skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What is my net worth? Is my current lifestyle sustainable?

YNAB's method is excellent for this. TLDR: you record your expenses for some time, and then you begin planning them ahead for each month semi-automatically, putting in money for costly purchases in advance and leaving some for when shit happens.

I've been kinda looking for an OSS/self-hosted implementation of the method, but none seem inviting so far.

(G2A seems to have a Steam key for the old version of YNAB, under ‘You Need A Budget’—which version could sync via Dropbox, without its own cloud service. But the key costs quite a bit more than what I've paid for the app back then.)

> Which parts of my city have I yet to explore?

I'm using desktop QGIS to mark my trips, while OsmAnd on the phone shows the exported GPX on the go (among other pleasant features). In theory I can use OsmAnd itself to record the trips with GPS, or any of the other dozen apps for that, but personally I don't believe that Google won't suck the location up regardless of my settings.
Automation will not eat everything in time, but from my work on unmanned shipping, I'm pretty sure that autonomy + automation will.

Automation - handles deterministic situations.

Autonomy - handles uncertain situations.

In my industry (ship design, construction and operation), based on what I'm seeing and have seen evolve over the past 20 years, it feels likely that this paradigm shift to a majority of ships being autonomous will probably happen in the next 50 years. This is my gut feel, not a scientific conclusion, so take that for what it's worth. I also don't see why other industries will be any different. For my money, reinforcement learning (in some form) appears to be the key enabler.
Chip fabs and cleanrooms are designed to protect the wafers from contamination by workers, not the converse. For instance, look up the repeated deaths and cover-ups in Samsung's plants in ROK.
Writing CUDA Kernels in Rust for GPGPU
the core of the article was that sweden's approach is damaging to the swedish culture. i guess it's not possible to say if that's true, short of sweden becoming hungary or zimbabwe
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The sneak.berlin instance is a small or single-user instance operated by a software author who writes hostile instance-scraping bots. On the web page for that software, in the ironically named "ethics statement", he writes:

“Publishing your toots/messages on a server without marking them private or requiring authentication and thus making them available to the web is an act of affirmative consent to allowing others to download those toots/messages (usually by viewing them in a browser on your profile page). If you don’t want your toots downloaded by remote/unauthenticated users on the web, do not publish them to the web.

If you publish them to the whole web (and your home instance serves them to all comers), do not be surprised or feel violated when people download (and optionally save) them, as your home instance permits them to.“

This is an interesting take on online privacy, to be sure: "because you have not physically restricted me from harvesting your information, you are affirmatively consenting to it". This is much the same argument as "you shouldn't have let me hit you" and carries about the same moral weight with me.

By choosing not to talk to this instance, I hope we make clear that the Free Radical community does not wish to interact with the author or his software.
Thank you for your kind words. The rest of the team is on this thread and it means a lot to all of us.
I never said that any number of deaths was acceptable. Try again.
> Inside your body, you aren’t mostly empty space. You’re mostly a series of electron clouds, all bound together by the quantum rules that govern the entire Universe.

So we are mostly electron clouds... and clouds by definition are mostly empty space.
It's a great DIY channel, I really like his no thrills and friendly style of presenting. And he has come up with some brilliant upcycling ideas.
I was interested about the source, and apparently you can check these numbers here[1]. I don't say that this solves the problems for me, but an interesting statistic nonetheless. Seems like another example of American politics being very different.

[1] https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/historical-absentee/
Excited for this to come to gcc-arm-eabi-none
Learn your environment and learn it well (over time). Every single thing that seems like weird arcane magic invented by brilliant wizards is just code or words, and often not a lot of it. Go find that code and read it. Docs are good, but they are almost never complete enough, because truly exhaustive docs would simply be the code [1].

Similarly, with something like CSS or OAuth that have specs, blog/tutorial content often leaves out important details that will be relevant to you. If you get stuck, quit wasting your time with them, and go read the damn spec! If you're still stuck after that, go read the implementation.

