skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This house looks amazing! But it doesn't seem like a "tiny house". I thought tiny houses were by definition on wheels with a more flexible way to hook up and out of utilities?
Intuitive 3D map of the Galactic warp's precession traced by classical Cepheids
It's incumbent upon the reader to consider all options. This includes the options presented, and options omitted. Recognizing when options are omitted and why is a great way to find the truth. This is where critical reading comes in.
Here's another perspective you might not be accounting for. Currently, people who work elite jobs tend to live around people with elite interests. If you're an upper class developer, you'll live in a neighborhood with other developers, lawyers, doctors, white-collar workers.

If somehow housing were made affordable everywhere, how would that pattern be maintained? By definition, there would be nothing stopping "Cletus the Slack-Jawed Yokel" (from The Simpsons) from moving to Mountain View, CA.

So you end up with a situation where elite software engineers are trying to sleep, because they have work tomorrow, and Cletus the Slack-Jawed Yokel is keeping them awake by blowing up fireworks or firing his shotgun at 2am. What recourse do you have? You can't kick Cletus out--that would violate all sorts of human rights and so on.

So when you look at it this way, higher price housing is almost inevitable. Before you can have any realistic hope of addressing it, you need to figure out what to do with Cletus!
Jamaica's Proud Socialist History
Every marketing tool has it's place.

A guarantee is only useful if:

1. You need to lower perceived risk of using your product.
2. You need to demonstrate confidence in your product.

There are dozens of other conversion problems that won't be addressed by a money back guarantee.
Bezos doesn't have $150 billion sitting in a bank account. Net worth != liquid cash. Roughly $120 billion of his worth is Amazon stock.
It doesn't matter how it is done, just that it is done. You can't extract bias only from how the news is created; one must merely read the news to detect bias. Even the NYT news section is littered with activism and bias. Which isn't to the mention the total lack of clarity between what is and is not opinion in the vast majority of papers.

Media-types live in an echo chamber that distorts their reality. Over time, the echos grow stronger and stronger, but those in the media still believe them; while those outside of the media see an ever escalating cacophony of noise.
No, I mean Ketamine.

https://www.womenshealth.gov/a-z-topics/date-rape-drugs
Interviewing tips for junior engineers
It’s not hard at all to get a new credit card. Report it lost and get a new one. In the US I’ve never seen a bank charge for it, and several times have simply gotten a new one sent to me unprompted because the bank had been informed the card was compromised. Sure it’s not the same as creating a new gmail account, but it’s still incredibly easy.

Also, banning credit card numbers is going to be problematic... most smaller operations are not (and should not) be handling their own payment processing and should never have access to card info. Even if you do and you hash it to match against that’s iffy from a security perspective and would likely run afoul of any decent PCI auditor.
On the face of it, the fix is rather simple: Vote for politicians who listen at least as much to civil society as they do to corporate lobbyists.

Unfortunately, the political system currently structurally incentivizes the opposite, especially at the EU level, about which there is little reporting because that is all organized at the national level. If Julia Reda weren't an MEP and hadn't been sounding the alarm for years now, the first you heard about Article 13 may have been after the final vote in which an even worse version of it was enacted.

At this point, the Greens/EFA group in the EP is the only one which has even taken the time to build infrastructure to voluntarily track (necessary to even hope to achieve any kind of balance!) and transparently publish their lobby meetings online. (Here's an ugly backend view, the pretty one is on individual MEPs' websites: https://lobbycal.greens-efa-service.eu/all/)
...really?

I'm not saying you have to agree, but the article is pretty clear about what he thinks he got right.

Did you read it?
It gives users a false sense of security and providers an excuse not to implement something better. Most (all?) of those who only support SMS 2FA also get the part about no resets wrong.
As do cocaine, MDMA, shrooms, ...

Science might be finally gaining the upper hand in the drug war against political forces which won the public opinion battle back in the 70s. It's much harder to convince the public drugs r bad if 95% of the "hard" drugs have medical uses.
Indeed. Turns out the US in the 21st century is quite far from the top of the list of best places to make the American Dream a reality.
No it's not. Right on the homepage they say it can be used for marketing emails including newsletters:
https://aws.amazon.com/ses/

If someone has different info let me know... we're migrating off Mailchimp and already have some of our newsletters on SES at work.
I think you might be a little less than objective when comparing your home team against the rest.
Many, many sites haven't even started migration to http/2 yet. Why should I care about http/3 now? It seems kind of far in the future.
Indian Government Worried About the Impact of Digital Assets on Rupee
Out of all the web storage methods, cookies are still the most reliable and secure to implement sessions. I for one am glad they are not going anywhere.
> Seeing your neighbor put in a third of the effort and produce the same economic result is demoralizing.

