skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Serious question. Since this is going to be enabled by default by Chrome 86, is there any way to block Javascript from using the API? Or force it to ask for permissions? Because it seems like anything that uses the API by default has full access to my filesystem (at least based on the demo on that page). That seems insane. I don't even want anything JS-based to see my filesystem. That's a huge breach of privacy.
The past few years have hit the construction industry hard, with the trade war spiking steel prices, the crack down on immigration combined with low unemployment reducing the workforce, and now there's a lumber shortage to go along with the pandemic. I built a house during the beginning of this mess and it was painful: it took 13 months to build a house that would normally take 8.

The cost of construction has risen such that I can't find a new construction house in my area for under $400,000 with the median on Zillow being $495,000. And this is for an area in the midwest that those reports you link report "median home price" of well under $200,000. If you can't build cheap houses, then soon there won't be cheap houses.

A lot of cities on that first list are reporting 10%+ YoY changes. That's significant. Those used to be numbers you'd see in Seattle Washington, not fucking Allentown Pennsylvania...
I don't think trying to enforce a no-compete contract with a former employee who left to work for a competitor is even remotely similar to... requesting an author correct the name of the product they're writing about.
Continuing from the longer post below.

The device has to have its contextual observable algebra develop a non-trivial center, not just be entangled as is mentioned in section 5 of the paper I linked. It's well known entanglement alone isn't enough which again is why entanglement alone has been called "pre-measurement" since the 1980s.

Note how this involves hard mathematics, not vague talk about "obvious features of subjective experience". I'll also note that this is a general feature of discussions about this stuff among non-physicists online, especially programming communities like this one, the knowledge is stuck in the late 1970s.
I understand this is a fairly technical article but I really wish there were photos of the drainage and sewage systems being talked about, particularly with respect to the clogging and illegal infill/building, instead of just pictures of Karachi's of flooded roads. It would really help to visualize just how much of the planned/built flood control flows have been compromised by corrupt development.
Timekeeping Isn’t Toxic. Your Management Is
' "It's true that partisan content often has kind of a higher percent of people ... engaging with it, commenting on it, liking it," Zuckerberg told Axios. '

Hmm, no vested interests there for sure! /s
Here are some examples: https://www.qt.io/qt-examples-for-webassembly ; some of them don't even start on my 32 bit machine because more than 2GB RAM would need to be allocated.

EDIT: I'm using Firefox 78.0.2 on Linux i386.
the people who are blighting the wilderness are ignorant, uneducated urbanites who would never take a free course even if it were available
Orb.farm a Virtual Ecosystem
When it's an all-caps, MY DAUGHTER HAS AUTISM BECAUSE OF [X] VACCINE

I mean, that's misinformation. When you know that no medical literature supports the idea that autism is caused by vaccine, and you still spread it...
It seems just to soak away capital to third parties and not prevent misallocation any more than longer-term trading would?

Compare football (ie soccer) trading windows. Player performance within a match might be like daily performance of a company.
What if the phone app or the desktop uses JavaScript or a web view with JavaScript (and in the case of a desktop, it could even be an Electron app)?
Xbox Series X launches on November 10th for $499
I get free games every month with Amazon Prime. I can only use this via the Twitch launcher (doesn't even work on Linux AFAIK).

Borderlands 3 I bought when it came out on Steam, I believe in start of Steam release it was on sale. Else I wouldn't have picked it up, simple as that. They release DLCs for the game, so that's nice, and keeps it a little bit alive I suppose.

Guild Wars 2 recently launched on Steam (like 8 years after release). I cannot merge my Guild Wars 2 account to Steam though, so its useless to me.

Humblebundle, in contrast to platforms like EGS, yields you serials you can apply to a launcher, usually Steam. That's convenient, but I suppose it isn't for people who don't want to use Steam.

Though I'm a heavy Steam user, so Steam being the defacto standard is fine with me.

I don't want another launcher, therefore I either use Steam or use Lutris to abstract all other launchers (and emulators and such).
The median home price doesn't mean much in Chicago. Most homes in the desirable neighborhoods are 1BR and 2BR condos and well over $300k or include outrageously high HOAs ($400 - $1K). There are thousands of sub $200k homes in the city but they're located in dangerous under resourced neighborhoods to the south and far west. In either case, you will pay 2% property taxes, which means comes out to $400 a month in property taxes -- about twice the amount you'd pay in any other part of the country. And that's in addition to 10% sales taxes and 4% income taxes. The only other places with property taxes that high have no income tax (Texas) or are near New York City.

Chicago isn't nearly as great a deal as it's made out to be.
Somebody in the Twitter posted screenshot from sanctions list for entry ”Tardigrade limited”. [1]

Sounds plausible for me that some automated tool found a match and these transactions went for manual review.

