skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Saying "it's about supply and demand" is not technically wrong but it glosses over the toxic systemic changes which brought us here and exculpates the people who deliberately fought for them to create this mess.

I am happy to discuss all variables which inform the price, so long as we agree to give supply and demand top billing. We can even discuss the variables which inform supply if you like.
The Business of SaaS (2018)
Instead of Creating Traditional New Year’s Resolutions, Try This Instead
Uncensorable publishing.
You could buy drives with higher capacity, then you need fewer RPI, fewer cables, consume less space/energy and still achieve 55 TiB capacity.
sudoku and 2048 comes to mind.
Browsers.
Money. They have actual experience and won’t work for minimum wage. Not saying it’s a good reason, but that was probably the logic employed here.
I wish more companies would adopt GitLab's salary calculator approach, it is probably the one most fair.
You're assuming that 1) we need more children, and 2) all countries should be making it easier. China is the perfect example to show how ridiculous this is - even with the 1-child policy for 30 years, China's population is 1.4 billion people. Imagine what that would be if such a policy hadn't been enacted. For many countries (and the Earth as a whole), making it easier and less expensive to have more children is exactly the wrong thing to do.
Why is Everyone so damn happy?
The real, bizarre bucatini shortage of 2020
I mean, shit, I spent several months building my custom templates for Wordpress years ago, and I haven’t really had to do anything with it since. It works. I go off and make the art and comics it’s there to hold, and I spend a few minutes in WP posting it. And WP autoposts about my posts to the social media sites that have completely replaced RSS. The last goddamn thing I want to do is be on the bleeding edge of some bullshit that I have to be constantly hacking on.

It may be a giant mess under the hood, but my experience is one of automation, robustness, and simplicity. It just keeps on trucking along with no more thought on my part than “oh it wants to update, okay let’s hit that update button on the core and plugins” every so often.
The interesting thing is that there's very little evidence that HF actually waxes matter for performance in nordic skiing (http://www.skitestguys.com/fluorinated-waxes.html). Maybe the ultra HF powder stuff but it's questionable. Hardness of wax matters, HF maybe not so much.

Not sure how that plays into the larger debate about fluorocarbons, but sometimes I think the perspective frame can be shifted a bit.
IT careers: Top IT job interview questions for 2021
But by doing that you'd be breaking the safety (and functionality) of shared_ptr as you'd end up with potentially dangling references (similarly weak pointers are broken). Which then raises the question of why are you using shared_ptr in the first place? You could use a custom allocator just for auditing that all outstanding references were released, I suppose, but actually releasing the memory anyway is just adding bugs. Which can be a fair risk to take, it just seems like shared_ptr is then not the thing you want to indicate appropriate "running with scissors" behavior.
I can't be 100% sure, but temperature fluctuations can often be used to execute side channel attacks on processors and chips on board. If the system analyses the temperature sensor for that, it might prevent leaking key material.

I don't think I've seen anyone do that in practice though, it might just have been that they had to put _something_ extra in the security features and just added whatever sensor wasn't listed yet.
How to Covid Vaccinate Like a Catholic
There is a LOT of fluff in this poorly written article. 70% of it is saying, "It's horrible. It's so dangerous. They're covering it up", without damn well just stating the facts. So tedious to read through.... uuurrgghh...
The problem takes care of it's self when those people who cannot have kids' can have because their hard work has value. Because current welfare society over values looks. Undervalues other aspects of humans.

This is unethical, and will bite your decedents back in the ass even if it doesn't bite you. You think your so good looking? Imagine if your grand son was in that place where he wasn't that good looking. Would you want him to end up like that? Is that really fair to him.

Aren't we supposed to make the world a better place? When we realize that some things are wrong?

You're doing every man who does hard work injustice. You can defer the problem by importing women from 3rd world countries, but for how long?

Not only is it unethical, but immoral.

Remember, no matter how privileged you are, there is no guarantee that your decedents will have the privilege'. Even if you're the most selfish man/woman, it's in your interest to advocate for it.

