skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no such thing as a free market for housing, because the only thing stopping someone else from squatting in your house and telling you to get bent at any time is the government.

Land is inherently limited, and becomes more limited the higher the population concentration. Eventually this can lead to things like AirBnB and other rent seeking behaviors in the absence of government intervention leading to gentrification.
Reform or Expire
Unpopular opinion: Silicon Valley is in the beginning stages of a period of decline. There's lots of great entrepreneurial activity elsewhere, and for building these sorts of "hard startups", the truth is that SF and SV are not the best places to do it. People and rent simply cost too much, and the venture scene lacks depth in these areas.
https://gwipp.gwu.edu/counting-dollars-2020-role-decennial-c...

They calculate that in 2017 there were $1,504,191,364,000 in Federal spending guided by the census numbers, which is about $4,600 per capita.

In this paper [1] they look at some specific programs:

> Five grant programs administered by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) use the Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (FMAP), based on the 2010 Decennial Census population count, to determine reimbursements to and payments from each state government (totaling $286.1 billion in Fiscal Year 2015). The five FMAP-guided programs are Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program, Title IV-E Foster Care, Title IV-E Adoption Assistance, and the Child Care and Development Fund. In Fiscal Year (FY) 2015, reimbursements to and payments from state governments under these five programs totaled $286.1 billion (48.1% of all federal grants to states and 13.0% of all state budgets).In FY2015, 37 states forfeited a measurable amount of funds for each person missed in the 2010 Census.

> Among these 37 states, the median FY2015 loss per person missed in the 2010 Census was $1,091. FY2015 loss per person missed ranged from $533 for Utah to $2,309 for Vermont. The median state is Tennessee.

[1] https://gwipp.gwu.edu/sites/g/files/zaxdzs2181/f/downloads/G...
What same figures? The CDC says the high end of flu deaths is 40,000 [0]. You think that number compares with a 3 percent mortality rate for the 70 million Americans who are 60+ years old?

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/preliminary-in-season-e...
It certainly seems possible. That’s not even 7% of the annual budget. We spend a lot of money. Can’t find a citation on my phone though.
Thanks a lot for your kind words. And you are right, it was awful to discover that my first product was hacked and I lost a userbase that it was really difficult to collect being nobody in internet.
But at the same time I realized that maybe is more common than we imagine, and there are several stories around there that I would like to hear to be more prepared in the future. That's why I write about it. (I don't post really often because I don't feel confident with my writing)
Thanks again for the Good vibes!
Taxing externalities reduces to a blame avoidance game in the political arena.

If you think America has "free markets" you haven't been watching the steady march of monopolies and cartels in virtually all sectors.

Corporations own the political process in America to avoid these well past the point of usefulness to reducing emissions/concentrations.

The toothless and ineffective Paris accords show this is roughly the same for even "progressive" economies like Europe.

The privileged will risk complete destruction over the surrender of advantage. That cute quote is frightening accurate when applied to modern partisan republican politics, think tanks, and especially the billionaire donor class, and has been for 40-50 years now with respect to environmental policy.

The only hope right now is the near-miraculous development of solar/wind/EV tech that can challenge and hopefully fundamentally undercut the viability of fossil fuels.

The article's suggestion for mass investment in sequestration technologies is warranted.

But if externality taxing was actually something politically doable as opposed to some policy dream by an economist, then we would have had a carbon tax on gasoline two decades ago, which any look at the cost of sequestration of carbon generally leads to a 3-10$/gallon tax.

And we are probably a decade from it now.

I do agree that it is basic stuff from an economic theory, which is tragically hilarious given the fundamental arrogance of Republican policy towards progressive reforms such as carbon taxation always invokes laissez faire principles.

The fact that basically applicable economic theory is politically untenable means that the people in economics as discipline have utterly failed humanity, sitting on their hands as this happened for some, or actively contributing to its exacerbation from the free market/laissez faire/libertarian wing of the University of Chicago.
They never practiced any form of mass animal husbandry. Arable land for fodder would be at a premium for human consumption. Stripping the mountainsides are a danger in earthquake country.
Docking gives Intelsat telecoms satellite new lease of life
There are zero confirmed and reported cases in Mexico.

Mexico is just the final stop for smuggling from about 50 different countries, including quite a few from Africa and the middle east.
A Hacker's Mom Broke into a Prison–and the Warden's Computer
Since Edge is using chromium, Googl would be using user agent to sniff the browser.

As such, wouldn't it be smarter for edge to use impersonate chromium to bypass the checks?

