skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The resale value is so bad (except for Teslas) that it probably makes more sense to lease electric cars than to buy new.

Every generation of electric cars is such a big improvement over the previous one, especially in terms of range and fast charging, that the resale value of the old ones is unusually low.
For a fixed cabin, effectively none, although I see two possible ways around this.

The basic problem is that no matter what you find in terms of unregulated off-the-grid living, you need to own property in order to legally put up a permanent residence. Generally this involves being a titled landowner, which requires paperwork and in basically all cases payment, either to purchase land or via property taxes. (You can find local governments offering free land, but it comes with extensive rules and at most temporary property-tax exemptions. Tax-free land, meanwhile, will have to be purchased since homesteading is no longer legal. The newest direct homestead claims were made in 1986, while the indirect tactic of patented mining claims ended in 1994.) You could potentially get a landowner to guarantee you such rights for free, but that still sets a minimum standard of legally-binding paperwork signed with the owner.

Option one to avoid paperwork is to live off the grid without a fixed address. Lots of 'tiny house' residents build homes that are in principle movable to avoid building code hurdles, but they generally own property; I'm not sure where it would be legal to park a mobile home or towable cabin indefinitely, but there might be places. You could live out of an RV or any other property that genuinely does relocate, but that's going to mean filing paperwork to keep a vehicle registered. Finally, you could abandon even a semi-fixed residence and just permanently camp on public lands. As far as I know this is legal if you can survive doing it, but you'll generally need to follow some inconvenient rules; through much of the Southwest you can camp freely on public land if you relocate by at least 25 miles every 14 days.

Option two is to live illegally with an eye towards eventual legal ownership. Adverse possession must be "open and notorious" and generally can't be used to obtain government land, so you'd probably want to check out state laws and choose an abandoned mining claim or other unattended property. (Montana has remote land and particularly favorable rules for this sort of thing, and Alaska of course maximizes open space.) This will involve quite a lot of paperwork and lawyer's fees if the original owner contests your claim, but that's true of any legal challenge. Since title can be created without proactively filing any documents to show ownership, I think this counts as "without paperwork".

To my knowledge, the 'traditional' approach where you build a fixed cabin somewhere and it's legal from day one without paperwork is completely impossible. Doing it with paperwork but no payment might be possible, but I don't know of a way.
> As part of this partnership, Atlassian has made an equity investment in Slack, and Slack has acquired the IP for Stride and Hipchat Cloud, both of which we will discontinue.

https://www.atlassian.com/blog/announcements/new-atlassian-s...
I can't imagine how in practice we could construct a regulatory regime which would prevent large tech companies from acquiring small start-ups which represent only a potential competitive threat with little current market share. How would one even define a "market" in legally defensible way? Would Instagram have been counted as being in a market of just consumer instant messaging mobile apps? All instant messaging services? All social media? All communication tools in general?
I mean, sure, that’s a possibility. But some people are just really good at whiteboarding problems and explaining solutions. Sometimes these people end up being technical interviewers. If you’ve been a technical interviewer for a while, you don’t find the experience stressful. After a while of doing technical problems they start to seem easier and easier, even when presented with evidence to the contrary (when candidates find them difficult).

Speaking as someone who is (1) a technical interviewer (2) good at whiteboarding problems and (3) has near zero fear of public speaking, I think the big exercise in humility is to figure out ways to get evidence for the interviewee’s skill set even when it’s dissimilar to my own.
Is it? Where are you guys getting your stats in this?

Personally I feel like gifs are annoying and distracting.
Does that mean a material loss of property or just potential loss of profits?

I think you get where I'm going with this.
Cryptocurrency investors locked out of $190m after exchange founder dies
> If you accept that why questions are only applicable in the context of a "demonstrated conscious entity", and you are a believer in strict determinism, then there are no genuine why questions.

Your point being?

> If you want to learn more about the concept of "intrinsic value" I suggest you start here for a history of the concept and a summary of current work on the subject-- https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/value-intrinsic-extrinsic..., and not on a popular speaker's YouTube channel.

Haha, seriously? You think that reading all those pages would help me understand that there is such a thing as a valuer absent the valuer? Like, reading will help with accepting a logical contradiction as truth?

