skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People go where the jobs are. They are going to live wherever employers "insist on" locating their offices.

20% down payment isn't a myth; if you don't put 20% down (and don't have some special situation like a VA loan) you have to pay for private mortgage insurance which can be hundreds per month, as you're buying the lender insurance against the possibility of you defaulting on your loan.
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> Useful commands for the nerds

... are there non-nerds using this? ;)
That makes it sound like the retail operation of Amazon was subsidized by AWS, which it isn't. Both are profitable.

Amazon was losing money because they put every single dollar they earned (and more) into new projects and markets that expanded their reach.

Definitely agree with your second paragaph though! There are so many companies that for some time fly under the radar of the general public, where experts in the field can already see their success coming a mile away.

Nvidia would be another example. Anyone in Computer Science around 2014 could have predicted their meteoric rise due to machine learning and CUDA. But people outside of the field would have no idea.
Fun little trick. Here's the actual article, the "bonus round" of a list of live streaming test examples:

https://github.com/leandromoreira/live-stream-from-desktop#b...
I think the claim is that prohibiting employers from asking about criminal records disadvantages black people precisely because black people commit more crimes. If they're allowed to ask about criminal records, then the non-criminals, black or white, are all on an equal footing. If they're not allowed to ask, then they'll assume that the black applicant is more likely to be a criminal.

[ I have no idea whether or not this claim is actually empirically true. ]
That's a good point. But I'm not sure it's quite as simple as you make it sound to construct a dam with 2.5 million cubic meters of concrete, divert all of the water for a major drainage basin into the newly-created reservoir, and flood 500 square kilometers of land to a depth of 100 meters, and then just move on.
So if a company in france writes open source software that infringes on a US software patent, and a company in the US bundles that source code in a product, is the US company liable for damages?
Stock prices are about future, not past profitability.
What are the state-actor-level attack implications of this? Before this was revealed, a party that compromised (or was able to be issued) a certificate for a website could be reasonably likely to be detected and have that certificate revoked if they used it for large-scale MITM or redirection. But now, if the actor were to also compromise any one of these sub-CAs before the key was deleted, could they permanently be in a position to be able to unilaterally reverse any such revocations, effectively giving them carte blanche to begin a campaign of compromising websites in earnest with the knowledge that their attacks would now be "sticky?"

What would the recourse be here if one of those keys were to be compromised, or even if there was reason to believe one might have been? Would the entire CA-level trust chain need to be distrusted, requiring re-issuance of all certificates on that chain?
>I am reasonably sure that I have it slightly easier at conferences as a man because women do not hit on me

Can we acknowledge the fact that most men would be ecstatic to be hit on by a woman or two at a conference? Can we acknowledge that men and women are innately different? That forcing men to change their behavior significantly to accommodate for women in male spaces may in fact place unequal strain on men?

Edit: are we just going to deny the fact that men are biologically driven to reproduce and compete for women? That this is an instinctual urge that we are required to suppress? You don't solve problems by ignoring their sources.
Well you can now look for plans on the state health insurance webpages. That does provide some amount of transparency but not for actual service pricing. But it is a bandaid on the original problem that you need to disassociate healthcare from employment and income level.

Also the ambulance services in this country are a total racket and can charge whatever they want. https://khn.org/news/taken-for-a-ride-ambulances-stick-patie... This is not a free market system it’s 100% corporate welfare enforced by taxpayer subsidies to the insurance companies. Ugh.
How can I get these two features on Firefox:

1. Block scripts on certain domains

2. Block ads & tracking (including on Android)

Those are my favorite Brave features. How do I get them on Firefox?
2U Rack enclosure build, housing 3xODroid H2 and a 400 watt power supply. The power supply is way overkill, as the H2 are about 4w each.
I agree that it is unfortunate that workers will mostly silently have to bear these costs. I am experiencing that right now.
Maybe we can blame the anonymity of the internet.
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I wonder if instead of heuristics, machine learning could be used to figure out the best parameters.
This is exactly my point. You can get general agreement to "do no evil". But every step you take to be specific makes the amount of discussion and detail exponentially more difficult. So you can't have a specific stance on everything. You either take a specific stance on a small number of issues central to the community or a general stance, or you spend all your time creating and amending stances and do nothing else.
I believe their point is that it doesn't look like the text was written by a native English speaker -- there are spelling and grammatical errors.

For a business, having spelling or grammatical errors is sometimes seen as an early indicator that the business is a scam. There are a variety of reasons for this and it's not necessarily fair.

