skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Landlords that foster adversarial relationships like that are doomed to be burned even harder by tenants that get fed up with their nonsense, especially when landlords refuse to hold up their end of the contract while expecting tenants to be 100% flawless.

So many of the contracts I've had to sign have been filled with half-assed provisions that the landlord refuses to follow up on. If the landlord tried to hold my feet to the fire over something so banal as rent being slighty late I would lawyer up immediately.
Have Astronomers Found Another “Alien Megastructure” Star?
It's far more about politics than it is oil. If we lose Saudia Arabia to China/Russia the US influence in the middle east will be nil and then there will be 0% chance of democracy, just more more Dictatorship.
Not at 6.25 N kW^−1 it's not.
In Las Vegas at that time there was a law on the books that specifically forbade the person on the note, or anyone related to that person, to buy the note in a short sale or at auction. It was written to prevent scams where people could pump up their house value and get refinanced, default, and then buy the house back at a discount and pocket the difference.

It was amended in 2016 I believe to allow some purchases if they met specific criteria.

The "usual" way to getting around these things has been to create a company and have the company buy it. Companies are nominally 'new' people and don't have family or relatives.
I think you're really overstating the difficulty of acquiring a merchant terminal, which are available at literally any shop or restaurant that accepts cards.
How is it forcing code review on you?

I do agree that having things tied to a commit might not be ideal if you're running a lot of experiments in a large shared codebase.

I've been tempted to use git to version my model runs but always avoid it because it's usually just extra work.
But also, honest people.

What I've learned is, apply if it sounds cool. Worst case, you hear nothing. A relatively close second, you get an interview, and that's the meat.
What is your opinion on larger companies that produce beloved games like Blizzard? Have you applied? Is there some reason you wouldn't?
Yes this absolutely happens, which i why I've let many a friend from back home use my silicon valley address on their resume when applying to jobs out here.
is 'judder' a synonym for 'jank'?
Sounds like it'd be perfect for exploring Mars.
We can't do that. Buttons, and headphone jacks, are so yesterday. /s
When would the most transparent time have been?
> Just give everyone the XP. (This is an example of why XP is silly.) There are already MMOs that have done this.

The one such that I'm familiar with is Guild Wars 2, which is entirely designed around collaborative-only player interactions. All players hitting a mob will get the XP. All players get their own copies of resource nodes. You can just join in to group quests without being in the group, and everyone wins.

There are still ways to grief other players, though. For example, there's one world event I stumbled into where some mobs spawn, and if they're not killed in a certain amount of time, they spawn a boss mob. Not knowing this, I happily completed the first event... and got cussed out by a raid group that was waiting nearby for the big guy to spawn. I'm sure someone who actually wanted to disadvantage other players would find many more such examples.
interface{} is completely different, in that it doesn't allow polymorphism. In python, I can add = lambda a, b: a+b, and then call add on ints, floats, strs, or some custom type of my own. In go, I can pass an interface{} and check if its type is the same as some other type I know about. But no polymorphism.
I like the idea of Rolling Jubilee, but I don’t like how misleading their website is in terms of statistics. “77% of households are in debt” and “40% of indebted households use credit cards to pay for basic expenses” are both not particularly indicative of financial health. A household that has both a mortgage and buys groceries with a card they pay off at the end of every month would be included in that statistic.
But your debt doesn't go delinquent unless you're not making regular payments, which would imply you don't even have a percent or two of your total debt, let alone 10-30% of it.
> I should have known of the decision to expand their mandate.

He doesn't even answer the question at all: he just says he didn't "sign off" on that, but doesn't say who did. He's not even answering the question he puts as heading.

Or take this:

> I also want to emphasize that it was never anyone’s intention to play into an anti-Semitic narrative against Mr. Soros or anyone else. Being Jewish is a core part of who I am and our company stands firmly against hate. The idea that our work has been interpreted as anti-Semitic is abhorrent to me — and deeply personal.

Wait a second:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/14/technology/facebook-data-...

> Facebook employed a Republican opposition-research firm to discredit activist protesters, in part by linking them to the liberal financier George Soros. It also tapped its business relationships, lobbying a Jewish civil rights group to cast some criticism of the company as anti-Semitic.

The whole thing just adds insult to injury.

> I know this has been a distraction at a time when you’re all working hard to close out the year — and I am sorry.

So basically, "wouldn't it be great for this to just go away", after a bunch of soapy non-apologies and euphemisms.
Possibly: https://venturebeat.com/2015/06/19/apple-should-just-buy-duc...
The HCI Innovator's Dilemma
Texas has plenty of cargo trains with a pretty sophisticated setup.