Sorry to hear you are neighbors with a hedge fund manager. Do you have someone who inherited wealth on the other side of you too? That would be hell. ;)
What course was it?
# lang={en,fr,ja,zh}

https://daniel.haxx.se/http3-explained/details.html

https://legacy.gitbook.com/download/pdf/book/bagder/http3-ex...

https://legacy.gitbook.com/download/mobi/book/bagder/http3-e...

https://legacy.gitbook.com/download/epub/book/bagder/http3-e...
Already using MJML to design email templates and wrapping <mj-raw> tags around Mailchimp conditional tags like IF:SOMETHING .. |END:IF|. I guess it's time to render the html emails ourselves, merge with params and then use whatever other third party transactional email service.
not really there are some startups doing these designs for those with low income to promote financial stability among working poor in the US
I don't know if that really makes sense. By that logic, the more miserable we make life for poor people, the more motivation they will have to get out of that life.

A good social safety net means that poor people are not so busy trying to survive that they actually have the opportunity to improve their lot in life if they so choose. If you're not burning up 4 hours a day commuting and several hours a week washing clothes, you have more time to read to your children, or take some community college classes.

There will be people who decide that a life relying on the safety net is fine for them. Is that a worse thing than there being no safety net and people who have to drive to succeed are largely prevented from doing so? Or people who are working hard getting their lives destroyed due to one streak of bad luck?
Imagine a world where new exploits and hacks didn't come along every day and compromise the systems your app sits on because you didn't keep up with patches and upgrades...
Deep, Skinny Neural Networks Are Not Universal Approximators
That was beautiful. One of the best blog posts I have seen in a while. Keep it up.
This is true. I wish I could find the article but years ago I remember malicious hackers that were identified by law enforcement because their virus included some windows guids, which at the time included the Mac address.
Some (old) article with similar ideas (see #7) https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2007/02/19/seven-steps-to-rem...
Probability theory, optimization, statistics and so forth do not differ between economics and computer science, so it makes sense they are the same.

You would see a difference in that these sort of models are used for causal inference and counterfactual analysis, whereas Machine Learning is mostly predictive.

That being said, Machine Learning is starting to apply methods developed in econometrics and/or stats, like GMM and Time Series methods.
For example, Long-Term Memory models are quite recent additions to Machine Learning. The short-memory process restriction of autoregressive models has been worked on since the early 80's.
The problem with this is that it only applies to people in some EU countries. The rest of us have to just hope that Germans see the light, because we're completely irrelevant to any German politician.

And in other news, the EU wants to do away with unanimous voting on tax issues.
We’ve been using https://MJML.io and Handlebars and owning the rendering on our end. It’s been a breeze.
Mandrill is 30 days of send history with 90 days of stats.
Manifesting Agile at Big Nerd Ranch
> authentication post submission can be done with cookies

I think the comment you are replying to is reacting to the top-level comment which is advocating removing cookies.
Remember the woman who was killed by an Uber AV? Her family sued Tempe
As a consultant, offering a limited money-back guarantee was a huge boost to my business. I'd offer something like "if after 2 weeks, you don't like my work, we can cancel the contract and you don't have to pay anything."

By doing this I was able to charge literally twice as much – one of people's biggest concerns with a freelancer is that they have very little idea of how skilled you actually are. And no one ever asked for a refund.

(I was also pretty careful with my client selection though – I'd bring this up towards the very end of a negotiating phase, to avoid adverse selection.)
Raising a SAFE or Convertible Note in Between Rounds
I'm strongly considering voting straight Pirate Party for the EP from now on. Copyright and internet freedom seems to be by far the most important concern for the Europarliament these days.

The big problem is to get the majority of voters on board.
If you exclude Christian lower income people, that no longer holds true.
Exponential expressivity in deep neural networks through transient chaos (2016)
If I would see that the server is unreachable I wouldn't contact anyone, I would interpret that as a red flag. The company would have no problem with deeming me unfit to work for them if I fail to complete the task - why should I consider working for that company when it's their fault that I'm unable to complete the task? What if this situation illustrates how the company works on the inside (no one takes care of the environments, things are constantly broken)? Is it worth it to find out?
Postmark is awesome!
Microsoft publishes the Windows File Manager from the 1990s in its app store
"From the very beginning, Zuckerberg has shown a pattern of deflecting and discarding things and people that don’t conform to his worldview or his ambition. In the same way that Zuckerberg discarded people like the Winklevoss twins and Eduardo Saverin in his quest to launch his revolution, he’s endeavored to shake off our fears about attacks on privacy and mishandled data. When we discover that our private information isn’t actually private, we feel betrayed.