There's no woman/man who is a better human except for their character. We need to put incentives for these traits in humans. Not discourage them.
WASM only provides sandboxing. That is not the same as security nor it means runtime safety nor protection from undefined behavior.
It’s bad for IDEs and Excel etc. where you often already have one or two modifiers plus F-key.
While not exactly a custom build, this Roccat keyboard uses optical switches:

https://en.roccat.org/Keyboards/Vulcan-TKL-Pro

Similarly, there's several Razer mice that use optical switches for their main 2 buttons.

("Optical" here being a switch that is tripped when an object breaks the beam of light)
Tsinghua University Releases First AutoML Toolkit for Graph Datasets and Tasks
>No, it isn't the "curation process". As always, the labor theory of value is complete bunk. The same process used to collect samples on Earth will not create the same value in the samples.

This has nothing to do with the labour theory of value (since asteroid material is very much a one-off item, and certainly not a reproducible commodity sold in a capitalist market), but even if it did, you're misunderstanding it. The theory does not state that any item with human labour taken to produce it gives it a price corresponding to that value. Instead, the theory states that this is the case if and only if the good is also a bearer of a use-value - i.e. it is of some use to the market.
“fake commute” to work during Covid
even for hyperbole this is hogwash. No one thinks people become landlords because they want to treat their tenets like shit. Obviously they just want to make ends meet like everyone else, they just happen to do so in a way that hurts communities, not on purpose, mind you, but because that's how you get ahead in this society.
> I guess a moral of the story is, if you want to be a part of the "future", you are better off entering data for a company actually building the future, rather than hanging out with people who sit around talking about what it might be like.

I read once Google makes one hire for every thousand applications. He lucked out getting into a FAANG company when he did (albeit at a lowly position).

Someone of his means can not snap their fingers and get a gig in FAANG. With those gates up, he is just marinating in the culture which is accessible.

Also, being in that culture, he sees opportunity when he lands at Apple. Plenty of other people who worked alongside him qprobably saw it as just a data entry opportunity to pay rent.

While Mondo 2000, Wired etc. may have been forced, I don't think they were completely fraudulent. The people and subcultures they covered already existed, they just kind of cobbled them all together. Of course the editorial biases put a slanted tint on things - the average hacker is not as libertarian as Louis Rossetto envisioned or as into extropianism as RU Sirius imagined. But those magazines put people on their covers who were not on magazine covers before as far as I know (example - free open source pioneer and Cygnus founder John Gilmore).

The zeitgeist was created by the media, but not out of whole cloth, there was something going on and raw materials to work with. In retrospect, the media in the center of it got some things right and some things wrong.
How the Police Killed Breonna Taylor [video]
tl;dr No one knew they were cops - no neighbors, no one. Then they did things wrong, panicked, and blasted the apartment to pieces.

Oh yeah, and then they just let her bleed to death.
What They Don’t Tell You About Electric Vehicles
Yeah. I'm not convinced settings for kids books really tell us more about urban planning than they tell us about the the problem with not enough political situations being solved by encounters with handsome princes these days. And I'm pretty sure that well established story tropes predate suburbanism and republicanism is more of a factor in the popularity of certain types of fantastical settings than magic kingdoms full of trolls being more walkable than the cul-de-sacs kids often grow up in.

It doesn't help that the author acknowledges that there are in fact numerous kids' books set in suburbs, he just doesn't like them very much. :D
Learnings from Solving Advent of Code 2020 in Haskell
Yeah if anything is gonna kill WP it’s gonna be that fucking new editor, IMHO. It’s crap. I tried it for five minutes and installed the Classic Editor plugin to get it the fuck out of my life.
Same reason why I set up my blog with Hugo + CloudFront. That, and to learn something new. It's neat to run your build-and-push command, and see everything deployed in a moment. Blazing fast, and you only pay for the DNS.
Wordpress seems like a great end to end solution for people who don't want to write their own CMS or bother with command line tools and complicated setup. There a lot of CMS tools out there but wordpress hits the sweetspot of wide variety of hosting & managed solutions, high customizability, and ease of use for non technical users.

