skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing that always seems to be missing from these videos (in general, because there are many of them) is step 0: how do you go about acquiring the land and the permission to build a log cabin on this land? I can't imagine that there's many countries in the world where there is no build code or other legislation regarding how or where buildings can be built. The last thing I'd want to do is spend an entire year building something that I would then be legally obliged to tear down.

If you're felling a large amount of trees in a forest, at the bare minimum you need the blessing of the land owner (if that isn't you). Most likely, you'll also need in addition to this a permit to fell trees to begin with, because land owners in most countries aren't free to simply fell any amount of trees they wish just because they own the land.

It's obviously an impressive feat to build a log cabin from scratch, but since this step is so often completely omitted, I have to ask myself whether this is because it's considered too boring, or because there are people out there who think that as long as you go far enough into the woods, you can do whatever you want because no one will notice.
It sounds really simple to do, but we literally spent a month or two implementing a notification inbox, browser push notifications, granular settings and permissions, etc at Spectrum. Even with all that work it was still relatively buggy!

I'm very glad MagicBell is tackling this — I never want to build another notification system myself, I'd much rather pay them to solve this problem for me!
Well it's pretty easy to find a balance if you at least try, you can use widely available, documented and tested open source libs, for most of your (technically hard) problems. and not roll your own there. (Not invented here syndrome?)

And you should also leverage the fact that you own 100% of your codebase, to add as much custom stuff and custom business logic where it pertains, but it is not wise to reinvent the wheel (or the engine, or the carburator) in 2021, when everything from, hosts, db, etc, is available at a few clicks...

also depends much on what tools you're using/projects are doing, YMMV
I’d be curious to know which services are confirmed to have solid 2FA reset practices (i.e., you can do it if you lose your keys; no one else can do it).

These would probably be smaller businesses that earn their revenue directly from paying customers (and would lose if you give up and cancel your card/block their transactions)—I can’t imagine this ever working for ad-driven whales like Google or Facebook, or large corporations to whom you’re small fish and need them more than they need you.

Also, it’ll be interesting to see how 2FA reset options evolve in near future. A 24-hour slot to reset only 2FA, for example, looks like a valid attack vector. Also, I suspect deepfaking videocalls won’t be out of reach of a dedicated but average attacker for long.
Seems like you don't understand modern software development or systems architecting. For example Google's Cloud Run is about the same cost as a similar virtual machine if running 24/7, but you do get "magic" autoscaling.

And if you don't like that, just run your own Kubernetes cluster with Knative.
You’ll have to send the same message to your female coworkers in the name of fairness.
I think Nathan has put a slightly negative spin on what happened to Gumroad- maybe implying that it was intended all along - but he does have a bit of a point.
In a practical working environment it creates more problems than it solves.

It's an optimization that effectively turns non-working code into working code, in ways that aren't always obvious or predictable and possibly in different ways across different compilers/interpreters.

I'd rather the code blow up in my face immediately than spend time wondering why it gets optimized on engine X and not on engine Y, or why seemingly trivial code changes cause the function to have drastically different runtime behavior.

Clojure did this right. No TCO, loop/recur construct instead.

As a side note at the cost of being snarky, it's also probably a good thing that developers who get overexcited about recursion are being encouraged to use proper functional idioms instead of abusing it.
İt is super cool!!
Erasure in Database Modeling
I thought it was strange that they highlighted that sentence as well since the rest of the article goes on to dispute that. I'm guessing whoever made the excepts didn't read the rest very well.
Perhaps corn syrup would work too. If we take it out of our foods, then we can solve two problems at once.
Great revolutionary idea.
We have anti-trust laws. Still the anti-trust laws are not enforced.
the instrument is called a crowd SAFE: https://republic.co/learn/investors/crowdsafe

republic is an angellist spinoff: https://republic.co/help/how-is-republic-part-of-a-family-of...
good idea I like postnick
>Complaining about it this seen as unacceptable — you can’t criticize or question any mainstream view put out by the media on this issue

This is completely false: entire media companies are dedicated to it.

>Identity politics is the clear and only vehicle for this kind of suppression of basic rights at the moment.

Again, I could just as easily say >Fear of socialism is the clear and only vehicle for this kind of suppression of basic rights at the moment.

That does not make it true.

>If there is some sort of PATRIOT Act 2.0 under the current administration targeted at “domestic terrorism” I absolutely guarantee you someone will at least try to put an encryption backdoor in it.