> Rejecting the concept of intrinsic value raises many problems for ethical frameworks--none of which have been adequately solved. Don't pretend that it's a settled topic because you said it is.

So? I am not pretending anything, it's just an obvious fact that "intrinsic value" is nonsense, and it doesn't become less nonsensical because rejecting the nonsense maybe raises problems for ethical frameworks.

Really, this not the difficult question that you make it out to be. You might as well argue that there is intrinsic taste and that it's an unsolved problem for culinary frameworks if we think that whether something tastes good or bad is not intrinsic in the thing we taste. Because, how do we know something really tastes good if it isn't intrinsic in the thing? You may be asking questions back and forth, but ultimately, you will end up with a non-self-evident assumption that a certain taste is a good taste. An axiom of taste that defines your way of eating. Yeah, that's all kinda, sorta true, but also completely missing the point.

All of that, both for taste and for ethics, simply comes down to consensus and individual preferences, which themselves are broadly based in evolution (as is the interest in consensus for a social species), which is based on natural selection according to the environment our ancestors lived in, which behaves according to some natural laws. It's "how" questions all the way down, some of them answered, many not, with no indication that "why" questions are anything but baseless speculation.

> It's only during the last century or so that philosophers have even entertained the idea that it might be possible to have an ethical system without the concept of intrinsic value.

So? It's only during the last century or so that scientists have entertained the idea that light is quantized and that there is an absolute speed limit to the universe, and marginally more than that that there are things like bacteria causing disease or that phlogiston is not a thing, or that biodiversity can be explained by mutation of DNA and natural selection. Yeah, people were ignorant in the past--fortunately, that's no reason to stay ignorant?
more than i want facebook or google to, yes.
Compared to the 0.1% or, heaven forbid, the 0.01%, the 1% is downright poor. Why the focus on the 1%?

Also, no focus on wealth inequality in this article, which is arguably much more significant than income inequality.
This concerns 'records', but I wonder if a program that can do a realtime overlay would solve the moral/possible legal issues.
Isn't this a little ironic from a company whose sole purpose is to promote whiteboarding that serves no other purpose than to stroke the ego of interviewers?
Re: As you gain more real world experience you'll also find that logic isn't necessarily helpful for making good decisions in most circumstances.

I already mostly agreed to that elsewhere, because most activity and commerce is about "marketing" or politics of one kind or another. Kirk was Captain instead of Spock because Kirk better understood illogical aliens.

Re: Your comments here come across as arrogant and condescending.

I've practiced being logical, I enjoy being logical, and via experience I believe on average I AM more logical. My work in the craft of logic paid off there. True, I might suck at many other things, such as how to not SOUND condescending for stating sound logic. My apologies for not mastering the art of human interaction instead.
Serious question...

What are the benefits of using Slack over Discord? I know Slack has been around longer, looks more professional and has more tie-ins with work flow management tools but those seem like small advantages compared to how feature rich Discord is. Just genuinely curious as I prefer Discord for communicating with my coworkers about non-sensitive information but it doesn't seem to get any love outside of video game and internet communities.
Single-sex schools have also proven successful,but research results are mixed and drowned in politics from both pro- and anti- camps.
It's about as good as not having it at all. Check out Chrome's _usable_ implementation, where I have such a breakthrough (and apparently insurmountable for Mozilla) feature as conveniently switching between profiles.
> But government pays them to develop the code.

That's an assumption that isn't always true.

The company could have developed them with their own funds, then sell the product to the government.
You have to fight universalism in all its forms. Whether you agree with the default behavior or not, if people feel strongly about another option then let them have it by changing a config setting. Resist the "it must be this way and no other" crowd. Even if the config is as user-unfriendly as about:config, it's there. If you find it impossible to convince management that the slight increase in maintenance is worth the flexibility of both the software and end user usage, expose it anyway for "testing purposes".
No, you just reduced the costs of everything. ONLY the code the government paid for development is being discussed. If 1% of the development was paid for by direction of the government, then at most we're talking 1%.

The bigger problem today is that the government re-builds things 1000 times.
60 kW isn't hard braking -- that's the normal level you get in a model S when you take your foot off the accelerator anywhere above 20 mph. So coming to an anticipated red light, you'd normally brake at the full 60 kW tapering down to zero at about 10 mph, then use the mechanical brake. That's makes for a comfortable stop and wastes the minimum power.

