skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Let’s see those lexicographers at least exercise some editorial warnings

They did. There are notes on the definition that are also pointed out in the article I sent you.

> but dictionaries are/were also issued/prescribed to students for usage guidance

Sure, yeah, as a reference. I don’t follow, why does using dictionaries imply that lexicographers should not document history without judgement? Notes like ‘archaic’ and ‘vulgar’ are not judgements the lexicographers invented, right? Those are historical facts that are widely agreed upon by society before the dictionary writes about it.

What exactly is the “dump” you think Merriam-Webster left on English? I’m trying to understand your point, but not seeing it.
I doubt anyone that chose to live in SF will all the sudden care about the taxes in the income equation. The rental prices alone are high enough where if anyone was doing the math, Austin made a much better choice.
Do you have any recs for what those better CMS options are?
If you're 55 and meet some other requirements your property tax assessment can be transferred to a new property once in your life. Prop 13 has been expanded for assessment transfers among family members. You can imagine what kind of extremes this will equate to in a few generations.
I type English and French in Windows on the same QWERTY keyboard. I once learned to type on Azerty, but I mainly type English now on a standard US keyboard layout. For the French, I find the windows alt-numbers works the easiest for accented characters. Alt-130=é, Alt-133=à, Alt-135=ç, Alt-137=ê, Alt-138=è which covers 95% of the accented character usage. I have a little chart next to my desk with all the others (ï,ô,ù) they’re nearly all Alt-14x and Alt-15x. And then I’ll put é in the paste buffer because it is the most used and a bit quicker that way (for words like “préféré”).

The Alt-13x codes are not as quick as the Azerty keys, but good enough and once memorized are fairly easy with a keyboard that has a keypad (most PCs do, even my laptop). This is especially true because they are done with both hands simultaneously, as opposed to something like Cmd-e+e on a Mac. Actually, they are faster than finding the accented characters on my QWERTY virtual keyboard as I type this comment on iOS.

Those AltGr- combos seem complicated to me, I would much prefer a system such as AltGr-e =é, then AltGr-ee=è, AltGr-eee=ê, etc. To me that would be more intuitive than remembering the composing character (slash for aigüe, etc).
>but it's only based on perfect accuracy on two-digit addition and subtraction, ~90% accuracy on three digit addition and subtraction and ...

Which grade of school it corresponds to? It would be astonishing to have an AI system of this capability level mere few years ago.
It's not just not in RE, it's undecidable

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem

Ie equivalent to Godel first incompleteness them (but we all know this because we've all read super)
Did Fortnite just kill the App Store as we know it?
And for reference, a Hayes Valley 1bd would still be right above $3k. Or right below with concessions.

Luxury studios are going to $2400 already though.

Expecting further drops.

Yes, there are many people in Central Valley who can now afford to live out their dream of being in "the city".

A change of scenery is a change of scenery. I've met suddenly unencumbered East Coasters that roadtripped across during Phase 1 Shelter in Place, and they are content with the new environment.

I don't see these as demand drivers, as the replacements are not the economic powerhouses that were here: subsidized college kids and tech workers. So its nice if the city gets a diverse culture again, but in the topic of rent and housing prices, I wouldn't expect a rebound so optimistically.
>I find this little sub-industry building up around, “the coding interview,” to be highly strange.

You should see the sub-industries around passing a board exam. Most of us really don't understand the privilege we have relative to other high paying professions.
> How do you pass hierarchical config? In JSON, YAML, TOML, etc., it's easy to group env vars, but how do you do that with env vars?

Spring Boot approaches that problem via `SPRING_APPLICATION_JSON` (and likely `SPRING_APPLICATION_YAML` but I haven't personally tried it)

containers:
- name: web
image: whatever
env:
- name: SPRING_APPLICATION_JSON
# language=json
value: |
{"spring": {"logging": {"level": "debug"}}}
> the ones that are in the city for work, and the ones that are in the city because they love cities. COVID creates an exodus of one, but people in the latter category are also moving into cities as well as prices drop and they are no longer priced out.

