skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems like the housing tax is working as intended.

The most interesting part is how this is one of the few serious sources of backpressure on rent. Normally landlords are so loathe to reduce rents that they'll let a property sit vacant for months, but this tax makes that extremely painful so they're forced to instead meet the market on rent prices.
Here is my list of advice:

1. Think from their point of view. What are the biggest pain points they can identify with? What are you solving for them?

2. Show as much as you can upfront. Bring an app with their logo and name on it. Maybe mockups if you don’t have app. Their “customizing and correcting” instict kicks in an the conversation becomes about what to change.

3. Don’t charge anything serious upfront, just take their credit card for a “retainer fee” and have them authorize charges as you go.

4. Use a website for them to choose from predefined choices, like JS libraries used to let you choose what you wanted. Then they leave their email to get a quote.

5. Use your website or app in order to set up a portal for them, including their choices and initial product, and invite others to manage this portal. Make it as easy as possible for them to invite MORE stakeholders in their organization. Build onboarding for the stakeholders where they get to see the work in progress, choices, video, until some stakeholde enters the credit card.

7. Break things down into milestones and deliverables. Put as much as you can on a website to create a feeling that you have lots of customers vying for your tome so they don’t feel they can haggle.

7. Finally, reward your existing customers for adding testimonials, sharing good results, and bringing more customers, with some internal credit system, that can be used to reduce the amount they pay. Make onboarding process for inbound sales, which includes the social proof from the customers.

8. Oh yeah, and consider doing PR and bringing people to your landing page from 7.
Another one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18929245
> it's become too slow and bureaucratic.

When I first used Debian in the 90s it had a reputation for being slow and bureaucratic.
Has San Fransisco not been in a housing crisis for decades now?
I think us commenters are all on the same page here :)

The author is almost making it seem like models are reality and that people think that. They're not and I don't think anyone has ever thought they were...

Further and like other comments already mentioned, the brain is thought of and treated as a turing machine, not a digital computer. It's done this way, because the brain can be mapped to the definition of a turing machine.

And I have to defend Von Neumann. In his book, he explored turing equivalencies between the brain and computer concepts at the time used to implement the digital turing machine, he didn't actually think that the brain was a one-to-one mapping to a digital computer... He knew the difference between models and reality.

Even for the history of models the author mentions (hydraulics, automata, etc.), these all contain some turing equivalencies if implemented correctly and they were simply using the language and examples at the time to express this.

The author also continues to mangle any and all ideas of modeling, abstraction, and equivalence throughout the whole article. With regard to his 'uniqueness problem', I mean 'information loss' is modeled digitally for a reason.. just because humans are lossy, doesn't mean we can't model them that way. Think of a compressed image file.

I don't think there's a single researcher worth their salt that thinks the 'IP Metaphor' is gospel. That is just a grossly unscientific idea to assume.

We're all free to choose any model or collection of models we wish to approximate reality, but some of them work better than others and the brain is a complicated thing to model.

The author is trying to dramatize a triviality.
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I think Airbus does a lot of formal proving / verification of their flight software. There was a great article about it which I can’t find anymore, but Google is full of academic papers on it.
I also doubt that the aviation authorities would ground the 737-8 without more evidence of a design flaw, but it's worth noting the FAA and other national authorities did ground the 787 for three months between January and April 2013 as a result of battery fires.
SF libraries as sanctuaries for the homeless – Hollywood movie captures reality
I find this comment to be extremely cold. Technical and process disagreements happen all the time - one leaving because of their own free will is a regular course of life in any long-lived collaborative project. Someone dying is an entirely different thing and for one to equate the two is absurd bordering on cruel. Please take some time to pause and consider how this kind of inflammatory commentary is unhelpful and indeed harmful.
> True, people can abuse those terms for a doublespeak effect, but they have legitimate uses.

