skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
global interest rates have dropped so low that for the past 10+ years the baby boomer generation was speculating on property as investment, self-managing/leveraging their nest egg and avoiding the stock market or industry funds. this is a depreciating asset especially with declining population numbers.

the bottom should drop out of the market when they all die in another 10-20 years, or if rates rise back up to pre crisis levels, or if people decide to work remotely and buy land and build houses in more rural areas.

in canada the rate went from 16% in 1991 to 0.25% in 2009. the new crisis should begin around the mid 2020s, probably as trump leaves office. similar to the bush-obama transition or the clinton-bush one.
Poison toothpaste and pet treats from China have been ongoing problems for the last decade:

https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/cms_ia/importalert_207.html

https://www.fda.gov/animal-veterinary/news-events/fda-invest...

I'm not sure getting a cheap price/good deal is worth the risk (even for clothing) as the materials may be dangerous to your health.
Alternate view that's worked well for me: not only do I not charge by the day, I don't even charge by the hour. I charge by the minute and tell them exactly what I did in the time I worked. Even when something takes me a paltry couple of minutes because I may have recently spent an hour on it for another client and I could easily charge more money for it. This level of transparency earns me an incredible amount of trust with my clients, who, so far, have each become "client for life." And the overhead isn't bad--a simple spreadsheet--complete a task, describe it in several words, enter the number of minutes spent, and everything gets summed up to the total amount due at the bottom.

EDIT: for clarity, I build RESTful API back-ends on AWS and support them with DevOps; I can see how my method may not work for other industries.
> In February 2004, Oracle released Oracle Solaris Containers, an implementation of Linux-Vserver for X86 and SPARC processors.

Umm, no. It was Sun Solaris Containers (Oracle didn't purchase Sun until 2010), and it wasn't at all an implementation of Linux-VServer (which already ran on X86 and SPARC processors in any case). Actually the original inspiration for Solaris Containers (aka zones) was FreeBSD jails.
Beyond Bézier Curves (2013)
Agreed with this.

However, I have a slightly unethical suggestion especially for freelancers. One of my friend did this.

Open up a LLC in the US. You don't need to step a foot in the US to open LLC here. Get a bank account for LLC in the US. My friend did it via family connection but there are many lawyers who should be able to help international clients with this.

Once you have LLC, it makes so much easier to get paid.

Next step is to work mostly nights. And for unethical part, tell clients you are in South America. Indian developers have such a bad reputation that it is almost impossible to close. But by using American name and saying he is in South America, his close rate is about 50%.
Just curious what reasons why anyone would not want this? This brings money and taxes to the local economy.
Yeah i'd much rather buy form a western brand or someone I know is doing QA, even if it is made in China, rather than an ultra generic item from China.
"If these jobs pay so poorly, it follows that many potential journalists will do something else instead."

Oh wow, find my comment in this thread because you basically got my number.
> I would hate to make that trip downstairs, annoyed and grumpy.

My grandma always said "What you don't have in your head you must have in your legs".

My calculation is simple: Where do I expect to waste more time in my life? Periodically configuring/updating smart home devices, getting to the bottom of issues if something doesn't work as expected, or once in a while walk the stairs an extra time because I left the TV on.

So far I don't forget to switch off my TV often enough to justify the human effort of smart home devices. Maybe one day when I become older and more forgetful and not turning of TVs and lamps becomes a habit then I might re-evaluate my decision.
> They're doing this in the open through the W3C WICG process [1]. They're not doing this as they see fit.

I really don't see a significant difference. They can pretty much propose whatever they see fit through WICG and implement it in Chrome as they see fit.

By the way, this isn't a standard by any reasonable definition of the word.
The recent extension-disabling problem made me realize how awful the unfiltered web is. Trying to use mobile Chrome for the first time ever was a dreadful experience. I legitimately had no idea that mobile Chrome doesn't have any extension capability whatsoever. I always assumed it was a Firefox-style unified experience where the same desktop extensions worked on mobile. I was horrified to discover otherwise.

