skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Installing a mini-split would be a year-long project, including HOA negotiations, architectural design, electrical load calculations, city permits, and invasive construction. It's not the sort of thing you'd want to attempt at the beginning of a pandemic (or ever, for most people.)

Given the orders of magnitude less work required to find a product and click "Buy", it'd greatly benefit society for portable A/C manufacturers to compete on efficiency.
These TC videos are meant as a kind of entertainment. I enjoy them a lot but they're definitely not meant as a quick reference.
> 95% of programming isn’t hard

> It’s easy to screw up the 95%, though

To me, those just don't seem like compatible assertions. If something isn't easy to get right, what else do I call it but "hard"?
TLDR: People are hard, computers are easy.

The only hard part about programming, and computers in general, is other people.

The OC mentions JavaScript, something insightful about data and objects. Just imagine: where would JavaScript be today without people like Brendan Eichmann?

I imagine other industries are more or less the same wrt the work vs the people.
Correct. And people that are living in a war zone should wear bullet proof vests and take all sorts of really burdensom security measures that detract from their quality of life and ability to communicate with their peers.

But I am not going to wear a bullet proof vest while sitting around at home in my safe country. It'd be absurd to suggest so. The same applies to 'hiding' your IP during normal activities on the internet.
I don't see any reason to think this will be the case. The White House issued an executive order meant to intimidate Twitter after they labeled some of his tweets. That order did not cite any relevant body of law.
What you described here falls within 5% of all programming jobs.The rest 95% aren't that demanding.
They willingly impersonated multiple people and tried to scam people based on that. That is not zero harm. Are you really saying that someone that executes a spearphishing attack on a company then uses that to take over accounts within that companies services and then uses that to try to scam people should just get a slap on the wrist?

There are at least two or three levels of this where any reasonable person would have thought "This is getting really fucking criminal"
Show HN: Web app to help your team translate your website into another language
As someone from a country that has seen the first hand effects of Chinese influence on critical levels of government and social influence:

This leaves a very good feeling if it happens.
Blue Team Rust: What Is “Memory Safety”, Really?
I was telling everyone else how it works at small scale, not about the experiences being comparable or not.
Agreed. Fad is a bit too much. However, maybe 5 or 10 more years. I think more and more people are moving away each year. It seems like it's my (older generation) that uses it.
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On debt, while the financial math and low interest rates usually favor carrying it, there is a certain spiritual liberty about not being beholden to it.

Much like having enough in savings that you don't have to fear a few months without a job drastically changes what you'll tolerate from an employer, not having the weight of debt, however advantageous leverage might be, does grant the ability to look at opportunities large and small without the "but ..."
Absolutely. I like (give a heart to) most videos I watch, but I skip right over any videos from celebrities.
> I'd rather be coding and let someone who wants to do marketing do the marketing.

That's how it works for the vast majority of professional software developers out there...
From an outsider view, all I see in this thread is the US constantly attacking china and accusing it of what they are doing to them.
Much performance! Yet they don't even have a button to select all of code in a codeblock.
You lack knowledge of Japan.
I'm sorry, I think reducing the lack of modern rail in the United States to "because the geography is different" almost completely misses the mark. We don't have anything close to this, anywhere. There are plenty of places in the US with equally simple geography and fewer earthquake considerations, and it's still not implemented.

That is almost entirely due to issues with politics and public policy. The actual physical construction of the rails would easily be the most simple part of the process. As you pointed out, maintenance would have costs, but it's not like existing rails don't include similar costs as well. Certainly there are many parts of the US where those costs would be lower than the equivalent in Japan anyway, since their climate is generally more temperamental than say, almost anywhere along the US West Coast.
That’s probably true for the general population, but not so much for our privacy legislation. Certain categories of data, for some provincial governments, absolutely must reside in Canada and can’t be hosted in the US. Among the various reasons is the Patriot Act. Canadian laws specify certain circumstances in which a data breach must be disclosed to the user, and the Patriot Act (via NSLs) can mandate that the breach not be disclosed to the user. Canadian companies hosting their data in the US cannot simultaneously comply with the law in both countries.
Yes, and what the article I posted is saying is that even if all investment was passive at some point, people would would jump from passive-to-active if/when pricing irregularities were noticed.

The concern that passive/index investing will ruin The Market is just not something we need to worry about.

Jack Bogle made the claim that even if 90% of the market went passive, the remaining 10% would probably be enough to keep things going:

* https://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2019/02/12/a-...

* https://www.ft.com/content/4594f554-ba1a-11e7-9bfb-4a9c83ffa...

