skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lots of natives are worried about how they're going to continue living in Seattle and the surrounding areas given that one of the few mechanisms that local governments have for raising revenue is through regressive tax schemes and property taxes.

That doesn't encourage anyone to put down roots. That's not healthy for the area. If taxation really is your primary concern, then I hope you choose to leave and move to Wyoming at some point.
If you limit the number of places that can have the machines then it's less likely people will stumble upon them during day to day activity. People would have to deliberately drive to a casino to get them. Taxing higher also helps to reduce the number of places.
Lawsuit Filed to Halt H-2A (temp.ag.employment of foreign workers)Wage Increase
Creating a Slack Bot
They have this "Female Founders" tag which confuses me. What is the purpose?

Is it to say that I should be extra careful? Is it to say that I can trust them more than if they were male?
How heavy is the boat? A Toyota Corolla can tow up to 1500lb.
Wow, just wow. I'm so glad this popped up today. When I first read the transcript I thought it _was_ a play it sounds so articulate, subtle and informed.

The military line shouldn't be taken out of context - Wilson was saying sorry as I assume including applicability would have made Pastore's job easier when taking it to the House.

Doing things because you can and because you have the imagination to see a positive outcome. The Chairman's comments are gold.

Thanks so much for sharing this!
Looks awesome but as with all these services, only available in the US. So irritating
I shipped a commercial app on Qt in the early 00s. The Mac port just never nailed the finer UI details to the same standard as Qt/Windows and Qt/Linux. Qt's customers ended up being the embedded market and phone vendors, I don't think their Mac port was ever adequately resourced.

I'm happy Qt/Mac exists, it made our Mac port commercially viable, and a couple days of polishing work would make the UI "good enough". If we'd done continuous deployment it would have been annoying.
> You are assuming the ads don't have any impact on where Steve goes to buy.

No, I am assuming that advertising works the same for everyone. If there are five dealers and fifty customers and with no advertising each dealer gets ten customers, then with each dealer spending $50,000 on targeted advertising, each dealer still gets ten customers. When each dealer spends the same amount they each get the same benefit, so they still split the existing customers five ways.
I feel like large people requiring large cars is a relatively recent phenomenon. I had an early 90s Honda Civic as my first car which was ridiculously small by modern standards, and it had plenty of room for me at over 6 feet.
Zsh users can use glgga to get a nice full detailed graph log as well. It's not as concise as the custom config, but I use it quite often.
How does this account for "reputation"? I know that, to avoid flagging new users, most platforms use reputation based algorithms that rate users based on their internet activity prior.
You need to think of ideas about better execution (including the idea to focus on execution in the first place) as ideas.
Looking at the widget gallery (http://example.qt.io/qt-webassembly/quickcontrols2/gallery/g...) I want to complain about what a waste the 5.6MB download is, but that's probably smaller than a lot of new sites and most android apps.

I now fear this might become viable and websites will become a black box where things like ad blockers don't work.
Lentils with a side of rice: the save-the-world diet?
Weblium 2.0 – Turbo AI website building tool
200 Million Indian Workers protest for two Days
Jira, Bitbucket from Atlassian
I used to ride a 2 stroke motorbike to school. It emitted more CO and NOx than an SUV. Upon saying that, SUVs still (obviously) emit more CO2 than 2 banger bikes. And the biggest polluter is still cargo ships with their massive 2 stroke engines burning high-sulfur, heavy fuel oil.

I'm not sure about the USA, but at least in Australia 2 strokes aren't very common at all these days. I don't remember the last time I saw a 2 stroke lawnmower or any other type of garden tool. Electric is probably more popular than petrol for home use, as it doesn't require you to keep a little tank of petrol lying around and it's a lot quieter.
The only people I know who have profoundly cluttered homes filled with much more stuff than average had war or famine/poverty as a part of their personal history.

I'm sure this doesn't account for all cases and my sample isn't representative.