The practical fix in your case, which I'd strongly recommend if you can, would be to find someone to review the text and fix all grammar, spelling, and formatting issues.

edit:

Also, some of your phrasings could be a turn-off because they hint at information instead of revealing it. (They "play coy.") This behavior is associated with people over-selling, exaggerating, or hiding things.

Examples include:

"Acoto has everything and for everyone."

"We have limited spots and many excited users so don't get left behind."

People have seen excited sentences like this so many times, we're immune to them. In fact they often have the opposite effect. Instead of using excited copy, it's better to focus on your great idea and users will get excited all by themselves.
If open() throws an exception, perhaps after the FD is already open (Python does non-trivial IO to a file immediately after open), or read() throws an exception, the file object is at the mercy of any try/except higher in the stack, any bugs/"features" contained in those, and any sys.excepthook installed like Sentry

The example above is deterministic only on current versions of CPython and only if it is guaranteed to succeed and if it is the only line of code in the program now and in perpetuity.
Assumptions, not data. Even if you assume the reader of HN is in tech firm, you can assume the "household" income average
This is really unique approach. I often wondered about doing it that way, but never seen article about it. Thanks!
Often the studies showing this are flawed, or at least incomplete.

For instance, it is often said that black people being arrested at higher rates for buying drugs in small amounts compared to white people when data shows that both groups use drugs at the same rates is evidence of discrimination.

However subsequent research has shown that black individuals often engage in much riskier behavior when buying drugs, leading them to get caught more.

What evidence do you have that "police, prosecutors and juries will go after black people more harshly and more often"?
It works, but usually people have a wildly unrealistic expectation of “works”.

When you meditate regularly, you’re building this tiny sliver of ability around awareness. In practice, it may be that you build a fraction of a second of awareness before you fall into old habits. So it doesn’t feel like you’re making any tangible progress, because a half of a second of awareness doesn’t feel tangible.

But it’s a massive lever. It can help avoid getting back on the computer, or losing your cool, or any number of reactive, destructive habits. Avoiding even one of those, once in a while, can be a huge win that starts a snowball effect of positive change.
Because, unlike other field, CS, and especially ML, uniquely positions itself as a field that is setting out to revolutionize how the world is structured. You want more input than just white and Asian folks when you’re going to make such bold claims.
Those things have interesting failure modes. Will they have to be buried underground, or is this somehow a solved problem?
Good article on that:

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/01/liberal...
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“It isn’t good or bad, it simply is” implies it followed some amoral natural law.

These are human-created systems, though, and would be built upon human ethics and morals. Stating academia as an institution just “is” isn’t much different than asserting the military-industrial-congressional complex just “is”
Single sentences commonly span multiple verses which alone is enough to imply that cannot be true. I think very few who have read a Bible would come to the conclusion that verses are intended to be atomic.
That is true; however, only 29% of the households are dual income.
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normally the X doesn't do Y (bad thing) argument is being made to push the cause of getting more X out there, or at least keeping the supply of X from getting limited.

Is there a movement to increase dopamine access in middle America I'm unaware of?
>The rest of the world just builds a dam, creates a new lake, and moves on.

Your wording implies this is better than the flywheel solution - can you elaborate for a layman?
Ha! You're too kind. To be honest I have been battling it out on social media trying to get the idea straight in my own head. This is the closest I've ever gotten. It's very kind of you to make the effort to read and reply to it. Hearing your voice means the world _curious_
Oops, sorry; I misunderstood your comment. I thought that with "domain owners" you meant "the person who registered the domain" (i.e. self-signed certs).

Using DNS providers for certificates is an interesting idea; one I haven't heard before. I can't really think of any downsides of that at the moment.
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How does this square with for example the Japanese car market, which I thought led the world in labour practices and efficiency? They've invented many labour practices that are considered the best we have today. And their cars are so cheap - how are they doing this if they aren't being efficient?

For example are Toyota's engineering and factories running on wasted meeting time, fax machines, and hand-written letters? Doesn't seem likely. If they are it seems to produce great results!
There is no indication that people are being denied entry to certain fields.
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Sounds cool. So you are going to teach me how to write? When someone says the word "copyright" to me, I think of the © symbol, and not so much of the text that goes on the page. I know I know I'm probably wrong and you're right to call the copy of the page copyright, but that's just what I think of. The blog piece you wrote is good. Keep it at.
What's the advantage of Braver over Firefox? Is it just that you're trying to get ad blocking on iOS?
> It's interesting that they are able to continue improving video compression. You'd think that it would have all been figured out by now.

