skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the American model, yes.

I live in Tel Aviv, where property tax is paid by occupants, not by owners. On the upside, this allows the government to give tax breaks to protected classes (e.g. the elderly, so that they're not kicked out of the apartment they've lived in and owned for decades just because property tax became unaffordable) directly. On the other hand, the carrying cost for owning real estate in a highly desirable market that you rent out is practically zero, so most apartments are owned by people who inherited them and are uninterested in selling, because a) urban renewal plans will eventually give owners a big financial windfall when their older buildings are chosen to be replaced with subsidized new construction, and the replacement apartment they will receive in the future is worth far more, b) people have children, and there is a huge value to being able to provide your children with housing in a desirable market when they get older, so owners rent their properties out in the interim.

Ironically, property taxes paid by renters creates a landed class.
Lack of emotion is usually a sign of thoughtful and fair decisions. Although in certain circumstances, i.e. work in general, it's perceived as weakness. If there's one thing I learned from work is: it's not the best idea who wins, it's the guy who fights the hardest (not the most stubborn, just the most disagreeable). Choose your battle and the most important one... put emotion behind it.
As understood it they didn't get any traditional VC money.

And honestly I don't think that many people really know about / care about that story as far as generally impacting "start up world".
CNN hyperbole.

People aren't buying cars like they used to, in general. Detroit and Germany are equally affected.
The rule of thumb is that if your humidifier is causing condensation on your windows, then you have condensation inside your walls as well, which is the necessary precursor for mold.

We have this whole house humidifier installed in our furnace: https://www.aprilaire.com/whole-house-products/humidifier/mo...
It has a remote temperature sensor you install outside, then it automatically adjusts the humidity based on the outside temperature to keep it under the mold-growing level.
On Amazon? Are you buying jet skis on the site? I don't understand how someone can spend so much in a year on Amazon.
Shameless plug: I'm working on a tool that creates on-demand staging environments for the purpose of getting your UX team to give feedback earlier in the dev cycle. https://featurepeek.com
How do you define waste and abuse?
The Many-Worlds Interpretation is a local (no FTL) and deterministic theory, though it works differently than what most people think of when they hear "deterministic theory of physics". Every possible outcome of a random quantum event occurs. (Technically the outcome space is continuous instead of discrete, but it's easier to talk about discrete outcomes.) If a human observes a random quantum event (which happens constantly), then there will be a separate version of the person for each outcome who observes that outcome.

However, even with a deterministic universe, there's still true randomness from the perspective of people in the universe. If you flip a quantum coin (that's appropriately set up to have a 50% chance either way and its output is dependent on some quantum random events), then it's impossible even in concept to predict which way it will land, because after the flip, there will be one version of you that sees it land heads and another version of you that sees it land tails.
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I’ve been happy with the “ReviewMeta” chrome extension, which evaluates the product reviews on any amazon site, and displays a score indicating how likely it is the ratings have been manipulated. It shows examples of flagged reviews which can be pretty funny.
Chrome lets you limit extension permissions by domain, so I don’t worry about it snooping on the rest of my browsing.

But you’re right about brands. When it comes to certain products like phone chargers, the manipulation is so rampant I stick with the same supplier.
Something like this would be a pipedream in 2012. Really amazing, but at the same time a bit concerning - there is this AI engine that acts on my behalf and expresses my personality. That's pretty damn creepy.
If Amazon has found themselves too large to operate as a marketplace that customers can trust then perhaps they made a poor decision in prioritizing short-term growth over everything else.
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I like working offline and do it frequently. In fact, if I would just turn off my tethered 4G right now, I would get a lot more done and be much happier with myself. Will be doing just after I finish typing this :-). Because I use my computer primarily for programming, the biggest thing I need are docs. In that respect, I've found that working with Rust is amazing. Installing all the normal documentation you need and then going offline is so incredibly easy. Anyway, massive shout out to anyone that pushed to make that dream a reality!
OCaml. For example here are some types I wrote that exactly describe an HTTP cache-control response header in a way that makes it impossible to create incorrect values of the header: https://yawaramin.github.io/re-web/re-web/ReWeb/Header/Cache...
There are people who own property in California but don't live in California (and not even in the US sometimes).

They wouldn't pay California VAT because they need not buy anything there.

The people most affected by a California VAT would be California residents who can't afford to shop elsewhere... ie. the poor.