[1] https://sanctionssearch.ofac.treas.gov/Details.aspx?id=7935
You can still pay once and play the latest Legend of Zelda on your new Nintendo! They’re actually one company keeping the old world alive.
I try to be tolerant of people who prefer more motorized recreation than I do. But ATVs (and dirt bikes) really tend to rip things up--to say nothing of the noise. There are one set of trails in my town forest that are basically unusable if it is at all wet because there are basically lakes where ATVs have ripped up the trail. One ATV can really rip up a trail at a wet time of the year.
So it’s a win-win. We’ll give you a pretext to write crap about us and in turn you write it.
+ Monte Carlo integration goes to shit in higher dimensions...
It would but powerful vested interests would probably fight it tooth and nail. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobin_tax
"We" didn't entrust him. The users -- those blind, piteous, sorrowful, clearly-very-bored people -- trust him.

What's the use of worrying about him, or them? Just quit the site!

p.s. also hi Brian! chance encounter..
The ‘2 Beers and a Puppy’ Test Is My Greatest Contribution to the World
> Maybe others can elaborate on what problem is being solved here.

I found these two URLs helpful in understanding how LTSE sees its role:

https://www.ltse.com/faq

> Q. Would companies that list on the Long-Term Stock Exchange report quarterly earnings?

> A. Yes. By law, U.S. public companies are required to report earnings at least quarterly. The difference is that the listing standards of the Long-Term Stock Exchange are designed to change the narrative for success, so that the quarterly results are viewed in context as part of a long-term narrative.

https://longtermstockexchange.com/listings/principles/

> Long-term focused companies should consider a broader group of stakeholders and the critical role they play in one another’s success.

The focus seems to be less on constraints on traders and trading, and more on policies that companies listed on the exchange must fulfill. So the LTSE doesn't have to be the exclusive venue for trading and a company can be dual-listed on LTSE and another exchange — the mere fact that the company is listed on the LTSE gives you a crucial piece of information.
Personally I'd like c++ to:

a) have default parameters in any parameter position. I.e. for this to be legal:

foo(int x = 0, int y, int z = 0) {}

b) to allow me to invoke a function like this:

foo(,) //x and z are passed as default values:

c) or like this using named parameters:

foo(x = 5, y = 1,)
The front page of the NYT today is about AstraZeneca halting their trials because of a patient’s adverse reaction to the vaccine.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/09/world/covid-19-coronaviru...
I don't disagree, but it's particularly bad on the frontend.

This particular frontend person had convinced the owner of the company that there were things you could do in SCSS that you couldn't do in CSS. I had to explain to said owner that SCSS was compiled down to CSS because the browser didn't understand SCSS. That you literally couldn't do anything in SCSS that wasn't allowed in CSS.

The owner ended up having a come to jesus moment when he tried to take all of the tools that frontend developer added and make them available in docker so that no one else had to install custom development tools. He spent several days, failed on it, and realized exactly why I was being so hardheaded about the build chain.

We never ended up getting rid of those dependencies, but I know the owner finally understood my point. Instead the team bifurcated into those who had their local environment setup to be able to successfully work on the frontend, and those who didn't.
Cash Register Version 2.0 with barcode logon and to 8 buttongroups
# Cash Register Sales version 2.0

New improved version

Project link: https://github.com/DirkJanJansen/Sales/

Features:

Buttonpages changeable from 1 until 8 pages with 23 buttons per page.

Productbuttons as administrator clickable for text and color change.

Extended system for purchasing and deliveries with invoices module.

Imports with csv format files.

Barcodes inserts for new products in own range generated and in commercial range by barcode scan.
I had given up on not having a smartphone (still do not have data plan) but I am not putting any other of those spy gizmos in my house/car.
Do try Altair. Here's a post from someone who comes from ggplot2 to Altair - http://fernandoi.cl/blog/posts/altair/

here's the path to Altair scrapping 20k lines of code to make the api simpler - https://twitter.com/jakevdp/status/1006929128119926786

Altair is really good. Probably as good as ggplot2
How do I create an LTSE account and start investing? I went to https://ltse.com/, clicked on the menu and selected "Exchange". But I only see marketing material.

Update: I found the Sign In/Sign Up URL: https://account.ltse.com/
We can also listen to the phrase without imputing immoral motives to the speaker.
That's called communism, not various market forces.

During communism, people with the only currency left - power - manage to get all the best things (which can be food, if everyone is starving, or luxury item, if people are not starving yet).
In a free market luxury items eventually become common goods.

