skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you have reason to be concerned about the CCP undermining your communications infrastructure, it's a distinction without a difference.

Like yes, you're correct, the person you're replying to is wrong. But the reason they brought it up remains valid with the correction.
The “inflation protection” provided by TIPS relies on the good-faith reporting of the same government which creates and benefits from the inflation.

If inflation as measured by the CPI picks up beyond the single-digit numbers of normal years, do you really expect TIPS to remain honestly valued? Even if that means they outperform all other assets “risk free?”
Ha, I once considered using a variant of that one (don't remember where I read it) to stop smoking.

I was planning to tell everyone I know that if they could show me a picture of me smoking after I'd officially quit, I'd give a 1.000€ to the political party I hated the most.

I quit on my own, but it's nice to see the method works :)
I imagine people probably would pay for gmail if they didn't get a free account through their ISP. it wasn't too long ago that email was either a paid service or bundled with an internet connection.

I don't get the vibe that HN thinks the current state of affairs is completely the fault of the customers. it's a two way street. companies offer free services either at a loss or supported by ads or data mining. once people have a free option, it takes a lot of value add to get them to actually pay for a competing solution.
On the other hand, we do know that many working 9-5 or longer hours suffer from burnout and depression, so a fair comparison should account for that.
Or you take a partial life boat that makes you very comfortable and then if the firm collapses, oh well.
> it took me quite some annoyance to get that straightened out and everybody on the "Chinese people pretty cool, Xi really not so much" page.

This shouldn't be hard to get across, except the CCP is very interested in ensuring people don't distinguish between the government of the People's Republic of China and Chinese people as a whole. Which leads to criticism of the CCP/PRC being seen as racist, which adds lots of heat to the discussion but absolutely no light. Precisely what the CCP would want, were it to attempt to influence online discussions. But I'm sure the CCP doesn't try to influence online discussions.... right?
Great comment, just gotta say!
Cloud costs sky rocket when you have applications that use a lot of data. This setup looks like its a very good cost competitive decision
Cool. So then people who buy condos for investment will have to choose between paying the non-occupancy tax or putting their money in property that isn't encumbered by those regulations. Accordingly the price of condos in buildings with such regulations should fall.

Alternatively, if a city council has the votes to implement a non-occupancy tax, they may have the votes to nullify HOA clauses that forbid renting. Or levy additional taxes on such HOAs. Since it's the HOA that's forbidding renting, the HOA should foot the bill for the non-occupancy tax, not the owner of the unit.

It's fairly common to include HOA dues and fees in the rent when renting out a condo.
Bay area people value signal, if anything, more, but just in different ways. Not to distill it too much, but generally through social media posts about experiences, social issue positions, and "genuine"-ness.
Investor Friendly Properties
What are the top 3 challenges you face when your looking to invest in a property (assuming you have capital and or enough liquidity to invest)?
Sounds like the famous AMD Ryzen soft lockup bug. Adding something like

processor.mac_cstate=5 rcu_nocbs=0-7

to the boot options solved it for me.

See for instance this: https://community.amd.com/thread/225795
There's also scroll.com, which is more netflix-y: you pay a fixed amount per month and it gets paid out to particpating sites you visit.
All X1 Carbons I've owned and the one my partner owns have been so nice to use. I mean you just need to get one into your hands... The rubbery cover, very sturdy design, super lightweight, perfect keyboard, in the later models perfect screens too (2k Adobe RGB 100% and HDR just nails it).

And you can throw it everywhere, just travel with it and use everywhere due to it being so small and nice. And you can damage it and probably the floor tiles break before the laptop gets any real hit.

Edit: oh and Linux just works so great in any of those business ThinkPads. Any linux. I'll go with Arch typically, but even more exotic operating systems, such as OpenBSD just work with it (running it in one of my ThinkPads for some years, and the experience is great).
I grew up in a farming community in Michigan, my little brother works construction, and my high school sweetheart was a truck driver’s daughter. I get you just fled here from Los Angeles, but you still seem to be still getting your bearings.
> There are ZERO settings exposed to the end user.

