skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Historically, equity markets and housing provide similar returns when you factor in rent according to this super interesting harvard paper on "The Rate of Return on Everything, 1870–2015" and the corresponding HN discussion [0]. Far less liquid and actually more stable though according to the paper.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19817584
Feel free to call it what you like; it doesn't bother me.

But it's not "misleading" (as you claimed above) to call it a microphone. It clearly is a microphone, albeit "smarter" than most microphones.

And whatever a particular customer's use case might be, the microphone is the reason Amazon sells them below cost.
Sure, years later.

Compare to Iron Harvest, for example.

You could invest in the development via Kickstarter. Which boils down to making the project happen (due to lack of otherwise investors aka due to crowdfunding). Now, basically right after release, you can buy the game from Steam, too, but you pay full price for it (in contrast to the crowdfunders).

Contrast this to EGS. Stuff gets released on Steam many months later, say 6 months or a year, due to EGS getting the sack of money for being the sole distributor. Then, they release for full price on Steam. Why would I pay full price for a 6-12 month old game? I won't.
94% is actually a really low number for support.

that means that 6 out of every 100 people can't use it.

Roughly 10 million people visit HN every month.

that means that about 600,000 people can't use it just on HN alone.
The high growth countries had been destroyed in a war.
While despicable, and typical for certain classes of professional software, dongles were never required for any of the software I’ve ever used. Even the Adobe tools like Photoshop and Illustrator did not require anything other than a serial number.
Making the ultimate basketball robot [video]
> Perhaps the buyers in the market could pay 10% but now that they only have to pay 5% the remaining 5% slowly (say over a few years) gets factored into the purchase price so that the down payment is the same as it were for 10%.

Are you proposing that the effect is to nearly double house prices in a few years?

If today’s price is $500K and buyers could pay $50K down, in a few years, that place would need to be $1M for the 5% down payment to be the same figure.
Android Instant Apps and PWAs for Mobile
corrected, thank you :)
So you make a fund which holds the stock of the listed company long-term, and trade the fund as normal... this doesn't seem robust yet.
No. Emoji don't show well on the command line, I have never seen a a commit message using one.
This is a great idea. I’d take it a step further and correlate it to the availability of municipal fiber and also a Costco within a 30min drive.
You would need to supply a lot of power just to maintain a vacuum and levitating your flywheel. Not sure this solution would be very effective. Maybe with superconductors, but then cooling is your problem instead.
Business Travel Rewards Startup Rocketrip Sells to Mondee
Reminds of software development estimation. You start out with a rough "ballpark" idea of the task and say it will take about 10 days.

Then you actually start the task and realize how screwed you are.

And then your manager thinks you're an idiot because you said 10 days and it's 150 years later and required a treaty with Canada to resolve.
I think this is less about attracting investors who think long-term than it is about telling investors who think short-term to go somewhere else.
I'm also realizing your issue could be related to some <noscript> tags which are not processed by SingleFile and could contain relative URLs. I should maybe add an option to remove them.
Right? It's almost like employers need to kill the 9-5 factory mindset for those of us who don't make widgets.

I maintain my department with the understanding that you have to meet people where they are in life. Flexibility is key, with high, clear standards. My staff are happier and more committed than any other department on our campus because of this.

People aren't that hard to figure out - value them and be empathetic to their experiences.
Why do you think that's the primary use for most people?

I do see the appeal. Amazon sells the speakers below cost because they want to get the microphone in your house, so you can get a good deal on speakers that way.

But it's a very small part of what Amazon advertises.
>> the load of an entire large city.

Maybe if you are lifting the entire city. For perspective, take electric vehicles. Each moving EV is a mass being constantly accelerated at say 0.1G. So the weight in the graviticity system to power those EVs would have to be at least 10% of the mass of all the EVs active in a city.
> We’ve built an incredibly effective vetting system that has stopped the vast majority of voluntary parting thieves. As a result voluntary parting is extremely rare, .02% or about 1 in 5000

Is it just me or does this seem not rare at all? If you rent your gear 100 times on kitsplit, there is a 2% chance it will be stolen.
I think you have the performance differences backwards, wasm is usually quite a bit faster than comparable javascript. While it's true that right now there are additional overhead costs for browser APIs, that's changing, but it's also misunderstanding the value proposition of wasm. You can write an entire front end web application if you want, but it really shines for library code and computationally expensive code. And of course, the distribution benefits mentioned in the article.
Microsoft Patch Tuesday, September 2020 Edition
I'm a former news editor who went from a national, NYC-based publication to a metro newspaper in a small state.

It wasn't because my skills were lacking -- I was being recruited by other national publications in NYC -- but because my wife and I wanted to be closer to family, so our children would have an opportunity to see their grandparents regularly.