When I notice the extra items in the homes of hoarders I know, they're nothing that I haven't or wouldn't have acquired in one way or another -- they're things I would've thrown away.

I see no evidence in the article that a possible increase in (more likely recognition of) hoarding is a result of increased consumption and yet that connection is implied in the article again and again.
I run a small SaaS and people sign up, forget they signed up and then dispute the charge. I have always won those disputes. A failure to cancel isn’t the same thing as you were charged inaccurately. How am I supposed to know you intend to cancel without you actually cancelling? Should I just lock people out of their accounts each month until they proactively renew? Subscription pricing is just that: subscription pricing. If you want to buy a single newspaper, you pay a higher price than if you are a subscriber? You get a cheaper price because you are subscribing. So how do I know you actually “cancelled” if you didn’t? Am I obligated to provide you service and then you decide after the fact that you don’t want to pay? Newspapers don’t refund your past subscriptions just because you claim you didn’t read the paper. That’s not my problem. A subscription is a contract, an agreement, a deal. When you sign up for something, you are agreeing to the terms. If you don’t like them, don’t sign up. But disputing a valid payment is nothing more than theft. Forgetting you signed up isn’t an excuse. Of course it’s a different story if you did cancel and they keep billing — that is absolutely wrong. But just because you forgot isn’t a valid excuse. How are we (the service provider) supposed to know if you forgot? We are still providing you the service — whether you use it or not isn’t our concern just as newspapers aren’t obligated to ensure that you actually read the paper every day. Auto-renewing free trials however, that is a bit deceptive, so I agree with Mastercard’s approach.
You tried to airbnb in India ? It’s probably barely passable in LA. Hotels in India would be quite cheap with the American dollar. Hmmmmmmm :thinking face:
I nearly had my car insurance cancelled after the card I bill it to every 6 months was compromised and reissued. One day, a notice of cancellation appeared in my mailbox. I simply forgot about updating the card with them when I went through my list of merchants. Fortunately, a phone call fixed everything and I didn't end up with a lapse in coverage.

An automatic update of my info would have saved me a quite a bit of anxiety.
If you are interested, you can purchase the current specification for the low price of only $68 [0].

Based on wikipedia [1], the first 6 digits are used to identify the issuer (although from looking at this listing [2], it appears to be standard practise to assign some institutions blocks of IINs, and given that an institution could control multiple IINs, it is probably relatively safe to consider these to be part of the unique card ID. When we start to run out, we will probably see a market for these emerge in the same way we see a market for IPv4 subnets today.

The only area of fragmentation where I see potential trouble for secondary markets is the first digit, which is restricted by industry (banking only has 4,5,6); but if it ever becomes an issue, I am sure they will re-purpose the address space of other industries for banking

This leaves only the checksum digit itself of deeply problametic for maximum utilization; and that is literally a single digit.

[0] I wish this were a joke.
https://webstore.ansi.org/Standards/ISO/ISOIEC78122017

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_7812

[2] The official listing is not publicly available
https://www.bindb.com/bin-list.html
That's such a sane, common-sense law. If a company has the resource to allow online payment processing, they sure as hell have the resources to allow online cancelling. So the only reason they wouldn't have it is to make it hard for you to cancel.
It's a fun read, intentionally glossy on the details (is this "pop tech"?) but I was fascinated.

Except the value judgments about endianness in encoding. All of the decisions in this system were made in a broader context. When you see something weird, it's tempting to say, that is inane, but it is enlightening to ask, what am I missing?
I felt this way. But I outlived that curiosity at some point. The concept of cause & effect became invalid.

Two major realisations were the final blow before I hit the abyss of it all.

1. Every action of mine was intended towards self improvement
2. Each of those actions was/is/will be futile

I want to go back to that phase when I was waking up curious about what will happen next. But I'm not able to keep living the lie anymore.
I think that the most important line in this article is "Changing these decisions would not have made Spectrum a better product by itself."

