for the web is just reinventing the wheel.

>Webassembly excels when it is minimized around core performance problems. Not when it is the whole app.

We don't really know that yet. Everything around Webassembly is still at the preview/POC stage, Webassembly itself hasn't matured and we don't know what sort of tooling, caching or modular integration of code would be feasible within browsers to make downloading software more efficient than just downloading one giant WASM blob.
probably not much. Just on coordination you would spend a huge amount of time. Only one day commitment is too short. Maybe a week distributed in a month might be better. Or even better a 2 week sprint distributed in a month (10 "work days").
I once made the observation that much of the older generation’s net worth is tied intimately with their homes. That if we exclude home equity, the resulting net worth is very little — demonstrating a pattern of poor savings habit and investing. Unfortunately, for the younger generations, they will have to be much more diligent savers and investors as they are now fighting asset price inflation — a problem previous generations didn’t have as much.
I don't know exactly how to say this without seeming insincere, but can you try your comment again? There's no part of it that makes sense to me. I think it's potentially an interesting surface for discussion, but when broken down, I can't quite find anything about it that makes enough sense to respond meaningfully.
There are already protocols out there that do that. Ostatus and Activitypub being two. Some examples of social networks already using them are GNU Social and Mastodon.
Give ConEmu a try if you haven't yet. https://conemu.github.io/
I'd take that over "I feel very strongly"
I can't see how your statement can be true:

"In response to the findings of the Google/MIT collaboration, Peter Bailis and a team of Stanford researchers went back to the basics and warned us not to throw out our algorithms book just yet. Bailis’ and his team at Stanford recreated the learned index strategy, and were able to achieve similar results without any machine learning by using a classic hash table strategy called Cuckoo Hashing"

"We can do your ml hashing with ordinary hashing" is a statement about both ordinary hashing and ml hashing, indeed a fairly strong statement about each.

Whether it's true is a different matter but to say "nothing about ml hashing" seems unsupportable.
Yeah, its because Instagram changed their backend setting for downloading stories. I am working on it and it will be fixed within 2 to 3 days. Sorry for the inconvenience. :(
I used LabVIEW for a few years. In my view, LabVIEW is as low level as you want it to be. It has some very low level operators. And it can handle algorithms as complex as you want them to be.

One of the first hurdles faced by all beginning programmers is "what to do when a program gets too big to fit on one screen," or to understand in one sitting, etc. We all know at least some basic solutions to this problem: Variable naming, subroutines, etc. When LabVIEW programs grow beyond a single screen, which happens quickly, it becomes very cumbersome to navigate through multiple windows and their different viewing modes. Since a program can have multiple entry points, it's hard to figure out what a program "does" in a top down fashion.

Second, there's the reason why so many of us went back to CLI and text editors after experiencing the wonders of the GUI. I think that doing complex work with GUI based tools becomes physically laborious to the point of being debilitating. I came away from my LabVIEW sessions with splitting eyestrain headaches and wrist fatigue.

The physical work involved in laying out code also discourages refactoring.

Maybe, oh maybe, there's something right about text based programming languages.
> The real fear of most against UBI seems to be that the majority will quit their jobs

Often ignored in this discussion is the viewpoint that this isn't something to fear, but to celebrate.

There are a lot of dumb jobs out there that don't need anyone working them any more. What if those people can instead write poetry or paint or dance or invent? That's more the world I'm interested in. I don't give a hoot if the government can't raise enough money to drop explosives on people - at worst, that is a pleasant side effect.
Imagine if South Park did a completely serious episode where an adult Cartman's wife had a miscarriage. It would be mocked mercilessly. Whether it would be morally right to mock it or not is anybody's guess, but mocked into memedom it would be.
What if you factor in rent on the other side of the equation?
Isn't this how US lobby working right now? Why would we allow those lobby in Washington DC publicly?
Is that laziness? Or a prudent approach to achieving a desired type of freedom?
When Google Reader died, I tried several alternatives including Feedly. At that time it could import your feeds, but it didn't do export. I don't now, but I didn't want to use a service that locked-in RSS feeds.
The versioning will be very custom and generally they will not be shared across apps. Just like react.js isn't shared across apps.
Wouldn't white flight followed by re-urbanization favor people of color in terms of home value?

I know in my city the neighborhood that historically had high black homeownership levels now has a million-dollar entry fee. Meanwhile the suburbs are undesirable and cheap.
Renters still pay property taxes -- they're imputed in the cost of renting a house.
Yes, it is easier to screw with a pension than a 401(k), for sure. Countries that have national pension schemes certainly have their share of problems. But the median 401(k) balance for a senior is $65K. That's maybe 2 years living expenses at a median wage of $35K. And half the population doesn't have one at all, so the typical person has saved about 1 year's salary. (I'm not using averages because they are so skewed by the rich people who sock away most of the money.) That typical person would almost certainly be much better off having even a corrupt, inadequate pension plan.

