skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not so amazed on this end. A landlord that demands a lot from a prospective tenant upfront without any indication that it's going to be reciprocated in terms of responsiveness to maintenance issues, understanding when crises (like pandemics) come up, etc., is a red flag. It means you're going to be seen less as a customer who's paying for a service and more as a simple monthly source of cash. Those are the types of landlords that will shamelessly pull all kinds of tricks: jack up your rent annually, remodel nearby units when they want you to move out, and otherwise do whatever they can while skirting the law (if that) to get as much of your paycheck as possible. If your credit is screwed up, they'll make it worse. If you're in a bad way, they'll introduce even more instability into your life. It's generally not worth it.

Rent-seeking sucks. People just want a place to live.
No amount of power removal and accountability will change the "nails" perception if the only job they have is hammering.

> The primary role of police in society is to simply be the wide end of the funnel for the incarceration pipeline.

Only if your idea of a perfect society is one where everybody is incarcerated. I'd rather have one where as few people as possible need to be incarcerated to keep order.
Well, there's a conversation about what "free speech" means that's very different from the conversation about what the First Amendment is. When the Constitution was ratified, they were somewhat synonymous, in that there was a public square that everyone walked past and you could stand there and you certainly could spout your "Jewish Question" logorrhea without government suppression.

Now, the "commons" is controlled largely by private corporations, so while the government couldn't legally say "You cannot utter this speech in Times Square, go utter it in an abandoned piece of farmland in Kansas," private companies can boot you from their platform until you're basically required to set up the entire infrastructure of an ISP to have any access to the Internet, and zero access to the public conversation.
You didn't, but your phrasing certainly implied it. "The government is the tool used to suppress competition" is a very stark statement. Next time, say "a" or "one of the" tools.
I enjoyed your thoughtful post. Teams and companies are made up individuals. Individual actions matter, and I do think if more people tried: listening with a mindset of learning instead of arguing, trying to make sure that people can finish a sentence, and generally keeping a positive, fair, respectful atmosphere, that would do a lot more than the emotionally distant approaches.
None of those are mysteries and have been demonstrated years and years ago... So posting clickbait...

Any engineer that allows any of the code like this in their codebase has only themselves to blame.
Your not understanding is a direct consequence of the decade+ of discussion around the stock market as if it's "the economy". Of course conflating the two will cause confusion when they eventually diverge.
That thread shows a decent back-and-forth discussion about the merits of the patch compared to the clickbait title of the article here.

The dude is prickly but so many software people of the same era were(are?) like that.
Anecdata and all, but I'd gladly pay $200/month plus $1000 in setup costs to replace my current Hugesnet service with DSL speeds.
It's really incredible what the consumer RTL-SDR can do for the price. I watched this user's video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjClTnZ4Xh4&vl=en) and went down the rabbithole. Made my own dipole for an art exhibit: https://l-o-o-s-e-d.net/signs-of-life
That they don't offer peering for free but charge for it. The idea of peering is that both sides gain from it as they reduce the traffic routed through middlemen like level3. So you both go to internet exchanges like DE-CIX, and pay a basic fee that you may participate in the exchange but you get all the connectivity to other ISPs from that exchange. But some ISPs don't do that and require you to peer in one of their own datacenters, requiring you to pay them money. You are now their customer instead of a partner. A big German partially government owned ISP did this for a while until they finally gave up a few years ago.
My idea was that somebody might make trades ahead of time with insider knowledge, so mirroring those still might get you in on it. I don’t know how delayed the data is, but knowing how slowly politics move it could work.
How exactly did you find the car?
I came here to say exactly this!
As a designer/developer, I'm psyched to drop dependencies. If I see that FB login is just 10% of sign-ins, I'll likely drop it. If I see it is just 20% of sign-ins, I might drop it.

I can imagine a lot of apps shifting to just two login options: direct with email, and Sign in with Apple. (All new products I work on already doing this.)
If these views are so wrong, shouldn't it be evident to people? That some mush head labeled something "extreme" shouldn't be enough to ban it. What you are really saying is that you think you would be the best censor.
A lot of answers here. But no clear question. The advice in the comments from the physicist is spot on.
If one's not careful, they may end up using so many of these services that the idea of switching to a better cloud provider is academic.

