skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
McGee has a very methodical way of discussing food. It is basically like a scientific textbook in that regard, with deeper dives into almost every topic. It is also incredibly information dense, which makes it a truly a 'bible' in my opinion. And for what it is worth, many other of the more methodical chefs on the internet think so too.
The industry isn't going to like anything that works.
>and i live in europe

What do you mean by this? Because I live in Europe too and it's rare to see a homeless person, even in the bigger cities.
The Netherlands also had rebate for personal computers, called the "PC privé plan" (Private PC plan), where bosses could give their employees tax-free computers with a maximum of about 2300 euros at the start, which was cut to 1500 euros near the end of measure. This lasted from 1997 until 2004.
I think the new thing is that they implemented chrome dev tools in the popup window in a convincing enough manner. This sounds far more extreme then any previous example I have heard of on the web.
Etherscan – The Ethereum Block Explorer
wow is this sustainable ? I have recently started playing in amateur NFL fantasy ATS league. Its crazy how unpredictable things are.
No need to do it yourself:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_timestamping
I still think they do.
Note: Back when I bought my Kindle Paperwhite, Amazon offered an ad-supported version and one completely without ads.

The price difference IIRC was roughly $99/$119, so please don't let the parent mislead you into thinking every Kindle comes with ads.
Excellent. You could have mentioned the tremendous amount of energy wasted by servers and data centers to drive the mess.
Is there such a thing as Code Ecology?
Top 3 Django Gotchas to Catch During Code Review – Nina Zakharenko – Medium
Browsers should implement some mechanisms to combat this type of phishing. I've gone ahead and reported this as a phishing site on Google safe browsing and other services.
I use mind mapping software FreeMind but it fulfills a similar purpose
In cultural anthropology: Small Places, Large Issues by Thomas Eriksen. It’s impressive how comprehensive, to the point and organized it is.

CA is a tough discipline to understand in my experience; the endless nuance and relativism is hard to hold in your mind and not get lost in ‘vagueness’. This is a great read to understand the field a lot better. It’s used in introductory classes at least all over Europe.
Project Versioning with Rultor
The danger of possible outlets for alternative voices controlled more and more by big corporations is at least as bad as the privacy implications.

So there must be a tradeoff if we wan't privacy, but we also want to have publishing outlets independent of big corporations. There is currently no perfect solution where we can have total privacy and also little publishers can sustain themselves.

I'm saying that we must find a balance where we have some of both. Having 100% of one while giving up the other is not the answer.
Before anyone tries to give advice to elon musk or criticizes his path, they should ask themselves "Have I made a major contribution towards the biggest problem facing the planet?". If the answer is no, then they should shut the hell up.
Future of shopping doesn't look bright
I'm talking about that particular title, which is one Metroidvania amongst many Metroidvanias. It's not a unique concept, that's a given.

Even with a unique concept, Factorio started out when there were 20x fewer indie games being released and it took five years to gain traction. Today, such success would be even more unlikely.
Wouldn’t that mean the webcam light would be turned on, though? It’s supposed to be hardware-linked...
That's my initial gut reaction as well. But I see it may work out this way:

You need to accept a woman onto the board. Accepting just a woman is not a good way to go. So you start changing the environment to have more women get to the top.

I'm not saying this definitely will work though
And what is the real human cost when we factor in the number of human lives wasted sitting in traffic at stupidly low speeds.

If decreasing your speed from 100km/h to 50km/h gives you a 1% lower chance of dying in a road traffic accident, but you spend an additional 2% of your life stuck in traffic, is that a win?
Interestingly enough, this Torrence Boone guy working now at Google seems to have had lots of success keeping his #1 SERP clean. His LinkedIN tells us he worked as "Global CEO" at an unnamed agency before, he got zero recommendations, but is now Vice President at Google.

Now comes the interesting part: Google won't even autocomplete "torrence boone enfatico" — Shame upon him who thinks evil upon it...

