skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve been hearing people say this for years, and it is certainly an easy and nice line to say. But supply for new housing is not the solution or the issue.

1. When new housing enters the market it is priced at “fair market value”. That fair market value is inflated by numerous known and unknown factors. Such as foreign investors, short-term rentals, etc...

2. Cost of construction follows the trend and what used to cost X to build is now 2x, 3x.

3. Numerous cities have reduced pricing of permits and have even simplified the planning approval process for homes in an effort to attract imvestors and developers.

4. Cost of land is at an all time high. Which again is a factor of the fair market value. Land owners are wanting to sell to large development projects that have investors. Developers are bidding against each other to secure land.

Those and more are compounded into a complex relationship that has created a market that very few people can afford to live in. Is it possible that the fear of being priced out is driving a lot of these motivations?
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Most recently, I’ve heard sentences starting with the phrase “No meme, <some statement>”. I personally find it frustrating because it makes it more difficult for me to communicate if the veracity of any thing I say is assumed to be false by default because I am too used to communicating the truth by default. It is something I can adapt to, but I cannot help but feel sad that we have lost trust in each other to such a damning degree that the immediate reaction to any statement unadorned in this way goes beyond healthy skepticism to outright default assumption of falsehood, which I find to be both hostile and insulting.
They are trying their very hardest to not follow the law, but they are legally obligated to provide refunds (at least in the EU).
I would not love it if he improved my post, so I am glad to have the clarification that this is only done to YC-affiliated commenters and with at a minimum some kind of implicit buy-in from them.
Unfortunately we didn't have insurance. That's a great tip btw.
The article just counts the total number of cases, without mentioning the number of tests, right?

Say on day one you test 10 persons and get 1 positive. Then on day two you tests 100 persons and get 10 positive.

You can say it's 10% positive in both cases: the virus doesn't spread. Or you can say the number of positive was multiplied by 10 in only one day: wow, "exponential growth", the number of positive cases is "soaring".

So, yeah, like most of the mainstream coverage around covid, it's just BS. Put the highest numbers along with a few dramatic words in the headline, and you're done, you wrote an article. Just fill the article with whatever, who cares.
What Caused the Explosion That Crippled Apollo 13?
"They’re just fighting for the roles,” Sabapathy told me. “That’s all they care about, not the work, not the deliverables, the effort they put in, or even talent. They’re not looking for any of those aspects.”

This is spot on for every large organization I ever consulted for. Moreover. Even in much smaller businesses, typically starting at around 70-100 people (sooner if management has prior large business experience) you can already see this pattern starting to seep in.

This is also why the whole private vs public sector efficiency debate is farcical. They are both identical in this aspect.
Dont close borders! meanwhile China closes up.

Its not airborne, dont wear masks! meanwhile China mandates masks.

Im sensing a pattern here.
Kotlin vs. Java App Development
I am just now re-reading Neal Stephenson's "System of the World" or "Baroque Cycle"[0], the first book of which is set in Restoration-Era London.

A fictionalized account, the flavor of which serves to resonate with the feel of dot-Com startup disruption. Which as I write this, my own words sound trite and trivial. Stephenson's work is anything but: Civil War in England, Queen Anne's War in the American Colonies, interminable war in continental Europe... So far, it gives short shrift to England's treatment of Ireland.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Baroque_Cycle
WebAssembly Meets Kubernetes with Krustlet
bing search returns wikipedia articles too. i suppose this works because bing is doing the filtering, and it can block based on content
It don't think the difference between buyback and dividends actually matter to the important part of the parent's argument.

The main thing is that airlines transfered their capital to their shareholders. So now they have very little. If they want to keep operating, they will have to ask for some more capital, maybe from their shareholders, maybe from others.
I don't see how could that scale.

