skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll admit I'm not an expert in this area, but it seems like whoever is buying these loans should be doing some due diligence on the property associated to these mortgages, right? It then follows that the lenders should have to do some due diligence up front so that they don't get stuck with something they can't later resell.
For the record, Google drive is not being decommissioned.
For $10 you can get Dropbox (2 TB) data, so I dunno if saving that $5 is worth it in this case. You get the Linux client, and far more reliability in every aspect.

I think, if I really would want to go setting up my own thing to save money, setting/writing some service backed by object storage (AWS S3) would be cheaper and reliable enough.
This is a pretty compelling argument for Webflow.
"fucking algorithms" such a good repo name tbh.
Didn't someone make a comment like this about Dropbox?
Not sure if a VPS is the best infrastructure for this. S3+encryption might be a better choice.
Sort of unrelated, but a very interesting application of TDR on cables: in military, infrastructure, and certain other installations, a common security measure is a fiber optic cable woven into the chain-link fence or shallowly buried. Any deflection of the cable (e.g. due to a person climbing the fence) results in a subtle reflection in the cable. By knowing the layout of the embedded cable, not only can the event be detected, but it can be localized and used to e.g. trigger automatic pan of PTZ cameras. A major brand-name for this system is FiberPatrol but there are several vendors.

Unfortunately it is rather false-positive prone when applied to fences, significant wind loading can cause the chain-link to lash back and forth and repeatedly deflect the cable. The resulting alarm fatigue was implicated in the somewhat (in)famous case of the nuns as site Y-12. Nonetheless this application is very common at federal installations and also certain non-federal infrastructure installations, e.g. the legacy iron fences around Portland, Oregon's surface water reservoirs (where remote-controlled PTZ cameras appear to be used for rapid remote confirmation of FiberPatrol detections... you can give the fence a shake and watch a camera pan to you almost immediately).
Does anyone have experience with CLI11 [0]?

It seems to have plenty of features and good documentation, plus it's available as a single header file.

[0] https://github.com/CLIUtils/CLI11
Like the Dead Sea?
The NOAA.gov mobile site is a joy to use and should be a case study on usable mobile design. Everything is where it needs to be, contextually relevant, and easy to navigate back and forth between cities and forecasts. Check it out if you haven't already, if you add it as a bookmark on your home screen (Android), you can launch it as a webview chromeless app.
Discussion of original source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24182494
It's an EXTREMELY dry place (around 5%), so the web-bulb temperature is not especially high, an online calculator estimates numbers in the low 30s Celsius.
> Good for those teachers, and if it's causing problems for school systems maybe they should treat their teachers better.

It is causing problems for the school systems, not for the politicians who starve such sectors of resources. This is like claiming that the current issues of the US postal service are the fault of your mailman, rather than the corrupt head of the USPS who is willing to destroy billions of dollars of capital so that his master can win an election.
Historian's Cookbook: We All Scream for Ice Cream (2018)
Never heard it was a software bug? Lack of maintenance allowed tree branches to grow under transmission lines which sag the hotter they get and so on a hot summer day with record system loads one transmission line tripping caused a cascading outage.

Read the Wikipedia page, sure the system operators in MISO didn’t get some alarms but blaming the whole thing on that is pretty lame. There were multiple causes and not
Getting alarms was just one of 10 things that went wrong.
Because statistical inference does not create complex operating models designed to fit a subset of reality from a larger encompassing model of reality which humans base our daily decisions and life philosophies. Just because we do not deep dive into the complexities of existential questions every waking moment does not say we're not operating scaffolds which depend upon prior existential examinations. We're complex to say the least, and we require reasons - and that very idea: reason is what is not present in statistical inference. Without a prior body of human conversation, statements, and larger expressions of philosophy based upon human reason, statistical inference goes nowhere.
Google can always change the protocol and stop supporting a native client too.
Since it looks like you didn't read the article before going on a rant, I'll paste the relevant portion for you.

