skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Call all the companies at once on a big conference call.

Then you can say "Hi Bob from Zipcar, Fred from XM radio, and Kate from FitGym, I'd like to cancel all your services."

If one puts you on hold, you talk over the hold music to speak to the other ones on the call.

Gets the job done much quicker typically.
You need to have a strategy for backward (and forward) compatibility for your components. If the environment is large enough, you don't exactly know which component is running what version of the code as they are constantly (holding back on) upgrading some part of your system. This includes extra (paramaters to) RPC calls, data type evolution, schema evolution. Without a decent strategy you'll be in over your head quickly.
(Tip : a version number for your API as part of the API v0.0.1, ain't gonna be enough)
But it used to be that any expression on its own was a valid statement. Is that going to change?

When is an expression allowed to have := in it, is

(x := 1)

on its own allowed?
Makes perfect sense to be, tbh. Licenses are just contracts and they can exactly describe what you're allowed and not allowed to do, including allowing use cases based on intent and presentation.
The true cost of something depends on the market, and the market is created and shaped by law. If the law changes to disallow foreign direct investment in residential housing and the prices drop then this IS the new true price.

Not the other way around.
IE 1.5's biggest feature was support for HTML tables. You'd have to use IE3 to even be able to execute IE's precedessor to Javascript!
Fines are punishment. Restitution/compensation is separate.
So jailing an ethnic minority based on the possibility that they might commit a crime in the future and forcing them to go through brainwashing (sorry, reeducation) programs is somehow OK because there are a few terrorists? No amount of rationalization is going to make that sound OK.
One thing I noted was that the median price paid by foreign buyers was not as high as I expected when compared to the median price for all buyers (280.6k compared to 259.6k).

This indicates to me that these foreign buyers are not necessarily institutional investors or companies, but foreign citizens, so the segment of the market they're in is probably not the multi-million property segment, but the more "standard" residential properties market a normal US resident would be in. The article does somewhat confirm this:

>"Foreign buyers include those living in the U.S. and overseas, but the majority (60%) were recent immigrants and foreigners who live in the U.S. for work, school or other reasons."

If you also take into account that there is an effect of the purchases made by these buyers on the "median price for all buyers" cited above (and so the real difference in median prices between foreign/domestic buyers is higher than what is suggested by those figures), I think the effect is somewhat diminished (as this pushes them into a more "upscale" market).

Even with the above, I still think it's relatively safe to assume this will have a downwards impact on US residential prices, at least in these states (but I'd need precise figures as to what share of homebuyers are foreign).

*edited the last paragraphs to correct something I had gotten mixed-up on
Every charity I've been stopped by in the past decade has done this. Donate $20 cash right now? Nope, we can't do that... but we can sign you up for monthly ongoing payments of $200, or even just $25 if that's all you can spare.
> A company buying thousands of homes and then milking workers through rent for decades seems unethical.

Providing homes for rent is a service provided to people that they can pay for if they want to make use of it. An economic transaction involves an exchange for money. It is not milking someone. Is a grocery store milking you for food you buy?

A house has value. The people who built it had to feed themselves and their families. Land has value. It is not free. I have to pay expensive annual property taxes to maintain ownership. The services a bank provides are not free. Living expenses are a real thing and even if you can't afford it then someone else is going to have to pay for your housing.
I don’t blame the mice for eating my garbage when I leave the door open, that’s just what mice do, they’re just trying to survive. It’s my job to keep the door closed.
i'd say the same about lingoda.com, although not extremely known, they offer language courses. their auto-renewal policy is abysmal, basically the only way to stop auto-renewal is to delete your account entirely.
As a recovering gaming addict, the author doesn't realize behavioral addictions can lead to a person becoming suicidal.

Or doesn't care. Or cares and has no idea how to live an ethically sustainable and interdependent life.
GORILLAS.BAS
Using a bitcoin washing service and then sending the proceeds from the bitcoin transactions to your bank account is not exactly trying to conceal the activity.
The US IRS has a nice document about frivolous tax arguments. It sets out why they think these are wrong in US law.

https://www.irs.gov/privacy-disclosure/the-truth-about-frivo...
"You are out of touch", "Labeling people that you don’t understand", "get out of your bubble", "You are deluding yourself", and "tossing a mr. yuck sticker on people you don’t understand" are all examples of personal swipes.
They can’t just deprecate the other two; f-string’s nature precludes it from being used in situations where formatting needs to occur lazily, e.g. i18n. This is the same reason why other languages with string interpolation also keep a format method around, e.g. Swift’s String(format:). I guess you could argue that they should at least deprecate %-formatting, and this has indeed been raised multiple times, even prior to f-string’s introduction, but the power of Backwards Compatibility Gods are still strong there, for better or for worse.
Core Rope Memory
True, a market that allowed for up-zoned property building would absorb the foreign investment. Hell, it would help bring money into the community. Exporting flipped condos to foreign buyers is wealth transfer to that locality, if the market can be permitted to expand in response to increased demand. This does not mean "bulldozing Central Park," it means "allowing the owner of a laundromat to build a 3-story condominium."

