skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you've got it backwards. If new cars all cost $200k, would you buy one as an investment? No -- you'd either not buy one (unprivileged) or buy one anyway realizing it's a cost (privileged).

I might spend $100k on a house that I was going to live in for 20-30 years, even if I knew that at the end of that time it was going to be worthless. But I certainly wouldn't spend $500k+ on a house unless I knew I'd be able to sell it for more down the road.
Not the parent, but it's obvious what the origin of the phrase is, and while it may not be as icky as something like "open the kimono", it's definitely one that is trivially replaced with no loss in meaning, and therefore almost certainly should be:

"The issue with 'off the reservation' and similar phrases is that these things are said without any thought. They become a part of the common vernacular. Freely they move from mind to mind, mouth to mouth. Maybe the meaning of these sorts of phrases never should have been the issue. Maybe living lives without thinking about what we say and do is of greater concern."

https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2014/06/29/326690947...
You can actually mute the “microphone” feature (which is an electric disconnect internally, someone on HN mentioned before), and just use the smart speaker capabilities through the app, for playing music & setting smart home routines.

So even those who don’t speak can use it
@dang should probably link to the main Bloomberg story rather than a shorter, opinionated site/blog:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-01/fed-s-mor...
Grey markets might not be a real, standalone market, but they do describe real side-effects of a non-conventional supply chain.

Take grey market cameras. They're are often bought as kits from Asian markets, broken up into lenses and camera bodies and sold on "as new" in western markets but with no support direct from eg Nikon if it goes wrong. Warranty support is from the reseller only. They may ship your unit back to China for support, or repair/replace it at their cost.

So no, these are important differences for customers to recognise. Let's keep using it.
I don't have the background to understand your answer, can you make it simpler with some examples ?
Overall, disposable income is up significantly since the 1980s. Like about double. (Which isn’t to say we couldn’t do better with unions and increased minimum wage.)

https://mobile.twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/130337025075527...
Yeah, my startup, Terrament solves the heavy cable problem by using modules which each contain a motor/generator and they each support their own weight. This allows us to truly maximize height and weight per shaft volume. You can see my other comments for context. (https://www.terramenthq.com/)
They're microphones who can think.
Hundreds of companies will lose revenue from commissions / fees of transactions.
There were fewer loans, by $ amount - https://research.collegeboard.org/trends/student-aid/figures...
To be fair, how is that even remotely true? Look at the wealth, convenience, leisure and abundance all around you. Even people with lower income experience high standards of living. The system we have now is not without fault, but it has done better than any other before in meeting our needs and desires.

I don't understand why people make wild claims that everything is distributed to only a few hands, thats preposterous. If you really believe that, you are poisoned by ideology.
See section 4.3 Urban and rural prices move together. Urban prices may be unaffordable, but the data suggests they haven't inflated faster than rural. Perhaps urban/rural is too coarse a distinction to reflect the effects in major coastal cities, but the return to coastal cities didn't begin until the 1990s. Price inflation indeed accelerates in the 1990s in the U.S., but excepting Japan[1] it accelerates in all the other countries even faster; likewise for the 2000s.

[1] Presumably still reeling from its 1980s property crash.
The DTC Party’s Over. What Happens Next?
At no point will the manufacture or distributers sell at a loss unless it's for strategical reasons. Perhaps the prices will go up in the countries with lower purchasing power, but it's bound to go down in the countries with higher purchasing power. That may or may not be intentional, but it's clearly possible to sell it at the low price, so they could just do that.
I experience similar anxiety. For too long I kept my profiles (GitHub/Twitter/..) pseudo-anonymous. So that If I mess up somewhere I don't have to face the consequences after I shut that account down. This is primarily due to social anxiety rather than having any malicious intent.

Even my HN account is anonymous.

(That I think is holding me back too.)

I cannot imagine myself working like Evan.
I read this post and its vagueness gave me no info. Where's the link to the LTSE? How does it work? What's the plan? Any quantitate metrics?
But what good does it do to have such a instant information on speculative value outside of the world of making money with it ?
Hey don't forget Vicky II, which is mostly a complex spreadsheet simulator with sliders and a map.
> You cannot have both affordable housing and high returns from housing

Sure, you can, but only if real estate in established neighborhoods is more expensive than housing in new neighborhoods, which isn't hyperlocally sustainable but might be sustainable over a broader region.
I dont think it would help at all for compiled languages actually. The reason that they distribute source instead of binaries is mostly due to feature flags and conditional compilation.

