skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People who want to make money on nostalgia would do well to only buy things that were a part of the rich kids lives.

2005 Camry prices are going to be insane in 2030. 2005 Cavalier prices are going to be about what they are now.

In 2020 every yuppie wants to drive a "classic" Toyota or Volvo like the 90s one they crashed when they were 16 and prices reflect that. Nobody is driving up the prices on Jeep Grand Cherokees or Dodge Caravans from the same time. The people who grew up being carted around in the latter in the early 2010s and now are in their mid 20s with real jobs and disposable money are much less likely to have nostalgia for those times.
Try to look from another lens.

Climate hysterics want to avoid responsibility for the economic damage that their carbon-neutral policies are going to have on society. They want accountability from others, but not themselves. How many have done the calculations to work out the second and third order effects of their zero fossil fuel agenda?

Many of the most ardent callers for climate action are themselves not even climate scientists, but merely offload their thought processing to the intellectuals who are. Almost without fail, neither them, nor the intellectual are educated in economics.

The reality is that nobody can work out the second and effects and so on for these drastic changes, because they have incomplete information. The intellectuals and 'thought leaders' themselves have a fraction of a percent of the actual tacit knowledge that drives economic activity. The knowledge is very widely distributed, which is why central planning is less efficient than the market almost all of the time.

The tension isn't caused by the "status quo" fighting back. It is caused by hysterics calling for action on things they know nothing about. How many extinction rebellion fanatics have read The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels? It's not like they would if they were recommended it - the mere name will put them off because they have a preconceived notion and will ardently resist any information which is likely to cause cognitive dissonance in themselves.

Which tells you everything you need to know.

It isn't intellectualism driving them - it is misplaced fear due to grossly exaggerated climate scare claims, drummed up by the status-quo.

Almost always, it is the same crowds who babble on about equality and wealth distribution too. Many of them from wealthy or middle-classes, who have resources to help the people they claim to want to help, but rarely, if ever, engage in altruistic acts of voluntary work or charity because they'd rather spend the time talking about it. They won't put their own money or action where their mouths are, but demand it of others - many of whom are not in such fortunate positions.
I remember reading about this years ago, and someone mentioned the location does coincide with one of the creatures in the Cthulhu mythos, but not Cthulhu itself. Don't remember which one, though.
Just always preferred Boggle. More fun thinking of words and less weird arbitrary rules around where tiles are placed, etc.
Not for HN, but the less technology literate individuals certainly doesn't think about this.
So their agent looked inside, and their agent was a professional inspector.
Couple decades ago CS was dominated by people who wanted high income.

Each class would 1-2 people in it that were genuinely interested in computers.

Early web startup cultures were heavy on college drop outs who had passed the professors in “useful” skills.
>HN users are not monolith.

This is correct. Quite often, a group which is portrayed as hypocritical is not hypocritical at all: rather there are just many opinions within the group, and they conflict with each other. As you've said, the [group] is not monolith.
I’ve been to Vancouver a number of times and yes, it has the vibe you describe.

However, money laundering isn’t the only driver of that vibe. I just got the sense it was a lot of money from Hong Kong that flooded Vancouver. So no industry was needed to support the high housing prices, it was being supported from foreign money.

But again, that’s different than laundering money.
No they're winning slowly. Fifteen years back everyone I know could easily download mp3 from various p2p applications. But now the present generation of youngsters seem to think it is Spotify/Amazon or nothing. They haven't even heard of p2p. Similarly Netflix is slowly eating away at torrenting.

The platform owners can and will tighten the noose gradually. End users and hackers have much less power than they like to imagine, especially the latter segment.
This is a good point; If you're a contrarian (or in my case dinosaur) go back to physical media and back up your own copy for personal use. Our library still brings in physical copies of everything in various formats, which is good because the electronic borrowing rules imposed on libraries are ridiculous.
But if the farmer actually sometimes got money out of legal action, I'd start to fear that the farmer's business model would BE legal action. Or at least the business model of the lawyer that gave the farmer legal advice.
Agreed. If I'm writing an English novel, I wouldn't be writing it in simple and terse sentences.
Typically when you downdsample you're going to want to filter than use whatever downdsample kernel you want with the correct stride. Since the filter is lowpass, think just Fourier transform then taking an inner smaller square of the image and inverting, then you can embed the poison image only in that frequency spectrum. Now by playing with the power, if we downdsample by a factor of 4 then just assume that we lose a quarter of the power in the original image while the poison image loses no power. So right off the bat, we are scaling up the poison image power by a factor of the downsampling ratio. For example, we might go from 1/4 power in the poison image relative to the true image then to equivalent power. The other aspect would be if the interpolation kernel and strides are known we can just make sure that the poison image has large values at those specific pixels and further increase the gain.
I don't claim expertise on this topic, but it's worth noting that on this point, a VC's incentives are potentially misaligned with the founder's.