I found out that this sort of decision is common, and as a result, local papers tend to have a mix of:

- Talented up-and-comers, some of whom will end up at bigger-name publications. And that's great for people who want those illustrious jobs and also want the lifestyle that goes along with them.

- Wash-outs, who either tried and failed at bigger-name news outlets or knew their limits well enough to not even try.

- Downshifters, who previously worked at a bigger-name publication but decided that they didn't like the location or the lifestyle.

- People with deep roots, who could easily do well at bigger-name publications, but who love their local communities and have no desire to go anywhere else.
Eh. How will they preserve the paintings? Or are they going to destroy it? What's the difference from Islamic State burning art that "wasn't representative of them today"? Should we take down Egyptian pyramids too, since slaves built them and that's not what we are today? Hopefully this dumb ideology won't get out of the USA. I feel sad for the Americans of yesterday, though, I can't imagine such disrespect to their work here in Europe.
> if there was an exchange that required every company to pay a fixed percentage of their cash flows every year after X years

wouldn't this be roughly the same as bond markets?
Try searching for “apple 2e“ on either Duckduckgo or Google.
TechEmpower wants to "provide representative performance measures across a wide field of web application frameworks." Do you think it succeeded in this regard? It seems like the results are pretty well received by the community in general, or at least I haven't seen a lot of people disregard these benchmarks or give them the CLBG treatment [1].

1: https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
Employee handbooks are not the only source of mandates on this topic.
Facebook will pay users to log off before elections
I admit being a bit disappointed that a well-known disadvantage of web scraping was not mentioned: Web scraping is fragile!

Web sites change, web frameworks evolve, and just some subtle reordering of some <divs> or renaming of CSS classes, and your perfect scraping code from yesterday will break tomorrow -- maybe not leaving you empty-handed, but probably missing some data or delivering the wrong one.

If there is an API you can use, use it. If your budget allows to pay for API access, buy it. APIs tend to be more stable than scraping, and the data provider will probably inform you if it changes. Contacting them might even get you more interesting data, as not every column they have in their database might become published on the web site.
>WASM has a long way to go before it is really useful.

I disagree.

I can already write decent C# applications that run in browser while using already existing C# libraries for e.g parsing text and it will run fine.

So, WebAssembly allows me to use existing code C# and move it to the browser while developing in my fancy language instead of Javascript and I think it (dropping js) is very solid pros

I just think tooling (visual studio, vs code, rider, etc...) around C#'s Blazor has to mature in order to make this kind of development worth considering, but I wouldnt call that "long way to go"
Wow, I see you have already thought about this exact question a great deal. This was a clear and compelling answer.

Your pitch deck is impressive. Good luck!
i dont see why it would have an issue.

docker has no concept of the binaries that actually run, it just sets up namespaces, cgroups and a userspace. worse case scenario, you have to run the docker container as privileged, still no difference from running on host (at least with a properly constructed image, where the binaries wouldn't run as root)
Rochester is definitely cheap, but for a reason: It's a city on the down slope past its peak. It's a deindustrialized rust belt city with a population down 38% from its pre-WWII high. That goes a long way to explain why housing is so affordable. And I wonder what the tech job situation is like there (though that may matter less now, what with the pandemic increasing the acceptability of WFH).

It's hard to move somewhere for cheap housing where you literally wouldn't know a single person, though. Social life is important.

Also, there's the winter weather. I hope you like cold and snow.
I'm not claiming to be "non judgmental" here. I'm saying there's a place for basic human compassion. If you don't get that, I think you're a shallow, pathetic, and sad person. Feel free to disagree. YMMV.

And the really weird thing here, is that I'm the person that the stereotypes would suggest would be on the other side of this discussion. I'm totally on-board with Ayn Rand's notion of "the virtue of selfishness" and totally a supporter of capitalism, etc. But none of those things preclude - by definition - having a little capacity for empathy and understanding.
The pressure comes from investors. (The board is elected by shareholders, so in theory they represent the wishes of investors).

It's extremely difficult/rare to find investors who will just sit back and trust the CEO run the company as they see fit, particularly in a world where "unicorns" are going from zero to $billions in a few years. It happens occasionally, but only in the case of extreme outlier companies where the company is already a rocketship and thus the CEO/has already proven themselves - e.g., Apple/Jobs-post-mid-2000s, Facebook/Zuckerberg.

Whilst plenty of companies could reach huge scale over a longer period of time, it can be difficult for investors/outsiders (and indeed the management themselves) to know whether their company really is a slow-building long-term winner vs a zombie.

Perhaps what the LTSE is doing is attracting investors who are willing to be patient over a slow/long-term build, but to also work with the companies to ensure they really are on a path to long-term success and not in zombie mode.
> but this doesn't make sense anywhere else either

But that's exactly what happens when you draw into an SDL raster window. Even when you have vector drawing operations on higher level, eventually pixels are modified; you can of course combine drawing operations and transport a patch of the screen to the host, but this still goes through an impressive machinery with a lot of copying.

