skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Things like property taxes and maintenance are fixed costs for property owners. Those can eat up 50% or more of the rental income. So if renters aren't paying, even property owners who don't have a mortgage have high fixed costs that they have to pay.
A similar product is https://datatables.net/
...Except, perhaps, for Satoshi Nakamoto.
> Does anyone else feel this way?

No.

Once you have spent time in a third works country you can see crisp divides in reality and expectations. There are some amazingly smart people in the world living without running water, food security, or basic sanitation. Intelligence alone will not transform that poverty into excess wealth.

Once you have worked for a major government or committed yourself to science/academics you will understand that there is amazing genius intelligence that is not earning stupendous wealth. Peter Thiel has commented before about his complete inability to understand that which says more about Peter than anything else.

Honestly, according to numerous data sources most wealth comes from only two places: inheritance and narcissism. There are company founders/athletes/entertainers who are incredibly successful that are not primarily self-serving whether by favorable market conditions or their own ingenuity but they are a minority data sample after accounting for distribution of wealth by headcount quantity.

That said, a better question is: Why are you still wealthy?
Quote:

we fully recognize that white supremacy and police brutality is a global problem.

...

It would be wrong for us to ignore the unearned privilege that exists in Node.js: much of the project leadership is white, and a majority are men. We are and have been systematically complicit in perpetuating the issues that led to where we are now.
You don't just get to ban good behavior to stop bad behavior. The presence of illegal looting does not take away constitutional rights. If it did, the government would have incentive to incite riots and looting to force the breakup of peaceful protest.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strict_scrutiny
The fact that $454 billion was set aside to eat losses does not imply that there will be $454 billion of losses, or even that there will be any losses.

The Fed is buying bonds at market prices and getting paid interest - the only way they'd lose money is if the bond market as a whole loses money / is overvalued, and specifically is overvalued by more than the interest rate.
https://www.groundedsage.dev/posts/the-clojure-mindshare/#he...
If you were hosting phishing sites then I'm glad they did this. You should have better controls.
I unplugged my toaster, but it doesn't work?
What country is that? Is everything government owned? Because how can a landlord possibly manage that? And why is the landlord the one asked to help the tenant, isn't that the job of government?
Yeah, but at that point, why not just run Vagrant?
In the early days of HN, there was a super prolific user nickb https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=nickb

I always thought it was an homage to Nicolas Bourbaki by pg and his friends who were using that account as a sock puppet. It was disputed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21825207 I guess we'll never know.
Re "core.async is macro sugar on top of java.util.concurrent" - yes, but also no. Java does not (yet) have a way to spin light-weight processes that can park without consuming a thread OR a way to select/alt over multiple parked ops, so being able to do that in Clojure is actually novel (and enabled by having macros that can rewrite code as a state machine).

There have been a few projects that did this in the past on Java using runtime bytecode modification but none of them are widely used afaik.

This will change once Project Loom lands in Java and provides m:n fibers.
There is a significant difference between being left-leaning, and being far-left.
My comments after trying it for a while:

- First off all, I like the idea! Thanks for making this! HN will often hold a hobby-project to the standards of a professional product, and will hence criticize a lot, but don't get discouraged, I enjoyed it.

- From time to time I got a repeated question, or the question was a bit lame/uninteresting. Maybe add a feature so you're able to "reroll" the question once per conversation (perhaps with agreement of the other). Personally I would like it if you could e.g. choose a category before getting matched.

- I got insta-disconnected quite often. This doesn't really bother me that much as I can try again immediately, but it could put people off when they try out the app and get skipped the first couple of times. People will judge the app on the first conversations. Do you punish frequent disconnecters? (Maybe put a limit, like max 2 disconnects per minute)

- The "no small-talk" is not very effective, some will entirely ignore the question. But I don't really think you can avoid this.

- I never got matched to a troll / something inappropriate. On the contrary: some conversations where quite wholesome (like a very friendly camel farmer with his little daughter). I hope it can stay this way.

- A majority of people I got matched to where from Saudi Arabia. This is not an issue on its own, but I found that many of these had poor English skills or a bad connection, which made conversations difficult.

- Some conversations where interesting, but some were also very lame. It's not so much the question that's important but also the personality of the person you get matched with. There are quite some people that go "idk lol how about you" after getting asked the conversation question.
However the quality of the conversations are really the maker or breaker of the experience. It can be worth wading trough the bad ones for the good ones. Good ones occur less frequent tough, but tend to be longer. Indeed, 2 minutes is very short to have a proper discussion, so you extend it if it goes well. You could try to enhance this by e.g. making each renewal of the timer a minute longer.
Docker-OS X
You missed a detail: or even casts in an otherwise static language.