Would you? AV1 was only officially released 2 years ago, h.265 7, h.264 14, …
I'm really not a fan of these minuscule keyboards but I'd definitely be interested in a TKL version.
It’s a pointer based language, ie its C. Swift makes it far easier to write correct code and not have to chase down wild pointer problems.
Mostly agree! If I were explaining these concepts to someone, I would lead with your answers, setting them up as problems where the thing I wanted to explain was the solution.

e.g. We need to prove to a counterparty that some data has not been tampered with, we're limited to the processing power of the IC on a smart card, and the whole protocol can't take more than a couple of seconds including network latency. Do we just self-assert the integrity of the message using an HMAC, or do we need to prove the data hasn't been replayed or injected? In the latter case, we might need an additional key/secret to verify that transaction integrity as well, implying KMAC.

The part about counters gets weird, because it's unclear (to me) in some implementations whether the GF counter is supposed to act as an additional secret/diversification component with enough entropy to be a secret, implying that the function that generates it is also a cryptographic function, with a seed, which becomes in effect just another key to manage.

Of course this could be a misunderstanding on my part as well, and without a BAN protocol diagram, it's hard to reason about. Some of the stuff I worked on, the designers basically kept nesting key management problems until people stopped listening. I've posted this a few times I think, but I share it with everyone, as it's a great reference for how these things are designed. http://www.lsv.fr/Software/spore/index.html
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Yeah, but it was a free app.

One of the frustrating things about implementing video software, even licensing it, is pretty much everything out there is an expression of ffmpeg, which is a really, really good system, but does have some baggage.
You think this will change now? (the crowded office spaces)
> I walked Brooklyn. At best, everyone was funereal. At worst, in tears, inconsolable. It’s impossible to overstate just how dour the world felt at that moment.

> The entire city — country? world? — had been infected by a terminal disease, the prime vector of which was memes.

> Simone Weil writes, “Attention, taken to its highest degree, is the same thing as prayer. It presupposes faith and love.” Then is the lack of attention the opposite? Does it presuppose fear and hate?

- - -

I think there’s really something to this. I have to admit there have been a number of times I’ve been caught up in something “tragic” on the internet, generally some political battle, and felt like the world was falling apart. But then if I step away from the computer and go for a walk in the nearby park, I see hundreds of people just relaxing and enjoying life, not caught up in the daily trivia. I often bring my kids along and watch them just run and play, carefree.

And I sometimes wonder: if we just turned it all off, shut down the internet, radio, and TV... would we be happier?

I’ve lived through a few long power outages as well, (1 day or longer), and on those days, rather than things feeling dire, things felt light and playful. The neighbors all came out and chatted, the kids all played up and down the street. It was nice.

I realize that our world would not function very well without the mass communication systems that link us together. But I also wonder if something like a scheduled, controlled, power outage every Saturday would be really good for us all.
>The next version of Chrome will also support the AV1-based AVIF image format this month:

FWIW, Firefox supports it already (behind the image.avif.enabled knob).
Notice that the missing party here was 'Google'. These are the folks who are really competing with VP9, the royalty free codec that limited the uptake of H.265.
> If the balance was in the other direction and men or white people were being intentionally denied jobs, would that be okay?

You're implying – and your argument rests on – that right now, women and non-white people are being intentionally denied jobs due to their gender or the color of their skin [1], and that this is a widespread phenomenon [2]. I would really like to see some hard evidence for that claim.

[1] As opposed to their qualification or other directly relevant criteria.

[2] I'm assuming you mean in the US, or at least in the Western world.
Do you have an alternative? DANE looks good but it would require lots of people to get on board with DNSSEC first...
ViaScience has some very good lectures on physics.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCx6G76LCKLdd7__F0xt5POQ
> you always have the option to just turn them off entirely

This is not fully accurate. You have to explicitly find and enable ads if you want them. They are off by default.
how much do you weigh compared to the top drivers.
"Whitespace syntax" is not the problem. It is that Guido thinks that the anonymous callback style is harder to read and therefore something to avoid most of the time. I tend to agree.
In another life I was a research assistant in a lab studying drug addiction, and our operating assumption was that - like any other system in the brain - it's not as simple as saying "neurotransmitter X causes Y". But there does seem to be an awful lot of evidence (or at least there was a lot of evidence cerca 2008-2009) to suggest that dopamine is heavily involved in motivation and habit formation, which are easily linked to addiction.
I agree that 6.5ft^2 is probably too small for a good RDW experience based on the gain numbers I'm familiar with. The tracked volumes of the experiments I was a part of were all on the scale of ~15-20 ft square. (I'm not a researcher, really, but I was a developer at a lab that did some RDW research -- for instance, https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/2931002.2931018). There are some tricks that the literature suggests could help (forcing the user to turn >360 degrees in place, exploiting change blindness to get people to accept non-euclidean spaces, etc) but I believe it's not controversial to assert that the user is going to realize they're not walking straight if someone tries to get them to walk a circle with radius ~3ft with traditional RDW cues!
Does personal responsibility matter at all anymore?

