skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Edit: To provide some clarity on the comments below highlighting that housing costs are included in CPI. Each country calculates inflation statistics to various methodologies. CPI in the US includes a rent equivalent value which is independent of the actual cost of purchasing a home.

Real monthly mortgage payments have actually been going down relative to inflation: http://mjperry.blogspot.com/2011/12/payments-for-new-house-h....
I just need to trust my fingers, you need to trust an algorithm choosing something for you.

For me, checking whether auto-complete choose the correct is more work that typing the correct thing, as my fingers type on their own - almost without supervision...

I have written code for 30ish years (professionally for 25 years) and I have honed (and still hone) my environment for maximally "transparency" so that my though is not hampered by tools..

If that is not true for you, then use your IDE and be happy about it... Nothing wrong with that, at all...

EDIT: also fun, that you highligt stenography that is the definition of learning-curve/musclememory ... :)
Good news – The U.S. House Passes the IoT Cybersecurity bill
Wrong incentives.
When basing on salary/personal income taxes, government is interested to raise everyone's income less inflation if it wants more taxes (let's skip 20th century aberrations like > 90% income taxes for now).
Corporate tax is an opaque mechanism with unknown corrupt incentives, effectively turns into blackmailing of business and IMO should be dropped whatsoever.
Many countries are adopting zero corporate tax (having dividend and salary taxes instead).
Politicians' work-related photos on Instagram don't get likes
My employer recently decided to move from using self-hosted Jenkins servers living behind a VPN to GitHub actions. I wonder how much vulnerabilities like this were weighed against the reduced maintenance burden.
Real Estate: How Coronavirus Will Shape the Smart Parking of the Future – ParqEx
It seems really questionable to take on ANY new language if you're trying to build a business. If you're building a gaming business, you had better use C++, C, or C#. If you're building a business that might need to use the cloud, look at the supported languages where your chosen cloud has an sdk and pick one of those. If you're building something for Windows avoid programming languages that only have Unix implementations. Etc. Other choices are just onboarding unnecessary risk.
I've found 2 reasons that e2e tests are flakey (whether it be selenium, puppeteer or cypress):

1. poorly developed tests. There are nuances that go into writing browser interaction tests that the less-experienced will have to work through.

2. There's a weird functionality implemented in such a way that makes testing difficult. This could be something like a modal that has a fly-in animation and if you try to click it while it's animated it won't fire the onClick action.

If you want e2e tests to be successful, you have to write testable front end code, which is pretty dang hard for a lot of reasons.
Tomorrow? More like December, if we're lucky.
That is a good point which is worth discussing. From an opposite point of view Czech Republic mandated masks early on which seemed to work. Now they are in a bad state which is being blamed on relaxing the restrictions they had in place.
Getting actionable user feedback is something we struggled with at Aha! too. We experimented with different techniques but what we kept coming back to is that if you ask people directly, and engage them in a conversation, you get the most useful feedback.

Just knowing that someone is satisfied, or unsatisfied, with your product is not actionable. Often the reasons why a customer might be unsatisfied are subtle and would be impossible to discern with a questionnaire or survey. We think the answer is "empathy sessions" - kind of like focus groups meets modern online communication.

https://www.aha.io/blog/introducing-empathy-sessions
Legit thought this company was dead. Glad to see they’re still trying.
> Everyone here argue about how this is incoherent with them allowing to sell others things... while the real question is why they did this.

Actually, the real question is "did they do this". And the answer is, no, they didn't. Raspberry Pi returns 50,000 items and all sorts of new and used kits. Whatever listing got removed was either by mistake or because they were selling something more than just a Raspberry Pi.
It's pretty unlikely there'll be a definitive result by morning.
He recently tweeted that the only way Trump can win is through polling error or if Trump steals the election. Do you think that sounds like an unbiased person? His model can't be the reason why he was wrong, it had to be the input data! Imagine saying that to your boss.
There are downsides, like when the government threatens violence against its citizens for not complying with a preventative measure with mixed efficacy at best.
Dumb question: Why would you download videos from youtube? Are you collecting videos on your hard drive? Why not just save a bookmark? I don't think youtube will be scrapped anytime soon.

I just want to understand what are the use cases for this.
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Reminds me of Von Neumann's "With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk."
I surprised that Project Zero waited the last 30 days for disclosure since Github themselves publicly announced at 1. October that the whole searching for magic strings in stdout as RPC channel is broken by design.