The housing supply is essentially fixed in the short and medium term, so we will mostly see an equilibriation in prices to keep them mostly full. So it's trivially true that some people will move in as prices fall.

However, it's mistaken to think that all the people were in the city but now are leaving were there for jobs. There is a large population of folks who work south of SF, who moved there (and reverse commute) for the benefits of city living, but have now left because those benefits are largely absent with the pandemic.
What makes you think this has anything to do with “cancel culture”?
In NYC, you're a short train or ferry ride away from an abundance of nature.
Show HN: Use React to build G Suite dialogs and add-ons
Rent is extremely low in SF compared to what it a year ago. 9-25% off. Yeah, wide range.

Luxury buildings are the primary ones offering more 1-2 month concessions, which really means rent has dropped another 18% than what is listed.

And this is without evictions on tenants, or foreclosures on homeowners. Both of which can't really get started until November or January due to local regulations and now backlog. This is with purely voluntary departures.
Been working on this side project for a while. Google Apps Script is Google’s development platform for writing scripts for Google apps like Sheets, Docs, Slides etc. It also lets you load HTML pages inside window dialogs in these apps, so you can build a simple UI that can interact with, for example, a spreadsheet, or you can use these dialogs to create an add on and publish it in the G Suite marketplace for others to use.

When you load an HTML file, the window dialog environment provides you with a way to call functions you’ve written in Google Apps Script (basically, Javascript with access to Google APIs).

The drawback with Google’s platform is the HTML file has to be a single page, and it can’t load other scripts. Google’s own documentation recommends using jquery and templates. Bah! Not good!

With the right webpack configuration and plugins you can build a complex React page that is bundled as a single HTML file, and load it into a dialog window. This project is a working demo of how to do that (https://github.com/enuchi/React-Google-Apps-Script).

The trickiest part here is building a proper local development experience. What I ended up doing is creating a wrapper app that is loaded into the dialog window during development instead of the actual React app. The wrapper loads an iframe pointing at a localhost address, and then I use a modified version of Webpack Dev Server to serve the React app in development at that localhost address. I use a helper utility to call the server-side Google Apps Script functions directly in production, but tells the wrapper component to call the functions in development, so it behaves pretty much the same way in production and development. Okay, a bit hard to explain…

Here’s a link to a quick video of using the development mode to actually hot reload the app inside a Google Sheets dialog. Trippy to see a Google Spreadsheet respond to local changes!
https://i.imgur.com/eR1s6FO.mp4
"high earners" - this thread starts with someone asking why people earning $250k would care about $20k in taxes and the person you are replying to is talking about tax/income in Europe, not marginal tax rate

- 37% federal requires $510k income (after $12k personal exemption and probably $20k retirement savings)

- 13.3% state in California requires $1M income

- Social security is included in FICA and does not count towards the marginal rate for high earners (you pay no social security tax on income above $137k)

- Local taxes?
> To best of my knowledge, Nvidia GPUs works just fine in all other laptops.

Nvidia bumpgate says hello.
https://www.amazon.com/TOPPING-es9018k2m-opa2134-Decoder-Amp...

"HIFI Audio Decoder Amplifier - Aimpire AD10 MINI USB DAC CSS XMOS XU208 ES9018K2M OPA2134 Audio Amplifier Decoder"

This is a fake. Strange how the URL says TOPPING but the product is from "Aimpire". Aimpire has been photoshopped into some, but not all of the product pictures (where TOPPING is still visible in a few).

Turns out that Aimpire has had a contentious relationship with Topping (the designer and manufacturer of the real thing), started making their own (inferior and unlicensed) versions of the Topping product.