I got rid of it on my own website some time ago but the startup I'm with still uses it. It's great; doesn't need my attention and our marketing people can deal with content. I'll likely transition it over to a managed solution at some point but beyond that I don't have the bandwidth to building and maintaining a new company website.
And The Jain's Death is gone, really liked that one. "Rush Limbaugh Eats Everything" I imagine might have got sued out of existence.
Some have, e.g. Daly City. The issue is that the rent is skyrocketing because people are desperate to live in that tiny patch of land that is precisely walking distance to their and other startup HQs. It’s a massive network effect.
They only think the left is taking it too far because they no longer control the moral standards. They are not concerned about the magnitude of the pressure, which is still much higher on the right. They're only concerned that the direction counters theirs.
Desktop UI beyond wimp.
> If land is incredibly expensive and one intends to eat most of their meals out, it doesn’t actually make sense to rent a full kitchen.

It is hard to beat the economies of scale of a restaurant, as much as the "you only need to factor the cost of raw food" camp like to tell otherwise. From a purely economic perspective, a kitchen at home, when other sources of food are widely available, is tough to justify. From a wider point of view, a kitchen is easier to justify as a nice luxury, being that cooking at home is something that people enjoy doing. When land is cheap, it is a luxury that can be afforded. When land is expensive, it is not surprising that it's the first thing to go. Similar to why people are likely to maintain a garden at home when land is cheap, but not when land is expensive.
Minor? Depends on if you use the private doc feature and what lawsuits may follow. One of them will cost more than the bounty just to look at.
Regenerating top soil.

We have degraded 1/3 of the top soil in the last 150 years. At the current rate, we won't be able to grow food in 60 years. This is a significant threat to our food production capabilities as a planet, and has severe 2nd, 3rd degree repercussions as well.

At the moment, agroforestry and syntropic farming are the only large scale solutions, but they need mass adoption.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/only-60-years-of-...
Is Supply and Demand really the end-all, be-all of economics? Don't things like Veblen goods demonstrate that there is some nuance to the topic.
Technically it is supply and demand, but there are systemic factors at play that can't be ignored. This is not a typical supply and demand marketplace. The supply here is artificially constrained by existing regulations, and there's a vicious relationship between land owners, elected officials, and demand pressure from folks with high paying jobs.

It's interesting to see how little things have progressed over the last few decades. For example, check this study [1] from fourty years ago.

TL;DR: "A recent survey of local land use policies in the Bay Area identified the important role that land-use controls play in limiting developments. The suburban land squeeze is not the exclusive result of immutable natural constraints. It is the outcome of the restrictive land use and development regulations imposed by many of the region's 100 land governments. A new mood has emerged in the suburbs; land use controls now place severe limits on where, when and how the region can develop. Continued suburban land conversion is now viewed as undesirable, and efforts to limit residential development are well organized and effective."

It's certainly not an "evil cabal of landlords in a dimly lit room", but it'd be naive to ignore the systemic forces at play.

[1] https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0ds0q9q4
Your thrust vectoring video has about 30 seconds where nothing happens. It would be great if that interval was shortened.

I know nothing about thrust or vectoring, so that's my only feedback.
It's all but illegal to build new or higher density housing in SF. We need to start electing people who will actually embrace or at least allow construction.

This is what it's like:

"San Francisco Man Has Spent 4 Years and $1 Million Trying to Get Approval to Turn His Own Laundromat Into an Apartment Building"

https://reason.com/2018/02/21/san-francisco-man-has-spent-4-...
That's patently incorrect, actually. Today the stock is 24.39. On 30/10/2019 I purchased a quantity at $12.40.