If you've been wondering about the moral decline at Google, this is the kind of people they hired as top management.
if you're not sure what you're making then just type everything you're spiking on with any or unknown?
This is virtue-signalling. It's easy to ham-fistedly fix issues that give them publicity while ignoring stuff that needs real work to fix.
Exactly. Funding any project is a gamble. Gambles don't always pay off. There could more emphasis on this. The mental health of the developer is placed way below the importance of delivery.
I agree the weather's awesome in CA, but it's also pretty fine in AZ, NM, TX, MS, AL, LA, GA and FL. Is there evidence of mass migrations of homeless people to CA from the rest of the U.S.?

Why wouldn't the housing affordability problem in CA be directly contributing to homelessness there?
First of all, it does not work. We had it in Prague like a decade ago. I've seen contracts including extra cost of renting keys for as much as the regulated price. Also I guess it could decrease pressure to developers to build new houses since the prices are artificially low.
Grandville, Visions, and Dreams
Symptoms, Transmission and Treatment of Lassa Fever Virus
Why the UK has such cheap food
Economic Geography:

Global Shift by Peter Dicken.
...Mind expanding....

Widely adopted throughout the world, this definitive text comprehensively examines how the global economy works and its effects on people and places. Peter Dicken provides a balanced yet critical analysis of globalization processes and debates.
lol if you're letting yourself so overwhelmed by work probably you'd take a second look at your work-life balance, especially if you're working in Europe, unless you're the founder/executive or something.
Caveat emptor. Due diligence. Blame/fault isn't helpful here, and it's shared regardless.
Please keep partisan flamewar off HN. It will burn everything else up if allowed to.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Really? Our entire continent, and only one city has truly good weather, which is the city just you happen to live in? That sounds like old fashioned vanity.
Please omit the personal swipes from your comment here. We've had to ask you this before.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
There are ways of reversing climate change - for instance, by increasing the area under vegetation (which reduces temperatures, reverses desertification etc). But the issue is that these methods are not being pursued for whatever reasons.
Regarding the other commenters baring their teeth to attack the UI, how in the world is that in any way useful or productive?

Just yesterday we were upvoting Collison's top questions, one of which was that the book needs to be reinvented for learning. In fact it's still on the homepage with 971 points[1].

I'm not saying this particular presentation is correct or the answer, but I'm thrilled to see attempts being made and can't imagine why you would be hostile toward someone for (and thus discourage others from) making the attempt to try something new.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18105129

Edit: There's a similar hypocrisy behind the "doesn't work on X" observations in the other comments.

On the one hand, we talk about getting something launched and out there, and on the other we get on our high horse and complain that it isn't functional on every platform and screen size?

I feel strongly that this should be a supportive environment for new and interesting attempts (and thus uncertain and perhaps buggy ones).
The EFF have been pursuing this for decades now. An appeals court upheld the law and the supreme court wouldn't hear the case. Not a ton more they can do, suing individual offenders doesn't solve much.
Netflix sued by easyJet founder in trademark dispute
Review of the System Failure That Led to the Tax Day Outage
If a smaller site uses and ad network on the server side then ads cannot be cached on the server, because the ad network always serves the highest paying ad at the moment which constantly changes according to the ongoing ad auction and inventory.
Sounds like the latest version may not compile, after incomplete refactoring. Would be good if he released the full git repo - a previous version might be a better starting point.
Definitely - the Museum of London is sadly under-known in my opinion. I suspect it's mainly to do with being located off the usual tourist track - and even when one gets there it doesn't exactly measure up to the Kensington museums to look at...
To be more specific, each recommendation must be accompanied by at least two other books on the subject the contributor has read and reasons why they are recommending one over the others.
Amsterdam found out the plague pits were re-absorbed by the city too during the construction of the subway. Trying to imagine what it must be like when a tunnel boring machine hits a mass grave of plague victims, kept me awake at night for weeks.