In funding rounds, VC's themselves have enough experience to avoid accepting unreasonable terms, so a portfolio founding team with no background in business is not a problem for the VC and means one less name on the cap table and/or less burn. The same cannot be said of a technical founder, for whom a a business-savvy adviser (either as a cofounder or adviser) may be the thing that prevents them from getting fleeced by an early investor who is unscrupulous or undervalues the business.

None of this is to say the advice is given maliciously. Just that it should be taken with caution normally due to financial advice from parties with financial interests in your behavior.
We are publishing an alternative to TTS called Tabletop Playground. It’s made in UE4, so better fidelity and performance more finely tuned, with less floaty physics. Also aims to offer a more powerful in-game editor for novices and pros alike.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/838410/Tabletop_Playgroun...
Simple, reduced vocabulary is not dumbing things down. It is about using most common words available for the usage.
I agree with what you're suggesting - the article presents a theory that, while interesting, is only supported by circumstantial evidence.
Back in the Palm days I wrote a letter-tile game with letters falling from the top of the screen, you dragged them around to make words. In the 'search terms' on the sales site I used, I included 'scrabble'.

Got a cease-and-desist letter from hasbro(?) demanding I remove the trademarked name 'scrabble' from my 'marketing literature'.

Now, it wasn't in my 'marketing literature'. It wasn't in anything user-visible at all. The search terms were invisible. Unless either Hasbro got the website to release them (in which case they would simply have asked the website to remove them), OR they noticed when they searched for 'Scrabble' that my game came up first. Before the licensed game. Which was a lame app.

I felt annoyed they would stoop to this, and was going to hang fast. But my partner buckled, and removed the search term. Sigh.

Anyway, haven't played Scrabble since.
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Funny how it's N+E, not S+W
It seems the older I get, the more my life fills up with obligations. The bits left over are lower and lower quality. It used to be that an entire evening would be unplanned; I would grab something out of the fridge for dinner, sit down, and think about if I wanted to read a book or write some code or watch a new movie I was excited about. Even if I was "lazy" and chose the movie 50% of the time, I was still getting through a couple of books a month. Now at 6pm I am wanted for something, guaranteed. If it is not something specific, it is to be available for interruptions. At the end of the evening, when I really should be asleep already, I am released from interruption duty, and sometimes I can get an hour or more to myself, depending on how much sleep I want to rob myself of. At that point I would be sleepy if I wasn't stressed out, and I've probably had a couple of drinks, but that's when I hack on a personal project, or (more likely) switch to YouTube if I am not coherent enough to write code that actually works. And if I watch something like 3Blue1Brown or a software presentation then I count that as "learning."
The stabbing took place in Nice, France. OP wasn't codifying it as a "nice stabbing."
How did you learn to program on your GBA?
You've got to be kidding me. In Poland you can make 1.5x that. France must have very high taxes.
This is a lovely program, I used it with some of my vim plugins' documentation.
Is this similar to Vaadin?
Is probably an hibernating Godzilla heartbeat.
I'm not sure if we're on the same page here. When I said "cloud providers make this option cheaper than traditional servers" I meant it as in the pricing structure/plans of cloud providers. That's why I tried to contrive a scenario to make a better point. Meanwhile your definition of cost seems to center on performance and org overheads a team might incur.

You say that serverless will cost more "to prevent noisy neighbor effects"...but that is an abstraction most cloud providers will already give you. Something you already pay your provider for. So my DA point now is, is it cheaper to pay them to handle this or is it cheaper to shell out your own and manage manually?
Or "Person with too many responsibilities"
Even better, let’s ask Russia to send us a delegation to oversee our election and ensure the validity of the results.
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Krugman admits he was wrong about globalization and American workers
Dude, is your question for real? Just because you hang out with those people, you think it's not necessary for books to be transferrable to kids? It's currently possible to pass on books, DVDs, MP3s to kids, and a corporate-controlled future where that's not possible without them getting a cut is a stupid future.
Propaganda never stops when a war does. If you would like a great documentary on this, look for Century of the Self [1]. It explains how Edward Bernays, nephew of Sigmund Freud, taught governments and companies how to control people in peace time. Apologies in advance, it is a black-and-white film.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ3RzGoQC4s
Leasehold?
I think you gave it backwards; mere tens of millions is enough to collect wine and antiques for your sixth house, while almost all “billionaires” are in that category purely by virtue of their leading control of large corporations.