Ads ads ads everywhere. How do people actually live day-to-day with mobile browsers that have no true adblocking capability? Using mobile Chrome is like taking a stroll through a plague ward.
I think we'll some form of power link going from UK -> US during our lifetime, maybe via Iceland/Greenland so we can utilise the excess geothermal energy from Iceland.
Next-Generation 3D Graphics on the Web (Google I/O ’19)
Is there a benefit to rebasing vs merging, specifically if your flow is to squash commits before merging back into base?
Yes, because one of the flaws in the human brain is finding "meaning" in "having to do a lot of work".

I don't really care for that. They're going to die same as me, and they're as unlikely (maybe less likely) to contribute anything lasting.
The CEO is blaming the operational loss on the stock compensation of employees. My assumption is the generous compensation pretains primarily to the corporate Langoliers, but doesn't include people who, you know, work for a living. Your reasoning that compensating drivers fairly would be a significant overhead to the profitablity of the company has been refuted by the company's own statements. My suspicion is the company could likely compensate drivers fairly, cut executive bonuses, and operate in the black. But that isn't what the people who operate the company at the highest level want, they want nothing but to get theirs, screw what anybody else wants. Capitalist incentives, man. And it seems like you've got some kind of animosity towards fair compensation of the drivers because they work, "gigs". Call it what you want, while they're on the clock work is work and they are as entitled to fair compensation as anyone else.
Hey sciurus,

I just wanted to chime in way down deep in this comment chain because my thought only makes sense in the context of your comment right here.

I think there may be a special mode of operation of Firefox that may need to be considered here.

You said, "Even if you had no internet connection, your addons would have stopped working when the certificate expired."

This seems like an unfortunate design flaw to me. Consider a Firefox, kitted out with specific set of add-ons setup to the user's liking. Then, the network that Firefox is located on becomes permanently cutoff from the internet and can no longer make contact with the Mozilla mother ship. Maybe it's running in a VM, or maybe it's running in a country with an oppressive regime. I can think of many scenarios where a Firefox would be cutoff.

I think it is a reasonable expectation that the marooned Firefox should continue to run indefinitely without failure. Perhaps the user could be occasionally (monthly, yearly) flagged with warnings that the mother ship could not be contacted, but other than that, nothing should fail.

Please consider this and share it with your teams when the post mortem is discussed.

Thanks! I'm a loyal user since before Firefox.
And if you really spend a lot of time in a python debugger, pudb (https://pypi.org/project/pudb/) is a lot of fun. It includes a full curses debugger, it saves breakpoints between runs, can run any interpreter (ipython, bpython, ...) you want, etc.

And since it's console only, you can even run it remotely without too much hassle.
The examples I'm thinking of were authors who published their own book and ordered the printing themselves. They weren't printing in bulk and then distributing them... it was direct only.

Amazon simply didn't care when fakes started showing up, missing pages, bad printing, but the covers were always identical.
Drivers are independent agents who have every right to demand better conditions. It’s especially important to chisel every penny out of a company that will likely vanish in a short number of years.

Lyft has bled money from day 1, so justifying stiffing the workers on the basis of accelerating losses isn’t logical at all.

Now that the investors have cashed in, perhaps they can double down on patents on robo-cabs and stop bleeding money on tech that will probably arrive too late to save them.
can't you do similar by tagging? and then later just diffing against them?
> Worth noting - if you want cloud access, it's a paid subscription (reasonably priced) add on for Home Assistant

