skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US median mortgage payment is around $1,000/mo. I can comfortably invest much more than that each month while renting a satisfactory apartment and spending freely. I just can't get anywhere near owning an equivalent condo.
>OTOH if you just want to access https://localhost on your PC things like "chrome://flags/#allow-insecure-localhost" exist and are easier to manage.

is there anything similar for firefox?
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Libertarian, I suppose. I was libertarian until I got my first corporate job, when I realized that every large corporation internally functions just like a Stalinist state. I mean Brezhnev had nothing on corporate America when it comes to bureaucracy..
Well the medium partner program is meant to enable people to earn money from their writing, no? As an author you have to make a choice to do that. I don't see a problem with this and if anything it's a great innovation.

My problem is that I'm subject to the kind of writing I'd rather avoid. Perhaps if they were better able to segment their user bases and make their feeds and recommendations better tailored to them the experience could actually be decent. But as a modeling problem I appreciate that it's probably pretty difficult to tell a BS article about Bitcoin (or whatever) from one with substance.
Based on some other news articles[1], it appears Ajit Pai was supposed to speak at CES and is now no longer attending, which seems like a fairly significant person to drop given how important spectrum and approvals are to these manufacturers. (feelings about Pai's current policy prerogatives notwithstanding)

[1] https://variety.com/2019/digital/news/ces-2019-us-government...
Ask HN: Have you tried Homeopathy and how effective has it been?
The Mars Exploration Rovers Update: Opportunity Still Silent, Team Still Hopeful
VPN to the rescue! I use a third party VPN and Netflix does not complain. Spinning up a VM and proxying with SOCKS should also do the trick.
Indeed. He does allude to the cost problem but buries it. Another post on HN a few days ago claimed that no new nuke plants will ever be built (after Sumpter) in the US because the economics make no sense. Let's hope he's right.

Of course, the elephant in the room is that costs are out of control because of the safety issue. When nuke plants are broken, as they all are, Very Bad Stuff happens. It's the attempts to mitigate this that send costs through the roof.
If violence worked as a strategy, then it would work better the more of it was applied. Instead, what we see is that the more violence applied, the worse the outcome in the long run.

This indicates it’s not a solution.
I'm writing a book about nuclear power bit this isn't it. I'm tired of HN folks whining "Where is that from?" A modicum of Google will bear out everything I've said.
FreeRTOS features sone nice and simple allocators on fixed buffers [0].
I have used heap4 to implement memory management for a fully portable test suite requiring malloc. Really any toy allocator would have done the job for that use-case, since performance wasn't critical, but heap4 was fairly easy to integrate.

[0] https://www.freertos.org/a00111.html
I don't understand when will medicine recognize the cause of all health complications instead of trying to individually path each and every problem. People can then start correct precautionary measures. All health issues that we see on rise today were virtually absent in pre-industrial era and are directly result of our newly adopted habits and environment. We are paying so much of cost to live in a "modern" world.
> Search-related portions are available through that "microphone" icon (which nobody clicks)

I've noticed no one my age clicks this. My son and his friends as well as a friends nieces and nephews who live a couple thousand miles away from us use Google in a completely different way. They don't go to google.com and type in a search query, they click the microphone and ask google their question directly. They are also more likely to use the assistant on their devices than any of the adults I know. I think this is one of those generational shifts as they don't need to be able to type in their queries in the best way to get the results they are looking for, they can just use natural language for the most part.
And I did give a good starter reference for those who care. Most people want everything reduced to a tweet. You can't do that with this issue and I'm not going to try.
But most line managers and a lot of executive level managers have literally never had any training in management, so sometimes they're just copying bad behaviours from people above/around them, even when they were things they themselves hated before getting promoted.

A "I'm working as fast as I can. These interruptions are not helping. You can help get it sorted faster by keeping people off my back - I promise to update you as soon as I know anything" can be enough. Carry through, and give them enough to go back to their boss with to keep them away, and show them it actually lets you fix the problem, and thank them for helping afterwards, and they'll soon learn to prefer shielding you.
Just tried it:

"What is one plus one?" "2"

"Plus one?" <Random movie reference>

"Add one to that?" "I don't understand"

"Add that to one?" "3"

Feels like an old text adventure.
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YES! Thank you. As an indie PWA developer this is exactly what I've been looking for.
That's not how kernel development actually works. There's a set of supported releases that continue getting fixes over time - e.g. 4.20 will keep on getting patch fixes for a while. Better to have nothing referring to a date than some digits referring to dates and some not.
Something like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zcj4onvP06w (suggests using an add-on for Blender) or the https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RViX4Tn_tGs&list=PLH3QvbpQe8... series maybe?
16 doesn't get confused with 60?
Well, naming devices for voice control is more tedious than you'd think. You have one device that you named poorly. Try having a house with over 150 devices! Naming matters. Putting a little thought into it makes a big difference in usability.