Let's continue. I sold it all in 2/2020 in 3 separate transactions between $32-$37. Later, I repurchased it at $22, and again two more times as it dropped to the 18's. I then sold everything again at $28... about 10 days ago.

So it was two sets of purchases and sales, not three.

So no, buying and holding would have not maximized my gains. And this is true for many stocks.

By the way, this is in an IRA account so there is no need to think about short v. long-term cap gain taxes here. The behavior in my main brokerage accounts accounts a bit more for the potential tax implications. However, if it's a volatile stock and I think went up or down in an extreme way that I think isn't justified, I'll jump in.
Python in the browser.
The American Dream has been replaced by perseverance porn: the only way to succeed is through hardship and the people who fail are losers.
> a myriad of other regulation that infringed upon property rights and adds friction (time, money, risk, all of the above) that prevents people from exercising their property rights. Prop 13 (a monetary incentive to not sell) falls into this latter category.

I think Prop 13's incentive not to redevelop is actually more significant here than its incentive not to sell.
Programming languages with built-in inversion of control by way of an effects system, like in Elm.
They are? The last articles I read (maybe from 2018) didn't seem to believe this would happen. Do you have a more recent reliable source?

Thanks!
> I don't want to interrupt my thinking by clicking to add blocks, I just want one big white sheet of virtual paper, to start writing untill the end.

There's a lot to criticize Gutenberg for, but this is not one of them. It's a big white sheet of virtual paper, and you can write your paragraphs without any clicking. Pressing enter opens a new paragraph, you can make it a heading by starting with (part of) "/heading" and pressing enter once more. It's easy to add more complicated blocks, but you don't have to.
> Cache: 1x PATA 8 GB (required as cache device for hardware emulation of x86 on Elbrus)

wha-
Agree. Having to use modifiers for the arrows and function keys etc. gives me worse RSI than having to move my hand back and forth a bit.

Thumb modifiers are also bad for me, as my thumb joints seem particularly sensitive to RSI/arthrosis. One size doesn’t fit all in ergonomics.
Disable Gutenberg does much the same thing and, unsurprisingly, is a very popular plug-in!
https://wordpress.org/plugins/disable-gutenberg/
+1 to this. I've seen this done as well, and it works marvelously. SD cards last half of forever if all you're using them for is a boot device.
One strategy is to find a company filled with older workers so you're younger. They're out there but usually not web type companies in my experience.
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Seems like most things kids want to do just require yards or houses and other kids.

Before you can drive I think the main factor for how much fun your environment is (assuming safety and no poverty) is the density of kids your age in the neighborhood.
Of course, but there has already been a massive change in a really short period, and maintaining the current rate of change is likely to make the UK CO2 emissions a non-issue over just the next decade or two.
More nuance than including high prices as one of the goods for which there's demand?
The mass of the earth is irrelevant for its orbit around the sun, so there's no effect there. That's why comets, asteroids, motes of dust, and planet can all maintain orbits (see https://faculty.virginia.edu/skrutskie/ASTR1210/notes/orbeq...., for example).

It matters for the moon in theory, but not in practice. The moon needs to move at 1,001m/s to stay in orbit (formula: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=+sqrt%28G+*%28mass+of+...). If we added the mass of the entire asteroid belt to the earth's mass... it would still be the same within a rounding error; the orbital velocity changes by a tiny amount (https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=+sqrt%28%28gravitation...).
Global warming businesses: carbon capture, emission reduction, etc.
A short walk in Gale crater
https://archive.vn/JSl4I
Elderly care... in fact this pandemic showed precisely the opposite: our elders were neglected, converted into a statistic that dies more then young people. A complete lack of humanity in a lot of developed countries.

This is the example we gave to the upcoming generations, we're fucked when it's our turn lol.

I've been reflecting a lot on this, and thinking of ways to solve this, but it's not easy - it's bigger than infrastructure or tech... it's a social problem.
Not just new construction. Studio apartments in old buildings have also been retrofitted into 1-bedrooms by gutting the kitchen and carving out one of these crap kitchenettes from the main room, including in a building I used to live in.