if you want a super simple setup, they have manual guides for setting it up. And if you just want remote access and don't need Alexa/Google integration, it almost as simple manually.
The Tor network is not and has never been designed to thwart a global network panopticon, as most (all?) low-latency mixer networks aren't. This is stated clearly in the Tor design spec. Choosing to frame this negatively (as a "honeypot") is a disingenuous characterization that only spreads FUD.
The question of intrusive containers is kind of orthogonal. You can implement intrusive containers using generics. Aslo, kernel code would use intrusive containers even if there were easy-to-user non-intrusives available directly in C. The reason, of course, being that with intrusive containers you can avoid huge amount of memory allocations.
If you invested $1k in Bitcoin in 2015, here's how much you'd have now
Bombing wedding parties and starving Yemeni children and making bad tweets is worse than just bombing wedding parties and starving Yemeni children, to be sure, but focusing on the bad tweets misses the point spectacularly.
Google Doubles Down on AR
Makes one wonder how Grab compares, which is popular in Asia. I believe most Grab drivers in Thailand most likely earn an above average wage. For example a short drive from Chiang Mai central bus station to Chiang Mai airport cost me 208 Baht (~7 USD) while the average Thai daily wage is probably around 300 Baht. I also paid a tip (240 Baht total).

Of course Grab gets a share of the income, but I’d guess it’s less than or equal to 30%.

I few of those trips a day should be decent income to the average Thai.
IMO, yes, it shouldn't be there. I've been following the guy for some years and was really surprised to see him called "infamous", so I went and googled for a while to see if he ever did anything "wrong".
this seems backward, as far as the pk remain meaningless they're easier to port around, not harder. it's once you give them a meaning then trouble starts (for example you can't change the slug down the road if the title changes)

and with integer keys the worst that can happen is that the sequence is not in the backup so after a restore you need to have the p sequence restart from the previous max id + 1; meanwhile with slug built off user entered data a change in collation can really screw up your day, unless you want to mangle all texts into basic ascii, and SO doesn't https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41102371/sql-doesnt-diff... (see the ü in the link more than the question itself)
Github and refined-github[1] make it easier, by keeping track of changes from a `push -f` and having merge/squash/rebase options on merging, but I know of large projects with an explicit "no rebasing" rule as it can get confusing for reviewers. I'd say it depends on the project, maintainers, and general workflow. Which is good!

1: https://github.com/sindresorhus/refined-github
Yes Miami is awash in dirty money from South America (Brazil and Argentina mostly).

https://www.miamiherald.com/real-estate/article221739550.htm...
Nothing could be further from the truth. Whoever said that does not understand compound interest.
Rebasing picks commits, merging merges. Unless you're actually trying to merge two histories, I don't recommend using merge. Just think about what you're logically trying to accomplish and choose that tool.
Contributing in a big way to the short interest (according to Bloomberg[0]) is a single trade meant to hedge Soros $550m position purchased off of Ichan just before the IPO.

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-05-07/lyft-s...
I'm currently trying to get very skilled at being a one-person consultancy to understand things well, before I shift over into building a ~four-person one. Do you have any thoughts on how to pull this off?
I have the understanding that they actually lose ~$1 per ride.
Why don't the Chinese simply add QA to the process if this increases the profit? Surely it can't be the most difficult or expensive part of the production process ...

Also, there are only so many ways you can put a bikini together. The Chinese should have learned this by now. Or they can simply hire an Italian fashion student for a small price.
This is probably where I foul up.

My last few workplaces were either not git, or relied on git pull w/o rebase. My current workplace has rebase as part of their flow, and I find that, like, 60% of my PRs require force push, which bothers me greatly. Everyone else just shrugs and considers it part of business, but I know what I WANT to do should be nicely aligned and not encounter that problem.

Unfortunately, every explanation I'm like "yes, yes, branching trees, I get it..." and then I'm suddenly in the "...and it says things are different and I don't know why". And because this always happens when I'm trying to get some fix in, I never have the time to study it to figure out what is really happening. It's just "--force and promise myself the next time will be different".
This is not all to postal rate. Even parcels not subject to UPU subsidies go at relatively low rate in China.
I believe it is an urban legend that homeowner's insurance claims (specifically fire damage to structure or other contents) are being denied with any frequency because a 'homebrew' contraption was present in the home, adjacent to the start of the fire, or even the source of ignition.

