skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Starter TVs" are certainly still a thing. And it's not just inflation-adjusted; you can get a 24" LED for about the same dollar price that a 15" B&W CRT TV would have been when I left high school. And there are used units out there as well.
A couple of interesting tweets:

https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/1305977929180966913

When I spoke to Katie Jacobs who is on the board of Vivendi we decided to create a “Y combinator” for the music industry so artist have the power and transparency to to be in control of our future ... no more shady contracts ... no more life long deals

https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/1306020451286544384

The Y Combinator started companies like Dropbox and Airbnb. For the first time, it cleaned up contracts and made venture capital transparent. It empowered start ups with the tools to succeed and grow their businesses. It changed the Silicon Valley game.
A lot of people seemingly don't have the patience or knowledge to do this, unfortunately :( I know people sneer about "computer classes", but I think it would be very useful to have people learn to try to solve their problems by themselves.
Surely they're going to be selling these at a loss, right? If so where or how will they recoup that money?
With real estate prices in some of those areas going up %10+ per year, and the 6-8% transaction cost of selling a property, buying something that you may not need for 10 years starts seeming more rational.

It's a risk, because things change, but if you know you're going to be somewhere long-term, it's a rational decision in a irrational game.
API-QL is essentially a glue layer to make our internal interface, Stone, play nicely with Apollo. We might open source some pieces of it, but the vast majority of it is code generation for very specific Dropbox use cases.

https://github.com/dropbox/stone
Thank you for your work, and I would encourage people to sponsor Bozhidar's work on this and other open-source software many rely on through GitHub https://github.com/sponsors/bbatsov
This is a solid point; my house seems like a classic starter home physically: a 1930's brick duplex with less than 1,000 square feet. But it's in 1930s neighborhood close to the city... so my "starter home" has a market price well over half a million dollars!

Price correlates more with location than size, at least around here. "Starter home" prices don't start to show up until you get to the wrong end of a 1-hour commute. And most of those less-expensive houses are physically larger than mine, because no one has built houses under 1,000 square feet for decades.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3182860/ this is a neat paper as well -- the hallucinations can be provoked without any pharmaceutical assistance -- just diffuse flickering light.
Is LineageOS the most trustworthy aftermarket smartphone OS out there? What makes it so?
For me it was funny at first, then it was too much, but then it became funny again, like a joke repeated enough times.
It's even more difficult when the cause has been known for decades but doesn't jive with people's means of income or religious views and is thus roundly ignored or debated in bad faith.
Unemployment in the US has been at its lowest (3.5%) AND then highest (14.7%) levels in 50 years, both in 2020!

https://www.statista.com/statistics/273909/seasonally-adjust...
Ah, in that case it sounds like heterogenous arenas are more or less a solved problem in Rust, even if they aren't necessarily 100% optimal.

Probably the more difficult piece then is just how to model arena ownership of a tree of objects that all have links between them. We want to guarantee that links to sub-messages remain valid, which we would expect to be true if they are all in the same arena. But I believe Rust allows moving/swapping objects in and out of the arena?
You can loan money to your own company as shareholder. However, there are a few things to keep in mind:

* a shareholder loan is treated like capital - it’s the last loan to receive payment if the company folds. Probably not a problem in most single person LLCs, it important to keep in mind when it happens. If you pay your own loan and default on another, that’s a crime.

* you cannot in general make up arbitrary terms. The loan must be made with terms that a third party would agree to (“wie unter fremden Dritten”). That means you should - even for your own company - have a contract in place.

Borrowing from the company is possible, but if you give yourself too favorable terms, this could end up being treated as a hidden payment (verdeckte Gewinnentnahme) and that’s tax fraud. Tax litigation has the uncomfortable rule that the burden of proof is reversed- you need to prove your books are in order. If you can’t, tax authorities win the money.

Same if you start paying yourself a salary, but end up not paying on a regular basis. It’s ok if it happens a few times, but a salary should be somewhat regular.

I’d say it’s generally easier to pony up a little cash to cover the initial expenses if you can. I don’t see too much benefit in not having at least some founding capital. You’ll have to come up with the money anyways and it’s not going to sit in the bank account unused.