Looks like this one is "sold by amazon.com". Huh. Guess it slipped by their counterfeit checkers.
you're being a little hyperbolic. haven't you ever heard of premature optimization?
Perhaps it wasn't intended, but the post read as a complaint that it wasn't easy, but self-hosted WordPress (i.e. wordpress.org rather than wordpress.com) doesn't sell itself as a one-click install CMS. (Although there are things like MAMP that allow you to delegate the basic server setup).
> you can convert to title case or ... for display purposes.

I am skeptical if someone thinks they need to do this and how they will get it done.

Eg. Looping through and capitalizing the first gylph after breaking whitespace regardless of locale is not the way to go, but I guarantee you a nontrivial amount of people reading this would write exactly that if asked to solve the high level problem.

I find it annoying when software or even in some cases human typists try to enforce English language title case. Some other languages have different rules for titles and capitalization and seeing the English rules enforced out of context can be jarring.
I love how cis people, after reading (likely only the abstract) of one paper and now fashion themselves experts on the lived experience of trans people.

Measuring a correlation says nothing about causation (either way; there's a lot of room for confounding factors). The implication that autistic people will "mistake" their dysphoria is incredibly patronizing and just frankly rude.
Using the Belarus elections as an example here (government meddling) is like saying Litvinenko put the Po is his own tea
Similarly there’s mruby which is quite stripped down, not sure of the exact requirements though (those micropython requirements are quite impressive)

https://mruby.org/
There's only one way for interest rates to go from here, and home prices vary inversely with those rates. For middle class folks still working, I'd say save your money and wait for the next housing collapse. Sure, interest rates may be higher but you'll have cash. Or I could be wrong...
The only breaking change was that async because a keyword, the Futures stuff didn’t cause any breaking changes. There were three major versions of the library before it moved into the stdlib, though.
I dunno about his friends, but my building is currently at close to 60% vacant. 300 units...
if you wanted a cms and was using jekyll, why not something like https://forestry.io/ ? it's git-aware, which means it should work with github pages (i've not tried it myself, other than a cursory look-see).
They do give an example of a question, in which the model chose an incorrect answer in the adversarial setting:

"The condition of the air outdoors at a certain time ofday is known as (A) friction (B) light (C) force (D)weather[correct](Q) joule (R) gradient[selected](S)trench (T) add heat"

I assume this might be characteristic for other questions as well, although I don't know anything about the Regents Science Exam and whether there are multiple questions about closely related topics.
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I think you undervalue what you as a content provider can do with your choices. Sure if you're aiming for millions of clicks (which doesn't bring that much money these days), you can plaster your site with trackers and hostile script. But if you want to reach out to "hackers", that'll only turn away your audience. An alternate scenario to yours could be that Google's web is racing to the bottom and loosing readers (of the kind you care about at least).
Things like this is how we got NodeJS. Sigh.
> many people want to believe that they are being understood

Not only that, they also want to understand. I read some computer poetry a few years ago that worked. The computer did not intend any meaning, but I found it anyway.

And of course I did. This is how language works. We assume that people (and by extension, the texts they write) follow a set of rules which structures how we engage with them in a successful manner. Paul Grice formulated this as the cooperative principle in his study of everyday language, but I believe it is the exact thing that is at play when people meet NLP:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative_principle
I run a shared hosting business. Mostly wordpress, of course. Most people have their first contact with all this when their site is hacked (plugins not updated for years) and they have to clean up. Then we need to babysit them - but to a degree that is what we are paid for. And for good reason.
This article is from 2019 but I discovered it only recently by accident.

Bruce Schneier makes the case against both cryptocurrencies and Blockchain technology, as I understand it.

I think it should get some more attention, because it makes a very good case, centered around the topic of 'trust'.
Goodbye Google–Huawei Now Urgently Turns to Apple Instead
Previous YoY was -1.9%/-1.5%.

How could +5% possibly be an actual trend?
What new magic teaching innovation have independent schools done for this year's cohort, that wasn't available in previous years or to teachers in the state sector?