When I was exploring listings to see how the pandemic affects prices earlier in the year, these “kitchens” I described were also the norm over in the Sunset and Richmond around... Septemberish? Why? I don’t know, in some cases the stove had actually been removed, but maybe the full sized fridge was left in.
Hmm, maybe. I don't use anything that requires a modifier with an F key, that might be why.
I've built a couple of WordPress websites (under protest). My general approach is to use "Advanced Custom Fields" and a relatively barebones installation with a custom theme built from scratch. It turns into something of a simple CRUD web application thereafter which covers the vast majority of simple websites. For eCommerce, I install WooCommerce.

Here is why it happened:

1) (~2014) Company A is a Fortune 500 company with a large presence in my country. We designed some concepts for their product websites, which they really liked. When it came to implementation, they gave us a list of acceptable CMS technology. They'd be deploying to some kind of Plesk infrastructure and they were only allowed to use a handful of the frameworks supported by Plesk.

Of the ones included, WordPress was probably one of the better choices. I tried to convince them to let us go with something simple instead of a full-fledged WordPress installation. They said their internal security policy prevented them from allowing this, and that their team was only familiar with doing pentesting, audits, etc. for known entities like WordPress.

So we built the website and handed it over to their security team. We got paid and they deployed the website and I forgot all about it. Funnily enough, their server was breached a few years later. When they were doing an investigation they contacted me, and I shared the emails about pentesting, audits, security, etc. They were a little embarassed. Nonetheless, they're still frequent customers. Unfortunately they still insist on WordPress. We built maybe 6 product websites for them.

2) (~2015) Company B is a small brick and mortar business. Their developer built them a WordPress website but disappeared on them. I ended up deleting a large amount of bloat and plugins and writing them via simpler controller actions via a theme building framework.

3) (~2019) Company C is a ~$5bn private company with a global presence. Similar situation as Company A. The internal team insisted on either Wix or WordPress. The Ops/Marketing guys say nobody understands technology so they have to do what the IT folks say.

I've also spoken to at least 100 potential customers who all had the same story (similar to #2). They were non-technical people who wanted to build a website for their product/service. Their budget wasn't great. They gave all their money to a freelance developer. Developer wasn't really a developer - he just knew how to install a specific combination of WordPress plugins and set them up to get the outcome that they wanted. They wanted to customize it beyond what the plugin allowed, the developer said it wasn't possible and started asking for their money. Relationship soured and they parted ways. In all of those cases they spoke to me and ended up going to market with what they have. Maybe 1 or 2 of them ended up with a successful product/service and came back someday for a rebuild.

WordPress is absolutely terrible but sadly it is not going anywhere.
In my Western state (and probably yours too), the government spends that tax revenue faster than it comes in. It then secures further loans against that revenue stream in the expectation that my children will be helpless to forfeit even more, and my grandchildren after them.

My government is currently desperately trying to paper over this pyramid scheme by importing as many foreigners as possible under the apparent misconception that they will be instant net taxpayers (the opposite is usually true), compounding our economic collapse with a social and cultural collapse as well.

I'm quite sure the average young man here would do better with that cash in his pocket than the government is doing with it. It borders on overtly hostile.

In short, there is no money. It's gone. If anything, there's a moral obligation to avoid contributing.
I would stop sending these in and keep them for myself. I may trade them or sell them or write about but I wouldn't give them to google in the hopes of a payment.
If curation did not add value, the market would not demand it, and soon enough the curators would realize their business is not profitable and stop doing it. Curation happening consistently and over a long period of time is a sign that it does add value.
Building a shared runtime for Electron so that each Electron app no longer needs to bundle Node.js and Chromium. It would significantly improve the performance of a framework now used by countless apps. So far as I can tell, this has been on the back burner of the Electron team for many years. I'm surprised it's not a higher priority.
The video games you may have missed in 2020