That's literally a given. I don't know what you're arguing. https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4876107/user-clip-joe-biden-w...
Phrack Magazine
But why didn't the owner install solar back then?
Had a similar problem recently. Ended up creating a custom system using a file-based index (append to files named by the first 5 char of the SHA1 of the key)
Took 10 hours to parse my Terabyte. Uploaded it to Azure Blob storage, now I can query my 10B rows in 50ms for ~10^-7$.
It's hard to evolve, but 10x faster and cheaper than other solutions.
Or use Qubes OS.
> If you tell Signal not to allow

Big if already

> the safety numbers for any ongoing conversations with anybody reset ... which will be notified to the other participants

"Hi <name>, I have a new device, can you help me ____"
Radical Simplicity in Technology
What do you do when it's winter, and there hasn't been any significant wind for several days and batteries are empty ?

All these prices are computed "when there are enough supplies", which is easier to guarantee with coal/gas/oil/nuclear. On the best case scenario, renewable are cheaper than anything else. The issue is that the price of electricity is driven by the hardest watts to create, not the easiest ones.
How do you know what% users have side effects or what doseage that occurs at or what causes this reaction in the subpopulation? You don't and just wave that off, that's why it's flippant.
Ah! A classic :)
I thought the Oort cloud is a (sound) hypothesis, not a confirmed thing?

> [long-period comets] originate in the Oort cloud, which extends several light-years from the sun [...] to the edge of the solar system
Of course we do need art. But most artists are not protected by copyright, quite the contrary! They get extorted by producers and other mafia-like organizations taking their rights away and "eating" all their income as administrative fees.

According to official SACEM statistics, 66% of their registered artists (who pay membership dues) don't receive a single cent over an entire year. The Cour des Comptes (highest french authority for public spending) has published detailed analysis about the copyright mafia and how their 6-digit salaries really don't help artists make a living.

How to make a living is an issue in all of society, not just for artists. We should address this problem globally by making sure wealth is redistributed according to everyone's needs.
Also, I think that view only looks at the vehicle itself and neglects the onerous funding model the USPS is saddled with and the investment required on the supply chain/logistics side.

The fleet itself is a massive capital investment. But changing the fuel would be sizable as well. The USPS already has a supply chain network and facilities for gasoline. Replacing that will be huge in itself.

Municipalities are a better first-step and have had some success with moving bus fleets and maintenance vehicles to NG or EV. But they usually just have a handful of fueling stations and suppliers.

Fleet renewal is a pretty well understood budgeting process in any large scale logistics network (airlines, military, delivery..). You reach a point where replacing the fleet is a better investment than maintaining the current one.

To migrate to EVs, the USPS would likely wait out success in the private sector (like FedEx’s announcement) to demonstrate ROI, and retrofit this design or phase in a 2nd or 3rd iteration on it as a separate budget/RFP process.
EU support is collapsing and many seem to be waking up to its lies. I can't find the original but this pol said 39% of Britons want to rejoin the EU [1]. I'm finding it hard to find any support for the EU's actions in this thread as well.

[1] https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1407808/brexit-lates...
This is not "whataboutism", it's simply prompted by your "classic EU attitude: Was there a single resignation or admission of guilt from the UK goverment for one of worst responses to COVID19?
Reasons for Cart Abandonment: How to Minimize Their Effects Now
Is there any meaning to political criticism by people outside the government?
I feel like tail calls are pretty obvious, the c++ grammar even explicitly calls them out.
Understanding the Hype Behind NFTs
There are also flexible CIGS panels which are not fragile and conform well to curved surfaces and are incredibly light weight. I have 960W mounted on my short school bus conversion and am able to run fridge 24/7, water pump, lights, and an induction cook top and have yet to fully drain the two lithium batteries I got. If any community is aware of the advances made in consumer solar recently it's the skoolie/vanlife folks.

I think they improve the car not just from a convenience perspective (i rarely drive more than 100 miles a week in the city) but also it helps more of your energy usage come from the sun rather than non-renewable sources you might be indirectly pulling from the wall.
A bit of backstory of the company:

Initially they were founded in 2016. The founders built their prototype by-hand and themselves, which I find very inspiring.

In 2019 they had to do a crowdfunding campaign to raise 50M EUR for research costs so that they can go to mass market production. They had ~13000 signups in that campaign. Before that, most investors wanted a too revenue-focussed investment, and the company wanted to build an affordable mass-market car. They also embrace the vision of car sharing as a more sustainable infrastructure for cities.

The CES live presentation (probably why they are popular now) from earlier this year:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhlHJ9FA7q0

Personally, I think this is the kind of vision a company like this needs. I mean, we probably can agree that it's first-gen and that it will have a few bugs and quirks, we all know that.

But if more companies research on solar and battery technologies, they hopefully will get more efficient so that a concept like this can solve more edge cases.

