skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If a property is paid for, there's no emergent liability set upon the owner that isn't also set by the state (which grants them absentee property title in the first place).

I mostly agree here, although there is an argument that certain torts against property owners are not really "set by the state" except that they recognize that without official codification and means of redress, mob justice or personal vengeance might proliferate.

> All of the market mechanisms that incentivize transformation, maintenance, and occupation of land can exist without recognizing absentee title as legitimate, enabling people to occupy spaces they don't own without having to pay a rentier in perpetuity.

I'm not clear exactly what you're arguing here: The government could just own all land but allow anyone to build on it and occupy it indefinitely for free? Or nobody can own land they do not reside in?

There are so, so many problems here. How do you resolve disputes between rival claimants to a building? How exactly does one move to a new place-do they sell the house? So they retain ownership of the improvements, but not the land? If there is no formal ownership, how are property taxes assessed? Do they just go away? Are they based only on improvements?

If we can still own improvements, but only one per person and a person must reside on the property to own it, people will still need an improvement to live in, and they will still have to either buy one or rent one, changing nothing. If we can't own improvements we don't live in, well, who will be building new apartments and condos? You will end up with a huge market inefficiency, with lots of low-capital people with demand for housing and lots of capital owners who could theoretically supply that demand by building commercial residential property but will not because they legally cannot own and profit from any construction.
What It’s Like to Work for Instacart During the Coronavirus Pandemic
Margaret Burbidge was one of the authors of the B2FH paper [0] which
identified nucleosynthesis processes in stars that are responsible for producing the elements heavier than iron. This was in 1956.

A little over a decade later, this scientific fact was part of pop culture.

One of the iconic songs of Woodstock 1969 was by Joni Mitchell [1] which goes

We are stardust
We are golden
And we've got to get ourselves
Back to the garden

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B2FH_paper
[1] https://jonimitchell.com/music/song.cfm?id=75
“Tragedy plus time” is the standard formula in that vein of humor.

Let’s give the victims time to succumb and their families time to grieve before breaking out the glib cynicism toward other peoples’ lifesaving actions.
I think that is sometimes caused by using an onscroll event without the {passive: true} option set. Even better, remove all onscroll events (including from libraries or adverts you may use).
Caps can be replaced.

Old machines never die - their users do!
It's disingenuous to say the domains were free. There was no purchase price prior to the mid 90s, but from then on, there were annual fees starting at $50 and later dropping to $35. They didn't drop below that for a while, and bottomed out around $10-15. Sitting on a domain for 25 years cost nearly $1000. That's great if you can sell the domain later for 5-6 figures, but if you have a large squatting portfolio, there are substantial costs. You
might not like domain squatting, but there's no denying that it was an investment, and there were risks. This guy just saw the market early and it paid off.
How is this better than ansible, salt, chef, puppet, etc.? Once it's automated it's automated, no?
I wonder if Netflix or HBO can do that? Seems so obvious...
It's a good question whether the Covid-19 crisis is good or bad for Trump.

You might say Biden benefits because Trump looks so incompetent. But his voters knew that already. Most of them vote for him because of a singular issue in which they have the minority view: abortion, extreme gun rights and white superiority. To these voters, nothing else matters, even if they were totally aware of Trump's incompetency and corruption. I even think many pretend to not notice that, because they don't want to admit how important their single-issue is to them.

In my opinion, Covid-19 will be good for Trump because that is his only chance to get the voter depression he needs to win against an overwhelmingly more popular candidate, according to all the polls.
It depends if the decompression is done on the server or on the client. If the client is doing the decompressing it would be better to compress frequently accessed images because it would lower bandwidth costs. If the server does the decompressing it would be better for infrequently accessed images to save on CPU costs.
South Africa's Covid-19 Tracing Database
Seems to have already been taken by a nearly-identical product:

https://pac-dent.com/products/infection-control/ishield-disp...
Both of those things seem just as hard as managing a mask. People are crap at handwashing, and face touching is subconscious.
Bethe strings observed experimentally for first time
It's way easier to have a hot take on study design than to read the study! C'mon!
How to Create a Client Intake Form That Gets Results
Is this their new AR headset?
>> What (modern) alternatives are there for this that do not use web technologies?