(I’m sure there are other examples, perhaps inheritances, but the only non-leadership billionaire I can think of in any field off the top of my head is Rowling).
Strangling the market doesn't make money. Heavy-handed ad spamming is always a mistake. How much money do we imagine they get from this?
RIAA does liaise with its counterparts in several other major countries. Ultimately IP owners in all countries want to extract the last drop of profit and more. It is a common human tendency and the US is merely a vanguard of what will eventually be a global reality.
You must admit this is very confusing. Which of those two groups are the good guys? Who does speak for them?
How big an influence could they have been in Ireland, given the outcome?
I suppose that's understandable too. To be clear I'm not saying there aren't any with a passion for the subject, there are probably just as many now as were. Probably more. But there are also a lot of people going into it for whom it's just another career, and that's fine as long as there are enough jobs for them and they're willing to work. The problems come when there aren't.
> that it's very occasionally about making the world a better place, and very often about people who want power doing everything they can to seize power.

More specifically, by exploiting and weaponizing the good nature of others. This is why they went after geek hobbies specifically: science fiction, open source, comics, cartoons, video games, and tabletop RPGs -- because geeks are sensitive and accommodating, and shouting at them how racist and sexist they are is bound to make them stop and reflect -- leaving them wide open to further attack. Had they chosen to attack pastimes rife with actual racists and sexists -- tailgate parties in rural Georgia, say -- they'd be routed, because racists and sexists don't have the fucks to give about their behavior.

As I've said elsewhere, "SJWs" aren't really geeks. They are more like mentally deranged normies who long to sit at the cool kids' table, but don't stand a chance of ever sitting there, so they take over the geeks' table, because better to rule in hell than serve in heaven.
What's the minimum billable time unit if I want to run some serverless functions from your cloud service if the cycles are measured by the millions of years?
I've seen a lot of projects use things like this for banners and messages, so it would be neat if projects like figlet, toilet, cowsay, etc. would add an "undo" feature that could be passed this sort of text and convert it to plaintext, so that screenreaders could use that to read such banners.

Probably just wishful thinking though.
This is still being litigated in Europe, but at the last decision I can find reference to (in France, Sept 2019) it was ruled that what steam does is sell a licensed copy. Therefore you can resell the copy you get from Steam and they cannot revoke the license either (excepting maybe some other violations of terms of service like cheating or harassing other players).

This hinges on the fact that the license is indefinite. So presumably, this would also hold over Amazon and is probably what most consumers assume is the case. The fact that Amazon also chooses to use the word buy probably makes the applicability even stronger.

Edit: where I say "You can resell" it should be understood "You ought to be able to resell" since it is still in appeal.
That was certainly happening. Ultimately the problem was non-local income was driving up the housing market. But laundered money (from Canadians or non-Canadians) was almost certainly the primary driver of inflated housing prices.
Rich people should not lead a country or be able to influence it (beyond their one vote). They are far removed from the other 99% of the population.
The all-new Open Web Components (new site, and setup)
From what I heard that and having a investment from which the money might shrink but but randomly disappear lead to super unrealistic inflated prices in NY (not all areas) where it's not uncommon that store spaces are left empty for years (even before covid) because they are to expensive but still don't lower the rent. (Because they don't want to rent it out, they only want to pretend that intend to do so.)
What do you expect from a transaction handled by a "blockchain entrepreneur"
>Yeah, the article just assumes that a) money laundering via real estate is happening

Sort of like how people are walking into BC casinos with half a million dollars in $20 bills and authorities are being told not to ask questions? Yeah, we don't "know" there's money laundering, but reasonable people ask questions...

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/rcmp-detachment-head-w...

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/virtually-no-controls-...
What Reface can teach us about app promotion?
QObject is not a base class for everything like in those codebases GP probably thinks about. It's a base class for a very specific set of functionality that can be very roughly summarized as "the thing wants to participate in the signal-slot communication scheme". For example, QFile is a QObject because it has ready-to-read signals etc.

But there are also tons of classes in Qt that are not QObject, esp. all the value classes like QList or QPoint or QString.