Seems a bit off track too. WASM is a very lossy compile target and that's not acceptable for most compiles languages which need explicitness and assumptions about the target machine for their optimizations (ones written by the programmer, not the compiler). And the security concerns are tricky - sand boxing is always expensive.
... at time of war?
"This is extremely dangerous to our democracy."

https://youtu.be/ZggCipbiHwE
Wikipedia says that it's under the jurisdiction of the Federal government of the United States. So maybe depends on how you define 'government'?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve
oops, thanks...had the 'encrypt all sites' setting to ON in https everywhere.
Looks interesting but it feels like this space is a bit crowded with all of the plotting libraries out there for python.
A recent example of Epic exclusives was Borderlands 3. It was highly anticipated, and then it came out that it would be exclusive to EGS for 6 months. I refuse to use EGS (for my own reasons), so when the hype died down after a few months and it arrived on Steam, I forgot to buy it. In fact, I still keep forgetting.
Porsche did something I thought was pretty smart. They introduced a line of radios with Car-Play functionality for their cars going back to the 1960s.

https://www.porsche.com/international/accessoriesandservice/...
EU4 has also had a few of those updates. Not every update changed everything, but some did.

I don't really have a problem with that, though. These games, especially a new one like Stellaris, are also a search for the right approach to the game they want. Sometimes they realise (based on feedback most likely) that they took the wrong approach and have to make dramatic changes. Would you rather they abandoned the game and release a new game that does it right, or that they update the old one? I quite appreciate Paradox's approach. You get way more value out of the game than with most other games. And if they did that with Stellaris, that gives me hope, because the initial version of that didn't work for me.

And if you really prefer the old version, you can just continue playing that.
I guess we need another word for a monopoly central bank defined by federal law that controls the value of our resources.
The thing with games and such creative content (such as also movies and series) is the hype is after release. If you watch Game of Thrones a year later because that is when it is available, you end up with spoilers.

> To avoid this I would have to buy two separate phones at a cost of hundreds of dollars, with two separate phone contracts and phone numbers, and then carry them both around.

I believe you can use iMessage on iPadOS and macOS as well. You can even use a Mac as relay via Airmessage [1]. Its true that some Apple software is specific to their platforms though.

Its annoying having to use different IM clients or different e-mail addresses or different store launchers. They each use their own resources, each have their own attack surface, requires maintenance, and I need to remember who/which to use where. An abstraction layer like Lutris (or Pidgin/Bitlbee/Jabber/..., or (Neo)Mutt instead of e.g. Yahoo Mail) is my preference. This way, you stick to the same UI.

Just to be clear, I don't necessarily disagree with your disliking of Apple's practices. Its just that I find Epic's behaviour also annoying, and its precisely them who complain.

[1] https://airmessage.org/
> low performance and the enormous memory consumption

That has not been what I've seen from it. People have made video editors and ported game into web pages. You make a lot of claims in this thread about speed and memory but don't back any of them up.
Not even in the same ballpark of relevance. PR is different than HR
I've always felt that Kubernetes isn't appropriate for most businesses to use directly, but rather it's a platform for simpler platforms--someone like Heroku would build on top of Kubernetes and expose a much simpler interface for their users so they don't have to think about SSL, DNS, logging, load balancing, auto-scaling, etc. Alternatively, maybe the problem is solved with "distributions" of Kubernetes analogous to Linux distros--preconfigured Kubernetes installations so you don't have to figure out how to configure your own Kubernetes service (arguably this is also what cloud providers give us with their managed k8s offerings). I'm curious to hear what others think.
I'm not talking about the times it take for selling as much as the absence of delay between buying and selling.
My mind autogenerated this meme "and thats how kubernetes was born" ... hehehe
I just got back from a week of backpacking in a wilderness area in Wyoming and saw about 6 people over the course of the trip, and it was great. Unfortunately for the author, he's probably going to have to sacrifice the camper if he wants any immediate relief - if you have to get their on foot (or by horse), it drastically affects who is going to go there.

IMO the longer term solution is to educate people. One idea (not a cure all, but it might help): offer free classes on nature conservation, good camping practices, etc. Each person who hasn't taken the class in the past N years pays a much higher access fee to the campground.
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Shrug, I only mentioned it because there was a thread about using old word processors.

Regarding Word for DOS, I did try it out, but I think you're mistaken - it's capable but not as powerful or configurable as WordPerfect. I think you're calling it "modern" because by default it has CUA key bindings (Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V, Shift+Arrows to select, etc.). WordPerfect has those too, File->Setup->Keyboard Layout and then switch the default "Original" bindings to "CUAWP". This is better than Word, because you can edit and rebind the layout, even to macros. For example, I always use Ctrl+W to delete a word, so in WordPerfect I bound it to DeleteToBeginningOfWord. I don't believe that's possible in Word.

Another major drawback of Word for DOS is that it's fixed at standard VGA text resolutions (e.g. 40x25 characters), where as WP supports arbitrary resolutions. I can resize my xterm any size up to 255x128 and WP just works.