Amsterdam had many plague epidemics and each time the plague hit 10% or so of the inhabitants died. At least one of the London plagues was traced back to goods shipped from Amsterdam.
I'm not the guy you replied to, but the poster child for this has got to be Prop 13[1] which limits the maximum property taxes on property can increase at 1% of the full cash value as last assessed. Nominally, it prevents old/poor people from being priced out of their homes.

The owner of a home not reassessed since the 50s now worth millions today may be paying a few hundred a year in real estate tax. Corporations have found a variety of loopholes for themselves here, the simplest involve shell corporations[2] and have allowed large and extremely valuable properties to change hands without reassessment robbing the state in billions in revenue.

Even reversal of the policy just for commercial property would produce a massive windfall of much needed capital for the state, to the tune of roughly 8.2-10.2 billion dollars per year[3].

It's honestly one of the worst longstanding pieces of legislation I've ever encountered and one of the big reasons for the massive distortion in the CA housing market.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_13_(197...

[2] https://financialtransparency.org/how-shell-corporations-und...

[3] https://static1.squarespace.com/static/550356b8e4b02e0b159ae...
Wrapping my head around a piece of legacy code that was written by two possibly three computer scientists, it solves an optimisation problem and reads like a math proof - that or explaining it to the marketing department.
Population growth in India/China when govt didn’t do any restrictions was ~2.5%. These days it has reduced to around 1.5%. USA is at 0.7%.

In other words 3% is very likely among the highest rate human population can grow with real-world constraints.
Rent control disincentivizes construction of new housing, by adding a major regulatory risk to investment in new housing units. First, imagine that you are the owner of a rental building, and the rent control law passes, in let's say SF. You own the building, and as the landlord, you're obligated to pay for things like repairs and general property management. That takes labor. The price of labor (i.e. wages) tends to increase more or less in step with property values. So, now your costs are increasing, but it's illegal for you to raise your rents. The investment you made, with the presumption that you would be able to charge a market rate for rents is now fucked.

Now, consider that you are a prospective property developer. Someone thinking about building a new rental building. You're thinking about investing millions of dollars of your own money to do this. But you look at what happened to the last guy, who got fucked by this rent control law, and you think "maybe i'll build elsewhere, or just stick my money in an index fund instead".
All those despicable events are to be opposed and condemned. I'm favorable to chem. castration at the first definitive sentence of sexual assault.
But here we are talking about something different. In order to justify this law, you would have to prove that the amount of women in boards of directors is so low mainly because of sexism by men.
On that point I'm willing to concede that that is part of the problem in certain cases, but I'm not at all willing to accept that that is the only reason or even the predominant one. It would take a statistical analysis with numbers suggesting a causal connection to convince me.
It is true that it is, but I always thought it was underserved. It’s not particularly clear or insightful and it is very academic.

On interest rates and yield curves, a book I would recommend is Sadr’s Interest Rates Swaps and their Derivatives [1]. Unfortunately it is a bit dated and a lot happened since it was written. But it is a very good book to understand interest rate models, which focuses more on the intuition and practical aspects and which I think is a lot more useful to a professional.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Interest-Rate-Swaps-Their-Derivatives...
This linked article by the same author is a bit better: https://theconversation.com/broken-sleep-its-a-rollercoaster....
Your only point was popcorn time and that stacks up poorly against a good RMTP stream.

The problem we have here is that a bunch of hackers have seen it can be done with BT (which nobody is saying it can't be) and then assuming that BT is suitable for someone like Netflix. If it were that clear cut then we would already be using it. But the fact remains BT doesn't actually stack up that good against already established technologies we use for video streaming.

I'm not saying this for the sake of an "ideological/political argument", this is a well researched point I've discovered doing my professional day job.

It's ever so easy to hack something together that works for a bunch for non-payment customers who just want to pirate something. It's a whole other ball game to build a production service with advertisers (where applicable) and other partners and sell that to paying customers.