And remember, Tesla didn't build their first-gen cars either; they did it the same and reused parts from Continental, BMW and Lotus among others.
Why would you by-default assume that the people who design and implement this are unaware of such considerations?
Interesting! Was there any test suite of some sort to help guide your work? I'm guessing something that's 30yo will have lots of unexpected usages and expectations.
Mystery Babylon as NFTs with surprising descriptions
> TRUE will some day need to be set to false

It will happen one day, it will go into production, and the app will work surprisingly well with some subtle glitches. After revealing all contractor devs will make poker face and things will continue as before.
Right, trying to see some reason why heating water with microwaves would be preferable to standard resistive heating elements other than for marketing purposes.
most useful address method ever!
I've used Emacs for 2 years and haven't had to write a single elisp function.
There are many, many ways to handle backup authentication. SMS is not one of them.
So Pfizer is not transparent with the contents/stability of their mRNA envelope and AstraZeneca causes blood clots.

Who can we trust?
I totally agree with your main point and SO is kind of the perfect example. At the same time it is kind of the worst example because for one, to the best of my knowledge, their architecture is pretty much an outlier, and for another it is what it is for non-technical historical reasons.

As far as I remember they started that way because they were on a Microsoft stack and Microsofts licensing policies were (are?) pretty much prohibitive for scaling out. It is an interesting question if they would design their system the same way if they'd the opportunity to start from scratch.
Yeah, if I could reasonably verify that the tracking was not occurring. Unfortunately in today's environment, trust is also an issue.
Why is that? And why doesn’t the E.U. send police or military to stop shipments from leaving the E.U. if they are in violation of contractual obligations or law?

But also, as E.U. member states are suspending the AstraZeneca vaccine why is it even a problem that the shipments are leaving the E.U.?

I find the response and handling of the entire situation by the E.U. to be a bit perplexing.
European countries often have minimums on what has to be allowed by the government. In my country (Czechia), a 25 square meters house without basement can be built on suitable land with only notifying the government, no approvals needed.
I said value needs to be traced to an essential need, this covers most industries pretty well - but there seems to be a lot of tech that is more than 5 times removed from an essential
I think an even better example would be the "entry" keyword which would add multiple entry points to C functions[1]. We dodged a bullet here.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/254395/whatever-happened...
they are starting to block the exports so diplomacy is finished.
> EMA says the leaked information was partially doctored, explaining in a statement that “whilst individual emails are authentic, data from different users were selected and aggregated, screenshots from multiple folders and mailboxes have been created, and additional titles were added by the perpetrators.”3

Worth noting
> It is better than having just passwords.

That is false. Many incidents have been widely reported where huge names, who certainly could afford even a $50 hardware token to protect their reputation/brand, were 'hacked' because they thought SMS 2FA protected them - and it didn't. Even with services which do also offer TOTP or U2F etc.
In Sweden, to acquire land you can contact a landowner, or a broker. For available land, see e.g. https://www.hemnet.se/bostader?by=price&housing_form_groups%...

The building codes are administrated by the municipalities. To find out more, one would visit the website of the municipality where one would like to build the house. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_municipalities_of_Swed...
I don't know if I agree with this. I love Emacs and nothing has convinced me to give up on it yet, but it is a chore to use on large projects. Helm, projectile and the likes always work with passable performance at worst, but opening a jsx file for the first time literally freezes the entire program for 5 seconds. It's really annoying and I've no idea what causes it.
It says here - in swedish - that it is on property that his family owns.

https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/vastmanland/han-bygger-en-...
Mistakes are "downtime" as well in a way. Or maybe better, downtime is a mistake, cause errors and lead to problems.
Yes, the NHS has done a very good job at administering the vaccine programme.

But delivery of goods on agreed terms is "begging" now? And your choice of GBP/USD window is rather convenient, as is the choice of currency. Have a peek at GBP/EUR over 10 years.

As for the British economy, we're only 3.5 months in to trading on something approaching the new terms and the UK is already choking on the 'oven ready' Withdrawla Agreement and is flatly refusing to implement parts of it because it simply can't cope or perhaps never planned to act in good faith in the first place. We will see how this plays out with future trade negotiations -- the world is watching.
I think it really depends on the country/province. Here in Ontario, it's pretty common to find little hunting shacks or small cabins out in Crown land. My understanding is all you need is written permission from the MNR, permission which understandably depends a lot on what you're building.

Interestingly, if you're First Nations, those laws don't apply to you and you can essentially build whatever you like on Crown Land, provided you can make the case it relates to your cultural heritage.
> So... Genesys I linked is more than just basic CA, it consists of independent agents with each "creature" using a lisp-like instruction set.

Sure, I do understand that Genesys is an agent-based simulation rather than being ‘just’ a CA. Still, at heart it seems to be a CA with adjustable rules, and as such there is a similarly to my own program.

(I’ve never heard of Tierra before, but it looks interesting; I shall have to look into it!)
This reminds me that this is what annoys me about comedians doing news. Everyone thinks their favorite late night talk show host is better news because they raise awareness in a digestible format. But they arent willing to realize that every single topic - if it is on their show - is presented in a pejorative view.