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And yet you didn't manage to find a single one to point out and inform me of where I'm misguided, only a condescending response. Address any one of my claims about asset prices and the fed's actions distorting price discovery, please. I'd rather be wrong and realize that I'll be just fine not panic buying assets while free money is distributed and stocks rip to infinity, ignoring any and all fundamentals.

Tell me how I'm wrong about housing prices in the last ten years doubling and tripling in some areas. Tell me again how my USD are just fine and buying the same amount of goods and services they did 10 years ago, because I contend their buying power has been effectively halved by the moral hazard presented by the fed and Congress not allowing failures to happen. They're doing the exact same thing right now. How will this end? Deflation? I used to think so but not anymore. JPow even said himself that he has unlimited power to print money. They'll sooner destroy the currency than allow a deflationary depression to take hold.

Again, please, educate me as to what my "many issues" are with any of what I've said.
No, I claimed that I allowed my tenant to not pay their portion, at a cost to me in several ways. Please re-read my posts.
I have one way worse. My Dad rented a couple houses for extra income when I was a kid. One tenant was evicted for reasons I cant remember. To get revenge they spread bird seed or grass seed all over the living room carpet and then turned the sink on and stopped the drain. When my dad came into the house later the seeds has sprouted and were growing out of the wet carpet.
The analysis in this post is all over the place with no guardrails. The advice from the physicist in the comments is spot on.
So people you know are thinking wrong, which shouldn't be allowed? You know this line of reasoning has a long and storied history.
#nottheonion
As I understand, it is part of the original Juvenal quotation, but its omission does not substantially change the meaning of the sentnce.

Compare

> Who will guard the guards themselves?

with

> Who will guard the guards?
As usual, people approach a statement with their own biases. The issue is not between political affiliations which the statement made no mention of. It is between the government official we have elected versus everyone else. The officer holder shouldn’t have more rights than anyone else. If they want to make a statement, do it through the office.

Another bias of yours is assuming that I was for censorship. I argued only that the same standard be applied. That can mean no censorship too.
It’s useful for any thefts from their store so they had it in place already. It’s not the first time they’ve dealt with smash and grabs.
There are many definitions on the limit . Depends on how you see it, one definition not commonly mentioned is the size of the hill sphere [1] . Depending on the direction you look at the size of hill sphere changes .

- [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill_sphere
I think the point was that removing war weapons from police damages their ability to forcefully oppose organized gangs running child prostitution rings.
Any app that supports login using external provider like Facebook, Google etc. must support Apple sign-in.
I isolated two.

One is that overall inflation does not make price discovery problematic, because price discovery is a mechanism based on the relative pricing between things.

Two is that inflation is projected to dip below historical levels, so claims of a great inflationary spike that should be met by riots are not at all backed by empirical evidence.

You're not really engaging in good faith, so I'm not going to continue this chain.
I am going to guess the poster was playing with "date" command or "settimeofday" function and accidentally set the system clock to 1910 ? And then they proceeded to check all sorts of unrelated things instead of trying to root-cause the real problem.

I guess this was the life before Stack Overflow -- if you have a beginner's question, you don't really have a nice place to ask it... and "serious" mailing lists might simply ignore you instead of explaining the obvious.
I’ve heard the argument that it’s because we’re subsidizing the costs for third world countries. Somehow.
> This is why Canada detained Huawei's CFO Meng Wanzhou.

That isn't why. Canada detained her on US orders because we are engaged in a trade war with china. No trade war, no arrest.

Huawei's dealings with iran are so insignificant ( in the millions ) that nobody would waste their time on this arrest were it not for the trade war. The europeans have far greater "violations" in their dealings with iran as do japan and south korea.

They all pay a fine or offer geopolitical favors. Nobody got arrested... until now.

https://www.dw.com/en/credit-suisse-hit-with-record-us-fine-...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hsbc-probe/hsbc-to-pay-1-...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ibk-new-york-idUSKBN2221Z...

Hell even a canadian company broke sanctions. Nobody arrested, just a small fine.

https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/OFAC-Enfo...

She is getting "special" treatment because of the trade war.
Most likely. Given that Apple has 'Find My iPhone' and now 'Find My' on all of its products it looks like they have it turned on by default once looted from a store and it phones home directly to both Apple and the Apple Store.