>Death Valley famously holds the record for the hottest temperature ever recorded on Earth, which is 134 degrees. This record was set on July 10, 1913. However, that measurement is very much in question; an extensive analysis of that record conducted in 2016 by Christopher Burt, an expert on extreme weather data, concluded it was “essentially not possible from a meteorological perspective.”
> A lot of the power of the thought experiment hinges on the fact that the room solves questions using a lookup table, this stacks the deck. Perhaps we be more willing to say that the room as a whole understood language if it formed an (implicit) model of how things are, and of the current context, and used those models to answer questions.

Some define intelligence (entirely separately from consciousness) precisely as the ability to develop an internal model. Coupled to a regulatory feedback the system can then modify itself in response to some set of internal and/or external conditions (Joscha Bach for instance suggests consciousness is a consequence of extremely complex self-models)
It was because I wanted to host and serve my website via Github Pages rather than go with a managed hosting provider. As my post exemplifies, that was a mistake.
could call it the death sea
Sorry if I gave that impression (enough to warrant negative votes), but that was not the point I was trying to make. Just offering a contrasting link.
If Nim had sklearn, pandas I would probably choose it over Julia. I would love a statically typed Python. Have no interest whatsoever in learning a brand new ecosystem and syntax at this point.
Those people who are enticing teachers away to teach a single student are the same ones who fight tooth and nail to keep from paying the extra taxes that would enable those teachers to earn a decent salary.

I stopped reading the article at the bit about private jets (P.J.s? seriously?) when I wanted nothing more than a return of the guillotine.
On a related note and hopefully not off-topic, there's a OneDrive Linux client written in D language [1],[2]:

[1] https://github.com/abraunegg/onedrive/

[2] https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/office-365/onedrive-o...
CFA franchisees can only own one store. They must work at that store. They cannot own other businesses.

Think that has an effect on the workspace?
That's some great news!
> I can envision some sort of wearable glove like input device. I know I can play notes on a guitar far faster than he is inputting characters because of the technique involved.

Sounds like the perfect instrument for Steno Hero: https://killscreen.com/previously/articles/steno-hero-might-...
So it solves this by superseding consumer protections? What does blockchain add here over direct payments, or cash, or even some payment broker with more seller friendly terms? I can't help but assume that regulation will reinforce these protections.

Essentially, crypto's major benefit is skirting regulation because its new and that can't last forever.
As someone who went through Chinese grade school where I had to copy each character many, many times, I have to say those pictograms are a PITA to write :)

But I did get curious. I just tried to copy a few sentences from a UN document in both Simplified Chinese and English, and the time I spent are surprisingly similar. I imagine Traditional Chinese would be worse though.
It’s not hard to support FUSE across distros\kernels
Syncthing is so nice. I have it running on an old Rasperry Pi as an always-on connector.
Was there an incident/outbreak in history which affected all (or the majority population) and the rich were substantially affected?

Take WW1 or WW2 for example. The rich/aristocratic flew away from troubled zones. In the times of famine or drought, I do not recall anyone from rich class suffered.

Why covid should be different? It is the way it always have been. Instead of thinking of rich and poor people, I have started to view them as "roles". I bet that the people who are pointing fingers at rich today would behave the same if they were to become rich. The behaviour largely remains same just the actual people keep changing.
Ending excessive lock down and fearfulness seems like a better path forward to me. There is much more positive data coming out recently and we need to reevaluate the policies put in place by incompetent leadership in haste on bad info. Is it the people's fault for putting these people in power? Are we suffering the consequences of prior poor choices?