Table 9-10:
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
How I completed the 365 days of code challenge
who cares? live your dream for 1 or 2 years and move on, or cross your fingers that new opportunities present itself in the denser environment that let you keep up with the rent. If you don't make new friends that you want to be roommates with for lower individual rent, then you end up moving on anyway.
And the problem is kapton is just one of many polyimides, (pmda-oda) there are other others like P84 (btda-tdi/mdi).

But nobody knows the generic name (the acronym isn't even in the wikipedia article) so fly by night vendors use 'kapton' wherever they can get away with it.

(and as with teflon, iirc they sell other polymers under the name of kapton too)
French here, I recall my primary school textbook where they said something along the lines of "sometimes accents are dropped, that's sort of fine as long as it doesn't change the meaning". They gave the example of a fictitious newspaper whose headline was "UN POLICIER TUE": depending on the accent (tué/tue) it means either "a policeman kills" or "a policeman killed".
> OK, but in this context how does reductio ad absurdum help us?

It helps us at least establish that property taxes effect supply.

If there is an additional cost for holding a certain supply, then this will discourage people from holding it.

For other examples, you can think about how it would discourage people from building new supply because that supply is less valuable, due to the additional costs of holding it.

> These properties have the same rents as any other

It is not about the effect on existing properties. Instead, this is about the effect that at tax has on the supply of housing.

Higher costs and higher taxes disincentives the ownership of, or creation of new supply.

> We can say with good empirical basis that halving and doubling the property tax rate has no effect on rents.

No. Because you are ignoring the effect that costs have on supply of housing. The higher that costs are, for both building housing, holding housing, or any other cost at all, means that owning that property is less valuable, and it means that less future housing is produced, due to higher costs.
I've yet to encounter someone in my NYC circle who isn't glad HQ2 was killed. Activists may be a small portion, but that doesn't represent the entirety of local support. None of the people I know were directly involved in said activism.

By this poll [1], 36% opposed it. While it may not be a majority, over a third of people is notable. I'm not looking to rehash this in gruesome detail, but I think your qualm is with much more nuance than "a very small, vocal group killed it".

[1] https://files.constantcontact.com/9c83fb30501/c25e9a3a-d06b-...
> I would expect somewhat of a swing back away from remote work when we get a vaccine.

I think a lot of people will move back to where offices are located, but I'm wondering if we'll see an increase in people who fly in for a few days every few weeks for meetings then jet back home to a cheaper part of the country. Relationships are hugely important -- and deep relationships are almost always only built in-person -- but we're overselling how much facetime you get in a full week vs. a very impactful 2-3 day trip with time for lunch/drinks etc.
Similar observation, on my tiny stretch of street I've seen 7 moving trucks since SIP started, far more than I've ever seen. I get it, If you just moved or been here 1-2yr I'd leave too, the costs would make no sense.

I'm right on the fence. I've been at my current place ~6 years, prices have just started to get to about what I'm paying (rent controlled). I'm hoping it drops some more so I can negotiate a reduction.

...with permanent WFH I too want to leave, head to Europe (I'm a citizen). With travel restrictions in place, and my employer saying they'd adjust my pay to reflect local cost of living I'm not sure what would be best.
I'd be very curious to see the breakdown of that $202M. E.g. Which or what kinds of projects did those developer-hours get spent on? That would be my main curiosity.
> severe AMT vulnerabilities (basically allowing complete takeover of the PC through the network)

Does this mean when the PC was connected by ethernet cable? Even by wifi? The exploit could have worked by visiting an arbitrary website? With no click? (I’m not being skeptical. I just want to understand what’s required for the exploit to work.)
I'd add you need to know how your OS will handle the installation, IIRC Mac OS comes with pre-installed PHP and/or Apache which uses configuration files you might not know to look for and may conflict using the same ports etc. Its a mess.
See https://blog.acolyer.org/2017/09/19/to-type-or-not-to-type-q...
I have a school-aged child. I have an offer from another startup in a different city and am likely to take it. We love our school here - it's one of the better ones in the SFUSD system - but with everything being remote, as well as the district kneecapping just about anything our parents and support orgs want to fund to help kids, its becoming a wash in terms of quality.