As shady as it sounds, this approach has tremendous precedent
Second mouse gets the cheese.
Apple tells moviemakers that villains can’t use iPhones, Rian Johnson says
You have that backwards. The STL containers are for when you have a hyper-specific niche use case. They are otherwise terrible defaults and everyone should use boost or abseil by default otherwise.

std::map, for example, is only appropriate if you need a red-black tree specifically. Which almost nobody does. std::unordered_map is less awful, but abseil has a literal straight upgrade. With the same API. So... why would you pick the slower thing when you're using C++? std::vector is only really appropriate if you know you never have small vectors, which is again a more obscure situation.
Used books. Buy from Amazon. They're dirt cheap. Ideas - without knowing what the event entails:

1. First aid

2. Home medicine

3. Edible local plants

4. Hunting, especially building traps from local materials and deploying them

5. Low-tech water purification techniques

6. Basic carpentry

7. Newton's Principia, because at some point things will start getting better.

Electronic media require too much infrastructure to use. They degrade much faster than paper. Books on electronic media can be collected - just don't expect to be able to use them.

If the event is known, then the book list can be adjusted. For example, if it's nuclear, then "The Nuclear War Survival Guide" is a must-have:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_War_Survival_Skills
Gift without demand is an interesting analogy. But if you think about it, licenses like GPLv3 and AGPL do have very strong restrictions on how to use the software. Fair enough that they are not to "reward back to you" but around "how to use the gift".

SSPL is essentially GPL + a small restriction on certain usage (which practically only impacts the large cloud providers). To say, this is just "source available" is not entirely fair. This is different from Oracle saying you can see DB source to do your security scan but that's all.

But I get your overall point. Need to think more on how to position this so people don't feel "deceived" but at the same time appreciate the "free/open-ness" part of it. SSPL may not be the answer but there has to be a solution.
The Papal States were a thing for about 1000 years though.
How bad are they disrupted? Any idea when they’ll be back up? If you have backup suppliers, are they down too?
It looks really nice. Site is fast too. Good job.
"We don’t have any real ops guy as you think these days. Whenever we need something setup, we just have to page someone from India team to create instances for us and then proceed to set them up ourselves."

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. That is insane. This is a vain attempt to constrain costs?
I have a short full beard but seem to be able to form a seal. If I follow the directions for checking the seal — blocking the intake and breathing in, checking for the mask to collapse in, then blocking the outlet and checking for it to balloon out — it works. So do I have a seal or not?
It hasn't been. Denard scaling is what ended 20 years ago, hence multicore and vector architectures.
Ask HN: How do you discover fresh / interesting podcasts?
NASA had, at one time, a "cheaper, smaller, faster" strategy, which they then abandoned the first time it resulted in a mission failure. If they had the 90% failure rate of many VC's, betting on lots of 100x but only 10% of the time startups, they would have been shut down.
So what in your opinion would present a public health danger worth worrying about? A 6 percent mortality rate? 10 percent? Or is there no mortality rate worth fretting about if it only affects people 50-years-and-older?
I think offline apps is a great idea too! I’ll look into some alternatives and add those as well.

I got the idea to use Github Issues from this repo:

https://github.com/utterance/utterances

They use Github issues for comments so I thought I’d give it a shot as a request form.
no - don't use that vimeo link ever again, it is very horrible techno, and it won't help your project at all - get better music.
Fear as a Service
Nor does it accept "+" characters in the email address localpart, as allowed in RFC822 (1982).
> But it strikes me as very insensitive.

And here I am pondering if the generational time bomb's been defused. Parent's downright warm'n'fuzzy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carried_interest
Is it trivial? Let’s say you have a back end and an app that lets you post comments, like this site. How do you stop someone from spamming comments? Each comment is represented by a row in a table so the space will grow.
aka "the media".
> "When someone says "I am not doing it for the money" he (she) is doing it only for the money." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb.

This is silly. Artists and creatives aren't doing it for the money. Social workers aren't doing it for the money. Teachers aren't doing it for th money ... etc. Passion => irrationality. Or different goals, like sense of purpose vs. money.
how would the image be generated?

if i sell a car vs a ring, i would have to manually scale it no?
This says nothing about sick leave, just that Amazon is evil in other respects.
It is - https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech

Try different languages. ra re ri ro ru is my favorite little run of most of them.
Thanks for the thoughtful reply. I remain skeptical that an accurate detailed count can be automated (at this point in history) but I won’t claim to have any insight about contemporary life and society in Turkey.
There's not really such a thing as 'boosting' your immune system - it's either working properly, or it's not. A 'boosted' / over-active immune system results in auto-immune diseases like Crohn's (which is what I have). Funnily enough I'm being treated with Stelara which actually suppresses my immune system - so it's no 'live' vaccines for me and other vaccines might not work effectively or at all, and I need to be extra careful to avoid getting ill. Working 100% remote is something I am appreciating more and more currently.
Yes, this is the latest scam. I subscribed to the teaser trial for WSJ for an introductory of $1.00 for the first month. The subsequent monthly fee increased to $40. After three months and not really having time to read the publication (a quality publication, btw), I decided to cancel my subscription. Well you guessed it, easy to sign-up, hell to pay to cancel. You need to call the 800-number, go through an extensive menu of options, finally talk to an operator, who needs to transfer you to... yes you guessed it again, a retention specialist. After three counter-offers (why didn't they just price it at $9.99/month to begin with? ), I just kept saying "... please cancel my subscription."

