skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can confirm that the stack still works well :) We've been developing a cross-platform app for the German market - therefore the need of offline capability - since 2017 and never had any real issues with Pouch/Couch, that part just worked. The upgrade from Ionic 3 to 4 was was quite painful though.

For user authentication I've forked the nowadays unmaintained superlogin package [1], which still does a great job when keeping the dependencies up to date.

[1] https://github.com/LyteFM/superlogin
Are you familiar with the 13 part blog post [0] from Andy Gavin that's basically a short book all about Crash's making?

[0]: https://all-things-andy-gavin.com/2011/02/02/making-crash-ba...
The Netherlands has a generous social system that I can't access because I'm not actually from here. It happens to be the last place I was in when I was told I didn't have a home or money any more.

Going "home" is kinda pointless - there's not actually any support in the UK for people like me, so I'd be sleeping rough there quickly anyway.
What about Christians? They seem to like persecution porn.
Just installed. Looks like it's still in the xul/xpi era. Was hoping that this could be reasonably secure alternative to Waterfox and that I'd be able to install xul/xpi extensions. Seems not.

EDIT: I was able to convert xul/xpi addons with: https://addonconverter.fotokraina.com/ which is quite awesome. Info here: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=2834855
I've used Migration Assistant, but I don't think it carried over brew packages. Does Time Machine?
Opt-out is not legal under GDPR.
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>I do not have friends or family who have their own businesses, or who could help me find a role in a business they work for.

That's rough. When your resume is by default the easiest to reject out of any pile it finds itself in, a personal connection is often what it takes to receive any consideration.

If I were you I would talk to as many people who are in a position to hire as possible. If you see a "now hiring" sign, go in and talk to someone face-to-face. Try to get any 9-5 job you can at first, even if it's grocery store clerk. It will make it a lot easier to convince someone you're a steady hire when something better comes along. I was never homeless but I did have a dead-in-the-water resume at one point with a big work gap. The first jobs I got on my own were seasonal UPS helper and furniture mover. When I got hired into tech it was with months of full-time work experience. My new employer only had to worry about whether I could do the job, and not whether I was capable of holding myself to a 9-5 schedule

I don't know to what extent this squatting stuff is a choice, but I would recommend you abandon any voluntary participation in that lifestyle as soon as possible. You're not going to bootstrap yourself out of homelessness if you're linked arm-in-arm in solidarity with other anarchists, squatters, etc. It's also just not a stable environment.

You should realize that you might personally be ok with working "enough to survive", but that doesn't fit the needs of most employers. Ultimately you have to figure out what an employer's requirements are and meet those, and one of those is almost always going to be "commitment to a working square's existence". A part of this is also convincing them that they won't be hiring your replacement in just a couple months
I see tons of townhomes and apartments going up everywhere here. Most of them replacing single-family homes in the same plot.
Rotterdam.
I'd like to add another thing to consider: good urbanism, specifically mixed-use development, which reduce the distances immensely.

I live in Montreal and I use my old used "mini-boat on wheels" maybe twice a month to see my family outside the city. I intend to sell it actually. I travel to work on public transport because most of the city is covered 24/7 with a pretty acceptable bus and metro.

Everything is close enough that I can simply walk, even in winter. There are 5 schools, 4 parks, 3 pharmacies, 2 grocery stores, a bunch of shops and restaurants, two medical clinics, two metro entrances, several of my friends, etc, all within 15 minutes on foot.

And I don't even live in a "dense" area. It's actually considered a food desert compared to the rest of the city.
Who in the world is making payments on a loan they used to buy stocks?
I didn’t realise D&D was this challenging.