The worst-case scenario in that case is "overbuilding," a deceptive term that means that housing becomes affordable again to those who need it, e.g. minorities previously subjected to redlining.
>At a minimum, and by way of illustration not limitation, reasonable measures include i) preventing unlicensed third-party access, i.e. hotlinking and, ii) not allowing direct download of the fonts unrelated to the process of styling text for your website.

It's not clear. How on earth are you supposed to implement ii)?

I'm not interested in answers which mention the Referer header. There are a myriad of factors which can prevent it being sent with the original request required the style elements on the site.
The difference is that housing is a market where you can't increase supply much, because of location. This makes it an accelerator of inequality, unfairness and hereditary wealth. Also, regulatory capture.
It's almost as if market prices always have a political component.
Well, for those used to those expressions, it definitely helps write that code with one line lesser (assignment by itself).

Most likely, the assigned value is stored for use in one of the conditionals, so it really doesn't change any of that.

Let's also understand that we are dealing with a decorated assignment here, so a = (b = c) should be no different from evaluating (b = c). It's not complicated, the way I at least look at it.
You should try and use React first before deciding if it's actually helpful for you later.

In case of React, to me, i no longer bother with syncing state with html, something like `node.innerHTML = `${my_state}`

It's actually beneficial to me.
I guess it is not common, but by using the = operator you would not get the warning, and instead get unexpected behaviour.
Awfully confusing since stealing in this case (lobbying) is currently legal.

Getting upset at TurboTax for lobbying is like getting upset when a baseball player steals a base.. it’s part of the game. If it isn’t working then change the rules of the game! Trying to shame every baseball player into not stealing bases isn’t gonna work, they want to win.
Nowadays, it's not only "China" but "anything". You should always question if the author has a political agenda to push.

OTOH I've read for years about the impeding housing bubble bursting or that the rally of the stock market has to end in a crash soon.

You can be fundamentally right but still be wrong for years to come.
djb has noted that RDRAND is a particularly attractable means to exfiltration back in 2014 [1]. So it is not simply irrelevant.

[1] https://blog.cr.yp.to/20140205-entropy.html
> * Imagine the Chinese government is a person*

The Chinese government is not a person. There is no value in thinking of it as such.

> you walk up to them and ask "what is your reason for doing this?". They start to explain "my reason is.."

Their reasons don't matter. Only their actions matter. Only the outcomes matter. What they are doing in Xinjiang is plainly wrong. There is nothing to debate here.

Their actions are dishonest and unjustified. Dressing up the immorality of what's being done in Xinjiang as a point of contention or debate is also dishonest.
This happens a lot with HDDs and SSDs. At least once per month I get a notification about disks being really cheap. Looks like sellers make mistakes and put wrong numbers to quantity/price boxes. Most often orders are cancelled.
200 bu/acre is at the high end of corn yields, so your $10 cost estimate is probably a bit low.

Current price per bushel of corn is $4.4. Adding $10 per bushel will be a huge economic shock. Given corn is a big input in most animal husbandry, this means most animal products will become more expensive.

Middle and upper class people will probably be able to pay more and eat the same things, but not the lower class.
how long will it take before Trump threatens tariffs on Vietnam?

it’s hard to rationalise such movements when the group of people deciding this stuff is completely irrational.
Drones build a rope bridge that a human can cross
oh, i missed that. in that case i agree, the original should have been good enough. can't fix everything...

edit: i was thinking of this title "Issue: find a new home for repos" which is not the original one. somehow that "all" makes a difference, as does adding "request"
Does 4G even use the concept of a MAC address? I'm not familiar enough with the protocol to comment, but MAC addresses are usually an Ethernet conecpt.
cocaine is cardiotoxic, that's a fairly negative effect. serotonin receptors aren't only located in the brain... that's a point which should be considered when evaluating the safety of a psychoactive substance.
This is only the case if everyone has to stay in their city. We are already seeing jobs migrate to smaller metros in the United States in order to reduce wage costs. Employees will follow, and pressure will reduce.

We see this with the large investment banks and internet companies. Before this, we saw this with the large manufacturers. Believe it or not, cars used to actually be manufactured in Detroit city limits. Baltimore was full of canneries, etc.

I'll be the first to admit it sucks, and I don't feel like moving ---I selfishly want other people to move. I also selfishly want other people to buy condos so I can live in a single family house. But life is full of such tradeoffs for those making less than the top 99% or so of their region's income.
I’m not so sure, I’d rather start from what is there, understand it and go from there.