Here is a link to a sample Homeowner's policy: https://www.iii.org/sites/default/files/docs/pdf/HO3_sample....

Exclusion B on page 12 is probably the relevant section. It excludes loss due to "Faulty, inadequate or defective:... workmanship, re-
pair, construction, renovation, remodeling,..." but also contains an "ensuing loss" exception.

Here is an article about that: https://www.irmi.com/articles/expert-commentary/ensuing-loss...

> A classic example [of an ensuing loss exception] is if faulty repair resulted in improper wiring and the improper wiring caused a fire. Almost every insurer would pay for the fire damage, but not for the repair of the improper wiring.
I have to say the variance has become very high. In the past, I have, for example

- Ordered a brand product and gotten an obvious fake from China. Not good.

- Ordered a brand product, got something that had obviously been opened and used before.

- Searched for something, found only hundreds of mostly identical Chinese generic products. Ordered one, was complete and utter garbage.

- Searched for something, found hundreds of mostly identical Chinese generics. Ordered one, and it was actually pretty decent! Sadly, this happens less often.

Overall, I only buy electronic stuff on Amazon if it is cheap and/or no product with domestic (EU) assembly and QA exists.
If it is a large purchase, or one which may put me, my family or the house in any sort of danger, I would never, ever trust Amazon anymore. I buy it directly or from a store that sources directly from the producer.

Additionally, you pretty much have to buy stuff which you wouldn't bother to send back, because these things usually go nowhere.

Edit: Oh and don't get me started on the reviews. I just to look at them. Now, they are mostly fake, especially for these Chinese generic brands.

I am convinced that some of these generic brands just receive the products that got sorted out of some real brand QA process and sell them anyway.
At the point where you're doing all of that obfuscation, wouldn't it be easier and safer to use something like a uuid?
Instead, we've seemingly gone the opposite extreme, and kids barely understand how to exist outside and amongst their peers, let alone do an hour of hard work.
Thanks for the recommendation, I look forward to reading it in full.

This recalls Hegel's theme of "second nature":

[ The synthesis of ethical life means that individuals not only act in conformity with the ethical good but that they recognize the authority of ethical laws. This authority is not something alien to individuals since they are linked to the ethical order through a strong identification which Hegel says "is more like an identity than even the relation of faith or trust" (¶ 147). The knowledge of how the laws and institutions of society are binding on the will of individuals entails a "doctrine of duties." In duty the individual finds liberation both from dependence on mere natural impulse, which may or may not motivate ethical actions, and from indeterminate subjectivity which cannot produce a clear view of proper action. "In duty the individual acquires his substantive freedom" (¶ 149). In the performance of duty the individual exhibits virtue when the ethical order is reflected in his or her character, and when this is done by simple conformity with one's duties it is rectitude. ]

https://www.iep.utm.edu/hegelsoc/
> it's no different "luxury" than having underfloor heating in your bathroom. It's comparably unnecessary, just on a different financial scale.

Underfloor heating is not unnecessary, in fact it is about 10% more efficient in operating cost[1] as it can operate at lower inlet temperatures (30-35 °C, compared to 60+ °C for conventional radiators). In addition conventional radiators are often placed on the outside-facing wall below a window, which means that much of the generated heat gets lost.

As for the installation costs, for new construction conventional radiators and underfloor heating are approximately at the same price level.

[1]: https://www.t-online.de/heim-garten/energie/id_73373816/fuss...
Consumer goods: IPhones, shoes, furniture, toys may become more expensive as a result.
The CTO Role
sorry for forgetting to qualify "free market" as "so-called 'free' market".

there isn't a shortage of housing, there is a shortage of affordable housing, which for-profit developers don't care about building.
Yeah that's a very material piece of the puzzle that seems intentionally buried:

> Lisa Gallaudet, the landlords' attorney, said the smart lock was on a single door and that tenants were able to enter a numeric code to get in and didn't need an app. They'd also been offered codes they could enter without a phone.