I've got one that gets used everyday. It's named "Breakfast Table". 'Alexa, turn on Breakfast Table' works quite reliably. Now, am I actually turning on the table? No, of course not, but that rolls off the tongue a lot better than "Alexa, turn off pendant lamp over the breakfast table". Or recessed ceiling cans as opposed to just "living room ceiling". We really don't have many devices with 'lamp' or 'light' as part of their name. Because we're not really asking for control over a light, we're asking for light for an activity at a location.

But there still ends up being a few that are clunky. "Family room endtable" for a reading lamp near that end of the sectional, or 'Family room sofa" for the two on a console table behind the other part. Haven't hit upon better names for those. Activity naming is an option but we really don't call for lighting in a scene oriented kind of way. Some folks seem to like that, go figure.

Bearing in mind with an open floorplan just about everything on a level is within line of sight and earshot. The placing of multiple Alexa devices took a little fine tuning to overcome reflection from lots of wood and drywall surfaces. That allows for unexpected pickup. Oh, the units handle avoiding overlap with each other, but sometimes facing one way in a room leads to the sound being picked up by the one in that direction. As you'd expect sound waves would travel. But without a LOT more intrusive sensors (cameras, motion, position) it's handling things remarkably well just with voice.

The great tragedy is the leap to conclusions people make. "Promise to do".... where? By whom?

Oh, you want a TV cartoon equivalent of Rosie the Robot... we're not there yet. But given the hilariously low price point for these devices, we're getting quite a lot of bang for the buck in the meanwhile.
I mean, that's the way it's been forever. IIRC, the release for 3.0 had the same type of message with it. There was no big breaking change, it just felt like it was time to bump the big number.
Ask HN: What other good careers exist for those without a college education?
So I never graduated from college but have been working on web apps (Ruby on Rails and Ember are what I mostly work on) since I was 19 (I am 25 now).

I always wondered what I would do if for some reason the market for software developers would go down. I worry I would not able to find an interesting job, let alone a lucrative one.

Is tech the best path out there for interesting and/or well paid work without a college education?
> The Mid-Pliocene becomes the best climate analog slightly sooner, by 2030 CE, but the prevalence of Eocene-like climates accelerates after 2050CE, and future climates most commonly resemble the Eocene by 2140 CE

Changes towards Eocene accelerates by 2050 according to the models & doesn't reflect Eocene until 2140 CE. Still the rate of change is incomprehensible IMO.
that's because you're paying to install spyware in your house
> Most successes come around age 50

What do you mean by this? Don't most of those who make it big do so while young?
The 5C was much more like the 5 (same CPU, etc) than the 5S. Their previous strategy had been "sell the previous year's phone for cheaper". The 5C was basically the same strategy, except for that one year they put it in a new colorful enclosure.

It was a nice looking phone but a tough sell because the 5S was such a big leap (first 64-bit CPU) over everything else. The 5S is over 5 years old and still supported by the latest iOS.
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Humans are definitely more complex than machines. But that complexity often causes people to jump to incorrect assumptions, or even just shut down in the face of that complexity. Breaking the problem down into what you know and then solving for what you don’t is an incredibly helpful method for addressing issues that can be fraught with emotion.
This API endpoint will get you all past messages (except for those encrypted by Secret Chats):

https://core.telegram.org/method/messages.getMessages
I've made a similar progress by implementing some ML algorithms in pure RISC-V assembly. Makes you think.
> The latest Echo model will lower the music volume when it hears the wake word.

I got my Echo a while ago before the current generation was even announced. It would always lower the volume as soon as it hears the wake word.
Some people think better at a lower level and some think better with abstractions. I for one feel more 'at home' at the lower level but can live with higher level abstractions if I know how it's done at a lower level :)
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+1 Okasaki’s book is a great reference. I’ve personally given out a few as gifts.

https://smile.amazon.com/Purely-Functional-Data-Structures-O...
The article mentions that she tried grilling her son about why he was doing this early on, without success.
There are multiple layouts, all further customizable. If you can edit HTML, you have access to the code. If you can't, there are myriad user-friendly options for making the interface do what you want.

I actually help people with that for pay if you want assistance.

The code snippets are a real issue. I'm not sure how much code you could even show because I don't show code snippets on any of my blogs.

