skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
agreed, variable. Lived most my life in Southern California. I've seen rent being both cheaper and more expensive than a mortgage. For a long while, the mortgage was a much better monthly payment; folks without a down payment were locked out of mortgages and stuck paying higher rents.

Looking at my flyover state on craigslist + zillow, a random house I picked rents for $1.4k/mo and has an estimated mortgage of $1.5/mo. Your rent "savings" would be $100/mo and ignoring cost of maintenance if you mortgaged.
Probe opened into hack attacks on Italian vaccine packager
But it's not codegen-free. You talk about having to do codegen every time your schema changes.
I+personally+quite+like+the+word+dividers+used+in+runes.
Even the ones which require personal attendance. Taking time off for dentists, doctors, barbers, etc, all really quite irritating. I realised in the end a three hour "lunch" was permissible and didn't require a half day of precious holiday time booked off.
Wow good write up. Also connecting it with the comment below, these are the core targets of the Trump sanctions.
TIL relying on a bunch of boilerplate “typeof o.prop” checks is “clean, elegant, expressive code”, while knowing implicitly that o.prop is always an integer is not?
The solution has been present since forever in the old AI joke: 'AI is when the machine wakes up and asks, "What's in it for me?"'
How many Swiss or British people do you think there are clamouring to live out the rest of their days in the US?
I use it to write the star-mapping software behind https://greaterskies.com many years ago. I did it as a fun project after reading PG's essays, but now it is supporting my family and two employees. In the few occasions I need to touch something or add a new feature I feel like coming back home.
Your personal preference doesn't equate to it being better made.

Everyone always points to incumbents making "better" cars than Tesla but rarely explain what that means. Sometimes they mock paint or panel gaps.

If they were comparing to a Honda or Toyota then sure, but it's always one of the big three in the comparison.
Amazon: We’ve signed an agreement to acquire Wondery a top-rated podcast creator
Makes me wonder, with all the Covid WFH if people work more than one full-time job...
> I have to subtract from that about 3% for interest, 2.5% in property tax, 1% for maintenance.

You need to subtract those anyway, as they are baked in to your rent payment, though the interest will depend on the landlord's circumstances.

A note on property tax, though, which will complicate the comparison even more than my sibling commenter already has:

Home values are reassessed in Texas every three years, not annually. This means your taxable value is locked in for three years, and the only way your bill can go up or down is if a taxing authority changes their rate.

Additionally, in this period, a house appreciating at an average of 9% per year will appreciate at an average of 29.5% per assessment period. Texas homestead protection, which you can get and your landlord can't, limits the increase in taxable value per assessment to 10%. So, if you were renting that same property you would be eating a larger increase in rent every three years than the increase in property tax if you owned it yourself.
Vulture capitalists bleed them to death. Toys R Us is particularly sad as their business was strong.
Survival chances of student startups operating in an academic incubator
I did not. It was a mix of public and private employees which creates additional dynamics
It's a matter or being organized & productive or otherwise.
I honestly can't believe there's a front page Hacker News post about Perplex City today. I was literally searching for cards on eBay last night. I would love to see a game like Perplex City return some day. It was one of the first ARGs I followed on Unfiction, and it helped introduce me to the world of puzzling and puzzle hunts, and also helped push me towards my current career path. So, I guess I want to say thank you for working on such a unique and interesting game that had a massive positive influence on me when I was a teenager. It was so exciting to see the mid-2000s internet work together in a whirlwind of multimedia creativity.

Also, this is completely random, but do you happen to know if there's a warehouse somewhere with a bunch of unopened boxes of Perplex City cards? I always keep an eye out for cards, but it's hard to find people selling things from a game that ended over a decade ago.
For used books you could try thriftbooks.com
I mean... let’s keep in mind we’re talking about a language and community that uses the keyword “const” to define mutable objects. Logic went out the window a long fucking time ago.
It's a networked game... how else could it work?
Does this also count for other Jetbrains IDEs (as they have a common core)?
It's mind-blowing how wrong they have been and yet continue to be turned to for major policy decisions and thought.
The New York Times had a set of videos called 'Verbatim" where actors acted out scenes from real deposition transcripts.

