skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Building a basic house is pretty simple. Larry Haun put out a great book with Habitat for Humanity to do it for about $40,000

Sure, if you have free labor. I’d guess 99%+ of houses were built by a paid crew, so uh, it does not cost just 40k for a house. It costs $200/sq ft to build a house (in a midsize metro area of 3 million), without buying land.
This is so pervasive, and so easy to access its hardly news: https://www.facebook.com/search/groups/?q=google%20review%20...
Because boycotts don't work on this scale. This is nation state level stuff. Only the US government can apply any pressure here on a scale that makes a difference. The best thing you can do is vote for politicians that aren't afraid of China. If you want to buy American then do it because you want to buy American and help the economy and your fellow Americans not because you want to punish China.
Did Google ever have a good reputation for customer support?
Wait - BankID requires an Android or iOS app in Sweden? Sounds cumbersome. Here in Norway BankID is a SIM application that follows your SIM card regardless of OS or if you swap your phone. So you could basically stick your SIM in a stone age cell phone and still use your BankID.
Well there's the cost of the land the house is sitting on, in many places with a high cost of living the land is the scarce part.
I'm _fairly_ sure that 2021-W07-5T00:00:00Z or 2000-W03-7T01:23:45.678+09:00 would be a valid full ISO date time and offset as well, but I haven't checked the specification.

Luxon will happily parse 2021-W07-5T00:00:00Z and tell me that it represents 2021-02-18T16:00:00.000-08:00, so I think it's valid.
A lot of the California ones are pretty decent. I dated a girl who lived in one. I also stayed in an Airbnb that was in one. The owner, who lived there, was a woman with a Stanford degree. They're cheap and reasonable places to live with a lot of stigma. The ones I saw around me growing up in Virginia were... shitty.
I spent my early years living in a trailer park, and to be honest, it wasn't bad at all (at least back then). We knew most of our neighbors and most people looked out for each other (like helping out people suffering from food insecurity). That place had some of the most generous people I'd ever met.

I have pretty fond memories of living there.

I got my first bike from a really, really nice single mom who noticed that I didn't have one. I mean, it was a crappy garage sale find that was rusted and had weird 1970s-stylee handle bars, but she got it specifically for me.
Storing spent nuclear fuel (etc) is not a "hidden" cost. It's actually included in the cost of nuclear fuel, at least in the US.

Fukushima, for all the flaws (including some paranoia that led to unnecessary evacuations, etc), still didn't kill anyone even though thousands of people died in the tsunami. That's how safe nuclear is.
Where to start? Lol.

The US is a vast country with a vast population and its economy has been geared towards high end services. Those with the relevant education are able to thrive while those without education or wealth get cast aside. Urban centers thrive in this economy while rural ones fade away and decay; most people don’t want/ can’t move to where the opportunities are.

There’s also a multitude of socio political issues. From the relative independence of States to set social benefits policies, to the phenomenon of convincing people to vote against their own interests when race or culture war is involved.
I'm not sure you're entirely correct. A lot of people plan on downsizing their housing when they reach retirement age - Move somewhere smaller because you don't need to accommodate the kids any more, and further out of an urban center because you don't need to commute any more.

This is a net positive - It frees up more valuable real estate in urban centers for working-age citizens to utilize, and extracts capital from the property for retirement-age citizens to finance their retirement.

In this way, housing has been a stable and reliable investment for many for some time, and in a way that's beneficial to society as a whole. Quite different to what we're seeing here, an evolving dynamic which also threatens this model and puts people's retirement prospects in peril.
Agreed on all of those specifics, sure.
Not really.

It is a possibility that could happen, but it is not very probable.

I am certain taht millions of services are written and dies in lonely obscurity.

According to a Hulu documentary I watched recently some woman makes over 150K a month from OnlyFans.

Lots of people want that and sign up and the vast majority will not make anything.

Or the more classic moving to Hollywood to become a
famous actor making $$$$, or be a rock star.

The chances your services will make billions is slim,

If you write a good library, you can sell it.
I would much rather buy a library than a service.
(I may be in the minority for sure).

If you give it away, and if it does prove highly popular then wrapping it in a service and offering it that way will create some income.

With that strategy you can iterate over functionality and find out what the market wants the most and create a product that is more mature as a service.
These kinds of discussions are futile yes. It's been well over 10 years and the only change in this discussion is the introduction of racial and gender discrimination, whereas 10 years ago the focus was on age discrimination.

I'd be happy to hear alternative approaches to conducting a technical interview, but no one presents any. There are 100 comments in this topic and hardly any discussion of what a good hiring process would look like.
The fox is guarding the henhouse.