Kickstarter and Patreon already exist, why do we need a new platform?
It's sort of weird to drag in absl to get a flags library.
Can you elaborate more on why you say static generation is an essential feature for peace of mind w.r.t. security?
Do OLED displays flicker? I thought it happens only with LED backlight panels that were dimmed using PWM, which was quite unpleasant when I switched from a CCFL one.
> Trying to work out which of my colleagues would betray me

An interesting GDC presentation on a similar subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9WMNuyjm4w
There are no cross-platform sync clients for this, as far as I'm aware.
After various iterations of my personal webpage, and losing content in every migration, I've just ended up just going with raw HTML in the style of motherfuckingwebsite.com.

It helps that my hobby is retrocomputing, so my plain HTML pages can actually be loaded on a 25 year old version of Netscape. Doing my writing on an old PowerBook running System 7.5 also helps cut out distractions, and being a bit of a novelty makes the writing fun instead of a chore.
What Google product managers meant to write was “We will release as soon as we hit the year of the ‘Linux on the Desktop’”. I say, they are still waiting..
I'm guessing that they might have "fixed" it by implementing the ascii-only tolower function, but yes, PHP used to not work properly with Turkish localization.
The point is, we all pay taxes. Education is a fundamental right. Schools are already underfunded because of anti-tax fundamentalism that is rampant among those who can most afford to pay taxes. Now, they simply buy our teachers out from under those of us who can't afford to pay 25K per child.
Yeah you're totally right about my mistaken logic. I definitely should've thought through the "how it would work conceptually" part more.

Thanks for recommending Miner! Checking it out right now.
> For those who don’t want to be in America (and let’s be frank, who really wants to be in America right now?)

Oh Vanity Fair, how vain is thee. Owned by Condé Nast which is in turn owned by one of the 10-15 wealthiest families in America [0]. Excuse me while puke in my mouth as you go on about classism.

https://www.forbes.com/profile/newhouse/#3793bea16580
I'm sorry but one guy's analysis nearly 100 years later is not enough to debunk a weather record. One was a recorded observation by someone with no incentive to lie and the other is just conjecture. Of course it's not impossible.
Breastfeeding "destroys the tits"? It's literally what they are for. If you can train your child to not bite after teeth start coming through, some women breastfeed for years.

Also, you're wildly overestimating what science can do. With many things relating to the human body, it's like we're in the dark ages. For example, tt wasn't that long ago that Chromium was viewed as unnecessary, but now we know that it is essential for regulation of insulin activity.

Also, in term of "breast is best", breastmilk reduces chances of SIDS. Supplementation with formula should probably be used more than it is, but if you want to have the greatest chance that your baby wakes up, use breastmilk if you can.
This is only because almost all native Cantonese speakers are trained to read and write in Standard Chinese from the very beginning.

Standard Chinese can be spoken in Cantonese, but while understandable, it is never done, in contrast to Mandarin.

In recent years written online conversations (like blogs, Facebook posts, instant messages) by Cantonese speakers are increasingly written in Cantonese instead, and this is slowly spreading to more "formal" media such as books.

Source: I'm a native Cantonese speaker.
I'm from South Australia, more specifically: Port Lincoln.

Now look, I don't mean to sound like I'm over exaggerating, because I'm not: It gets fucking hot there, and then it will start blowing 40 knots sustained (74kph / 45mph), straight down the centre of the country, and then something, typically a national park, will catch fire.

And that makes it even hotter. So hot houses spontaneously combust from the radiant heat before the fire front.

And then there's Adelaide, similar latitude, just 250k or so east, with the urban heat island effect. Quite unpleasant.

So yeah, we only know about the places the Bureau Of Meteorology keeps records for.

There's probably some rural Australian grazier reading this going "55 degrees C? Heh, that's mild."

I hear Baghdad is can get quite warm.
> Bay Area nature is unparalleled

Puget Sound and Denver metros might disagree
> We have never seen a single issue with pricing not as advertised at small quantities

Ah. No, we haven't either.

The issue is that we have caught DigiKey charging different prices based upon login status and cookie status on low volume order items.

This would be fine if they were charging the returning customer less, but we caught them charging more. That made us very unhappy.

