skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>How do advertisers know the requests are coming from real users and not bots?

Maybe the dominant adops model was a mistake? To throw back to an older, simpler time: what would thinking outside the box look like for this?
Interesting clause. There’s no insurance and no guarantee of protection against anything. One wonders what stops them from keeping your stuff in a basket next to the mints.
> Hot take: Subscription models actually reflect the costs of software development better than an one-off purchase. They link the value provided by updates/maintenance to a tangible cost.

I don’t agree with this at all. I believe subscription models encourage laziness and/or introduction of unnecessary or complex features (to show that busywork is being done).

Sell a license for applications with support included for a year or whatever, like developers used to and still do. If you continue providing more value to customers, and if you aren’t too greedy to introduce new versions and upgrades for trivial updates often, why would the majority of your customers not purchase a paid upgrade every couple of years or so?

I feel there are many areas that are saturated and that developers struggle to figure out how to add more value...or rather, extract more money from customers (1Password in recent years is an example of this, in my experience).
Yes. It’s not splitting hairs, it’s looking at the root of the problem: Americans live inefficiently and in our bubble it seems “normal” because we have normalized severe deviance from good social, economic, and environmental practices and lifestyles.
The migrant cage issue is really besides the point. I'm not trying to start a debate specifically about immigration. I could pick any topic, even something innocuous. My point is that if you claim to support a policy and then vote the other way, do you actually support it?
Being in operations and as a dev, I can tell you that is something operations people are doing wrong. They make their own life harder. What about dependencies that are not in the repo? Will they be building their own packages? What if one of packages has a bug discovered in production, will they create their own package with a bugfix risking breaking system components that might depend on the old version. What when the OS version is EOL to migrate now your app needs to be tested with the new OS, because it is tied to it. I have seen an upgrade from Python 2.6 to 2.7 being unnecessarily painful because of this, even though Python 2.6 code can run on Python 2.7 without changes.

You absolutely want your application to be disconnected from the system you running it on. Languages like Python or Java were designed to run the same not only on different OS but also on different architecture, why would you be ruining that?

With Python I highly recommend if you use redhat or CentOS to use IUS repo which let's you choose exact Python version you want to use. Then create a virtualenv with the exact dependencies you need. If your ops are standing on the way of this they are misinformed, because what they are suggesting ads a lot of unnecessary work for themselves as well with no tangible gain.
Oh, man, he must have been kissing the ground to have locked in that mortgage rate before the inflation and high rates kicked in!
This is awful and as someone who generally supported Obama I consider this one of several shameful moments in his presidency. The issue with the Trump administration isn’t just about putting people in cages - that’s the sound bite, and one that should have been used with Obama - it’s how Trump’s zero tolerance policy puts so many people in cages, even if they’re seeking asylum.
There are often regulations or other structures that govern what kind of assets a pension fund must buy. For example, California's pension fund has a 20 percent fixed income investment target (note CA pension is has somewhat more flexibility than others in what they can do)

https://www.calpers.ca.gov/page/investments/asset-classes/tr...

There's some moral hazard here. The same people who regulate the fund also have the benefit of borrowing money cheaply.
> There's an additional desire or hope for attention and money now

Maybe not "money" because there weren't ways to easily monetize content, but Web 1.0 certainly was about hoping people would see what you posted. Let's not re-write Web 1.0's history with an aura of innocence, as if human motivation for attention somehow changed in the last 10 years.
Was that really the problem? We're grannies really losing their homes to property tax?

There's been so much mythology built up around a common anti-tax movement that I'm not sure what to believe. There is plenty of economic reason to vote for capped taxes even without excessive spending.
Brexit and the Irish Border
The Acela corridor in the north east US connects DC, Philly, NYC, and Boston. Many trains run per day and most of them are full capacity. The Acela corridor revenues support the entire other ~Amtrak routes. Most cities along the Acela have sufficient public transit and density to not require car rentals on arrival.
>That does not seem realistic at all.

That does seem realistic considering how often the topic pf flat-earthers comes up in discussions on social media, despite it being an extremely niche view.
I wrote a command line utility for finding duplicate images: https://github.com/nickaubert/pdupe

Useful if you're trying to reorganize pictures after migrating out of one photo management service or another that may have resized images or altered the resolution. It doesn't attempt to display the images (that's what feh or imv are for), it only quantifies images' similarity.

I based on the logic on Geeqie's tool for finding similar images. My tool doesn't do anything that Geequie doesn't, except mine is run from the CLI.
Causes of Burnout, and How to Avoid Them
An organ transplant changed my life (2014)
Agreed. Tropo ducting is the only propagation that seems feasible for microwave. Fun!
> Parts of Hong Kong Paralyzed by Protests After Clashes With Police

The flip side is, whole Hong Kong will be paralyzed if no protest be made
Yeah. In the UK a city needs central government paperwork (notionally through the Queen). They hold competitions to pick new ones. If a million people go live somewhere that's a really big town, but it only becomes a city when the Queen says so. Being a city makes no direct practical difference to anything, it's like being elected homecoming king.