Assuming that you make somewhat reasonable choices in the first place, technology likely won't become a problem for quite a while. At which point you either have succeeded enough to have the resources to fix the issues that come up, or else you have bigger problems than technology and should focus on those instead.
The password itself is not sent. You can read about it here:

https://www.troyhunt.com/ive-just-launched-pwned-passwords-v...
Weird/unrelated anecdote: Nobody in Greece uses realtors.

I can't remember the exact historical reasoning, but it starts with the Ottomans. The Ottomans controlled the Greeks since about 1453, and when they were finally overthrown after the Greek War of Independence, there began about 120 years of political turmoil until the end of the Greek Civil War.

So, post-civil war time. Tons of people are in exile, the country is torn by rival factions, and everything is in an even worse state than when the Germans occupied it. After hundreds of years of being occupied by foreign powers, there isn't really a clear indication of who owns what piece of property. Most of what you went by was "Well, somebody in my family used to own it." Cool.

When it comes time to buying or selling property, there aren't really well defined "properties" per-se, or even a market for them. Somebody might just come up to you and tell you somebody else wants to buy your land, and if you just give them some cash up front, they'll get you a really good deal. So you give them some cash, and either they never return, or they come back with a really horrible deal. If they claim they're going to help you with the legal paperwork, they'll almost definitely sabotage it.

Today, if somebody tries to help buy or sell a home in Greece, the average Greek will think they're a grifter trying to make a quick buck. To make matters more difficult, apparently there's been multiple confusing ways of legally registering and searching properties, and the red tape involved with completing the title transfer is crazy.

So there's very few registered realtors in Greece, and basically nobody uses or trusts them. Meanwhile, the country is fucking stunning and there's abandoned property all over the place that nobody can shift. An ocean front property in the Peloponnese can go for a hundred grand. But good luck finding it or having any help in acquiring it, because they're all FSBOs that pin an advertisement on a telephone pole in the nearest city.
> My thoughts about California are not quite so drastic because the most intensively farmed areas did not start out as deserts.

I presume that you're thinking of the Central Valley. But the area around El Centro is very intensively cultivated, and I'm pretty sure it started out as desert...
"McDonalds Free Wifi" and a MAC address swiped from a nearby (but not so close your Wi0Fi signals will intersect) Mc Donalds...

For enhanced sneakiness, deploy three or more Wi-Fi base stations at the same location with the radios tx power turned right down and directional antennas - and try to make the geometry lookalike it's just a lucky long range shot to a real public/free wifi behind the antennas...
> That works fine until a) you pick the wrong index fund (and most people don’t know anything about finance)

The irony of this posted in a Bogle thread is hilarious. Bogle subscribes to the research done in a Random Walk Down Wall Street.

Take all of the people who know the most about finance in the world (run the best funds) and they have a ~50% chance of beating the broad based index (S&P 500) any given year; If you expand that 10 years, the number of funds approaches 0. If you include the fees, it's ~42% beating the market any given year.

The "secret" and why bogleheads work is there is no picking. You pick the total stock market. But, if SS has regulatory concerns, it'll do just fine in VOO, representing the S&P 500.
Computer models have been giving plenty of examples of all sorts of outcomes. It sounds like you don't know how computer modeling or science works.

It's not what I think it's a reality.
This is literally an episode of Dilbert.
I dunno, the two-door Nissan Frontier at least looks like a "small 90s pickup"? But the photos could be lying, of course.

https://www.autoblog.com/nissan/frontier/
Blinkist.com audio downloader
I miss ytalk. Back in the day, a friend and I would essentially make our own RPGs over ytalk - one of us would be the game leader and would describe what happened like the perfect text adventure (which understands context and makes reasonable assumptions). Being able to see the other person type in realtime made it that much more fun.

Simpler joys for a simpler time.
I've been a steady user since version 1, and I've really enjoyed seeing this DAW progress.