Plus, with everything starting remotely, the fact that school starts tomorrow doesn't really matter. Even for a school with a strong sense of community, in which us as parents are deeply involved, it still feels fairly impersonal. My own child is pretty indifferent as to where they go to school at this point.

That said, sticking it out isn't the wrong call either. This is a great city, it's just that with everything related to COVID, its becoming less worth it.
Welp. Their response to Raptor in that thread just forever cost System76 my business.

System76 takes the position that compatibility with x86 binaries is worth having to take closed, remote-access-enabled, binary firmware. That's a position someone can take.

Responding "So what?" and "I was expecting this" is just nasty and unprofessional.
Yes, I think the most practical scenarios this would fail in the real world would be:

1) Signed binaries or other similar concepts such as "anti-cheat" stuff that tries to detect binary modification.

2) Code that actually does do really weird stuff in order to fool static disassembly, e.g., obfuscation which is not uncommon in games and some other binary types.

Of course, if you created the binary yourself, you'd be aware of all these gotchas, so this would only come as a surprise if you were applying it as a "third party" to some arbitrary binary.
I think the ability to run unknown code in a sandbox is probably the most interesting use case. This is particularly compelling in P2P computing projects.
>It might be worth noting that strictly speaking this isn't safe to apply to an arbitrary binary. That is 31 c0 and 33 c0 might behave identically when executed as xor, but they could, for example, also be part of a larger instruction where the swap results in a change in behavior.

Technically speaking, you can't apply any transformation to arbitrary binaries, because then the encoding changes and the code can look back at itself. This actually features heavily in a recent Hacker News article https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23557998 about reverse engineering the Snapchat app, where the code regularly took checksums of itself to frustrate debuggers and take different codepaths if tampering (such as to insert breakpoints) was detected.

Assembly is kind of, in a sense, the ultimate homoiconic programming language.
As I commented on his post, you'd have thought that after seeing the mess in Scotland there would have been alarms bells ringing among senior leadership "Abort, abort, abort!"

But yeah, why would you bother learning when you can just make the same mistake?
Author of wasmex[1] here (an elixir package which allows runnung WASM).

Next to the mentioned wasmtime, wasm3, and wamr, there is also wasmer[2] I would add to the list of capable WASM runtimes.

The great things these runtimes offer are how easy they are to integrate into other programming languages environments. E.g. with wasmex you could easily run WASM from your elixir application (or with wasmer from ruby[3] or many other languages if you want).

Imagine building shopify, but without needing to invent your own template language for customers to extend their shop-template[4]. They could provide a WASM extension API where shop-owners could let sandboxed WASM files render their shop. This would let allow shop-owners to write templates in their favorite language instead of e.g. liquid and still be secure.

[1] https://github.com/tessi/wasmex/
[2] https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer
[3] https://rubygems.org/gems/wasmer
[4] https://github.com/Shopify/liquid
We've HAD a browser monopoly in the past, and the results are _still_ visible. Entire countries are hooked in technology that is absurdly obsolete (even by the monopolist itself) and almost an entire decade passed by without much innovation.
> the fact that, “literally” has come to mean, “literally [there are]” bugs me a hell of a lot more.

I think you’re jumping to an incorrect conclusion. There are numerous sentences in the article (and others from NOAA) with no verb, it has nothing to do with the word literally. This isn’t a piece of literary writing, it’s abbreviated language intended for a very narrow field of professional readers. There are many examples of other professional communication that similarly do not follow normal conventions for casual writing nor conversation. Look up airline or boat pilot transcripts, or medical science papers, or HAM radio users... a huge number of niche fields that have their own sub-languages.