Wherever you work, there is probably a page with like hundreds of ugly graphs of it. Learn what the graphs mean.

When you do this, a day will come where someone will say "Kanye, I've been banging my head all day on why users are sometimes seeing outdated results after updating their page". A little thing will happen in your head, and you'll say "That sounds like replication lag/a weird quirk of the CSS spec/a bug I noticed in the graphics code", and suddenly you'll discovered that you are the wizard.

I'm not saying to do this instead of doing those other things, or instead of whatever you're supposed to be doing. I'm saying do it as part of your practice of making software. You're probably gonna do it for like 40 years, so might as well make the investment.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map%E2%80%93territory_relation (Second time referencing this on HN today)
will you move to the outskirts or somewhere else entirely?

I am trying to decide where I want to be if I have a choice. Currently I am in Seattle, dont like the city much. No offense to the city, its just not for me as I like 75+ degree days. I thought about trying California, but I'd loose so much of my income to rent and taxes. Still trying to decide
I’ve been plying around with lit-element lately and am finding it a much simpler experience overall. Likely a lot faster as well https://youtu.be/uCHZJy2n8Qs
Asking the server for new HTML means you can't show changes until you've done a roundtrip with the server. That means no optimistic rendering or immediate feedback for local changes, such as a comment being made or an option being set in a modal that opens up related settings, etc. I think it's extremely useful to have a system that allows the client to respond to changes locally on its own as the default case rather than treating local interactions like a strange one-off exception.

React only re-renders the components that have their own props or state change. There seems to be a popular misunderstanding that React that makes you re-render the whole page in response to changes, but that's not how it works.
Wow, so cool! How does this compare to something like Google Chrome Lighthouse? I think there's a webapp: https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/

Is there any place we can sign up for updates on when the AWS migration is up and running?
> I finished most of the Infocom games available without using clues - it can be done.

IIRC, both Witness and Bureaucracy had physical stuff in the box that didn't look like copy protection, but without which it wasn't possible to finish the game - e.g. There was no way to figure out some things in Bureaucracy unless you read the included copy of "Popular Paranoia".
This article does an excellent job at debunking a poorly made conspiracy theory video. Getting the truth out there is important. Despite this, I did find one or two instance of needless spinning of the truth in this article.

1) I'll admit that it's a silly theory that anyone would create a pandemic to ruin the world economy just to market a vaccine. However, saying it's silly idea because once everyone's had the virus they'll be forever immune to it and therefore won't need a vaccine is equally silly. Science suggests that your antibodies might protect you for roughly two years. So, you'd still pay for a vaccine.

2) A good yardstick for evaluating the accuracy of any COVID-19 article is how they describe hydroxychloroquine. Saying that there are 169 trials of it going on right now, and that it's being prescribed off-label so much that it's getting hard to come by, and then saying there's "no solid evidence, only hope" may be technically accurate, but it's more spin than I can tolerate. Rather than linking to an article from March back when no real studies on it had been completed, it would probably have been better to have the link text be "Doctors are seeing promising hydroxychloroquine results when combined with azithromycin (or tocilizumab)" and to have that link go to the URL below:

https://www.the-hospitalist.org/hospitalist/article/221558/c...

At this moment in time throughout the world there are some hospitals that provide very promising medicine for COVID-19. However, other hospitals are simply allowing patients to suffer without prescribing any medicine. I can't understand why so much of the media is basically suggesting that those Yale doctors are wasting their time by prescribing hydroxychloroquine. Those front-line Yale doctors just might have more medical expertise than the mainstream media.
Imagine living in Manhattan right now. (1) All the culture and lifestyle you're paying a high premium for is unavailable, and (2) the apartment you're trapped in is tiny. (Compared to what you'd have elsewhere for that money.)