Whether that's an alternative depends on the implementation.
If it's a code unique to the tenant that goes through the same backend, then the same privacy argument applies. If it's a static code for any tenant, their whole argument falls apart. Either way, if true, bringing up the whole part about the elderly tenant not being able to operate a smartphone is just dishonest.
GraalVM 19 Released
Well, it will play against people who resell from inland, and towards dropshippers from abroad.
I'm expecting that the extra context available in the Assistant platform will yield integrations that are generally more useful, even if there are fewer of them.

As for tinkering... it's not that difficult to build a smart thermostat these days.
Yeah, that's my approach as well, smart but with dumb fallback in case. Increases the WAF significantly.
Are you saying state sponsored kidnapping (Germany) is preferable to state monitored home schooling (US)?
All the very large enterprises I've worked for were so happy to move away from RHEL due to being cumbersome, old, and poor quality.
Everyone has different use cases. Some people just want to show a cool thing off to their friends, or even to prove they can do something at that scale. Silly? Perhaps, but who am I to judge their hobbies?

Personally, I do find things like HVAC automation nice. If I forget to turn the thermostat down when I leave for a trip, I can do so remotely and that is real savings. Everyone has their use cases though.
> As far as the “human rights” organizations go they have little legitimacy considering how most of them operate and their selection bias

> Hamas is classified as an enemy of the state by Israel as far as targets go this is a legitimate target.

Surely your opinion is more legitimate and weighs more than their's right? Your bias is barely showing, especially when proudly declaring that war crimes, atrocities, and human rights violations are irrelevant or justified because "they be the enemy".

It's the kind of explanation you'd imagine was used in the Nuremberg trials by those who also considered anything done to "the enemy" was justified and legitimate. I hope you'll excuse me, I'll have to make my exit here before you plumb new depths of abjection.

I have made my point pretty clearly: considering what happens in that war, claiming that a hit was the natural response to hacking is both a needless excuse and a load of BS (given that no other non-Palestinian hacking attempt triggers this reaction).
With all due respect were you here before the 20th century?
Was anyone looking at this site?

There's an old bit of cross-generational wisdom that I can't quite find the provenance of, but damnit, I know I've seen it before, and it goes something like:

>Let the wars of the past die with those who fought them.

The point being, they fought the fight that you wouldn't have to live in the same world, and fight the same battles they did.

That was then, this is now, and we even have precedent of what hasn't worked historically to help guide us. Let the sin of the parent reflect not on the child. The child is born into a world which is shaped around them until such time as they too can contribute to reshaping the societal fabric.

The phrase fits into such controversial ideologies just as much as mainstream ones because it describes a pattern, nothing more.

The thing that makes the jihadi and fascist interpretations of it controversial is the course of actions they believe it justifies. Not the pattern itself.

Now, more on topic. There is value in understanding "where you came from", and the path previously tread. Moving [society/the species] forward is difficult when you don't even understand what was being moved away from in the first place, and why. Heck, you don't even understand the direction you're going in the ideological landscape if you can't reconcile the required ethics of your sociological end condition with a physical environment capable of supporting them.

People see things in different ways, because everyone is mentally equipped with a different view of the puzzle of survival in the physical world. I might, as a hypothetical, understand how to guide a group through an environment, and build a sustainable community given the physical constraints, while being largely blind to the norms and emotional needs of those in it. This is why we're social creatures. We balance off one another so the collective can perpetuate.

But if we all get stuck in the past, and dig up every skeleton to have a crusade over, we're never going to get anywhere, or do anything to leave the next generation in a better starting place than what we had to start with; and I think deep down we can all agree that is a reasonable goal, yes?

To leave the world (and those in it) in a better condition for us having lived than not?