Maybe it was a bug. Maybe it was an A/B test. However, if I have to scrutinize my order cart, we're done.

We still use DigiKey. But we have significantly reduced our volume through them and we watch them like a hawk.
Yes, semi regularly -- lowercasing of text for user interfaces is frequently required. Similarly case insensitive comparisons.

Human text is much much more complex than any computing protocol you're ever going to engage with.

The question is "which one should be default", and that's a more complicated question.
Yes. Changed from https://about.google/google-in-australia/an-open-letter/. Thanks!
Fixed now. Submitted URL was https://about.google/google-in-australia/an-open-letter/.
The silence is literally deafening...
Well, yes and no. Ultimately this was all caused by Napster, iTunes, Spotify, and the near-death experience they caused in the music industry. I think the labels were forced to change their business models because of them. Computers and digitization of music made those distribution services, and near-death experiences, possible.
Is anyone really surprised?

Aside: for me Amazon is now useless. Not living in America means I need to filter by the sender being somewhere near me. Unless I am missing something, Amazon doesn't let me filter such.
This Star Looked Like It Would Explode. Maybe It Just Sneezed
Isn't it still a problem if someone takes a test on day N and it comes back negative, but their viral load increases over the next few days and they begin spreading the virus on day N+3? Many people in such a situation would read the test as "I'm in the clear for a while" and might engage in close contact with friends and family members that would put them at risk.
Strange Rhythms: On Rosemary Mayer’s 1971 diary
There are many groups working on solving this problem, which is analogous to how SSL was developed atop the unencrypted lower layers of TCP/IP stack.

One experimental option is Aztec https://docs.aztecprotocol.com/

Most of the solutions use zkSNARKs, which is a generic solution for privacy preserving functions in public settings https://blog.zkga.me/intro-to-zksnarks

Tornado.cash is a popular mixing services that anonymizes cryptocurrency and tokens in the Ethereum network to preserve privacy https://tornado.cash/

> Done jerking yourself off? Now do some real work.

I have been on this website for years, and the hate cryptocurrency / blockchain gets is absurdly high, and I believe it mostly comes from bitter people who think they missed out on fast money and now have to constantly justify why they (and everyone else) should completely avoid this technology.

Blockchain is literally building an alternative financial system, one that is unstoppable and without government permission. It is decentralized and fascinating.

If you choose to learn about it rather than write it off with a smug look on your face, you may actually learn and understand why it's useful.

On HN it's a 95% to 5% ratio of blockchain haters to neutral / positive people. However most crypto enthusiasts avoid HN because everyone knows it's anti-crypto. HN has missed the boat on a hugely important and transformative technology because a loud portion of its users have irrational, spittaling rage at blockchain and believe they are so smart that they can 100% guarantee that the tech is worthless, despite it being one of the greatest pure computer science successes of the 21st century.

HN is an SV echo chamber that promotes the YC view of the world, which I believe was once revolutionary but is now becoming stale and eating itself, as is most of the tech echo chamber.
j dilla saved my life
You're describing a dog.

Kids are orders of magnitude more in all sorts of ways. Kids give the opportunity to learn so much about the world and yourself. They are so much work. They're also individuals.

thinking about kids in the context of benefits, proportioned relationships, and happiness probably means that you don't really want them. At least it means that you have a lot more thinking to do.

If you have more thinking to do, I would suggest talking to friends who are parents. Also babysitting or teaching at multiple ages.
Nice subtle brag that you're able to both play Factorio and do other productive activity in the same week.
Any reason to use this over rclone?
Do you have to use a web browser to get the key?
Does Dropbox Linux client still support filesystems other than ext4?

https://itsfoss.com/dropbox-linux-ext4-only/
Flamewar comments and personal attacks are not ok here, regardless of how wrong someone else is or you feel they are. It only makes the thread even worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Coming from the east coast US, I didn't find the people snooty. They seemed friendlier than where I am from, I made way more friends here than I did back home. Back home you would get arrested for drinking beer in public, in sf you can have a beer in one hand, a joint in the other while playing kickball in golden gate park.