So I agree, relocation makes sense for some people.
Roam Research is awesome. The lack of pretension around structure and hierarchy of your data is so refreshing. I have used Notion extensively and still think Notion is superior as a place to house canonical unstructured data for groups. But for individuals, RR is A+. Coming from nvALT + Drafts which I still use on mobile and then copy into Roam later.
I collect sites like these! Here's my list of Every Web Performance Test Tool: https://www.swyx.io/writing/webperf-tests/ (will be updating with FastorSlow)
I agree - as far as spiritual movements go, this is one of the least cult-ish I've ever seen.

Even the stuff they say - I can at least sit down and consider it without freaking out instantly.

In some ways they resemble the very modern panpsychist school of thought (Giulio Tononi, Sam Harris). Consciousness is a basic ingredient of matter. Both matter and consciousness are real. Evolution is real. There is no biblical god. Cosmology - they defer to science when it comes to that, but having consciousness as a major ingredient does shift the perspective a bit (everything becomes "evolutionary" in a sense).

The way they think of the future reminds you of the Singularity theories. If Ray Kurzweil and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin wrote a book together, it wouldn't be far from this.

The one thing that's a bit far out is the claim that consciousness could, in theory, interact with matter directly, not just through regular mechanisms (brain, nerves, muscles, etc). They do insist it's super-hard to do in practice. They do shun the miraculous stuff, they insist that the change of consciousness is all that really matters here and now in a spiritual endeavor. In this regard they're not very far from, say, your run of the mill buddhist school of meditation.

As long as Aurobindo and Mirra were alive, they kept the place as non-cult-ish as humanly possible. I would say they even had a remarkable amount of skepticism, aside from the claims mentioned above. I'd like to visit Auroville one day, to see how things have changed in the decades since Mirra's passing.

Hard to explain. I've seen plenty of crazy places (adventurous youth + interest for spirituality, yadda-yadda), but the stuff that Aurobindo + Mirra started strikes me as remarkably... rational, I guess?

Read and draw your own conclusions.
Senior homes And retirement respite centers are a ripe target for doing proxy voting in a fraudulent manner.
It is quite sad to see how Americans think that they are controlling the narrative but have instead become puppets of Russian disinformation campaigns fueled by their own useful idiots.

It is quite pathetic that the increase in the infection rate stopped on 4th March but has stayed constant for a month instead of decreasing.
why germany? there seems to be plenty of states doing better than germany. it seems germany gets points just for having a long serving trusted leader at the helm
It is unlikely that any such lawsuits will happen.
I worked on FB site performance a decade ago and I assure you it was abysmally slow.
Future of the Workplace?
I wish we'd thought of that! Once we're in AWS we'll be posting research because we've created an internal tool to do large scale performance surveys e.g. comparing hosting providers or performance of sites using certain libs etc. So I'll put that on the blog and HN might pick it up.

FastOrSlow is built using Lighthouse. :) We do actual browser simulations using headless Chrome and lighthouse to get the performance data. We do it programmatically from all the locations, bring the data back and build the report.
So the same volunteers who aren't able to compare 2 signatures are also your impenetrable line of defense looking at the tiny picture and tiny writing on a photo ID and verifying the ID is valid and it is the same person.
> If you're wrong many more people die.

Can we stop the subtle browbeating please? People are going to die either way that normally would not have died.
If the banks and mortgage lenders wanted to look like great people (ha!), they could easily push payments during the months of COVID lock downs to the end of the note. If they want to look like f*king heroes, they could even make those months go interest free. The payments aren't being forgiven and wiped out, they are readjusting the amortization tables. The same could be applied to car note. Credit card companies could give you a couple of months of no interest on existing balances. Of course, none of the groups mentioned have ever been accused of being decent.

Landlords/renters are different, and I don't have a decent suggestion for that.
Exactly, which is why it's so amazing that finally people don't have the option of merely protesting and attacking others over such observations. They're being forced to deal with the reality of their children, themselves.
Autocoder (macro assembler) was the main 1401 language.
i always read frontend/backend as an analogy to how e.g. a store has a front (for customers) and back (not for customers), or like how a stage has a back-stage.

so the metaphor, and "semantic connection" would be that "back" means "the bits you don't see and don't directly interact with"
First of all "capitalism" has nothing to do with this. Even a perfectly centrally planned socialist economy might come to the same conclusion. People need goods and services. Capitalism is one way to deliver them.