It’s better to find other ways to make things smooth. For example you can be managing director without drawing a salary.
How does that indicate that Trump is racist? It's pretty well known that his father probably had some racial bias, and the article makes it very clear that this happened at the onset of Trump's career, when the company was still under control of his father. How many people do you know that believe everything their parents do? In my opinion his actions show he is clearly not a racist. I'm sorry, but one lawsuit 50 years ago against his father's company does not prove that Trump himself is a racist
Mac mini's don't have fast NICs, and they're probably still unable to use the current Mac Pros for production reasons. The old Mac Pros keep rolling off the rack.
Yep this is it. We need to provide more than just storage to succeed in the marketplace.
I installed Lifx bulbs in the main living area of my house. They are controlled by wifi through an ios app that can change the color and intensity of each bulb. I schedule sleep mode at 10.30pm and normal intensity at sunrise.

If I want to override the schedule at night I just turn the wall switch off/on and the bulbs wake up.

I like these wifi LED lights. They are the most reliable aspect of my life.
>where bribing customers to remove negative reviews

Wait, one can get money for negative reviews? Let's automate that..
Not an installer, but a compressed (and signed) archive of the thing.
Definition of incompetent:

a: lacking the qualities needed for effective action

b: unable to function properly
The robot would be more like exoskeleton with wheels.
Microsoft takes backward-compatibility as seriously as Apple takes product aesthetics.
Could be worse. I'm pretty sure some of the dirt on one of my monitors is actually dead pixels.
G Suite is an incredible value. I have an account with a single user, paying $12+tax/month. On that account I have 20TB in Drive. Good luck getting that kind of storage pricing elsewhere, I'm actually nervous about Google ever deciding to kill the heaviest users or charge more because I don't know where else I would go.

In my understanding my 20TB isn't just 20TB sitting in their datacenter, it's de-duped across accounts. But still, amazing value.
Receiving and publishing are not specifically crimes and that is why the New York Times and Washington Post won in the Pentagon Papers case. Gathering the info or soliciting it are crimes. The latter is what Assange is being charged with the in US and the former is what Snowden would be charged with if he ever left Russia. The Espionage Act charges made against Assange are fairly weak and I expect them to eventually get dropped or any conviction to be overturned on appeal, but the conspiracy to commit computer intrusion charge is both an overt act and one that is not protected by any claim of being a 'journalist'.
I believe that, while still low relative to SF or NYC, home prices in Tampa and Phoenix have risen rapidly in recent years. As for Cincinnati, not exactly a thriving job market.
I believe if you watch the end of the video which highlights Trump's accomplishments you'll agree those are not the actions of a racist.
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There are x86 tablets that dual-boot Android and Windows. Pretty sure now that Windows runs on ARM there would be similar devices that do the same on ARM.
+1 for Zathura. I use it for reading PDF and CBR and it's great. Minimal and vi keybindings.
That's some lazy bullshit.
So, someone who worked their entire life and paid off their house should be forced out of that house and made to move in retirement because...you'd rather be able to live there with a roommate?
The closest I can think of would be the "Data Governance" space. Tools like Collibra: https://www.collibra.com/

Screenshot that makes it easier to understand: https://www.collibra.com/wp-content/uploads/Blog-DataLineage...
The sky was red a few days ago. I'm guessing its that. I don't know. I'm not 100% sure, but that was the one thing out of the normal
(this sounds snarky but is not, I'm genuinely asking)

Which notifications option do I uncheck to stop from getting the popup asking me to upgrade to dropbox plus that I got this morning?
Safari on macOS supports push notifications and it hasn't intrinsically been a bad thing -- at worst, I have to tell a web site "no, I don't want your notifications." They're opt-in rather than opt-out like native app notifications are. The higher prices you and I are paying aren't protecting us from "low-quality" notifications as it is, anyway.

At any rate, maybe you're so worried about single-page web apps being bad actors that you're happy Apple so severely hamstrings them, but I... just can't see a lot to worry about there. And if Apple let PWAs be even a little better on iOS than they are now, it would go at least some distance toward ameliorating complaints about the App Store.
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I didn't say they delivered perfectly either; i3's minimalistic nature isn't really well suited to a holistic approach to tabbing, either. I just said that it delivers on the concept at all.

My frustration, fundamentally, is that I don't want every app that wants to use some kind of tabbing interface to be different. Use different shortcuts, different models. I would rather the WM/DE provide a holistic approach that can be inclusive of all or at least most of the basic needs you keep listing, and that could be applied to other programs in a uniform way.

That's beyond the imagination of Microsoft apparently (I agree that just making taskbar items clump isn't the same), and beyond the scope of an x11 WM (which doesn't have any meaningful say over the client area of any program on its own). But it's not impossible, and it's not "the wrong way" just because no one's tried or managed to do it yet.
> Yet you didn’t name any.

Reddit, Trello, Twitter. Probably Discord and Slack too.

