skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course it is, and unfortunately you see it a lot on HN - apparently no one in any country can afford houses anymore. It's like this Futurama joke - "no one drives in Manhattan anymore - there's too much traffic". On this side of the pond it's the London residents saying that no one except for the ultra rich can own houses, forgetting that in other parts of the country you can buy a (new!) house for as little as £100-120k.
> it's mostly for signaling reasons

This presumes rich people never have good motives and any appearance of morality or civic-mindedness they might show is a self-aggrandizing sham. This seems unlikely.
I am not from US, so I don't count for minority or majority. Specific reasons... Just watch 5 min of CNN, MSNBC, 30 seconds of Maddow or Don Lemon. Staggering amounts of venom and obsession. This is not news anymore. This is an alternative reality.
Yup - and everything is 2 stories or less. Nothing gets built, not because of demand, but because zoning laws. There’s no reason other than the city of Palo Alto won’t allow tall buildings to be built - the less that is built the more wealth homeowners and real estate investors get.
If you own the demand, you can always change the backend and start charging fees.
That represents an income of at least $70,000/year, assuming only the standard deduction and single. If you are married, it's closer to $100,000 income. That puts you at the 62th and 77th percentile, at a minimum to get the full tax deduction.
I think that's only half true. If you were following the controversial social media engagement by the Trump campaign, it was clearly established that having two emotionally invested warring sides on either side of an opinion is a huge driver for platform engagement. So I think to some extent these platforms need highly contentious trending topics to be "relevant."
We had a form that was really slow to go through; we couldn't do anything about speeding it up because of where the submission went so we added a little JavaScript to disable the button after the first press.
>Whereas community on the Web used to be a favorite hobbyist PHPBB forum or mailing list - it’s now just a business. (Are you on Instagram or TikTok?)

I think you're mixing up the medium and the message here a bit. There's still plenty of "community" on third-party platforms. Just because the hobbyists are on Reddit now rather than someone's PHPBB instance running on a shared host doesn't mean the nature of the community being hosted has become fundamentally more commercial.
"All those animals would be dead in 15 years time anyways"
Even if your taxes aren't that high you can roll the remainder of the credit forward to next year.
>The masses don't own houses to put these roofs on.

64% of Americans own the home they live in.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home-ownership_in_the_United...
I'm fairly sure Google's search crawler already uses a masked UA, to detect when pages serve it different content than they do to users.
I assumed that was part of the joke.
There are APRS transmitters built for balloons that are not much bigger than a matchbox. It's all line-of-sight at the VHF frequencies and you can get quite a good distance on a surprisingly low amount of power. 50 miles on 200mW what's is doable, longer range on less power is not uncommon if the conditionss are in your favour.
Home ownership in the US is north of 64% currently.
If you insist that it is 'advertising' that is the cause of this malaise, then you must agree that 'advertising' is not compatible with modern free democtratic societies and needs to be made illegal

That's a leap. A quote that's always stuck with me: "It's important to recognise one of the catastrophist's rhetorical moves: Stories of doom thrive on turning a tension into an incompatibility."

It's more useful to think of the conversation we're having as the ongoing negotiation of a long-standing tension, with social media providing a new wrinkle.
Why not just do unit tests instead of integration tests? Because you want to create a system that provides feedback on the entire end to end process. You subsidize purchases because The thing you want to incentivize is not making solar panels, but bringing solar panels all the way to market. You are trying to get the market off the ground, not just the technology.
This is totally true, but I think it's the opposite approach that would have actually made a difference here. Saying "we know these ABIs won't be stable, either practically, or by design, so this is where the OS ends"

Then Linux package managers would have made it easy to eg. install local (eg. per user, or in a folder) libraries or software.

Of course it was always possible, setting various $PATH variables etc. but because it wasn't easy (and you're immediately out of the ecosystem) all focus has been on the root user and singleton approach. Static linking was put to one side too.

In doing so we made the presentation of the "operating system" a full ecosystem of libraries, too complex to be a defined layer to interface with. But the kernel realised the importance of stable ABI layer, so now we have containers instead.
Wizard Zines
Go as much to the source of production as possible : forbidding unconventional fossil fuel extraction, heavily taxing fossil fuel imports long range plane landings, methane-producing livestock, &c.
And all we get out of it is less carbon in the atmosphere!

Installing solar panels can pay off in the long run, but the big draw is to reduce your carbon footprint. Even if you are a rich asshole it's not a bad thing for you to be less polluting.
"[Snapchat] finally mastered Android..."

What is so hard about making an Android app? Where they trying to make a go with some cross-platform toolkit that wasn't quite cutting it?

"significantly increased its revenue-per-user..."

THIS is the part on which I wish they would have elaborated. I'm guessing it's more than selling targeted ads or user info to data mining operations.
Theory as to why this front page HN article has no comments so far: it is behind a paywall.