Second of all, I'm not really sure where you got "5,250,000+ deaths per year", because current projections with reopening of the economy is about 161,000 by Aug 4[1], and that's about 5 months since the outbreak, so let's call that 386,400 annualized. Let's say we get a vaccine in 2 years, for a total of about 772,800 deaths. That represents 0.2% of US population.

I want to make it clear that I, personally, do not think that it is acceptable for 0.2% of the US population to die, but I want to try and convey to you that it is entirely within the realm of possibility for REASONABLE people to conclude that 0.2% over a one-time 2-year interval is "okay", if they already think that 0.01% of Americans dying per year is already acceptable — because at that rate you reach the same 0.2% figure over 20 years, and it continues to grow unbounded.

> And, what if I believe even one death for the sake of economic activity is too many? What of your argument, then?

It's totally fair for you to have that opinion! But the vast majority of people do not believe that, and you absolutely cannot argue that people lack the moral right to believe that 1 death for the sake of the economy is acceptable.

[1] https://www.marketwatch.com/story/will-some-people-be-affect...
After speaking with a few doctors who worked setting up these hospitals, it was almost like a parade or a show rather than anything serious. The doctors who worked there were ready to take on the patients, but the decisions came from the top not to allow it to happen...
Do you use SQLite or Rails professionally?
I made a Patreon page to contribute towards a SQLite maintenance subscription as a show of good-will towards the developers.

https://www.patreon.com/asfarley?fan_landing=true
Thats just plan incorrect. JetBrains lets you do the following, out of the box:

- Edit Code
- Debug Said Code
- Run Said Code
- Manage your repo via Git, SVN, or Perforce
- Has GitHub integration built in
- Has PlantUML integration for creating UML diagrams via their markdown editor (its pretty nifty and I believe now bundled by default)
- Connect multiple SSH sessions
- Connect multiple SFTP sessions (semantics right)

and so on and son on..I can even do remote editing as if its there, righ tin front of me. you can't even tell if the filesystem is remote because of how it populates in the IDE.

So please, what doe sit not actually do again?

and via plugins, (and a plugin ecosystem that tends to be well manicured/maintained, at that), you can add an LSP or many other languages that are supported. I've tried many many editors, and JetBrain IDE plugins are some of the highest quality i've ever worked with.

So please, tell me, what do they not do again?
I would like to point out that you are posting this very comment on a centralized, hosted, unencrypted system.

But in all seriousness, the DEF CON Forums are generally full of helpful knowledgeable people who can help guide you in creating a non-attrib Discord account if you are having problems.
+1.

yasnippets is the best for emacs.
What makes the natural log “natural”? [video]
It's by design. Reddit doesn't want you using the website. They want you to download the app. As numerous annoying popups and notifications will tell you when visiting the website (especially on mobile).
March 4th? Do you mean April 4th?
I don't use a wiki but instead use Bear (https://bear.app) which gives cross-referential tags and a slick sorted tree of tags. I tag every article ('note') with a set of tags at the top.

#d/2020/05/08 #fam/sis #fam/gifts — notes around a conversation I had with my sister today about potential gifts .

#d/2020/05/05 #recipes/dinner #recipes/c/italian — notes a ravioli recipe I made on 5/5. If I later make it for a group dinner, I'll tag it, too, so I can track when I made things for who and collect longitudinal feedback and recipe changes.

#todo/today is things that need to get done today; things that don't will get moved to other notes.
I think the implementation used in Chrome is different from the ones used in Budou. The implementation in Chrome is dictionary based as one of the parent threads mentioned, and that is completely open-source albeit probably doesn't produce as good a result as their homegrown NLP stuff.
They can scan the ID like they do at grocery stores, bars, gun stores and more.