This thread is discussing GeckoView, which exposes extensive privacy settings.

There is a (hopefully growing) amount of apps based on GeckoView, which will make use and/or expose different variations of GeckoView settings to the user, depending on the purpose and target audience of the app.

You might disagree, but, for example, I consider the level of detail in privacy settings provided by Fenix (Nightly) to be a good balance between user control and comprehensibility.

> > GeckoView also exposes a WebExtension API
> again to the app.

Again, taking Fenix (Nightly) as an example, the GeckoView WebExtension API is used to provide a growing selection of add-ons, many of which are aimed at the privacy-conscious user, including uBlock Origin, HTTPS Everywhere, NoScript and Privacy Badger.
I honestly don't believe this is the case. There is no empirical reason to believe it is the case, and there is research that suggests that it isn't the case [0]

[0] : http://econ.geo.uu.nl/peeg/peeg1914.pdf
I'd probably generally disagree. Lose the date but sell the mission. Engineers that get lost in a world perfect is the enemy of good need to be reminded of the mission not stressed into cutting even more corners for the date.
My own solution to this is to store the server key fingerprints in a public Git repository, which can then be pulled from on all devices that need to be able to connect.

This works nicely for my own personal setup with a few servers. It may be possible to scale this to a larger environment with multiple users too.

Then main benefit is that whenever a server is rebuilt (which can be quite regularly when using infra-as-code/infra automation), I don't have to go and manually update every single client that needs to be able to connect.

https://www.jamieweb.net/blog/managing-your-ssh-known_hosts-...
Manned spaceflight and stations are unnecessary in the near term. Autonomous drones and machines can bootstrap colonization. A mining refinery can be bootstrapped easily, all remotely. Then asteroid mining droids will drop their payloads there for refinement and processing.
Keybase was acquired by Zoom, and the statement from Keybase reflects that they'll mostly be focusing on Zoom products rather than Keybase product line, hinting it may get abandoned.
Why can't we just greatly improve the signal strength at source by an order of magnitude? Like I know the new satellites can use beam forming to increase power for some large area for military use but it looks like even so total power is about ~500W right now. What's stopping us from deploying 10KW sats?
Is this a "shared library" in the sense that when I have two applications using it, it is only installed once?
It might be common sense to you and me but a lot of people doubt it. Studies like this are important.
Becuase the risk of investment is now structured differently with leverage. Let's pretend we live in world where companies are always worth 10x earnings + assets. Our pretend company $100M makes $5M in earnings and has $50M in assets (cash, real estate, etc..)

To take the company private, the lenders require an interest of 10% and 10% principal

Some PE company (or the CEO, whatever) thinks they can make this work, so they come up with $10M of principal, take the lenders money and buy the company. The first thing they do is sell as many of those underlying assets as they can to pay down the debt. You now have a company that has $5M a year in earnings before debt, $10M in assets (the principal, serviving as the required reserve for the lenders), and $50M in debt, with a debt service of ~$5M a year (so really 0 earnings).

If the the PE company does a great job managign the company and the economy is good, so they double earnings to $10M, then the company is now worth $50M ($10M in income x 10 + assets - debt) and the PE company made a 5x return already (FYI- I know I'm abusing my financial math, fake numbers, but its illustrative).

Now lets assume they were wrong and a global pandemic breaks out, and the companies start losign money to the tune of $1M a year. If the company had stayed publicly owned, they might have to cut their dividend and burn through reserves, maybe sell off some assets, but other than that all their employees and the majority of their assets are probably fine. The company's market cap is a lot less, but shareholders don't go to zero eithier.