Hard braking, like slamming them on at 80 mph, can exceed 1000 kW.
I wrote script that generates publications that cover "all sides" of every issue:

setInterval(function() {
document.write(randomLetters()+" ")
}, 1000)

function randomLetters() {
var wordSize = Math.ceil(Math.random()*20)
var letters = Math.random().toString(36).replace(/[^a-z]/g, "")
return letters.slice(0, wordSize)
}
Can cloud infrastructure become truly automatic?
AWS, GoogleCloud, and Azure are the 3 main players that provide IaaS, but I have often found myself learning a whole lot before I can get a working setup with CICD and routing and scaling and database and logging setup correctly.

In my mind, the future is where you don't need to define infrastructure but based on your code infrastructure is derived. E.g. you can detect from configuration or npm/maven package list that you are using mongodb so it is automatically created and maintained.

I am questioning can we really automate cloud infrastructure to the degree where all you need to do is upload your code, and proper infrastructure is guessed, build, and is managed and maintained without any developer input.

Finally, if I start working on such a project, would any of you want to use it?
hahahahahah try putting dirty things in there, the logos are comedy gold
Normally, yes. But this is a direct listing.
You do realise reloading 100 images in JS would be easy for the browser to detect and just disable JS when it finds that happening. I.e. similar to how pop up blocking works. Detect misbehaving, prevent it, ask user to allow it. Same goes for canvas misuse same goes for bandwidth misuse.

Fighting that too is exactly what we need. Don't be such a push over.

For what it's worth, disabling JS today is actually more reasonable than it was 10 years ago. CSS and HTML actually gets you most of the way there now. (Talking about news style/blog sites, not web apps)

Maybe we should be aiming for that?
Wow, not the kind of engineering room I'd want to be in. You have to be able to make claims that the other party does not have a complete picture of the situation, and an external critic is indeed going to be vulnerable to the same criticism.

Maybe you would have a point if it were a Linus-style "only a fucking idiot would" rant. But responding to a sincere attempt to defend a design decision as if it were an insult is some prima donna behavior.
Super Bowl Bets: FanDuel Lost $5M on First Legal N.J. Bets
I tried it and it seems indeed faster than autojumper on my Macbook Air with bash. However, visually I don't see any difference, probably because other tools run on cd'ing to the next folder (probably git).

Also when I do `z doc` I expect to go to `~/Documents` like in autojumper, but in z.lua it jumps to a subfolder `~/Documents/projects`, which is annoying. Finally it does not seem to cycle through all matches when I repeatedly do `z proj` -- I like that about autojumper.
You can do better than entirely separate accounts. You could use a user namespace (i.e. subuid/subgid) for sensitive data.
They wouldn't raise any cash from this kind of IPO. Your point, however, is valid.
I think you could buy the book or audio of Will It Fly by Pat Flynn and get most of the same process for a lot less.

Nathan Barry wrote a book call Authority that talks specifically about making an ebook or info product.
An amount similar to levels before human impact.
Slack offers Enterprise sales
I'm surprised no one has mentioned code.gov - see https://code.gov/

This is part of the implementation of M-16-21, which said, "Each agency shall release as OSS at least 20 percent of its new custom-developed code each year for the term of the pilot program. (3 years)".
Enterprise IRC that people actually want to use and will pay for. B2B is incredibly lucrative if you cater to large organizations' risk needs.

That being said, I'm sure the valuation is overinflated. The ARR ranges I've read don't justify it.

If you're feeling bold and want to speculate, I'd probably short it.
Manufacturers can put the backup camera display in the rearview mirror so they can get by with using the same cheap dashboard for fleet and commercial vehicles. I've seen this in newer Uhaul vans but not anywhere else.
That case is not at all related, please read more carefully:

> the committee questions whether Accumulo runs afoul of a government policy that prevents federal agencies from building their own software when they have access to commercial alternatives

The law exists to prevent wasting time & money, it has nothing to do with being open source.
Can't agree more! There are only 3 of us, and we have so much to do, resources like material design really help us speed up the design & dev process.
Show HN: Clean Code Concepts Adapted for TypeScript
> https://hacker-tools.github.io/lectures/

Literally none of these have anything to do with proper information security/hacking/penetration testing. Will you please consider to stop abusing the term "hacker"?
Who tracks serial numbers of cash transactions?