I'm less worried about the issue of market and price efficiencies, and more about shareholder votes and company management decisions. How do passive, potentially 'non-opinionated' index funds vote on various measures?
Invidious is such a treasure and something I do not want to see go by the wayside. I would like to think, for whoever is available to work on the project with the time in energy, there could be enough support to keep this going via donations.
I’d say this isn’t just clever, it’s absolutely necessary
Some of the lines departing from Tokyo Station are Special/Express lines and don't stop at most intermediate stations. There's a Shinkansen to Sendai that some coworkers and I took on a trip to Japan that was like that.
It’s expensive if you reside in Japan. If you’re visiting you can get all-you-can eat rail travel (including Shinkansen, though only a limited choice) for relatively little money, e.g. one week for less than $300 and two weeks for less than $450), see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Rail_Pass.
https://stocknews.com/what-happens-next-after-vxx-expiration...

“Indeed, in the initial prospectus from 2009 stated, “due to the construction for this product one needs to be aware that its value will approach zero over time.” The prospectus also called to retire the fund after 10 years which will be at the end of this month on January 30.“

“All told since its inception 10 years ago, on a split-adjusted basis, the VXX has declined from $120,700 to the current $47 level.”
I can help you, but you need to send me $6k for verification and I'll send it back + the other 6k you lost.
"Security" also happens to be the favorite purported justification of most authoritarian measures in evil regimes. Just look at China: ubiquitous surveillance, censorship, concentration camps, suppression of dissent are all justified internally as "security measures".
Hong Kong, Huawei, Uighurs, South China Sea, India... Your comment seems to be lacking balance.
Fair point, I should have cited that. From snyk: https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=prototype%20pollution%...

You'll see prototype pollution CVEs in such libraries as jQuery, Lodash, handlebars, ajv (and transitively, request). A pretty good set of modules that are heavily used.

Scroll through the latest vunerabilities in the database and you'll see prototype pollution popping up very reliably https://snyk.io/vuln?type=npm
They are not just competing for ads but even eyeballs or user loyalty.

The traditional consumption for news was through you reading a single newspaper/magazine. In a way you were tied to it, digitally this would work if you come and consume it from the media house itself. But platforms like FB/Twitter disrupt this. You have suddenly news from all different sources and this might lead to lack of attachment to a particular media house.

So a user might not bother subscribing or might cancel his existing subscription finding that he consumes the news anyway from different sources. This is scary for media houses as this makes them a commodity and FB/Twitter takes place of the central distribution source which they so happily sat at. I would agree with OP in that there is a big conflict of interest.
> systemd does not implement DNS. There's a helper program that can resolve DNS queries (systemd-resolved), but it is optional.

So it implements DNS.

...and I must add, implements it badly [0]

> Now, distro maintainers may choose to use the whole kit-and-caboodle, but that is a deliberate decision on their part. It's not forced by the systemd authors

Not forced, instead they "gently push" [1]

0. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8595335

1. https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2010-Se...
The joy of NSLs is that you’re not allowed to talk about them. I have no idea what it would look like, but I imagine there would be nervous lawyers talking to both the US DoJ and their local privacy commissioner, quietly trying to find some solution that doesn’t involve the executives going to jail when setting foot in the US.
The author should ask himself if he is doing 5% writing (and thinking) or 95% writing.

An honest contemplation of this question would likely result in a very different set of ideas and likely a different presentation format to go along with it.
I really like the variety that is in my feed now that it has a history of what I've liked. The "top" tiktoks are not representative of what's in my feed at all. I'd wager that the top 10 most viewed TV shows also fare pretty poorly if rated them on content, depth, purpose, etc.
> If index funds didn't exist, why would I take $100 of Fifth Third Bancorp or TechnipFMC when I could get $100 of Apple or Slack instead?

Because you don't know which one will become the next Apple or Slack and will invest before they are valued as the next Apple or Slack benefiting from all their growth. Some of them will die, but the effect on the overall holdings will be small given their small size.
100% agreed. I"m using however somehow I feel most of HN doesn't see this.

The issue is between how the term "free market" is defined and how it's used. My usage above is how it's commonly used - as meaning a "competitive market" - which as you mention is completely wrong.

A truly competitive market benefits consumers and society overall. A completely free market on the other hand benefits rent seeking and is a drain on society.

Free markets naturally tend towards anti-competetive rent-seeking behaviors. The best thing you can do for a market economy is to ensure it stays a competitive market. There will always be inefficiencies in markets which will accrue towards companies - but the amount of excess rent-seeking that flows to companies needs to be actively minimized.
Thanks and yes, that is a good point. However, given that SPY is already at or near an all-time high, it seems unlikely that it would continue to go up every month or two by the premium amount (which itself is pretty substantial due to high volatility currently).

However, one adjustment if you have a bullish outlook is to reduce the delta from 30 to 20 or 10. Premium would go up and assignment is more likely.