And yes, the counter offers got better and better until that $40/mo subscription was down to $9.99. I may have kept it at that rate.

Seems like web services and publishers are all adopting this easy-to-sign-up/hard-as-hell to drop strategy. It's the scamifying of America.
That still exists? I thought apple bought them and shuttered them.
If you want to live, lose the beard. If you are just wearing the mask for no real reason, who cares?
The Canadian Minister of Defense, also a Sikh, has a relevant patent:

https://www.sikhnet.com/news/defense-minister-sajjan-patente...
i noticed some lag issues in your demo video?
maybe pull the audio in future to about 2-4 frames?
Elizabeth was doing a degree in a hard field and had the credibility of her supervisor to lean on, plus a whole host of questionable motivations from those who invested in Theranos. Funny enough, the degreeless founder in a hard startup turned out to be a fraud.
So where is the geographic location that does fund hard problems?

SV $ is far from perfect but it is surprisingly audacious and fault tolerant.

A few examples old and young:

Genentech

SpaceX

Joby

TAE Technologies
It is coming from a place of anger, because despite your protests, (3) is an accurate description. Anger is an appropriate response to this state of affairs.

This boy was killed at the U.S. border. Anytime nobody makes an effort to address something, it is de facto acceptable. There might be solid reasons it is not being addressed, such as lack of power, or too high a cost to attempt to put pressure on the U.S. But it remains the case that it is currently considered acceptable.
Sure anyone can just click presets, but performing with Milkdrop visuals is just one piece of the puzzle. Layering it with pre-rendered custom visuals is another piece that heightens the art form. And then the actual performance of matching the mood and changes in music, it's a skill that is difficult to master when performing live and juggling many different aspects. Combine that all together and you have something that takes an artists eye to pull off in a polished fashion.
i noticed this aswell, maybe the whole audio output can be delayed to match the visuals.
Do you experience weed hangovers?
See, I totally agree with your reasoning, and I would do that with my computer, except...

...the back of my computer is ugly.

It matters! My computer is a pretty large fixture in my apartment, and I want my home to look nice.
Everyone just needs to say its name three times.
Nah I think it generated some good discussion, if nothing else. If you are coming to HN for emergency preparedness and health advice, I’d say you are screwed already. This site is for entertainment and discourse right? Relax.

And If the WHO and the CDC are “misinformation”- so be it.
How much of this is relevant for companies based in locations that are NOT particularly venture capital heavy? Is this heavily slanted towards SV / SF investors that are well ahead of the pack?
New digital payments rules in Singapore: a win or the death of choice?
If you have a factory you run wires to the things that are important for your factory to run.
demo video sounds very cheap, i'd suggest to put more effort into the actual music before visualising it.
What the parent posted is stating is that the local web server has that system-level access, which the browser doesn't need in order to access the app.

The "back end" web server can be running on whatever language stack you like, be it Go, Rust, Haskell, Common Lisp or whatever. Syncthing is one example, where it's nominally headless, but there is a local web server that can be pulled up to set preferences, monitor status and so on. Works great.
A hello world Electron app uses about 50 MB of memory.

The problem with Electron apps is not so much Electron or Chromium but how they are designed & developed. Most developers view memory optimization as an after-thought. This is especially true for multiple document interface applications. The tooling is all there to monitor and optimize memory, but few make real memory budgets part of their build & integration testing process.

Developers have 16-32 GB of memory (or more) workstations and typically work on individual features that don’t exercise the edge cases of large datasets. They don’t bother to implement proper LRU mechanisms, paging, and often do performance optimizations that sacrifice memory for speed.

It gets worse if they aren’t forced to dog food their own creations or aren’t users of their app themselves.
I disagree, having worked both outside and in the Bay Area.

The network effects are unparalleled. We're paid far better (my salary nearly doubled when I moved to the Bay, my rent didn't). It's far easier to find quality talent and freelancers for startups than elsewhere.

But most importantly, the money and culture is here. Raising money outside of the VC scene here is orders of magnitude more difficult and you get far less for the time you spend.