Clojure does compile down to Java classes, but Java is only a partially statically typed language. It also permits run-time casting, which, in a language that even tries to be strongly typed, means run-time (to wit: dynamic) type checking. And Clojure relies heavily on that.

That's why I invoked Haskell. It's an example of a language that is truly statically typed, in that it doesn't (generally) permit any run-time type conversions. ALL type checks must be done statically.
A little bit of grep / awk goes very, very far.
I'm scared to jump in the water, I might like it.
As much as I hate rebinding WASD in every game ever (and no two games share anything like a similar remap tool; every game's settings are a unique snowflake), it does at least amuse me every time that Colemak's replacement is WARS. It seems more appropriate for games, it spells out a vaguely appropriate word and R for Reverse actually makes sense mnemonically. (Walk, Around, Reverse, Sideways ;)

Though nearly universal support of Xbox gamepads and made me more of a gamepad by default player, saving WASD remapping for rare cases.
I never said they don't have anything but if you ask someone to download an app specifically to contact you they're going to be very bothered by it. It's like how as streaming services proliferate there are only so many services people actually want to subscribe to, or how pre-unlimited calling people were very judicious about calling people not on their network.

Anecdotally, in my social group:

- Snap: withering on the vine.

- Messenger: generally declining with the declining popularity of Facebook in my age cohort

- Instagram: everyone has it, but messaging is definitely a second class part of the app and no one really uses it other than to send instagram memes

- GroupMe: I downloaded it once for one person, most of the people in the chat have iPhones anyways, and people don't really use it other than to contact the non-Apple users specifically.
There is nothing stopping you from doing exactly that, and I have.

All you do is go to the dir, do a git init, and then regularly you do an add and commit (and push).

Really simple due to the fact that all files are just plain text with markdown syntax.
What Is Encapsulation?
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I don't disagree that California is safer now than ever. However, in the heydays of gang violence in CA, CA still had restrictive gun laws. They seem uncorrelated.
What benefits does it have over mat-table?
What are the security considerations of living in Emacs? Web browsers have battle tested sandboxes, and using individual native applications for everything leverages your platform's process model.
What kills me about pipelines is when I pipe into xargs and then suddenly can't kill things properly with Ctrl+C. Often I have to jump through hoops to parse arguments into arrays and avoid xargs just for this. (This has to do with stdin being redirected. I don't recall if there's anything particular about xargs here, but that's where it usually comes up.)
Human-friendly estimate of completion time for long data transfers
Can we just ban these accounts?
Garbage article. This sentence got me:

Since BlackRock is allowed to buy up its own ETFs, this
means that taxpayers will be eating losses that might
otherwise accrue to billionaire Larry Fink’s company and
investors

What? The sentence indicates a deep misunderstanding of the subject which the author writes about. BlackRock is (mostly) a fund manager: they earn money on assets under management and not (broadly speaking) when the market goes up or down. If the ETFs BlackRock are buying go down, it simply means they are propping up the underlying holdings - the actual corporate bonds. They will then "create" ETF shares and give them to the Fed. Think of the ETF simply as an IOU.

BlackRock has also said they will be waiving the ETF fund management fee.
The Raoult paper wasn't that great, to be honest. But it did ask some questions in the discussion section which are still (partly) unanswered today.
Suspended, but interest keeps accumulating, and will eventually have to be paid? Because banks can handle a bit of that, if the bank is able to borrow from a central bank.

Or suspended and never paid?
Really? I don't understand? What do you mean?
What does monopoly have to do with market cap? Market cap is an abstract concept on how much the market values something, and doesn't have much concrete stuff to be based on. Market cap goes way up during bubbles. If companies were to be broken for profits, there are so many companies ahead of Amazon.

>Well, the last monopoly was broken in 1982, isn't odd that since then no other monopoly has ever existed?

Many monopolies have existed, like Microsoft for the most famous example. But there is no industry in which Amazon is a monopoly. Unless we were playing a witch hunt where we had to create a monopoly by thin air, I don't know what makes Amazon qualify as one.
Simplest explanation of the math behind public key cryptography
Typically, a source with a bias towards the "far left" might be inclined to agitate for Marxist revolution or anarcho-syndicalism and consider European social democrats to be right wing sellouts because they haven't shown any inclination to abolish private property or even punitively tax the rich. Do you have any evidence of this bias in their news coverage?
I should have added the website. It's https://www.colife.fit/
Germany will require all petrol stations to provide electric car charging
> So if someone has a headless OS X contraption on offer, I want to hear some more about it.