If Amazon delivery drivers are moving around a city anyway then it isn't necessarily much additional work to pick up packages along the way as well as dropping them off. They presumably collaborate rather than having one driver do everything - so 6 different drivers pick up the items, bring them back to a central location, and from there it's just another standard Amazon delivery with 6 items in it.
I read your paragraph and almost didn’t read the actual article :(
fedex is a generation behind many other logistics providers
How to Build an Azure Automation Lab
What makes a successful TDS article?
Here's one of my favorite passages from a field guide:

Silent flight enables owls in flight to hear the movements of small rodents, while in turn it keeps the sharp-eared prey in the dark over someone coming for dinner. This tempts one to fancy that mice live in utter ignorance of owls except as invisible agents of disappearances from the family.
Yes here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/opensourcecovid19medicalsupp...
Musk is getting closer and closer to his $1B in options. Tesla is at ~$100B market cap as of 4/7. They need this to hold until late July. Musk is doing whatever he can to keep the markets happy; not sure it’s going to be enough
The most powerful force for reform is talented and skilled people finding ways to make money that isn't subject to the games played in large bureaucracies. As they do other things, those other things outcompete the big bureuacracies and those bureaucracies either adapt (thus reforming) or wither away (thus getting replaced by something better).

The problem with this is that government is easily swayed by megacorp money. That money actually creates additional regulation, first by spooking people into thinking the megacorps need to be reined in then by using their influence to ensure the congresscritters hungering for megacorp attention create regulations that are more damaging to industry upstarts than to megacorps that currently dominate their industries. As a result, all these business regulations end up strengthening the hold of industry dominators over their industries, and they just find ways to keep their games going, serving goals wildly different from what most people imagine they really serve. As a result of those regulations being so crushingly bad for small industry upstarts and basically just a drop in the bucket for megacorps, the businesses that could have unseated the current kings -- with an influx of great talent leaving the megacorps -- end up being ground up by regulatory costs until they give up and get bought out by the megacorps, then destroyed or absorbed into efforts opposed to the companies' original high ideals.

Once in a while, someone manages to break through the competition glass ceiling, but usually it's at the cost of selling the soul of the company's original vision and becoming exactly what they originally meant to make obsolete.
Yes, Arabs use "Ibn" and jews use "Ben". Slavs use father's name and "ich" suffix. People in Iceland use different kind of patronimics.

You can either use just one name field if your logic doesn't need a name or surname or provide two fields for name and surname and let the user handle the splitting.

I have three first names. When I fill a form, if it's an official form or if it's for business purposes I fill all my names as first name, if not, I only write the name I use.
SoFi acquires banking tech firm Galileo for $1.2B
Tesla is cutting salaries and furloughing workers to ‘manage costs’
US Hospitals say feds are seizing masks and other coronavirus supplies
Well, IE 9 was the first version to have JIT suppport.
Make applications into a single file that can pull aditional xml and json data, images and video by appending the session key. If the application desires to do something other than display the data the user must give permission. No more checking if the json has a key but map it to a dom element and make that [and all its parents] unreadable.

(Keep all the legacy crap for when this is not enough)
Hey, author here. I did have Insomnia for a few months before coming across Sleep Restriction (the method in question in the article) after some serious life-changing events.

Here is Stanford's guide to sleep restriction:
https://stanfordhealthcare.org/medical-treatments/c/cognitiv...

This is an evidence-based method, meaning its been proven clinically to work. I'll make sure to add some citations so it seems more legitimate.

PS:
We also have a full guide on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I) for which sleep restriction is a subset:
http://sleepedy.com/cbt-for-insomnia
https://www.citylab.com/perspective/2019/11/autonomous-techn...

Putting robots directly where people are creates way more unknowns than having them operate outside of the normal human space.
It's not supposed to be profound. It's just a tiny tutorial/taster. He has more to say (fwiw) on the why here:
http://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2019/08/22/WhyClojure.h...