A quick calculation shows that you'd have to save roughly 2.5% of your salary during your working life, earning only 3% over inflation, to accumulate the median 401(k) balance.
There's a good NPR podcast series that goes into this. First season is about NYC, second is about L.A.

https://www.npr.org/podcasts/555340969/there-goes-the-neighb...
I know a reasonable amount of SQL but am by no means a database guru. Naturally, this makes me the local database expert at my current place of employment :/

The other devs' eyes glaze over when I say things like 'stored procedures' and 'trigger functions.' Bah.
Until the same bans are applied to police and military forces operating on US soil, this isn't even a discussion. It's incredible to me that even some gun owners do not realize that the primary purpose for the right to own guns is to keep the police and military at bay. I'm certain that without the huge number of guns, we would be in an even deeper police state than currently. A gun owner has no need to even unpack or assemble a gun in order to have a positive impact on society, namely keeping police somewhat in check through the possibility that they may use their gun should police get out of line. Our police and military are the likeliest enemies these days, but foreign forces invading cannot be completely ruled out, though extremely unlikely. Guns, and the ability to own them, are the only thing keeping us from complete tyranny. In that sense, the thousands of lives lost due to guns, while a tragedy, are not a reason to change our gun laws and never will be.
Your concerns make sense for considering things like payroll taxes and taxing other operating expenses. But if we consider taxing corporate profits that go to shareholders, taxing here is a very relatively painless place to tax, as opposed to, say sales tax. This is doubly so when corporations are already sitting in hoards of cash and not investing, due to lack of opportunity or demand, interest rates are low, productivity gains are going towards the top, etc.

I'm not quite as cynical when it comes to bureaucrats (military contractors aside), because as we can see in some of the recent teachers strikes, it makes sense to tax oil/gas corporations who are making full use of states infrastructure to for the benefit of themselves (and workers etc). The tax rate is not really affecting how much they invest. [1]

I'm with you on corporate influence though. However, I think the answer there is to limit corporate influence of elections, say by disallowing funding of candidate specific ads and limiting the $ they can put towards issue lobbying.

[1]https://qz.com/1243098/oklahoma-teachers-strike-how-income-t...
> the probability that I will turn my gun on myself, which is zero.

Assuming that you're not going to change and that your life will be exactly the same, forever. Do you think there's ever been someone that thought there's a 0% chance they'd ever kill themselves and eventually did it? What's wrong with those people? Are they just stupid? But you're not stupid, right? You're smart, and in addition to there being 0% chance of you ever killing yourself, there's also a 0% chance of you being wrong about that.

It's dishonest to make those kinds of statements with absolute certainty.
I thought I was the only one. Came for the news, stayed for the comments.
Maybe you misunderstood what he was saying. He was saying every one of those pages already has an RSS feed so there's nothing to "revive"
no it doesn't. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16908185
I’m not comparing it to the cost of renting, I’m simply saying that when I sell my home for $200,000 having bought it in the 1970s, at best it will be nearly break even.
Thanks for engaging! To clarify my point, I do think that a the process was followed, and it did lead to some good points but if a process is taking 4+ years to launch something relatively simple (compared to what other companies with similar scale and teams might launch), then the process itself is flawed. I'm respectful of your work, but critical of the system that it operates under.

One could argue that Wikipedia has a broader responsibility to the readers than to just the editors, and such a process gives the editors undue weight in the process. The vocal minority cannot always represent the needs of the silent majority and that role would lie with the product team, which in my understanding hasn't been the case at Wikipedia (I say this, and having interviewed and turned down a Wikipedia PM offer and having a few friends worked in Design at Wikipedia and leaving disillusioned).
The Finland experience turns out to be a great example of how not to run a UBI experiement:

- no management support (government was divided and attention wandered)

- unemployment benefits sre privately managed so those entities lose out if UBI is successful

- not universal (no entire village/city was chosen)

- tiny sample size

- only unemployed people chosen

- no employed people, chosen from a range of income brackets

But regardless of the flaws, the experiment will be held up as an example of why UBI doesn’t work (never mind that the experiment was not UBI).
It's great, it use to be the opposite.

For centuries prior the elderly were subjugated to the mercy of the young (like many Asian economies and as one could imagine in primate hierarchy groups), due to physical labor being the largest source of wealth. In contemporary society, the contrary is true given that physical labor has been a diminishing source of wealth. Today's economy is one where experience and knowledge triumphs, as physical labor is rapidly replaced through automation. Society is still far from it, but as close to a meritocracy as it has ever been.
Putting the contradiction of an "affordable investment" aside and looking at the high prices: couldn't local governments change zoning laws to encourage building more homes to lower prices? More supply lowers prices right?
I think OOP (precisely inheritence) makes programming more difficult even if OOP works for 80% of the cases. The last 20% are impossible to handle with that pattern and make a class hierarchy unstable.

I think Smalltalk is the most productive language because of its VM (builtin IDE, DB...) and not because of OOP.
I think that is a fantasy of qt and c++ developers unfortunately. There will be very few use cases for qt in a browser loaded from the web. Optimized computation kernels yes. Full qt guis I do not see it happening.

Qt should create an html/Dom/css front end that binds to the webassembly backend. Would be more efficient and web friendly.
https://www.teamcalapp.com - to do employee scheduling/planning directly on existing Google Calendar data.

