skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Usually I hear people say that they shouldn't have luxuries like cheap $300 TVs, smartphones or fridges. These things are only for the rich after all. I once tried to figure out how much money I can save by changing my lifestyle. What I found out is that there are a lot of minimum price floors under which what you're buying is complete junk. In other words you're not saving money. By paying $1 less you're also getting $1 less in value or often even $2 less value. Want a cheap computer? How about a raspberry pi? No screen, accessories, no case, no input devices and for people who aren't computer savvy it runs that weird linux thing. If you buy all that stuff you could have gotten a refurbished thinkpad which offers a better experience. Don't want to spend $1000 on proper machine tools? You can hack something together for $300 that doesn't do the job well at all. And the savings aren't even that great. You're maybe saving 40% compared to just getting the real stuff but since you're not buying much stuff anyway and therefore are primarily spending all your money on rent and food it doesn't matter at all, unless you're willing to have a room mate. This again isn't saving anything, you're getting worse quality in exchange for less money. Your "financial management skills" didn't help you out, the problem wasn't that you made a bad decision, you simply don't have enough money. Someone with enough money isn't even going to spend a single thought on buying a used computer, let alone a raspberry pi, they will straight up buy their 16 core workstation with 128GB RAM for $5000 and then be done with it, never using their "financial management skills" at all. What all these poor people need is to increase their earning potential, which obviously isn't easy.
Why would we expect journalists to write fair articles? They’re in the infotainment business and need to sell clicks.

Reporting that working at a warehouse is “hard work but mostly okay,” is not going to advance that reporters career or help the publication make money. But finding a shocking and at least mostly true story, and ignoring whether or not it’s a 1% outlier, just might.

We shouldn’t be surprised by this. What we ought to do is ignore it.

I think the biggest problem is that most people want to be genuinely well-informed, won’t accept that this isn’t actually possible, and thus accept a lot of commercial infotainment because it provokes strong feelings, makes for good shared outrage dinner chats with “in the know” friends, and helps you imagine that you are well informed.
There's a good lesson in operability here: log reasons for decisions!

I have had to re-learn this lesson over and over again with my own software. "Tom, why did the system just do that?!" scream my users. "Er, let me check", i respond, already feeling that sinking feeling. "EDUNNOMATE" says the log. So, i add some logging around the decision (the data feeding into it, the choices made, the actions resulting), redeploy, and wait for my users to start screaming again, hoping that this time, i will be able to give them an answer.
"Induced demand" leads to wrong conclusions in general, analogous to confusing the local maxima produced by a hill climbing algorithm with a global one.

It's possible to build enough of anything to satisfy all the demand, even roads. The real problem with roads is the opportunity cost. There are alternative, better ways of satisfying that demand -- like building more housing, so people can live closer to where they work and don't have to drive as far.

So what's the alternative, better way of satisfying demand for housing? Nobody has one? Then we ought to build more housing, even if we have to plow through some induced demand (which may or may not even be present) in order to satisfy the full demand.
1903 decoupled cortana from search. I would have her or just deleted the executable a long time ago, but they had them bundled. Now, I can do that, no issues.
> Something is very wrong when the top result for "Kafka" is some software.

Not necessarily. If the software is more discussed on the net than the man it's named for, then perhaps that would be best?

> Do you want to live in world where you kids google "Socrates" "Beethoven" and some software project shows up on top?

You can bet your ass that if we had internet the way we do today in the early 90's that if you searched for Beethoven the first result would have been the dog movie.

Interestingly, I had an edutainment console called Socrates when I was young and it's very hard to find information on.
Thanks for mentioning this. Read those and indeed fantastic reads. Interleaving structural and behavior changes is brilliant. I already do that, but these write ups give great advice on how to communicate the practice more clearly.

Part 2: https://medium.com/@kentbeck_7670/software-design-is-human-r...
Part 3: https://medium.com/@kentbeck_7670/software-design-is-human-r...
I have to say I have been avoiding the Oath family of sites (on mobile) because of their cookie wall that doesn’t allow declining, and really I don’t feel like I’ve been missing out.
Tons of housing and higher density appears to be working on London though.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/garybarker/2019/07/18/london-ho...

London has seen extremely high levels of house and apartment building. The market is being flooded with supply, and now prices have fallen 4.4% in the last year. So apparently it's definitely possible for even big global cities to get ahead of demand.

Before someone says this is related to Brexit and not the huge increase in supply, bear in mind that:

• For the whole country prices are still going up.

• That's because in regions outside of London they're going up above inflation, e.g. in the north west they went up 3.4%. But Brexit affects the whole country, so it doesn't work as an explanation.

• Prior claims about "uncertainty" affecting prices didn't pan out. Government economists claimed in 2016 that "uncertainty" would be such a strong effect it would cause a massive recession, instead the economy grew at a strong rate and unemployment hit record lows.