Another point would be that devices that are looted / marked as stolen should phone itself home to Apple in the background rather than telling the thief, so that it would be harder for the thief to realise that they're being tracked.
I tend to agree with you in whole, with caveat that past contributions don't speak to current value, necessarily. I'm always reminded of the ruthless statement, "God cares not what you have done, but what you are doing". I say it tongue-in-cheek, but there's wisdom to it.

Also, can we all stop describing any view or information as "dangerous"? It sounds like my mom, or religious people from the 80's.

False is one judgement and objectively proven.

"Dangerous" smacks of a censorious nature, which is subjective and, sorry, often based on a conflict of interest/agenda.

Encourage everyone to read Matt Taibbi's recent article about the recent rise of "virtuous" censorship as food for thought: https://taibbi.substack.com/p/temporary-coronavirus-censorsh...
Updates may cease but the machines still work and can easily be put into developer mode to receive another OS.

This Echo thing depends on some cloud service to even function. And I doubt Amazon built hackability into 'em. Once they pull the plug on the cloud service, the device becomes junk.
You can get a split keyboard (eg Kinesis Freestyle 2) and put a notepad in between.
I assumed this was going to be in response to Facebook's refusal to do anything about Trump, but I have no idea if that's the case or not from this...
Wall Street Firm Will Pay Junior Bankers Not to Work
FB has been doing audits of their sign in with FB apps. Maybe FB dropped them over privacy reasons?
They should actually regress senator returns against Ken French's research factors [1] and measure the statistical/economic significance of the intercept and the volatility of the residuals.

If I return 2% per year, but do so at 1% volatility and zero market exposure, then I can be a highly successful hedge fund after applying 10x leverage.

[1] https://mba.tuck.dartmouth.edu/pages/faculty/ken.french/data...
The thumb seems on the scale a bit with referring to "proudly peaceable Canada" - like everything in 1969 in Montreal was the picture and peace, and then out of nowhere a police strike caused mayhem.

The Wikipedia page for a sibling comment points out that Montreal already had problems: bank robberies, riots and terrorist bombings.

So if it's a 'natural experiment' it's one against a background of high levels of disorder to begin with.

I think it's also somewhat of a caricature to imagine that a total police strike is somehow indicative of what a radical reduction on police activity would look like. Most people calling for "de-policing" would draw the line at "let's not send police after bank robberies, assaults, riots, home invasions, etc".
You're arguing that the US government should be able to force companies to publish content that it doesnt want on it's site.

> Ah yeah, the elections.

I'm not american, so i have no horse in the elections, apart from wanting twitter to continue to exist.

Twitter is a private company, it should be able to moderate its platform as it sees fit. If it see's content that it feels is dangerous, they should be completely within their right to remove it from their site. Preventing them from being able to do that is the government restricting twitters speech.

If you don't like how twitter moderates it's platform, you should have alternatives to go to that moderate differently. That's basically the whole premise of subreddits and, well, a "free and open market", rather than the government forcing companies to publish content it doesnt want on it's site.
The rampant gratuitous flagging on HN has gotten out of control, this thread is exhibit A. Stop flagging stuff. If it has the slightest tinge of humor or sarcasm it gets flagged. Put the flag down. It's OK to be a little funny sometimes. Just stop.
The largest system in the human brain is the one responsible for vision. There's a scary amount of computational power involved in a human completing simple-seeming visual tasks, and that's not always easy to reproduce with computer models.
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Germany has pretty good history and context on what happens if you follow this to the end.
I'm talking specifically about PSAVERT[1]. This is nothing to do with my personal experience or identity.

PSAVERT went from a very steady baseline in the ~6-7% range for the last five years to 33% in eight weeks between February and April.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PSAVERT
can you regress the senator returns against the market returns to strip out the market
I don't think you're presenting your anecdote in good faith. Either that or you're just completely unaware of the context.

"Montreal was once known as the bank robbery capital of North America."

https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/history-through-...

NYPD went on strike in 2014, if anyone wants to research that themselves... RIP Eric Garner
Boring question - could you spell out the point you were trying to make? I'm interested to hear it but it's currently kind of vague.
This is relevant to my interests. Thanks!
For those curious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray-Hill_riot
Branches of HSBC inside of the US definitely operate under US law. It is illegal to defraud banks in the US. It is also illegal to defraud banks in Canada.
Ask HN: Which companies do you want to work at?
Hi,

This is something I have been generally excited by. What kind of companies do people find fascinating and really want to work for?

