skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not necessarily - prices in the region might have depreciated overall, maybe it was built in a market high and sold at a market low point.

The people/company selling it might have had other monetary problems and were thus selling because they needed money and couldn't afford to wait.

If you build an underground house it is probably because you want an underground house, if you then die your heirs might not want an underground house, but to sell it they have to find someone who wants an underground house, thus to make it more interesting to buy they lower the price because maybe someone on the fence about living in an underground house will be willing to give it a try.
So they staff and run a metallurgical lab in house to which linemen can send samples for analysis, and then management simply throws away the reports?
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Try https://netlify.com. My mother runs a small business, I moved her website from a shitty HostGator setup to there and it's been a charm.

Also, I run my company's website on it (https://assembl.net) and my blog (https://blog.slm.space). Very different sites, but they all run through Netlify. I haven't had a single problem with them.

I think even the most tech-illiterate could use it with their drag+drop site hosting feature + https://forestry.io CMS.
I believe it’s possible for the center faces to be rotated in the solution?

Now it’s up to you if you consider that a separate permutation or not. (I don’t)

But yeah, every other piece is two or three colors, and therefore has only one allowed orientation in a solved cube.
I've seen HN comments that think if Epic and their games are kicked off consoles they are going to make their own console instead. I don't think "anyone could see that from day one" is true if people still think so about a different company, whose game store has less selection.
Depends upon what one considers practical? I had some nice (here: both informative and entertaining) conversations with someone I'd consider a genius, not via the more evidently practical skill of juggling, but because we'd made each others' acquaintance due to a mutual interest in Rubik's Cube.
We can never pressure other countries to do it unless we do it first.

In addition, regulating plastic means that for multi-national corporations the path of least resistance is to operate under the most restrictive standard instead of maintaining multiple packaging solutions.
> tried to fix it ourselves by ejecting costly liquid epoxy into the holes and cracks from inside the house

Waterproofing has to go on the outside surface to work.

> Any wood on the house was a magnet for termites, and they were happily gnawing away all the woodwork that touched the ground and the concrete. We replaced all damaged wood with treated timber and soaked it in creosote for good measure.

Never have wood in contact with concrete. For one thing, concrete is a sponge for water, and it will wick into the wood. For another, it becomes a highway for hidden termite infestations, as you've experienced. The solution on my house was to put a stainless steel sill plate between the wood and the concrete.

The house has an underground basement, and it's dry (20 years now). I had a wet basement before, and did everything I could think of to keep it dry:

1. gravel under the slab with plastic on top sloping down to a gravity drain. The slap is on top of the plastic.

2. gravity drain, no pumps

3. The exterior concrete walls have a layer of waterproofing, followed by a "drain mat", followed by a foot of gravel wrapped in drain fabric. French gravity drains all around.

4. deep eaves on the roof keep the water away from the ground adjacent to the house.

5. ground slopes away from the house. Driveway slopes away. Deck slopes away.

There are cracks in the walls and floor, but no water. Gotta think of defense in depth, like a castle, with layers of defense. If water pools against the house, it will get in, guaranteed. The design has to prevent any pools from forming.

> Humidity in an underground house needs to stay at no more than 50%, but I get nosebleeds at that level

I got regular nosebleeds from the dry air in Arizona after moving there. Went away after 6 or 9 months.
That makes sense, but can we do it in winter when it is less likely to start a fire?
I find it amusing that the cover photo of "Delta of Venus" is attributed to Richard Merkin. A merkin is a pubic wig.
Device to curb microplastic emissions wins James Dyson award
This actually helped me to find a contact for old child friend. My phone were still saved in his contact list.
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More importantly, even small integers are heap-allocated. Some are pre-allocated and reused (0 to 100, IIRC), but outside of that, every numeric result requires a malloc and object initialization.
Great comment, completely agreed. This is one of the first things I noticed after moving to the US. Everything is run down, except lobbies of Fortune 500 corporations.
FreeNAS supports docker, so arguably, clicking download on some panel somewhere to get a working locally hosted [wordpress, game server, ...] is simplified.
My favorite class in college was a class on Motion Planning, and I remember using the Rubik's cube as an analogy for discrete motion planning problems. It was a fun way to talk about some of the less common graph search techniques, like iterative deepening. It's also interesting how the graph produced by the transitions of a Rubik's cube is so large, yet so uniform. There are 43 quintillion states, yet each state has the exact same number of transitions: 3 for each face, so 18 in total. And the fact that we actually can reliably search that space even using a relatively dumb graph search algorithm is astounding.
If it was written in python, it can really stop working. Most companies are transitioning to Python3.
Well, that's the side effect of having the increased convenience and often dirt cheap prices the kindle ebook ecosystem gives. If you don't like it do what some of us do and just buy physical media.
HP's Reverb G2 looks really good.
I'm fine with them adding optional social stuff. People have different interests.

