skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's one point i've read somewhere that really made methink differently on this subject: It was claiming that listening to lossy formats will increase brain activity, because you're brain makes up for some missing information on thy fly. This is not a conscious proccess. But after listening to music for a while, lossless music could be less exhausting and more relaxing because of that.

Not completely sure, if this is true, I couldn't find the study for it right away.
Op-Ed: Blockchain Can Wrest the Internet from Corporations' Grasp
What's the likelihood of either of these happening? Neither of the links provide any data on incidence of ID theft leading to house stealing or being thrown in jail, which leads me to believe it's probably extremely low. Happy to be shown otherwise though.
Away from the lights you have 2 directions to check for traffic from. At an intersection you have to be aware of people coming from 4 directions potentially turning towards you.
I wonder how much electric scooters impacted the decline over the last year, anyone have any data or further insight on this?
Seems like a failure of politics. Which is what I said.
There are many ways one could monetize blog posts. It is not obvious to me that most blog posts are worth any money at all. Let’s take the best case scenario: How much are you willing to pay for the blogs that you read?
I don't know, maybe that is a thing, and maybe things have changed, but when I was doing product pricing, our assumption was that the GSA price was going to be somewhat higher than the "discounted" price most customers would pay.
> look at the app's source (to their credit, it's easily available)

Care to link to where this "easily available" source code is? I tried searching for it and couldn't find it.
Owning a home is correlated with developing wealth. The average person who owns their home will develop higher levels of wealth during their lifetime than the average person who does not. This holds true even for people who start out with very little wealth and use a mortgage to purchase their home.
By that standard you shouldnt be using the internet. The “damage” is questionable to say the least. There is a whole group of poor people who need access to fossil fuels to survive, but are you going to stop them from getting it in the mame of climate change? Are you goin to stop buying computers and other products build and distributed using the internatioal supply change? If not why expect others to do what you dont?
Just wait for your turn to cross at the lights? People don’t often just full on run red lights do they?
Worse than release day Death Magnetic by Metallica?
Here in Germany there is a strong culture to bike to work. Even with bad weather (as now in winter) you see a lot of people including kids biking.

At the company I'm working at there is some programs where you can buy a bicycle and the company pays you some percentage of the price back [1]

[1]: https://www.jobrad.org
Screw mortgages, I hate them too, but what are you going to do.
>The article also ignores the fact that during a period of lowering rates (assuming equity in the house), one can often refi to those lower rates

This fact is one of the central themes of the article.

>If the market craters or rates go up, unless one is speculating, it doesn't matter - the rate is locked.

Another central theme is that the housing and labor markets are highly related. Homeowners are least able to relocate for opportunity when it is most important to do so.
This ignores the Clinton wing of the party, which votes with the Republicans on these sorts of issues that impact the pockets of the large political donors.

>BERNIE SANDERS INTRODUCED a very simple symbolic amendment Wednesday night, urging the federal government to allow Americans to purchase pharmaceutical drugs from Canada, where they are considerably cheaper. Such unrestricted drug importation is currently prohibited by law.

The Senate voted down the amendment 52-46, with two senators not voting. Unusually, the vote was not purely along party lines: 13 Republicans joined Sanders and a majority of Democrats in supporting the amendment, while 13 Democrats and a majority of Republicans opposed it.

https://theintercept.com/2017/01/12/cory-booker-joins-senate...
At some intersections there can be a button that will give you priority and issue a full stop for all traffic, but those aren't too common.
Netlify for free hosting. Static site generators for HTML and vanilla CSS/JS. Sometimes Vue and Material.io if it's a larger SPA.
React hosted in an S3 bucket, API Gateway with one Lambda function per model, single DynamoDB table with overloaded indexes. This will cost you pennies to spin up and get traction with.
Lets say that there are 2 products, both of them offering similar functionality which is useful to a user. One of them only offers a progressive webapp and the other a native app.
I can't think of a single example of where a product offering the former has won over the latter.

Does anyone know of any products which have succeeded despite not having a mobile app ( while their competitors did)?
While I love the idea behind it, this is based on Servo's WebRender, which is not at all ready to handle anything more than toy web pages. So applications built using this are going to have to have very simple UI.

I really do wish Mozilla would put more resources into making Webrender on par with Gecko/Webkit/Blink. There is a huge market for light weight, embeddable, rendering engines.
In the UK as well. As someone from Australia, I was so surprised so many people riding in all conditions, when back home it was incredibly rare even though the conditions were so good, all the time.
I live in Seattle, and there's a stark contrast between the Amsterdam bike culture and the Seattle one.