In the US city status makes an important practical difference to how an area is run and what the people running it can do independently of the State they're in. So it makes sense every settlement with a general store and a paved road would want that status.
VMs do have a place for that now: many shops run thin clients into a cluster for workstation uses.
Nothing heats up my phone like one of these ad-laden blog or news websites. What exactly is happening under the hood that requires so much power?
The interesting part of this story will be looking back on it in ten years. We are either looking at a situation that is surprising but healthy, or a situation that is verging on being a crisis a very long time coming. So far so good, but I don't like it.
I guess it depends on what metric we use to measure quantity but I’d guess that by many measures those goods primarily come from urbanized areas outside the US. Which once again points to the environmental benefits of density, particularly near deep ocean ports.
It's only 'risk free' in hindsight. Nobody knew what inflation would be and people risked losing value.
Are all U.S. based companies required to prevent Iranian users by IP address? Would this be true for social media apps like Twitter as well?
I suppose it indicates the project has only advertising goals.
> Does $50/month for the tool that allows you to do your trade (and always having access to the latest features) really seem ridiculous? Seems like a fairly trivial business expense to me.

It would absolutely seem ridiculous if that tool was a drill, or a saw, or a ladder. Those are critical parts of doing business in the building trades.

Software is of course a little more difficult. If executed well, many types of software should be a naturally dead-end business model. Develop, fix some issues, ship, sell, be done with it. Not entirely different from building a house, or a car - you could tinker with either one of those indefinitely as well, but that doesn't make it a worthwhile business model.

If the push to continuously redesign and add new features for the sake of continuing revenue generation wasn't there, software can eventually be close enough to bug free to close the book on it. Take video games for example - they are complicated pieces of software, but you can still play 10, 20, 30 year old games with little or no issues at all.

> and always having access to the latest features

Thing is, most people don't actually want this, and even many who do don't value it nearly as highly as the software companies want to charge for it. Hell, some people pay significant amounts of extra money for "enterprise" software support just to not have new features added.
I am in an extremely liberal city, my community were all major Obama supporters, and we were furious about these things.
The example uses it to spot a case where most people are wrong, but some large minority of people expect that most people will answer incorrectly, while themselves answering correctly. A large enough difference (10%, in the example case) between the "what do you guess others will answer?" and what people actually answered indicates the majority opinion is, in fact, wrong.
This is also my field. The issue is, the machine will be repeatible on the short term but not on the long term. It will look like it's behaving well during calibration and the next few months of operation.

But if the ways and mating surfaces aren't almost-perfectly straight and flat, they'll experience accelerated wear. (If you're using hydrostatic bearings, they won't work to begin with unless the surface is accurate). Then the calibration is gone. And that's just in the static case.

If your ballscrew has uneven pitch, is eccentric, or any number of other issues, you can calibrate it out. But now to move at a constant speed, your servo controller has to drive that inertia at a wobble, and everything shakes.
Yes, but... isn’t this basically a bunch or rich folks saying “I was forced to take risks with my money because treasury bonds barely pay anything!”

My gut response is that, yes, if you’re buying risk-free treasuries, why should you get a return above inflation at all? Rewards and risks should be commensurate.
Funnily enough, the Midwest is pretty much a spoke and hub of medium sized metro areas focused around Chicago.

There’s the Northeast corridor (and its cousin the Southeast corridor going down to Atlanta).

The PNW cities also are clustered like this but have difficult geography.

California and the Central Valley with the Bay and LA also meet this criteria, but CAHSR is run by a mix of incompetents and constrained by the wording of the ballot initiative that got it approved.
> When the next crisis hits, people will talk about how negative rates forced people to reach for junk companies and questionable securitization paper.

There Is No Alternative!
So a passbook savings account.
The Disappearing Physicist and His Elusive Particle
I don't have a definition to offer. But that doesn't seem relevant to the truth value of the author's claim.