But why does it have to be mandatory? It doesn't make sense. They paint it as something to facilitate social, well yes, let people login with their FB account if they want to, but don't make it a requirement.

If Instagram and Whatsapp don't require a FB account to work there is zero reason Oculus would.

This artificial and completely unnecessary tying is very disappointing.
> I work on anti-DRM techniques for a living.

Who's paying for anti-DRM work?
The examples on the landing page are not representative of the quality of the service.

Try it with internet photos of people. What it does is just morph the face a little: larger eyes, shorter forehead, elephant ears, narrow and taller mouth. The only thing it tries to generate is hair, and it fails horribly at it if you try with completely bald heads.
So if it becomes possible to fit a device that collects micro particles, I guess the next step is to design the car such that it collects it automatically?

Which means - assuming this holds ground - we could imagine a future where local laws enforce that new vehicles are fitted with these.
I'm confused, how does it get: "Lots of natural light" if it's underground?
John Carmack Unscripted (at Facebook Connect)
Guide to Web Accessibility
https://archive.is/xtB4d
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From your employer point of view you might be able to save a lot of time and money by submitting a patch for the bug upstream, instead of having to write your own text layout manager from scratch to work around an issue, which if you're unlucky won't even add any additional value to the client by itself other than enabling that feature.
Just thinking: From a client's standpoint could the "large download" traffic correlation be avoided if the client split the large download into multiple HTTP requests (assuming the server supports that) that are about as large as a regular webpage request with random delays in between so that it looks like normal web noise? Of course, it'd take wayyy longer to download but wouldn't this make the traffic indistinguishable from page requests?
This is a ridiculous argument. Why don't we forcefully tear down all of PG&E's infra every few years. They'll be forced to rebuild it with the latest safety standards... smh
> I suspect that man was lying... It is very very very hard to start a fire with a hammer, even deliberately...

Out of the millions of people who use a hammer to strike metal on metal every day, one of them will manage start a fire eventually.

Even the unlikeliest events are actually pretty likely at scale.

Sure, two thirds of them may just be lying, but unless you can prove they are (which really shouldn't be that hard, considering burning fuel leaves obvious traces), you should assume each of them are telling the truth.
Read the first few tweets, then bailed. If the author can't be bothered to format and present their work properly, I'm going to assume it's not worth spending my time on. Putting words on the Internet isn't hard.
The way I see it, considering games are made to make money, the only alternative to DRM is going free to play. They then make their money with microtransactions.
Carvel/k14s has been very nice for the usecase I had. Use ytt to generate the yams, using a yaml aware variant of skylark and kapp to manage the actual atomic deployment, delete, etc.

It’s very simple and worked quite well for me.

Disclaimer: work at VMware but on a different team (it’s an OS tool built by some of our engineers, which we use internally)
I've been a professional macOS developer for almost 20 years now and I can't tell you the number of times that this has been an issue.

With no access (or ability to patch) the platform source code you are left with a) hacky work-arounds, b) re-implement the component or c) change the app's design or feature to compensate. All of which are a pain / more work / risky etc, etc - just to work-around bugs in the platform.

Sure you can file radars (I do), but whether something gets fixed or not, is up to the gods...
The article clarifies this multiple times both in the primary article and the Q&A section.

There are large windows at the front and the back of the house, in the atrium and on the rear side exposed by the slope of the hill.
This works really well when it comes to making scary pictures of my three year old niece.

I look forward to seeing if she recognises herself and what she thinks. I don't believe any adult likes a cartoon version of themselves, rarely are critiques truly flattering, a true cartoon hurts!

I tried cartoonifying my niece's favourite cartoon characters. The program failed. So you can't toonify a toon.
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Regarding the alb-ingress-controller blackholing traffic with an IP target type ingress, check out support for pod readiness gates: https://kubernetes-sigs.github.io/aws-alb-ingress-controller.... Assuming you're using a rolling deployment, old pods won't be stopped until the new ones are added to the ALB target group and are in a healthy state. This has eliminated the small number of ELB 500s we'd see on deploys.
Yeah, I was talking about centers orientations, sorry for not being clear enough, I thought the link with pictures would have been explicit.
Sure. Perhaps the main constraint in my employers case is simply that the market uses Windows.
Sounds like a nightmare!