Maybe screenshots would work. It's also possible that writing it in the "compose" interface would work.

I usually write in the HTML interface, but I use the app on my phone. When I copy and paste, it shows up differently depending on which interface I'm using.

It's possible that blockquoting it in the compose interface and then adding HR tags top and bottom to help set it off would get you satisfactory results. You can also add custom CSS to any layout. This has allowed me to get effects not natively supported by the user-friendly customization options without digging around in the code per se, which I'm not confident enough to do. I know a little HTML and CSS, but not so much that I'm comfortable going directly into the code. I tried it once and couldn't figure out where the thing was that I wanted to edit.
A good follow-on to this article is the classic paper, War is a Racket.

https://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
Public stats on android usage per version contradict your theory. In overwhelming huge majority, those phones never get updated, ever. Most people don’t search the web for third party distribution. That’s just what the data shows us.
Don't have time to test it now. How does it sound? Is it better than the robotic text to speech voice we all know? Wonder if you can run this offline so you can save the files when you build your static site and no scripts are required on the frontend.
Yet, many human behaviors are simple cause and effect. You don’t have to label it and the random things kids do would end up quite extensive. However, there is a definite need for parents to understand and help kids with detrimental behaviors. It is possible to do this without pressuring kids. When you are staring down a behavior like the author was and you have reached your capacity as a parent it can be very demoralizing. So, safe to say, parents need a “debugging” skill and human consciousness, especially at younger ages, while very vivid and complex, is also shockingly simple. Cause, effect, response from kid. Dry air, hands dry;hurt, make them not dry. I could go on, but, I think the spirit of the idea is correct. At times you just need to detach and analyze to help your kids out. Other times being organic and experimenting are great.
Ah yes, the old "the same people" conspiracy shit. Give it a rest.

Bring up wireshark and watch if you're so certain "they" are doing that. I have. They're not. At least not with the Alexa device I've got.

So maybe instead of spending so much on tinfoil for hats, maybe you should actually TRY some the devices. PROVE there's some actual conspiratorial activities going on.

Or not, stfu is just as viable an option.
Ask HN: How do you maintain timesheets?
This applies to both freelancers and employees.

As a freelancer I was using multiple spreadsheets or some combination thereof to maintain the billable hours.

As an employee, although we have an application to maintain times spent against bug / tasks etc, I feel a lot of times this gets fudged because the goal becomes to total 8 hours instead of logging the actual times. (Goodhart's law)

Additionally, it's not that all the 8 hours (usually more!) gets spent on work. There's a couple of breaks we take besides spending some time on ourselves (maybe browsing HN)

If maintaining a spreadsheet is a solution, then can someone suggest a format which can then be analyzed programmatically later?

If an desktop / mobile application helps I would like to know about those too.
It's a wiki leaks for WikiLeaks!
That humans are capable of both great kindness and unspeakable evil.

That a person's life can change forever in a split second.
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This fascinating angle on Parkinson’s comes at an exciting time for gut-brain research on neurological problems. The probiotic L Reuteri has just been shown to strengthen the feedback loops between the levels of the dopamine neurotransmitter and the oxytocin hormone, via the vagus nerve, in recent research by Costa-Mattioli (who stumbled upon it looking for treatments for autism, which is known to correlate with gut issues). Perhaps with CRISPR we are open to engineering new probiotics which can more precisely target these gut-related conditions?
E-Verify is affected but you just run your E-Verify requests when it's back up. While this is a longer outage than normal E-Verify goes down for other reasons more often than it should and you deal with those in the same way.
>there would be local citizens militias which would converge on the outbreak of violence and contain it.

What if the first step in my evil plan was to gain the loyalty of the local militias by lauding their virtue and advocating that they should receive a bigger cut than everyone else because they're so brave and put themselves in the line of danger? Groups fall to ambitious leaders all the time, because people really eat up a charismatic leader with big promises. (See: how the Legions were talked installing a dictator in Rome.)
Why Slack? Why not something like Discord, IRC or Gitter? What do you offer that more specific chatrooms -- i.e. ones for React or Go -- don't?
Seems like something simple that one could have asked a doctor.. "My kid keeps licking their hands.. any ideas?"

Also even though the article the mother seems to think that they have gotten to root cause.. there may be more of a cause.

Dry hands is often because of the compulsive action of washing ones hands too much. So now there are 2 compulsions washing hands and licking hands to keep them dry.. By replacing licking hands with moisturizer you will still have 2 compulsions.. cleaning hands and moisturizing too much..

A 2 second google search will also bring up thousands of pages about kids licking hands.
What problems to solve? Paying the rent.
Clearly, you are no mathematician.
Don’t drop it then.

