skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Leverage & frugality.

Double 3/1 duplexes in Queens go for about $1M; the monthly payments on this are about $5200/month [1]. Each unit will rent for about $2700/month [2][3], so you're making a profit of about $200/month and paying down the principal steadily. You just need to cover a $200K down-payment. Minimum wage in NYC is $15/hour, so a two-earner couple working 40-hour weeks makes about $60K/year; it could be up to $90K if they each have work 12 hour days, as many Chinese immigrants do. Live in a 1BR apartment and you're spending about $15K/year on rent, maybe $25-30K/year on all expenses. You can save up for that down payment in about 4 years.

I don't have too much sympathy for them because the risk of being unable to find a tenant and hence unable to make your mortgage payment is precisely why not everybody levers up as much as possible to buy a rental property. But that's how the numbers work out. Most people on HN could probably do it, if they had the savings habits and risk tolerance of that couple.

[1] https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/17520-Baisley-Blvd-Jamaic...

[2] https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/131-19-134th-St-South-Ozo...

[3] https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/180-05-90th-Ave-FLOOR-1-J...
The problem that I see: Social media has emboldened people to look at attention and fame as something that has to be achieved. People actively fight over it.

This does seem to be the problem in my view attention is a 0-sum game on one social media networks, and it's easier to get attention by being divisive and combative and by spreading outrage than by trying to actually engage with people. The places become toxic as a result.
Sometimes, usually so on HN. Sometimes I’ve seen “well, the statistics say that this only happens 1% of the time so you’re probably lying”. That’s usually on Reddit.
Chinese national here.

> Is there a fraction of people who agrees with it or is almost it universally disapproved of?

There is a fraction of people who agrees with it. Otherwise it wouldn't be there.

But most people dislike, or at least are annoyed by, the censorship.

There are several different kind of dislike. There are people who are opposed to censorship in principle. There are people who find certain rules or mechanisms too ridiculous. There are people who only complain when it inconvenience them.

There are several types of supports. There are a small fraction of people who think that whatever the government does is for the greater good of the country. There are people who are happy when the fist hammers down on contents that they don't like, e.g. porn, anti-patriotic speech.

I'd say, anecdotally, most people find the current state of censorship somewhat unreasonable, but at the same time, have accepted it as a trait of the Chinese society that isn't going away in the forseeable future.
Small hands and no expectations!
"Lived experience" may be, which the GP did not mention, but Chou's lived experience isn't. She sang not buzzwords but hardship.
> there appears to be a huge divide between how US and Chinese users are treated.

TikTok is not Douyin. TikTok serves users outside of China, and ByteDance is aware that such extensive censorship would cause massive backlash against the app, so it is not done - especially when the public perception of China makes the company so precariously placed. As such, this is why you can still see posts about Uyighur Muslims and anti-China rhetoric on your FYP in TikTok rather easily.

With Douyin, censorship is state mandated. Practically every big Chinese tech company will have some advanced state-of-the-art censorship infrastructure for their Chinese users.
Is this happening because of more SSD (swap) use with 8GB of RAM, I wonder?
> they want to run their own store and payment mechanism.

...which would require Apple to allow iOS users to install apps from third parties, right? How is that less aligned with users than Apple? What Epic plans to do once Apple's policy changes is irrelevant.
I have implemented C printf in JS, because I don't like console.log

so weird.
Why would we trust that source over the exchange themselves?
Some of the EOLed devices are commodity x86 hardware and can run the latest Linux distros or Windows 10 if the bootloader is unlocked, which really shows how arbitrary Google's end of life policy is.
The risk was created out of thin air by a random choice of government policy.
I wonder if they have Google Chrome installed. I recall people complaining about it chewing up measurable chunks of their SSD life a few years ago.
It looks good on paper and then in the real world people go "those guys that look different than you, they're the cause of all your problems and we should kill them/let us set up camps to kill them so you don't have to see it."

That's what history has shown again and again.

If you give free speech to people and groups who's express goal is to take away the power and speech of others they unironically will...

The paradox of tolerance isn't some other world hypothetical it has been demonstrated again and again.
3B Reasons the Biotechnological Revolution Must Preserve
Yup, I couldn't find the details, but IIRC it was a combination of people generating new accounts in the hope of catching a second round, and the fact some people had signups for Keybase auth on only one or two systems, and also IIRC even if your Keybase account pre-dated the cutoff date, you needed three associated auth systems configured in order to qualify for the coin drop. So there was a huge surge in signups for Github & Hacker News to tick that box. Doubtless some surge was related to people hoping to get in on a (speculative) second drop date.
I appreciate the detail of your response. It provides food for thought that I had not considered.
Workast vs. Asana: Which is better?
I've done every conceivable version of "agile" and "standups" over the years. The best shape, and the best teams that I've worked on do:

1. Standup - 10-15m (face time) Monday / Wednesday
2. Async (Slack channel text) Tuesday / Thursday
3. Planning - 30m-1h (face time) Friday
4. A rotating "lead" or "on-call" or "captain" for the week who organizes these things and interfaces with other team's standups

This, in combination with your work queue (ticketing / kanban board / issues / etc) is the most streamlined approach I've seen that works. You can certainly add more ceremonies, but I find the constant retrospectives of other systems too negative and depressing, and too much of a distraction.

