skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You see this in commercial real-estate, too, where there is nothing like rent control, especially in downturns. in the late aughts/early teens I was looking for commercial space. Being a capitalist, I would target places that had been vacant for over a year, then offer 30-40% less than asking for a 1-3 year lease, with the value proposition being that I'd give them something for the downturn and they could kick me out if things picked up after a few years.

No takers; the real-estate folks thought that prices were going back up and that they'd be better off with empty buildings, primed for when the economy recovered than accepting money from the likes of me.

(The other bit is that rent control is not the whole of this... In california, rent control mostly doesn't apply to anything modern.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costa%E2%80%93Hawkins_Rental_H...

You really gotta understand that law to understand this debate; that law is essentially why the poor oppose most of these 'yimby' ordinances; the buildings that would be demolished are rent controlled in SF, and under that law would be replaced by units that are not rent control.

If you don't understand that,the opposition from the poor simply doesn't make sense, because more units, in a free market, wouldn't drive up rents for anyone... but in a market with rent control, if you demolish rent control housing and replace it with market rate housing, you have less housing available for the poor.

(scott wiener and other yimby types often respond by adding a certain number of affordable housing units and/or prohibit tearing down existing rent controlled places. The latter pushes new construction to more commercial/industrial spaces, which if you ask me, is just fine, as it usually means more mixed-use kind of construction)
The prisoners in the game can collude before the game begins, so they can create their own ordering on the fly. This cannot be overcome by the warden.
The original is Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther causing so many to emulate the titular character and commit suicide.
From my viewpoint, as both a researcher and someone who has built frameworks around environments/games:

- Each step within the game has to be extremely fast. I.e the game should be able to be run as fast as the machine allows while keeping physics etc. consistent.

- Runnable via library import such that there is no drawing to the screen.

- Should be easy to reset the environment to an initial state.

- RNG state should be seedable.

- I highly recommend supporting an identical interface found in OpenAI's gym. Check their docs out. Even better would be to have your game importable as an environment in gym.

- Configurable screen resolution would be great (eg. output 120x100)

- The environment is "hackable" eg. the maps or levels can be modified or loaded say via some ascii map.

- Should support multiple copies of the game running at once.

- A nice to have would be if the current environment state could be exported and loaded later.

- Expose some information/signals such that a reward signal can be created. Or better yet you define one as the game creator.
On the other hand, educating customers that food poisoning isn't just for meat is how you get people to wash their lettuce and stop drinking raw milk.
To clarify, its kinetic scrolling that is broken.
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A simple "on-line orders pickup" sign/queue is how most places handle this

Yes, and that’s what Walmart has (an “express line”) that is setup right in front of the cashier. But the regular line is several feet away and faces the express line. The signage is clear to those actually entering the express line, but not so clear to those in the regular line. All most of them apparently see is someone hanging out by the cashier trying to cut in front of them. I think a big part of the problem is having the main line face the express line...people are already annoyed by waiting in line, and that annoyance only grows by watching others go directly in front of them.

The bank transfer issue is another thing entirely. Zelle is suppose to fix that issue in the US, even though most other countries have this figured out:

I actually mentioned BofA by name because of how ridiculous I find this policy to be. My bank doesn’t yet have Zelle either, and Walmart is far cheaper than both the sending and receiving fees would be if I sent a wire.
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The last big E. coli outbreak in spinach was because of an E. coli laden environment - notably, wild hogs in the field, and then contamination in a washing pool.
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I can totally see this happening. By contrast, the Walmart grocery pickup service is spectacular, even though they make you go to the side of the building.
One of the rice paddy pictures has a sister image on WikiCommons. It's by the same photographer and potentially shot in the same session, as the region in the getty image is evident in the lower middle section of the wikicommons image. To my taste, the WikiCommons image is the more amazing looking one.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Terrace_field_yunnan...

https://foto.gettyimages.com/photos/rice-paddy-fields-in-sou...

In the vein of this article, if you want more amazing pictures, you can do worse than looking though WikiCommons' Picture of the Year, Picture of the Day or Featured Pictures.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Ye...

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_da...

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Featured_pictures
There's also wildlife. There was a spinach outbreak of E. coli linked to wild hogs living in the field.
You seem to be absolutely correct.

The Diamler Trucks NA CEO is a banker.

Thanks for the link!
Something I haven't yet understood -- why hasn't a ~Debian of Android-compatible phones emerged?