On the flip side, this is what people said. Forget Chess - Go is the one. Forget Go - D&D is the one.
"
“If you were using nofollow to block any sensitive areas of your site that you didn’t want crawled, it probably makes sense to go block these in a different way,” said Patrick Stox
"

Was this actually a thing people did?
I presumed nofollow was just for linking to external sites that you didn't want to boost their search engine ranking.
The difference is mainly up to whether it's a papist or an atheist telling you about it.
"Professional" is sometimes used as a kind of class or sub-class division among labor in (at least) the US. Lawyers and doctors are definitely in it. Various other groups may be in depending on who's making the distinction, and others like to imagine they are in. They tend to be the sorts who have vacation homes somewhere nice, and have some specific skill usually requiring significant education, rather than broadly "business stuff" as a well-off manager with similar wealth might. So, well paid highly skilled labor.

Imagine the stereotypical Asian immigrant middle-class parents and if there's a profession they'd be absolutely thrilled for their kid to go into, that's likely professional class. The happier these imaginary people are, the more solidly professional class it is.
If you have a nearly full cup, and someone dumps a bunch more water at it, who do you blame for the mess?
For some time, Tesla were not selling the power walls to people that were off-grid or unwilling to put power back into the grid. Is this no longer their policy?

background: this is second hand knowledge based on watching hundreds of videos people have made, documenting their experience and all the steps to go off grid, so this could be outdated. Learning every facet of this is one of my hobbies.
Intel all in on 5G infrastructure–eyeing $25B opportunity
Strongly disagree with the premise of this article:

- Passcode or biometric locks on an app are a gimmick and offer negligible value.

- The keys not being backed up or or synchronised across devices is not a bug, but a feature. You're supposed to keep offline backup keys. Any sort of synchronization feature adds a ton of attack surface.

- In particular, Authy, LastPass and 1password have a giant attack surface compared to a simple app like Google Authenticator. They also rely on centralized services and if you also keep your passwords in there, you eliminate the whole point of two factor authentication.

- One important risk with authentication apps is compromised updates, and Google Authenticator has a very low risk of this since it's backed by Google's strict security processes.

What you should actually do is to move to U2F/WebAuthn and pester any of your service providers that do not offer it. Yes, if you need to replace a token, you'll have to go through all accounts and change it. There's is absolutely no way to prevent this without compromising on security.
You visit a website that you may find intersting. e.g.
https://businessfinancing.co.uk/the-oldest-company-in-almost...

You have folders from a-z in your data directory.

You save the website in /data/o/oldestcompanies or into a deeper directory to your liking.

Let recoll take care of the rest.

https://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/
The ZX Spectrum Next Arrives [new version of classic Sinclair computer]
Unfortunately that won't work in my municipality, as they only do that for larger customers. The problem is that it's not a "smart" grid, and having random customers pump power back into the grid can cause lines that they thought were dead to actually be energized during repairs. They need some way to shut off the buyback during repairs, and right now they don't have that.

Also I'm not sure that the amount of power I'd be putting back would actually pay for the basic connection fee. It would during the summer months, but during the winter it likely wouldn't, and seasonal connections aren't much cheaper.

I think that's generally the best bet if you can do it.
Ask HN: Best Resources, tips, and tricks to do your own taxes?
This year I'm finally done with using an accountant or Turbo Tax to complete my taxes. I would like to learn to do them myself and correctly. Most guides I've found seem to be lacking. How many of you all do your own taxes and what helped you most in learning how to do them properly?
Seems like a good opportunity to donate some power to the neighbors.
This could very well be a Job situation, but I have to wonder how someone ends up like this.
It may be worth noting that there are so many bicycles in Dutch cities that, as a pedestrian, you learn very quickly that you have to be every bit as aware of them (if not more so) than you are of cars. It's mostly a pretty different situation that the occasional bike bombing down an unseparated lane on a sidewalk.

