skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the US taxes are complicated. How much income you have matters, also the source(s) of that income make a difference, and finally investment losses make a difference. So if you are Donald Trump, and you've had massive losses, you can pay virtually no taxes on your investment income based on your investment losses. If you have very low income you probably pay no taxes and might be eligible for subsidies. If you are single and making very high wages from labor but not from investments then you will pay the highest tax rate. If you can flip your income from labor to investments you can really save a lot in taxes. Your effective tax rate completely depends on your situation.

https://taxfoundation.org/how-much-do-people-pay-taxes
I think the concept that timber houses are inherently fragile is not really true.

> Even poor people don't build houses from plywood. But in America it seems that everyone, poor and rich builds extremely fragile houses.

It isn't generally just plywood, that would be a very unusual house.

As for your question of cost, with brick exterior walls, the marginal cost of interior volume decreases with size, so the question of an "awesome house" kinda changes. What people expect to be paid for labour is also higher.

Brick is not a panacea, when it comes to building houses. It is an efficient thermal conductor, so insulation is more difficult, the way you have to fasten the interior of the house to it causes thermal bridging. Common ways of constructing brick buildings can cause condensation on the inside in cold winters, which can cause damage and harm air quality.

There are two and three hundred year old timber homes. It is quite doable if you have large enough overhangs, and a durable roof.

Also keep in mind Russia and Kazakhstan have a completely different climate to most of North America.

Then on top of all of this, a lot of North Americans think of houses very differently. There are people who are building for a lifetime and a legacy, but most are content to have a comfortable sizeable dwelling which isn't going to collapse. It's fine to build a mediocre timber home, if it means that people get more or less what they wanted. As somebody who appreciates fine quality housing, I'd like it another way, but it seems that my fellow North Americans have something else in mind, and that's their business.
I thought this might have explained the mechanics behind the recent GOV_UK CORONAVIRUS ALERT, but alas. It didn't even namedrop the SMS providers
It's definitely not bad faith. But I get to choose how to spend my time. I've looked into a bunch of fringe stuff over the years. I've got better things to do now. I am interested in changing my mind, but I have reasonable confidence that slight variations on old shticks aren't going to do it. There are more interesting things for me to explore.

I'm sure the same is true for you. Are you busily looking into each of the latest QAnon theories? Are you carefully investigating every alternative remedy somebody is selling? Have you carefully listened to somebody from every sect of every religion? Nah. It's not even possible to be as open-minded to everything as you want me to be to your personal pet thing.

I'll note that you aren't willing to put in any work learning enough about past paranormal fads to explain why your personal fave is any different than previous ones. It seems odd that you expect me to do a bunch more work than you're willing to do yourself.
The purpose is to compare pricing across history. Food prices is a good yardstick since everybody throughout history need food. You cant really measure the price of "a night at an inn" for a culture without inns, for example. The cost of transportation is not that useful when most people walk everywhere.
the 8511 masks used in construction have a one-way valve for free-flow exhalation. The mask only protects the wearer from particulates in the environment. It doesn't protect the environment from particulates exhaled by the wearer. These would not be suitable for use by healthcare workers.
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yes, and it will still look like this even with the best triple-pane insulated glass. it's an inherent property of transparent materials. unless your house has an unusually large amount of window area, it's more cost effective to just consider the windows a loss and spray a foot of foam insulation across your entire attic.
I have a text file in Notepad - not even kidding.

For bookmarks I use whatever bookmark solution my browser provides.

My take is that it's rarely about the tool really and more about describing whatever you have there properly.
Yeah we shouldn't credit anyone for popularizing anything unless they were the absolute first to fathom the idea.
The last time I attempted to sell something on eBay, twice in a row a scammer -- presumably in the Ukraine -- won the auction and then proceeded to send me a spoofed Paypal payment confirmation (from: service@intl.paypal.com) written in Cyrillic. The mailing address was a drop ship company in New Jersey. Then they were aggressive about sending me messages like, "I paid, have you sent it yet??"

I ignored them and sent the spoofed emails to the spoof addresses at both eBay and Paypal, which seemed to be entirely ignored. After the required amount of time passed I reported the auction winners as non-paying, and I finally got my seller's fees "refunded" to my eBay account.

Then, a couple of weeks ago, I attempted to get eBay to actually transfer my fee credit to my bank account. eBay responded with, "We would really love to help you out with this. but due to COVID-19 we can't."