In that case, Java is probably your best option.
And even if it is a toy language, it doesn't matter. If you're a web developer, you need to know Javascript.
Microsoft buys corp.com domain in the name of customer security
So would just be:

docker-compose exec web /bin/bash

Saves having to add --service-ports
Would be nice to see some example. When I open search there are no results.
It's funny how a picture of him has the caption "Michael Larson was never interested in following the rules" when, actually, he was the only one who bothered to figure out the rules.
Think of network bandwidth too!
I think this is a fair critique; I could have made the same case with the "toy programming language" statement left out. I love JavaScript and there are brilliant apps written in it, but I do think it's good for people to consider whether they need to depend on it in all cases.
So how does it compare to Clickhouse?
Long feedback chains take longer to optimize so this is possible. Also one feedback would be to have the company fail. Another possibility is that it really is a tradeoff of where to focus.

For example, we are now paying for our lack of preparation and sclerotic government with the economic and lives lost to covid-19. It just took between 3-10 years to pay the piper.
To extract any rubber at all, they will need to win. Given they have a binding agreement with Softbank (per the article), and they are willing to call in the lawyers, they must think they have a case...
Eyy, victory. Linux, the OS you love to hate. Wouldn't have it any other way.
Made a bot to handle my Zoom calls
Yes - that's exactly what it does!
> docker-compose for development seemed a bit of a dead end (ie - might as well go back to vagrant

It might be a VM either way for Mac and Windows, but Windows developers are likely to always be running a VM with Docker integration soon due to WSL 2, and on Linux it's still an incredible productivity multiplier that beats the pants off everything else when you have dependency issues. Only MacOS is left behind with the worst developer experience out of the three.
> "Fox News is TEH EVILZZ AND CNN/CBS/NBC/MY HOLY LOVE ARE TEH ANGELZZ" is really lazy.

Now you are being downright dishonest. Nobody said either of these things but it's demonstrably true that Fox News often publishes unverified propaganda while CNN routinely has scientists and solid source surveys to support their points.
Thanks, looks good for mobile metered connections too then.
iDoubt they'll be renaming the iPhone anytime soon
Algebraic structures: things I wish someone explained about FP
He also committed unemployment fraud before his TV appearance and ended up creating a Ponzi scheme in his later years.
> Yes, that was probably the only objectively correct thing to say at the time.

Maybe, but had they been less objectively correct and worked based on unproven assumptions, harm could've been prevented.

> If they advised drastic measures at the time, people similar to you would have crucified them as alarmist and disregarded any advice they may have had.

Agreed, but that doesn't change the fact that it would've still been the right call. They would've been vindicated very soon after.

As it stands, the experts made the wrong call. I don't fault them for it at all. I'm just pointing it out as an example that sometimes even the experts get it wrong and therefore being suspicious of expert opinion is always warranted.

> I doubt they would call something a "serious public health concern" and recommend doing nothing.

Well yes, that's me being sarcastic. They didn't explicitly recommend to do nothing, but they didn't recommend to do anything either. So that's what was done. Nothing. Same difference, perhaps?
Generally I use

docker-compose exec <service> sh
I actually quite like the butterfly keyboard and have never had a problem with it. I’m using a MacBook 16 inch keyboard and I’m finding I am extremely used to the butterfly style keyboard.
What an awesome story! Thanks for sharing.
Masks are shields, not arms. they pose no risk to others.