It can work OK when you have wide paths that have lots of different types of users on them. It's less good when you have fairly narrow sidewalks.
I would note that 4 minutes and 33 seconds of silence is copyrighted by John Cage as " 4'33" ", and a single chord sustained for 20 minutes, followed by 20 minutes of silence, is copyrighted by Yves Klein as "The Monotone-Silence Symphony".
Ionic has some great Vue support now too.
Okay, this one is getting sent around the office. Great find thanks for sharing!
Threadripper is limited to quad channel ram, so you might want EPYC or Xeon instead if that is an issue.
I could only find two studies on capacity utilization:

* Judd Cramer, Alan B. Krueger, "Disruptive Change in the Taxi Business: The Case of Uber", 2016, https://www.nber.org/papers/w22083

and

* Y.M. Nie, "How can the taxi industry survive the tide of ridesourcing? Evidence from Shenzhen, China", 2017 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0968090X1...

Both seem to confirm that ride-hailing has better utilization rates, though Nie qualifies that--e.g. sometimes too many private cars might turn out. However, at least in San Francisco all the licensed taxi cabs also use ride-hailing apps, so their utilization should be at least as good as unlicensed cars.

The real issue with ride-hailing is induced demand. In places like San Francisco public transit took a huge dip, and ride-hailing simply isn't anywhere as efficient as mass transit. Studies have shown that ride-hailing has contributed to a substantial increase in traffic and traffic delay: https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/5/eaau2670

Ride-hailing can even be worse than personal cars because a personal car has a 100% utilization rate at minimum, whereas the average utilization rate for ride-hailing, even accounting for multiple riders (e.g. >100% for any particular trip) is <100%.

Ride-hailing only pencils out for the last mile--to and from transit hubs in a local vicinity. But too many people take it to cross town. It's hard to blame ride-hailing companies, though. Cities need to be build more subways. Perhaps companies like Uber, if they were allowed to build subways as cheaply as The Boring Company can do (i.e. small diameter tunnel, though still larger than London and Budapest; no red tape; no extravagant stations) and to capture the revenue, would invest the money. They'd finally be able to ditch drivers, too, because driverless cars will probably only ever work, if they work at all, in moderately dense residential areas.
WebPageTest Scripting: Examples for advanced speed testing scenarios
> lofty valuations

This is the correct answer. Enormous equity bubble over a decade in the making. There is precisely zero justification for buying index funds at a Shiller PE over 30, yet that's exactly what every price-insensitive investor on the planet, including the SNB, has been doing for years, now.

Every bubble eventually finds a pin. Looks like we finally found one.
I Want Off Mr. Golang's Wild Ride
I wasn't really implying that something was bad about the article. Just pointing out that without context your comment looked like spam for some random article.

The original article is something about music. Then you say something about colors. And your article starts with some description of some game called Paranoia. Without already knowing the context this looks completely random.
I live in the U.S., and I've been surprised to hear from several people I know that their kids refused to learn to drive and get a driver's license. They all live in the suburbs, so it's utterly impractical and in every case took their parents completely by surprise. Their reasoning is, driving is harmful and passé and everybody knows we should live in dense cities and take public transit. They've never lived in a place where it's practical, but the place and way they live already seems like a relic of the past to them.

To me it's stunning how powerful that presumption is, that suburban teenagers will forgo the independence that a car would give them because they perceive it as a relic of an age when people didn't know better. It gives me a lot of hope that in the future there will be political support for more radical changes than we've seen up to now. I love where these kids' idea of normal is at. However, it also makes me afraid of the degree of political and cultural polarization we're headed towards.
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I did not intend it as such, but as an observation about the reality of his world. Fortunately, things have improved in many places. Galileo's act of resistance was one among many that brought about this change, and science was more of a beneficiary than a leader of this social revolution.
It does sound like you're the one making an assumption. Many people in this country feel trapped by what they can do for work.

On top of that being broke and exhausted makes it difficult for people to change what they are doing. If you can't go two weeks without a paycheck, how are you going to switch jobs, etc..
I really like the folder structure and the way you just drop a file in and it works (tm). Like with VueX. Just create a file in /stores and you have a new namespaced vuex store. Or /plugins, or /modules. It just makes loading things and organization easier.