This project relies on OSX-KVM, which is a thing that already exists. The dockerization of that project (what this post is about) is a gimmick as described by GP.
Can someone explain to me what's in this for Apple? Surely the money that they get from forcing people to go the authorized way isn't that significant to their bottom line? And it's not like they risk impacting their quality reputation either since the repair shops don't advertise that they provide genuine Apple part. So why risk people's goodwill on things like this?
Hmm. There are people asked to come back to work minimum wage right now and shat upon, because they are fine riding it out with unemployment. I am just saying. No need to get indignant.

Oddly, I am kinda ok with it as a test run, but:

1. Where do you propose to get the money from?

2. How would you offset that cost ( I doubt you are proposing we keep the same amount of officers at that salary )?

And here is a thing, for a 500k I expect a stellar, pristine cop and none of that bad apple crap.

Edit: Afterthought, I am not sure you really want to get rid of video games now.
Or that the photograph of the large photograph the booth took a picture of has not been meddled with.
Just a white problem?
In China there's a TV ad for washing powder that turns a Black man into a Chinese man.
That's because many Anglo-Saxon folk tend to equate engineering to coding. Many people find it demeaning
what exactly is this displacing or incrementally doing better than?
Circuit Breaker and Retries on Kubernetes with Istio and Spring Boot
It’s an enhanced data table.

But, I guess that could be a feature to allow your data tables to fall back to some static table.
But isn't all dependent on the frame?

Amazon owns the monopoly of the ebooks for the KPF (Kindle Package Format), but it's not the monopoly of ebooks market.

Google has the monopoly of search, but doesn't have the monopoly of advertising.
That's exactly what patent US9305280B1 [0] from Amazon describes!

I personally think this could work particularly well, maybe not with blimps but with trucks doing optimized routes and deploying drones for the last mile.

[0] https://patents.google.com/patent/US9305280B1/en
You'd see a devaluing of the underlying property, so you'd be upside down on your mortgage. Property owners would stop taking care of buildings in terms of rentals, so maintenance would be a significant issue.

There are a lot of bank loans using a real estate asset as collateral - those would now be significantly riskier for the banks to hold, so new loans would probably stall and/or become more restrictive, slowing growth.

Municipal services would start to take a hit next, since a lot of the property taxes go to things like schools and waste disposal.

On the flip side, people not paying their rent would have more money in their bank accounts to cover an unforeseen medical bill. I doubt retail would increase by that much if quarantining was still in place, though.
Because they don't want devices to be repaired, they want devices to become obsolete or irreparable within 5 years so that consumers can buy a new device.
Also, stop expecting police officers to be social workers. Police officers project force, power and violence on behalf of the state. Migrate a subset of law enforcement officers to social work positions. That is assuming that crime doesn't spike in the process.
"... consenting adults that guides you towards doing the right thing by default..." really hits the nail on the head. I do a lot of Java interop at work, which is a necessary evil, but once I'm in Clojure code I'm happy to be gently pushed to be more functional, immutable, have less state, etc etc.

Also, thanks for all your great work Yogthos, Luminus is an amazing contribution to the Clojure ecosystem as well as all your other libraries!
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They probably have an army of staff attorneys who have nothing better to do.
> everything is text

Everything is a byte stream. Usually that means text but sometimes it doesn't. Which means you can do fun stuff like:

- copy file systems over a network: https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E18752_01/html/819-5461/gbchx.htm...

- stream a file into gzip

- backup or restore an SD card using `cat`
Filed away for when Amazon inevitably decides to censor the speech you like.
Improving your flaky builds with data
> why the fed is buying ETFs instead of buying corporate paper

They’re supporting lending. Not lending per se. The term of art is transmission mechanism, if you want to read on this further.

Buying through ETFs lets the Fed support loan and bond prices, which encourages lending. Put another way, a dollar lent to a corporate produced $1 of lending. A dollar spent boosting prices can support more than $1 in lending.

ETFs are simply an efficient way to do this. (Equity markets are more efficient than the corporate bond markets. ETFs offer equity-like execution for bond-like risk.)
> I wouldn't say "cultural" because that's pretty loaded.

It may be loaded, but our cultural differences need to be considered. On average Asian and Indian cultures place a stronger emphasis on grades. This plays a large role in why they have been very successful by some metrics. If certain questions are taboo, then we might overlook factors that are setting them back. That doesn't mean that external factors aren't relevant, but we need to consider everything.