And that’s why I believe I was right about Mark Zuckerberg—and why every one of us knows a little bit what it feels like to be a Winklevoss."
The real problem with gentrification is displacement. Or at least that’s the problem we should be most concerned about at a socetietal level. Everyone needs a place to live, and if some middle class people find a smaller house is what works best for their financial situation then that is OK. What we really should be concerned about is whether everyone — especially lower class people — can afford a home.
Which country ? In Asia-pacific region this is a dream! (to work exactly 8 hours) Likely Europe ?
It's also been rendered in ePub, Mobi, and PDF
https://legacy.gitbook.com/book/bagder/http3-explained/detai...
CDs don't sound like anything - you can't hear the difference between a modern AD/DA system and a length of wire. When recorded and played back using good equipment, they're effectively perfect to the human ear.

Some people subjectively prefer the distortion imparted by vinyl, which is fine. Some people enjoy the theater of pulling a record from a big colorful sleeve and gently placing the needle in the groove, which is also fine. Vinyl isn't better - it's objectively worse as a means of accurately reproducing sound - but some people prefer the experience.
The comparison between The Three Body Problem series and some of Le Guin's books is interesting because the two authors have such wildly different strengths and weaknesses. I love them both but, purely in terms of writing, there is absolutely no comparison. Le Guin is one of the all time greats .

Just to be clear, I liked the 3BP series a lot. The books are generally paced well and there's just about the right amount of world building. However, the long expository monologues break up the flow. It's a shame because it's a great story and he tells it well. Those who have read the books will recognize his over reliance on on a particularly lazy storytelling device to introduce ideas which I can best summarize as follows: "here is this idea and this is why it's important and here's all the nuances to it so then this next idea came about and this is why it's important." That's bad writing. Making the characters academics so that Liu Cixuin can dress up his ideas as "theories" in this way is wholly unconvincing and, as you said, amateurish.

By contrast, Le Guin is masterful at weaving her ideas into the narrative of the story. Ideas are not introduced as standalone concepts and then referenced by the story. Instead, they are woven into the fabric of the story itself. This makes the ideas more compelling and keeps the narrative brisk and interesting. On the other hand, Le Guin often spends far too much time world building. The Left Hand of Darkness is one of my favorite books, but the first half of the book plods on rather painfully. The second half feels like a reward for slogging through the first half.

Not sure if you've read The Dispossessed but I think it's better than TLHOD. It still has a bit too much world building in the first half but it's a tighter and more compactly told tale. Her most tightly told tale is probably The Lathe of Heaven. That book was incredible and I think it showcases her literary skill better than some of her more famous books. Definitely check it out some time if you liked her other work.
Palate grows for sommeliers
Tell me then at what dose an NMDA antagonist, of any variety you can choose, detaches one from reality? I'd love to hear your take on the effect of anti-glutamatergics on consciousness.
iOS Performance Tricks to Make Your App Feel More Performant
> Adair Turner, a senior fellow at the Institute for New Economic Thinking in London, argues that the economy today resembles what would have happened if farmers had spent their extra income from the use of tractors and combines on domestic servants. Productivity in domestic work doesn’t grow quickly. As more and more workers were bumped out of agriculture into servitude, productivity growth across the economy would have stagnated.

That's an interesting point - maybe extra income is being spent in ways that don't encourage further growth.

Perhaps things are even worse, though: you could argue that in the past the average person used technology to make themselves more productive (a washing machine instead of hours spent washing by hand, etc.) but in recent years technological innovation is used for entertainment purposes - people use their new smartphones to play games or for social networking, etc.
It would stop instantly. Here's how: Google immediately blocks all content from being uploaded from the EU citing too much risk. And pretty much every other website would do the same, including HN.

Edit: "content" here includes text and code.
I think the parent meant authentication persistence, without cookies.
The book can be downloaded in pdf/e-book formats (and multiple languages) from:
https://daniel.haxx.se/http3-explained/
..it is impossible to know who was the first..?
cmus is a small, fast and powerful console music player for Unix-like operating systems.

Also "Warning: cmus is not actively maintained. For details, please see https://github.com/cmus/cmus/issues/856 "
Ok,this blew my mind in thousands pieces. I'm going to try it right away.
There are things they can do. We have come to accept that e.g. google does not offer support for their products from real people, however they could invest their enormous profits to hiring thousands of people to do that. Not only will they support the "working class" , as many kinds of businesses actively do (e.g. retail), but getting low-skills people doing menial jobs in touch with technology gives them a free education along with such a job. This is true for almost every major tech company who are being stingy with their hiring, even though they are way past the lean stage of a startup and into uber-rich territory.
I felt that way, and while you may have to wait a few cars, someone will always let you in. The likelihood of continual dickishness is limited by the multiplicative effect of independent events.
A safety net should not become a hammock.
Reverse RDP Attack: Code Execution on RDP Clients
Its a disassociative, and at high enough doses can make you loose grip of reality.