What you're doing is comparing a kit car to a bus and saying they're the same because they both transport people. Then assuming the kit car can transport the 40 people at a time for 12 hours a day every day because you've made the previous logical assumption of equivalence.
Changed in the early/mid 80s I think. AI Memo 848 (Revised Revised Report) from 1985 has it already as an 'essential special form': (lambda (var1 ...) expr1 expr2 ...)

R1RS does not permit it. And: In the the R1RS syntax BNF there is a (DEFINE (<identifier> <identifier list>) <form>) with one form. But later in the document it is a '<form list>'... Then the LAMBDA syntax has a BODY, but it is only a FORM...
> But this mystery was solved earlier today by Wardle, who discovered an FBI flash alert sent earlier this year, on March 5. The FBI sends "flash alerts" to businesses detailing ongoing "threats" and details ways to prevent against them.

Just what did Wardle solve here? The FBI solved it.
I don't think that it's just technological change which has brought us there. It's also because of the last 10 years or so of Federal Reserve Bank policies. The elites have figured out how to maximise their profits during expansionary economic times and a big part of the elite strategy is limiting the number of winners.
Thank you. It's a reasonable comment. Unfortunately, in the context of multiple people being incredibly dismissive, it somewhat comes across as just another dismissal, though I sincerely believe you don't mean it that way.

For context, my official diagnosis is atypical cystic fibrosis. I was diagnosed a bit over 17 years ago. I had been bedridden for several months and had a hole in my left lung.

Classical CF accounts for about 1/3 of all adult lung transplants and 1/2 of all pediatric lung transplants in the US. It has a very low life expectancy and you typically take about $100k worth of drugs annually to manage it with no hope of actually getting well.

So I have a lot of baggage from internet strangers insisting that the hole in my lung closing and my ability to get off multiple prescription drugs etc is obviously due to placebo effect and couldn't possibly be due to extensive dietary and lifestyle changes, nor could I possibly actually know a fucking thing of any value at all, what with being a woman and former homemaker.

I'm leaving this discussion now. Nothing personal against you. I'm just fed up with people attacking my personal anecdotes in a way that doesn't automatically get done to other people who say "I have X diagnosis and I do Y thing for it." Other people can talk about their health and how they manage it without everyone piling on to inform them they are a nutcase who imagined the entire thing.

Other points I make are consistently ignored in order to focus on what I said about my firsthand experience and tell me that I don't know what I experienced. Some internet stranger has more expertise in my life than I have.

Ugh.
> In 1975, researchers at Stanford invited a group of undergraduates to take part in a study ... A few years later, a new set of Stanford students was recruited for a related study.

We have to wonder if Stanford undergraduate student generalises to the whole population.

It doesn't require much stretching of the imagination to see that circa 1975 Stanford undergraduates, as a cohort, may score below average on objective measures of humbleness.
1) This is fair.

2) Explicit yield points certainly save you from most of the classic threading errors, and having to use special maps and datastructures everywhere.

3) Other than tying into (1) I guess this is a matter of taste.

4) Supposedly this refers to the `open` function? This can be solved using the `aiofiles` module, but again I suppose this ties into (1).
https://github.com/fake-name/ReadableWebProxy

Disclaimer - It's a project of mine, specifically written for my interests, and is very much not production ready.

It does have a full blown spider in it, which supports distributed fetching and stuff via another project [1].

It does both rewritten archiving (basically overwriting the page style) and raw archiving.

I also have a bunch of miscellaneous stuff like a custom python interface for chromium so I can handle jerberscript shitshows (cloudflare "protection" [2], reCaptcha [3], etc...). People seem really dead-set on ruining the internet.

I keep meaning to implement WARC proxying to feed into the IA as a parallel output stream for the spider, but it's a lot of work and I have too many projects already.