Quite agree on your syntax comments. The morphology of the syntax itself (as opposed to its consistency, homoiconicity, etc) is uninteresting. Who even notices syntax after a while using a programming language? I think I could edit any of the languages I know in any of a number of surface representations - syntax as-is, some kind of graphical AS tree, graphical nested bubbles, etc etc.

I honestly think the syntax fetish is just because people want to write something (we all like the sound of our own voices/keyboards), and if they don't know anything about a language, emoting on surface syntax is about all they've got.
Best Mario Kart character according to data science
I guess it will be added to a blacklist but does it really matter? The service will continue to work for the purpose it was built for.
> Every millisecond of performance improvement or every last % of latency improvements lead to dollars.

I just pulled up their front page for Vancouver and it took 3 seconds to load completely. Just the initial HTML server time was over 1 second.
How relevant is SAP still? Is it still big? It's been years since I worked with any SAP system. Do big corps still use them or many of them have moved away to more "modern" systems?
'There is indeed a link between BCG vaccination and resistance to Covid-19.'
To be fair R&D at 50% of revenue is massive. They are basically a university.
How many domain names are oustanding?
It is true because Berkeley intentionally does this in order to cap the number of people enrolled in their computer science major. Some people that even do well in their CS classes are not able to declare the major due to the high GPA requirement
'Still, Craigslist’s “Activity Partners” pages—a replacement for the “Personals” section discontinued two years ago...'

Actually, Activity Partners / Missed Connections / etc. have existed as long as the website has.
I'm very sorry to hear that. If you don't mind me asking, how long did you consistently try it for? and did you see any improvement?
ICT3 is just one step above entry at Apple. It's not a senior role.
What about girls without fathers and boys without mothers?
I agree, and that could either be what the parent wants (i.e. let Apple have apple.com) or it could be the opposite, but if you want domain names to remain in the hands of the "little guy" providing "no value" then squatting is something you have to live with right? I've got 4 or 5 personal domain names I'm squatting on because I haven't got around to doing anything fun with them yet.
Some lessons learned here from an unverified source

For example, make sure you have enough error handling so that a malformed JSON file doesn't bootloop all of your cars

https://mobile.twitter.com/atomicthumbs/status/1032939617404...
it essentially the whole thing evolved as follows:

- docker - it is just a packaging mechanism for your app and a deployment unit if you use Kubernetes, ECS or similar

- docker-compose - if you have an app that spreads over multiple docker containers (i.e. you're doing micro services) it allows you to spin all of them with a single command allowing these components to be interconnected. It is essentially your local testing environment.

- swarm - as far as I know it is a dead project, it supposed to compete with Kubernetes and similar, but it failed
It's a way to prime others in the convo to start focusing in you. Then once focused, you deliver the meat. It's a very, very old technique. The reason we write those conversational techniques down is our increased literacy (we use written words more and more) and the acceptance of writing informally basically everywhere.
Just a short overview:

Explosion in Dark-web activity
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Think service workers, gig workers, working poor etc. If you are woking 3 jobs to barely afford 2 bills you are already at the edge! Any disruption and a jump towards "alternative" income sources doesn't seen unreasonable any more. Especially for those who have dependents.

Worsening of virus spread
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You read that right! Instead of preventing the spread, lockdowns will make it worse! Everything the government does is stupid! What will happen is that people will refuse to believe, or underestimate the real danger of the virus. In defiance of the rules they will go out in large numbers to protest, or to demonstrate how this is all just a hoax, accelerating possible spread.

Drop in productivity
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“Working from home” is complete fiction for most, especially for those who have elderly or young children to care about. What are these people smoking?!?!?

Child rape
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Yes, I'm sorry. This is an inevitable consequence of being trapped with your captors. No escape

Anti-China riots
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Embassies, consular offices, even Chinese companies and even Chinese looking people could be subjected to violence. Many who lost everything will blame China and demand reparations!

Domestic abuse
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Already happening: https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/violence/domes...