When I saw the announcement month ago I assumed that Github fully disabled the reading commands from stdout mechanism but looking at current docs it seems that they disabled only 5 most easily exploitable out of 14 commands which can be called using stdout. This seems like typical "we fixed your POC doesn't work anymore" but the main cause remains. As can be sometimes seen with hardware vendors "we fixed hard-coded backdoor password, now there is new hard-coded backdoor password".
I believe Debian uses a web of trust and irl verifications to build that web. Hierarchical trust like the x509 certs we use for https, sounds like a more convenient alternative.
The state of natively compiled GC'd languages is actually pretty bad, at least ones with an ecosystem/job opportunities.

You either have to run into the same problem as dark when it comes to libraries and ecosystem (ocaml, haskell, D, etc), use go and give up any nice language features, or run on a VM and deal with all the issues of packaging/weight (clr, jvm).
A co-worker’s parents were visiting her in the Bay Area from their home in Vietnam. They planned to stay for a couple months to help with their new grandchild. Then covid hit and Vietnam locked down. They’re hoping to get home by Christmas.
I wonder if you and/or others might be confusing the x-ray machines with the mechanical foot measuring machines.

I'm middle aged and remember Clarks (probably in Sheffield, UK) having what looked like a crushing machine with steel plates that closed - very gently - on to the feet and gave a read out of size and width. (See image at https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-32738088#_=_ under "Appropriate measures", left hand machine seems familiar to me).

I remember it being a very strange but pleasant experience and wonder now if it wasn't my first ASMR.
> Ant essentially needs no deposit to lend,

Not necessarily deposits but reserves; the whole European financial crisis of 2008+ was over the question of "what IS the minimum reserve level for systemic safety?"?

> relying on big data and not any traditional financial safety instruments

This is the Boeing 737-MAX approach: it's not intrinsically safe, but we can cover its shortcomings with software.
It took over 1000 years and hundreds of millions dead in continent spanning wars before Europe even entertained the idea of free movement and trade.

If the borders don't really matter, then redrawing them does no harm.
Surely if I wear the sacred garment and perform the correct cleansing rituals the coronavirus will reward my piety by sparing my life.
if the cost was 0 geocities would still be running.
I’ve seen the same at several different companies. There seems to be just too much that can go wrong during an e2e test like this: network failures, slow CPU causing timeouts, etc. At one company, the entire suite of 700 tests was re-run 3 times nightly, taking 5+ hours, and some tests still failed randomly.

I have found that the majority of errors can be caught by unit and integration tests on a single service, and that the extra burden of maintaining Cypress just isn’t worth the small amount of coverage.
There’s F# language server, which is not as featureful as ionide but a lot faster.
I would argue that atleast for Czech Republic, the notice is not required if the processed data is crucial to providing the service the user requested.
You cite Article 89(3) of the Electronic Communications Act, where it's stated that "... nor does it apply to
the cases where such technical storage or
access activities are needed for the provision of an information society service explicitly
requested by the subscriber or user.".
This part was also modified several times, most recently at 2018 in 20/2018 s. 687
Are the Postgres developers mad that AWS makes money via RDS? Are the (unaffiliated) Linux developers mad that DigitalOcean makes money via a compute offering? Are the (unaffiliated) Kubernetes developers mad that Microsoft sells their product on Azure?

Unaffiliated being a critical part there, because of course Microsoft, AWS, etc contribute back to these projects. But, many, many of the developers on these projects are unaffiliated, often working at smaller companies/consultancies with no affiliation to the megacorps that make billions on the software.

Yet, I've not once noticed a single instance of aforementioned drama. What makes Docker, MongoDB, etc different? They're open source products developed and monetized by singular corporations, not communities or non-profit cross-functional organizations like The Linux Foundation. Its a big corporation slighting a smaller corporation.

This may reveal a bias in online discourse, especially on HN; we revere corporations, not people. We want to protect venture-backed Docker, but the individual developers working on, say, Postgres? Less deserving. Peter Eisentraut, Bruce Momjian, and Dave Page are core maintainers of Postgres, all working at a company named EnterpriseDB, who sell managed Postgres offerings. Why doesn't anyone complain about AWS screwing over Postgres?

Well, there's something bigger at play: Its actually, totally alright if megacorps use Linux, Postgres, whatever in this way. Developers enter these projects knowing it'll happen, and these projects are healthier than ever. That's a beautiful relationship right there! No drama. No one slighted. If these companies give open source back, that's great, but I don't expect them to (exempting GPL requirements of course), just like no one expects me to contribute every bit of code I write just because I coded it on Ubuntu using vim and linux and gnome and docker and such.