There's no way I could consider buying a house like this second hand - how can anyone do any research on it without exposing the structure? Looking inside will only tell you so much.

And, if this was a house I'd build myself, again how would I know what would stand the test of time? What good are guarantees if a company goes bust?

I love the idea, but would have to be very happy about that this had all the details had been worked out - and I don't see that I would be able to cross that threshold. Maybe if I lived in a dry (not temperate) environment this would have a better chance.
This reminds me of the truly excellent (as they all are) short story by Ted Chiang - The Truth of Fact, The Truth of Feeling [0].

We've gotten pretty good at recording everything, but recalling it at the appropriate time and context is still the big challenge.

When Roam started becoming popular, I began hearing about Zettelkasten. It's yet another note taking system, except that it focuses on the context of when you might need the information, rather than just what's the best way to sort/archive it. A new way of thinking, to me.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Truth_of_Fact,_the_Truth...
A century ago, when it was designed, they've probably correctly assumed there's no way a safety line, even unloaded, will survive longer than a hook in there. The hook was a robust solution that could easily last a decade or two.

I doubt people back then were expecting this to be left unmaintained for 97 years.
> It boggles the mind that anyone who can write code would ever use a closed source operating system.

Some of us want our work to actually reach people who don't write code or sysadmin their own computer, i.e. most people in the world. I, for one, think my effort is wasted if it doesn't benefit those people. So while working exclusively on a free-software platform is tempting from an ideological purity point of view (edit: and I envy people like you that manage to make a living doing it), I don't think I'd ever actually do it.

Edit: I should be more concrete and less snarky. Working on developer tools is good and necessary, and you can do that effectively on a free-software platform like Linux. But I choose to focus on end-user-facing software, particularly in the field of accessibility. I could work on desktop Linux accessibility, for the vanishingly small number of blind people who use desktop Linux (and that number is shrinking; one of my blind programmer friends just switched to Windows). Or I could target one or more of the mainstream platforms where the users actually are. I suppose I could work exclusively on web applications, but I don't think that would be the best use of my skills. And even then, while I could develop primarily on Linux, I'd have to test on other platforms too.
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There's definitely an observable issue with Californian electricity supplies being significantly worse than in other parts of the world, which have more liberalised transmission operator firms.
It's quite possible that our experiences differ. For me, Steam is the one that regularly maxes out my line (at around 300 mbits/sec), while with torrents, I normally get around 1/10th of that. It may well be my VPN provider, though it does seem to depend on popularity, choice of exit endpoint, etc.
Or Ctrl-Down to get Mission Control (Exposé) for the current application's windows only
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I get it. Most of these products are bloated, but an HTML table with an input is hardly enough to be user friendly.

And sooner or later you will need to use virtual scrolling, unless 100 rows is all you need.

Have you seen DataGridXL? https://datagridxl.com. It's not 5kb but it's not bloated like other products.

Note: I am the author
Ultimately it doesn't matter if climate change is manmade or natural.
It doesn't change the facts on the ground governors have to deal with: continued water scarcity and increasing wildfires.

But thinking about if California can continue to be habitable for 40 million people is scary.
What the hell is this site doing? Fans blowing, 40-50% GPU usage.
There's also Theia [1].

1: https://theia-ide.org/docs/composing_applications/
The bureaucracy part is not true in the Netherlands. Making a business and administering is easy here. In Germany, it's a nightmare.
An often-overlooked option is Salome [0]. Although it's primarily intended as part of a pipeline for computer simulations, it's honestly about as functional as FreeCAD (with which it actually shares a lot of code, lately including the 2d constraints engine) and a good deal more stable, in my experience. I find it a good deal easier to use, and it has a few nice features such as the facility to dump your model as a Python script; the Python API is simple and very well documented.

[0] https://www.salome-platform.org/
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Negligent vs intentional is orthogonal to responsible. You could be responsible but just negligent, like an idiot lighting up a cigar at a gas station. You could intentionally light a fire but not responsible, such as if someone tricked you into doing it or you were poisoned with hallucinogenic drugs, or just plain crazy.
You said you were in London though, this is not London, this is countryside in the middle of nowhere.

Properties have increased significantly in cities but not in the desolated countryside. No argument there.
Your comment was about whether facebook "won" the VR segment, not whether facebook won over you specifically.