I am not one to complain about paywalls myself but here is a similar article that is not behind a paywall:

https://mybroadband.co.za/news/business/324915-investors-con...
Yep, same. He's extremely nice, caring and thoughtful.

To hate on someone like Penn you must have to be in an awfully dark and hateful frame of mind.
Except you don’t need that much GDP growth if the price of everything is going down, so that argument is flawed.
Where I live I can walk or bike to shops easy enough but getting across town is something else entirely.
4K resolution, but only support for HDMI input at 30hz, or having to use some incredibly fiddly solutions where two cables had to be used at once. Internal image processing was too slow, so you would see 100ms delay which made them too slow for playing games. And then the quality of 4K panels was frequently far below good 1080p, but for more money.
Is there anything about the point being made that is inconsistent with that?
> People love to rah rah this stuff when it helps their ideology then wake up and find they’ve created an even bigger monster.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_...

No one seems to understand that the monster they want to replace modern society with will consume them first.

Any major revolution, once properly entrenched, targets those who started the revolution.
> an “editor”, which is an entity (human or machine) tasked with presenting information to the client in a way that the client would find acceptable.

We usually call this sort of thing a "user agent" FWIW. Your usual web browser is one kind of user agent, but there could be others.
Investors concerned about SoftBank’s debt
This is the best thing I've seen in a long time, you took a fairly mundane topic of cv work etc and made it fantastic and fun and engaging.
I'm not aware of a single API that offers a sufficiently device-agnostic

It looks like the goal of `Steam Controller Configurator` project by steam is doing this. (I think this should be done by a systeam level app instead.. but no one is doing this)

The configurator api steam provides actually abstract the `real input device layout` away from the `the action user want to do`, which allows games to support `future` input device.

The game itself longer needs to handle every input device layout one by one. Instead, it will have a general way to handle unknown device.

The Configurator ask the game `which action you can do?` and the game response the actions (like jump, walk, sprint ...etc) to the api, and let the api bind the action to whatever key properly on the device(x on xbox one, square on ps4...etc).
Applied Crypto Hardening
I just use VSCode for the actual editing then build with cmake.exe from command line. VSCode's autocomplete and everything just work. Been a good experience.
Would you mind sharing the 0.27s version?
A roulette wheel is not a sensible place to invest your money even if it does end up on black.

Snapchat is a cautionary tale about investing in fads.
>I feel like letting an AI use megawatts of power isn't quite fair.

Based on what? An AI which could reliably produce proofs for these problems would be at the cutting edge of research. Putting additional constraints on it for "fairness" just increases the likelihood of failure. It's not as if there's already some competition to measure up against.
The Fish interface for this is much more convenient and elegant and ergonomic.
The Race Is on to Corner the Satellite Launch Market
Firefox Preview is a lot better on that front.
The first one, at least for the next decades. (We don't have enough resources for the second option - due to the required number of batteries. )
Maybe I did it wrong, but I tried zsh and used some common packages and things to get it to work like Fish. zsh became super slow.
Argonne scientists have better way to deal with nuclear waste with 3-D printers
One of the problems is ambivalence. For many, PV is "nifty" but unnecessary- if I go to a fast food joint and I have a choice between a pretty good hamburger for 1/3 the price of a pretty good hamburger made from beef substitute, which do you think I'm gonna buy? But if I'm told that I can get the beef substitute version for just a few dollars more than the regular version because of a tax break, you can bet I'm far more willing to try it out.

"Rich" (which is a relative term anyway) people are, by and large, the same. Get rid of the incentive and you'll get rid of the progress that comes with it. Saying "oh take away the incentive because not everyone pays the same amount" is a great way to get people to stop investing in it at all. It's not like poor people are going to say "oh wow, the rich people won't get a tax break for investing in this, now I'll definitely invest!" right? So poor people still won't be able to invest and now rich people will have less of a reason to overcome their ambivalence. Shockingly enough, taking away incentives will deincentivize people. Who knew?
> SoftBank had told investors and credit-rating companies that it planned to make big investments principally from the Vision Fund, not its own balance sheet. It said that except for the capital that the group had contributed, it wouldn’t be on the hook for any losses in the fund.

The WeWork bailout throws that fundamental premise into question and makes it harder to calculate SoftBank’s liabilities and obligations, said a person who watches the credit markets closely.

This looks bad both ways. From a SoftBank investor's perspective, Masa is bailing out the Saudis. From a Vision Fund investor's perspective, SoftBank is buying for $8 billion what the former were sold at $47.
Decisions and Technical Leadership E-book [pdf]
Anything that cites Project Veritas as a source should be laughed out of the room.
I live in the Midwest.
Converts to mobi.
Space became a war zone the second Sputnik reached orbit.