Sure, if you start over you may we’ll get there faster but you’ll probably repeats some of the same mistakes all over again.
https://github.com/perfectmak/libra-core

It seems the Congressman mistook an unofficial 3rd-party js repo whose author is Nigerian as an official Libra project...
And I often mix up Hackernoon and Hackaday.
I suppose it might work like council housing (used to) work in the UK. The council builds large numbers of homes and houses people in them for lower than market rentals. Of course people are still free to build and buy homes privately if they want.

The problem with this in the UK was that the stock of council housing became immensely valuable and as soon as we had a right wing government they started to sell it off. Selling it off created home owners (who are more likely to vote for that government) and raised "free" money which could be given out in tax cuts, so it was a natural target.

In the UK an alternate system - housing associations (HA) - survived a little bit better. Here the houses are either built with public money and handed to a housing association (a private trust) or built by the HA. The HA then rents them out on similar terms to council houses. Because they aren't publicly owned the government couldn't sell them off. Except that because some HAs built using government loans or assistance the government was able to extend the right of tenants to buy to those homes too.
Marcus,

Great that you're doing so well! I used to buy some components off you when LB was still a part time thing for you... many many moons ago. Love that you're still exploring and pushing your own boundaries!
I saw Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and collaterally, Hong Kong and it was for business.
Yes there were things I saw that showed the inherent poorness of the population but the overwhelming power of the industrial ecosystem and overall progress of the country despite “zero privacy” was breathtaking.

I have been talking with local about the privacy thing which was super interesting but it’s off topic here.
How would we differentiate a genuinely huge discount from a mis-priced sale ? Ethically both parties are obliged to cancel the deal if the transaction doesn't incentivise both parties . But big players look at these as a good PR rather than mistake since the losses might be a fraction of what they are spending for marketing
I haven't found it tight in my Gemeinde, which also has a bus home that departs 1 minute after the train arrives. I view it as liberating: instead of trying to rush in a grocery store I get an excuse to fill the time and shop slower, text the wife if I need to pick anything else up, socialize with locals in the store, etc.
> if a bit dry

That's part of the problem. Journalists avoid a deep dive into the nitty gritty that might muddy the narrative. Of course economists discuss this and are more aware of it than any other group. But how stats are presented (marketed?) on the outside should be of concern to anyone caring about their own democratic system where this stuff sways millions of votes.

> seems like a whataboutism argument

It's tiring to see this said here. Quite sure it's not tolerated much lately as a singular/only response either. It is ingrained human nature to compare others, particularly those with similar traits. To shut down discussion with a single word is incredibly disingenuous and unhelpful to modern discourse.

Give me 10 mins and I can tell you 100 things the US does far better than China. I really doubt the same claims of whataboutism would be made in the opposite direction.

Don't let nationalism cloud your judgement friend. It's a big wide diverse world with a bunch of viewpoints.
Some companies pre-auth for a significant amount (eg. 3 months service), and then cancel the pre-auth immediately.

They do that on the basis that if you don't have funds to cover 3 months service, they probably don't want you as a customer. Any service with upfront costs (eg. Sending out hardware) is likely to do this.
I love the aesthetics of hexagons.

It should be possible to turn this projection into quite a nice 3D printable model. Challenging, though. Probably one could try to split the sphere into equal hexagons for printing and then assemble.
Too bad that he was not from a serious country like Russia or China. He could've taken the money and went home and the US cannot deport him.
I like how the strengths of Rust are summarized by 3 points:

* Algebraic data types

* Resource acquisition is initialization

* Aliasable XOR mutable

I think it can help not only to design a Smaller Rust as discussed here, but also to grasp the key design points of this language which is a bit daunting.
Oh I didnt knew he made pipenv AND requests - both are very fine projects trusted in production.

On Pipenv? Why are people so negative about it? If you don't like it - just use another tool. Its not like its M$ or systemD which both are a pain to get rid of if your organisation or distro decided to implement
That's interesting. How was the pricing structure problem addressed?
On the other hand...

Who doesn't have a story of being 'screwed over' by some company or other – usually many stories? Who hasn't had their share of bad customer service interactions?

It's not because companies are evil. Maybe some are – but it's an inherent asymmetry that when you are one customer out of anywhere from thousands to (in Amazon's case) hundreds of millions, you're not going to get personalized attention. You have to deal with their system, whatever it is, and if their system screws up, it probably hurts you more than it hurts them.

Speaking of Amazon in particular, I've heard they have quite good customer service. But I was still pretty disappointed a few months ago to learn firsthand that the "guaranteed delivery" they keep promising just means that if they miss it, you can get a free month of Prime. Not even automatically; you have to spend the time to contact customer service. Now, I've ordered a ton of packages from Amazon and they've almost always been very reliable; overall I'm a highly satisfied customer. My package that got lost wasn't even important! But they said "guaranteed", and when I learned that that basically meant nothing, I felt kind of screwed over.