The politicians themselves are benefitting from the situation. So why would they change it?
I've recently encountered employment/hiring contracts declaring that all of the employee/contractor's ideas belong to the company. It might be worthwhile to review your employment contract and do a quick consultation with your attorney.
Copy databases in zeeSQL, SQL and search by value for Redis
But the security guard lives in SF, which increases his living costs.
From Mac Rumors:

T-Mobile customers can opt out of the advertising program through the T-Mobile app or the T-Mobile website. In the app, access the "MORE" tab, select Advertising & Analytics, and toggle off "Use my data to make ads more relevant to me."

On the website(https://www.t-mobile.com/signin), choose "My Account," select "Profile, Privacy, and Notifications, then choose Advertising "& Analytics. From there, turn the opt-in toggle off. Sprint users can change the setting through the Sprint website. Select "Visit My Account," choose "Preferences" and then scroll down to "Manage advertising and analytics preferences." From here, turn off "Use my data to make ads more relevant to me."

Took me a few reloads throughout this process
What? religion has been doing that for thousands of years.
> Can someone explain to me how Roblox doesn't violate Apple's "no app stores in the App Store" rule?

The games available inside Roblox are impossible to ship as an independent app on the App Store without re-implementing the entire Roblox platform. It's a middle ground between Minecraft selling maps and an actual app store.
Extremely good idea. I've had to implement webhooks in the past and it was a huge pain (and my implementation likely had tons of bugs anyways). Turning into a well architected service seems like a perfect fit.

Congrats on the launch and good luck!
If you go for Roblox, I recommend using the parental controls to enable curated games only. It wasn't on by default for my <13 yo, which annoys me to no end. If you don't turn it on, you'll end up with your kids in games with freeform sketching and all sorts of questions you weren't planning to answer until later. :-)
Having spent a decent amount of time in one of these myself, I much prefer the term "trailer park" to "mobile-home community". The article uses the term interchangeably, but they explain this important detail themselves:

"The homes in the park are not as portable as its name implies; they’ve been placed on foundations, and their hitches have been removed."

In my experience, in older parks especially, there is no way to economically move the trailer. Which means you don't really own a "mobile home", you own a slot in the park with a worthless trailer on it. This allows the park to have the negotiating power. I just wanted to point out this key detail to people who may not be aware of the situation.
The oddest part about it is how much of a mess the Bay Area is. Typically you’d expect centers of wealth to be excessively clean, filled with expensive architecture and monuments, etc. to the point of being boring. Dubai, for instance.

Somehow SV just decided to not bother with that at all.
I wonder how this plays with the experiments that found that that girls tended to score much closer to boys on math tests when primed with the idea that they would do better and worse when primed with the idea that they would do worse.
This looks nice but don't I still have to invest all the engineering to make sure my calls reach Diahook service in the first place? The argument from diahook seems to be "we'll never go down". That's covered by SLAs by all companies that Diahook would be forwarding my calls to. Does Diahook claim 100% uptime? That's impossible. Even if it were possible, there are many other points of failure between my service and Diahook and I need to take all of them into account. Once I do that, I don't see much point in using Diahook. This would've been better off as a library I think.

There are other features/reason that would make me use a "webhook service" and I've contemplated building one before but mainly for async message passing between systems. Anything sync and you almost always need to take care of all the failure states.

This could be useful as a library or side-car. I can't help but think of this as a plugin for something like Envoy even though Envoy probably does a lot of this already.
I couldn't find a list of what sources (like which journals) they're archiving from. Does anyone know where to find that? It would be nice to see what subject categories the archive covers.
Let’s do it!

I’ve mostly been coming to HN articles on crypto for the entertainment value only but it’s getting better - slowly.
I visited my friend a couple years ago who lived in a shipping container in a trailer park. tbqh it was super nice and everyone was super friendly. Seemed like a really solid place to live. My friend loved it to: he made a good salary as a software engineer but just really loved the trailer park vibe.
Is this really how you view it? Like, you think that people are plotting how to induce scarcity in the market so that they will work harder?

That doesn't seem like a useful framing of the problem.
> for the suffering of the Jewish people, and Israel as a response to that

You do understand, that Israel was established by people, who didn't suffer in Holocaust, but still demanded retribution from Arabs, who weren't responsible for Holocaust, right?

A lot of Holocaust survivors were afraid to admit it until 90-ties for the reason they were considered sub-humans by fellow Israelis.

> sense of common identity

Please, be kind and explain to me, what common identity can be between me, secular son of Ashkenazi Jew, and minister Deri, Moroccan Arab of Jewish religion, who considers my father as good as dead since he married my non-jewish mother?
Would you live there by choice?
One day of power storage would be 12 TWh (using the 500 GW number in the post I responded to). That’s ~2.7 orders of magnitude time larger than the cited current installed storage, which isn’t even remotely 6+ orders of magnitude.

Even if you entirely ignore that hydro component and only look at the 3 GWh number, that’s still only ~3.6 orders of magnitude less than what we’d need for a whole day with no power generation whatsoever.