It is inevitable.

Nothing can be done about it.
You should have seen my last apartment. Single-pane windows that dripped, hot water heater from the early 80's, and pretty much zero insulation.

It does seem like money that could be spent making dwellings more energy efficient.

If you have a spare 40K does 8K really matter? They would probably buy it anyway.
Can you draft a reply before that times has passed? I wonder how that would influence the conversation.
> Well we already know, if you put the ideas of Galileo,

> Copernicus and Kepler next to those of the Church, and

> allow the people to figure things out for themselves, it

> takes a few hundred years.

I think that's a false equivalence. The Church actively tried to hide their work and were essentially state censors (over multiple states). Not only this, but the work of Galileo for example essentially threw doubt on people's core beliefs. I don't think Breitbart can be seen as powerful as the Church was.

> And most often those paths of learning, involve violence

> and domination by both sides.

That's a miserable outlook on your fellow man, I choose to believe people are fundamentally rewarded for selecting good ideas over bad, which is why society seems to work. Ironically, it's groups that supposedly exist to fight violence and bad ideas who are the first to engage in it.

> They need to be filtered out irrespective of being on the

> left or right.

How on earth do you create such a filter and manage it? Say you let the government control the filter, do you really trust any government whom gets into power to control such an important filter? How about a private company? Is there any group out there you really trust to control what news source/stories you get to see?

If there was some 100% perfect way of achieving this - I would back it every day. The problem is, if there is a way to game/corrupt a system, there appears to always be people willing to do so. I believe that in the face of their not being a better solution, we should let the individual decide.
Exercise 2b: Hitman recursion

Given a predicate is_insulting_price, write a recursive
function which determines the minimum amount for which a
target may be killed without risk of the plot being exposed
to the police by an individual receiving a lowball offer.
The function will be passed an arbitrarily high value, and
should recursively call itself with (1 - epsilon) * price
whenever is_insulting_price returns false.

For bonus marks, quantify the tradeoff between error range
and stack depth, the latter representing the number of
people who need to know about the plot.
I like that they published a negative result.
Getting a hold of Texas is a lot easier than getting a hold on pretty much anyplace in the MidWest. That's for sure.

But it's irrelevant in modern warfare anyway. The right play is to just flatten most of our states outright. You don't fight hot wars with amphibious landings anymore.

Hot wars between major powers would be over in a matter of hours these days.
If you shop around it's abundantly clear that the price of a new roof varies wildly. Some of it is materials. The guy offering 50 year warranty GAF super-premium install who spots loads of potential problems up front and factors them into the cost is going to run much higher. The guy who is just going to hire some rando non-english speaking guys from the 7-11 and toss on the cheapest possible materials without concern about the underlying structure is going to be like a 1/4 of that price.

$5-10k on a median sized single family home is the latter, especially if you're closer to the $5k mark. It is likely that you will have problems with the roof after it is installed, and the warranty is going to be garbage.
>If bash is Ed, it feels zsh is emacs and fish is (neo)vim.

I would have thought fish=emacs and zsh=vim in this analogy, since fish isn't really compatible with bash but zsh is?
> It was a magic time in history that won't return.

That is such a true and sad realization..

I guess it applies to other fields of technology which have rapid progress at the start and there's a lot of room to explore and few visible boundaries.

Like seafaring. When people first invented boats they had literally the entire world made open to them, that they could previously only imagine.

Personal computers were like the invention of seafaring for the mind.

I guess the next frontier like that is space, where literally the entire universe is waiting to be discovered. :)
If you can save someone a significant amount of time or hassle your app will work. A great example of this is the Sam's Club app: as you shop you can scan the barcodes of the products you're buying and then make the purchase right on your phone which presents a QR code for the cart-checker at the door to scan to verify you're not stealing. This app allows the shopper to skip the check-out line, which saves time. Any app which speeds up a slow process you have to do repeatedly is likely to be a winner.
I'm sorry but you have to draw a line somewhere. Unless you are a massive corporation there simply isn't the manpower available at most places to accomplish a JS and non-JS version of your site/app.

I'll admit I'm coming at this 100% from the webapp angle. No project manager is going to sign off on that work NOR SHOULD THEY in 99% of cases.
Back of napkin math is:

- 100ft.2 of solar panels (Qty: 5, off the shelf, ~3’ x ~5’ panels) = ~1kW of AC electricity (post-inverter, in low-sun Seattle)

- At the roof, this represents 10 wires and ~8 roof penetrations (racking lags through flashing into rafters)

AKA: simple setup, proven implementation

Questions:

- How many wires (points of failure) are in 100ft.2 of solar shingles?

- How many roof penetrations?

- How many roofer-electricians do you know?

- Why can we not just embrace existing panel technology and put them everywhere, yesterday?