The world where the company went private in an LBO? That $10M cushion runs out in less than 2 years. They are bankrupt. They might get a few more chances to restructure debt and such, but eventually the lenders give up and liquidate the company a la Toys R Us. The employees get fired and local landlords lose tenants. Pension funds disappear. It's not fun.
They're beginning the rollout in the E-series which is their budget line of Thinkpads. Not sure what your metric is, but getting better than Full HD in a Windows portable for $639 is par. (Surface Go 2, being the one exception I can recall).
> Furthermore, 'Liking China but opposing CCP' is, in actuality, a statement that doesn't make much sense once you understand how the CCP - Chinese people relationship actually works: https://twitter.com/Bkerrychina/status/1253635970236375040

Taiwan and the Republic of China debunks this.
Home Buying Process
How do you and your significant other/partner make a decision on which house to buy? What tools (excel, notes, etc.) do you use to keep a track of what you like and don't like about the house?
I was born in communist Romania. Thank you very much, but I had one socialist system in my life, I really don't want another. Every single one that humanity tried was either suboptimal, dystopian or straight up humanitarian catastrophe. But sure, I guess they weren't "real" socialism, so let's try and try and try again. sigh.

Somebody in my country once said something like: "If you're not communist at 20, you have no heart. If you're still communist at 30, you have no brain". So I guess I should be more patient. But well... I am a bit irritated by people saying things with conviction while not knowing enough history to cross the road.
LSD flattens the functional hierarchy of the human brain
Have a look at Minitel:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minitel
There were lots of interesting initiatives within this network
Even on my old ass w540 that finger print sensor doesn’t really work all that great.
You might be thinking of per-household. Every person gets the dividend, so a 5 person household getting 2K each would total to 10K.
I'd like us to be more forward looking, ambitious and experimental with our cities as well, especially in the west.

But... I think there's an institutional aspect here that needs resolution before we can. The internet is worryingly centralised. A small number of extremely profitable companies monopolise huge markets. Google tends to do this with data.

I think the reticence was justified: "Who owns the data? What kind of monopoly are google eventually going to have?" These are fair. A financial success case for google is some sort of data-centric monopoly. They don't really do business another way. It's fair to be dubious of their endgame.
Visual Studio Code – April 2020 update
Men's Classic T-Shirt
Further context:

In the UK, NHSX (Technology division of the UK's NHS) rejected the Apple-Google contact tracing API to make their own COVID 19 tracing app using Bluetooth, and the source code for the apps are now open source [0] [1]

[0] https://github.com/nhsx/COVID-19-app-iOS-BETA

[1] https://github.com/nhsx/COVID-19-app-Android-BETA
i have an x1 carbon and i hate it. There is an bug with the trackpoint and mouse pad that makes the pointer drift randomly. I have had my computer back and forth and replaced everything. It still drifts
You got weird friends, no one's ever had to ask or bribe me, I would just offer to help.

In turn I'd also be uncomfortable asking others to do manual labor for me, if they didn't offer when I said I was moving I wouldn't ask. Buying them supper after would be a given, no bribe required.
Yes, Matrix is properly end-to-end encrypted (with all keys generated clientside) and has been independently audited as such: https://www.nccgroup.trust/us/our-research/matrix-olm-crypto.... We have gone to huge efforts to prevent MITMs via device verification and cross signing - which specifically addresses both problems of a) losing chat history when you move between devices (via https://github.com/uhoreg/matrix-doc/blob/e2e_backup/proposa...) and b) requiring cross-signing when you log in on a new device, to spread trust to new logins, as per https://github.com/uhoreg/matrix-doc/blob/cross-signing2/pro....

All keys are stored clientside, with the exception of if you enable serverside key backup, when they are then encrypted and optionally stored serverside to allow you to recover your history if you lose all your devices.
From an SE/SO professional, can I rant here for a moment?

Marketing and Product rag on Sales a lot for discounting. Nevermind the fact that we own the touchpoints with an account, so it only makes sense that we'd know what any individual account needs. I've had this issue with Marketing and Product professionals since I started in Sales, and even more-so when I took over Sales Enablement and Sales Ops.