It's as I said. Yes, I'll pass someone once in a while on a bike in Seattle in street clothes, maybe one in twenty. The rest are in logo spandex. The ratio is reversed in Amsterdam.

Nobody wears a helmet in Amsterdam, either. Yes, I know you do :-) Make that one in a hundred. They're riding a sturdy bike often with a basket in front for the groceries. I've never seen a basket on a Seattle bike. After all, you never see a basket on the TdF.
I feel like in Europe and America, the attitude is
"If somebody breaks the rules, it's morally justified to endanger that person".

I recently experienced cycling in Taipei. Traffic rules seem to be somewhat "loose" compared to the situation in European cities. Two lanes, but some space? Let's make a third lane. Red light? Better pay attention while running it.

But, and that's my main takeaway, people don't want to kill each other and keep calm in any situation.

Riding the bicycle doesn't feel like "one against them", it's more like "I'm in this chaos together with all the others".

[edit]
I'm not advocating for less rules, but for a more harmonic attitude towards others in traffic.
Congress has tiny staff budgets partly because one of the parties outsources all of its policy analysis and legislation writing to lobbyists, all of its public outreach/education to corrupt “think tanks” and corporate-owned media outlets, and intentionally eviscerated their own budget because in the past their own independent expert analysis often contradicted industry preferences, which was inconvenient for the corporations calling the shots.
They may not fully run it, but they often stop in the crosswalk here (GA). I live in a very walkable area and have to be very careful crossing the one major busy street even when they don’t run the light. By the time I’m confident they will actually stop, the light is almost ready to change again.
At an age of 72 I find that writing down my thought processes when I'm programming or debugging is of huge benefit. Holding a Q and A session with myself that echos each thought as it appears works best. In a crude sort of way I think it halves the time to accomplish a goal. I don't think it's just because I suffer the effects of aging. I wish I had started younger.
Yes, regularly.
But does the entire chain end-to-end support sending a file unmodified? If for example there's a mixer involved so that your ringtone can interrupt your music, that music can't be piped through without decoding. Is the volume control handled in the headset or does it come earlier? That can't be applied without decoding either.
That’s only motivation for InfoSec, though. The CEO has to be motivated to practice good security by the bottom line implications; if having a security incident means less profit, a conscientious CEO will make sure to mitigate that risk, or at least factor it into the tradeoffs of what to do.

Without any significant monetary threat, the ultimate cost of security breaches to a company isn’t truly a big deal.
Given the spotty, lost, inconsistent, difficult to access, difficult to share state of medical records in the US, getting a full set, easy peasy, seems like a wonderful problem to have.
Personally I use Groovy & Grails, usually with Postgresql. Recently I've started using Hetzner for hosting since they have better pricing than a lot of the other options.
I have Authy instead of Google Authenticator — not that there’s anything wrong with the latter, but if you lose your phone it’s much more of a hassle.
Front end: Typescript, Vue, Bootstrap

Backend: Node, Typescript, Express, TypeORM, Postgres, SocketIO, PugJS, BabylonJS

Webpack for bundling

Digital Ocean or Azure for Ubuntu vm hosting

I feel having the same language for front/back end really reduces mental overhead.
The walk light will often be on at the same time as the green light for drivers going the same direction. Sometimes a turning driver won't notice you. Doesn't happen that often, but happens often enough that you have to be aware of it.

A lot of times it is just easier to cross in the middle of a block because you have a much better buffer area where random cars can't pop out from. Obviously it depends on the particular road. If it is some 6 lane wide main thoroughfare, I'd probably opt for the cross walk.
Yes very good answer.

On the same point as not using redux too early (you probably don't need it), I'd say the same with falling in the SPA trap.

Most modern apps are now de-facto built as SPAs, mostly for wrong reasons. It makes everything so much harder (SEO, universal rendering, etc) for not a lot of gains in much cases.

Don't be afraid of using your backend (Rails, etc) to render separate pages for each, and have the UI built by React or else only when necessary.
Vue also does a great job at making it easy to have "mini" apps for each page.
He is not saying analog computation will "fix all problems". He is saying the computation that is happening that props up a Trump resembles an analog system where noise plays a role.
+1 for using old equipment for home labs.

There’s lots of perfectly good hardware out there for cheap that may be beyond it’s useful life for top end production workloads but is still great for other projects or just tinkering.
How much of the new infrastructure is just paint on the roads? That doesn't do very much to make people feel safe on a bike.
> Well analog computation being noisey could be the reason we experience things like emotion.