If anything, the biggest sin of QObject might be its name. If it had been named QActor or something like that, people wouldn't mind that much.
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Why would SREs be responsible for build and test infra? I don't see how that fits the mission, unless the mission is redefined as "things developers perceive as being beneath them."
Packages are tend to be old. That's the downside of using nix over other package managers.

Stuff like filebeat from ELK stack is like a year old version.

Some are of course up to date but for less popular ones, you would look elsewhere to install.

To bad because I like how I can install things the same for macOS and Linux, unlike Homebrew whicu gets installed in some weird /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/ dir and shell config needs to be changed.
Pokemon: Cardboard cards with plastic around them.

In what world are these not easily counterfeited by a factory that makes cards.

The master copies exist somewhere - seems like an easy way for Mr Easymoney in a less-regulated country to print these up and make bank.
There was a very popular yet useless trick in the late '90, early 2000 where you'd combine two images in a checkerboard pattern: one at regular intensity, the other very bright (so it doesn't stand out that much upon regular viewing.

Internet Explorer had this feature that if you CTRL+A page contents, it would overlay images with 1px grid to indicate selection. If you got your pattern right, the hidden image would appear. This is essentially the same effect, but on steroids.
Because the 'S' in CS is for 'science'. The degree is a study of the fundamental underpinnings of computer use. Not a tech-ed employment-training class.

Sounds like folks who love the field but hate the job, should teach!
This sounds like a World of Warcraft quest.
Windows has "previous versions" or shadow copies. Often, one of the first things ransomeware does is disable that function and delete them. Then it goes after your backups.
If you use firefox, install this https://bitbucket.org/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-c...
This is art.

Did expect a much longer (and less clear) source code. A really inspiring project, thanks!

Of course, there is emacs-nes (a full NES emulator in emacs lisp).
And own by the Nikkei so no Murdoch bullshit.
Oh, I'm very, very sure money laundering is happening in BC.
I'm certain money laundering via real estate is happening all over Canada; Chinese investors are buying abandoned farm land in Northern Ontario for some reason.
But the internet IS decentralized; the RIAA can take down one site, but a dozen will pop up in its place. The RIAA can take down the youtube-dl repo and its clones on Github, but there's thousands of clones on people's local machines.

The internet is not centralized. The RIAA cannot say "this should go" and make it magically disappear. There is no single point of failure / influence on the internet.

Millions of people have the skills to build an easily distributed .zip file with a barebones youtube downloader website. Everybody with an internet connection can set up a webserver that runs it.

And the RIAA will have to go after each individual, one at a time.

They couldn't keep TPB down, at best they managed to annoy it for a little while.
DHS is a shitshow, Chad Wolf isn't even legally supposed to be running the thing.
The attackers got cold feet after they were told that they had killed a patient. It is the first documented case of ransomware causing a fatality.
This is something I really struggle to understand about the modern web dev mentality. What is exactly so bad about reloading a page? You get visual cues that the browser is doing work, and the page you requested is being downloaded. On the other hand, some SPAs literally provide zero cue when a route has been changed, which is just awful UX to me.
I was amused that he didn't want his experience to be used as an example of "cancel culture", when it is EXACTLY that.

Somehow most of my generation has been taught that their feelings must be protected at all costs. In 20 more years this generation will be senior lawmakers and we will be sending people to prison or worse for "transgressions" like OP's.
> By ordering or viewing, you agree to our Terms.

goes here

https://www.primevideo.com/help?nodeId=202095490&view-type=c...
Well, at least if they are going to do evil we can rest assured that they aren't very good at it. Speakers in the woods with wolf noises? This sounds like a bad Disney halloween movie. Or that episode of Father Ted. Or that PSA in Talladega Nights about the packs of vicious dogs who control most major cities.

I'm concerned about the negative portrayal of wolves. No matter who is saying it, making people overly afraid of wolves endangers the wolves. Even in wolf country, you are still far more likely to be shot by a hunter than eaten by a wolfpack. Wolves are to be respected, not demonized.
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many things also dont make sense to learn now when i have a decent salary.

Why should i learn howto setup a raspberry pi with a bunch of stuff, when i can just buy commercial products thats does the same things and much better?

If i dont want to create something unique thats not on the market of course. But then i use up all my thinking and creativity at work and i have run out of ideas to create truly unique things.

Also the time it takes to learn and make things is too valuable for me, i rather spend that time on interacting with other people.
Probably not really, it's mainly a thing for people that download youtube videos for whatever reason (copying music is one). The channels mainly earn money off of merchandise, in-video advertisement / product placement, and Patreon.
The GitLab LDAP config is pretty easy.