There are currently at least two groups trying to do passenger trains between Austin, Dallas / Fort Worth, and Houston. I'm not sure what they want for Federal or State money.
Why would Saudi Arabia be any different than Russia or China (who we trade with (minus the Trump idiocy) without compunction) we don't comment on their murder of journalists or their dictatorships? Saudi Arabia is our only big ally in the region, why do you want to cut off all ties to them? It won't change anything and will just hurt us in the long run.
> It’s not about Definers. It is about us, not them.

Lol. I mean FB stopped working with them only after they were under scrutiny. Pure damage control
> portraying landlords as some heartless monsters is not professional (and simply not right)

You wouldn't have done well in Maoist China.

"Landlords" are to Chinese communism as "capitalism" is to the most extreme American leftists, the source of everything evil in the world.

In https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Live_(1994_film), there's a scene in which a family is publicly executed for the crime of having owned property pre-revolution.
Are you suggesting there isn't already a bunch of articles about the very example you gave?
Ok, what about Hacker News? But the article discusses news website like WaPo that really don't need to be very dynamic.
They will never give you fine grained control because this is part of the quid-pro-quo. You want convenience, they want data about you. They withhold convenience until you give them the data. Every single Google product is built around this core principle and it drives many if not all of their UI decisions.
Increase Productivity and Feel Less Overwhelmed with a Daily Theme Worksheet
I use bash because I'm incredibly familiar with it and know it inside out. Do you have any alternative you'd recommend?
“Also the anticipation of wanting something to happen, but still hasn't happen yet”

Good point. A lot of my news reading is like this. Not ‘what is happening in the world?’, but ‘what’s the latest progress on X?’.
This is a disaster for the climate.
On the other hand, with C you get the mustard on your burger because there was already some the plate and no one bothered to clean it.
No, "judder" is like a shaking or vibrating, "jank" just means bad quality.
I hope devs can fix the racing wheel latency first, so we can enjoy those racing games.
The statement was that “this” was ridiculous, where “this” was Perry wanting to abolish a really important agency without having a clue about what it actually does.
This is honestly a really, really good joke, I have to say.
Technically yes. But if you are underwater far enough, the bank could lose confidence in your willingness to repay the loan and could demand immediate repayment. So if your house is worth $15k less than the outstanding balance and you've got a history of paying on time, they're probably going to let things ride. But if your house is worth $50k less than the balance and they think you might walk away from the debt, they might demand you pay in full, immediately.
If anything the military side of things is far more advantageous to us than the oil. They are the major counter balance to the theocracy in Iran that would like to unbalance the entire region and establish an Iranian born caliphate.
People often think that book's title is "The C Programming Language" but if you look closely it's really "The Programming Language" and the blue-and-white logo is a linked list diagram. There's a blue circle around the base of the list's "next" pointer, which unfortunately is white on a white background.

By convention, C programmers know it it's unsafe to guess where the arrow points, so this has never been a problem.
> the majority of non-proselytizing religions

I get that you are much more aware of how it works in Christianity and Islam, but there is no majority of non-proselytizing religions.

Such a thing cannot exist in a Nash equilibrium. Think about it. All current faiths (and for that matter, ideologies) have spread much faster than people spread. MUCH faster. So they all proselytized.

It is sometimes a little bit irritating to hear people make the wildest claims about quite a few religions. Often about Buddhism people make the most outlandish claims, which presumably includes "non-proselytizing" in your comment. Now please don't think I'm singling out Buddhism here, it's just an example.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missionary#Buddhist_missions
Not polling, I trust.

Hacker News threads: like Hacker News fibers, but less cooperative.
Ask HN: Will Rust replace C/C++? What's holding it back? Are you using it?
I just wonder if it will become the language of choice for things like game development and embedded applications in the future, and I wonder if people are already starting to use it for these purposes, and I wonder why people so far choose not to, if indeed that is their choice.
Attempt of an injection attack
Apple has 3D touch, where if you press firmly on the screen, the phone makes a tactile "click" and triggers a different action than normal tap. Annoyingly, Apple mapped 3D touch to a totally new set of actions instead of replacing long press.
When I was young and foolish, I remember running into that same website through UFO conspiracy theory sites. Theory was/is, the ion wind 'lifter' tech was figured out many decades ago and that's how those pesky flying saucers get around.
Why does C++ not have that problem? It too has many communities but they manage to go to the same conferences without any issues.
That's harsh in the UK your primary residence is exempt totally.
How can Ansible be "massive overkill"? It's literally an interpreter of scripts, just like sh or bash. It doesn't require daemons or other infrastructure, just connects over SSH and runs the script.
Even if you were on the team who decided that on NYC and were charged to make it happen? I don't find it unreasonable to think that some key members of the team were set to relocate in and around the time the announcement came to pass. There is not enough information here to say if this is for speculation in real estate or personal use.

Heck at the rate of turnover and the job market they just could be a few employees leaving Amazon for a new position in NYC.
I think you're largely referring to sites that work based on their content, and not their workflow. i.e. site you interact with to consume content.