If you are referring to humans as potentially lethal weapons, and stay at home orders, then, yup.
Off-topic, but on the subject of Apple. FaceID is a nightmare to work with, while wearing a mask. The numeric input delay, after trying to open your phone for the 100th time, gets old.
google sheets is awesome, they even let you reply to rudimentary get requests and define your own functions with google script. I think it is a hidden gem.

Watir lets you host your own headless firefox or google chrome on a cheap server thanks to the headless gem. All headless does is to start Xvfb and let you execute the browser in it.

What I really like in watir's interface is the wait_for functionality which you can sprinkle everywhere in order to wait until a button or a dropdown is actually rendered by javascript so you can click on it once it is queryable.

These days I use websockets and chrome puppeteer protocol to talk to the browser. It is somewhat faster and more robust than the chromiumdriver, but if I had to use watir again, I wouldn't mind it.
Pet peeve, that may not just be me idly nitpicking, since this is presumably going to be used in a health care or healthcare-adjacent context where clear communication matters:

Sterilization and disinfection are NOT the same thing. The products they suggest using for "sterilization" are disinfecting agents. They will kill most, but not all, microbes. Sterilization implies that you've eliminated everything, and requires much more intense methods.

For example: 3% hydrogen peroxide is a disinfectant. The most similar sterilant that I'm aware of is hydrogen peroxide gas plasma.
Here's my base package

https://app.dcpm.dev/package/home-media
Because just as much as they are a design company, they're also a manufacturing company. They do enormous volume CNC machining, laser machine and any number of other processes that we don't know about. By doing this, they can mass manufacture things that other companies can't.

Like many companies, they are looking at their skillset in terms of 'how can we use this to help in a pandemic', and every company doing that should be given credit for it.
I think you forget that the whole issue started because of a virus that came via bats and civet cats which were sold on Chinese markets.

In violation of a ban on such meats, since the last SARS epidemic. But it hasn't been enforced rigorously, probably because it's not really possible to enforce something like that with all the corruption that is going on. They can control social media with technology, but they can't stop people selling "free" meat.
Why is 70% ethanol preferred for aseptic techniques?
I would suggest using Algo VPN to set up WireGuard https://github.com/trailofbits/algo
Yeah, it has certainly made it pretty easy to find jobs and opportunities.

My biggest tip is to just always keep track of what you’re learning as you learn it. Learning Docker? Write down each command that successfully does what you want. Keep track of setbacks. By the time you learn it, you now have all the resources to make an extremely useful article for someone else.

Also, try to create something from start to finish - a working tutorial, and list all prerequisites. If you’re writing a tutorial, that is. That’s what I’m best at, I’m much worse at writing opinions.

Most of all, don’t be afraid to put anything out there.
Isn't it very clearly printed on the bottle in your country?

Here (I assume this is an EU regulation) it says "WARNING! Do not use together with other products. May release dangerous gases (chlorine)."
This is awesome and I'm glad companies are doing things like this. It made me interested if face shields are something I should add to my own PPE collection.

Very interesting summary of the effectiveness of face shields [1]

"Utilizing a cough aerosol simulator loaded with influenza virus (aerosol volume mean diameter of 8.5 μm) and a breathing simulator, Lindsley et al.[16] reported 96% and 92% reductions in the risk of inhalational exposure immediately after a cough for a face shield at distances of 18 in (46 cm) and 72 in (183 cm), respectively. Decreasing the aerosol size to 3.4 μm resulted in the face shield blocking 68% of the inhalational exposure at 18 in (46 cm) immediately after the cough and 23% over 1–30 min post-cough (during which time the larger aerosol particles had settled out and droplet nuclei had formed and remained airborne so that flow occurred more easily around the edges of the face shield)"

Seems like a face shield may be very good protection for a short term exposure - especially combined with a mask. e.g. walking by someone who coughs.

It also makes me wonder about a face shield fixed with something to blow filtered air in from the top of the shield. I assume that would make it less likely for air to come around the edges of the mask and possibly be more comfortable than a mask. You could have a shield blowing a constant cool breeze on you. Although this would have the disadvantage of needing batteries and replacing filters.