It also has a very distinct bitter taste, which would make it quite obvious if someone put it in your drink or similar.

Drugging someone else (wether that be with legal drugs or illegal ones) is allready prohibited, no matter the intent.
I moved to sendgrid when they announced mandrill's merger and have never been happier.
It’s a fancier pithing process and step one is “scramble the brain”. I don’t see how it’s worse, and it’s probably better.

draining the blood off rapidly and shorting out the spinal column really does improve matters, too.

It’s not all that different in intent from kosher and halal slaughter: minimize pain and suffering, respect the animal, get tastier food while you’re at it.
A brilliant book - a careful philosophical argument for decriminalizing all drugs: Legalize This!: The Case for Decriminalizing Drugs (Practical Ethics Series) by Doug Husak

https://www.amazon.com/Legalize-This-Decriminalizing-Practic...

The gist: whenever someone is about to be put in jail for any reason, they ought to be given a reasonable answer to the question "Why am I being put in jail?" There simply is no satisfactory answer for current drug charges.

Bad answers to this question would require, out of consistency, criminalization of alcohol, tobacco, skiing (dangerous!), pizza (bad for your health!), etc.
> The fact that maintenance is simple and/or easy doesn't mean it happens by itself.

Yes, there will always be _some_ maintenance. The point is it should be as simple and easy as possible.
A brain spike is seen as more humane than decapitation for larger animals like cattle, I imagine the same applies for fish.

And given that this method provably results in less trauma byproducts than traditional methods, there is strong evidence that this is a more humane method.
Per capita or as a whole?
Survival of the sparsest: robust gene networks are parsimonious (2008)
The most important theme in Dale Carnegie's How to win friends and influence people

If you ever want to influence some one, ever want to hold some one in your spell and have them totally in your control- Please show genuine interest and let them do all the talking. There are anecdotes going back to the life of Abraham Lincoln and other people. If you ever want to get people do things for you, and like you. Let them talk, show genuine interest, and do not correct or interrupt them. Even if they are just plainly speaking wrong things.

Everyone in the world wants an audience to perform in front of and receive applause. For some its playing piano, sleight of hand, singing, acting and for almost every one its just talking.

I'd like to believe that list includes criminals, and prisoners of wars etc too.

The most important rule of Influencing people. Be presentable, and likable. But remember influencing is about the people you are trying to influence, not yourself. The more you make it about them, and the more you make them feel special the more obligated they feel to help you.
This is probably a better overview for the HN crowd:

http://www.cookingissues.com/category/ike-jime/
The method is better than just cutting its head - it starts with quickly destroying the brain.
> Mandrill has a `render` endpoint which makes this easy. None of the others have this yet.

Campaign Monitor have the ability to take an API call and render into HTML using templates, this might do what you want: https://www.campaignmonitor.com/features/transactional-email...

(I'm unaffiliated with CM, just a customer)
As the economical choice being squeezed out by landlords who can make more money off of hipsters living in over-engineered sheds.
IMO as a non-Instagram/non-Facebook user, wax museums are much more independently interesting than the stuff featured in the article (brightly colored baths, ball pits, walls).

I had a good enough time just looking at the wax models, even if the obvious attraction there for most people was taking photos.
The Tiny Home trend and the "Van Life" trend are slightly unsettling to me - I wonder which forces are at play who intend to convince us that lowering our standards of living is cool?

No judgement from me if you do choose to do these things, though. I do see the appeal. Maybe there is no conspiracy, maybe it is a coping mechanism.

Edited "deeply" to "slightly" upon further reflection.
Both Canon and Nikon offered expensive cryptographic addons for their pro cameras that signed out-of-camera images. It never really caught on due to cost and, more significantly, the acceptance that some postprod as always required ( except for straight-to-press sports shots ).
How to Refactor for Easier Development
How is this wholesome content even getting downvoted?
The soil also has a powerful biome that we're only beginning to understand. (https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detailfull/soils/h...)
I'm beginning to think increasing minimum wage will help. You don't need to tax the rich, just make them pay their people better. But that's still at odds with two thing. 1) it will increase incentive for more automation - but that's already happening as fast as the engineers can do it. 2) it will increase the incentive to use undocumented workers who can be paid under the table below minimum wage. Before we can talk about increasing the minimum wage I think we need to make sure everyone who works is actually getting it.
There are three problems with your statement.

First that you assume that we don't have givers and takers right now.

Second that you imply that takers are the poor.

Third is that you assume there is no resentment at the moment.
ohh. Only if it was to public, hop on the red line and walk 10 mins.
That's what I was confused about. The article says we don't do it in the UK but then describes what we call "merge in turn"
Most people didn't have the choice you did.
Not necessarily. Many are stationary, built on standard foundations. Though given their size, they are definitely easier to move than larger buildings.