> All of this combined makes the browser platform a quite frustrating platform to work on for anything that isn't very simple webpages

Well, eventually we're on the same page.
And I am asking.. does this look like one of those situations and do you think there is appropriate oversight in this situation?

our shock I guess is that we don't think that there is scrutiny and that these ends do not justify these means.
And if you want a component UI framework (not everyone does!) then checkout out Quasar [1]. It's amazing... fantastic docs, really well thought out defaults and customization, easy to theme, lots of Tailwind-style helper classes, just overall fantastic.

[1] https://quasar.dev
Will you tell us?
I don't have children (never want children) and wasn't trying to trivialize being bored.

In fact, I found GP's situation to be quite relatable, and was relaying what I've been doing (or am planning to do) in lieu of going out.

Perhaps I should have added something to this effect: there is meaning in personal enrichment. Now is a terrible time for meeting new people, but it's also an opportunity for self-improvement and for exploring new hobbies.
That is true. But some companies got it very, very right. They made software that has stood the test of time.

The same can not be said of present-day stuff, which seems to change on a weekly basis. I don’t know how anyone will ever be able to use the old Facebook again once they shut it off.
Ford Deploys Robot Dog
I've been a Python lover for decades. I dislike a lot of characteristics of the R language, but the ggplot2 package is superior to anything in Python visualization space. It is really excellent.
https://archive.vn/NLDlb
They self-insured; different than finding an existing insurance house that would cover it.
> Shareholders agree to all sorts of craziness if they like your company

In my very limited experience, it is the _company_ which must accept all sorts of craziness from the shareholders rather than the other way around. Which is also how it stands officially...

> Institutional investors? Wouldn't the same investors interested in the LTSE also be interested in you on the traditional market if long-term is part of your DNA?

Not clear at all that they would, if individual officers expect to have to justify short-term-losses.
Ah I remember that game!

...and trying to make a clone in, I think, Q-Basic and not getting very far
The US as a whole has low housing prices. But that is including all the homes in Nebraska and other places most HN readers don't want to live in. The home prices in the ~10 cities people on HN actually want to live in are much higher and not affordable for most people. And the good jobs are only in the expensive places, unless you're a doctor or something like that.
“Implicated” as in they hate the US and wouldn’t exist without us as their enemy.
This feels performative and not like a well-reasoned choice that the poster would make in the absence of any observers.

I used WP for DOS back in the day. It sucked out loud, especially when compared to more modern word processors already available, like Word (for DOS! I don't even mean the Windows version). (The reasons are legion and really beyond the scope of this post.)

At the same time, yeah, it sucks that feature creep and whatnot often bloats good tools into something unwieldy and slow. But there are other, modern options available that wouldn't require having to shift your brain back to 1995 or whatever.
Yeah, this is another promising one. The other disadvantage with that design is that the weight of the water is actually working against them. So if their rock/concrete is about 2.5x heavier than water, the weight of water is subtracted and you only get 1.5x the weight of water. Also their height is limited by the height of their piston. So I'm not yet convinced that their solution is better than just using underground pumped hydro.
It does feel like WebAssembly development has stalled after the initial release. There are proposals for reference types, garbage collection, and host bindings that would greatly expand a WebAssembly binary's capabilities, but they haven't been implemented in any browser, much less standardized yet.

WebAssembly proposals tracker: https://github.com/WebAssembly/proposals

WebAssembly reference types (https://github.com/WebAssembly/reference-types/blob/master/p...) looks like the blocker for a lot of things, and it's in the final spec phase at least.

In Chrome, it's behind a flag since 78, which went stable in Oct 22 2019: https://chromestatus.com/features/5166497248837632
But also under active development? https://bugs.chromium.org/p/v8/issues/detail?id=7581

Supposedly implemented in Firefox two years ago: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1444925

Nothing in Safari, of course.

Where is it now though?
The DLC thing is annoying, and is a serious problem for EUIV, but for Stellaris the biggest dealbreaker for me was that each patch or update completely changed the game. Totally altered X/Y/Z, did away with transportation methods, total 180.

So then you have to relearn everything. And it's a slow paced, very abstract game to be begin with so it becomes a slog.
I’m still trying to understand the rationale. They should create a comparison against the current public markets to highlight the differences.

Based on the “long term”, I’m guessing the core concept is no quarterly reporting, so companies can focus on long term initiatives.