I wish they continued that, there's probably thousands of these sorts of things both in court, and depositions.

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/28/opinion/verbatim-what-is-...
There's nothing wrong with reaping the benefits when you are providing people with direly needed goods that local governments foolishly prohibit small shops from selling.
Eh. I disagree there could just be two running in parallel for a bit or even forever: original and modern.

3 day weekend society
You know the name, yes. I'm using a pseudoname, but I'd still rather not say which company exactly.

I can narrow it down to a handful of Indian outsourcing companies though (I'm British, working out of the UK tho), since I've talked about them all in the past.

It's a megacorp (100s of thousands of employees) known for outsourcing. It calls itself a USA company (but it's not; it's mainly based in India).
Except Apple Silicon is more than just AAarch64, hence Azul and Microsoft contributions.

https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/09/microsoft-windows-mac-arm...
Ha! I got a shitty appletv stick on holder that dropped off the TV the other day after a couple months, I put up a 1 star review hoping that would happen but it hasn't as yet!
Kurt Gödel, ruining every debate since 1931 :)
Not really, as far as I know even their best plane J-20 uses Russian engines. They were planning to replace it with a domestically developed engine but I am not sure if that is done yet. The domestic engine was developed from either French or Russian family of engines, I think.
You do, but the conclusion remains the same.
Who else you going to turn to? Someone who was drummed out of the club for questioning things that everyone knows?
> There's still a lot to be said for established brands.

Thus the loop comes full circle.

Originally the idea of a brand ("burned" -- burned into the hide of an animal or a piece of wood) was a way to label the provider in the hope that people would learn which providers were trustworthy and had high quality. This extended into manufactured products once printed packaging become popular (logos and labels, starting with low-input goods like tea).

Then sometime in the 20th century people figured out that they could use mass advertising to build the brand (by then just a label) itself, sometimes even rendering the product itself almost irrelevant. I remember articles in the paper (80s I think) expressing shock and/or bemusement that someone would wear a shirt with "Tommy Hilfinger" printed boldly across the front. At that point such brands become an expression of stance rather than product quality, or perhaps the product was merely a way to broadcast the brand. For example Diesel jeans which can only be worn a small number of times, compared to levis which last much longer.

And now it's come back to the starting point: seeking the brand, but for some level of quality assurance rather than lifestyle adherence.
> Privacy, potentially. House sales are public records and anyone willing to pay $30 can track you down.

It can also be done for free using various methods, rather quickly too.
That's true, but if everyone, or the majority of tech workers, are remote, again you have a level playing field.

The fact the videoconference and online collaboration is still a dumpster fire of crap is both a cause and a symptom of companies insisting on an in-person workforce. Look at how the videoconferencing market has been juiced into improving their products by the necessities of the pandemic and imagine what they'd do if there was consistent global demand.
There is a security solution that is much stronger than 2FA, passport, etc. It's called a hardware wallet.
For me, working from home these past 7 years has added this same kind of balance to my life. Chores and errands became easier to fit in, exercise at noon literally is a matter of stepping outside to bike, run, or hit the gym. It saves 10+ hours a week of travel, less stress and expense of commuting, and did I mention I don't need to shower until after my noontime workout?

Granted, at times I'm on the job until late at night, to get things done and, sometimes, to make up for an extra long shopping excursion etc.

A 4 day on-site job would feel severely disadvantageous by comparison.
Tech Patent Wars
> they're gonna lose it regardless if they can't make those ballooning payments

That's a reason to never touch an ARM, not to avoid buying a house.
I hope Rivian thrives. Downstate IL (where their factory is) is struggling and needs the manufacturing jobs to come bac.
But is definitely not the "safest medical procedure".
Well that 1.00000001x would include all drivers. Including those that are tired, on their cell phone, drunk, see poorly, senile, high, distraught, unlicensed, pissed off, etc.

