skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure there is some survivorship bias, but the cheap mass housing of the Victorian or Edwardian eras are often still around. Not just from the famous Victorian philanthropist industrialists (Cadbury, Lever brothers, Rowntree, Titus Salt etc) with their model villages for workers, but even the cheap stuff built for the collieries and mills, or early social housing. The social housing of the 1930s have, thanks to their sell off, often become the desirable estates of today. Of course there's also been a fair amount of German bombing and slum clearing that's thinned out the older stock.

There's some key differences in how things are built that mean there will be precious few 1970s and 2010s homes surviving for 300 years.

Victorian: Single or rarely double skin brick for most internal walls. Until the 70s or 80s breeze block was an acceptable cheaper alternative. Resiliant against a dozen generations hanging pictures, making adjustments to rooms and features, hanging flat screen tvs etc. Adds significant natural sound proofing. Roofs built with large scale carpentry and joints. Remove every nail and bolt and the roof will still be gale and rain proof. My current house doesn't seem to ever have had any nails or bolts in the roof space. The 30s house I used to have seemed to have just a few token ones. Slate and small tile (shingles in the US?) should last around a century and be an easy replacement. Some of the cast iron gutters and rain goods will be shot after a century, but plastic often needs replacing after 30.

Crucially the foundations are built, often providing a handy cellar, rather than being a weak pour of a foot or two of concrete.

Sometimes comes with a downside. One house, in Manchester, was built with engineering brick. Even the internal walls. So damn tough it took time to get a drill or angle grinder into it let alone bang a nail in for a picture. :)

New: Internal frame and plasterboard walls, sometimes between houses meaning limited hanging of tvs and pictures, and adjustments even for the first generation of occupants. 300 years of home improvements and decoration will not work here. Listen in on the neighbours with ease, even when you'd rather not. Roofs built from pre-assembled trusses. Lose the ironwork from age or rust and the whole roof will be on the brink of collapse as the steel joints are structural. Not amenable to loft extensions, storage or even surviving the decay that frequently affects the eaves (You can't replace the rotted part as easily as they're now part of the structure). The modern style of large tile and truss means roofs are much shorter lived (I'm told around 40 years).

Now, if only there were some houses being built using pre-war methods and strength of materials with current levels of insulation, renewables and electricals we'd be golden for the future. :)
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I have already mailed you. There was no fix unfortunately.
Interesting to see people having different life paths. Thanks for sharing your personal story :)
Yes, it does. When it's off it says something to the effect of "Turn off to prevent devices from accessing your phone's contents without requiring your passcode."
Answering the second part of your question:—

Re SSL expiry: we've taken the route of running VirtualMin on our 'commodity' servers, sites setup in there have an auto-renew policy if they use SSL, so it requires no action and auto-updates whenever certs expire (IIRC it's every three months? but I might be wrong: it requires no thought nor action from me).

For domain names, we use Joker (Swiss company), we've found them to be good in all aspects, and they send renewal notices well in advance (including a link that anyone can use to renew the domain, even without having an account with them).

Uptime monitoring is a whole different kettle of fish, and we manage it on a per client basis depending on needs. For the sites we host, generally if the server's up, then the sites are up — but we also do more specific monitoring if it's a client requirement.
This article is a year old. Does anyone know the current status of the Gutenberg release? Article says first half of 2018 and we are well past that.
I hope so. Someone needs to invent some goddamn self-contained solar covered parking spaces. I live in the Southwest and I can't believe that we're in 2018 and no one is tapping into solar power for everything during the day.
"meant to be fabulous" is a weird construction.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18296959
Hahaha, thanks for your advice. But I understand that to "make it" one has to start young, for better or worse.
"meant to be" means "other people say"
I dont think you will write in that language. You will compile to that language from whatever language you prefer to write in.
Don't forget coal fired heating, and the air prior to clean air legislation. Smogs were a common occurrence and included industrial and coal smoke. Much like is seen in China and India today.

Smogs were not just of Victorian London. :)
While of course true, there have been a few groundbreaking null results such as the Michelson–Morley experiment.
Yep, that's my main motivation for not even attempting it. There are a ton of security settings alone. I am not gonna be the idiot who will let a 14-year old bored script kiddie into my VPS-es so they can have a laugh at my expense.