I haven't used Android in years but I certainly don't see why these wouldn't work as web apps if you had push notifications. All the functionality is there.
Doesn’t the watch come out on Friday? With watchOS 7? Which requires iOS 14?

It sounds like due to hardware they were going to have to release iOS 14 in a day or two.
You see the same thing in NYC: https://www.apartments.com/295j-jersey-city-nj/dspz8fj/

457 sf @ $2,245, vs 636 Sq Ft @ $2,405. That’s 40% more space for 7% more per month.
This argument does not address the conspiracy to commit computer intrusion charge. Please provide examples of the NYT, WP et al sending reporters out to do this and not being charged.
How would decentralized DNS and other decentralized protocols help with search, social, and recommendations? Those are fundamentally centralized systems.
This is exactly how I feel as well. I just wanted a digital locker that I don't have to worry about. Now these new features on top of everything just feel like bloat to justify the higher price compared to similar services. I did not renew my Dropbox subscription this year.
I like this solution, and have thought about adding something similar as an "advanced feature" in Tree-sitter grammars. I'm interested to see how you've used it in grammars.
How much would you have to charge me to make storage workable for you? I will pay it. I currently pay for Dropbox "Plus" (at least I think, I do not have the mental energy to follow rebrands or renames. I pay you money to sync my files, anyway).

Currently, I am wrestling with the fact that I just bought a new computer and the initial sync took 2 days for ~100GB stored (because there appeared to be per-file overhead and I have a lot of small files). I would not call this performant.

When this finally completed, I discovered that actually I had not downloaded all my files, because even though I turned Smart Sync off, Smart Sync is still invisibly turned on. I learned this when I went to prep for a meeting and my IDE hung for 8 minutes when one of my project folders had to Smart Sync in the background. Again, I have Smart Sync turned off.

What I learned was that in order to turn Smart Sync off, you should ignore the Smart Sync settings, and instead sign into Dropbox.com, click Settings, (again, ignore the setting on that page that says Smart Sync is turned off), and turn off "Dropbox System Extension", which is actually the setting that controls Smart Sync. Then reboot, sign into Dropbox again, and let it go through a sync cycle.

As far as I can tell this feature mostly benefits boomers who think cloud is magical infinite storage, at the expense of people who actually have enough storage and want to use Dropbox for what it was actually good at.
It's important to note that many of these companies are operating under different constraints than us.

Bigger companies are able to reduce the price of storage based on it's value to other features.

Some companies make storage cheaper by going through your data and/or selling it, this goes against our values and we won't do it.
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False positives are our enemies, but may still be your friends
It _may_ be illegal where you live, but you have to remember that people live in other places than you, with different laws.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24486539.
Indeed, I wrote it by hand, the naive way.
Looking at the author's github profile gives a pretty clear answer. You are dependent on Apple, they are not dependent on you.
Ask HN: What programming language to learn at the start of a career?
What do you recommend someone at the start of their career to learn?

I want to work at startups.

Is python the most future-proof programming languge?

What do you think about learning frontend programming to have more career prospects? I dislike the idea that for backend there are different languges and if I learn python its harder to get php job for example
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Yep. Aside from the relentless onslaught of popups pushing you to a business plan have you ever noticed while using dropbox.com the UI is designed so that the "download" button is completely hidden from the user. Theres some incredibly weird product decisions going on over there.
That is actually really insightful! I cannot believe this is the first time I see the issue stated so clearly.

So the whole thing comes down when you run out of other chickens.
GSuite tech support is non-existent. I always had a prompt support from Dropbox
YoY median home prices were up 13% nationally in August. That's largely driven by the diaspora we're seeing with WFH/COVID, with people pushing into more affordable communities and driving up prices. Until now we were all competing in major metros pushing up only the top end of the curve but now there's a push towards the median priced areas.
That sounds like Firebase. Or what Firebase was once going to be.
Part of the Israel/UAE/Qatar drama. USCENTCOM is hosted in Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, IIRC it's US largest forward base in the region. I doubt US plans to move it to UAE. Doesn't seem like smart diplomacy but not unsound gamble for current admin's ME foreign policy goals. Trumps fishing hard for that Nobel Peace prize.
It doesn't help as much as you've implied since 1) you need 20% of the sticker price for the down payment, and 20% of $200k is more than 20% of $130k, and 2) in many jurisdictions you pay tax on the market value, so your taxes go up whenever mortgage rates fall and prices rise.
Isn't it <= 1TB if less than 5 users ?
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You've got it wrong, because Android has much looser review policies so these apps don't have to be web pages on that platform. People (including Apple!) push web apps on iOS to not be subject to App Store review.
I wish Dropbox had a lite version which could just sync my files without having to install over 100 MB of useless bloat
I'm not totally informed on this subject, but I do know our sync team is hiring :)
On a tangential note, it's bizarre how only certain twitter accounts are marked "state media" and all western media accounts (e.g. BBC) are left alone.
I'm not sure what you're arguing here. The simple fact is the amount people pay for housing is up since the 1990s. You can find this data on the BLS web site:
https://www.bls.gov/cex/csxmulti.htm