I’m not being funny. I treat every phone I’ve ever owned as the expensive devices they are. I buy a protective case, don’t put it in my back pocket where it can be bent or broken. I don’t use it while standing over the toilet so it can’t be dropped in. When I drink with friends, I don’t lay my phone on the bar where some drunk can spill beer on it.

It’s more than being able to have the use of a fully functioning device, at trade-in time my phone is worth more because I take of it.
I have dokuwiki installed on my macbook pro. Having a quick reference conveniently on local laptop is important for me because I should be able to access it even when offline. Having access to the wiki from different devices is not that important. Hence no cloud-based solution. The local wiki is added to the 'hosts' file. so http://mywiki in browser brings up the wiki quickly. Installing dokuwiki on mac is quite easy by the way.
The sidebar of the wiki has items like: ideas, tomorrow, to-read, references, and items for each of the project I work on.
When an idea strikes, I add an entry in the ideas folder . This helps because I know that it is 'filed' for later reference and as it is out of head, I can continue working on whatever I was working on.
One advantage of the wiki over things like paper notebook is that it is quite searchable.
For example, once I stumbled upon one video about a 'water from air' project (making water available in remote deserts by extracting water vapour from air). I filed it in a sub-page under "ideas " along with links that I could find. Then moved on. Didn't come back to it for quite some time. Then one day in some other discussion, the topic came up. It was quite easy to get back the links and references from the local wiki.
The wiki pages are plain text files that I add to backup scripts (local and cloud). So it survived system failures in the past.
Learning to get best out of wherever you are is what works.
Regret and other feeling are supposed to come, they prove you are a human, but you have to control them and pick up the best for you by contributing your best and always being on your toes to get things done.
I think it's a fallacy that labeling and categorizing automatically implies judgment and condemnation. Some weird child behaviors are harmless and should be ignored; some (like the one in the article!) may indicate actual problems that should be addressed. Either way, it doesn't seem obviously bad to give parents diagnostic information.
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Yeah, this is right. The interesting thing is that this problem doesn't seem to exist with the Macbook line, where there's clear differentiation: you can get the super blazingly fast monster, or you can get the really tiny one that actually needs to be less powerful in order to fit in the tiny case without having like 10 seconds of battery life. Though the Macbook/Macbook Air thing they just introduced muddies that a little bit...
I've used both pretty heavily. We just gave away all our google home's except one and all our mini's.

Natural language voice recognition is better on google home. No question there - it's flat out better. I found google smarter.

But some deal breaker negatives. I basically want a totally predictable / reliable system. I don't need smarts, I need something useful (honestly, most commands to these things are probably weather, alarm/calendar, music etc).

The google app in a multi-person household does not work - sharing / inviting others to manage the house is totally broken. There is some kind of eventually consistency issue somewhere and the internal state gets terribly messed up. Maybe your partner is not into the automation as much as you are are, BUT if you give them the app with total control so they can see / do more, they will be more into it.

Some core features for most folks are things like what is on my calendar, set a timer etc. I'm a heavy google user, and I cannot get it to handle my google apps calendar. It's a known limitation. I can get alexa to handle my google calendar! Read here for more: https://support.google.com/assistant/thread/222810?hl=en

Let that sink in. ALEXA CAN handle my google calendar. Google CANNOT! Talk about a surprise when you are setting things up, I was convinced I had done something wrong.

This runs through things. The alexa tech is more limited, but they are more customer oriented, listen more. With google, even if it's the #1 request for literally years, and seems obvious (ie, google home should be able to read the events from the google calendar which is under the exact login used for the app) it is flat out ignored. They are simply not customer facing.

Another example I don't care about. Folks kept asking for apple music support on alexa. Amazon ultimately did what apple wanted to get music on alexa, even if it impacted amazon.com etc (ie, seem to have cracked down on fake apple products etc). Even though this was an apple limitation, amazon basically spent time to solve this for users.

Alexa routines are a lot of fun, worth checking out if you haven't.

And a tip -> give amazon some feedback, I've seen them listen.
The Alexa devices don't have the hardware within to do that. People have torn them down and looked. People have also constructed their own devices (rpi with a mic) to mimic the same functionality and it's consuming the same sort of bandwidth.

Now, of course, nothing will ever placate the conspiracy nitwits.
Recently decided to self-host as well, and used it as an excuse to build a command line controlled cms with Sublime-esque syntax highlighting for the code snippets. https://synref.com/ It's been a lot of fun, and I'd encourage anyone that's considering going the self-hosting route to do so.
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