Plus, if everyone used Nuxt jumping into someone elses project enables you to locate shit way easier. From pages, components, stores, to configuration data in nuxt.config.json.
Ask HN: Tools to keep remote teams on the same page?
What tools do you use to keep remote teams on the same page when it comes to projects information, company announcements, documentation, document search? When I ask people around me I get all different answers: from Slack only, to having a wiki like Confluence to a SharePoint Intranet to internally developed tool at larger tech companies.
I saw someone recommend Memex as a Firefox extension for full-text search in history and bookmarks the other day. I've started using it, but can't yet comment on its usefulness.

It stills feels a bit complex to share data between my computers (I wish for p2p, Nextcloud support, or something alike). I don't like too much it moving DDG's instant answers to the bottom of the page, nor the default sidebar and highlighter, but that could just take some time getting used to.
Nah, they have no problem identifying the string, they'll just slap you with a gag order, which itself will also have a gag order.
> The majority of Dutch cycle lanes are level with the sidewalk

That doesn't fit with my memories of visiting the Netherlands, or a quick Streetview-tour of The Hague.

https://www.google.com/maps/@52.0645825,4.2251355,3a,75y,172...
In order to use them in a movie you have to pay for them. iPhones are not free. However you could buy them secondhand to avoid paying Apple directly.
Here is v1.0 of PCI-DSS from December 2004, same year this company was founded. Doesn't seem very difficult to comply with, it is essentially 'Use a firewall and antivirus and don't use the default password'
http://ftp.freenet.at/mar/PCI_data_security_standard.pdf
Show HN: Can I Expense It? A web app that visually recognises business expenses
I launched a little consulting side gig on Fiverr to build dashboards and reports on Google Data Studio.

The good:
- I got plenty of customers (side gig volume) from all over the world.
- Many of them were very happy with the results.
- Collecting requirements for reports and dashboards is notoriously difficult and volatile, but I was able to keep this under control. I credit my age (48) and experience for that.

The bad:
- I hitched my wagon to a tool that is not ready for prime time: Google Data Studio. I spent too much time wrestling with the tool.
- The success of many projects depended not on my skills with Data Studio, but with the quality of the data sources and APIs that were feeding into Data Studio. Almost half the time, the quality was well below expectations, and I spent too much time wrestling with the integration.

In the end, I wasn't even close to making a reasonable hourly rate, and getting to the point where I could get past an hourly rate and make money at scale seemed impossible.

I happily shut it down after six months.
Interestingly enough I think that the core of rdf (the subject predicate object triple) is a quite elegant abstraction for knowledge graph representation.

I do agree that the layered system of different ontology languages as present in current semantic web standards is not beginner friendly, but it doesn’t mean they can’t be improved on.

I think you might be throwing the baby out with the bath water.
I was looking for adding at least one Threadripper server to our local HPC system. I only found one ASRock motherboard for TR4, but none yet for sTRX4. I hope we will see 1U rackmounted sTRX4 systems soon.

Our new HPC system will mostly consist of Epyc 7742, but having one node with super high single-thread performance would be nice for less well parallelized applications.
The coordinate system for the race management/graphics engine in that game was a 2D system (and in fact was (lat, long) on the track, rather than (X,Y)). We'd convert the (lat, long) into (X, Y, Z) coordinates, take into account the banking and track surface under each tire [painted lines were slightly more slippery than asphalt], do all the physics computations, then cast the (X, Y, Z) back to (lat, long) to send it over to the race/graphics world.