"Rally" is not a new take on standups, it's just scrum with a friendly coat of paint on top IMO. One thing that rubs me the wrong way about "Rally" in particular is the forced-socialization ideas. When I'm at work, I'm at work. Sometimes, there's people at work that I'm not friends with, but I am going to work with them because I'm a professional and I get the job done. Don't force people to be friendly. It's kind of toxic, and forces people to hide their opinions and play politics more than is necessary.
This study suffers from severe methodological flaws, which the authors acknowledge (having made their research questions explicit), but alas it is used in ways that extrapolate the findings to conclusions unsupported by the study.

In particular, the findings are entirely compatible with
1. The possibility that meat will lead to a reduction in risk if used in the same kinds of dishes as the nuts and legumes in this study
2. Nuts and legumes will lead to an increase in risk if used in the same kinds of dishes as the hotdogs and burgers which were the focus of the study.

I've seen people (not you) dump citations like this to claim health benefits for crap like facon, which is deepfried coconut infused in liquid smoke, at the same time as branding a caesar salad a cardiac risk.
GameStop, Bitcoin and the Commoditization of Populist Rage
Yes absolutely, I'm sure writing a botnet is not trivial so I respect the technical ability!
I can comment as I grew up in China my entire life and came to the west just a few years ago, attending international school. People obviously know censorship exists and most believe is for the greater good, as China needs social stability above all. Most people just want to live their lives, have children receive a good education, make money, have safety, etc. There is no need to bad mouth the government after everything they do for the people. So many families are now wealthy, business is booming, people can afford nicer houses, and the economy is doing better than ever. Crime and danger pretty much does not exist, cities are walkable, life is safe. My family and friends families were low-middle class when I was a kid and are now in the upper class by western standards. Also, you have to understand that Chinese culture, especially Han culture, is very united and shares a lot of patriotism. Family values are very strong, cultural morals I think are very homogenous. This makes it very easy for everyone to agree with government decisions. Contrary to the west, we have very high faith the the government is always doing the most efficient and safe decisions for the general public, and people are happy about it because this has been shown to be true with how it has concretely affected hundreds of millions of people's lives. So many people taken out of poverty within a short span of time.

Social media censorship is not a big deal because we don't miss what we don't know. For example, people don't care they can't use google, facebook, instagram, because we have our own social networks. Also, people know not to talk about political subjects in these platforms because it is in bad taste and we know how to self-censor. Also, we Chinese see the chaos and mess from the news coming from the west regarding polarization, fighting between political parties, and social unrest and we don't want that. Contrary to the middle east, I would say most Chinese do not believe they are oppressed at all. They are happy with how the government handles things.

I'd say people are happy with the censorship because they believe it brings stronger national security, social stability, and reinforces shared cultural values most Chinese have with each other.
Please keep in mind that we have different social values in the east than the west. Our perception of freedom and values that matter to society are quite different. Although this may seem extreme to you, your views sometimes seem extreme to us. Thank you for your time.
>Inflation is an increase in asset prices

Inflation is an an interaction between the supply of any non-dollar "thing" and dollars. Sometimes that means certain assets like equities become more expensive in $, sometimes that means commodities like oil, sometimes it means labor.

But to be clear, rising Consumer Goods Inflation (what people most commonly talk about when they mean inflation) can lead to significantly lower asset prices, depending on valuation methodologies.
I bought Orion SkyQuest XT4.5 classic dobsonian telescope. It turned out to be really good first telescope for me.
Turn Left at Orion(5th ed) by Consolmagno & Davis is really good book that you should consider buying.
I guess if you define yourself as only a "restaurant employee" and never consider doing anything else you might be right. The thing about humans is that they are flexible, adaptable, and creative and can do many different kinds of tasks.

You don't get handed a random job by the job fairy and then that's the only thing you ever get to do for the rest of your life.
I think the cookie law is somewhat meah, but I feel GDPR is pretty future proof. I don't expect GDPR to change a lot, rather our application of it (so-called ECJ recitals) will evolve.

Wouldn't you agree?
Tools like this are extremely necessary and important. I think that platforms (Twitter, Reddit, etc) don't have a real incentive to build out powerful tools to stop this stuff. If you aren't detecting that comments are noxious garbage, then those comments just look like engagement. It's much harder for a platform to notice/quantify the loss from folks leaving or not engaging because of the bad behavior they see, not to mention the direct harm to folks receiving the hate.