Do you really want more cars on the road driving worse than an average awake driver that's not drunk or looking at their cell phone?
I had a 4-day working week at one job, and one of the highlights was that it was flexible enough that I could move my "day off" around - which meant I could have a 4-day weekend pretty much any time I wanted.

That same job had a two hour commute, but the 4-day thing meant it worked out fine. A two hour commute 5-days a week would have been miserable.
I'm in the UK, and have yet to come across anyone else doing it, though several of my European colleagues seem to be.

In the EU, employers have to, by law, consider reasonable requests for flexible working. If you work for a large company, that should mean most will have the option.
OMG Tekken 3 and JoJo's :O

I love whoever made this!
Who are the developer of this? This looks like a great service to people who want to try out the old game that they have been playing when they were young. For example, I always have a urge to play the old civ3. But it was always a hassle to start a Windows machine and open steam and launch the game.
Kinda like using a Gregorian and Julian calendar simultaneously?

It can cause issues
Yeah that's mostly what I was getting at. If a company insists on an in-person workforce then there's a the local/remote dichotomy, but if everyone is remote then who cares where you live, as long as the internet isn't potato quality.
One unit of work independent of time taken. When you say "no drop in productivity", do you mean you do the same amount of work in 4 days now instead of 5, or that you do 80% of the work you used to do?
After a particularly pernicious attack against our network, an agency senior admitted: "We have to assume, regardless of our mitigation, that they are still in the network."

All systems can and will be hacked should be your starting assumption. Your network is already hacked is the inescapable conclusion.

Given those assumptions, the focus should shift to data security. First, how is the integrity of the data protected? And second, how can you put the data out-of-reach from an intruder? If you are hacked, and the data is easy to reach, you have a severe vul.

In other words, while perimeter security is still necessary, your focus should shift to data security.
You're missing the point.

How do you know that wikileaks is trustworthy? Answer please.
Common sense (if 40 percent of the general population don’t want to go first, why would medical personnel be much different). It seems the truth is even worse

“The National Association of Healthcare Assistants surveyed more than 3,100 Certified Nursing Assistants last month. Around 71-percent indicated they wouldn't take a COVID-19 vaccine, while just over 22-percent said they would.”

https://abc7news.com/coronavirus-covid-19-vaccine-survey/887...
Rather than keeping all your other expenditures the same and reducing your savings outgoings by 100% each month, what about reducing all your expenditures by 20%?

Unless your income and outgoings have been fixed at their exact current levels for your whole life, there's nothing magical about their current values and they could change?
Ah, I missed the context. I was speaking from the standpoint of investment properties. If you're buying a place to live in, then, agreed, you don't need 20% down. I think there are some products with 0% down.
Well, they still didn't manage to replicate the AL-31 despite massive leaks of documentation _and_ it being a late-70-s design.

What makes you think they would fare better with the CFM56 which is of the same vintage?

There was much boasting for the last ten years, but nothing actually serviceable.
> [...] Story of your life, which is an intensely interior novel.

SoYL and Hell is the Absence of God both really broke me. Even after reading SoYL I genuinely wasn't prepared for how HitAoG made me feel.

Edit: FWIW, I think this is a good thing, just in case it doesn't come across that way.
The most common accidents are a car hitting a non-car.
I've never thought of contextualizing 4-day work weeks that way; that's a great point.
At the risk of long term diluting that brand reputation.
Yes, the stock market is being pumped up by government fiat. What’s the point?
For anyone watching that video, and are interested in watching more classic racing in incredibly high fidelity, I recommend this collection of clips from the 1966 movie "Grand Prix". It's a proper old-school Hollywood movie.