Their numbers are talking about enough storage to maintain current usage for half a year.

To your second comment: spanning a continent does actually help with solar, since the sun is up at different times on the two coasts - that buys you several extra hours of power each day. Also obstructive weather patterns tend to not reach that far.
For the uninitiated:

https://crawl.develz.org/
I'd suggest you look at how documentaries like "What the Bleep Do We Know" and "The Principle" are created out of editing together unrelated emotionally impactful set pieces and out of context statements from authorities and otherwise valid sources.

This video is using all the same editing techniques as you would to push geocentricism and make it look like Michio Kaku is onboard with it.

That's why they include crap like a The Winter Soldier from Marvel being interrogated and random clips from Mulan, while giving quotes that can't use an entire sentence of before being forced to use a jump cut.
I don't think you read my comment, which makes it clear that "Modern progressivism has apparently solved that issue already." was meant facetiously.
Ask HN: What is keeping you from adopting Istio?
I would like to help solving these problems and make adopting Istio easier in production.
I'm not against solar and wind. We actually COULD do 100% solar, wind, and storage. See here: https://model.energy

However, it's going to take much longer if we start with phasing out nuclear before fossil, which means spewing massive amounts of carbon into the atmosphere. We can't afford that time.
They are allowed to ask your for your ID to make sure you're old enough (even if you look much older than enough), so they will still know who you are (just half-joking - they don't use that information to store information on you... or do they).
Sure, I believe you. I’m just saying the parent you replied to said his son needs a lot more discipline, but gave no co text for that statement. Maybe he’s saying that his son doesn’t want to do chores? We don’t know.
> And at this point, Slack’s method of creating a separate thread in response to any message is by far the most effective, but feels clunky within the interface, as if it were an afterthought.

I disagree hugely. At least for casual messaging, they're far too heavyweight for 99% of situations that are perfectly well suited to comment replies. Our brains are fine at picking out the context.

For casual chat, you don't want to overstructure things. Also with threads now you have to have some way of managing previous contexts (do you need to scroll up to find/reply to threads? Is there some sort of weird thread view?)
Bitcoin’s Climate Problem
The modern equivalent is them trying to take over the South China sea so that they control all shipping through there as well. They just a bit too late to join in the colonization frenzy, but they would just have surely done it as any western country if they would have been in a position to do so. Humans are humans and by and large act the same way.
It'd be nice a to have police officer talk about this :-)

But is it me or police techniques such as gaining physical access to criminals, flipping them to informers, close surveillance, etc. continue to be very efficient even in the face of quite good technology ?
Without the high price of construction, nuke wouldn't happen at all, in the US. The cost overruns are the gravy train for corruption that motivates the whole process. Cut off cost overruns and corruption, and all the appeal at high levels dries up. Other countries have other dynamics. Small-scale nukes are locked institutionally in competition with big corruption nukes, so at a disadvantage.

Solar and wind start producing competitive power immediately. There is much less room there for corruption, but the immediate income from output drives investment.
This happened on Amazon.

Outcompeted by another product listing? Buy obviously fake amazon reviews and they would get suspended by Amazon for purchasing fake reviews.

I've heard that Amazon is now more nuanced in how they handle suspensions, but it's a mess.
> people who can only afford to live in trailer parks, even with a full time job.

Given that the rent in many trailer parks comparable with an NYC apartment, it stands to reason that most people are there by choice.
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I just wanted to mention that I adore the way you articulated and called out everything that was going on here.
A demo for "Largest-Triangle-Three-Buckets" algorithm
https://www.base.is/flot/

And the plugin used in the demo:
https://github.com/sveinn-steinarsson/flot-downsample
I think this is more of a reflection of mainstream OSS culture in general. Rust development currently is heavily tied to proprietary services (e.g. GitHub required for contributions, issues, crates.io login, CI, etc., Discord and Slack communities rather than Matrix, Zulip) and likes to license things under MIT. I think the lack of awareness/care for the big picture of fighting for software freedom is simply not there just as it is missing from mainstream OSS culture. Because convenience and network effect are king.
17 tonnes of cocaine - thats a crazy amount.
One can choose:

-too hard to troubleshoot

-heavy resource usage

-too much operational cost

-not clear benefits

-exact implementation flaws

-lack of features

-etc
USA in itself has many microcosms of culture, it's not one homogeneous clump. The fact that your company is USA based offers no indication of the cultural backgrounds of people working there.

You can try to homogenize language and culture to suit your own sensibilities. Since I view "guy" as a gendered term, then that's clearly the only acceptable definition and interpretation of the term. Other people's usage is obviously problematic and I want to compel them to change their language to meet my requirements and sense of acceptable terminology.