So it seems pretty clear to me that the simple, well understood economic explanation of supply and demand is sufficient to explain these results. New York could probably achieve the same thing if it built enough homes.
VLC 3.2.0 beta 1 for Android released
$5k is barely a 1 week fully loaded cost for an experienced SSE.

If I can spend $5k to save a week of optimization work, it's a good deal. Also buying clockspeed can't create new bugs either, which is a risk with any code change.
Whilst from an overall security perspective, this may not be that meaningful (the pre-req's are CAP_SYS_ADMIN or --privileged), it's still a really neat hack.

Also a good demonstration of how runc container security is really just Linux security, and the isolation provided by that type of container, is dependent on underlying Linux features.

I could see circumstances where this would be of practical use, where you've landed in a privileged container and are looking for a relatively easy/universal breakout to the underlying node.

The ToB breakdown is cool too as the initial tweet was a bit hard to parse, unless your Bashfu is good.

(ofc the post from ToB I'm really looking forward to hasn't been released yet, which is what they found in the Kubernetes audit)
Here are official APK builds.[0]

[0] http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc-android/3.2.0-...
The number one chip on passmark right now is the 3900X which is beating intel units at nearly 4 times the cost.

Now passmark isn’t 100% accurate but it’s usually pretty close.

https://m.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html

I’d call that aggressive myself.
Windows will grow to fill the available RAM and will also release it when there is memory pressure

Lots of people install 8 or 16 GBs and complain about how much Windows consumes but if you remove RAM, Windows will happily operate at under 50% utilization in 4 or 6 GB situations.
> Why is this being promoted as a feature? Of course you wouldn't want to make a copy of GUI framework for each user's project. That's quite a stretch for a per-project config files advertisement.

I'm not sure what you mean by this comment. But I do think that that's a reasonable thing to say.?
> Who is to blame if you are only working a low paying job

I'd argue that it doesn't matter. Whether you take the position that it's the fault of parents/colleges/the education system/predatory lenders/politicians, or the position that it's primarily the fault of the individual, the reality remains that most people are staggeringly unable to change their circumstances.

In general, income/class mobility in the US remains extremely low, especially when someone's first jobs are low income and they have no secondary assets. This is a life-long condition for many (and, arguably, often a multi-generational condition).

Anecdotes to the contrary are a favorite conversation topic, but the lack of mobility remains. What (precious little) applicable information is present in up-by-your-bootstraps stories is either not actionable or not acted upon.

I'd argue that "what if someone is to blame for their circumstances?" and "if I/$self_made_person_of_the_week got out of poverty, why can't you?" are both pointless questions. They attempt to find root causes for a symptom which, when addressed, makes discovery of the root cause a moot endeavor.

People overwhelmingly don't get out of poverty. With a very few ascetic exceptions, there is not an affirmative choice being made to be poor--even in the most conservative interpretation, people are "irresponsible" rather than pro-poverty. Poverty causes suffering (to poor people and to many other layers of the social fabric, including non-poor people). Alleviating or removing suffering is within the power of the state and affluent people as a whole (from donations to social welfare/education programs to moonshots like UBI and a million other proven or plausible strategies).

Who is culpable is not pertinent to the removal of the proximate suffering of poverty, and I suspect that after removing that proximate suffering, the culpability question would no longer be as relevant/interesting (historically/sociologically, maybe, but not as an answer to a widespread social need).

To be clear, mobility (and the severity of poverty) used to be much, much worse in the US (and is still quite bad in many places). But the suffering remains. "You make your own problems" is as useless to point out to financially suffering people as "you just eat too much" is to point out to someone who has been 100kg overweight for 30 years. Solving the immediate suffering has an effect.
Well, imagine how much knowledge gets lost through the ages. If there aren't contemporary specialists who value or have enough time to study a technology or a cultural work, it could eventually just disappear. Add to that that different ages and societies build and create from different frameworks, then its conceivable that there are valuable pieces of information that our current society may never uncover or discover, just by virtue of working within a completely different context.
Did you find that `make -j20` (or -j40 if you have a total of 40 threads) was five times faster (ish) than the quad-core machine?
I think you might be a bit focused on the equity market there. In fx and interest rates markets there is no “public liquidity”, everything is bilateral.
Then you have 2(n/2+1) = n+2 servers. QED.
>doing basically nothing

Handling publication, payments, giving exposure and direct access via the play store, approving the apps, rejecting impersonations, the play store platform actually does a lot of stuff.