Are we lacking a UI? Kernel? Apps? Interest? Interface with existing closed-source apps? Is stock Android too good?
If going to Mars leaves you flat (so jaded!), there is always Europa Clipper (https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/europa-clipper/) with current launch expected around 2024 (IIRC). It was only 2 years ago that Juno (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/juno/main/index.html) arrived at Jupiter.
Climate change is probably the problem of the generation, but amazingly, allowing more housing near transit solves that one, too!
Only if the server only keeps around the hash -- which is why I said there are trade-offs to be made. The point I was making was that the mere fact that you're sending a hash does not trigger the "hash-becomes-password" issue; that's a result of secondary constraints imposed on the problem.
You can buy little coffee-cup-powered Stirling engine tchotchkes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSgo9NSyFPs
They did increase their DRAM refresh rate and mentioned it in release notes. There is not much more you can do easily - and it comes at a real cost in power usage.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204934
I thought everything, including our bodies were made up of nuclear waste from stars.
RVs re-entry on Russian testing range - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8csh1_8Sh4
Which door? The one with more money and less hours?
Yes it is lighter than the Electron-based options. Definitely a lot more than Postman which always consumes north of half a gig. Everest hovers around 250-300MB which I know is still a lot and I'm currently in the process of optimizing the internals.

And another yes, Java is not the lightest thing around. But man its much better than Electron.
Thank you so much! A little bit of CSS can go a long way. :)
You're mixing up the member states' enforcement (4% of worldwide turnover or €20 million, whichever is higher) and civil suits. There are law firms that send out thousands of cease and desist letters (which is a civil action) based on automated searches for mistakes. It absolutely makes economic sense for lawyers to pursue out-of-court settlements from businesses if it's mostly automated.
It's lightweight compared to the other options because all the other options are Electron based.
Huh? The claim was that the people who oppose development are predominantly upper middle class whites, not that a majority of white people oppose development.
The real question is how to make a system with better incentives.

The only thing I've been able to come up with would be to dilute the expected reward of the political game with stochastic power structures. Democratically maintain a pool of candidates and then use some a random process to select from them.

Nobody will ever ask me, of course, but it's fun to think about.
I've been told by a few people that it's my own fault, that I should have used something else like .test, etc.

I wasn't even aware of the fact that .dev was going into the preload list and was quite surprised when my browser started erroring out on my dev sites. Had to spend time figuring out what was even happening, then I had to reconfigure my web server and DNS resolution.

Was I wrong to use .dev? Debatable. Pretty rude way to find out, though.
The only reason to live in a place with a high cost of living is if you have a high income job nearby. Literally the entire rest of world is left to you in perpetuity if you saving up $1-2MM.
even though they make you go to the side of the building.

Based on my money sending experience, I’d consider that a feature, not a bug.
that's just a not-so-subtle marketing tactic.
You're welcome! I'm glad this helps.
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‘Why We're Excited About AWS AppSync’ – Think FaaS Podcast
In which the author takes a long and winding path to what most of us already know, "paths are fundamentally bytes".
>You removed the words "of the genuine horrors that exist even today".

Um, okay. My response still stands.

>Do you think we should use the same word for both of these concepts?

Yeah, because I think most people are intelligent enough to understand that the situations are not equatable. The word is still correct to use.
I’d just use Venmo.
You're welcome! That was the whole point of the project.

User convenience >>> Developer convenience
That's of course possible, but shouldn't matter: When you make a reasonable effort to block access to EU users, EU citizens aren't covered under GDPR if they take active measures (through a browser plugin, for example) to circumvent the ban:
"This won't apply to every U.S. business — just the ones that are knowingly, and actively, conducting business in the EU. In this vein, EU courts have the discretionary ability to determine if a U.S. company was purposely collecting EU resident data and subverting GDPR compliance. So, in some cases, the inadvertent collection of personal data will be forgiven if it is found to have been occasional and "unlikely to result in a risk to the rights and freedoms of natural persons."

(from https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2007530-how-the-eu-ca... )
Filesystems seem so fiddly and broken.. is it very difficult to make a small layer over filesystems that provides sane semantics? Like one that handles paths sanely, handles fclose()/fsync() properly, lets you control when things are buffered/flushed etc? Even a broken API with clear, modern documentation enumerating all the fiddly cases would be a huge step forward from digging through random mailing lists on sites with UX from the 90s.

Has anyone tried this? Is it possible with FUSE? I would love to hear from people who know about this stuff - what are the obstacles? Or do you think FSs are fine the way they are?
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One that probably reposts...
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If you can treat it as a game of endurance that you are willing to participate in then you will probably succeed. A lot of people on HN claim to have had multiple interviews over a couple of years, so failing to get hired is not going to ruin any future options with the same company.

A co-worker of mine recently was hired by Apple and I consider them rather unremarkable but also precocious. Other colleagues of mine that have worked at Google, Amazon, and Microsoft are very capable, excellent communicators, and very interested in pushing the edge of technology, but they are not super-human by any measure.
Hey HN.