Fortunately some necessities like food seem to be excluded from the VAT (at least in this iteration of the bill), but I'm still concerned that the poor will be unduly burdened by it, and not even get to benefit because they're probably already on Medi-Cal (California's Medicaid program) so they won't be eligible for the UBI unless they give up Medi-Cal.
Pity it's mac only
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If the appreciation isn’t important, then the solution is clear: charge the difference in property taxes when the house is sold.
I think you are underestimating how quickly things can change. At this time, I really believe the best time to prepare for the Coronavirus is now while other people aren't paying that much attention.

It will become more difficult to stock up if it becomes apparent to the masses that they need to prepare.
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As other people have said, they're different sorts of thing; but the sort of thing React is wasn't as big a deal in 2010. Backbone and AngularJS, two frameworks that are practically Precambrian at this point, both had their first release in late 2010.

In 2010 terms: let's say you want to write a web app. jQuery : your library of useful PHP functions :: React : Ruby on Rails. That analogy breaks down in many obvious ways (React isn't MVC and [modulo JSX transpilation and whatnot] uses the same language as jQuery, Rails is not easy to reason about especially if you're in 2010 and method_missing isn't considered harmful yet), but hopefully the basic idea comes through - library of functions vs. very opinionated framework that facilitates rapid development.
Hey DmitryOlshansky,

I am one of the PMs and we discussed this PR internally. Our engineer will connect with you soon. Apologize for the delay but our team was working on getting the release out.

Thanks
And now you can even buy one with the non-crappy keyboard again.
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Apparently not? https://archive.fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/kubernetesclu...
But what do brands matter if the issue is counterfeits/knockoffs?
You can still fallback to Google from the DDG UI
> Nothing we did could get us much above 50% saturation on the disk array, CPU, or networking.

What you wrote basically makes no sense unless you are doing continuous table scans (ask any DBA and see how puzzled they look.)

Production MySQL and Postgres master databases that I administer typically have uptime loads of 0.1 to 0.2 on Linux, processing 5,000 qps.

Regarding placeholders and bind parameters (those are different things), how they work depends mostly on your client library. For example, some libraries do rewrite placeholders with string pasting, so verify that. YMMV.

Source: I am a DBA.
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How could you hate Angry Birds unless you also hate the classic series Lemmings and Worms?
Why not property taxes in particular? Disincentivising land ownership would promote growth and lead more people to population centers, which seems like one of the only effective ways to solve many of the world's problems, from climate change to lack of opportunity. Not snark, I'm really curious as to your view.
There was a time when I had a computer that didn't have a working network card. I would take it to the library with me, and I would be incredibly productive during it. If I got stuck on something, I'd work on something else instead, and look it up when I got home.

I also tried doing what I called an "Internet Diet", of self-imposing working offline, and as long as I stuck with it I got a good amount done then also. In fact one thing I noticed was that if I didn't let myself have the internet, I'd start to get bored, and would naturally open up a code editor or text editor and start writing, or at least organizing the files on my hard drive or even just reading a book.

My main problem are my jobs, though. If my job absolutely requires the internet in order for me to do my job (and right now it absolutely does), then the distractions are just a few clicks away, tempting me, and I fall into its trap.

Time to get off the internet, at least for a bit.
What would an example implementation of this be?
This is true, sometime I wonder about global economies exposing folks to the widespread corruption we hear about in so many other places in the world but haven't dealt with much first hand. I have to wonder if folks in corrupt environments just see these shady behaviors as the norm and so long as they're not axe murderers they're considered more or less decent people. Low standards and ethics eat systems based on honesty for breakfast.
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>of the 70% of the population who catch it,

Sorry, but where in gods name is this number coming from? There are currently a few hundred cases documented in Italy,rate of new coronavirus cases worldwide has slowed down to about 500-1000 per day.

For reference, the US has about 1 million hospital visits for pneumonia every year. I couldn't find numbers for Italy but I assume it's in the ballpark of 200k relatively speaking. So a few hundred extra cases or even a few thousand aren't going to push the system anywhere.
A front axle replacement is $2k? That's insane!
> Now we have AI and Quantum and all these fucking buzzwords

“Quantum” is from the 1920s. It’s not really a buzzword but more an adjective describing our most accurate model of reality yet that physics can provide.
I too almost found iCloud sync to be the be-all end-all solution of browser syncing, then I discovered that the same iCloud sync on Mac does NOT support Firefox/Chrome - only Safari.

I'm relying on Xbrowsersync for now but it's still not the optimal "everything everywhere" solution, as it does not support syncing to Safari (and from reading their website, its developer appears to be ideologically opposed to implementing it).
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I like the Nim syntax, but I’m not certain why they chose to transpile it to C.

Why not just go all the way, and encode it in assembly?

Yes, I understand their reasoning, to make use of all the advanced C compilers out there. And to make the code compatible with existing C libraries and APIs.