Bank runs
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With the economy coming to a halt. Many will find out their cash isn't THAT secure in a bank after all... Think Cyprus

Conspiracy theories
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Already happening. Many will simply not even believe that the virus exists: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-52198946

Suicide
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https://centralluzon.politics.com.ph/angeles-cop-stops-suici...

Mesh networking
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If rioting gets bad, governments will try to restrict/shut down online access. This will result in alternative communication styles such as mesh networking. See: Hong Kong

Starvation
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Dangerously low oil prices means lack of future investment into infrastructure which will lead to decreased future production which will, in turn, lead to skyrocketing oil prices. High oil -> high food -> riot/starvation. It's that simple!

(Hyper-) Inflation
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Especially in developing countries. Local currencies are brought by tourists or to trade goods with foreign countries. If those currencies are no longer being purchased using dollars, a spiral into inflation is inevitable. But more importantly, giant defaults on usd based loans will mean that the usd will explode when priced in those currencies. Making imports unaffordable, local economies (especially for the poorest) will be destroyed

There is many more, but if I had to summarise the effects of the lockdown in just one single phrase:
"A laser guided nuclear strike against the worlds poorest and most vulnerable"
AWS Just Started Folding
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Also re: Our app is never supposed to be used at night. It just provides you with the tools (coach, behavioral techniques, sleep schedule) that are consumed during the day.

I'd be happy to set you up with an extended trial (~1 month) and would love to see if our coaches and the above method could help you sleep better.
about 3/4 of the way down the page, just before the heading "Viruses all the way down"

"Except you know what’s weird? Although the absolute diversity of prokaryotes is widely held to be unknown and unknowable at any scale, most new genetic information we find in bacteria is similar to genetic information we’ve seen elsewhere. It’s a comforting reminder that, although large-grain diversity is uncountably large, most genes in diverse bacteria have sequence-based similarity. But when you sequence a sample of mixed viruses, most of that genetic information has never been seen before, anywhere. "
> create a mailbox via HTTP GET request

I'd suggest a POST here. Theres some extra web browser checks against sending cross origin POSTs that GETs don't have. The GET makes abuse easier.
Equity argument doesn't seem to hold. Why not just give course credits to everyone in USA and not just those who were rich/lucky enough to go to Yale? Would be way more fair, no?
CA unemployment insurance is capped at $450, right?
Saying goodbye to Zeit Now v1
Hi everyone, we aren't living with anyone else but have a kid that is taken care of by our parents. So to an extent, we are connected to hi-risk individuals.
Here's a threat model. My university used to give students /~s123456 folders. On the same domain as the main student platform, and as the main university site. I'm not sure if they still do this but it was less than 3 years ago. Considering the age of the infrastructure, there's even a good chance that session cookies were not marked HttpOnly. Even if they weren't, I can put a login form on my page, and even if the user doesn't get tricked into using it through phishing, if their browser autocompletes it I now have their username and password.

Now yes, our uni probably shouldn't be giving out userdirs to all students, much like wifi, you should only let in the people you trust. But that's exactly the point of the article.
I have just updated my Scheme interpreter in Crystal (https://github.com/nukata/little-scheme-in-crystal), which I used on the above benchmark test, along to Crystal 0.34.

The release notes of Crystal 0.34 say "Having as much as possible portable code is part of the goal of the std-lib. One of the areas that were in need of polishing was how Errno and WinError were handled. The Errno and WinError exceptions are now gone, and were replaced by a new hierarchy of exceptions."
So I have modified

rescue ex: Errno
raise ErrorException.new(ex.message, NONE) if ex.errno == Errno::EPIPE

to

rescue ex: IO::Error
raise ErrorException.new(ex.message, NONE) if ex.os_error == Errno::EPIPE

though it is still dependent on POSIX. >_<
Thanks for taking the time to post the link, but it wasn't convincing as it lacked data and other relevant scientific information that I was looking for. Personally, I do not consider the NYT to a reliable source of information, but I know many do so maybe the link will help someone else.
The RNA extraction can also be done without reagents by using a heat reaction on the sample similar to boiling an egg. It is a 5-minute process.