For one, pricing is a big deal, but value is bigger. I could sell you on that $1500/user easily by giving you a work product that factors the product roadmap, your business roadmap, and makes a compelling ROI case for you. I'm willing to give you those 8-11 hours.

But we both know it'll be wasted. Because in 90 days, Marketing will push a discount campaign that conflicts with preexisting agreements, and thereby throws all of that work product up in the air. We'd have to go back to square one and recalculate everything to see if a deal even exists. Or Product decides to drop the roadmap, delay a feature, realign to attempt to capture more of a saturated market.

You know who sets pricing? Pricing experts. And maybe, just maybe, if they spent five minutes on a discovery call with you, they'd understand why you bring up discounts, why I would rather give you the discount, and why both of us walk away knowing we missed an opportunity for quality relationship-building.

I tried this once with an account. We locked their pricing down, pushed a work product out justifying our use case. The account came back and requested we drop the discount, that they saw the additional upfront cost (nearly $40k+) as an investment in our roadmap that could return utility for them sooner rather than later. We made it six months post-close before Marketing and Product decided to completely drop the current roadmap and work on something else. I had to issue more than $22k back to that account, and we got forced into RFP by the parent org, which we lost and subsequently lost all business from them, domestic and international.

So. Thank you for airing your perspective. And just know that people like me have stormed in and out of meetings, and still do, trying to stop this BS.
There’s no “one size fits all” answer to the question. Some people certainly have started from zero at age 40 and have happily retired before the legal retirement age. Whether or not it’s possible for you depends. Life situations vary enormously.

Two suggestions:

Read Rolf Dobelli’s “The art of the good life” to get a realistic idea of how the world works, and how both character and the fates have a role in how your life plays out.

Set up a spreadsheet to model earnings and expenses from age 40 to age 90 and see what the model tells you. Play with the numbers to develop a strategy that works for you and your situation.
I don't think quality clothing has ever been cheap. Fabrics like wool and silk are still not cheap and definitely can't be found at a fast fashion store.

Another key difference between fast fashion and expensive clothing is simplification of pattern-making.
Why would a person who legitimately owes a debt win just by showing up?

I had a small unsecured debt that was put into collections and then I was served an order of execution by the marshal to appear in court. I went to court and the judge made me sit down with the debt collectors lawyer and a mediator and we worked out a repayment plan at about 60% of the original balance.

I really don't understand what "win" means in this context besides avoiding a default judgment.
What are the size/optics restrictions?
The shareholders will be pleased, enterprise and beyond: https://www.marketscreener.com/ZOOM-VIDEO-COMMUNICATIONS-570...
Seems a bit early to call 'permanent.org' a critical piece, even if it succeeds all it's doing is cloud storage.
Running a Hyperledger Besu Node on the Ethereum Mainnet
What storage and transport problem? This is a region that has a lot of sun, a lot of empty land near cities, and a lot of electricity usage for air conditioning. They can install a lot of solar before they need to worry about storage and transport.
> "But as sure as you can be those people will exist, there will also be people who could have been the next Newton, the next Kierkegaard, slaving away in a warehouse somewhere, dead in the gate before the race even started."

There are surely far more efficient ways of nurturing the next Newton or Kierkegaard than by spraying economy-breaking quantities of money around blindly. That's simply being wasteful.
Still, at least this provides another option. Lesser of two evils and all that. Maybe if android was less of a mess this would be a less desirable option, but frankly I’m pretty happy there’s an alternate option regardless of whether it’s better or worse
I had this happen. First time I'd used a framework for more than a few screens. Totally new way of doing things. Learning RXJS, made a mistake in understanding one of the more strange requirements. Time blew out. But the delivery date was 3 months. Worked crazy hours, product didn't ship the entire thing was seen as a failure.