Most of those sites are "free". People are willing to wait for things that they want to consume and are available for free, up to some limit.

If we're talking about websites that offer some sort of utility -- i.e. it does something for you and you need to interact with it often. Then its responsiveness is likely going to be a much bigger factor.

If gmail loads your inboxes and emails in hundreds of milliseconds but yahoo took several seconds, and a person needs to respond to lots of emails during the day, I'm sure the person would develop a preference for the former if all other things are equal.
Why would you lawyer up if they started the eviction process for being late on rent? What legal recourse would you have? In Canada it takes something like 2 months to evict someone, it's not like you would be out on the streets the next day. If you pay a few days later the eviction process would probably be stopped and there would'nt be an issue.
> Also, Google pays Apple a non-trivial amount of money (widely rumored to be hundreds of millions/year) to be the default search engine on iOS

I thought it was known to be $3B?
My big company has code freezes and no planned deploys around holidays... Bug fixes are allowed, just need deviations.
Saw that movie decades ago and I still think about it from time to time, especially the steamed buns part.
There was going to be a Rust conference, but the venue was double-booked.
React-sky: easy animated backgrounds
Maybe, but at the same time I would assume Amazon offers relief assistance? I needed my companies sign off before I could even start looking for a house.
6 Strange Facts about the Interstellar Visitor 'Oumuamua
Unless dereferenced, of course.

The address is legal, just don't try to go there.
react-sky is a react component that makes super easy the creation of animated backgrounds.
Just pass some images and react-sky will do the job!

Live demo:
https://codepen.io/lucagez/full/oQoRyK/
Would be great to have some comparisons for energy requirements to other common appliances or surface area/weight percentage required to propel each configuration.
Schrage was like that even at Google. I met him once. That day, he vented about Googlers leaking. Yep! I can understand that it made his job harder, but, as you mention, there's a way to say something and then there's the better way to do it. For a PR person, I was surprised how he usually went for the former.
I just did a test from the main page to here.

Clicking on the link to comments took about 4-5 seconds to render the comments.

Doing a back then forward action in the browser appeared to be almost instantaneous (10's of milliseconds).

I have noticed that many websites are being significantly slower these days. It, of course, could be due to the national monitoring scheme that is required now here in Australia.

Using TOR to get access was a little slower to get access by about a second, otherwise back and forward are the same.
You don’t even need to be well-versed. If you just read the headlines you can ask people to fill you in. Some people just love to tell you what they know ;)
>No. There is Deed in Lieu of Foreclosure, which sounds like what you are talking about, but that is not a unilateral option you exercise by mailing keys...you need the banks permission, which they usually don’t give, especially when the property is underwater.

Like many other things, it depends on the state.

In Washington, for example, the lender can use a simplified process (that gets used over 99% of the time) for a foreclosure that makes it non-recourse.

The other option is to go to court, something that banks will only bother doing if they are fairly certain you have especially large assets that they can seize to make it worthwhile.
Wow so if you visited that site with no contextual understanding, you would arrive and leave with literally no additional knowledge of what the heck it was! How fantastic!
Hearing ability and having an "ear" for sounds are two orthogonal skills.

My hearing is, for lack of a better word, fucked. I'm in my 20's and I have quite bad tinnitus from years of shooting rifles without proper hearing protection [1], using power tools without any hearing protection, and standing next to large speakers at nightclubs for 16 hours every weekend.

Recently I have actually started looking after my ears. I wear high quality earplugs any time I'm somewhere with loud noises.

Anyway, my hearing isn't exactly great, especially in higher frequencies. But I've still got an ear for sounds. Back when I was shooting I'd be able to tell different calibers apart. When listening to a song I'll be able to pick the different samples and instruments apart. I'm also fairly sensitive to how speakers or headphones have been EQed.

It's a bit of a curse really. I really struggle in nightclubs and at raves with poor quality speaker systems. I was at a nightclub a few weeks ago and I spent the whole night being bugged by how off the EQ was. If a club hasn't got its acoustics right and has sound bouncing off the back wall it really bugs me too.

[1] Even for a .22 you need hearing protection, even if your ears don't hurt, the high frequency impact will still damage your hearing. And for shooting hundreds of rounds with AR-15s, foam earplugs are not suitable.
Quantum Computers Put Blockchain Security at Risk
Optional Monad in C
Many of them would turn a profit even with crude prices as low as $30 a barrel.