But I feel this is more of a shortcut, and a crutch, that will prevent them from fulfilling their expectations, of being a C language and systems programming replacement.

I think the better approach would have been to target assembly code instead, and then, build connections to existing C APIs.
It's not super clear to me how this actually works in practice. I've seen there is one public math meetup in SF, but the topic is usually different from the one I want to study.

I'm glad to see there are online options for groups like Stack Exchange or tighter group's like the one integerclub mentions, but I still seem to run into the same problem. For example, I'm not sure how to get a group of people that are interested in reading book X when I want to start it. If anyone has advice on that, please share.
> Sometimes I feel like scammers might be going to the extreme of coordinating clustered purchases (I am guessing the merchandise ends up in the owners hand/warehouse anyways somehow?) and posting the reviews.

This is called brushing and there have been several articles written about it. Scammers create fake accounts for real addresses and then ship fake merchandise to those addresses to get the "verified purchase" for their review.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/amazon-brushing-scam-couple-rec...
Debatable whether salt crystals are considered air pollution or simply a problem with the specificity of the PM2.5 definition. Note that this isn't a problem with using distilled water, which is recommended for all humidifiers.
> Now I find that I rely more and more on brands to decide which things I buy, because I simply cannot trust user reviews in most of the cases.

The other day I came across something interesting: two comments, for two different but related products (dynamos). One comment was in German, the other in Italian, but they both had the same non-sequitur in them.

Apparently scammers reuse comments across products (not surprising) and languages (more surprising).
Check out Zeal, which piggybacks on Dash for Linux and Windows: https://zealdocs.org/
Supposedly, unless you pay more than 10k in VAT per year, you would come out ahead
I have an account like this. It's my ETrade account.

When I have a negative balance, they charge me interest. When I have a positive balance, they sweep it into a low interest investment. And when it gets really high it buys ETFs for me (which are then collateral for when it drops if I don't sell them for cash first).
That's an interesting footnote annotation.
I'm told that Sanjay Ghemawat's Go code is beautiful (I'm not a Go expert though): https://github.com/ghemawat/stream/

More about him: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/10/the-friendship...
Apple is the reason I just switched a handful of certificates from Let’s Encrypt to basic 2 year DV.

To support Apple Pay on the web, you have to go to your developer account on the Apple website, and under certificates generate a custom ASN.1 authentication file and upload it to the `/.well-known/` folder on your domain. Once uploaded, you have to click a “Verify” link, to check the file and mark the domain as Apple Pay approved. The issue is the verification only lasts as long as the certificate expiration, and if a new certificate is installed, you have to re-verify the domain with a newly generated authentication file, for each domain. A fresh certificate with an old authentication file does not work.

This means if using Let’s Encrypt, you have to manually step through the verification process for each of your production, staging and development environments every three months. There doesn’t appear to be any automated way to handle this.

After two cycles of this I opted to purchase 2-year certificates just to save the hassle of re-authenticating my web environments on a rolling basis by hand.

This announcement just means more frequent manual processes once again. What a pain.
I’ve heard the statements that the Go stdlib and Kubernetes are not good examples of Go code, but I’ve never seen someone say that it’s not a good use case for Go. Would you mind elaborating on that assessment?
yeah i was being sarcastic.
Yes, for us folks using Firefox it would make things more convenient, however in the grand scheme of things I fear the gains made by Chrome would be much larger. Though I agree Apple's methods in retaining Safari's marketshare isn't exactly honorable, it did work in keeping Chrome's all-encompassing dominance in check.
But marketing can help the dev team focus on the core functionalities that the customer really want.
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Hopefully this version's closer to the prompt.[0]

Anyway, the F# code, IIUC, lets you do exactly what you want it to do, although you'd have to replace the ifs with guards.

[0]: https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Amb#Monadic
I first learned about calculus from, I think, this book, "Calculus the Easy Way" [1] (or, at least the first chapter or two). It does make use of some algebra, but you're not necessarily limited to the strict progression of pre-algebra -> algebra -> calculus.