Yeah, and opium sometimes has legitimate uses in pain management.
I wonder if it has to do.with the new speculator tax in BC for empty homes? Tax season's here. Seems like they're trying to avoid the fairly hefty new tax that would be levied on them for having an empty mansion.
Keep in mind, when this solution was adopted Docker were still wedded to Swarm. Even if they stop caring about it -- as they pretty much have now -- we have a system that works at rest. Two years on, the team(s) that handle the production support and operations are more comfortable with Docker & co, because of this. Not to forget, this is a very large (and risk-averse) enterprise. You don't always get to pick whatever you like!
NZ cracked the robot sheepdog back in the 70s
https://youtu.be/T1cmPNYb5Ko
It's not that I'm not their boss; of course I am, pretty much by definition. I'm higher up on the hierarchy (context: I'm a cofounder and CTO)

The point I'm trying to make isn't that I'm not their boss, but that by virtue of great employees being hard to find, it's my job to keep them happy and productive. Not just productive, but happy is important too. It costs the company way more to find a new employee than to keep an existing one. As such, provided an employee is doing a good job (which is a requirement in any role), it's my job to ensure they are as productive and happy as possible. That doesn't mean I don't have the hard conversation or fire if they stop working, but it does mean that my role is to be an effective shit-umbrella and keep them happy, inspired, and excited.
Nope - RHEL 7.x. Various incarnations, too.
USB 3 support seems.. Basic at this point? The post mentions 2012 when chips became prevalent so this isn't new.
I also seem to recall an issue with getting a decent web browser recently?

"For a os with only a few contributors doing work on their freetime, I think it is going great "

Oh definitely, I bear no ill will, and would like the project to succeed. But can you make a full featured desktop OS in your free time. There's another comment on this thread pointing out the spec is 600 pages long. I can understand how if you're doing it as a hobby that would take time.

If someone built a car in their garage I'd be impressed. It may have taken 10 years, look ugly and leak oil but its still an achievement. I wouldn't buy it though, I don't want a car that leaks oil, and doesn't have crumple zones etc.

I guess what I'm (slowly) stumbling towards asking is, is this a hobby OS or a 'big professional' OS? Reading between the lines you seem to be happy with a hobby OS, if so great, but that isn't what I want, I'm not sure that is what it was hyped to be.
I up-voted this, though depending on what you meant by 'productive', I can see why it would be insensitive.

After I retired I wanted to write a novel. I did that with voice recognition. I did some consulting via Skype. I wrote a chapter for a textbook. As the fatigue made long form writing more difficult, I wrote more short stories, and now poetry. My goal, such as it is, is to complete another collection (I wrote one years ago). I get an hour or two a day of reasonable clarity. Some days, though, I spend it farting around on the internet (ohai!).
Maybe the article should be titled "A Case Against Google." It is not the only case against Google.

I personally feel passionately about antitrust but not so much about privacy. Obviously, some people feel differently.

But the point is that the fact that some people think privacy is a bigger deal shouldn't diminish the antitrust aspect. Antitrust is a completely separate issue.
I once rented a $1.6m mansion apartment in Shenzhen for $500 a month. I guess, Chinese influence...

For some locals, the math behind earning money from property in other ways than resale don't tell them anything. They got too used to the idea of flipping properties at six digit gain every few years.

Naturally, the "measly income" from rent doesn't look much in comparison to that to simply bother thinking about.
What did all the horses do when the automobile came along?
1 - Having too many people is more an indicator that they hired too fast or more than they could sustainably afford rather than indicating anything about their inherent monetization strategy and approach. Every company has a ceiling somewhere, even if it's getting acquired by Microsoft for $7.5B. That's a pretty nice ceiling to have.

2 - That seems fine and besides the point... Google is massive. Google Cloud (excluding the half that comes from G Suite) brings in $2B per year in revenue. That might only be a few percent of Google's overall, but a few percent of $80B is still a massive number.
>Should this policy be changed?