We need to ask uncomfortable questions. That's not bigoted in itself. Look at the gay community. A lot of gay men engage in very risky behaviour that can lead to the spread of STIs. As an LGBT person myself, I can tell you that it is still quite common. We need to be able to ask if they are doing self harm. In fact, we have asked these questions, which has led to measurable progress (STI prevention strategies have helped significantly).
With wikis or note taking applications, I always find it hard to get into a habit of using them. I think this is largely because too much brain space is taken up with:

1. When should I write something here?
2. How should I organize it?

For this reason, I'm currently trying out more of a "journal" model. The answers to the previous two questions are:

1. Write whenever you have an interesting idea, or you get that
feeling that something important is about to get evicted from
your brain cache.
2. Every note goes in YYYY-MM-DD.md on the day you make the note.
You can add #tags to entries to track your thinking or progress
on a particular topic over time.

I've just started this, so we'll see how it turns out. But I'm optimistic.
It's controlled by private people which happen to strongly act in favor of the president. So no. But if you have the same kind of construct in e.g. Russia posting ads for US citizens it surely would count as state controlled....
> Virgin Websafe has blocked this site

God Bless David Cameron
From what I hear, this isn't only about repairing iPhones. In a previous court proceedings the man was ordered to remove the logos from Apple because he imported the parts from China to refurbish iPhones. These were not genuine parts and they were being sold as refurbished iPhones.

This court case bas brought on by Apple because he did not properly remove the Apple logos. He used a permanent marker to "remove" them from the parts. Apple did not agree that this was a proper way to do it.

As much as I am for the rights to repair. I would say that Apple has some grounds here.
I think 2020 will go down as the year, that housing prices drop in big cities. Between the pandemic and the social unrest and property destruction, the suburbs are looking more and more appealing, especially if you have children.
There were also glaring issues with the statistics, as outlined in Andrew Gelman's blog[1].

[1] https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/05/25/this-contr... (one of the many posts there)
OK. But you didn't ask him to describe his Clojure experience, you just asked whether he was speaking from Clojure experience -- and he said that yes, he was. Asked and answered?
> Renters stop paying their rent so landlords go broke. Landlords stop paying their mortgages

But I said in my question: "if we suspended mortgage repayments for N months and rental payments for N months"

Landlords are not paying their main cost (the mortgage) so why do landlords go broke? They have some fixed overheads but those are usually a few % of the mortgage.
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obviously straight lines on (some) projections are very wonky on a sphere (or geoid), as would be shapes built on those lines. That was not really the question though, the question was that if you have shapes defined by points connected with shortest great circle paths then when (and how) would that fail?

Sibling comment already raised the good point that great circles do not work that well on spheroids and other more complex models of Earth, but I got the impression that it was not what apendleton was referring to
--help is a great one. When you want to search the help output you can either feed it into grep or not... depending on whether the program writes to stdout or stderr. You can force writing to stdout via adding 2>&1 at the end of your command. (It's possible that's what you're running into.)
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> Surely the money that they get from forcing people to go the authorized way isn't that significant to their bottom line?

In the car business, a large part of the profit that a manufacturer makes is actually made after the car is sold, in the form of replacement parts. Basically, by buying a car you enter into a relationship with the manufacturer to buy replacement parts for your car. Some are being manufactured independently, but many aren't available. I guess it's similar in the case of phones.
You created two new accounts back to back just to comment this - why?
I actually think most of what's going on right now is an outrage and am strongly against the black lives matter movement. Note, I am not a racist person I just have not seen evidence within several orders of magnitude to warrant this wreckless behavior.

node.js has about as much business making political statements like these as it does trying to make npm the defacto package manager for client-side JavaScript.
Same in Norway. It has been like this for a number of years already.

Somewhat funny story: I and my wife renewed our passports this year and we both look a lot nicer:

10 years ago the requirement that we should not smile was enforced so strict and hamfistedly that I looked like a mugshot somewhat like the doom guy and my beautiful wife looked old and sad. I remember it taking a while before they thought I looked angry enough 10 years ago.

This year they only required that we didn't actually smile so the process was a lot quicker, police will probably not harass me on border crossings and my wife doesn't look like she is 20 years older ;-)
This explains why I get stuck when trying to build something on my own. I don't abstractly work through the reasoning as you said.
There are a lot of parameters.

Assuming the models are good, the inputs makes all the difference and the input numbers have been largely off at least till recently.

I would be interested to see how the values change with a specific parameter movement.

It would be also good to see a montecarlo simulation after defining a realistic distribution of the parameters to find how the numbers of infected and death change.

I toyed with a simple (probably semplistic model) early on, I was finding that because of the exponential nature of the relations, small changes were producing huge changes in the output. That was telling me that unless we could get more realistic data we could go from having a number of death smaller than the actual number given for the flu to numbers more than 1-2 orders of magnitude larger...
Just to add to your first point, it's much harder to 'game' these pre-existing indices and ETFs than it would be to game some novel and arbitrary selection criteria. These ETFs have been 'vetted' by the market over the course of many years.
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