The modulators and easy workflow/resampling (bouncing tracks) is very intuitive and efficient. The addition of this is going to really make it the ultimate sound design playground.

Looking forward to what this team continues to bring!
Smaller living space means that you can't save the thing you will need once every five year anymore. A previously adaptive behavior becomes poorly adaptive.

Cheap disposable items. Where before you would have a few hand made item of high quality, you now get a lot of lower quality items. This is partially related to technological advancement. If things become obsolete fast, it doesn't make sense to build with quality. Anyway a consequence is that it's easier to acquire a large amount of stuff than before.

Anti-landfill propaganda. We are guilt-tripped for throwing stuff in the garbage. We are told to dispose of things in very complicated ways and then it may be easier to just not dispose of it.

Breakdown of community and family. Before we might keep things around by giving them away to relatives or friends. There is a satisfaction in passing the torch. But this option isn't as available anymore.
thanks for the screenshot, the site wasn't compatible with my ad blocker settings
Or human relationships. As one of my old friend/coworker once said, your reputation is like a whiteboard. Once there is a tiny black dot upon it, you’re screwed.
This is always the best because you get to reimplement misfeatures in your shiny new codebase because “we don’t want to change how customers are used to working”
That's a huge advantage. Counting cards in blackjack gives a 50.5:49.5 edge (roughly, there are variables). 77% is absolutely crushing it.
MDB stock is tanking. Hilarious knowing that some of the institutional investors are forcing MDB down the throats of their IT staff. https://fintel.io/so/us/mdb
I'm pretty sure most people have a pretty intuitive understanding of how to perform a methodical search of a room. The article promises clever tricks for finding bugs and cameras in a room without having to spend any money, and fails to deliver on that premise, deceptively, because it is solely an advertisement for a device that is FAR more expensive than it needs to be.
It depends on how complex the environment you're working in is. If you're at a large enterprise that wants to build a platform capable of scaling to thousands of apps, you most definitely do need to care about everything written here, plus a lot more networking specific things not mentioned.
I went through something similar, except that, after a time, rather than wanting to go back to it I feel liberated from it.
My parents grew up in the Great Depression. My dad still hoards stuff, because he remembers when you simply couldn't get stuff. For example, he talks about re-using thread, not because they had no money to buy thread, but because there was no thread to buy because the thread factories had closed.

I wonder if the Great Recession had a similar impact on people. Staring the ruin of the financial world in the face may have left a mark on some people.
Isn’t that what U-Haul does? Possibly behind a 28’ truck driven by a driver that’s never driven anything more than a Civic?
It might be read as cynical - but in itself it is just a statement of fact. It is informative.
This is correct. In addition to working in a hotel for ten years, I was also there when it was gutted and renovated and the system installed. While some hotels may track this stuff beyond just a simple occupancy flag for HVAC (e.g., Las Vegas), the vast majority don’t have the interest or capability to.
That doesn’t change my point. Regardless of how serious of an issue Y2K actually was, the level of alarmism from armchair observers was still ridiculous, as was the notion that the problems wouldn’t get addressed.

OP literally predicted corpses on the street because of paperwork issues.
The article mentions something in passing that I think is important:

Potential and Value

The article only mentions it once. We live in an increasingly globalized world where our individuality can have an ever smaller impact on the enormous system. I think this drives a lot of people to have a feeling that they are living up to less than their potential and their value isn't that high. Maybe the whole system is living up to less than it's potential. But there is a lot of hopelessness about being able to influence it and our value within the system.

The reality is that much of what is horded has potential or is tied to something that had/has (like lost relatives mentioned in the article)

It seems like hording, like compulsive behaviors, allow us to create a small sense of agency in a world that constantly strips us of it and define potential and value by our own book.
I'm guessing you're a transplant too. Native Seattlites don't want you here either and would prefer the PNW to be a lumber, fishing, and shipyard town. /s
Animal based diets are destructive to the planet and biosphere. While the real solution is finding ways to reduce population to a suitable carrying capacity, small steps will help us reach the goal sooner. Life will become very difficult in about a decade. We really need to stop the temperature rise ..1.5 degrees. Needs to come down in two years.
Unless I'm mistaken, Guido still works for Dropbox. And as far as I know they still mostly do Python.
This is my point in the last paragraph; you should ideally never let them meet.
And there are countless pickups that have.