For me, I have 4 companies in mind

- Stripe because I am fascinated by it
- Pioneer[pioneer.app] because they are building a search engine for Lost Einsteins
- Substack because they will create more solopreneurs than ever
- Figma because they are going to be the GitHub of Design. I was a kid when they started and took over the world. Figma is the next thing.

Which companies do you work at & why?
Ask HN: How replaceable are developers on a MERN stack?
Hi,

I’m a product manager learning the craft. Coming from UI/UX design background.

I’m currently building a couple of products with developers who’ve chosen the MERN stack. My question is about “replaceability” — how tied am I to a front end developer on the MERN stack and how tied am I to a back end developer on this stack?

Which one am I closer tied to?

When I say replacing someone, I’m wary of the cost of switching the developer who made the app/wrote the code with a new one:
1. the time cost of finding them
2. time cost of them going through the previous developer’s code to understand what’s going on there
3. Money cost etc

As far as I understood (correct me if I’m wrong please), the point of using the React framework is that it’s all “modular” and that the cost of switching developers is lower. Would appreciate someone shedding some light on me!
> I wonder how many hops it will actually remove.

Hopefully a lot! Fun fact, IPv4 and IPv6 have a maximum network size. Because of the TTL field in v4 (renamed max hops in v6), a path through an IP network can never be more than 255 hops long.
This is true. I have known people who were more happy to have a house empty for months on end waiting for a tenants at a higher price rather then taking a tenant now for a lower price (~$200 price difference). They made the decision emotionally based on, "my house is worth so much" instead of looking at what would be in their best interest. Also some of the higher paying tenants I have seen not take good care of property.

I just accepted a lower price with a tenant because it helps them and was way better then them leaving and trying to find a tenant now.
Home sales always peak when weather is nicer. As do leases for rentals. Leases that were ending a year from today are still ending, and some people are in a great place to buy a home, and inventory is incredibly low right now.
Before dismissing this out of hand, see "Competition and Monopoly in Medical Care" by Frech.

https://www.amazon.com/Competition-Monopoly-Medical-Care-Fre...

Plenty of evidence and cites.
Yeah but to most users, getting some cryptic console they can implement a workaround in ... isn’t much better.
All that sort of damage has also happened in plenty of situations when the police were not on strike, though... I don't think that one unusual event (an anecdote) is any indication of any larger pattern.

More to the point, though, the article doesn't suggest a complete abolition of all police; it suggests returning them to a more limited, core role.
"Free speech" is a very nuanced term. You can't shout "fire" in a crowd unless there's a fire; and you can't force me to distribute anything.

Traditional media (TV, Newspapers, Radio, Publishers) always use discretion about what they print and broadcast. A TV station deciding not to broadcast something, or a publisher declining to publish something, is not censorship.

IMO, Social Media is not like a generic web hosting company. They can use a lot more discretion in what they publish, how they publish it, who they show it to, and what context they put it in. To be quite honest, I honestly believe Facebook needs to be more proactive in curtailing misinformation. Calling lack of discretion over what they promote in feeds "Free speech" is ruse to try and distract people from their poor credibility.

Nothing's blocking Trump from creating his own website where he can say whatever he wants.
Does Norway have as many guns as the US? Do first responders often have to fear for their lives?

I am all for reforming the US social safety net and criminal justice system, but I think you need to understand what we deal with. We have, for one reason or another, very dangerous areas of our nation and they are filled with weapons and hopeless people willing to use them. I don't think the problem we face has an easy solution. I think it helps to try to empathize with the situation black people in America face on a daily basis. Then it helps to empathize with the situation first responders have to deal with on a daily basis.

Here is a rather disturbing video which led to a firefighter and a civilian losing their life:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=fR6lMfMx4O8&...

it helped me understand the issue is not so simple.
Anders Tegnell defends Sweden's virus approach
BBC, WaPo and NPR have conflicting titles, but I found this to be better worded and balanced article.
> Today is the 7th launch of v1 satellites. SpaceX is hoping to do more than two launches per month but haven't reached that pace yet

Isn't this the 8th? Jesse the Engineer said it was, too. The stage 1 is also on its 5th mission, so rad!