So when, for once, it's Amazon that gets screwed over by the little guy... to me it feels karmic.
Chimp gangs go on (chimp) murderous rampages, though.
Homeowners don’t really care about the cost of subsidies since they benefit the most from it.

The real problem is that zoning is decided at the local level; local turnout is not very high, so it doesn’t take that many concerned homeowners to overthrow someone who is too pro-growth. And usually local municipalities are balkanized subsets of the region, who want all the upside of regional growth but none of the downside. In the most extreme example, the Bay Area, this leads to lots of permits for job expansion in small localities but not for housing, since residents need a lot more in the way of services.

It would be much more healthy to have zoning laid out at the state or regional level, but regional level governments don’t even really exist in the American context, and only a few cities in America have continued annexing suburban areas into the 21st century.
> If Google had more business in China, the CCP could blackmail them into censoring their results in other countries as well.

It's easily forgotten that the nation currently lead by Donald Trump already has this power of international censorship. Doesn't even need hypothetical scenarios to be scary.
I think you can use mitmproxy for that.
>It’s kind of interesting- the asymmetry of moral expectations and entitlement

Not really. Non symmetric things (a behemoth of a company and individual regular Joe/Jane customers) shouldn't be treated symmetrically in the first place.

Screw the company, all power to the consumer makes a lot of sense morally.

>I just think it’s amazing how frail people’s morality is, how it goes out the window when certain conditions are met.

I think it makes total sense for morality to adapt to circumstances, and not be some rigid changeless set of rules that one enforces like a Vulcan.

Else it would be like Anatole France's description of the law:

"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread".

Now that's injustice -- having a fixed "morality" that treats everyone the same for the same transgression.

And, of course, if it was a little store down the corner, people would have had different sympathies, if old Roger there made a pricing mistake. They'd be much more in favor of the former than of the consumer who benefited from it...
Indeed, one could argue that in reality, most market participants are irrational, emotional and never have full knowledge.
I just do that on the stove or in the oven. I haven't owned a microwave in years. However, I'm not opposed to them. They are super convenient. Way less concern for burning leftover soup in the microwave that takes half as long to reheat my soup. Lol.
Beyond applets, which sandbox wasn't as good a thought out, and even JavaScript suffers from issues to this day like cross site scripting and bitcoin mining,what are those Java issues in regular desktop and JEE/Spring servers?
No monitoring? :(
In the UK, the bank will just let the transaction go through & then charge you a hefty fee for an unapproved overdraft.
In reality, this app is really underwelming. I'd recommend Niagara launcher, or Before launcher.
When you take out any subscription, you should always create an event in your calendar that is the last date that you can cancel before renewal.

Takes seconds to do and saves a lot of money down the line.
Actually you have plenty of evidence. AggregateIQ through data was able to automatically fashion ads tailored at capturing audience members susceptible to certain messages. Leave used that data to campaign and attract voters who otherwise would have not voted. Cambridge Analytica employed similar methods with similar data to help secure president Trumps election. Both companies belonged to Robert Mercer who worked on AI and data analytics in its earlier years. You can read plenty on how both those companies were used to secure those votes. It's all in the public domain. Sure it wasn't all data but data was a pivotal weapon in winning their respective battles.
You're right! My fault
I believe they were being sold from the official Sony storefront.
In general, the tighter your headways get, the less likely you can maintain such a strict operation.

In fact, past a certain point it becomes pointless; if trains come every, say, ten minutes, then average wait time is five minutes and no one waits more than ten minutes, and holding a train will mostly just cause cascading delays.
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But hasn't there been talk of moving from China to India/Vietnam for some years now?

Did any of that actually happen or was it just talk until now?
Free speech is a pretty easy and clear concept. Europe definitely does not fulfill that. Also "we" (I'm German) do not (all) like the extremely limited range of things we can say.
Article is from April 2019.
>The Chinese government is not a person. There is no value in thinking of it as such.

The Chinese government is made up of people, and China is made up of people that generally support the government.

>Their reasons don't matter. Only their actions matter. Only the outcomes matter. What they are doing in Xinjiang is plainly wrong.

If only outcomes matter, then shouting "you're wrong!" at them isn't going to change any outcomes. You're not going to change the mind of any Chinese people who support the government by telling them "you're morally wrong!". It's long past the stage where America had enough of a military advantage to intervene militarily, so if you want to bring about change the only way to do so is engaging in dialogue with the people who support those policies. It's not possible to engage in dialogue with them if you don't understand their motivations and reasoning.
Ironically, my smart watch is pretty much my only impulse buy over 50$ (250$), and its easily one of the worst choices I made. I bought it for the same reasons as you, except I was thoroughly disappointed at its (under-) performance.