Pretty darn close to impossible to fake that.
> When you mail in your ballot you sign it, and the signature is checked to verify it is yours. If you vote for your friend or neighbor, then you need to steal their ballot and forge their signature.

Is this done manually or automated? This is the first time I've heard about it and the mechanics - and scale - are interesting.

In addition, how is the database of signatures secured? Who has access to it now? What other things is a signature and basic information (address, phone, dob) sufficient for?
You are right, the individual propensity to go to the office is going to be highly sensitive to the number of people already going to the office. I believe this to have a steep s-curve shape; with little number of people at the office there is little incentive to show up. But after a critical threshold of office-goers, it will very rapidly be a career/productivity disadvantage to opt not showing up. Only thing that can change this curve is active office occupancy ceilings enforced by the company. Which kinda sucks, my employer might be good at writing web services, but how much do I trust them doing good epidemiology?
I wouldn't be too worried about Tesla if I was Uber. Even if they get the hardware first without competition it would be a massive undertaking to build out a competitive transport business. The capital costs to create a fleet to have similar hailing times to Uber would be absolutely massive - now you have to buy the car instead of just recruiting a driver - plus they'd have to catch up on the logistics to try to pay for a tens-of-thousands-of-dollars car 5-to-20 bucks at a time.

Waymo is more interesting since things like Google Maps routing and Waze being under the same roof give them a ton of logistics expertise to potentially tap, Alphabet also has a shitton of capital if they wanted to expend it, and they could look at it as a long play where they aren't just getting the cost of the ride back, but they're also collecting all the data. (However, it's not clear to me that this is much more data than Google already HAS just from phone location history.
"Voter fraud" is a red herring. Election fraud is a real threat and should concern us all. Election security is national security.

This is sadly a partisan issue, and it begs the question: why is that so?
many countries have succeeded by testing and quarantining contacts of known infections. why do you say an empirically effective response is off the table due to some supposition?
Thanks siblings, for letting me know about FB’s use of code splitting and how it helps caching.
Do the risky stuff first. Then rough out the whole thing, then refine it. Just like a sculptor.
This seems to be heavily influenced by Max? Sort of like a slimmed down esoteric text version of Max with a few extra quirks.
Not by me. I'm D-deficient, had gastric sleeve surgery, surprisingly it's the only deficiency I have regularly. I often forget my D... but been taking it religiously and asked my doctor if it's okay to add an extra 5000 iu per week, and he said it was fine and a good idea because of how low I normally run.

I've got a new formulation coming soon though that has vitamin k mixed in w/ 5000 ius, and a separate calcium/magnesium pill to make sure my bones stay strong. Will get re-tested next month and see if I beat the deficiency. I'm sure there's plenty of things but seemed like taking D probably is biggest (other than distancing) due to my already extremely low normal levels.
Spaces have been tried in Japanese. If you look at pure-kana (hiragana/katakana) texts aimed at grade schoolers and foreign language learners, there are spaces because without them there would be too much parsing ambiguity. Text with full kanji for adults do not use spaces, and this does not hurt comprehension at all.
It is a metaphor in the literal meaning of the word metaphor (i.e. it's a word that "carries many" meanings).

To me, prose is a metaphor if it deliberately plays with the double-meaning, or uses it as an analogy to explain an example.

"I killed the process" isn't a metaphor to me.

"I killed the process, but its life wasn't too exciting anyway, it was just a spin-lock" would be a metaphor.

"The server's dropping packets": no metaphor.

"The server's dropping packets, and it's made a mess all over the client's carpeting.": metaphor, kinda pushing the utility, though.

If you go with the single-word definition, and care at all for etymology, almost everything is a metaphor. It's kind of fun to go on those adventures. Most of the words we use to describe cognition are metaphors for physical activities. "Understand", "Comprehend", "Grasp".