Where can I get one of those free cabins, and will my friends join me?
This looks good. I would also recommend the Software Carpentry program:

https://software-carpentry.org/
I guess in their defense, databases were pretty famous for being a huge attack surface for many years.
A notes app where you are forced to type notes on a touch "keyboard" always discourages me from making any notes.

Having it on the phone is nice, but it has to let me type in my notes at ~100wpm as well ;-)

(Of course, to each their own)
In the context of a Supercharger the critical metric would probably be cost per charge/discharge cycle for a given capacity bank. While a car probable averages a fraction of a charge cycle per day, a busy supercharger might be on the order 10 cycles per day. Super capacitors degrade more slowly than batteries with cycles.

The use which might make sense is to use the capacitors to supplement the grid supplied power during the initial fast charge phase, then in the slower final charging phases or idle time recharge the capacitors from the grid for the next customer. This levels out the demands on the grid and can result in a lower electricity rate from the power company.

It all depends on the constants if it makes sense. Or maybe it doesn't make sense and Tesla needed something out of Maxwell's patent portfolio.
Sorry but you can't be one of the smartest human beings alive if you question settled science like evolution and climate change.

Being smart isn't just thinking of new stuff. It also includes understanding the world and it's proven qualities, properties and processes.
Is that what Discord is (a Slack competing product)?? I've never found the time to look up Discord but I hear it referenced a lot.

On the other hand I use Slack daily.
I've been using Kattis problems as a way to work on my Rust skills. The problem there is you're limited to the standard library. Rust's ultra-minimal stdlib makes a number of those kattis problems remarkably hard to implement, where I've managed to whip up something in short order in Python using the stdlib.

I keep thinking that Rust has gone a little too far on the "keep it minimal" front. It also really disturbs me just how often with rust I'm having to rely on third party hosted crates. That's one huge amount of trust going on there.
I don't know anything about "Munchery" other than what this medium piece offers, but I do admire Lenore Estrada's courage to call them out.
I am not a fan of either Slack or Discord, but I would guess it is the feature requests that companies have made to Slack around it's API's, data retention policies, access controls, chat logging and monitoring and such that make people lean towards it. Discord could probably implement the same features if they wished to go that direction.
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>Factorial simulations with multiple global ecosystem models suggest that CO2 fertilization effects explain 70% of the observed greening trend, followed by nitrogen deposition (9%), climate change (8%) and land cover change (LCC) (4%).

https://www.nature.com/articles/nclimate3004
That is not at all what I said. I’m not sure what gave you that idea.

To clarify: I’ve been working with JavaScript for the better part of a decade. That’s not the only language I work with though, and specifically which languages I’m proficient in shouldn’t at all detract from the point I was making.
Clinical Depression is often caused by a chemical imbalance, usually serotonin. It isn't being "sad" and doesn't usually have root cause in a certain event or direct emotion - though those things can trigger the already existing issue.

We have to remember that the term Depression in this sense doesn't mean what it means in the common sense. Just like words like "Theory" have different meanings in the common vernacular.

It's closer to Anxiety than it is to Sadness.
Perhaps we need to update our laws to reflect that data has value. Certainly these companies understand how much value it has, so consumers are paying, but because it's more of a barter than actual cash transaction, we treat consumers as if they are getting something for free.
To be fair, I did not ask the question of whether "the room understands." The question was whether "the person in the room understands," which seems perfectly reasonable.

In order to grasp what you are saying about "Microsoft the company understand French" one needs to define what we mean by "understand." As you (correctly) say, our answer will depend on that definition.

But to say everything depends on our definition of understanding is to miss the point of the Chinese Room. The point of the argument is to support the claim that the sort of thing we normally classify as understanding—such as when we say someone understands Chinese—is not a property of the person following a lookup table (or by analogy, a machine with instructions). Thus, neither the person in the room, nor the machine, understands in the same sense as when we say "this person understands Chinese."

This is how the Chinese Room is supposed to work against Strong AI. Strong AI supposes that when you have appropriate instructions, a machine is said to understand in the same sense in which you say a human understands. The Chinese Room argument is meant to prompt the claim that the machine does not understand—or at the very least does not understand in the same sense that a human understands.