Hm, I don't really see why this should be the case. Emotions are a pretty well studied in both animals and humans and are, to put it very handwavingly, merely a global change of brain state/equilibria, for example modulated by brain regions such as the Amygdala and/or the release of neuromodulators [1]. From my understanding, there is nothing about emotions that cannot be computed by a digital computer, and there is little about emotions that is related to noise.

I'll let philosophers think about the experience part of your statement.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amygdala
Ah, the good old "boss key" present in so many games! I remember it from Leisure Suit Larry [1], and a few more. At the time it was more like a "mom key" :)

The open office was probably invented as a countermeasure for the boss key.

[1] https://www.mobygames.com/game/leisure-suit-larry-goes-looki...
No idea; it's possible that Ilfak has kept you on a list internally and is waiting for you to annoy him sufficiently for him to activate a remote kill-switch ;)

Honestly, I'm semi-confident that he does this just because he can…
1. The Demon Under the Microscope... (T.Hager)
2. The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag (Heinlein)
3. Masters of Doom... (D.Kushner)
4. Paycheck (P.Dick)
5. Dealers of Lightning (M.Hiltzik)
I'd gladly bike in the rain if there was better infrastructure to South Seattle. Sharing a lane the entire way to downtown though? No thanks.
how do you handle SEO in this case?

AFAIK most crawlers (including facebook etc) don't load javascript, so I'm always wondering how to allow dynamic pages (say a product's page) to be crawled and have a og meta tags.

If this had a great solution, boy things today would be much easier!
> The walk light will often be on at the same time as the green light for drivers going the same direction.

Well that’s just bonkers.

Where I live when a pedestrian wants to cross the lights stop all cars for the duration.
Because we are human and curious.
A racing bike for commuting isn't that sensible an option either though. Unless you race in your spare time and want to get miles on the bike, a hybrid or touring bike will be a lot more comfortable and durable on city roads.
Bikers tend to forget the class separations that biking entails. You can only ride to work if your work supports biking. That means a place to lock your bike and a place to shower/change. Most people work at places without such luxuries. And you have to be in a job where you don't have to look nice all day. Public-facing people such as receptionists or sales people cannot bike to work. People who have to haul their own tools cannot bike to work. If your job can tick all the boxes, great for you. But don't lecture those who don't have such options.

I'm reminded of that scene from the IT Crowd where the boss, in bike shorts, is yelling at a room full of people in suits about stress. The ability to bike to work is often a distinction, something to be waved over those in you organization who dare not wear spandex in an office environment.
An airship has far lower payload capacity and is SLOW. VERY SLOW. A car on the interstate would outpace one.
Writing What You Know: John Steinbeck
The big problem is "Right Turn On Red" aka "How Dare A Pedestrian Slow Me Down".

We need to get rid of that rule now that the justification for it no longer exists.
What sort of road is it? Does it have a shoulder? Believe it or not in Boulder one of the most popular strava segments is on a highway
If you are relying on SEO to gain initial traction, your project is going to fail. Start worrying about SEO when you have a core base of users who are actually using your product and by then you'll be more interested in refining features for your userbase that you won't fall into the feng shui trap that is SEO.

edited to add: The reason I discount SEO like this is because SEO is essentially chasing a search result against competitors who likely have more budget, more resources, and more time to play that game. Spend your time on making your product better, aggressively market directly to people instead of relying on the passive results of SEO, and by the time your project takes off, you will hopefully be in a spot where you won't care very much about why using react-helmet doesn't help with Facebook shares.
From what I see, XMPP is "message delivery" while matrix is " eventually consistent global db with pubsub semantics"

The difference becomes relevant when you have multiple or offline devices. XMPP may not deliver messages to some of the devices (for example, if message carbons are not supported by client). Matrix will not drop messages -- it may take some time, but eventually all devices will see all the messages.
It’s a valid fear. Dynamo can get really expensive really fast with on demand or auto scaling.

I have a dynamo addon for Heroku apps and need to keep cost under control. I use AWS Budgets and put a fixed price monthly budget on every table. If users go over the budgets access keys get disabled.

https://elements.heroku.com/addons/autodyne

https://aws.amazon.com/aws-cost-management/aws-budgets/
I object to the id check. I shouldn't need an id to travel Domestically.
I object to the search and seizure of my property.
Doing nothing will give us just as safe and secure flights as we have today.
The way to fix 9/11 was to change procedures, not treat every passenger like a criminal.
eBikes make a really big difference for #1
> And small, efficient planes make direct flights competitive with connecting ones.