What are the "other, modern options available", with the requirement I've already stated - that I want it to run in a terminal? I would be very happy if there was a vim plugin that makes it a word processor, but I really think I've tried them all.
> E2E would require me to use only one device for that specific chat, which is makes it really hard to explain to a layperson.

Not necessarily. It is hard, but Wire (wire.com) has done it. You can install Wire on multiple devices and have the chats sync up. Every chat is E2E encrypted, one-to-one or group chats.
I don't buy this at all. This modern incarnation of The Clapper has wide appeal. Everyone wants to turn things on or off. No one wants to get up.
Maybe it depends how you define "under the jurisdiction". Every citizen and corporation in the US is subject to the government's jurisdiction.
> Visual Studio 2019 will still install the necessary toolchain if you ask nicely

Could I get a link to how to do this and/or web search terms? Is this just something targeting visual C runtime 20xx or older?
One of the biggest is groundwater removal. Behind that would be the maintenance of shoring materials in the face of earthquakes, and ensuring that it remains straight in the face of earth movement.
Nice and safe places in the EU are expensive and there is not much space. The ex USSR countries are cheaper but I wouldn't recommend moving there.

In western europe:
Real estate is more expensive than the US, public health care is a bad joke at the expense of the taxpayers and whenever you need something more than "I have a stomach ache", you go private. The main difference with the US is that our government doesn't intervene in the health care market (too much) which means our private health care is quite affordable.

Taxes are generally on par with the USA in most countries.
Fuel costs more but few over-expensive cities (eg London, Paris) have barely decent public transport (not that cheap though).

Some countries have it better than the US but the jobs pay significantly less.
I would say the UK is a good compromise in terms of costs of living, low taxes, high salary and weather. Even though tax-wise things may change for the worse, given the cost of covid's lockdown.

Another approach would be to look into some poor islands or places with special tax regimen and being able to command a high salary remotely because of your experience. I'm not sure how much more this strategy is going to work in the future, though: if everyone is remote, wages should go down / be linked to where you live.

Overall, I'd say a few countries are better than the USA, but most of Europe has several disadvantages.

I have some friends who found happiness in South Asia, but that's a completely different mentality.
This is literally the opposite of what is true. Every _single_ thing that you own tells a different story than the sentence you wrote above.
America Is Trapped in a Pandemic Spiral
You sort of can, but it requires increasing density (so per square foot stays similar but those with low incomes can still afford a small place) or older neighborhoods becoming more expensive than newer neighborhoods (happens all the time).
Didn’t Epic initially go around the Play Store and require you to download an installer from their website? And then it turned out that it was a good malware vector? That’s what I fear will happen if we get alternate stores: lax security leading to malware.
Oh well wait until you hear about Laravel. I appreciate that there is still such a large developer community committed to pushing traditional server-rendered web apps forward. Laravel has some amazing stuff for creating presentation layers within the framework, the most exciting (to me) is Livewire
Cached version of the article since it seems swamped right now http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:pyUsrEA...
Wire (wire.com) has done it. You can install Wire on multiple devices and have the chats sync up. Every chat is E2E encrypted, one-to-one or group chats.

Even Signal Desktop does not require the communication to pass through the phone (or even to have the phone around after setup). WhatsApp is the odd one in this respect.
> Yeah 90s with handful games available and rampart piracy its no wonder you could have been 'successful' back in the day. Meaning become popular game/brand.

Of my friends, I think only 2 of us had actually purchased Starcraft licenses, lol. Everyone played it, and everyone loved it but ere'one didn't pay for it...
It's not that people can't do dispersed camping but rather that low-class urbanites who never learned wilderness culture and etiquette are now venturing to places they never used to and are quickly destroying sacred places. Graffiti and litter are growing problems. Tampons and toilet paper behind every rock and tree. Boombox radios. They blight where they live and are now blighting wild areas.

Downvoters: my opinion may be negative but it is accurate. This is a growing class problem.
"If someone is pointing out a case where a vaccine caused harm or that they're worried about it — you know, that's a difficult thing to say from my perspective that you shouldn't be allowed to express at all."

Where I'm from, we call that misinformation.
This is not confined to camp sites, on sub reddit dedicated to our own city there are always pictures of trash left behind by people in our city parks.

I would just suggest the BLM apply a surcharge too all camping, they provide you two bags, one for trash and one for recyclable materials; labeled on the bag what is acceptable; and upon leaving and turning these over you get a refund on the deposit. Perhaps a bag per three days with a twenty dollar deposit.
Implementing dplyr:across in Julia [video]
OpenSSL Raccoon Attack (CVE-2020-1968)
The line I heard a number of people repeat at the time Obama got it was "Why is he getting a peace prize, he hasn't done anything as President yet!". I really haven't followed it that much, but it sounded like it was from his work as a Senator before becoming President.
Thanks for the link. I tried the cubes 3d demo which takes about 45 seconds on my laptop until no cube moves anymore (around step 590); probably not the expected performance; if I find time I will run the Rust version locally.
This is what you'd expect, but he is very hands-on trying out technical ideas. I would look through his tweets to see the things he gets involved with.