Broad generalizations like that are just silly. You don’t even have to prove them wrong, they’re just a flawed premise.
Commissions are much lower in many other countries and have even fallen further since 2002.

https://graphics.wsj.com/table/commish_1016
> An article can be both informative

But this isn't. It's a lie. And it's not hard to tell. It's more a article for Reddit or Voat than HN.

paradoxparalax offers actually interesting info above.

The article - Divide a room into 4, wtf. Some rooms are 4 times larger than other, this makes no sense.

Just the first line should tip you off the reader is a sucker -

"This is without a doubt most thorough guide to detecting hidden cameras and covert spy gear that is online."

This is just bad advice -

"If this is your first time staying in a new hotel or an Airbnb, automatically assume that you are currently being recorded and surveilled."

Every hotel room could be surveilled? Rubbish. See paradoxparalax for situations where it actually might be true. That's called adding info, compared to suckering a dumb reader into be paranoid, assumably to buy stuff.
The quote of LBJ talking to his chauffeur is taken out of context. The chauffeur was complaining about a note LBJ had written to prevent local authorities from waylaying him driving through the South alone on errands “This n————— drives for me.”
You can read more about sr.ht at https://meta.sr.ht/ as well as on Drew’s blog https://drewdevault.com/2018/11/15/sr.ht-general-availabilit...
Yes. I'm also curious about what kind of tradeoffs I would be making by choosing arangodb over postgres, etc. For example, with Postgres you have acid but not much in the way of horizontal scale-out. With Redis you have speed (single thread, though), but data must fit in ram. What am I giving up by choosing this DB?
> But disputing a valid payment is nothing more than theft.

I'm always happy to steal from companies that turn my free trials into subscriptions. I'd steal more if I could.

You're coming at this as if the service provider is innocent, and merely providing a service. But we're talking explicitly about companies that give you free trials with the "asterisk, ps, you will pay real money in for this every month on this".
I don’t think we’ll ever have the same issue with PANs that we have with IPv4. There’s never been a standard length for PANs, they already come anywhere between 15 and 19 digits, and simply tacking more on to the end doesn’t present the same challenges as it would have done with IPv4. A lot of organisations that process payments wouldn’t even have to change anything, and those that did would have a pretty strong insentive to do so (to continue getting paid).
what about PostgresXL. it is a release v behind Postgres.
But it has ACID and cluster.
I do not have personal experience with it, but would be interested to hear what folks say.

Overall, I agree -- PG with JsonB is extraordinary powerful system, covering document oriented and typical row-oriented use cases.

PGs ecosystem with external foreign interfaces, and in memory streaming solutions (like PipelineDB) - must be an envy of any other db ecosystem.
Lambda isn't the problem here, the private network (subnet) is. Basically default to public subnet with security groups configured for your incoming connections.

If you really want / need the airgapping that private subnets provide, you'd better be willing to pay for them, and that makes sense to me personally - outside of PCI DSS or HIPAA compliance (or similar) I don't see any reason to use private subnets. That won't apply on a personal project.
I think various qualified folks might have something to say about that.

Yes, modelling gives plenty of varying outcomes, that's what it's meant to do. Conclusions aren't drawn on single instances. They're drawn from running many models with varying input assumptions and conditions, and then seeing what the most likely outcomes are.

There will be some outcomes that fall within the "nothing to worry about" range, but they seem to be very low percentage likelihood. Not zero, but highly unlikely.

Isn't that how computer modelling and the scientific method work?
How is it a clear win if no VPN is perfect?