Here is the data adjusted for constant 2020 dollars:

1992 $9,799.06
1993 $9,543.99
1994 $9,760.55
1995 $9,924.05
1996 $9,825.29
1997 $10,106.90
1998 $10,473.38
1999 $10,712.59
2000 $10,506.40
2001 $11,055.55
2002 $11,121.33
2003 $10,997.04
2004 $10,800.20
2005 $11,497.24
2006 $12,317.69
2007 $12,262.90
2008 $12,447.28
2009 $11,989.00
2010 $11,503.97
2011 $11,187.78
2012 $11,070.20
2013 $11,114.82
2014 $11,481.16
2015 $11,670.71
2016 $11,844.36
2017 $12,399.22
2018 $12,015.43
2019 $12,190.00
I agree with you in principle. Since the 2008 crisis, previously developer-friendly mid-sized Sunbelt metros have adopted some NIMBY building restriction policies that would make even coastal California blush.

But so far, that hasn't really created a housing affordability crisis... yet. A lot of the impact has been mitigated by falling mortgage rates and rising wages. Let's just take Tampa, as one of the hotter housing markets. Since 2014, median listing prices have gone up 57%.[1] Adjusted for inflation[2], that's 49% real price growth.

But over the same period, average mortgage rates have fallen from 4.49% to 2.95%[3]. Meaning for the same house cost, the monthly payment on a 30-year fixed mortgage has fallen by 18%. In addition national median incomes have gone up over the period by 10.5%[4]. (And almost certainly more in Tampa specifically.)

Therefore housing affordability has only declined by about 14% for the median household in Tampa. All during an extremely hot housing market. Again, that's still indicative of some recent bad NIMBY policies. If housing supply was perfectly elastic, things like lower mortgage rates and higher wages would benefit consumers instead of inflating property prices.

But there's no indication that housing has become drastically more expensive in "flyover country". This conclusion can be spot checked by comparing national consumer expenditure surveys over time. The percent of after-tax income spent on shelter has actually slightly declined from 17.8% to 17.0% during the 2013-2019 period.[5]

[1] https://www.zillow.com/tampa-fl/home-values/
[2] https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm
[3] http://www.freddiemac.com/pmms/pmms30.html
[4] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA672N
[5] https://www.bls.gov/cex/2019/standard/multiyr.pdf
Technically, yes. But it has never been enforced AFAIK. That could change tomorrow of course, so I would be cautious of using it for anything that is very important.
This answer is wrong on so many levels...

I don't know why Apple is allowed to keep other browser engines out of their system, but probably just because the relevant people just don't understand that the Chrome/FF/etc. on iOS are just a Safari with a different UI and that it gives Apple about half (depending on country; in the US probably more) of the mobile browser share and users just the chance to either use Android or be stuck with Safari.

In addition, the author obviously doesn't know that the before mentioned push notification API is not just used for regular push notifications, but is also required for other use-cases like messengers for example.
There's always something you can do. There are market opportunities in addressing climate change. Find them, implement them, continually push for more economically and ecologically sustainable results. The more money there is in finding solutions, the more likely we are to fix the underlying problems.
forfend?
In pre-internet days this was called a "clipping service."
This article reminded me of this site:

http://howfuckedismydatabase.com/
All but certainly someone nontechnical referred to mobile data as "wifi", and press ran with quote-accuracy over factual-accuracy.

"Wifi" is becoming generic for wireless data access, much as kleenex, xerox, dixie cups, champagne, asprin, dremel, jet ski, google, ping pong, rollerblade, onseie, etc., etc.
Not sustainable for whom? If their pension covers the taxes and they can support themselves so they are not a burden on social services or something else what do you care?

No country for old men indeed.

BTW, I'm mentioning social services because here we do have some complain how hard life is with their meagre pension... all the while living in a 3 room flat in the middle of the city. I find those people unreasonable and I believe if they would sell / rent that property and downsize they would have a much better quality of living.