I prefer the managed services. Save for the high availability you get tons of best security practices -- all for a few bucks a month. It's usually a such a crazy cheap deal it's almost not fair to them.
What is wrong with citus? Why reimplement it?
Automatic Compilation of Julia Programs and Generic ML Models to Cloud TPUs
A possible problem I see is that it's hard to distinguish truly bad idea from a low quality implementation of a good one.
Trump asks media to 'stop hostility' after bomb sent to CNN
I tried to use one of the Nissan dealer chargers a few weeks ago on a trip. The dealership was closed so they blocked access to the lot with the charger. This is pretty typical.
Amen to that. My company does very large cyber security contracts for DoD and has a god awful home page. It's almost like a badge of honor to someone how bad it is.
> Hetzner is not a reasonable choice for servers IMO, its akin to hosting in a datahole in Dallas, expect mixed bandwidth quality and questionable policies when issues arise.

Really surprised to hear that, can you please elaborate? I only heard good things about them up until now...

> Comparatively, OVH looks stable.

What kind of stable do you mean? Bandwidth, latency, average I/O ops, CPU load?
Very cool. 10-20 years ago it was quite common in Istanbul to see a similar method of divination but done with a rabbit! Haven't seen them for some time but here's a recent video of the operation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KFKbieSe8c
Funny, people used to say the exact opposite, that any system designed to be hack-proof would lose in the end.
They are completely different products? Citus deals with scaling pipelinedb deals with continuous queries.
Not cruel, because cruelty requires the causing of pain or suffering to be a willful act. If you do something that causes pain despite your intentions (e.g. suturing), or you do something with no knowledge that it causes pain or suffering (e.g. cutting into a lobster you thought was dead, but it wasn't) - then it isn't an act of cruelty.

With bonsai, you really can't say where the pain or suffering is. There arguably isn't any, since many plants actually often required to be cut for health reasons (e.g. deadheading).
The thing i hate about CSS is how unstructured it can be. You just sorta list whatever you want and it's suddenly a style sheet. No headers, no footers, no must includes.... DO I use quotes around this value? Do I not? Does white space matter? It's the most intimidating language I've ever used just because it feels so open and uncontrolled and nonsensical... I always thought CSS was some leftover abomination from the days of Netscape.
At least in the UK the banks and the police have worked together for years to establish “identity theft” as a thing.

From: Whoops we gave a loan to a stranger because they tricked us!

To: You owe us money because someone stole the core of yourself, from yourself, without you noticing

The police get to move a whole load of theft out of their crime statistics as it modernizes, and the banks get to avoid lots of ‘red tape’ and can decide how nice they want to be to each victim (or rather, how profitable being nice is).
Except a null result would have been interesting here.
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Except for arabic numerals. All of science, in every language, uses arabic numerals. That is a really big deal we rarely even mention.
> A null finding might not be great for the researcher

The fix for that would be to change science funding so a null finding doesn't hurt the researcher's career.
PowerShell has a design answer for this - each cmdlet takes parameters, but the environment provides common parameters relating to loging, error handling, storing output in variables, and it provides support for "WhatIf" and transactions.

WhatIf instructs the command not to make any changes, but merely to log what it would do. You can "Remove-Item C:\Windows -Force -WhatIf" and it will output "What if: Performing the operation "Remove Directory" on target "C:\windows"" but not delete anything.

(implementing support for "whatif" is optional, so you can't casually use it on any given cmdlet without first checking that cmdlet supports it and makes sensible use of the parameter instead of ignoring it, but the idea is there).
You can also read the book "Thinking, fast and slow"
It's far enough along that they're actively pushing it at people who update their WP installations. There's a big banner on the front of the dashboard urging you to try the FUTURE OF WORDPRESS.

I did. I went back to the old ways.
>>Further, why shouldn't we allocate visas to the most valuable, ie highest paying, uses?

For this question to be valid, you first need to demonstrate that someone's value can accurately be determined by their salary and their salary only, and that any difference in salary between two people is the result of differences in the value they offer (as opposed to, say, being able to interview well, or knowing someone high up in the company).
Yep. One thing that the managed services give you is exactly that peace of mind you mention. Plus the fact that they are much better at fine tuning security, availability and performance settings than myself.
The 1st beta of WordPress 5.0 was released today (which includes Gutenberg). Outside of discovering any major blockers, the current plan is to release 5.0 on November 19.
> Try setting a child of a flexbox container to 100% height.

Isn't this the default?

align-items: stretch

--- https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/

> The days of needing separate constructs because of bandwidth are over

That wasn't the reason for stylesheets. It was for ease of changes. For example, to change the color of the headings on all of your HTML pages, you would change just the stylesheet. This was when each web page was a static HTML file. Few websites used programming languages to render pages. So the benefit today is less.

But I guess if you don't care about that nor bandwidth then you can use inline style attributes.
If most of your communication is between two containers sitting inside a Kubernetes cluster then using GRPC is a no brainer as you get fast performance backed by a strongly typed interface definition language. No human is going to be looking at the traffic so using a binary format makes total sense.