Absolutely. But I have a question, is this US specific, or could we expect every prisoner around the world not be able to learn programming?
Even without CT, you're still setting public DNS records -- so better yet, don't rely on "internal" hostnames staying private if you want them publicly trusted. Full stop.
Yeah but salaries are far lower than SF.
If you are going to manage your CA and don't have an expert available, you could do much worse than https://www.vaultproject.io/docs/secrets/pki/index.html

Even if you do have an expert available, it's a sound choice.
The obvious advantage is that you don't need to deploy your root cert on client devices, or manage your own PKI.

Reissuing certificates shouldn't be a problem since Let's Encrypt has a rate limit exception for renewals, though if I were managing 65,000 servers I'd be a little hesitant to put that kind of burden on Let's Encrypt's infrastructure without contacting them first, just as a matter of courtesy.
Not really. They can be used to replace one element of the docker stack, runc
They have also changed the wifi password that they had made public in one of their youtube videos via a note on the wall.
(Sure, it was the guest-wifi but still)
Let's Encrypt specifically does not rate limit renewals. See the renewal exemption in the 6th paragraph of [0]. A "renewal" is any certificate that would count as a duplicate – that is, using the same set of names as another valid certificate. It doesn't count the keys. So you can always reissue existing certs.

[0] https://letsencrypt.org/docs/rate-limits/
This is a ridiculous question and you know it.
I just tried it for a few weeks, ending last week. It wasn't bad at all, though individual apps had various bugs such that the experience often came down to same-app-on-Haiku vs. same-app-on-Linux. Also, while I liked being able to join different apps into one tabbed window, the other workspace features in Linux DE's seemed even more useful.

So: I was surprised at how easy it was to end the experiment early and try out another Linux distro, even though I'll probably try out other Haiku releases in the future. The boot time and single-user configuration was definitely a nice break.
Likewise. It's frustrating not even understanding consciousness.

And since having kids I find permanent nonexistence even more painful to contemplate.
You would not, but you don't give your private keys to them. Why do you think so?
Oh, it's great when it works out like that, but this place wasn't worth staying with long term. I should clarify; I was a grease monkey/operator, not tech support. You would never break 15usd/hr even as a foreman.

The slogan was literally "Run it till it dies". The machine next to me was even older, and had a crash/down time of 1-2 hours every 9 hour day. Not kidding.
The floor offices still used terminal computers in 2014-ish. The one in my depart finally crapped out (screen flicker due to the flyback cracking a solder joint). Easy fix, I didn't say anything hoping they'd buy a damn desktop like a normal company. Nope, they special ordered a new/refurb terminal for god knows how much money (I think it was a televideo 9xx or something).

I could go on, but you get the idea.
I made a post few months ago regarding this exact vulnerability: https://dev.to/antogarand/why-facebooks-api-starts-with-a-fo...

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18443125

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While this vulnerability is getting old, it's very interesting to see its prevention still in effect on major websites.
Even if the original vulnerability is patched, we never know when a modern variant might pop out, such as using UTF16BE as charset to extract array data!
ACME doesn't give the issuing CA access to your private keys. That'd be a terrible idea.
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It's very common for internal hostnames to be resolvable only internally (such as with split-zone or dedicated internal DNS servers).

Edit: Or do you mean as part of the challenge-response mechanism? Yeah, that would have to be public.
There is also jury nullification which some people attribute to the repeal of alcohol prohibition.
Lion Air wasn't maintaining their aircraft well. The new anti-stall feature that seemed to cause the Lion Air crash shouldn't have activated under a sensor fault scenario, yes, but software alone isn't to blame for that one.
And the Ukraine is just 500km from Vienna. I don't dispute China is a developing country, I just think a lot of westerners don't realize how huge and - in parts - how developed it is.

People hear "China is a developing country" and think it's comparable to countries like Bangladesh or Cambodia. But the tier-1 cities and their peripheries are not some tiny enclaves of wealth like Singapore, they are huge - bigger than major European countries.