That's why most common people have a phone, a vacuum cleaner, a
microwave, a tv.
Aspect: Web app for WYSIWYG website building
Most of my colleagues find the yaml interface to be a lost cause. I tend to prefer to use the gRPC API as it's effectively the same declarative operations but you get to control it in software, which just feels right. YAML is just a crutch for specifying the API calls the client needs to make.
Do you live in Indiana? Did you move ten years ago? I can't think of a single safe neighborhood in Chicago or its surrounding suburbs that are $150k today.
You would hope that the custodian of the world's most popular communication platform would have a greater sense of obligation to the social responsibility that comes with it. Unfortunately we don't live in that world, and Zuckerberg continues choose dollars over lasting damage to the standards of discourse. He is the Murdoch of the 21st century, tearing at the social fabric in pursuit of profits and facilitating the spread of foreign disinformation if it increases engagement metrics.
I've heard this argument before: "I have no empathy for people who bring children into this world" but rather from a financial perspective, it's from a climate change perspective. Like the financial perspective, If you peel back the layers, what it all boils down to is the individual's selfishness, and inability to see the humanity in others.

The other issue I have with this line of reasoning is everyone seems to have their own qualifiers on what sort of situation should or should not be available for birthing children. How about we make childrearing (as it has been for basically all of history) a pre-eminent feature of our humanity and existence? There is nothing more awe-inspiring (or more powerful) than bringing new life into this world. It symbolizes a chance to start fresh and anew.

Don't taint this with postmodernist critiques of what should or should not constitute a stable environment for bringing new life into the world.

(Just to drive the point home, George Carlin once had a great skit that had quite a bit of truth to it, exposing the hypocrisy of the then "environmentalists" at the time: it's not about saving anything or "the children" it's about making the world more comfortable, clean, and cozy for themselves. In this case it's "ugh why do people who can't afford children keep having them? they just are a drain on society! Now I am going to have to feel guilty about all those starving children! How irresponsible of those parents!" -- and similar objections -- It's really selfishness when it's all said and done. The most ironic part I find, is the people who tend espouse such beliefs tend to be on the left side of the political spectrum, who vilify the "personal responsibility" mantra of the right, yet this is just another form of that.)
I think of Kubernetes as "the new Operating System", and these complex resources as fiddling with initscripts, fstab, /etc/interfaces, and so on. Writing an operator is like writing your own initscript.

I wouldn't be surprised if we eventually see new abstractions for "you just want a plain 'ol deployment with CI/CD du jour, a persistent volume claim, and a service ingress, just like 90% of all other CRUD webapps? Sure, here's a simple resource for that."

I think we'll start seeing a move towards more "opinionated" tools, just to outsource some of the decision making. No sense learning how to write your own pipelines if you can find a tool that says "we're gonna deploy every time you make a git tag and run `mvn package`, you figure the rest out".
Gamers are logging millions of hours a day on Roblox
The Videophone Turns 50: The Historic Failure That Everybody Wanted (2014)
> we can then create functions where we would normally duplicate Yaml.

This is the way to go for sure. I've done similar by generating CloudFormation from Python (I wrote my own library because I felt Troposphere was not very friendly nor a significant improvement over YAML).

Typing turns out to be pretty useful when you're generating YAML. While my library was fully typed, Python's type checking left a lot to be desired--many stupidly common things still can't be expressed (JSON, kwarg callbacks, etc), getting mypy to find/accept type annotations for libraries is stupidly hard, and the IDE integrations are pretty awful at this point. TypeScript users would enjoy a real leg-up here since its type system isn't half baked.
What if it's anti-covid-vaccine misinformation?
That's the whole point of the fee on the other side: spend a little time to get educated, or pay a higher rate. The rate can be raised as high as needed.
It becomes a problem when there's a monopoly or a duopoly of suppliers and there are no suitable alternatives on the market with similar performance characteristics. I believe then the FTC can get involved with antitrust matters if they are abusing their dominant position to prevent reuse/recycling.
I’m partial to Apple in this case, but one of the arguments against Apple is that those higher costs harm consumers by making them pay more than they can somewhere else.
Wow the density makes a lot of sense. But why stop at lead, depleted uranium is 19 tonnes per cubic meter (1.67 times as dense as lead)!
This is the problem with "fact checking". It positions the platform as an authority. Now, any claim that isn't "debunked" by this "fact checking" gains a certain amount of credibility by comparison. The moral hazards are enormous, multiplied by the opaque behavior of Facebook's algorithm and again multiplied by its unprecedented reach in society.
I enjoyed the writing and exploration of different image creation formats. So novice question, but are the resulting GIFs actually different (and if so, how)? Or is this just different ways to generate identical output?
Is there some pejorative meaning to opening the kimono or is it just mildly lewd?
You can do the same exact thing without this API, so what’s your point? How do you think most call center scams work? By asking the user to download an executable that owns their system and run it.
164 million people play Roblox. Seems like a very small amount of hours.
Raccoon Attack
100% agree. Kubernetes alone is just a """framework""" to describe your infrastructure, definitely not an "end-user product".