They entered actual Formula 1 cars into a grand prix, strapped it with cameras, and recorded the whole thing. Other times they added new bodywork to a Formula 2 car and had the actors driving around on track - again with cameras strapped to the car. Being recorded in 70mm it's some of the best footage of on-board Formula 1 racing until well into the 2010s, and the advent of small 4k on-board cameras in modern races.

https://youtu.be/7HA71tYl640
> TIL relying on a bunch of boilerplate “typeof o.prop” checks is “clean, elegant, expressive code”, while knowing implicitly that o.prop is always an integer is not?

Clean and elegant are certainly debatable, but, yes, code that is explicit in its preconditions (whether through explicit runtime checks or explicit static declarations or other mechanism) is pretty clearly more expressive than code that relies on the developer “knowing implicitly” the same information.
These four day work week anecdotes are great. The pandemic may just kick off a renaissance for alternative work schedules. But these conversations seem to be stirring up the reality that so much of compensation calculation and productivity measurement is really, really arbitrary.

It still seems to come down to circumstance and whatever an employee manages to negotiate with their employer. "I'll take a 20% pay cut to work 4 days a week!" could just as easily be met with "No, our investors won't be happy with a longer roadmap."
We probably have a different idea of decency.

(I work in Oslo, Norway)
Why would an AI start with a human utility function? Why would it care about that if it wasn't explicitly built in?
There is a boatload of stuff that you can't really appreciate until you've tried to make a movie yourself. When you've actually gone through the process of setting up a shot and looking at the horrible result you get a much deeper appreciation for what it takes to make something that looks even half-way non-amateurish, let lone smooth and polished. The thing that always drops my jaw is the settings of period pieces, particularly ones that have a lot of vehicles and old buildings in them. I know it's mostly CGI nowadays, but the quality is just ridiculous nowadays. I can't tell what is CGI any more, and I know what to look for.

(The movie I made about 15 years ago that was my substitute for film school: http://graceofgodmovie.com/)
>What's the source on this?

Created an account just to answer this. I'm a nurse. Most nurses and nursing aides that I work with do not wish to take the vaccine, worried about it being "rushed". There is also worry about the claims that vaccine recipients developed Bells palsy. Even though a good number of healthcare workers have the option to take the vaccine right now, few are doing so -- at least from what I'm seeing.
(To save others the time googling, "whatnot" is not a Lisp templating library.)

There's a third way, though: text templating libraries that support the full language. Does that exist for Common Lisp?
I think crushing organized labor was higher on their priority list than maintaining America’s industrial capacity.
Can't even trust myself these days, its really awful. /s
They are already comfortable with it thanks to Android NDK APIs, and you don't see those games coming to GNU/Linux.
That study is an extremely weak support to the claim that this virus can't spread asymptomatically - it's nearly useless for that purpose. They only studied a small number of people at the very tail end of the infection who showed that they had some evidence of virus in them. They did not look at whether those patients actually had an active infection - they could have simply been detecting remnants of dead virus in their systems. They certainly didn't look at all at people in the incubation stage pre-symptoms.
Just to add to the recommendation of The Quiet American: my edition includes a collection of Greene’s screenplay treatments, which is basically a master class in plot development.
I am actually using handlebars along with helpers https://github.com/helpers/handlebars-helpers to automatically generate sql, golang, json and jsx. cl-who is only for markup.
What i found useful in handlebars is ability to define inline function templates and use them in template. I am missing cl macro's which would automate my workflow even more so asking if something like this is available in cl.
While the docs you point to are quite easy to follow, most of the "going further" is really not well documented...

But we are indeed integrating Jitsi into a game experience
here and its open-source stack is really nice to deal with (after many days needed to really understand it).
And they will call you once every few months for the rest of your natural life (and then some). Sweetwater is notorious for being a company whose contact list you can never, ever escape from. Change your phone number, move across the country... Sweetwater will find you.
Poor data protection could put Somalian people lives at risk
NewEgg screwed me out of a monitor. I wouldn't trust them as as retailer anymore. That's from someone who used to buy all their computer stuff through them.
It's called "limitations of display devices"!