When I emailed Daniel (dang) about it ages ago it sounded like there wasn't much automation in moderation on HN. If HN doesn't have the tools, then I expect random Discord, subreddit, etc moderators are also doing their work by having humans wade through manually.

I think Tracy Chou / Block Party are more likely to succeed than the platforms are, since in this case the incentives are actually aligned.
Are there some easy-to-understand samples? I looked in the samples directory and only saw how to do bokeh blur.

I was looking for something a little simpler... I have two large arrays and I want to do simple mathematical operations on them.
WHO Said What About Wuhan?
The presentation of this is just awful. I wanted to learn what makes it so exciting and revolutionary, but couldn't get past the garish slideshow format.
> By the way, both iOS and Android can run a full Linux userspace today!

In Apple's eyes, that's a bug, not a feature.
How to find this on your own macOS drives: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/135565/how-do-i-ge...
Tell that to people who were caught by surprise when redhat decided CentOS was no longer viable. Sure you could find alternatives, but it was still a deeply undesirable disruption.
You're not actually mining Bitcoin with your GPU. I think nicehash automatically picks the most profitable coin to mine at the time and just pays out in bitcoin.

It hasn't been profitable to mine bitcoin with a GPU since 2013 or 2014.
Have to agree, I am using a Thinkpad T420 released in 2011 with 16GB. My upgrade will hopefully have a 32GB capacity.
Not everything needs a dissertation long disclaimer just so you can decide if you want to listen to me

The accuracy of any statement can be weighed and discussed on its own merits
To be fair, how well your country plays a big factor in how you view your countries policies. While life in China is far from perfect, China has been growing at a strong steady pace, and I'm sure people are much more likely to accept the way things are if things are getting better, whereas Iran has been stuck in a rut of sactions for a very long time, and especially once Iranian people compare themselves to the prosperity they had before, it's a hard pill to swallow.
“When I was at ByteDance, we received multiple requests from the bases to develop an algorithm that could automatically detect when a Douyin user spoke Uyghur, and then cut off the livestream session...

...every audio clip would be automatically transcribed into text, allowing algorithms to compare the notes with a long and constantly-updated list of sensitive words, dates and names, as well as Natural Language Processing models. Algorithms would then analyze whether the content was risky enough to require individual monitoring.

If a user mentioned a sensitive term, a content moderator would receive the original video clip and the transcript showing where the term appeared. If the moderator deemed the speech sensitive or inappropriate, they would shut down the ongoing livestreaming session and even suspend or delete the account.”
You should check if your device can run a third party ChromeOS distribution that is still updated, like Cloudready. That's what I did with my Asus CN60 that would otherwise have become a doorstop without security patches and it runs perfectly.
The war on general purpose computing is, as they say, real and spectacular. But this essay doesn't really get to the heart of the matter, which is that customer expectations are changing as computing finds its way into more applications and broader audiences.

General purpose computing happened in the first place by sheer accident -- there wasn't a practical way for the OS vendor to control what was installed on a system. To create such a mechanism would require an enormous investment in trusted boot, code signing, and app sandboxing. Yet the security needs of operating systems, driven by customer expectations, are creating all the elements so that vendor controls becomes as easy as flipping a switch.

That's how we got here, not by some vendor plot. Before, it wasn't possible. Now, it's possible, due merely to OS vendors responding to customer pressure for sandboxing infrastructure.

And customers are really pushing and driving putting this infrastructure in place.

Look at this security warning:
https://github.com/javakeyring/java-keyring

People are complaining that the OS is not able to securely identify between two applications in the same user context. So they filed a bogus CVE, where the content of the CVE is basically "Linux is not an iPhone". It is a OS app sandboxing feature request, masquerading as a bug report to the keyring team.

Read the belated reply from the gnome keyring folks, pleading with people to understand what the linux security model is, and that linux doesn't have the sandboxing capabilities that have been rolled out to other (paid) operating systems:

https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeKeyring/SecurityPhiloso...

Yet people don't want to hear it. They are demanding that everything be turned into an iphone (in terms of app sandboxes) but they are also demanding that once the OS vendor has the power to install a chokepoint around all the apps, that they wont set up a little toll booth there as well.

But IMO asking vendors to not exploit that for commercial gain is only going to be safeguarded by regulation, and that regulation will hand over to the government the power to decide what is and is not allowed to run. The moment the technical genie was let out of the bottle and OS vendors had the power to control who was running what, that spells the end of general purpose computing, at least from a "freedom" point of view.
I dont see the problem. If someone chooses to ignore contrary evidence themselves, they are choosing to be ignorant. Their choice.