Rant:

- We don’t need boutique renewable energy, we need ubiquitous RE.

- Elon, get your priorities straight. In the three years you’ve been trying to figure out the perfect solar status symbol, you could have installed megawatts of photovoltaics.
Probably not, in most places. I fail to see what difference it makes: people do it. Hell, I do it on occasion, and I don’t like wearing headphones when I’m riding.
I've been closely following the revolution happening in Lebanon and I'll often see a notification like

"The following media includes potentially sensitive content" for content like https://twitter.com/encrier/status/1188067004240019456
Which translates to

* Retrieve people's money

* Resignation of government

* New parliament

Thank you Twitter for "protecting" me from being offended.

EDIT: I've been getting very angry everytime I see demands for censorship on social media, it's like people forgot they had their own revolution at some point and really needed to communicate what was happening to make it a reality.
Attempt to Run Objective-C and Swift Code with LLVM JIT
I'd recommend reading the book The Physics of God.

The author goes into a whole different theory on how it's possible for a photon to be both a wave or a particle depending on whether there is an Intelligent Observer/sensor.
And it is still ~30% off its all time high shortly after its IPO years ago. Sure it has risen a lot from its lows, but that’s cherry picking dates.
First they came for the socialists.

Buddy please read the damn poem. It was about "modern society" purging itself of the kind of people you are criticizing.
Refer to my first post to find why.
I didn't know about Duane's hypothesis even though I read a few books mentioning the double slit experiment so I'm glad I read the article. In the end, as much as the wave/particle duality seems mysterious at the moment, I'm convinced we'll find a quite boring/straightforward explanation for it.
People usually get convicted for actually doing something. From the facts of the FA, Ling didn’t. He was just an informer.
My point was that Amazon and Apple don't fit the high compensation definition.
Building denser housing is problematic not due to lack of money.

Local non-monetary regulations mandate low-rises or single-family houses, huge parking lots, etc. If money could solve that, it may be by spending it on political campaigning, public education, or may be even bribing, to get the regulations out of the way.
Consider that in China 55 crimes carry the death penalty. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_China
I realize this probably isn't what Joewee was asking for but maybe RSS feeds are a compromise? Lower amount of work on the programming side while still being able to accomplish this feature.
That's the whole point of a legal(criminal) judgement! The only thing that matters is your intention. Your intention is what the prosecution needs to prove and you need to defend against their accusation.

You can literally kill anyone and get away with it if the prosecution can't prove your intent has either negligence or premeditation and you were not intending to kill in a way approved by law (e.g.: did the soldier intend to kill his enemy within rules of engagement or did he intend to kill the enemy out of personal need for vengeance or hatred)
It's hard, but not impossible. Your costs are higher than a traditional power company for 10 or 15 years until the panels are paid off, but then your costs are much lower than people with traditional grid hookup.

In terms of investment it doesn't beat the stock market, but you have the side benefit of killing the planet slightly less. You are also hedged against rate increases from your power company.
Sub-contractors.
Would you consider the gnu hurd folks experienced enough?
I'd be concerned that any adhesives used in the lamination would outgas toxic chemicals. My understanding is that the adhesives in plywood release formaldehyde.
Not just rich people. Anyone who pays taxes. Its just a tax write off. That's it.

There's lots of other tax write offs.

In California you can get solar installed for free if you are low income.
Was this the Jungle Lord BBS?
>and everything set up for cars.

I've lived in Shanghai and currently live in Singapore, and Singapore seems waay more car-centric, more like an American city than anything I've seen in China. Really wide roads almost everywhere, mandatory car parking in office buildings, scarce crossings, some incredibly pedestrian-unfriendly intersections. As an example, there are + intersections where only 3/4 of the possible crossings are supported, so as a pedestrian you may have to wait for three sets of traffic lights just to cross from one side of the road to the other (e.g. first down, then across, then back up again, like 🠓🠒🠑). The cars also seem to drive way faster than Shanghai, maybe because there's less congestion (it's a wonderful city to be a driver). It also has pedestrian crossing lights that only activate upon a button press, so if you're even a moment late you have to wait until the next set of red lights (whereas in Shanghai the pedestrian light is always enabled).

The most egregious example of this is the crossing in Raffles Place from Pekin street over Telok Ayer to the indoor hawker centre. Or more accurately, the lack of a crossing, so that every lunchtime and rush hour masses of people have to scuttle nervously across the road as angry drivers zoom by.

Compared to the other cities I've lived (Melbourne, Sydney, Shanghai), Singapore is by far the most stressful to be a pedestrian for me.
containers are still relatively new and definetly not as ubiquitous as virtual machines.

Virtual machines are everywhere, from SME to large enterprises, tech hubs, industrial software et al.

Containers are mainly used for modern web and app development.