However, how do they explain Amazon, who reinvested what would be their profits for over a decade, to continue expanding their business and build the massive Walmart juggernaut? All Bezos had to do was describe the strategy to the market, expand quarterly sales, and many investors were patient over the years.
Every library has an api, unless you're using some protocol-only definition of api.
What are you implying with "these policy positions are at odds with power brokers in the USA"? The politician you describe would most likely not win the popular vote because the most important voting base for most politicians is the 50+ crowd (in the US and most other Western countries) and this demographic wouldn't care too much about these issues. It's really a generational conflict.
> Why should you be forced to switch devices if all you want is the convenience of a monitor, keyboard, and a windowing environment?

I don’t think you should be forced to but the things you just listed totally change the way you view and interact with a device, so switching to a different device isn’t really all that different an experience than docking the one you’re currently on.

It’s not that it can’t be done, or shouldn’t be done, but to me the benefits feel very minor. If I’m reading an email on my phone and want to answer on my laptop it’s already exceedingly easy to do so. Docking a device instead of using a different one doesn’t really change that equation.
Eating your cake and having it too is literally impossible, but having affordable housing absolutely isn't impossible. We just need to go back to the more permissive housing construction days of yore when we actually built enough housing supply to satisfy rising demand. That's why housing was so affordable until just the past few decades. We could have that situation again; it's not literally impossible.
There's a typo in the title. It should be "Method", not "Mathod"
I think it’s hard to summarize accurately. Often you find a regular renter and they’re very reliable. Most of my rentals were repeat vs first time.
I don’t know how to feel about Kubernetes configuration apparently being so complicated that you need a generator for it, instead of just having the docs and your IDE open in split screen like with Docker Compose.

That said, this still looks cool. I just hope we won’t need a Kubernetes configuration generator generator anytime soon.
For the purposes of their research and study, web scraping is stable enough, given that many websites (especially government sites), aren’t overhauled frequently. And many government sites, like those run by coroners, aren’t likely to have APIs.

Contacting the agency for the data is always a good step, but even if they are responsive, they may not be willing to email you on a daily basis with data updates.
> it doesn't help that a lot of the aforementioned activities are predicated on the entire state of California not being a large smoke cloud right now

Quite fair. I live on the East Coast and that never crossed my mind.

As for the rest, I'll copy my above reply:

I don't have children (never want children) and wasn't trying to trivialize being bored.

In fact, I found GP's situation to be quite relatable, and was relaying what I've been doing (or am planning to do) in lieu of going out.

Perhaps I should have added something to this effect: there is meaning in personal enrichment. Now is a terrible time for meeting new people, but it's also an opportunity for self-improvement and for exploring new hobbies.
There's a bit more to it. The reason vaccines weren't developed previously for other coronaviruses is because in trials for a RSV vaccine, 80% of treated kids that got infected needed hospitalisation and two died, while something like 5% of the control infections needed hospitalisation. Due to antibody-dependent enhancement.

So yes there are immunopathology concerns with eliciting a T-cell response, and inducing a humoral immune response has the potential to make things worse.
> You're thinking too small though ;). You can dig a mile deep. And you can lift enormous weights.

But at that point, why wouldn't you just do a classic pumped-storage reservoir?
Well it's here, but you probably have to join the group to get access:

https://groups.io/g/dosOrCAD/files/OrCAD%20driver%20without%...

I put a copy in one of my github repositories:

https://github.com/jhallen/joes-sandbox/blob/master/pcb/orca...

I think this is a description of what's going on:

https://airborn.com.au/layout/vddtest.html

Well this is getting really off topic, but it appears that you can run DOS programs in 64-bit Windows 10:

http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/ntvdmx64.html

https://github.com/leecher1337/ntvdmx64
There is no pressure. Good examples are Amazon and Tesla that make very little money and are valuable now because of their long term outlook.

If you really do believe it is investors driving short term outlooks, a different exchange wont make a difference to how many investors buy the stock.
Sounds like something designed to impair price discovery and efficient allocation of capital.
Ultimately this will rise the cost of capital for the companies listed there.
That's correct. Developers sell homes. The FHA loan uses government money to allow people who buy homes to pay more money for the same home, this money goes to the developers.
The deeper you dig, the heavier your cable is, and the more energy you waste on accelerating that cable.

And the much bigger issue is, you have to constantly pump out water that will inevitably fill the hole. And that only costs you money.
I guess it depends on the complexity of the task. If it's something I could knock up in a few hours time, and experiment with the results myself, why would I engage in endless inter-departmental politics, of who's project is more important, etc. On the other hand, there's a threshold where project is significantly complicated and requires professional assistance.
“His popular TED Talk: Turning Trash into Toys for learning gives an insight into his work and philosophy. This talk was among the 10 best TED talks compiled by Sir Ken Robinson and Sugata Mitra's 5 favorite education talks.” (Wikipedia)

It’s worth directly linking to. http://www.ted.com/talks/arvind_gupta_turning_trash_into_toy...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnCqR2yUXoU

He shows some amazing toy demos like (small spoilers) a drawing tool for blind children and a ¢5 electric motor.