With Docker (and similar corporations), someone is slighted; its the company that was also trying to make money on it. And I think that's just mismanaged expectations at every level; the company believing they could build an OSS community of users and builders while still extracting profit, the leaders for accepting venture capital, and the users believing a company could solely develop and distribute something as complex as core application containerization or a database.

To be clear: I have a lot of respect for Docker continuing to run Hub for free as long as they did. They're an awesome company. No qualifications around that; I hope they find success in the market. I just don't believe that success will come at the scale and valuation they expect, because they aren't selling what customers want to pay for. AWS is.
Have you thought that they have better grasp on the risks involved than you especially if their communities are not devastated by the virus?

Some uncertainty in one's beliefs can be beneficial sometimes.
No, but no "foreign" computers... We can have tools installed, but even though those are windows machines (I run linux on my laptop) my only "custom" tools are a good ssh-client and firefox :)
I was playing with a formulation like "with twelve parameters I can change lead into gold," but I like Von Neumann's whimsy a lot more.
Awesome sauce. I'm an 80s kid so I basically had two rounds of this. I'll share later. But thanks for getting it started.
A Primer on Matrix Calculus, Part 1: Basic Review
Nobody sane will run on leaves. You run on surfaces that don't hide sharp sticks. Deer in the wiled run on deer trails - well worn paths of hard packed dirt. They walk elsewhere. (if chased they will run to the trails, which are close enough that the risk of running on something not safe is low)
Beyond the usual DIY security practices when dealing with NPM I wonder if there's viability in a service offering access to pre-audited repos like NPM, basically just a curated proxy with a process around certifying the security of packages and updates into the repo, including code reviews, dependency checking and various tests performed by security engineers.

I feel that the benefits in outsourcing some of that risk management could be a service worth paying for, at least for commercial purposes. It might lag behind and given the number of NPM packages most likely wouldn't offer the full range of packages, but I could see it bringing peace of mind for like the 90% of use-cases.

At the moment it would appear every NPM user is responsible for their own security, and the barrier of entry to the NPM repository is low which is fine and in keeping with the general principles of open source and distributed development, but on the flipside wouldn't it be more efficient to centralise the security auditing and management effort somewhere?

I don't know, just thinking out loud, perhaps there's good reasons why this hasn't happened.
It's true the JVM has a large ecosystem, but the .NET one is still pretty substantial. I would also argue there's a fair bit of innovation in the .NET Core world :)
No, that's not what I think.

In Ant's case, it is the unexpected nature of the action and lack of transparency that I see as damaging. Not necessarily the action itself. I'm still trying to learn what is going on and why, I haven't made a judgement on the action itself.
It's actually very annoying to wear a mask.

Also, I don't want to be thinking 24/7 about the virus, and the mask reminds me of it.

I can't count how many hours I have personally wasted thinking about the virus this year. That surely must go into the bottom line of prevention measures.
That's why I phrased is as "can't communicate". Because a positive signal could be false, but a negative signal can probably be trusted.

And yes, I couldn't care less if the candidate gave a post-interview thank you. That's not going to influence my decision.
No, they aren't. "Zero" is zero, it means no cost. "Near zero" means some cost. Some cost, in aggregate, can easily become a major cost. Ever wonder why manufacturers of physical goods choose the component that's 1 penny less? Because that one penny can translate into millions in savings over the lifetime of a product. "Near zero" could translate into millions in costs over the lifetime of a product versus "zero".
React could have used syntax similar to hyperscript by default, like:

h('div', { class: 'm-3', onClick }, 'the text')

But I agree with you that it wouldn't be as popular.
I personally started to use Amp, more what I am looking for :

"Heavily inspired by Vi/Vim. Amp aims to take the core interaction model of Vim, simplify it, and bundle in the essential features required for a modern text editor. Written in Rust."

It's also a terminal editor btw

https://github.com/jmacdonald/amp
Business owners, land owners, and property managers are working with EV charging station partners to install chargers because EV owners spend money while charging. For example, Tesla colocates Superchargers at Meijer in the Midwest (a grocery store chain) and Wawa in Florida and on the East Coast (which isn't just a convenience store with bathrooms, but also makes sandwiches and such). There is a Wawa location in Vienna, VA that only has EV chargers [1], no petrol pumps. I'll agree that chargers aren't ubiquitous, yet, but they are being deployed rapidly. Tesla continues to own their Supercharger stations (and all associated equipment), and I've heard mostly positive reviews from business owners who provide Tesla destination (high power wall chargers) and J1772 Clipper Creek chargers to patrons.

It's a net positive if we push petroleum refueling stations out of business. They sell a harmful product that we're working to phase out rapidly through electrification of transportation, and there will be a cost to remove and remediate petroleum storage tanks that were used at these stations.