Wrish is an editor that saves text written every 3 seconds. It generates a 6 character alphanumeric hash for saving what you write, and it can be edited again simply by copying and pasting the same url.

It uses QuillJS for the formatting and editing and jsonstore.io for a database.

There is also an option to share a read only version, and Wrish behaves quite natively when it's added to the homescreen in Android phones.

Check it out on glitch to quickly remix/fork the project - https://glitch.com/~wrish
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You can't just handwave away the economics or practical issues here. Seawater extraction is incredibly expensive. Breeder reactors are also expensive, ignoring the countless other technical and practical issues that they come with. For instance the output level for optimal efficiency with breeder reactors is quite low. You'd have literally thousands of breeder reactors spread around (with a proportional number of fuel reprocessing plants) when you run into the practical problem that, while failure rates are low, with the number of facilities scaled up by orders of magnitude they are currently intolerable due to the consequence of failure.

But back to cost your argument is like saying that "Bah, there's no concern about a lack of freshwater. We can just desalinate the sea!" You sure can, but that's completely irrelevant as the costs make it an unreasonable solution. Using conventionally obtained and utilized material, we only have enough nuclear material for about 200 years of consumption. [1] And in looking at the longrun it's obviously quite myopic to take as an assumption that humanity has reached the highest energy usage it will ever have.

[1] - https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-long-will-glo...
I don't know anything about this.

Is selling the company for 15M a win? Or a loss because of the 60m raised?
Just use the drive-through and you'll skip everyone.
Twitter urges all users to change their password after bug discovered
Podcast Republic for Android is really great.
Salad spinners my friend, salad spinners.
This is how it is at Jersey Mikes. They'll give you a discount to preorder, but you still wait in line and during lunch it can take 15 mins. without the online code i don't know why you'd order online and have your sandwich sit there for 15 minutes.
Will Venmo magically print cash from your phone?
They need less space. Having too much space is a cost of opportunity, since presumably a big house is more valuable than a small one. Selling one's big house and buying a smaller house, then investing the difference, may well be better than holding on to the house -- for society as a whole that's almost certainly true since now someone who needs more space can use that particular house's extra space.

And at some point many elderly people start needing to tap their equity. Sure, you can use a reverse mortgage to do that, but downsizing works too, so some do that.

In any case, "we're retiring and moving to the middle of nowhere, where land and homes are cheap" is a common thing I see. Property taxes are a big reason for this, because even with senior homesteading property tax breaks, it can be a big savings to live farther out, and that's a big deal when your retirement savings aren't as big as you might have hoped.
The pricing is actually cheaper than "bare" geolocation APIs, which don't do the blocking-part. Have a look at https://ipstack.com/product for example.

If you get a quote from an experienced data protection lawyer for GDPR compliance, GDPR Shield will be an order of magnitude cheaper in the long run. There's a real risk of getting sued / getting cease and desist letters from predatory law firms who aim to collect fees for small mistakes in your privacy policy.

You're making assumptions about how the service works, which happen to be wrong. Even if they were true, the time it takes to develop something isn't a measure of the value it provides.
When you have a de-facto monopoly, checkers looks like chess.
Even me too. I can't find it.
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I like how right now, my comment has 13 upvotes.

EDIT: And this one has zero. As usual HN dislikes OT comments, humor, ...
The password manager integration is a public standard. More annoyingly, though, apps can also find out if you've pasted into a field and then immediately clear it (some rinkydink banking apps do this.) So it's a 2-pronged problem.
I'm curious, how often do you actually need to print out the password in a development context?
What I don't know is how to model the probability of the chain starting anywhere in the cycle.
… but also, sort-of, but not really, text: they get displayed to the user, they get input from the user, and they get emitted in logs, messages, etc. All as text. And that rub between where they're bytes but they should have been text, that's the problem and that's the complexity.
> once your manager is compromised, all services is compromised also

Which is much less likely than a weak password being reused and subsequently getting JackTheRipper revealed.

> It's not making it weaker to some patterns guesser.

Any password based upon any dictionary word, even with a few extra bits tacked on like this approach suggests, is incredibly weak in the face of a JackTheRipper or HashCat attack. The scheme proposed here would fall quickly from a leak of the password hashes to a HashCat GPU dictionary attack.