I can be ignorant of the nature of the self but still see that 'we are not our feelings' and 'there is no self' are not the same claim, or that the former implies the latter.
Given that all the images in the article are purely decorative, why you using picture and img tags rather than CSS background-image? You're also supplying alt attributes, so someone with a screen reader will hear a random "Bad boy doggo" in the middle of an article about HTML and CSS.
Old growth forests have important ecological advantages over their ability to sink carbon.
I don't get what that transcript is supposed to show. It's mostly "uh oh"'s and descriptions of sounds to me. Care to explain?
But the nominal yield (to maturity) has to be higher than inflation to keep up because of taxes.
People invest in bonds because they are safer than stocks. Government, municipal, and corporate bonds pay interest relative to interest rates set by the central bank and how risky they are perceived. Across the bond categories, there will always be funds (ETFs & Mutual funds) backed by these categories of bonds for investors to purchase and their value proposition is that they behave like the underlying asset. It's much more convenient for people to buy shares of a mutual fund or an ETF than to buy individual bonds at an auction, so it's an attractive product for them to offer and take a small management fee on top of.

> Just choose to invest in literally anything else that doesn't have a known negative ROI.

A fund manager who is responsible for creating a product that matches government bonds can't buy something else because it would no longer be what it is intended to be: a product which behaves according to how the underlying asset behaves.

Investors however, will buy other (riskier) products because it doesn't make sense to buy something with zero or negative interest, which puts more money into less safe hands, hence the talk about bubbles. If the only thing that is offering any return is a ponzi scheme and everyone is invested in it because nothing else is offering return, then it's going to end badly for a lot of people.
Which of these are true:

* companies are seeing record profits
* profits are paid out to shareholders
* or used to buy back shares
* but not reinvested
* ROI on capital is high
* ROI on work is low
* governments are not investing
* nations have high depts

Apple and the likes are stashing enough cash on island to fund Apollo over and over again.

Take Musk away, who is investing in expensive, risky stuff with actual potential to change things?

I firmly believe that the tax evasion schemes we are suffering from today are making capitalism less innovative. Usually, you would have to invest your profits in growth or the tax man would take it away (and spend it). Now you can just park it on an island and use it as security to lend money against, which you can use to buy back shares.
I wrote a 'scratch off' card[1] using the CSS paintlet API a little while ago to see what it was like to work with. There were a few annoying quirks (basically Chrome only, lots of talk without much forward motion, not much that you can't do with a plain old canvas) but there's a lot of potential.

[1] Working example: https://scratchy.ooer.com/ - click and drag to scratch off the symbols. The code lives at https://github.com/onion2k/scratchy
Stepping on a ledge and positing it's probably how a lot of people vote, if even unconsciously- but it's probably not a popular way of ascribing personal motive to the political act of voting which is a more conscious and deliberate action. Or at least, it's less convenient than simply associating the sum with the worst of its parts.

That bit in the article about 'motive attribution asymmetry'.
Well, it was 1966 and that's what you got back then. :)

He would record every payment on the booklet you got with the mortgage that had the amortization schedule printed in it.
This guy thinks gene A makes you smarter, gene B makes you stronger, gene C makes you taller. And then rich people will buy gene A, B, C and become smarter, stronger, taller, and then richer still. And poor people will be poor forever.

In reality gene A makes a protein a, which triggers an increase in the expression of genes B,C,D, and a decrease in the expression of genes E,F,G. They in turn trigger other and other effects, so there's a cascade of cause-effects that we have no chance to model/simulate/understand, at least not now, and not in the next 30-50 years. The end result is that gene A may make you smarter, but also more prone to macular degeneration or leukemia. Do you think rich people will take the chance ?
Apache Uno API RCE
Is that really true when the yield is negative though? Wont investors just, like, go into checking accounts or safe deposit boxes when they need to flee to safety?
They lacked native support at first, and the spec wasn't (and isn't) complete. Even though they had polyfills, Web Components were being promoted at a time where not many understood the benefits of component based development. It was too niche, and the idea of SPAs or single page applications was just catching on. They broke the ground, but it wasn't until other frameworks made it easier and popular that the idea caught on and the tool made sense to more people.

In other words, the timing was off and now everyone is using React instead. To gloss over some of the technical details like state management, ES6 out of the box and how JSX probably made sense to some people more than the Web Components spec.

Why React and Vue aren't leveraging it is probably because it's easier to roll their own than keep up with the living specification, and because the way they approach components is a bit different.
OP suggested that 10% of people think there are more than 50% of flat-earthers when the real number is 0.1%. Phrased another way, 10% of people expect half the people they meet will be flat-earthers when it's 1 in 1000.

Doesn't seem realistic to me.
For those to who it isn't obvious...the name is a pun on Calvin's imaginary alterego "Spaceman Spiff" in the comic Calvin & Hobbes.
Archive link:

https://archive.is/e7oGG
Wow the one webcomponents blog that doesn't mention Polymer or Lit.
That doesn't really make sense, because if you have hundreds of millions of dollars you can just hold the money yourself.
In the past 17 years, inflation is about 42%, because we've had ridiculously low inflation.