The high contrast of the pictures, modern smooth scrolling, reveals the inherent ghosting (or overdrive) of most computer screens. While decent monitors are usually not noticeable in more regular use-cases, tightly-packed lines are very noticeable.

That means that there is a partially-faded copy of the previous frame still visible for a fraction of a second, which your eye sees, and the resulting image has Moiré fringes because of the mismatching angles.

For example, my monitor shows the purple drawings pretty sharply, but the green or white pictures are very artifacted when moving.
In any creative work, output is dynamic.

If you're working in an assembly line or checkout at the grocery store, your productivity isn't as variable. Assuming customers/inputs are always lined up, you'll process a similar number every hour and the quality is somewhat static.

In cloud infrastructure, I notice quality of work is highly variable. Some engineers will bandaid everything to get the task done. It's easy to do that.

Other engineers create solutions taking into account the current technical environment, business requirements and future concerns. I don't think we should hide from this fact. Software engineering as a profession becomes worth more the more we realize there's a difference in quality and quantity dependent on the engineer's abilities.
Ok, I see what you're going for. But then the question is how much safety is that agency buying you? And how many people even have an option to exercise such agency? You do not have it when it comes to other drivers that may cause accidents or run you over (or your children if you wish) as pedestrian. You have far less of it for taxi, rideshare or public transport services. And how many parents will drive their children even when they're stressed or haven't slept because the children simply have to go somewhere and they can't afford other options?

In aggregate we can probably buy more safety by having policies that encourage replacement of bad drivers with merely average autonomous vehicles rather than attempting to rely on individual behavior to improve safety.

If you want to still exercise personal options you could choose an autonomous car plus safety driver.
>Boeing & Airbus owning a combined 91% of the global market share in airliners

I would be careful here since this is true today, and maybe for a decade or two, but not for long. China seems to be laser focused on improving their domestic capabilities and moving up the value chain. They already have Africa in their hands as a major export market.
Apple removes Vybe Together app used to arrange parties during Covid
That's sort of true in ideal circumstances, but when you get to a point where you have a Wal*Mart of Amazon vs. small independent retailers, they have so much money compared to competitors that they don't have to be especially efficient. Megacorps can even undersell competitors and take a loss until the competition taps out, and now they have no incentive to respond to demand efficiently because they are the only seller.
BREIN’s Upcoming Anti-Piracy Campaign Is Unusually Honest and Focused
Run around the block. Eat less. Somehow humans managed before the 00s explosion of gym culture.
My Tesla has a user settable distance, which I do change based on conditions to avoid becoming a hazard as people constantly try to fill the gap.
What kind of stuff is your “life admin stuff”?
Which the FBI does. "Kenyan National Indicted For Conspiring To Hijack Aircraft On Behalf Of The Al Qaeda-Affiliated Terrorist Organization Al Shabaab.
Cholo Abdi Abdullah Obtained Pilot Training and Researched How to Hijack Aircraft in Order to Conduct a 9/11-Style Attack at the Direction of al Shabaab."[1]

Here's the FBI's list of terrorism-related press releases.[2]

[1] https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/kenyan-national-indicte...

[2] https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/terrorism/news
I mean I get the same amount of work done in 4 days that I used to get done in 5.

Perhaps Parkinson's law in action: 'work expands to fill available time'.
Moral Hazard: same principle why FB/GOOG have not fixed their advertising fraud problems.
Just an anecdote but when I was backpacking in Munich, I ran across these young Irish backpackers. They were on the way to work at the German car factories. This was quite awhile ago but I suspect not much has changed.

No offense to those guys who seemed bright but poor, but it isn’t a bunch of well educated German craftsmen and craftswomen working those factories.
36B (in a year) is about $120 per citizen (assuming 300M population). = $10/mo

But also, some of the monies have been recovered

Also, my health plan costs $1000/mo.

Headline feels targeted to me. Like equivocation of unemployment to scams