In short, the EV charging infra will be built, but if there's someplace you want to go that doesn't have chargers, make it known to those folks you're looking for that amenity (now, or in the future).

[1] https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2020/09/29/210091...
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If I did want to find out what's going on, which I don't because I'm a Brit and several time zones away from the action, I would simply open Twitter.
> Seems to me like that's a strong indicator that existing search and social knowledge sharing options are failing a large segment of the population.

I think it's true that in general it's quite hard to find knowledge on the internet that isn't written by some generic megablogging website by people who have little experience in what they are writing.

Take reviews of products. If you search that on any search engine you get very generic reviews from PC Magazine, Tech Republic, etc.

Or if you want to find a list of good wordpress plugins...the lists you get are so generic, written probably by someone who doesn't even use wordpress.

Personally I've found products and reviews written by individuals who take the time to launch a single product or two much more informative and personal than the generic nonsense that has been pushed to the top by SEO masters.
This is a common misconception. The GDPR is about protecting user's information, it's not really about cookies (the entire 88 page law mentions cookies only once).

The ePrivacy Regulation is intended to replace the cookie law (ePrivacy Directive) eventually, but it hasn't yet.
What government has threatened violence in regards to mask mandates?
https://www.ifixit.com/Device/iPod_Nano says they are all difficult to fix, and they don't have batteries to sell.
The person I was replying to was very clearly not calling the result itself amazing, but the fact that it was achieved by people whose budgets had been cut in half and who were not well paid.
I see little difference in the core concept:

pos = pos.moveBy(x,y)

vs

pos = moveBy(pos, x, y)
Lol I see I am not the only one that thinks we have been forced to participate in a collective superstition act this year.
Interactive map of the Roman Empire roads
The timing makes sense if it is in response to his recent remarks but the regulation is extremely punitive vs potential outcome if this IPO gets botched.
Sometimes I really want my password to be 123123!
How is Twitter a source of information rather than gossip, opinion, and outright information warfare conducted by both sides?
> very annoying to wear a mask

Annoying to a thousand people is better than even one lost life that could have been prevented.

(In all honesty THIS idea of selfish freedom is why western countries all fared so poorly during this pandemic.)
PayPal plans a much wider embrace of cryptocurrency, including Venmo use
Over/under on at least one state simply ordering the count halted and all uncounted ballots destroyed?
Or they've been influenced by a broad array of politicians and media figures into believing that COVID is essentially over and there was nothing to worry about in the first place.
And the goal is always getting it to run DooM.
The movie theaters dying and streaming as king making them panic?
I find that scuffs are much less of a problem than wetness, which I don't thnk any of this will solve. I get my hands wet a lot, and often want to access my phone immediately after I shower.

And I just don't find it that onerous. I enter my pin instead. I'm just as glad that I reinforce that memory fairly often -- it's perhaps the most important of the many passwords I need to keep memorized.
> “It will correct itself over time...”

by saying this, you’re implying that there is some underlying “truth” to cpi and housing prices, but it misses the underlying critique that these measures are not representing the truth on the ground at all, as experienced by americans.

cpi and housing prices may be correlated, but that says nothing about whether they each measure anything of societal relevance (similar to the critique of IQ, for example). we should expect housing prices to correlate to some combination of gdp (or some near equivalent, since that’s also a measure that’s gamed politically) attenuated by population and wages, as those would be underlying ingredients in the supply and demand functions. then when the correlation falters, we could potentially diagnose how the economy might be failing a core function of providing shelter to the populace.
I've recently started using GitHub Actions and I was very disappointed to learn how few "native" actions there are. I don't want to introduce yet another avenue of third-party code via the GitHub Actions marketplace.
Did Stripe IPO Yet?
You were that is all true. I was speaking more to the Chromebook model, not so much what someone wants to or needs to run on a Pi.

I don't feel all that good about developments on things like iPads and Chromebooks. Not for stem type tasks.
> Tax loopholes (and tax lawyers) exist only because there is sufficient complexity in the tax system/tax code.

I don't think this is entirely correct. Even if there were no deductions and no other complexities, and the corporate income tax was simply based on "all revenue minus all costs", a company could still reduce or even eliminate its tax burden entirely by simply paying IP licensing costs to a different company located in a tax haven.
The war never ended, but it sure does look like scary strong Authoritarian deeply vested special interests like RIAA are gearing up for a major offensive against the right of humans to compute & think as they may/might.
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Really wasn't that funny
I don’t think it is punitive. Ant primarily lends to individuals without any collateral. Those are inherently high risk debts and thus needs more safeguards.