I agree that a 30% fee is a lot and probably way too much, but claiming that they do nothing is just ridiculous.
Is model training reproducible with identical software? I was under the impression that a number of CUDA expressions were non-deterministic, especially in the least-significant bits. And that's if you're running on the same hardware models, there's more variation between models.
always thought that was weird that I couldn't shop on the iphone app... now I know.
Machinations.io – a simulation tool for designing/balancing game systems
> Shouldn't at least the free market crowd object against a whole economy

It's not the whole economy, unless google+apple conspire to regulate the market to prevent others from entering. Frankly, developers are free to leave the platform and we should be telling them to get out. We 've had enough of google+apple fanboys telling everyone that they must make an app for that. We don't have to, and it's like shooting yourself in the foot. Very few developers are successful and we 're better off working on open platforms. And also, most mobile ads traffic is fraudulent. Stop advertising your stuff on mobile.
Forge Your Future with Open Source
The point is, users can not be redirected from your app to any out-of-app purchase system by any means, according to Apple's App Store Review Guidelines (https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/):

>> 2.3.2. If you want to unlock features or functionality within your app, (by way of example: subscriptions, in-game currencies, game levels, access to premium content, or unlocking a full version), you must use in-app purchase. Apps may not use their own mechanisms to unlock content or functionality, such as license keys, augmented reality markers, QR codes, etc. Apps and their metadata may not include buttons, external links, or other calls to action that direct customers to purchasing mechanisms other than in-app purchase.

Your app will be booted off the App Store if you try to redirect users from your app to an out-of-app purchase system

Netflix and Spotify do not actively redirect users to their own payment systems (in the U.S., at least). They do not provide any links, nor do they offer any instructions on how to sign up outside the app. They just say this:

Netflix: "You can't sign up for Netflix in the app. We know it's a hassle. Join and come back to start watching TV shows and movies."

Spotify: "You can't upgrade to Premium in the app. We know, it's not ideal."

The user is left completely on their own to figure out the subscription process. Netflix and Spotify are apparently big enough, and have enough consumer awareness of their services, that users will put in the effort to go sign up. For your app, this is almost certainly not the case.
When I have some time available, but not enough time to really get into something, I just pick up a piece of code and try to improve it. Over time, I hope this leads to gradual removal of the cruft that accumulates over time.
I think this really hits it on the nose. CapEx is “cheap” long-run but often insanely difficult. It only makes sense if you have the scale (1) to control variance (2) to amortize planning costs (3) and it provides a competitive advantage. Meanwhile sysadmins with no knowledge of accounting will complain that on-prem is cheaper. This is why cloud wins.
This is why I use Manjaro. DE keeps updating as does everything else; no reinstalls required.
Seriously?

That's the first/only question I ask about vacation policy because it's usually the only detail that isn't included in the first draft of the offer letter. Of course, I also ask before signing the contract.

PTO is a significant part of your total compensation. Not clarifying how accrual works is just irresponsible.

I honestly don't see how this is any different from asking about other time-based things, such as:

- whether your salary is paid every other week or at the end of the month.

- when your signing bonus is paid and how long you have to stay to keep it.

- when your stock units are granted and how long you have to stay to keep it.

- when the company's 401(k) contribution will hit your account.

All of which you should definitely be asking... and preferably before accepting the position.
> Are you saying houses are too expensive, or wages are too low?

Median housing cost is 54% of median income. That's.. high. The general recommendation is 30%.

> A $170 premium to rent versus own seems like a wonderful price to pay to not have to come up with a $45k down payment.

On the other hand, you'll be building equity with a house instead of building someone else's equity with rent.

And housing prices don't always go up, but they mostly do.

11 years into a $210k house and I'm walking with nearly $100k after subtracting maintenance costs (carpeting, dishwasher, washer/dryer, water heater, roof, gutters, interior drywall repair, and exterior paint). Total mortgage payments have been about $190k. So I effectively paid $750/month to live in a 2000+ sq ft, 4 bedroom, 2 car attached garage house in a first-ring suburb of our state's metro area (renting it would be well over $2k/month) and I have a nice pile of cash I otherwise wouldn't have saved.
Manufacturing defect either material or user error maybe?
The first set of numbers are of first-time buyers who managed to buy. That doesn't really speak to housing being affordable, it speaks to what circumstances people must be in before they feel comfortable buying. Median personal income is about half that [1].

[1]: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEPAINUSA672N
First, this was too long. Well-done journalism does not have to be a tome unto itself; vignettes of his daughter the ballerina add little to the story besides acting as padding.

Secondly, I don't get this part. From the article:

> In the 1940s, the city built Independence Boulevard, a four-lane highway that cut through the heart of its Brooklyn neighborhood, dividing and displacing a thriving working-class black community. The damage continued in the ’60s and ’70s with new interstates.

I don't get this part. I thought red-lining and confining blacks to ghettos was the problem? Wouldn't building an interstate mean more commerce and more prosperity?
Really ?

With nobody to filter out impersonators and repackaging of an app with added malware ?
I’m glad people understand that building more housing does NOT work
Do your friends a favor and never run this or any like it on their systems "for their benefit".