No it doesn't, because the limitation at most major airports is the number of takeoff and landing slots. More, smaller, planes would reduce capacity because you can only have a plane takeoff every 3 minutes or so.
Well we can start with disclosure. If a product was given or money changed hands and it’s not clearly stated on the placement video then if they get caught, massive fines.
Maybe the QA folks are worse off in game dev companies, but they seem to be second class citizens everywhere else too. Which is a pity, since as stated they are worth their weight in gold. A developer has a mindset of how do I make this work, a QA person has a mindset of how do I make this break - they are completely complimentary.
Where are the hills in Seattle? It may not be as flat as Amsterdam, but it certainly isn’t San Francisco (or even LA, for that matter).

I had the good fortune to essentially never get in a car in Seattle — I always took the subway, or the trolley, or walked. Granted I only ever spent a lot of time at Amazon and the Hutch, most everywhere beyond walking distance of south lake union or the subway is a blank spot on the map to me. But it seemed like a pretty casual place to bike commute.

I rode to work most every day when I lived in SF, and in DC, and for a while in LA. Perversely, it was always safest where the traffic was worst (gridlocked) as drivers couldn’t get going fast enough to severely injure me then. Northern Virginia by contrast was terrifying — soccer moms barreling around at 70mph in SUVs while on cell phones. I think it’s a cultural issue — that wouldn’t fly in the Netherlands.
Exactly. Turning cars are by far the biggest problem.
Drifting. Why we need a Slow Web. (2016)
Doesn't that test just intentionally choose bits of music that are hard to discern?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triarchy_%28theory%29
The wave toward legalization ignores the serious health risks of marijuana
What uses of MDArrays in deep learning don't correspond to tensor manipulations? Many aspects of deep learning theory are discussed in a coordinate-free manner as tensors or multilinear maps, with the MDArray simply referring to the coordinate representation. The operations on the MDArray then refer to a change in representation of the underlying linear-algebraic object, or a discretized version of a linear-algebraic operation on the underlying object. Hence I find the naming entirely appropriate.
I wish every site would do that... but they like to do the opposite
I've had enough of these robocalls. I never answer calls anymore now. 90% of incoming calls are coming from telemarketers and scammers using those robocalls. I have just read an article at https://www.whycall.me/news/consumer-wins-massive-229500-rob... about how we can deal with such robocalls. However, it only works if the caller is a legit business. Hope this help.
I used to ride to work in Seattle, about 5 miles with one hill.

I rode my ancient 10-speed I'd had since a teen, and wore street clothes.

It was before the silly bike madness rolled over the city. I first noticed it when I invited my gf out for a ride, and she had to go buy a special bike outfit first.
Where's Dart?
> I mean, go on any public forum and ask people what they think of bicyclists riding their bikes on the road, where we are legally allowed to do.

To be fair, there just is no good way to share a 40mph thoroughfare between bikers and cars. Most of the Northern European countries get away with sharing by having MUCH slower roads.

Bikers need their own dedicated lanes that don't interact with automobile traffic.
The "fuck bikers" depends a lot on what city you're in. In some places cars go out of their way to make room for cyclists. At times in Boulder I've thought that at times cars can be too polite towards cyclists.
USA Marine Corps Conducts an Assault Exercise
Bike fenders are not allowed in Seattle, since they weigh too much. So in the rain you get to enjoy the mud stripe up your back. And the brakes don't work when wet, either, which is fun on the hills.
What static site gens do you like? Keep thinking about Hugo, but apparently its hard to customize well?
The Norwegian art of the packed lunch
Probably not the same place as when they're 30. When you're no longer working and the kids are grown, school system and job market become irrelevant. It becomes physically harder to care for each sqft, and with a smaller household you need fewer of them. As you lose the ability to drive safely, walkability becomes much more important.

When I'm 60 I want to have the wealth to meet my new housing needs. That could be a previous house to sell. It could also be stock portfolio to liquidate or passive income sufficient to cover rent.
If home ownership is a bad thing in this alternate universe, why would institutional landlords own and rent out homes? Why wouldn't they just invest all their money in index funds instead? Are they dumber than the renters or something?

I think it's fair to say that any scenario that works out well for landlords, works out at least as well for home owners. Because when you buy a home, you become a landlord! (Even if your only renter is yourself...)

As for why home ownership is a good thing, from a societal level, it's pretty well established that home ownership correlates to all sorts of good stuff like wealth development, better schools, lower crime, etc. But beyond that, a lot of people just like being in charge of their own stuff.

Over-extending yourself financially is a bad thing, and it's true that some people do that in pursuit of owning a home. But, other people over-extend themselves in pursuit of owning a nice car, or trying to become a rock musician, or getting rich quick with cryptocurrency, etc. Home ownership certainly does not have a lock on the category of "things people sometimes make bad financial decisions about."