And I could go on about how places I've been (South Florida, Chicago, Research Triad, etc) all claim to want to be the "next Silicon Valley" but they won't. Partly because SV didn't become the "next" anything, it garnered a unique culture that funded massive amounts of innovation, and anyone chasing a trend is too late. But mostly because the money and tech people in those cities are too cowardly to do anything truly innovative, by and large. There are outliers, of course. But frankly there's not a lot interesting going on anywhere outside the Bay and it pays way, way worse.
I kept getting some mid-census domestic abuse questionnaire a couple years ago. I had zero interest in filling it out but they were persistent about that too.
To maintain dev ops best practices such as prohibiting nginx from sending dotfiles (.env, .git, etc) takes time. It’s understandable that you made a mistake. But how did they get access to the actual dB? Did you expose it over the public internet?
This is plain false, with no legislation protecting women from marital rape and punishment for women who report rape, nothing indicates that Saudi Arabia actually has "the least amount of sexual violence in the world" this is a laughable statement at best.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_in_Saudi_Arabia
don't be too harsh, they are just proggers, not muzaks
You are wrongly correlating apps launched on ProductHunt to be representative of all problems being solved. If I were to describe one word for ProductHunt launches, then it would be "sensationalist". Most of the apps being launched there are moreso trying to go viral than solving a profound and/or boring problem. The YC launches are probably more representative of the landscape and most of them have never had a ProductHunt launch.
It allows them to capture extra value from employing people in areas with less competition from employers.

They're not going to say that because a lot of people have odd ideas about compensation that they're very emotionally attached to. There are people that would take a job with them for $X when told its about cost of living fairness that would not take the job for $X if they were told it's about capturing surplus value.

This is the same reason it's dangerous to share your compensation with coworkers as an employee. They don't just all say thank you for telling me and negotiate for a higher salary while acting discreetly with regard to your conversation, or start job searching; some will get real mad and irrational and there's a very good chance you'll be caught up in the fallout.
NLP from Scratch: Annotated Attention
The geographic location of the company or the money? These aren't the same thing.

* There's a lot more biotech in Boston than SV
* There's even more biotech in Pennsylvania
* Battery tech companies are all over the country
* There's a ton of space tech in Texas and Mississippi. Yes, Mississippi. And Florida.
* Telecom? Look outside the US for strength
* Cybersecurity? Maryland. Virgnia. and Israel.
* AI? Literally every major country in the world.
* Advanced materials? So many places.

Increasingly SV has less and less to offer. Maybe raw money, but I thought companies were looking for smart money, not dumb money.
I recently learned that single words are considered valid email addresses... e.g. "foo" or "root".
I avoid PDFs whenever possible, mobile or desktop. They're designed for printing. There are better formats for reading, for comics, and so on. The worst are anything done in dual column pages... it sometimes takes me days to fully read a paper because of the strain, and I've never finished reading any game books on PDF.
I recently needed to encode a 32-bit value into something easy for QA folks to remember and report. I opted for 3 words out of an 11-bit (2048 entry) dictionary of commonly used words.

How to build the dictionary? Well, in order to determine the most commonly used English words, I downloaded a bunch of free texts from Project Gutenberg, and did some simple filtering - nothing less than 5 letters, no duplication of singular + plural, etc...

A valuable lesson that I learned during this process is that when your corpus includes older english texts, you should always give your final list a visual once-over and apply some judicious manual filtering. I'm looking at you, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer". (And, to a lesser extent, Moby Dick).
Sorry to hear about your situation, it really sucks. Curious, if you can shed more light on how the .env was exposed?
He does. It's just a long series of looooooong twitter threads. ;)

I knew this was going to be a foone thread before I saw that it linked to twitter. :)
Well, digital payments deserve regulations given the prevalence for tech companies to gametize everything, including how easy it is to click the "PAY" button. And as a paternalistic state that Singapore is, this is expected. But at least we are not shy about regulating.

What is scarier is if a country pretends that money is "freedom" and "private". Because it sure as hell is not in Singapore by which the state government is pushing for cashless everything (and hence surveillance everything).
> That gap between admission and diagnosis raises concerns about health care workers being unknowingly exposed at Davis—a potential problem anywhere. ...

Then later:

> The UC Davis memo explains the delay in testing by noting that neither Sacramento County nor the city of Davis’ public health agency performs the test. The hospital had to request the CDC do it. “Since the patient did not fit the existing diagnostic criteria for Covid-19, a test was not immediately administered,” the memo says. ...

Finally:

> As The Washington Post reported Tuesday, while South Korea has performed more than 35,000 tests, the US has done fewer than 500, and only the CDC and a handful of local public health agencies even have the diagnostic system.

The press corps did a fantastically poor job at the President's press conference today. Only one question about testing, and a softball at that.

Now there's no telling how many are infected, or where they've dispersed to.

Then there's this:

> ... the California Department of Public Health announced that the patient was a resident of Solano County—which, as other reports have pointed out, is the location of one of the Air Force bases being used for quarantines of people who’ve returned to the US from countries with the disease.
Turkey has at least two ... porous ... borders that I've seen in action, so I am doubtful that counting births and immigration visas can provide an accurate real-time count of every person in the country.