1: https://github.com/fake-name/AutoTriever
2: https://github.com/fake-name/ChromeController
3: https://github.com/fake-name/WebRequest
I remember playing with it a while ago and here are my 2c:

- It's ridiculously fast, like, I didn't know where the performance was coming from.

- Getting it up and running was a bit clunky (Docker saved me), but I hear it's better now.

- It has non-standard (I mean, everyone is non-standard, but this is way off ANSI) and case-sensitive (???) SQL syntax. This annoyed me again and again.

- It seemed (and still seems) like a project that lives and dies with one developer - and no matter how brilliant he may be, I'm not willing to invest in a technology that has this risk and it's so hard to migrate off of (because of the non-standard SQL).

I'm sad about the last two points, because the database is rather brilliant otherwise.
You can just disable grouping taskbar items, which is convenient for me regardless of this issue. Then it's clear that 1 window is not 2 windows.
This is just staggeringly stupid and makes me ashamed to live in California. I'm all for having women on boards, when there's a qualified female candidate. I am categorically not for forcing them to be on boards for some misguided sense of social justice.
The market may be tiny but it is a lot easier to sell copies of a (decent) game because Linux users will love you for supporting their platform.

You also don't need to support every distro on the planet. Just focus on Ubuntu. With proper planning and choosing your game engine wisely it's not the biggest deal to build for Linux.
You just need the core of what your product does, it doesn't need polish. Minimum Viable Product is the term you're looking for, just build it modular so you can customise it for different clients.
Yeah, and this one isn't any better in that regard. Was just examining it on a Mac, where it uses the same Windows UI style.

One should think that malware authors would have already implemented some JS library of sorts for their fake popups that fakes Windows, MacOS and Linux UI styles more convincingly.

Especially since they've applied serious thoughts to other parts of the fake, like the language chooser in the fake Steam popup. It causes a spinner for a short while and then an error popup saying something like "cannot communicate with Steam server". Nice idea to dead-end page components that they didn't want to fake more convincingly.
Building and tweaking tech is a trap for engineers even with Unity and Unreal. Game design is a lot less easy to pin down and most engineers are conditioned that time spent not tapping away is wasted. Building your own engine, particularly for an over ambitious game idea is a recipe for prevarication.

There’s nothing wrong with building your own engine but it and the intended game are going to need to be constrained.
RePack is a reusable packaging service that will save the world from trash
Anybody else except the owner?
IIRC you can turn it on and off quick enough for the LED to be barely noticeable
The California model of rent control limits the amount you can raise rent on a tenant, and the reasons you can evict someone. Surprisingly, you can often transfer a lease to a family member, leading to situations where someone is living in a rented house originally rented to their grandparent.

It also leads to situations where an empty nester has spare bedrooms but cannot afford to move into a smaller rental unit, effectively taking bedrooms off the market and making prices higher for everyone. Presumably AirBNB relieves some of this pressure, though I seem to recall some landlords running sting operations in order to evict long term tenants and reset the market rate.

Over the past 30 years of SF rent control, this dynamic has created a group of people for whom in-fill redevelopment would be disastrous: they'd lose their rent control, and definitely can't live here anymore. Much of SF is pretty low density, and housing supply would come from building up. Doesn't need to be a 60 tower millenium tower deal. But you'll need to tear up some buildings to make it happen, and the cheapest properties are the ones under rent control. So anyone campaigning on a 'build baby build' platform is more or less running a platform of evicting the poor and/or elderly.

At it's core, rent control is treating the symptom of high prices rather than the disease of tight supply.
Name one example where rent control was followed by decrease in average rent in the city.

You can't and that's how it's counterproductive.
I thought Perry's[0] was considered the Bible by all Chemical Engineers :)

[0] (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry's_Chemical_Engineers'_...)
Appears so. The good thing is, judging from the tone and the lack of any concrete argument, the parent has achieved the first part of what he asks for anyway!