OP, do it and report back :-) Even if you don't have any options experience, I am sure any broker will be happy to give you level 4 options (or at least level 2 which is what you need for cash secured puts) if you deposit $450k capital!
It's reciprocity. China built a great firewall, and now countries are just merely putting their own locks to the gates to prevent the China from having free access to their own markets while refusing to provide the same.
The part that I don’t understand is: why does Google not get credit, in your opinion, for having built an engineering org from qualified people?

Google hired the engineers who made Go. A company’s engineering ethos is the combined ethos of its engineers. The Golang developers are engineers who Google hired.

To attempt to draw a metaphor: if I operated an auto repair shop, and I wanted my shop’s “ethos” to be “we do high-quality repairs on cars”, one of the primary ways to do that would be to hire smart, already-experienced mechanics. And it would seem strange to me if people wrote blog posts saying that the work of those mechanics didn’t count towards my “ethos” because they were already good at their jobs; that’s why I hired them!

As a tangential comment, phrases like “Read carefully” seem extraneous, as does the accusation of “an awful lot of willful ignorance”. They just serve as jabs at the other commenters here.
72 hours? Doesn't it get dry. My brother bought a cheap Cuckoo one (isn't available in country) that can keep it for 12 hours I guess but it starts to dry up after a few. Not sure if it will be germ free for longer but not really edible. Is that a capability of high end cooker or there's some more secret to it?
Your attempt to disarm the argument against Google's volatile engineering essentially boils down to: "people are all different, and people make up Google, so you can't say Google is one way or another".

That would apply equally to quite literally any collective/group/company/society.

How does such poor reasoning end up voted so highly on HN?
Or, for 4 passengers, $120-170 gas + $100-200 hotel, which is still cheaper than a single seat on Amtrak.
It's only cheaper because you're ignoring wear and tear (aka maintenance), depreciation and insurance in your calculation. Not to mention it's incredibly unsafe to do a 26h ride in two days instead of three - you don't want to do a 13h ride, so realistically you're looking at two days of some motel to stay over night.

For what it's worth a proper high speed train could do a 10 hour run at 300-350 km/h. Not exactly the ~900 km/h of your typical airplane, but at least you 'll have a decent seat over the travel time.
Good monitor mounts to maximise desk space. I use Ergotron LX HD which can handle heavier screens. Mine is the taller sit-stand version, with the additional handle that sits between the VESA mounts so that I don't pull on the actual screens.

Alternatively a good electric desk like a Jarvis or Uplift, or Ikea's Idåsen.

A good desk lamp that can project diffuse light onto your face for meetings. Combined with a good 1080p camera that sits high. E.g. Logitech C920S. Not a low-res up-your-nose laptop webcam.

Visit https://www.reddit.com/r/battlestations/ https://reddit.com/r/averagebattlestations/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Workspaces/ https://www.reddit.com/r/macsetups/ for more ideas or envy.
Futurism from forty years ago on the unbeatable triumph of malls:
https://youtu.be/2RkxhXQnVSw

"This is how we live now."
Nice get out of jail free card for any insider traders
> Remember Dragonfly? Google just tried to get back into China THIS YEAR and was blocked by the US government.

Could you substantiate this claim? Regarding China and Dragonfly, I only remember there being employee and governmental criticism, but no outright ban from doing business in China: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/11/27/google-...
I did get the thing last week to build! :) My Go-recommending friend seemed to think the script I was using was pulling in Go 1.11 where modules were not as well supported as they are now? But I got around it.

It was just that the error message I got really gave me nothing useful to search for. Literally was a "permission denied" error... while "go build"ing stuff with effective superuser. It wasn't really pointing me at what it didn't have permission to do or how I would go about getting it.
GifCam does fine local gif recording.

Debugmode Wink was a great tool for self directed lightly interactive presentations but it is getting long in the tooth, having trouble with large resolution screens, and it doesn't seem to have a replacement waiting in the wings.

These days I try to record when someone is showing something on zoom but the other parties shoot me down without giving a reason.

The biggest challenge I've had is to get the other members of your team to actually accept the need for documentation (heh all code should be self documenting aka we should never write anything down, you are acting out to write things down) and let you create, let alone use what you created or the stretch goal of creating their own documents.

The number of excuses I've head re: we're getting rid of this system in 3-8 months, why document it for new people would be enough to make me a rich man.

I have not been able to convince my manager of the need for it so I content myself to document things as I can fit it between tasks.
Looks like they have voice commands for the wipers, which might be even better, assuming it correctly interprets you.

https://www.tesla.com/support/voice-commands
>Am I being too cynical? Perhaps. Firewall or not, by way off analogy: Tesla is Volkswagen's competition and Facebook is the New York Times's competition.

it doens't make sense at all to compare journalistic work to the competition between two companies who build cars.