According to an older scientist, Anders Fomsgaard at the Danish Serum Institute, this is how they did it ”in the old days”. He is the father of one of the authors.

This eliminates supply chain problems for reagents and was shared quickly to help in Spain.

Preprint by Fomsgaard and Rosenstierne:

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.27.20044495v...
Compile time of our current BE application in .NET, including NuGET downloads, 1 minute.

Compile time of the FE SPA code, webpack, and everything else from JS land, 5 minutes.

Then there is the whole issue regarding performance and tiny errors that bork a complete page.

Yeah, really productive.
Internet of Rings Building a Slack-Connected Raspberry Pi Doorbell
I wish there will be a DBMS which satisfy all aspects of CAP theorem and also provide high performance.

Until then, we are stuck with RDBMS and NoSql as lesser evils based on the use cases.
Actually, I looked at the wrong numbers. Their R&D is a lot more in line with other automotive manufacturers at 6.6% of total expenditures (for 2018). The majority of their expenditures go into Cost of Revenues (building and delivering the cars), with Operating Expenses being a distant second.
South Korea does not "tell" us any of that. The government did not force a lockdown, but massive voluntary social distancing occurred anyway.
Just wanted to point out a small typo in the docs: "LASTEST BY" (https://www.questdb.io/docs/crudOperations)
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> Many of these companies make up substantial portions of people's returement savings

If those people did the prudent thing, and invested into an index fund, as opposed to picking stocks of companies that are being ran irresponsibly, their retirement savings would, on aggregate, be fine.

I'd rather not have everyone else's retirement-savings-to-be bail out those bad investments.
One of my indonesian friends also had only one name. She named herself as Noel as she felt that was better than being referred to as Ms. Null.
I'd like to see an analogous service for SMS: I. e. provide a new phone number.
You never need a nullable string. If you must distinguish blank string from unset, add a column called “unset”. Using null for this will just result in bad data entry.

What's an example of a data entry error that results from this scenario? Wouldn't it entirely depend on the data entry interface?
The profound insight is that your example demonstrates almost all of Clojure's syntax.
7 days passed and Google or Google Cloud still not respond. Do you know any mail address to Google Cloud Platform to send claim? I was not able to identified, so I used standard google claim form but I am not sure if it is proper one.
I'm inclined to agree with the [dead] post here. The sentence structure and cadence are so similarn that I think there's a good chance that the reference is intentional
Nah, it was not normal by standards of 100 years ago either.

Edit: the "it was different time" is popular retort, but it rarely takes into account actual customs and realities of the time back. People just tend to assume that whatever someone else criticizes was unopposed standard back at the time, because it would feel good and was convenient. Societies back at time were as complicated as ours, often had strong standards of behavior - which just like in ours was often not followed in practice or lead to problems.

They were not "just like us except worst". Case in point, even if intra-family violence was way more common, both against kids (I don't mean light spanking I mean actual sever abuse) and women, it was criticized and seen as wrong too (and as such meant to be in-family secret).
Craigslist is only the listing part. Airbnb does listings, but it also does booking management, cancellations, payments and refunds, host support, etc as well.

Plus Airbnb has reps all over the world helping hosts. If they had ten staff (photographers, sales, etc) in every city that has more than a million population that'd account for more than 5000 people alone.
It scales fine, it's just planned in reverse. Many-to-one is how trash pickup and other services are handled in the US. You have the same number of stops whether you deliver to, or pick up from.
It's not very common, but I had people begging my friends for this kind of services.
Thanks Ignoramous for checking it out and the comment. Cheers, Ace.
I didn’t know about the public suffix list, that’s a cool idea to maintain as a community resource. Nice!