Somehow one of the fraudulent buyers has had an eBay account since 2012, and it's still active and has a 92% positive feedback rating. Their current auctions include a used gynecological examination chair. It's as if they're flaunting the fact that they can get away with whatever they're doing without being held accountable by either eBay or Paypal.
"Code golf"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_golf
Profanity Delay, e.g. https://www.eventideaudio.com/products/rackmount/profanity-d...
The Bridge is good and all, but Max Payne I & II games REALLY nail this.
If all scrapers did what you did, I'd curse a lot less at $work. Kudos for that.

Re 2 and 3: do you parse/respect the "Crawl-delay" robots.txt directive, and do you ensure that works properly across your fleet of crawlers?
I think the you're largely observing the difference in purchasing power of a dollar between the US and eastern Europe. If you spent $200K to build a stone house, it would be much smaller (for example, in Western Europe where the purchasing power is more similar to the United States and stone construction is more common, houses tend to be much smaller than the US). This isn't to say that large houses are ideal, but Americans in general certainly tend to value living space more than Europeans.

Further, the American model might be more susceptible to damage, but the damage is more cheaply repaired. It also lends itself to remodel as trends change (e.g., central heating and airconditioning, innovations in indoor plumbing [like removing lead-based plumbing], computer networking, as well as changes in interior layout trends), which allows a property to hold more value for longer.
Haven't cases started reappearing in China? And haven't they had to restart the lockdown.
Wow! As an American with extensive knowledge of other countries, what a read!

I cannot add much to it but the one thing that separates America from the rest of the world is that American legal system is truly a "legal system" and not a "justice system". There is just no concept of humanity or spirit of the law.

Which leads to interesting corner cases in everything and pretty much every person I know is trapped in some or the other legal trap. It's just stifling. Even our property is always at risk of being taken away.

Sometimes it is just so refreshing to go to recently developed countries or even developing countries and just smell the freedom in the air. The freedom comes from a backing of some form of justice.
1) As others pointed out, need to account for seismic activity.

2) The invention of air conditioning (and low prices for heating) allow inefficient architectures while maintaining reasonable comfort.

3) Corporatization of construction led to structures that are efficient and quick to erect.

4) Insurability of a tract house with standard architecture is much better, due to predictable materials + labor costs.
Firefox: Implement “Pinch to zoom” like Safari
are these datasets all free? pretty good list
We do... on the East coast where the risk of a category 4 throwing a palm tree through your kitchen is higher than an earthquake causing all the bricks in your house to disassociate with one another. The Midwest is screwed either way with what tornados are capable of so they just build whatever is cheapest to rebuild
Tell you what. You first prove that the Greek gods aren't what's really fundamental and then we'll talk.
Doesn't this require a full dump/import? Can you stream from a primary server w/out checksums to a replica that has checksums enabled?

Or does this fall into the "everything neat with PostgreSQL requires major downtime" category? (features, version upgrades, etc).
I started in the world of sci-fi books with Nightfall from Asimov, short but extremely interesting. Then I followed with Ubik from Philip Dick, I recommend it 100%.
As user you shouldn't be concerned by how it looks. Thats job of overall design and that might change depending where you publish / who designed it. You shouldn't make that decision because you don't have the required context.

As the writer of Markdown content, you're often both the user of the content and the publisher of the content, so you do care about how it looks. Even if you're just the user, your intention when writing is to communicate something, and the eventual appearance of your content impacts how it is interpreted by the reader. So you still care about how your writing will look, which forces you to care about how the publishing process interprets the markdown syntax.
Cash has some api incompatibilities with jQuery.

https://umbrellajs.com/ is both smaller and better.
Well, if you’re referring to places like Denmark, it is true that most Americans pay nowhere near those income tax rates.

I can’t see a lot of right wingers in the US suggesting we have low taxes. Conservative talking points frequently address the desire to lower tax rates in the US because they claim they’re too high as it is.
Show HN: Video Interview Platform
"if you work in central government, a local authority, or the NHS."
The curve that we must flatten is the admissions to the ICU as that's the main bottleneck if we want to limit the number of deaths.

And 2 months is probably not back to normal (international travel, etc). China is still fearing a second wave coming from the rest of the world.
Neat idea. HN explicitly allows reposts of older links after some time, so you would be able to see how discussion of literally the same article has changed in some cases.
Sublime & Markdown.
Related: The NDI HX camera app for iOS is currently free (instead of 22€) - with the OBS NDI plugin you can use your iPhone or iPad as a low-latency webcam for OBS.
https://apps.apple.com/de/app/ndi-hx-camera/id1477266080
This audio technique sounds interesting, has it been used in other games since, or are higher-fidelity techniques now used?