In my experience it's also faster to develop GRPC microservices as you spend less time dealing with Serialization and Deserialization. The only main downsides are the quirks of Protobuf but they are pretty easy to get used to.

Combining with GraphQL you can get a pretty high performance microservice stack, especially if you develop your microservices in Go and use a GraphQL Gateway like Apollo to stitch the whole thing together.
Under what circumstances do you think an airline would choose not to know its passengers? This isn’t adtech.
looks good, but when comparing it to CommentBox.io I have to say that their blurb of "No ads. No Tracking. Just Comments.
Hosted commenting that's painless to embed, a pleasure to use, and a breeze to moderate." is _exactly_ what I want. I _think_ you offer the same thing (not sure about the moderation), but they tell me that up front. that being said their $5 per 100 comments is effing scary if anything gets unexpectedly popular.
LESS is more how CSS should look like for styling. It's amazing we don't have embedding of rules yet.

parent {

child {

}

}

is just so much more development friendly than

parent {

}

parent child {

}
Gutenberg has been progressing on GitHub. It just got merged into the beta version of WP 5.0 release today, which is slated for general release on November 19.
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Will be the default in 5.0 of which Beta 1 has just been released (which probably prompted this submission)
Tesla Autopilot retrofit on a classic P85 (2016)
The History and Concept of Computability (1996) [pdf]
It's the end, but it would have died anyway. While WordPress's success is amazing, it's still a pile of PHP that requires constant diligence to keep it running safely.

I use it myself for a simple corporate blog, because it's so widely supported and everything else sucks even worse....
Well, those were invented by Indian Mathematicians acc to Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu–Arabic_numeral_system
Around 32:00 : I was confused a little when Paul was talking about when 80% of facebook's user revolted against the decision on newsfeed and then facebook decided to stick with the decision which is ultimately successful. Seems to in direct contrast in what he believed when he was building Gmail.
Having learned Arabic because my ex girlfriend was Jordanian I can say it is a difficult language, but anything gendered is frustrating and difficult. Its the writing that gets me, the right to left thing is entirely a new way of thinking.
There's no need to insult me to start with.

I intended no insult, nor did I post one. I simply pointed out that there were glaring factual issues with your comment. I apologize if you misinterpreted what I said.
Agreed. It's why I think us the programmers should eventually just settle for 5-10 languages globally and not touch anything else -- so [together with all the other problems that still exist] we can also finally get to writing the one UltimateDataMapper™ library that can work with whatever is out there.

I seriously can't be bothered to setup yet another cool and young database promising me quantum entanglement teleportation anymore. It's what is stopping me from trying 99.9% of what I see on the net.

I have a few scripts to which I just pass a DB name / user / pass and it brings me up (or tears down) a Postgres or MySQL/Maria database. I'd do the same for Elastic and a few others if I wasn't so lazy about it for years now.
I think your point about infinite divisibility is an interesting one. But the main downside is that there is no incentive to exchange the currency (a pizza or ownership in a business) when you know that the currency will be more in a year than it is worth today.
The ghazal begs to disagree.
Well, most languages do that as "standard" (i.e Go net/http package) including the browsers(chrome, mozilla etc).
Ben Thompson and Tyler Cowen on Business and Tech
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33636796/chrome-safari-n...

I'm referring to this. Got bitten by it recently.

> That wasn't the reason for stylesheets. It was for ease of changes. For example, to change the color of the headings on all of your HTML pages, you would change just the stylesheet. This was when each web page was a static HTML file. Few websites used programming languages to render pages. So the benefit today is less.

Interesting, I didn't know that. Still, CSS doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. Here's a bunch of global state, some of which is hidden in gigantic minified files, now edit it!
The CTO of Schlumberger once completely ghosted Satya. His son works for Google and they had a big push for GCP and Satya called on him to discuss options and such and ... Crickets.

This was when Satya was a bit more of an unknown but still, ignoring the CEO of one of the largest companies in the world is stone cold.
Ask HN: Is any of the eCommerce sites using Google AMP pages in production?
Is any of the eCommerce sites using Google AMP pages in production for a dynamic page like a page with filters, checkout flow ? Looks like the adoption is decent among the news sites.
The AMP project page lists companies like eBay, Raukuten but I can't find the AMP version of thier pages.
Brilliant. By being simple.

Reminds me of - and can be combined with - my father's "invention" when he got a bad back of installing the dishwasher at cupboard height.
Plus the error handling is abysmal.
Am I the only one who considers a dishwasher and a vacuum cleaner to be a very simple robot? It seems like robot == machine +/- software. From that standpoint, we have had increasingly complex robots in our homes for a long time now.
Re: Silexan, I'm noticing a lot of stuff that seems very off. "Kasper" seems to be the author of almost every study around silexan, like article #1 above (doi 10.3109/13651501.2013.813555) and this meta-analysis [0] where Kasper et al seems to be analyzing three of their own papers!