Recently he built Vite to see if it'd be possible to have a dev setup with no bundling (just using ES modules). It's evolved since then, but he picks up work a lot on new ideas and seeing how it can drive the direction of Vue.

https://github.com/vitejs/vite#how-and-why
Aerosols vs. Droplets: In Transmitting Covid-19, There’s a Big Difference
when i go for a hike i bring a trash bag and often come out with it full. maybe consider similar and convincing your social contacts to do so instead of deferring to some other authority? the commons are what we make of them, and “it’s someone else’s responsibility” is the heart of the tragedy.
> You don't get promotions/pay hikes/bonuses for taking garbage out

Cleaning and streamlining processes and procedures can have huge effects on the company and get you noticed.

It starts with little things, Say you decrease compilation time by 30sec which could add up to hours a week. Or clean up documentation, making on boarding new devs easier.

Then one day you clean up something that has a huge impact on the company. Like a 40% reduction on server costs, by dynamic scaling... Then you're likely to get a promotion...
Every day that passes, I worry more and more that we've naively entrusted too much to Zuckerberg to do what's "right."

I look forward to whatever platform can figure out how to provide a viable alternative and thrive.
Lately, I've been recycling gummy tins into magnetic portable board games.
Open source governance: Benevolent dictator or decision by committee?
People say that shareholders "own" a public company, but that ownership is much more limited than ownership in the normal sense. In reality shareholders have very little direct input on how the CEO gets paid. The best chance for shareholders to influence CEO incentives would be if an activist investor got involved and made it an issue, but that's fairly rare, and usually only happens in the most egregious cases.
> If packages were distributed in Wasm (plus headers/type declarations), you could JIT or quickly AOT compile them.

Why though? For compiled languages it would make significantly more sense to distribute them in LLVM intermediate representation than WASM.
> but...for whom?

I guess that for animals, and rightly so, I may add.
https://kubesail.com offers the exact service you describe!
Do you even know anything about what you’re talking about?

A lot of student loans in the US are also backed by the government. So obviously this isn’t the solution.

Making money easier to get simply increases the “supply” (or rather, increases the buying power of the students) which basically allows colleges to keep increasing their prices with no increase in quality. If instead loans were given by private creditors, believe me, the quality (in terms of job prospects and earning potential) of the specific college and specific course that a student will study would quickly become very important. No more “social media marketing” or “feminist history” courses costing 50k per year.
It would be indeed a great feature if that was something only shared between you and your wife.

Alas you get a lot of extras to go with it: An algorithm decides that you then must be hungry so ads for Arby's (they really can't rely on word of mouth) keep popping up in your navigation.

After three such messages an algorithm decides your wife might be in the market for a divorce lawyer, because in 50%+ percent of the cases this might be a sign of marital disagreement. Your wife's newsfeeds change just a little because she is now deemed pro-divorce with messages about huge settlements and divorce horror stories, because those keep people engaged.

Safe driving...
Someone’s opinion is misinformation?
I agree with this completely. (And also don't think the current laws support Epic)

However, I am curious about what happens when you force xbox to run unauthenticated 3rd party software. The reason why consoles can be priced the way they are (very low, usually taking losses) is because the company makes it back on game sales.

So what happens? Microsoft is in a solid position with its "stream to system" upcoming hardware, but I think this will force console prices to go up.

As soon as you can run anything on a console, the creators of the console no longer have the same LTV per customer (gamers will buy from cheaper app stores). Additionally, you'll have new demand for consoles for eg deep learning applications on xbox (this increases the value of a console)

I think this is fundamentally bad for the console ecosystem, although I think Microsoft (and its console division) will be fine because of their investments in "x cloud"
Controversy breeds clicks and pageviews which drive advertising income. As long as that cycle does not get broken you can expect a lot more misery from that particular corner.
Pen testing requires that people not be aware they're getting attacked.
To fight data colonialism, we need a Non-Aligned Tech Movement
In Europe, companies like LVMH and L'Oreal has bonus dividends or extra voting rights for long-term institutional shareholders already. Essentially, if you hold onto shares for over 1 year, 2 years, etc., you can offer shareholders additional incentives.
- You can't build a mile tall tower though.

- Keeping water out of a hole is a solved problem.

- as discussed in other comments here, adding more height gives you more PE for the same amount of weight so it's a very valuable investment that pays profits over 20-100 years for your one time investment.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/17FI-jrI9RWS3q7Ng44Yh...