This time i only used “old” technologies so that I can spend the least amount of time on actual development work. Uses Python/Django/Postgres under the hood and all is running on Heroku. Frontend built with Angular 1.

The biggest issue for me is always to find enough time next to work/family. What worked well is to split tasks into tiny work units (e.g 15min) and making sure to finish one each day.
Why shouldn't they be similar? Seems reasonable that a "legal person" should be subject to similar taxes as a real person. And from a fairness standpoint, it doesn't seem fair that Google is taxed 11% on $billions of income after expenses while I get taxed 25% on $thousands of income sort-of-before expenses. Fairness is not always best for society, but it does seem like a reasonable default. In my mind, the default is that they should be similar, and any deviation from that requires a reason.

This isn't a very helpful comment. The parent presumably doesn't have the information to make a different assumption (or they would have already). Telling them to revisit their assumptions without giving them any additional resources to do so is unhelpful. Besides, the rest of us (me, at least) would like to know your reasons.
From What Can't I Build?, this isn't "code-free programming", rather it's code-free web app building. It's still very powerful but not the same thing as coding.

"That said, there are some limits to what the core language can do. Bubble’s language is comparable in power to spreadsheet formulas: you can do a lot, but anything requiring recursive or looping operations on data (such as, for instance, writing a custom machine-learning algorithm) would be difficult."

https://bubble.is/faq
For Greece, just like when they were begging in the street, all his neighbors are not care. At that time, someone from far east helped them to avoid the bankruptcy. As the return, they helped the friends if there is any chance. And right now his neighbors blamed him that he should not help that far east friend. What the fuck?
The reality is that the house is sold to cover the cost of a nursing home, or that a reverse mortgage is used to convert that value into living expenses, or that the older generation dies with home equity loans that were taken out to cover expenses.
This seems racist.
Here's an even better question: "what country would be any better if the world's economic lynchpin is no longer a safe and stable place?"

If the US becomes unstable, it will cause everywhere else to become equally unstable if not moreso.
How'd that interest rate fare in the face of A) being able to refinance and B) inflation/rising wages?

The principal/down payment is the first problem - interest rates just increase the cost of money, but get eaten away by time.
No, because what do you think those white people fleeing to the suburbs in the 80s and 90s did? They didn't sell homes to minority homeowners because the banks wouldn't give minorities loans. They either sold to other white landlords, or became landlords themselves.

So, the million dollar apartments are owned by wealthy white landlords who have realized 100% of the appreciation, while systematically pushing poorer minorities, who are almost 100% renters, out to even worse ghettos.
> drugs only account for 10% ... hospital care (30%) and physician services (20%)

Were you in a class with Professor Long at Tulane? He has a great, great slide illustrating these and many other facts about the US healthcare economy over the last century.
I appreciate you replying. Since it's you saying it, I'll stop saying it's a microkernel for now. I am curious why people said it so much. Maybe you could help there in even there was a sensible reason for the misinformation.

Did it have nothing of the sort? A microkernel-like component in center of monolith like NT? Microkernel architecture with key stuff in kernel mode for performance like hybrids do? Did you see anything fitting the term in any BeOS release? And how would you classify its architecture?
They should port the rendering of the qt components to Dom/css with a web assembly backend. That would seem like a web app but allow for c++ code reuse.
I remember crafting something that allowed me to jump a long way on I think a Daedric mask in the game. I could literally jump across half the map when it was activated.

From memory it might have been similar to that spell you find at the early part of the game on the way to Balmora.

Morrowind was IMHO the perfect game. The fact that if you were lucky and skillful you could get the best weapons and spells early in the game, or be gutted in 3 seconds made it far more risky to pay but way more fun when you figured out how to overcome it.

I would dearly love to play it but with some decent physics to make the bows fun and with slightly upgraded graphics.
Sandar Boyton books are great - but the music CDs I found a bit wanting and painful to listen to.

I highly recommend:

1. "Dinosaurs and Dragons" by Kevin Roth.

2. "Hot Dog" and "Sing Along" by Caspar Babypants (aka. Chris Ballew)

3. Saturday Morning Cereal Bowl podcasts: https://saturdaycerealbowl.podbean.com/

The Halloween podcast is one of my favorites

My son loves to listen to all of these.
>Nonetheless, even though my business ultimately failed, I thank my lucky stars I'm not working in the cube farm anymore. On to business #2!

Mind sharing the story of your first business and what you're working on now?
Oh, and we have been sending debt collectors after unemployed people who got jobs, claiming that they committed fraud when it was actually the calculation of what was paid incirrectly that was wrong. Look up “robodebt”
Quite a few apps provide this. One is called Newsify.

I don’t know that it goes against the nature of RSS. I kind of feel that providing only a title of the article and a link goes against the spirit. But nature and spirit are different.
It's been said that they created the first self-replicating talent machine. Having worked with them, I believe it.
Ask HN: Do you still prefer apt packages over Snaps?
I'm close to launch a new app and was wondering if snap distribution through Snapcraft.io is preferable over apt. I see how Spotify provides both, but I'm not sure if it's for legacy purposes.
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