That is impressive and would seriously undercut a whole lot of nations including Russia and Venezuela. It really shows the advances and quality of the oil.
tcp/ip illustrated 1&2, by richard stevens, this is the bible of networking, it covers all the different osi layers, address spaces, protocols, packet layout, etc. if you want to understand how netwokring really works, this guves you all the details.
DropBox Security Test Revealed 3 Apple 0-days
Some AI laughed at your email, put a +1 on a category threshold counter and then deleted it. I hope you didn't put too much effort into it.
On my mountain bike it's very noticeable when I'm below 30 psi on a road, but the difference between 30 and 50 is not noticeable in terms of speed (hard cornering does feel a bit different).
Because there's a clear difference in how they view the responsibility of tenant vs landlord. They're effectively holding a tenant ironclad to the contract while not holding themselves to the same standard.

A great example is that a few years ago I signed an apartment lease that indicated the community was supposed to be gated. Now I didn't particularly care about that fact, but that's how it was advertised and sold to me.

When I arrived, the gates were broken and had been broken for over a year. Two years later when I was moving onto my next job, the gates were still broken despite it being advertised and in the lease.

This never became an issue for me because the location was flexible in other ways but it's an example of where had they been a hardass to me, I would've responded with equal tenor. Flexibiliy can be a two way street.
My least favorite type of latency is when you start typing and the application takes at least 1 - 2 seconds to catch up with you. This still happen to me often enough to be a normal occurrence on both my desktop computer and phone.
I'm about halfway through doing just that and I think a pattern has emerged: does there exists a plausible, concrete (you could put it into words) mechanism for cause and effect? That is, can a person tell you why the finding exists. For instance, a semantic association between capitalism and greed does not provide a plausible mechanism for why mentioning capitalism should make one greedy. The gay one failed that test, but otherwise that seems to be what's going on. A lot of these papers aren't testing a scientific theory. They're testing vague, half-baked ideas and associations.
Employees usually are much faster than customers to scan groceries - thousands hours of practice make perfect. Plus, those anti-theft machines that give you instructions "scan next item, put item in the bag, take the last item out of the bag" - they slow things down considerably.

Also, the number of labor required stays the same, just now it's unpaid labor.
> If this was in the US then almost certainly yes, if they had 130k cash or someone willing to lend it to them despite their recent default. You can generally "mail the keys to the bank" and have no further liability.

No, only 15 states generally prohibit mortgage deficiency judgements (and those prohibitions mostly apply only to first mortgages, and some are limited even there), in the rest the creditor can come after you for the unrecovered balance after a foreclosure sale.

https://www.legalmatch.com/law-library/article/anti-deficien...
Just b/c the eviction process is started doesn't mean the tenant can't resolve the problem before they are forced out. Assuming the tenant pays then waiting a week wouldn't matter. But if the tenant has decided that they won't pay then waiting the week delays the entire eviction process by an extra week - leading to the landlord getting 1 week less of income for every eviction. I have family that had to evict a tenant in California and it was an extremely long and drawn out process.
Ilya Grigorik"s High Performance Browser Networking is a great open-access backgrounder. Very up to date on modern topics such as WebRTC and WebSockets

https://hpbn.co/

Another comprehensive overall reference is Michael Kerrisk"s Linux Programming Interface handbook

https://nostarch.com/tlpi

And to see some of the latest developments. Check out talks from Linux NetDev Conference archives

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCribHdOMgiD5R3OUDgx2qTg/vid...

Finally, this was recently posted, and I believe the author is working on another one for QUIC...

"The Illustrated TLS Connection:
Every byte of a TLS connection explained and reproduced"

https://tls.ulfheim.net/

Best of luck, and you are on the right path. Master the fundamentals and the rest will follow ;)
Great educational note! My comment, generally, was for the civilized west. And as far as China goes, you are so right! And there ARE modern day landlords in China and, thankfully, here, we have contractors, subsidiaries, layers, international commitments, contracts, a SYSTEM that makes sure everyone within the chain gets their share ^_^
Half of Jobs at Amazon’s Two New Headquarters Won’t Be Tech Positions
Start with NoStarch TCP/IP Guide and then move onto TCP/IP Illustrated.

If you get through both of those and understand it you’lol have a far better grasp of networking than nearly everyone else in the business.
Domestic cats are also still nearly identical to African wildcats physically and in social behavior, with the primary differences being lower aggression levels and greater general sociability. Compare to dogs, where even the most "wild" dog has morphological differences in skull shape and distinct differences in social interactions from wolves [1].

[1]: https://particle.scitech.org.au/earth/eye-contact-between-di...
If you liked this piece, you might also enjoy Frank J. Babetski reviewing Thinking, Fast and Slow(Kahneman).

https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intellig...
I was under the impression that dogs kind of did that too, at least initially. Basically wolves and foxes and so on following humans around eating scraps and slowly becoming more accustomed to us.

Of course we found them useful enough that we then further trained and domesticated them too.
Please don't project your narrow viewpoint onto PL communities.
Probability and Statistics. Forms the basis of modern AI ;)
Why not? Just keep a backup like any sane individual.
Tech Crunch looks like advertising.