Alternatively you can embrace the fact that people's language is their own and acknowledge that the person's intent here does indeed matter. You don't need to adapt the same language that they use, but you could be mindful that people speak differently than you and that your discomfort with terminology is sometimes maligned.
They replaced a dictatorship with a dictatorship, I would say that's not a good thing and not even close to democratization. Not that it has worked out well for western powers either.
The United States is the land of high variance. We let people crash and burn, but we also let people soar. A society that permits the former is unremarkable — letting people suffer is the default in poverty, and most countries are relatively quite poor. But the latter, letting the tall poppies stand proud with not much more than heckling for their height, is something special, and it's a big part of how we've become such an outlier nation in terms of success.
FOUC = "Flash of unstyled content"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_of_unstyled_content
It is interesting how it breaks down by elementary/middle/high:

Close to 68 percent of elementary school principals are women, while men make up 67.3% of high school principals and 60% of middle school principals.
I first encountered bog oak (morta) in the world of tobacco pipes. Turns out that some pipe makers have been using the material for quite a while because the grain patterns are stunning.
Don't worry, the same rulers with ensure the People remains unarmed.
> Are you saying the Balfour Declaration had no impact on developments in the region from 1917-1947?

Not much, no. It was largely a symbolic act. Actual British policy remained hostile to the establishment of a Jewish state in Israel.

The fact is, that besides this exceptional, purely symbolic act, the British Empire as a foreign power did all it could to prevent the successful establishment of a Jewish nation in Israel.

> The Jewish Brigade

The Jewish Brigade was part of the British Army, a brigade of Jewish volunteers.

It is true that some individuals who served in that brigade ended up joining Israeli groups that eventually formed the IDF, but these were individual acts by individuals, and by no means an expression of a policy by the British Empire or any other foreign power.

> I urge you to read more widely on this topic.

I'm not sure well read you are on the topic, when your only example of a "foreign power" helping the nation of Israel in its inception is... the Jewish Brigade.

Did you know it was a brigade of individual volunteers within the British Army? If you did, I don't think you'd cite it as an example.

You didn't cite any other example, either.
"In the past decade, as income inequality has risen, sophisticated investors have turned to mobile-home parks as a growing market. They see the parks as reliable sources of passive income—assets that generate steady returns and require little effort to maintain."

Man, this is just... gross. I realize mortgage bond trading has been a ~$100 trillion dollar windfall since the mighty 80's under Volker (and Liars Poker), but the "little effort to maintain" just cries foul.
You absolutely can turn it off when you don't need it.
Someone heard they'd need to hire a cleanup contractor and saw nothing but piles of money. No way it will cost anywhere near that much just to make the area safe. Most of the contamination was in water that's already gone to the ocean and raised the ocean's background by an utterly negligible amount.
I'm in Canada not in the US but I know of a medical doctor that lives in a trailer park near me. It's not a dump but it is a trailer park.
There are certain aspects of building a house that I would have no problem doing myself. Besides the steps that would require more than 2 hands, there are also other tasks that I would rather have someone else do. Proper grading of the area the house is to be situated would be one. Digging the trenchs for the foundation or drilling the holes for the pier & beam posts would be another. After that, I have performed all of the other steps in various stages.
> For example for cp, most of the time is spending copying the files.

There's a lot of ways to "copy a file" though. Finding the right buffer sizes, making concurrent read/write ops for different backend devices, and many other things can influence this. A good cp is not trivial.
Compressing Data with Parquet
Paradoxes Entrepreneurs Struggle With
!Important clarification!

In the world of OTP (Open telecom platform), a process is the term for what essentially is a green-thread, not an OS process!

So it is:
a) much, much more lightweight (IIRC ~ 1Kb)
b) scheduled by the Erlang virtual machine (so called BEAM)'s scheduler. The BEAM's schedulers run on a per-thread-basis, inside the BEAM's process
c) independently garbage collected, no mutable memory sharing
Good developments, but we cannot wait for them. Even the coal grids are falling apart now, and building gas to replace them is not sane.

On the other hand, once they're available, switching to them is perfectly fine, and the 50+ lifetime of LWRs exists for a reason. Maybe we will even have workable fusion by then.
They could but I would be skeptical if it would work. I’m speaking from previous robotics experience in auto assembly plants with heavy and established unions. Even then, line employment was decimated by robots.
Immigrant would imply moving to an existing country. Please don't confuse this with Israel. Israel is engaging in colonialism, the practice of acquiring full or partial political control over another country, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it economically.
What's with the increasing regularity of reporting on this specific issue? The power usage of miners doesn't appear to have changed significantly, but the reporting of it seems to have increased by orders of magnitude in the last month.
I read that the world needs both types of economies. The US is a dynamic, freewheeling sort with the most extremes. You can get incredibly rich, but the bottom has no floor. It's easy to amass capital and to pay workers. Or have western Europe, which is a relatively painful climate for businesses. Taxation for extensive social services is stifling, but at least most of the middle people are OK.