If someone is forced to wade through offensive crap to see the quality posts, well they had no choice in the matter.

The latter scenario is clearly worse and this service is not really flawed.
This has to be wrong readings, is the M1 swapping really totally different? My normal last gen Intel Mac has 0% usage and it's nearly one year old (yes, I use it nearly daily).
I've lived in China for few years.

I haven't asked everyone I know, but based on my feeling most people don't like it. That being said, for most Chinese not liking the censorship is kind of like not liking a bad weather. You don't like it, but you accept it and move on.

Also based on my experience, most white collars (or at least ones working for international companies) in China have either direct or indirect access to the uncensored internet. Companies are allowed to purchase access to VPNs (legal, government approved) to bypass the censorship. This is so that they can access Google, YouTube, banned social media etc. to help them to do international business. Lot of companies integrate these VPNs directly into their corporate wifis meaning that all employees in the company network can bypass the censorship.

Despite having the unblocked access, I've noticed that only very few Chinese are interested in reading foreign news sources or using foreign social media/video platforms.
I'd love to see someone try to sell yellowed 20-year old paper towels (with branding from 3 generations ago) after thinking they were hedging inflation.
In germany, they don't allow that loop hole.

If you made profit and traded against another coin, you pay tax, simple.

If you hold for a year though. You dont pay taxes.

My portfolio is up quit a bit now and its almost a year. Hope it stays almost like that just few more weeks :)

But who knows?
How does AppleCare deal with SSD issues like this? I have heard that for batteries, they'll replace if the maximum usable capacity is below 80% of what it should be. I assume they've had a similar policy for SSD? Arguably the SSD is even more critical than the battery, because you can at least hypothetically use a laptop plugged in.
If you speak freely, and it is not powerful enough to cause any consequences, then are you freely speaking at all?

Sounds like a great way to make us feel like we have political power and that our speech has power, when in reality the moment our speech can disrupt the establishment it gets clamped down. One big difference here vs China is that the establishment is a bit more distributed.

The people in power here are just as eager to censor as the people in power in China. The only difference is the people in power in China are mostly the people in control of the government. But the one bigger difference is that we only seem to think the government is capable of censorship, when really it's a matter of the people in power.
Is there actually a good, logical argument for doing this kind of thing, or have people just lost their minds? I think it's the latter, but I'd love if someone could steel-man the other side.
Is that not obvious? Via the ancient Greek schools of philosophy for example?
> The last time I was forced to use a Linux desktop environment for work, the resolution that I needed it to run on was not supported. It took me 10 minutes of googling to find the arcane invocations to perform this simple task

What do you do if the resolution you want isn't supported on other platforms?
Many people dont know right click. many people never use laptops, or rarely, they own a $1000 phone and a $200 crappy laptop. You struggle if you ve never used it before
Perhaps not a "serious machine" (that's subjective), but is well-specced for it's intended audience, and reviews are generally very positive.
I also pulled up when reading that quote (and "explanation" is the name Strevens chose). But the next sentences show precisely what he means by "explanation".

When that situation arises, it's the fault of the writer. The classic remark on this is by Lewis Carroll: “When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’. ’The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’. ’The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.”.
Without really answering your question, I think any pejorative that is based around generalizing an entire behavior as the result of biology/gender/sex is pretty offensive.

In other words, phrases like 'mansplaining' are just as offensive as phrases like 'man-up' or 'stop being such a girl' when being said with a serious or negative tone; and I think the use of such language exacerbates the problem rather than simply pointing it out.

Yes, I think that language is abrasive and contrary to the goal of unification. No, I don't find it surprising that the internet can be a horrible place.
It's gotta be a bug. Hopefully this will get on Apple's radar.

Edit: for what it's worth, here's my stats from my 8GB M1 MacBook Air after ~2 months of continuous heavy usage as my main work machine:

Percentage Used: 0%
Data Units Read: 4,622,487 [2.36 TB]
Data Units Written: 2,301,067 [1.17 TB]

Which feels reasonable. So doesn't seem like it affects everyone equally.
That's an example of misleading graph.
The area of a circle makes proportions hard to assess correctly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misleading_graph
It's certainly an imperfect metric, but I'm skeptical of the claims that there's a better measure for 'higher learning'.

Often when people say this, I've found they're really just using it as a proxy for status or prestige rather than education or critical thinking.

I agree with it in the abstract, but disagree with its use in practice.
You send USDC/USDT to another exchange, use it to pay for stuff, store it in a hardware wallet, etc. USD can only be transferred back to your bank account.
Most food either comes canned or in plastic containers. Even the "fresh" foods will likely have pesticide residue so I guess grow our own garden? Of course that's probably out of the question in urban environments due to many toxic chemicals in the soil so ugh, we're truly excrementing where we sleep aren't we?
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26236739