1 - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5015006/
A documentary on this story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o75teVHwkT8
Good to know -- I personally haven't dealt with this issue in the past few months (or years), but hopefully this will give some organizations a path forward.

Between ~2010 and the January release of Edge this year, a lot of organizations were dealing with the scenario I outlined.

Although as recently as this month, I've run into scenarios where Chromium-based Edge acts a bit differently than Chrome... so it's not a solid solution in all cases.
As for the webrtc IP adress - check your one out here: http://net.ipcalf.com/

This works on one computer for me, and get obfuscated on another (on a different network). Interesting!
Why do you find OData horrible to work with? I've used it with in a personal project and found it to be a very easy way to make my API queryable.
Not Just Another BGP Hijack
Reminds me of RAISR (https://ai.googleblog.com/2016/11/enhance-raisr-sharp-images...).

I remember talking with the team and they had production apps using it and reducing bandwidth by 30%, while only adding a few hundred kb to the app binary.
The capitalists' justification for collecting the surplus value from the renters is said to be the reward for risking their capital. If there is no risk, what purpose does the landlord serve? (beyond simple property management, which requires no ownership of capital)
Perhaps I should rephrase:

Since moving to Docker, we now have more cross-platform problems than we used to.

We continue to use it anyway, because there are some other benefits that we feel outweigh shortcomings like these. But still, it's annoying.
Just uncertainty. I am a pretty new manager, and fwiw it wasn't easy even when forced, but since the whole team suddenly also got a crash course, it helped a lot.
OP means they paragraph they just wrote.
Why not grateful as well?
They should have given Brandon Eich a couple more weeks...
No, but the walls are.
BTW if people want to try userspace WireGuard: https://github.com/cloudflare/boringtun
This rings very true to me. I'm working on moving over to an SWE role in the next few years for many of these reasons.

I'll just add one: the business absolutely doesn't care how you get your answer, only if they're reliable enough (hand grenade close is better than most companies have today).

While this seems obvious enough to anyone with a few years under their belt, to the new DS grad who has their time series analysis canned in favor of slapping a simple moving average in place and shipping it can be rather disillusioning.
If you're dealing with international addresses, point 3 becomes very challenging. The 'tokens' of an address are called different things everywhere, take different forms, and sometimes don't make much sense to compare. Figuring out a good balance of usability and generality can be really tricky.

Here's nearly 100 pages on the subject (from the perspective of addressing mail for USPS): http://www.columbia.edu/~fdc/postal/
In my experience (looking at error log hit rates vs customer service inquires) the vast majority of people do not contact customer service when a website breaks and would never get that advice.
If I never have to read another article with "XYZ Is Happening. Here's What it Means" or anything to that effect as a headline, it will be too soon. SEO has created lazy writing, and as a former journalist, I hate what it's happened to my one-time profession.

I can also do without sites that think they're being quirky with their newsletter popups. "Click here to subscribe" or "I'm not interested in staying informed/saving money/being in shape". Stop. You're trying too hard.
Even C is a layer of indirection that doesn't always reflect the output machine code (much less the assembly language somewhere between). Most of programming language decision making is choosing the stack of "indirections" you feel most comfortable with. Most of programming tool design is helping you navigate those indirections, and the techniques are generally the same in most cases. C you have symbol files and tools that can read them such as debuggers. JS you have sourcemaps and tools that can read them such as debuggers and browser consoles.