The fact that poor/undeveloped areas are relatively nearby does not make them less developed than the fact that Moldova and Kosovo are in the EU's backyard make Germany undeveloped.
To be fair, I've lived in France and the UK and it's also the case (can't compare to the US though)
Four Against Darkness–a Rogue-like board game (2016)
The end of the article confirms exactly that point.
Ah, you're conflating things here. Bad managers often think making more money for the business per hour is a 'get more work out of the employees per minute' strategy. That doesn't work, due to the off-pay benefits a happy employee provides that a bullied or unhappy one doesn't. Staying a few minutes late to finish up a job, coming on time, not fudging their hours a few minutes here and there, recruiting on your behalf by telling their smart friends about how much they love their job, being willing to come up with new ideas to improve the business, etc.

Many bad managers think short term, and are looking to squeeze every ounce of work out of their employees, which leads to burnout, disillusionment, and resentment. My point is it's far more important to make them happy and have them convinced they want to do their best work, not because they fear losing their job, but because they feel inspired, capable, trusted, well-compensated / rewarded, and like they have autonomy.

If McDonald's had that, their turnover would be a hell of a lot lower, guaranteed.

[edit] Here's an example of what I mean by the unpaid extras I refer to: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/jobs/bullying-bosses-ne...
Since when do you give a CA your private keys to get a certificate signed?
Is there any recent history for FAA to issue an emergency grounding for one type of aircraft?

The only example I know is DC-10.
I think so too, very very likely.
You'll likely get paid $50-$100k USD per year as a developer in Vancouver.
Why would you be sending your private keys to your certificate authority?
The half-life of approximately 15 minutes for free neutrons is considered long. It's actually the longest for any sub-atomic particle if I recall correctly.
I think it's a British thing.
It’s the end of the world as we know it
This is not exclusive to LetsEncypt - you'll get this with any official CA that participates in CT.

You could use a private CA or official wildcard certs.
Until five months ago my parents (in their 80s) would have decisively said the same. They designed their house so it would be comfortable even as their range of motion diminished (e.g. bedroom they could move into downstairs). Yet five months ago they completely changed their minds and move to one next week.

Why?

My mum's a physician and she saw many people degenerate in their own homes, and find themselves in trouble (fell/got stuck, had to wait for someone to find them). For them that was disturbing, but they also saw people get quite lonely as they and their friends could no longer make it out of the house. Their friends are dying too. And finally they realised it just takes more and more time to accomplish simple tasks like paying the bills. They'd rather be living than looking after their lives.

This author is American and my parents are living in the USA as well. There's very little support for old people in the US except for unpaid labor by daughters or daughters in law (the number of adult sons looking after aging parents is much lower!). In home care is expensive (1.5% of US GDP already -- I looked it up) and thinly served. When I compare that to the care my grandparents had and my in laws (in three other countries) the US appears to be the least supportive -- though in part this is due to people moving around a lot.
Sure, but the problem in SF is that the units don't exist, right?
Airlines can ground a new aircraft pretty bloody fast. Qantas grounded its A380 fleet within a couple hours of QF32 landing in 2010. Havoc, definitely, but every major airline will take havoc over an accident any day of the week.
Precisely. Many of my peers reacted to the news of Amazon coming to Vancouver with "yeah, but at Vancouver salaries".
No, it used to just be an expensive city. Over the last decade it has become the most expensive city. Rents have literally doubled.
> When the GDP per capita is below world average, how it is not a poor country significantly under developed??

Perhaps cause it is not possible that every person in the world would be living above world average? Especially in the country that is home to almost 1/6 of total world population.

In many countries there are huge regional differences but I hope that after 30 years of growth even people living in poor provinces of China are better off. Even if the statistics are trumped up for propaganda reasons.
I think we need to educate people how free will is an illusion and because it would help in preventing the root causes.
You host the client yourself, but it still queries searx's servers, doesn't it?