I was burnt out for a good 6 months after that. Even simple tasks took all of my will power to do. It was horrible. 3 months of the hardest work I've done and considered a failure for it.
MenderCon 2020 – a virtual conference focused on software modernization
gig workers are going to be at a big disadvantage in coming months due to increased labor competition from laid off worker, depressing gig wages and increasing competition.
Wisdom of the crowd: https://old.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/wiki

You decide whether to trust it. Considering your circumstances, the advice can be condensed to buying and continually investing into ETF and holding the assets for a couple of decades, as a few fellow HNers already said.
I’m going to go out on a limb here and say maybe privately owned capital explains why most orgs fail to do good.
It will come down to people committing to working a little harder to do things "right" in their computing.

Bad technology like this exists in part because people are using it.

We don't need legislation we need public awareness to translate into public action.
It's a startup time of the runtime. More interested in results with two "hello,world"s. How much the next one going to cost.

Also C++ with cout, -O3 is 4ms and one in *.Zig is 1ms for some reason.
I definitely fell in the latter camp. Working helpdesk there were a couple "Help my Windows 8 PC is in this weird setting and I can't get to my programs" tickets. I don't recall it being as easy as it should have been to get out either.
I'm super curious how you scale these Minecraft servers. I have a 60$ google cloud instance and it can barely handle 3 players with a few mods without lagging a few times per hour.
that's... a sweeping statement without much evidence beyond your personal experience.

do you really think that people buying Saint Laurent jeans last year are now worried about "fast optical networks, clean drinking water, and a reliable car"?
I regret getting the WQHD (2560x1440) screen on my X1 Carbon 7th gen. Text is too small to read without scaling, and I haven't figured out how to configure consistent scaling behavior across Wayland and XWayland applications.

FHD is plenty on a 14" screen.
Well yes but no. The block zoom.us but there is zoom.cn

This is likely related to both nations having rules that allow only their own agencies to wiretap.
Kraftwerk – Pop Art
In that case COVID19 will play out like the 1918 flu, it will hit in waves that only mass quarantine will help mitigate, until enough immunity is reached. Likely 18 months - 2 years.
Oddly, I think you will make Emacs appealing to users when you start asserting it is appealing to users. Few changes really needed. Just stop intimidating people before they get involved.
It started with the 2015 MacBook Pro models, the last before the USB-C models.
Let's take the Galileo case. There were a consensus of experts on Aristotelian cosmology, the best rational worldview of that day, and Galileo's model did not match observations at that point. So, his proposal was rejected. Obviously, Galileo was right to not listen to the consensus of experts in that case.

So, what makes current scientific consensus different than the Aristotelian consensus of Galileo's day? Why are dissidents wrong to question modern scientific consensus (of which climate change is only one controversial element), but right to question the medieval consensus? In both cases, the consensus meets the then current standard for rational worldview, so we can't use hindsight.
I am a very optimistic individual, and have considered this project as vapourware since day one.
All vision and posturing, and no execution over years.
Could you tell the difference at a glance from something from Neiman Marcus and a clone of that shirt sold by target? I can't.
FIRE is about reducing spending.

if you're breaking even on unemployment - say $500/wk post-tax (???), then you just have to be disciplined enough to not inflate your lifestyle wildly when you land FTE.

if you make $1000 post-tax a week with a job and no spending increases, you immediately have a savings rate of 50%, which translates into working about 17 years. so you'd retire at 57.

here's the calculator i use: https://networthify.com/calculator/earlyretirement?income=50...
At first glance I thought this was about the Mender IoT project (mender.io). Is is not.
If the whole thing is designed to be transparent from the get go you wouldn't have to worry about data leaks.
Freedom must always be balanced by responsibility. If you are free to own a weapon you must be responsible for its use/misuse. If you are free to drive a car, you are responsible for the consequences of hurting someone or damaging their property with it.

Freedom is for those who are brave enough to act in a responsible manner and deal with the consequences of their actions. It is not for criminals, the intentionally ignorant, the negligent, or the corrupt.
Well, we have only one company installing solar panels in a ~25 km radius. And they're installing around 3 installation per month, each have 8 large panels.I don't have the exact number of how many watt they generate. But they are capable of powering pumps that pulls 12 liters per second.