This is just projecting techs broken culture on journalism. Carreyrou at the WSJ was investigating and in fact more or less brought down Theranos despite the fact that Murdoch was one of the largest investors in the company.

Don't take techs lack of ethics and mindless growth culture and assume everyone else operates in the same way.
Neat! This would be pretty useful to me if the settings persisted between sessions -- I don't have the time to fine-tune my camera for each meeting, but if I could tune it once and use it again and again, that'd be worth it.
Because the internet gutted its ad revenue. Back in 2000 the paper's strength was in its advertising: https://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/14/business/times-co-profit-...

Over the course of the 2000s, the stock price of the NYT would drop to less than one quarter of what it was in 2000, and only start to climb back up in late 2016 and early 2017.
Ya, I think which way the rules should be here is a complicated question, but it certainly shouldn't be the case that we have two arbitrarily different taxation schemes.
You can use the paper money as toilet paper in case you have no idea what else u could do with :D
The last paragraph surprised me even though it shouldn't have. It's shocking to have a clever scientific story suddenly grounded in the reality that this person is rapidly dying. In some sense he has donated his body to science even before he died.
I have a multi-cooker which is basically a rice cooker with a microchip. I regularly cook rice, lentils, and stews in it, and have cooked bread and cakes in it in the past, although mostly as a stunt.
Several aspects of FDA regulation are widely regarded as inadequate, in particular the 510(k) process for medical devices and Section 901 of the FDASIA.

FDA approval is slow and expensive, but the political pressure to change that situation has created myriad alternative routes to market authorisation rather than a fundamental reform of the process. Far too many drugs and devices have sneaked onto the market with lower standards of scrutiny and the FDA's post-marketing surveillance isn't up to the task.

The FDA knew about rofecoxib's cardiovascular risks for years and did nothing; they've known about rosiglitazone for years and they've done very little. It's just too easy for bad products to get on the market and stay on the market under the FDA's less-than-vigilant gaze.
You are right. The NYT has stopped being an impartial source of information.

https://www.bariweiss.com/resignation-letter

PS: I am not a Facebook employee, and I don’t use their services. Nevertheless, I wouldn’t use information provided by the NYT to make a case against a direct competitor.
>I'm not sure people are considering how society will react to that.

There will be a decent chunk of people that will be very apprehensive and they will probably be relentlessly shamed for their apprehension. Look at the amount of shaming that goes on regarding masks. I don't think there would be any less for a vaccine that somebody doesn't want to take. It'll probably just deepen the divide between people even further.

It's also completely reasonable for the company to take the stance they do.
Xiaomi makes a $10 BLE temperature and humidity sensor. You don’t have to use their proprietary app, there’s an open source MQTT bridge available. It also has a display and runs for months from an AAA cell, which anything esp8266 based won’t.
Adam Savage did a video where he worked with a guy to build a cooling unit for a cosplay suit. They were using custom compressors that were actually pretty efficient, which makes a lot of sense if you're going to be battery powered.

I think some manufacturer names were mentioned? There are units now with with variable compressors, so you run them constantly at low current instead of full blast. If you want to build your own fridge, just to build one, I'd maybe look at those.

The efficiency of a heat pump is relative to the delta-T you're trying to push. If you are trying to hit 40° sitting in a 72° room? You could probably repurpose a portable unit for that, sure. If you're trying to bring ambient down to 40° for a cabin? I think you're right to be concerned if it's up for it.

There's also the defrost functionality which you won't have.
Ubiquity is good, but honestly not any faster than the 6 year airport extremes since they both run on 802.11ac.

Things might be different now with Wifi6 but there really hasn’t been a single reason to go beyond an AirPort Extreme for 6 solid years.
Can someone explain what this did? I visited the site but it just seems to be a random collection of videos.
Mini-split looks like a good design, but our landlord would not be happy about our leaving behind a 3" hole in an exterior wall.
I would guess that most satellite and big data code falls into the non-hard category. In my experience working with things that sound similarly challenging, it's usually the case that one person or a small group of people do most of the "hard" part early on and then a much larger team spends years doing relatively simple work expanding on the foundation they built.
> When programming isn't hard, it is because it is not done right, and the coder uses repetition instead of higher level abstraction.

Aren't higher level abstractions supposed to make programming easier?

And yes, for the vast majority of programmers programming is easy thanks to existing high level abstractions, and it's usually the business domain that is hard.
There have been other alternatives in the past and there will be other alternatives in the future. I've found the most reliable option is to run my own and not rely on someone else's service which can break at any time and disappear at any time.

Interfacing with YouTube in any unofficial way is fraught with peril by its very nature because YouTube is always trying to stop it.