The only secure password in today's world of GPU password attacks is the truly random jumble of characters that few humans have the ability to memorize. And even the few who could memorize a few random jumbles likely could not remember 40 or 50 separate random jumbles. And 40 or 50 separate passwords for 40 or 50 separate online systems is not an unreasonable number. Therefore the need for using a password manager.
Lot's of insights just by reading the comments! haha
If you retire at 72 today you might well live twenty more years. That's a lot of time to live of fixed income. You'll get sicker as you get older, so you know your healthcare costs will go up. That expensive house with high property taxes (if you don't have prop 13 to have made them close to zero for you over 40 or 50 years) starts looking like a burden, and also a source of funds.
> linux chokes at around 1M packet per second per cpu socket.

which is why kernel bypass mechanisms f.e. dpdk/netmap/... etc. are getting some/lots of traction. fwiw, using dpdk (on x86-64 hw), i have had no problems with pushing minimal 64b sized packets for large (>250k) number of flows at line rate...
Twitter urges all users to change passwords after discovering bug exposing them
This doesn't really match my impression at all.

Caring a lot about specifically making money is, in my opinion, absolutely key to making money, because otherwise you just end up focusing on other things (family, pleasures, ideals, etc.). If I wanted to make money, I'd design a very different thing in a very different way compared to if I wanted to make something me and my circle of friends would find useful. These things are practically disjoint.

> The people who become devoted to a field or a technology - who make the business their passion, and focus on filling a need - these are the people who earn a fortune.

This is a bit mixed up. Like, these are different things.

Devoting yourself to something strikes me as the hard way to make money. For the vast majority of people, this will absolutely not work, simply due to probabilities. It's like devoting yourself to being a professional athlete. Good luck, there are millions of others like you.

> who make the business their passion, and focus on filling a need

This, to me, IS a "getting rich" mindset, as I don't really understand why anyone would get into it otherwise. Most people I know who really care about technology are often tragically far from any kind of user and therefore can't think about filling a need. People who care a lot about a subject are often filling their own need, but there's no guarantee whatsoever that that need has anything to do with any kind of customer. Quite the opposite, most useful needs are already filled, it's the small niches that an individual might want filled. There are also large chunks of people who like filling a need in a "helpful" sort of way (i.e., writing documentation) who often get no kickback from it at all.

If anything, a person super passionate about something, if they actually want to make money, needs to wheel that around almost completely and care about all sorts of other things, such as marketing and business management, things many people plain find hard to digest.

You need to, specifically, really care about making money for many of these things to not be somewhere between gross and boring to you.
They don't package upstream Firefox, but you can get GNU IceCat Mobile (which is the GNU fork of it). And they also package Firefox Klar (which is the European edition of the "always incognito" version of Firefox they released last year, with all the telemetry disabled).
Try Framer [1]. You're still designing in code, but using a tool that "wireframe" designers can more easily understand and appreciate. Might help with the interviews. :)

[1]: https://framer.com/
Well so BBOBBSQUARED or whatever. The point being that it's conceivable to define a simple function that is not computable yet has a simple result.

Though really that's what (computable.bb)(n) already is, in a far more interesting fashion. So really, never mind this.
One way to not write any bugs is to not write any code.

If you must write code, errors follow, and “defence in depth” is applicable. Use an editor that serves you well, use compiler flags, use your linter, and consider Yoda Notation, which catches classes of errors, but yes, not every error.
From the article: "There are two types of people in this world: people who love coffee, and people who love coffee but hate the side effects."

The author forgot the third group: Those of us who despise coffee and simply won't ever touch the stuff.
Network effect, and most Facebook users actually being more or less OK with it as a service.
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Great explanation.

Retirement starts to get scary when your parents are thinking about it. You start asking them just how much they have saved, and you start thinking about how much more income you'll need if you end up having to supplement theirs.
Purism is planning on fixing that[1]. The funny thing is that we've actually reverted backwards, you could install a Debian-based distro on the Nokia N900 -- not really possible on newer phones (though you do have stuff like Ubuntu Phone).

[1]: https://puri.sm/shop/librem-5/
Wouldn't have happend with Rails... http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionDispatch/Http/Filte...
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ApkPure is a very nice replacement for the play store.
Seems eerily familiar to The Law of Jante[1].

[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Jante
Antennapod and gpodder will work for the web and Android, I don't own an iOS device so I don't know of any solutions for that platform unfortunately.

To add to that, there are issues between the GPL and the Apple App Store ToS so open source apps on that platform are at a disadvantage as a result.
Many of us on the Asylo team share your reservations about DRM. However, the capability to run software in a not-entirely-trustworthy environment leads to many positive possibilities. For instance, you could imagine a world in which customers didn’t have to trust their cloud vendor or worry about their data falling into unauthorized hands. Or you could implement chat applications which can prove to you that your communications really are being encrypted end-to-end.

In our view, trusted computing has applications well beyond DRM.
Indian Railway vendor fined for using water from toilet to make tea