2% isusually going to be sub-inflationary.
Banks hold their excess reserves at the Federal Reserve[0] and receive interest on top, currently 2.35%. Scales up to at least a couple trillion give or take a few hundred billion.

[0] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WRESBAL
> Not much difference between a sack under the bed and a bank account if you don't tell anyone about the sack.

They could hardly be any more different. If one person beyond yourself knows about it, then you're in trouble. One fire or disaster and it's all gone. If it's a smaller sum, you're FDIC insured against loss in a bank account, which again makes the point about just how different the scenarios are. If I feel like it I can safely protect $1 million via four distinct accounts under the FDIC at no cost. The Fed will go back to zero rates at some point to stimulate the US economy. Even when that happens, I'm essentially paying a small insurance fee (inflation vs zero rates) per year to guarantee the safety of the $1 million. That is ultimately far safer than managing it under my mattress. And cheaper, if I need any guaranteed security for the mattress. It's also easier to move at low concern (whether that's to shift it into an investment account or move it to another bank). If it's under your mattress, every move is a high risk for exposure; every person you let deep into your life creates some risk of theft (eg non-malicious gossip).
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/cipne6/how_to_...
> mammal powers (sweating buckets).

Um actually: only humans & horses use perspiration for cooling (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perspiration)
This is the thing that I don't get about the USA. The Democrats are center-right. If you ignore the Army, Police and various intelligence / paramilitary parts of the USG (the bigs the Republicans expand and the Dems just roll with) then the USG under the previous administration was pretty small and efficient.

They're also pretty big on equal opportunity - for all, no matter who their parents are or what colour their skin.

The problem is the lack of choice in your two party first-past-the-post system. You see the same thing in the UK. It's too easily abused by well-funded minorities to amplify their power.
The new Safari in iPadOS makes it possible to use Code Server (Visual Studio Code on browser) with keyboard. If you already spin an EC2 instance, it is definitely worth a try. This also gives hope about the upcoming Visual Studio Online and its compatibility with iPadOS.
Fwiw terraform also lags behind what the underlying apis can do -- but it's a community effort and you can contribute to add the functionality you need, whereas with CFN you can only ask your TAM (iff you have one!) to ask the internal team(s) (not sure if only CFN team or only the service team or both have to implement something) to prioritize your feature request.
I would argue that the test is non-informative for controversial questions of any kind. These are cases where

* each side believes that those who disagree are wrong, not just mistaken in their remembrance of a fact.

* each side is well-informed about which view is more popular

The fact that everyone is willing to stick to their answer despite everyone knowing what "most people" think means that an answer's being surprisingly popular doesn't bear either way on its being right. The test is ideal for simple questions of fact which are not disputed.
A number of points here.

Cash in a safe appreciates or depreciates relative to the current deflationary or inflationary environment. Imagine if you had $5,000 right about when Nixon ended convertibility of US dollars to gold† and announced wage/price controls. Back then that could have bought you a decent piece of land or a good chunk of a house depending on where we're talking about. How far does $5,000 go now? Wouldn't get you in the door of a university for a year.

A follow on point is. Who says what that CPI is? Looks like it is near enough the same people who control the money supply. That's an actual problem.

The quote that I lifted from the article refers to an actual thing: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/t/timevalueofmoney.asp The whole thinking behind TVM is that you have _positive_ interest rates. If you enter a negative interest rate environment you break TVM, which is about as fundamental a law/rule you can get in monetary theory. “The world now has $13 trillion of negative yielding bonds”: https://www.axios.com/negative-yielding-bonds-europe-japan-4...

So yes, it _is_ that the TVM is disappearing.

† an event which is correlated with what is happening now, some would even say it caused it: https://www.federalreservehistory.org/essays/gold_convertibi...
Right, I didn't mean to imply there is such a thing (and such a thing would be thoroughly useless.) I meant that they have a notary on retainer, that that notary gets almost all their work from the bank's clientele, and that they tend to operate either out of—or right across the street from—the bank itself. They're still an independent notary; but instead of paying them yourself, you pay the bank and the bank pays them to come in and help you. But it's still a relationship between you and the notary, not between the bank and the notary. The bank is essentially serving as lead-gen for the notary.
You're only mentioning our CURRENT adolescence in this field. Dozens of genes associated with intelligence have already been identified and hereditary studies have already shown intelligence's genetic roots. A geneticist today can no more just "pick and choose" to enhance the intellect of an embryo anymore than Isaac Newton could have just manually entangled two photons, or Alan Turing could have fit something over a billion times more powerful than one of his Bombe machines into a sleek gadget the size of a wallet (with also remote telephony and photographic capabilities!).

This is how science works, humanity learns more and progresses. Just because something is complex to you today doesn't mean it will still be complex to you 50 years from now.
Gay rites are civil rites – gay pride as civic religion