Between the quick cuts to “here’s a funny photoshop” (said in John Oliver’s voice), it should be a red flag that they aren’t actually balancing out the purpose of an organization or system or how it got to be that way

Its just “system you aren't a part of is bad, we raised awareness, we did it you’re informed!”

Trevor Noah, John Stewart, Steven Colbert, John Oliver, Hasan Minhaj, all do/did it the same

This bothers me. All part of the same polarizing filter bubbles we want to think that only people with different beliefs are in.
You can't really just precede a whataboutism with 'This is not "whataboutism"'. I agree Bojo's response has been shambolic but we are talking about the EU here.
Some yes, a lot of Regalia people are being given Infinia. Like me, when I barely use it (-8
My guess is that you'd run into problems with mold or bacterial growth pretty quickly if you spread glucose syrup on roads.
good[1] reason to categorically block any app hosted or controlled by a Chinese company.

The narrative in the West has to change from "China is bad because they blocked our apps" to "Let's take active measures until they agree to the rules". We shouldn't wait for news like this but make sure we break them as "China blocked from Western Internet access due to human rights concerns"

If this sounds unfair, China does business unhindered outside its territory, while it restricts foreign companies, blocks services, steals our IP and trade-secrets. And we let them impose restrictions.

The alternative that works in our favor should be economic sanctions against individual party members in China, and reclaim the ground the West will otherwise lose. Seems we learned nothing from the Clinton administrations foreign policy mistakes with the DPRK. And if demands are not met then kinetic war should be justified (better than confronting an adversary before they become too dangerous).

[1] in addition to breaking their agreement on Hong Kong, the Uyghur genocide, illegal logging across Asian primal forests, torture of animals for entertainment, and otherwise a total disregard for nature and other countries land and sovereignty.
If there is a practical reason you aren't using a uniform format for time I would consider this a case where compile-time type validation make sense... but for most applications I work on I would argue this is not a concern.
Graph databases are a type of NoSQL database,
Agreed. I think it's terrible because it reduces human life to a game of input-output, expressed in seemingly economic terms ("produce"? What the hell does that mean?). In a way, it's also a technologist's outlook, but there are other outlooks, many more ancient and elaborate.
Our instincts.
Meritocracy Is Bad
CBN appoints KPMG as InfraCo transaction adviser
I tried that but I couldn't get it to save anything. Settings, extensions, tabs, etc would reset every time I exited it.
Wow, Google should hire you to tell them that they're doing it all wrong!
I hope and expect that you did learn more in hours than what you could have learned in two minutes.

If you had spent those same hours after two minutes of support, you might have learned even more.
Are there any ways to restore or increase myelin?
Pretty impressive. All with handtools except for the tractor and it was either that or bring a horse, and that's a whole lot of extra work, so I can't really fault him for that choice.

Funny to see how his axework improves over time, in the beginning unsure and shallow, then later on with much more force and confidence.
Except goods exports are down 40%

You're thinking of a few weeks in January. By February cross-border traffic was nearly back to normal (about 90% of similar traffic a year earlier but that's with lockdown, which surely reduces trade).

large chunks of finance and services are being moved to Amsterdam

No, only trading of EU shares which isn't a big market for London to begin with. London has a huge finance ecosystem with many components that have nothing to do with the EU at all.

Northern Ireland is having trouble stocking its supermarket shelves

That cuts both ways. There have also been problems with supermarket shelves in Europe:

https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1395267/EU-news-supe...

These problems are being resolved over time. One issue is that the EU has pulled out all the stops to make exports from the UK as painful as possible via various forms of malicious rule-enforcement. The UK has not retaliated in kind and in fact is waiving the rules for a while to let EU exporters learn the ropes.

Examples of "malicious rule enforcement" are goods being rejected at the border due to a spelling error in the Latin name of a fish, sandwiches being confiscated from truck drivers, etc. The EU is essentially a protectionist bloc and has got very good at erecting trade barriers through complex certification and tax rules.

There are no technical reasons for most of these new requirements. UK standards and enforcement have not changed from before. However EU has no interest in recognising the reality on the ground, they are interested in finding ways to incentivise membership and empower the Commission. We now see what other all other non-European countries have to pointlessly suffer through when trying to trade with the UK previously - not pleasant.

One thing to bear in mind is that whilst the EU is increasing friction with UK/EU trade, it is now possible to reduce friction with other parts of the world. Already there has been a mini trade deal with the USA such that, for example, 25% tariffs on Scottish whisky are being dropped. So trade gets harder with Europe but is getting easier with other parts of the world.

As for peace in Northern Ireland, it wasn't the UK that just weeks ago tried to impose a hard border there, was it? So much for the EU being dedicated to peace in NI. They give fine words but it lasted less than a month before they violated all those agreements and had to be forced to back down by a massive rebellion.
Only the poor dinosaurs, not the rich ones.
Anti-vaxxers.

(/s)