I'm sure many people in hackernews value their privacy above $700, me included, but that's clearly not the point here. We're just a blip in facebook's radar.
Hell, Henry Rollins has a pair that's 200k [1].

[1] https://imgur.com/gallery/VMJ8B
Is there an alternative unroller without ads? Seems like a fun project to build

(Yes I have uBlock Origin on my desktop, but I'm not on my desktop)
Well sample size of 1 and all that but I can attest to at least my legit use case.
I'm hosting some friends-and-family small services from home and front them with a couple Hidden Services. That gives me some measure of mutual privacy from my users as well as strict access control via auth being baked in the transport protocol.

The alternative would have been providing a dynamic DNS type URL, mucking around with LetsEncrypt and the DNS provider periodically and then implementing all access control in the servers. I'm lazy, Tor works for this use case and I'm lucky my users understand the 3 steps to configure their Tor browser so I'm sold on the usefulness of this mechanism!
What is "soul travel"?
Better yet, ram into the back of them so they really get the message.

I think the point is that you will do less to reinforce positive behaviour in others, than you will to amplify your own negative response conditioning.

Though I would add that if you sent your message across in a state of absolute zen then perhaps the reaction would be beneficial all round.
I would highly recommend a slopped roof over the steps leading to the house such that it directs the water away from the steps and the house.. or as others have pointed out, you will be constantly fighting water entering your house.

Second thing I would do is direct water away from other parts of the house by building a bore hole about 5-10 ft deep and about 1.5ft to 2ft diameter, in the lowest corner of the house. Use bricks to line the wall of this hole but with gaps to allow the water to drain into the hole.

Have a small, reasonably quiet electric motor which will run about 5-10 minutes every 2 hours or so (use a timer) to clear the water in this hole. This hole can be covered over with a tile(s) so that it is not obvious to those using that section of the house. Water from other parts of the house walls will drain into this hole reducing mold and other issues.

Thirdly, build a small slope around the entry into the house such that the water drains away from the house, preferably into a drain.
The Apple Goes Mushy Part I: OS X's Interface Decline |
511 points | July 26, 2016 | 431 comments
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12164021

Scrollbars: Why is Apple eradicating a linchpin of user interface design? | 20 points | Nov 10, 2011 | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3218291

Apple Engineers Its Own Downfall with the Macbook Pro Keyboard |
1183 points |June 28, 2018 | 912 comments
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17413572

MacBook Pro Keyboard Drives Me Crazy |
655 points | Aug 28, 2019 | 580 comments
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20824984

Apple faces class action lawsuit over failing MacBook butterfly keyboards |
322 points | May 12, 2018 | 271 comments
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17054710
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I have no idea what a library is but i found this on Amazon for 9 British Roubles.
> Atom is slow, VS Code is appreciably worse

I switched from Atom to VScode, precisely because VScode felt so much snapier.
It's about aligning incentives. If the user cost is the same, but the maintenance costs are higher, then something is broken, or you're eating the cost as a feature.
> With proper engineering

This tower looks weird.

Overhead three-phase transmission is super common in the EU and I've never seen anything like this "transposition tower" that swaps the wires around in the air and I don't really see why it would make much sense to do so mid-line. Wouldn't it be easier to swap the wires around at the start or end of a line, or inside a substation?

Also, as far as I can tell (from sometimes photographing these things with telephotos), the insulators seem to generally be bolted to the mast instead of being hooked in, so this entire failure mode of hooks wearing out (or dislodging?) doesn't exist. (Okay, now you have to worry about changing loads on bolts, fair enough).
Sending data via several routes should increase throughput.
Try using Nitter. https://nitter.net/tubetimeus/status/1306359385656946688
> These days, web development got both more mature,
> complicated, and simpler

"Mature" and "simpler" do not belong there.
Localization testing: why does your app, game, or website need it?
Ask HN: How do you generate leads remotely?
So i work at a german company offering custom platform solutions for customers in retail, telco etc. Usually we sell agile teams for some kind of microservice/cloud development with a backend focus (mostly Java, some Go and Node, some Angular or React).

I am shifting from tech focused roles into a consulting role and have some difficulties in coming up with approaches to networking and lead generation. I would like to get into projects at an earlier phase so we can help customers with decision making, instead of just reacting to invitations to tender.

Have any of you guys had success with lead generation for early phases like this, especially remotely? If so i would love to hear about your experiences.
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> "Values" aren't typechecked or cleaned.

Helm 3 does offer a solution: a JSONSchema definition file for the values.

Which works ... in a very Helm-like fashion. Meaning: it's messy and awkward.