Article #2 (doi 10.1097/jcp.0000000000000615) is a meta-analysis that seems to not have Kasper in the author list, but then if you read the full article you'll see that every single one of the studies they analyze minus one are all Kasper's!

Isn't this super shady? How is any of this kosher????

----

And the Kasper meta-analysis I mention above was funded by the makers of Silexan:

> The research presented in this paper was funded by Dr. Willmar Schwabe GmbH & Co. KG, manufacturer of Silexan, who was also the sponsor of the trials included in the meta-analysis. The statistical analysis plan for the meta-analysis was conceived and the analyses were performed by the biostatistical department of Dr. Willmar Schwabe GmbH & Co. KG under the responsibility of co-author SS. The company also provided the raw data of the trials included into the analyses. A first draft of the manuscript was prepared by Andreas Völp, Ph.D., an independent medical writer who was reimbursed by Dr. Willmar Schwabe GmbH & Co. KG, who also independently performed the risk of bias assessments. Open access funding provided by Medical University of Vienna.

And of the other authors:

> Hans-Jürgen Möller has received grant/research support, consulting fees and honoraria within the last years from AstraZeneca, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Eli Lilly, GlaxoSmithKline, Janssen Cilag, Lundbeck, MSD, Novartis, Organon, Otsuka, Pfizer, Schwabe, Sepracor, Servier, and Wyeth. Hans-Peter Volz has served as a consultant or on advisory boards for Astra/Zeneca, Eli Lilly, Lundbeck, Pfizer, Schwabe, Janssen, Otsuka, Merz, Wyeth, neuraxpharm and has served on speakers’ bureaus for Astra/Zeneca, Eli Lilly, Lundbeck, Schwabe, Janssen, Merz, Wyeth, Lichtwer, Steigerwald, Hormosan, neuraxpharm and Bristol-Myers Squibb. Angelika Dienel and Sandra Schläfke are employees of Dr. Willmar Schwabe GmbH & Co. KG, manufacturer of Silexan. Siegfried Kasper received grants/research support, consulting fees and/or honoraria within the last 3 years from Angelini, AOP Orphan Pharmaceuticals AG, AstraZeneca, Eli Lilly, Janssen, KRKA-Pharma, Lundbeck, Neuraxpharm, Pfizer, Pierre Fabre, Schwabe and Servier.

[0] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00406-017-0852-4
The peer review industry: implausible and outrageous
when I search Google for "furniture" one of the first results is the craigslist furniture section for my city, much of which is free.
I assumed it was the tweak they made to ARM pointers
Most people don’t care. You buy a car and you charge it. Blacklisting only happens if you buy a car with a salvage title and repair it, which is not something done by the vast majority of people.

I understand if this drives you away on principle, but you’re not representative.
I've been struggling some to describe numerals and Mikey's to my small children, and it often feels like they area backwards. As you describe this I wonder: are we literally writing them backwards?
Could you make a `[caller]_up` user for each different user?
Some dealers will let any car charge. Some will only accept Nissans. Some will only accept Nissans they sold. It’s a crapshoot.
It'd be good if there was a law that'd fine corporations for being unable to protect user data.

Make the fine directly proportional to: number of people affected * bits of leaked data for each user.
So if I say that I'm a man and somebody doesn't believe me, what can I do? Wouldn't it be easier to say "An individual is the ultimate authority on what pronouns are correct, and their word should be taken over that of everybody else because everybody else might be mistaken"?

Specifically, you've stated that people _don't have the right_ to choose their pronouns, and that's where you lose me. What does it mean to "choose" a pronoun, and what harm does allowing people to confidently assert "This is how I am properly referred to, all other ways are incorrect"?
Worth noting that although other cars can't use Tesla's supercharger stations, there is an adapter you can get for a couple hundred bucks that will allow you to charge at all of Tesla's 'destination' charging stations.
> they seem to be almost lossless

The should be just plain (completely) lossless unless your image encoder is doing something evil behind your back.
I would disagree with the articles analogy of MSA to arabic dialects is like Latin to Romance languages. The difference is not quite that stark with Arabic.
I like to think that one of the reasons for WordPress's resounding and continuous success among developers has been its open source, libre GPL license.

That being the case, I can see a well-prepared, well-publicized and well-maintained fork easily taking the cake from WP.org in the near future, as WP.com becomes more like the SquareSpace they admire so much.
Anyone who wants to.

That may mean wanting something else less.

If that's not acceptable, they didn't want to.

And that's fine.