Why? Longitudinal measurements are natural for "who's in the lead?" type of questions and all of our track editing tools also worked in lat/long coordinate space.
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I came in TO in the middle oughts and there were patches of the city still having that artsy, edgy and unkempt vibe, and even the commercial Yonge strip from Bloor down to Queen was atmospheric. All got lost to the glass condo towers, and the faux hipster hoods are souless and uninteresting. I feel Toronto became a victim of its own success, great economic progress does not equal vibrant and livable city!
Yes, there are winners and losers. The "loss" here is pretty tiny, but I'm sure there are a few people, by accident of where they live/work, for whom this is very inconvenient.

I don't mean to be crass, but, so what? There are zero-sum tradeoffs made by cities every. single. day. In comparison to, say, adding a new road, this is a tiny inconvenience for a tiny group of people.

I think it is strictly the novelty of drivers "losing" for once that brings this sort of thinking out. Things have been tilted towards cars for so long that if they aren't treated as entitled to environmental dominance always and everywhere, it seems like a status attack.
I share somewhat the same memories. I remember putting hours and hours into that game to see what was possible and what were the limits. One of the earliest memories I have of figuring out how software works and what it's limits are.
I'm in Nova Scotia, Canada. So I'm expecting worse than that, but it's hard to get realistic numbers.

Those numbers are a fair bit worse than the worst cases I was looking at, which assumed winter panels would be ~25% efficient on average....

So that assumes a 3kw system is producing around 4kw-hours per day. I'll need to see if that's realistic.
Oops. That’s what I meant
If you want finer resolution or multi-machine measurements then look at PTP. You need custom hardware but the improvements are significant.
What did his comment say?
The story behind the app: https://anna.money/blog/updates/can-i-expense-it-theres-an-a...
I use one of these (running OpenBSD) as a router. 100% uptime, excluding OS upgrades and power failures.

It’s fast enough to run small VMs, and is passively cooled.

PC Engines has a nice business model. They put out board revisions infrequently, but then sell them unchanged (other than errata) for decades. This lets OS vendors provide rock solid support over time, and also makes them appropriate for use cases where you want to be able to buy an identical replacement years from now.

As Moore’s Law ends, I hope more hardware vendors go this way.

Hopefully PC Engines will issue a new Ryzen based APU line sometime soon (since the article says these will be produced by AMD for 10 years).

(Edit: they support boards for about one decade. Not multiple decades)
Cool. I'm not involved with the iRacing team at all, but they have a NASCAR offering and your dad may consider checking that out.
Make a Patreon! You mentioned that you work on an open-source project and also ran a volunteer cafe. Sounds like you are a genuine and hard-working person. Tell your story and I think you will be surprised at how generous and supportive strangers on the Internet can be :)

https://www.patreon.com/

(Please let us know once made and also post to your other social medias!)
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that might work in the US, but in Europe churches are poor and mostly attended by old ladies with networks of other old ladies.
I remember a time when I still enjoyed using Facebook, and that ended around the time the platform started pushing “news” into our feeds. I think in order to stay competitive, news organizations began shoveling bombastic, click-baity, out-of-context crap onto the site… and I think pushing back on this trend is the only way forward.
Hydrogen powered delivery trucks to be tested in the Swiss Alps
I have less of a problem with the product itself than the way it's marketed, with completely unsubstantiated claims about improving employee retention. The message I get here is "your employees are like small children that need to be managed with Slack trinkets", which is too bad, because I think the bot itself looks kinda neat.
Real bike lanes make a huge difference. They finally started doing it in Vancouver and it completely transformed the neighborhoods.

It is the single cheapest/easiest thing a city can do to improve a street.
China Spins Coronavirus Crisis, Hailing Itself as a Global Leader
The root cause is a city filled with disparate cultures. Where as other have a strict adherence to their native norms, our native norm is that we don't have native norms beyond surviving.
The city is transient by nature, by the hour even with a commuting population of something like 8 million people.

So...what's easier to change? Culture, or carpet?
I can highly recommend Gas diffusion. It consumes electricity like one might expect from a multistage refrigeration unit. The results will guarantee your permanent "off the grid" independence comparable to any other nation.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaseous_diffusion