I liked the food a lot. I got giant, tasty, burritos in the mission for like $8. Of course you have to go to a side street, not something right on mission.

Didn't really go to bars so not sure about that.

To me the city is absolutely beautiful. Seeing the city from twin peaks, walking to the beach through golden gate park, or cycling across the golden gate bridge are all incredible experiences.

Tenderloin is trash though.
My wife, after she finished her MS in Software Engineering, ended up in a job where one of her first tasks was writing DOS .BAT files.

On the other hand, her first asp.net page was demonstrated by Steve Ballmer at CES, so she did advance in the world.
I would argue that the Swiss system only "works" because the people reject the vast majority of referendums and let the elected parliament do the actual policy work. In total, only 22 have been successful since 1891. Most of them were on populist issues (often fueled by xenophobia) and had little to no influence on everyday life.
Why not just buy a NAS and keep it at home?

You would get way more than 20 GB.
Would you please stop posting in the flamewar style to HN, and please not use the site primarily for political/ideological battle? It's not what HN is for, and it destroys the curiosity that it is for, so we have to moderate against this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I also don't have a CS degree, and got hired at a FAANG company. If you want to quickly get up to speed on the data science basics, check out "Cracking the Coding Interview" by Gayle Laakmann McDowell. Her YouTube videos are also useful. Certainly, there are other methods, but this is one that I found useful.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goobuntu
Well, that is horrifying. TIL.
This reminded me of the very interesting (to me) report and discussion on the failure of the UK national grid last August: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20973513
Switched PD to back right. Held true.
Google Drive is $9.99 for 100 GB.
>-In my 6 unit building in Nob Hill (5 of which are owner occupied). 3 units including myself have moved out permanently. 1x to Austin. 1x to Palm Springs. 1x to East Bay.

Did they sell those units or are the owners just holding them empty? I think there is a lot of that going on. For those that bought a long time ago, there might be a comfortable equity cushion that can let them hold units like these empty for years.
I'm not sure how you can possibly confuse such a clear cut example of the rich having unfair access to a critical resource. Nobody is saying the teachers are immoral, and obviously the existence of such an imbalance can be "bad" regardless of the argument about whether an individual rich person is "bad" for benefiting from it, so exactly what angle are you coming at this from?
This is kind of a weird statement to make.. if I have photos, important documents, etc.. why would I not pay 5 extra dollars a month to host them on a service that offers more durability than I can guarantee doing it myself? It’s not like it’s so prohibitively expensive that only a business could do it.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2140747-laws-of-mathema...
Will do! I am not aware of that, tell me more!
Wow, the way it spreads is fascinating, reminiscent of Reflections on Trusting Trust.

I'm a bit confused about

>two zero-day exploits: one is used to steal cookies via a flaw in the behavior of Data Vaults, another is used to abuse the development version of Safari.

Malware on the local machine can steal data from Safari on the local machine. Is that a surprise? Does Safari have a threat model that it intends to protect against locally running malware?
The Nouveau drivers have a throttled clock speed due to firmware signatures. And the proprietary drivers are complete mess on wayland, where most compositors and other GPU drivers use GBM, but Nvidia did their own thing and used EGLStreams. Maybe someday in the future the situation will improve, but historically, it hasn't been good.
Rarely mentioned, except in this very article.

> If I was feeling especially mean, I could insist that the player choose the square with the best odds of being safe, rather than simply judging whether or not each square is theoretically knowable. But I think that would be taking things too far.
More so what time do you go to bed and wake up, etc?
> So in your view, what were we supposed to learn from history?

The south will burn again
Our cities have the power but due to the way things are funded here, they simply don’t have the money to actually fix stuff.