I'm not sure how that's an improvement over DDG.
Yes, but the topsoil has been blown away exposing that clay.

You just have to look at the "nature strip" in front of my house compared to my neighbors on the same street. We're all on the same terrain. Mine is the only one with grass (and flowers despite people getting out of cars and treading on them).
Craigslist Is Down
Just checked a few of the "is it down" websites and it is not just me, it's down for everyone.
Just guessing but perhaps your post is being downvoted because of a fundamental misunderstanding of the word "art", followed by "just plug the numbers into your GPS".

"As much an art as a science" does not mean "there is no science and it's all made up", it means the science is so involved that a layman would struggle to understand it and even someone trained in the practice sometimes needs to rely on experience and muscle memory more than a hard rule book. "As much an art as a science" means you can't just be taught how to do it without practical examples.

Everything you've mentioned in your experience (holding yourself accountable, analytical processes, etc) is the definition of "as much an art as a science". If it was just science with no art, you wouldn't need to hold yourself accountable. You'd just follow the rule book and be completely assured you'd make it to your destination. "Art" in this sentence means "technical problem solving", from an archaic definition of "art" which means "technics". [1]

You seem to have interpreted the word "art" as something lesser than science, then went on to redefine science as meaning exactly the same thing as art in this situation. Maybe think of the phrase as "it's just as much practical knowledge as it is academic". That's how we would phrase the same thing in modern English.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_art
Who cares about a bigger salary if most of the difference gets directly deposited in your landlord's bank account?
> No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than I needed or wanted. Boring. I am always bitchy. No Fun – for anybody. 67. You are getting Greedy. Act your old age. Relax – This won’t hurt.
The big thing here is that its analytical framework allows the authors to clearly analyze Paxos and some important variants and identify performance improvements (e.g. steps in the algorithm you can elide) that don't undermine the guarantees provided.
I'm at a loss for words trying to understand what you are trying to convey with your message.
Your most recent comment that is not a reply to something I've written is, in its entirety:

> "Your math is a conspiracy of the patriarchy!"

So, while I identified a tactic of the alt-right, without outright accusing you of being in the alt-right, I have to say that I'm not encouraged by this "coincidence," scare quotes deliberate. Well, I'm encouraged that I seem to be spot on in finding these rhetorical techniques. I'm discouraged at its prevalence.

This may come as a news flash, but there is a long, long history of racist scholarship in the West. And not the covert, "Well, there seem to be differences but we can all sorta be equal anyways" kind, but exactly the kind of, "Gosh, these inferior Polynesians did something better than we Caucasians. Ha! I got it! They're secret Caucasians! I knew it! See, if we go to the Sanskrit, we can see right where these inferior foreigners diverged and began their decline, holding on only to the True Scotsman, I mean, True Navigation Technique!"

> [The article] didn't need to slander folks from the past who tried to figure things out with "hurr, durr, cuz white people all racist".

I am, I suppose, as concerned as the next guy with the reputation of Professor A. H. Keane, quoted in the article describing Polynesians as "one of the finest races of mankind, Caucasian in all essentials; distinguished by their symmetrical proportions, tall stature...and handsome features," as thorough as he is do remove the Polynesians from the vast morass of ethnic inferiors. However, I still think that I'll just risk the accusation of deliberate racism against Keane, no matter how slanderous it turns out to be. I mean, gosh, first they came for the late 18th-Century scholars, and I'm doing nothing, because I'm not a white identitarian. Cats and dogs living together!

Look, if you're not on the alt-right, or if you are but you're just "concerned about some things" and not in it to win it with the Charlottesville-marching unholy dreck, then I have some bad news for you: You're a tool for some very awful people with a very retrograde, and ultimately self-destructive, agenda. Take a deep breath, because your rhetoric is their rhetoric, and you're accomplishing their ends.