>The police, prosecutors and juries will go after black people more harshly and more often

And blacks are more likely to commit the crimes in the first place, and more likely to reoffend. If you want to blame "systematic racism" or whatever the term of the day is, you need to paint the whole picture, because culturally inspired behavior (fuck the police!) leads to culturally inspired outcomes.

Tell me, do you believe that the justice system (excluding marital issues) is biased against men relative to women, since the incarceration ratio is like 9:1?
It traditionally isn't. Japanese middle management practices would often make office space look good. Especially in software, the culture is quite antiquated, because software is traditionally seen as a cost center, and most companies externalize all their IT. If I had to describe most offices in Japan, it would be an unglamorous version of Mad Men.

The culture of the customer is always right also implies making contortions to please them, including many on site meetings where you have to be there just as a sign of respect. It is interesting the first time you do it, but gets boring fast.

I believe Japan has so much untapped potential, the generalization of WFH may be the catalyst for Japanese management practices to catch up the last 60 years.
> It's just even more expensive if you do know.

In the USA. Wilful and unwilful infringement of the patent costs the same in Europe.
I find HN has a bias against anything that hurts advertising and user tracking revenue. AMP and Brave seem to get a disproportionate amount of attention.
Looks like the FAQ covers this question:

https://brython.info/static_doc/en/faq.html

Quote:

Q: why use the operator <= to build the tree of DOM elements? This is not pythonic!

A: Python has no built-in structure to manipulate trees, ie to add "child" or "sibling" nodes to a tree node. For these operations, functions can be used; the syntax proposed by Brython is to use operators: this is easier to type (no parenthesis) and more readable

To add a sibling node, the operator + is used.

To add a child, the operator <= was chosen for these reasons:

* it has the shape of a left arrow; note that Python function annotations use a new operator -> that was chosen for its arrow shape

* it looks like an augmented assignment because of the equal sign

* it can't be confused with "lesser or equal" because a line with document <= elt would be a no-op if it was "lesser or equal", which is always used in a condition or as the return value of a function

* we are so used to interpret the 2 signs < and = as "lesser or equal" that we forget that they are a convention for programming languages, to replace the real sign ≤

* in Python, <= is used as an operator for sets with a different meaning than "lesser or equal"

* the sign < is often used in computer science to mean something else than "lesser than": in Python and many other languages, << means left shift; in HTML tags are enclosed with < and >

* Python uses the same operator % for very different operations: modulo and string formatting
funny you should mention nvidia-- I bought them at $30, because of vr, cryptocurrency and machine learning -- again, it was difficult to explain to people why suddenly video cards were going to be an important thing.
It generates and manipulates 3d geometries. I currently render it in Unity but it would be nice to have a lightweight WebGL native library that could be used by three.js, A-Frame etc.
With 17 million citizens I think that's unlikely.
One of the most eye-opening experiences I had as a new grad was sitting near to Bjarne Stroustrup during the OOPSLA 2006 keynote (? It’s been a long time), while 2000-or-so co-attendees repeatedly booed & hissed at him every time C++ was mentioned. It was weird & disconcerting. The only thing that made it bearable was how much Bjarne seemed to enjoy the whole thing.
There's a reply from Ben Wilson (Mozilla) further down in the thread / the next day stating that Firefox as a client is not affected by the security issue (OCSP responses signed by these intermediate CAs would be rejected), and that Mozilla is not planning on enforcing the 7 day deadline for revocation of these intermediate certificates. The CAs will still need to replace these intermediate CAs, but with a more gradual timeline.

https://www.mail-archive.com/dev-security-policy@lists.mozil...

> We are concerned that revoking these impacted intermediate certificates within 7 days could cause more damage to the ecosystem than is warranted for this particular problem. Therefore, Mozilla does not plan to hold CAs to the BR requirement to revoke these certificates within 7 days. However, an additional Incident Report for delayed revocation will still be required, as per our documented process[2]. We want to work with CAs to identify a path forward, which includes determining a reasonable timeline and approach to replacing the certificates that incorrectly have the id-kp-OCSPSigning EKU (and performing key destruction for them).
If your research is used to create such ill that on net throwing every researcher in your field into the sea would be a lesser evil the question of external issues at least deserves a look lest you miss an opportunity to avert harm.

Note I do not support tossing ml researchers into the sea and lots of industries are worse.
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> it’s like the algorithms can’t decide what life stage she’s in

Or, it's working on figuring that out.