That is why in many businesses there is an OPS team managing the Kubernetes and providing tools like Cert-Manager, Istio, ... and the rest of the company who just use what the OPS team made.

Right now, everyone is building its own distro, proving IMHO the need for it.
Is it anymore complex than all the old ways?

Was Apache, Asterisk, or loading and hardening a Linux host on bare metal easier?

I seem to remember a lot of wrangling custom kernels to get Asterisk sounding just right, bizarre Apache, & network configs.

It’s just text? It’s always going to turn into a nebulous mess without literal edges and boundaries.

That’s Google’s play with it, IMO. Train tracks. Which is what I hate about it.

Google hasn’t built a less Byzantine text mess. It’s built hype though, with a boring tool
It's not just the growth of population but growth of a low-class, ignorant population who exploits free resources until depleted and then moves on.
The lack of understanding of Leave No Trace by the general public is pretty astounding. Even among people who self identify as hikers. Lately there have been a lot of instances of people painting on rocks or painting rocks and leaving them out there as well as stacking stones for aesthetic reasons instead of a navigational aid. Both of these violate Leave No Trace but I've seen a lot of people flamed for bringing it up in casual hiking groups. Neither of these have as much environmental consequence as littering for example, but it is still an eyesore and a reminder of human civilization when one is trying to get away from it.

If you really want to get away from civilization then you should consider remote backpacking trips. Wilderness backpackers, in general, are strict followers of Leave No Trace and unless it is a super popular trail there won't be too many.
Pausing, and that's why we have trials.
Portable MRI promises to provide immediate diagnosis in virtually any setting
“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.” Marcus Aurelius

We need to stop trying to enforce "the truth" to other people. Just let people talk and have different opinions. That includes letting people having conservative values, because lately this thought police is getting out of control.
Food desert is defined as "more than one mile from a supermarket in urban and more than 10 miles from a supermarket in rural areas".

Doers that really imply such area does not have good food available? Because by that definitino I used to live in food desert and still had fresh foods, such as meats, fruits, and vegetables.
Hmmm, a bit disappointed after reading their blog and site. I expected that they'd integrated some clever rules around stock trading itself in order to force, or encourage, long term thinking. I expected something along the lines of, "no shorting allowed", "stocks must be held a minimum of 6 months", etc. There was nothing like that, all they have is the rule, "come on guys, think long term".

I fail to see how this will have any meaningful effect on "long term vision", if they still allow your stock price to be dumped at the first sign of trouble, or allow people to bet against your company when some irrelevant bad news hits, or no one else sees value when you decide to deepen your spend on R&D for some long term plan. If people freak out, or think they can profit off of your lack of current obvious value, the you are still going to have short term fluctuations that you will feel pressured to address.

The problem with short term thinking isn't from companies or company leadership, they are reacting to the natural short term fluctuations in their value because of the short term thinking of investors. Shareholders are not gonna understand your vision every time you decide to engage in a long term strategic shift in priorities, so they will react when they find out, and that reaction can swiftly damage a company's value. If shareholders can still trade over short-terms, then you will still have large scale short-term fluctuations that CEOs will be forced to address, as more and more potential buyers will be influenced by the low price of a stock caused by other skittish short-term thinking investors.

The problem is with investors in stocks, not with the companies unwillingness to think long term. To make such an exchange work, you have to have clever trading rules in place to force longer term thinking.
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We don't need "modern retro", existing computers are perfectly capable of running efficient software, people just need to actually write it.
I'm in favor of many of the social safety nets so I'm playing devils advocate here to a certain extent. Also, this is probably a (largely) US-centrism take.

I think the US is still largely affected by the rugged-individualistic psyche. There was an HN article yesterday that studied the personality traits in the previous mountain/frontier and indicated these ideals persist, more in some areas than others.

So I think this impacts the mindset, particularly when an individual is asked to sacrifice for the better of the group. "Why should I pay for their life choices?" they may say. If I'm in a position to contribute more than my share, I am grateful to be in that position to a certain extent. I personally feel there is still an individual benefit by create a more stable society but I can also empathize with those who don't feel the same.
A little book called The Monkey Wrench Gang suggests this trend began 50+ years ago.
No, they used it elsewhere. When the machines booted, they displayed "Apple ][, "Apple //c", etc. at the top.
As with almost everything these days, this topic is NOT black and white despite what initial comments say. Take a look at the vaccine for the 1976 swine flu outbreak.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_swine_flu_outbreak

A comment here already says that expressing concern over a vaccine is basically misinformation. I'm sorry but expressing concern about a vaccine that is developed in about 1 year, which is a record 1/10th of the time it normally takes is completely fair, as there can be serious consequences that you don't know about for a while.

And I say this as someone who is vaccinated for everything, even optional vaccines, and has vaccinated for everything when going to Asia etc.