[1] (amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Calculus-Easy-Way-Douglas-Downing/dp/...)
Why do you think illegals should benefit from a foreign government? If I suddenly moved to Estonia, should I be entitled to benefits from that government? I don't think I should.
You're thinking of CAA, which in theory works even if only the CAs look at the records, which is important because no browser will; all mainstream browsers have abandoned DNSSEC, which is moribund.
The way it is used in today's marketing related to Quantum Computing is pretty fricking crazy though - I recently stumbled upon a good example:

Microsoft Quantum:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ba88EwG5b0Q

If this isn't full of buzzwords, what is!
Perhaps a talk by someone who actually worked on it, then https://archive.fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/kubernetesclu...
I stand corrected then. I’d certainly need to check my measurements on this one.
Things I don't agree with of course!
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This paper:

https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~schulman/docs/imc15-revocation.pdf

is slightly dated but gives a very good rundown of how revocation checks fail in practice along with different attempts to improve them.
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A lot of people know she didn't raise traditional money. I hear a lot of people, who are dishonest, speaking about how they should be able to raise money because "it's so easy look at Holmes?" I hear this at a local coffee shop and it makes me cringe.
The advantage of $1000 unconditional is that they can move to a city with a lower cost of living. And who cares about illegal immigrants in this regard... They're there illegally
>Why do you think illegals should benefit from a foreign government?

I don't think that, I am undecided.
Yep, this has been the story of my learning experience. I've studied mathematics pretty much entirely on my own, but it's not because I wouldn't love to have company!

Having said that, I think it probably would be sufficient to find _just one_ other person who is at the same level of mathematical maturity and has the same degree of commitment to change the entire learning experience for the better. You don't need a big group.
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Great work, Yan and Connor! It's interesting that the solutions are not made publicly available. Is this intended towards educators to use in their cybersecurity classes?
I have a rather small Honeywell cool mist that works well. I use it in our bedrooms and have taken the humidity up 20% easily. This is in the mountains where it's drier than the desert in the winter.
This. We are now at a point where a platform allowing more choice will actually worsen the monoculture.
Nellie Bly pretty much invented investigative journalism. Even today her journalistic investigations are fascinating.
Browsers toyed with the idea of using DNSSEC + DANE which would allow a website owner to use self-signed certificates and have them trusted just like commercial certificates.

A DNS record (TLSA) would tell the browser how to deal with trusting the certificate, its public key or to validate the chain of certificates, etc: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7671.html.

This would have radically changed the landscape of certificate authorities and browser vendors.

Google and Mozilla implemented it back in the day but changed directions. Among other issues, doing additional DNS lookups when you're trying to get the page on the screen as quickly as possible put the kibosh on things. Plus politics.

Mind you, using DANE + TLSA is the defacto standard for Mail Transfer Agents to do secure email with each other but SMTP and HTTP have different security requirements.

We may eventually get there, but there are political and technical hurdles to overcome when it comes to DNSSEC, which is required for DANE and all the rest. It's really taken off in parts of the European Union, South America, and Asia, but not so much in the US, where only about 25% of internet users are behind a DNSSEC-aware resolver: https://stats.dnssec-tools.org.

The article DNSSEC, DANE and the failure of X.509 is a pretty good summary: https://blog.hansenpartnership.com/dnssec-dane-and-the-failu....
Back home in India, some of the banks already offer such hybrid accounts, tied to a mortgage.

As you keep putting money into the a/c, so much is reduced from the outstanding principal when calculating interest for that much period.

Even more surprising, this is one of the state run banks (State Bank of India).
> Great to read from someone who knows it so deeply.

I'd say it's a decent read on Elasticsearch tuning at the intermediate level, but not enough to really get high performance from Elastic.

One of the problems with Elastic tuning is that the tuning parameters depend deeply on the type of data you're indexing. Indexing text is far different than indexing numbers or dates. A mapping with a large number of fields will behave differently than with just a few. Some datasets can easily be split up into different indexes, and others are cannot be.

To really get the most from Elasticsearch, you have to know what it's doing under-the-hood, and how that maps on to your data. Elasticsearch hides so much complexity (generally a good thing), but unfortunately, it can be difficult to know where the bottlenecks are.
Great insight! And this situation illustrates why it's useful to understand a bit (especially understand how to test and explore) deeper than just the (not)ORM.
Would be interested in the $/hr cost to run something like this OP, 4G data & AWS bill combined.
I appreciate the data here, but this is a pretty weak argument.

It’s not clear how an extra year of ownership between sales would cause home prices to skyrocket, especially compared with the dramatic imbalance between new development and in-migration to California’s urban centers!

SF, for example, built 24k new units since 2010, but added 83k new people. I’m willing to bet that more than 83k people would’ve moved in had SF built more housing!
See also:

- Wechall

- OverTheWire

- SmashTheStack.org

- CryptoPals.com

- Google Gruyere appspot
Just look at the state of the "modern" internet with it's certification wars, 2-level auth, Google SMTP gatekeeping, mandatory HTTPS, Letsencrypt v2 & certbot renewal fsck-ups. What hope in hell does the ordinary user have of navigating all this? Do we all now need to be experienced sysadmins just to use the internet?