This is a prime example of "expert user footgun problem".

The phrase "debloat" is a marketing-hype word that's being used to bait you all into someone's personal view of how computers should be. Expect to be forced to reinstall Windows 10 a few days or weeks after running any such script.

Whenever I tech support any of my friends, the first question I ask is "did you do expert-user things to your system?" and they say "well, I mean, I edited some Registry settings" and I just stop and tell them to reinstall Windows because it's time to amputate. I'll have to add "Have you ever opened Windows PowerShell?" to my list, because that'll catch all of these right out of the gate.

In case that's not reason enough to be afraid — check out this random sampling of changes this makes!

* "This script disables Windows Defender" — Because anti-malware protection is "bloat"

* "Disable 'Updates are available' message" — Because you shouldn't have to be notified when security updates are available for your system, for example to address zero-day RCEs

* "Windows Biometric Service" — And suddenly you can't face-login to your Windows 10 computer any longer, but hey, it's "bloat"

* "Disable easy access keyboard stuff" — Because no one would ever use keyboard accessibility, that's just "bloat"

* "Restoring old volume slider" — I would get that this was "debloat" if it removed the volume slider, but simply restoring an older one?

* "PandoraMediaInc.29680B314EFC2", "SpotifyAB.SpotifyMusic" — Hope you don't like streaming music, that's just "bloat" anyways

And, consider how easily this repo could be compromised to result in you self-infecting your computer with malware by running all of these scripts without a close review of the steps they take. First step in any persistent Windows infection is to disable Windows Defender and Windows Update notifications so the user doesn't take steps that might uninstall the persistent infection. Repo does that already, so it's not like it'd be difficult.
Fair enough. Maybe that is why the smaller orchards and packers have larger fruits.

From what I understand, not only do consumers not want larger apple sizes, because the honeycrisp bruise so easily, larger honeycrisps are a PITA to manage.
In less words: this is the just-world theory.

If this is true, why have chemists' earnings dropped so precipitiously following the 2008 recession? Their genetic makeup hasn't changed. What gives?!
I have the same problem. Sometimes it just drops the whole cache suddenly and I don't have a clue why: https://walkman.cloud/s/zXLp7DF9sDFwr7z
Did the business have to get bit a few times (with, say production outages?) before this became the protocol?
Yes, if you are an embassy, you can be pretty sure that the host country is watching all of your traffic very carefully. Having all the traffic go via VPN is just sanity.

(and for really secure stuff you will want a channel with constant rate, constant size packets, as others said)
I'm still running/maintaining code I originally wrote in the 1980's.

https://github.com/dlang/dmd/tree/master/src/dmd/backend
The finance industry have some really whacky requirements. HFT firms often use heavily overclocked servers with HEDT processors, because microseconds of latency on a server request have direct monetary implications. I can't think of an application that would justify paying $5000 for an extra 300MHz of base clock, but I can imagine that someone needs it.
We're talking about Americans who live paycheque to paycheque. Presumably their time actually is valued at close to no cost (by their employer). Nobody is arguing everyone should drive a cheap old car.
Screenshots give me a major Visual Studio Code vibe. Is it a fork/reskin?
Is that why there's a delay in releasing the source?
I think in the case of hard disk space or internet bandwidth, the blame is less on users and more on developers who seem to see this as an invitation to bloated (but convenient to develop with) data formats or frameworks since "space is now cheap". (Even if it's actually the user's space and not theirs)

So the equivalent would be rising prices to eat up any benefit - and exactly that seems to happen. At least there seem to be enough studies about the rise in prices of certain sectors vs the (far lower) rise in income to debunk the "they are just uneducated/undisciplined" hypothesis.
You can teach yourself basic cooking (from zero) in less than 10 hours. Maybe even less than 5 hours.

It's insanely easy.

Teaching common sense and making the right decisions? Superbly difficult, probably impossible - at least at scale.
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Economists strongly agree that rent control does not have positive effects on the amount and quality of affordable housing [0].

[0]: http://www.igmchicago.org/surveys/rent-control
That is strange do you have any further points of reference on the matter? Preferrably a resource from Microsoft if possible.
I generally keep my profiles for work and personal seperate on social media. When I cross that division I disclose if I have some interest that would influence my statements. My work handle on twitter is @WellArchitected, and linked in is https://www.linkedin.com/in/philipfitzsimons/
I'm not in the superstar league of @jeffbarr and @_msw_
I doubted Proton for so long. It's not problem-free, but I get 144 Hz in Elite Dangerous, and all it takes is the "force this game to run in Proton" checkbox in Steam. Wow.

I was encouraged to try it after I saw its platinum rating on ProtonDB: https://www.protondb.com/

I don't think I'll ever do GPU passthru though; that's 3hard5me.
If you do this, it is no longer OTP.