The tools aren't always perfect, but they get better all the time. It's also a spectrum of choice for which stack you feel comfortable with. Babel and Typescript do increasingly less transpilation with major browser releases. In many cases Typescript today really is just JS with Types. Certainly options like ReasonML and Purescript exist on the opposite end of the spectrum, very little resemble JS, do a lot of more work in transpilation (and do sometimes make JS interop intentionally hard by treating it as an FFI or equivalent boundary). The added "indirection" has trade-offs in productivity, developer "comfort", project aesthetics and synergies.
But it took off in a resurgence in Obama era.
I agree with the basic timeline but suggest doubling the timeframe.
Think youtube or netflix - it's compressed once and then delivered hundred million times to consumers.
Fair point, I was deliberating between the two: I think shyness is the manifestation of introversion in this particular case. Meaning that, if you're in a room full of people, the introvert would hate the idea of networking whereas the shy person may not necessarily hate the idea, just struggle to act. With both you'll see a pattern of apprehension - the manifestation is the same.

The point is that building solid professional networks is hard for most people, because it's an awkward social setting. It's the built-in awkwardness that manifests shyness. That's why the emphasis throughout is a structured way to remove the awkwardness, by turning it into something more of a repeatable process.
Agreed, this type of article is such a circlejerk. People love to hate JS.
I understood every word of that and my eyes still glazed over. :)
Thank you for the laughs.
I don't understand why there's so much avoidance of server-side rendering.
MLB, union discuss playing all baseball games in Arizona
Peroxide + vinegar should not be poured together. They are safe ONLY in dilute concentrations like spraying a bit of each onto a surface and then wiping.
https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/home/cleaning/tips/a32773/c...
lets pick one negative example and generalize that. this is because apple has never really shipped good products.
Many did exactly that for the overseas tax repatriation.
Netflix will allow parents to remove movies and shows, filter by rating
Beautiful showcase of Julia's metaprogramming features.

For those lispers around, these string macros are used for arbitrary syntax, but if your desired syntax can be parsed by julia's parser, then you can just use regular macros which operate like Lisp1 macros with hygiene being something you opt out of instead of into.
Gephi has a realtime stream importer for Twitter. Would it be possible for this tool to be a Gephi plugin that could be used in realtime on the same graph?
> No, because the outside of the mask is contaminated and now your fingers are contaminated.

My understanding is that that's a misunderstanding (one that I was under as well).

For people who aren't sick, the worry is that your hands get contaminated (much more common, from surface contact), and then you touch your mask and transfer to the mask, and eventually it works its way in since these aren't N95s.

i.e. it ends up being the same as hand-mouth contact, but people think the mask is keeping them safe from that.
This is really cool, I discovered hackthebox last year and love the gamified nature of it and how well it resonates with younger people.

I got to the top 10 in HTB for a while and was pretty surprised that I was probably one of the oldest people in the rankings, lots of high school and uni students.

Have you thought about potential ways to monetise this through classroom "ladders" for students to attempt alone and then walk through in class? Company trainings would probably be another route
This design is open-top. That allows sneezed droplets to fall in pretty easily. Whether or not that's a problem will vary by hospital, but some of them simply tape up the gap.

Aside from that, it's pretty nice.
Nope, entirely wrong! v3 isn't an upgrade, it has features specific to orchestration. v3 is a fork, not an upgrade. v2 is better for local development, it has things like depends_on which v3 doesn't have.
what kind of issues you running into?
hit me up. paul@hptrow.me
This looks like what CVC4's SyGuS component is useful for, especially since their optimization criteria is "smallest program"
No?

They who?
We have no agency against death, nor ability to ignore the survival needs of the body. We have little agency against many forms of suffering intrinsic to being human.

The economic requirements you mention seem small, to me, compared to the larger tragedies of life, the real limitations to our agency.

If the time sucking effect of economic needs are your primary focus, you are lucky not to be born in a prior era. I've worked minimum wage, rented the smallest room I could find, counted every penny when buying my needs. The agency granting economic power I had was objectively superior to most humans throughout history.

What have we done with this power? For the most part, we trade it for safety, comfort, security, not freedom. We trade it for entertainment, sometimes addiction. We give up our agency for more. Which is fine, my point is that the problem is not economic power, the problem is what we, both individually and collectively, choose to do with it.