> Another major system for Trespasser was its audio system, which we described as "real time Foley" because of its ability to generate collision and scraping effects between differing sound materials in real time. Although the system could have used more sound material data, even with what it had it resulted in some wonderfully immersive sound effects which most other games do not duplicate - things like scraping a board down a concrete surface or hitting an oil barrel with a metal bat sound just about perfect. Since the system doesn’t simply play two sound effects but actually chooses from a group of samples and sets volumes based on the underlying physics collision, it sounds much more natural than most other audio systems currently used.
I'm going to say yes. It's clearly impossible to get to be a billionaire by working. You have to get it from investing, or be the beneficiary of inherited wealth or be the beneficiary of "intellectual property". All of these have some moral grey zone component.
Is hoarding enough food to feed a nation while nations are starving immoral?

Would that food have been produced if you didn't have the motivation to hoard it?
A warning shot.

I'm bracing for what I think will be rapid acceleration in joint organic-machine experimentation going forward.

Over the next decade, I surmise it's likely we will see everything ranging from constructing and training large-scale organic/molecular deep neural networks with stochastic gradient descent (which is what these guys have done at a small scale) to integrating artificial networks with organic ones (which is what startups like Neuralink are doing) to who knows what else.

We live in interesting times.
yep, @bartread was railing against a constructed dichotomy (realist vs idealist) as if it represented the entirety of possibilities, forgetting that those idealized poles are fractions of every person's existence, not identities that confine each of us into one camp or the other.

the best visionaries (musk, bezos; not zuckerberg, thiel) combine idealism (hey, look at what could be!) with skepticism (hmm, why wouldn't that work?) to push the boundaries of invention.
Some time ago I wrote an answer on stackoverflow:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38947884/changing-proxy-...

Maybe that can help.
It helps if you think of Rome less as a modern democracy, and more as a kind of mafia state. These weren’t civil servants; it was very normal for them to make a fortune out of a provincial governorship.
I think your main obligation is not to the entity from which you’re scraping the data, but the people whom the data is about.

For example, the recent case between LinkedIn and hiQ centered on the latter not respecting the former’s terms of service. But even if they had followed that to the T, what hiQ is doing — scraping people’s profiles and snitching to their employer when it looked like they were job hunting — is incredibly unethical.

Invert power structures. Think about how the information you scrape could be misused. Allow people to opt out.
Armenia did not spend the last few decades convincing it’s children that only losers go into trades, so the wages an armenian window installer are quite a bit lower
Some would go, but I think it’d be a worst case middle ground where activity is slowed enough to keep us in a depression but not enough to slow the growth of the virus
This is a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22777862
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His point is things just you might not think indispensable in Armenia (car etc because you have marshrutka) will be indispensable and cost way more
Avoiding the Trap of Sacrificial Math
> But there does need to be a warning to the public that their emails are going to be public.

It seems like Gmail et al. could just add a popup warning folks before sending anything to a .gov email. Folks running their own email servers hopefully know better already.
Why not save the route, decode the polygon into its respective coordinates and use that to find overlapping roadparts?
This would work all of Google Maps, also for bikes or walking.

Example here on how to decode:
https://github.com/geodav-tech/decode-google-maps-polyline
200-300 sounds like a good price for standard size double hung.

I am guessing the person above got a quote for premium custom windows in a large house.

I have odd-ball sizes in my home that aren't double-hung style, and basic vinyl double-pane windows were about 1,000/ea on average.
I use vimwiki to keep a track of this. Its a plugin for vim and I've built a decent knowledge base in it. The plugin also provides html conversion, so Ive set a git hook that does this and uploads the html to my server for easy access from my phone.
It’s open source, and Australia and Canada have both deployed instances. Would love to see a US (or state run) instance.
It’s kind of an interesting quest though where is PPE most effective. Somewhat counterintuitively it might make more sense to deploy it where the contact quantity is Is the highest like grocery stores as opposed to where individual risk is highest at the hospital
What an absurd statement. This crisis matters. Social distancing matters. Lockdowns matter. “Stick your fingers in your ears” is awful advice.
For a moment it got me thinking it was about these Xenobots,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dp6Rlf-2Wg
I'm confused -- or rather, think the author may be -- about what's being measured and inferred. A rate of growth of 0 still means the number of new cases is increasing. The rate of growth needs to be negative before the rate of new cases can peak, slow, and (hopefully someday) stop. Acceleration vs velocity vs position. Right?
From economical perspective, I don' think United States can stay 'shut down' as it is now.
10 million+ jobless claims MINIMUM in past two weeks.. (since those not eligible are not counted)
Gotta figure out a way to get healthy people to work.
Or I mean, they could stay closed for 2-4 months but that would be quite a wild time.
World 2.0
One of the most important parts about this is that they applied backpressure to the load balancing process:

> We also decided that if a provider is slow to deliver messages, measured in the same way as before, we would reduce their share of the load by 10 percentage points

When doing systems design this is a critical piece to include in almost all load balancing aspects. Because a ton of time you will start with 100% of traffic load balanced between two boxes but what happens when one box fails or slows down? You don't want to overwhelm anything which leads to cascading failures.
Does anyone believe the numbers that China has given?

I asked as I see everyone use them to compare against but then I see articles popping up talking about reporters who reported difference numbers just vanish over night.
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> The TV receives broadcast media - it doesn't send anything out.

Old school CRT TVs and monitors most definitely rebroadcast what they are displaying [1]. Modern TVs still do, but not at the same power levels. I would guess that a tempest attack on a modern TV is very difficult. I don't know if the BBC has ever used any of these techniques. But it's not impossible.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempest_%28codename%29
As long as there are a few cases in the community-- and there always will be-- the end of each lockdown potentially will trigger a surge of cases, and thus a new lockdown.

I think what is really going on here is world leaders assume China is most knowledgeable about this virus, because goodness knows its labs probably have been studying it for 15 years, they don't have confidence that China is forthcoming about what it knows, and in a few nations globally the effect borders on catastrophic so it's not something to be ignored. So, governments have copied the more knowledgeable actor, which happens to be an autocratic communist government, in hopes that it's approach is the best informed and effective scientifically .

Thus, the answer to 'when do the lockdowns end' really is: when we feel more knowledgeable about the virus than the nations that resorted to placing their populations under house arrest, and therefore feel confident enough to stop following China's example.
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cries in golang
Are you so sure about that last one?
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perhaps a taser would be even more useful in this scenario since you'd be able to recharge it and not worry about ammo
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Following up and putting the scammer in legal trouble means he's no longer going to be around to retry the scam on the next victim (who might actually fall for it).
So we all lockdown and the rate goes down. It stop staying locked down won't the rate go back up? The only way the rate stays down is if we stop staying locked down is

(a) most people already caught it and are immune

(b) we develop a vaccine

(c) we develop a cure that is easily mass produced and easily distributed.

Until one of those happens we're in lockdown. No? And that means 12 to 24 months.
It can be comparable to other countries and still be a failing. Our task here isn't to beat Germany, or China, or America. It's to beat the virus.

We need to compare our availability to our needs, not to Germany's availability.
Where's the CD Baby Store?
Decentralized services would be great, but also just using browser based alternatives like https://whereby.com and https://team.video is already much better than installing random binaries that do who knows what.

Smart, responsible people have been working on WebRTC standards, browser security models etc for the last ~ten years. We throw that all out and put a lot of faith in one private company when we all switch over to zoom...
Agreed. But it was also because regardless of his politics being largely aligned with Johnson's and if anything further to the right, Neil could be relied upon to aggressively question Johnson on his inaccurate and misleading statements and track record in government
(more so than some of the lighter interviewers who I suspect have considerably greater issues with Johnson and his platform). If they'd thought Neil's [undisputed] personal bias would have lead him to softball or even stan for Johnson rather than challenging all the candidates equally toughly, it would have been different.
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The difference in purchasing power comes from the difference in labor cost mainly. I think that in a construction project, labor costs are going to outweigh material costs by a lot. In such a case, it makes little sense to prefer cheap materials.

Maybe it has to do with competitions. Many old European houses are made of stone. New houses have to compare to that.
> The rate of growth at a given day is the number of new cases on this day, as a percentage of the number of cases from the previous day.

I haven't read the whole thing, but here he's defining "rate of growth" as the number of new cases. If there are 0 new cases each day, then eventually the number of total cases goes to zero.
One dumb supervisor. Sad and oh so common. But not really newsworthy?
Hacker News' "favorites" is now my bookmarking service :-)
It's like a poor man's Del.icio.us. (It doesn't checkmark majority of the OP's boxes).
But if your interests align with mine fp, ML, lisp then you may want to check out my favorites list.
https://news.ycombinator.com/favorites?id=marai2
It wouldn't annoy me so much if they hadn't put the comment. I can clearly see it's a grid.