skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Low rates just mean you pay more to the seller for the asset, and financing costs less. If rates were 5%, you’d pay less for the asset but more in financing costs. The monthly payment probably wouldn’t change substantially. You’d have substantially higher price risk buying at low interest rates.

Sort of how a bond’s value moves inverse to yields.
> No, but the alternative is that they would have stolen the data anyway.

No it's not, but because random data stealing is a lot less lucrative than ransoming.
They didn't think they were in charge of running a domain registrar.

They thought they were in charge of running a shiny business that was in the process of transforming away from being principally a domain registrar, in the name of growth. The CEO was a mergers and acquisition specialist.

You can find their stated reasons for believing that growth was vital here: https://www.nominet.uk/the-case-for-growth/

«
Without growth, we can’t innovate, and innovation is essential if we are to be ready for new technologies and emerging threats.

Without growth and innovation, we can’t keep our vital staff who connect more than 10 million .UK domains and maintain our service without disruption or downtime.
»

I don't know whether they really believed these theories, or whether they really think of growth as an end in itself and were reaching for justifications, but the latter seems more likely to me.
"Perhaps the future of writing is a return to Dickens-era serialisation, and the next J. K. Rowling will be posting two chapters a week on Patreon."

This is how online literature works in China: https://archive.is/uoOXS
Docker for Mac is a dumpster fire. We gave up on it a year ago. There are loads of hot-reloading dev-stack-in-the-cloud solutions nowadays that anyone who can avoid local Docker should.

More performant, better battery life and keeps your crotch from igniting.
Nonsense. Solidity is a statically-typed programming language.
That’s because realtors’ actual job description is rather unmentionable these days: https://depts.washington.edu/civilr/covenants_report.htm
I think the grandparent is referring to this? https://lwn.net/Articles/845535/
Maybe. Based on the circumstantial evidence and the lack of viable competing hypotheses, I firmly believe that it escaped from the Wuhan lab.

What does an unstable person do with that info? It seems like calling it the "Chinese virus" is relatively benign by comparison.

Does censoring do anything here?
Those are theorizing based on excess deaths. Meanwhile, when the records were directly inspected, they found that Florida's death count was inflated by about 10%: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/house-report-say...
Last year, 1.5 million students took the JEE to qualify for 13,000 seats in 23 IITs across the country – in other words, for each seat there were 115 aspirants.

-- Wrong Math. Count in the reservation. General Category Students have to compete more for a seat. Ratio will be higher for them.
Similarly I tend to apply "reddit" to searches about products to get to something that it at least somewhat real rather than paid blogspam.
That's like having a field full of mines and then arguing that the field is not dangerous because you have a map of the mines. If you have to develop strict coding standards not just to write reliable code but to avoid the pitfalls of a language that others don't have, then that proves that the language sucks.

We have languages that can provide certain levels of MISRA safety even if you are a novice programmer.Blaming the users for not following the correct guidelines (that barely anyone follows except for the people paid to follow them) completely misses the point.
Polycloud: $4/TB S3-API compatible storage; No FB tracking pixel
> And I'm a Bayesian analyst. Surely your position is that it is a coincidence that...

Then you ought to know that seeing more circumstantial evidence for A than B does not imply that A is more likely. What would imply that A is more likely is if you find more circumstantial evidence for A than whatever amount you would expect to find if A didn't happen.

That's why good Bayesians place so little weight on circumstantial evidence: because it's difficult or impossible to predict the expected amount of circumstantial evidence for something that didn't happen. It would involve answering questions like, "When a novel coronavirus moves from the animal population to humans without a lab accident, what are the odds that it will happen within X miles of a lab studying such viruses?" That's pretty difficult to answer, given that we don't know a lot about how or why that happens yet.

And it shouldn't even need to be said that this all goes double when the thing being argued over is political (because, even if you personally are unbiased, the people gathering and publishing the evidence you rely on may not be) and treble when the evidence is technical and outside your area of expertise.
All of it. Wrong thread dude.
Why would you want auto-updates though. It just breaks your stuff. Grandmas' or devs' alike. I feel users rarely benifits. But sure having apps with user hostile functions being pushed without a way to say no is convenient for the responsible at those places.

Atleast when you get a prompt you know why stuff fails afterward. Debugging silent auto update issues is a nightmare.
Amazon search is similarly broken. Try to find an ECC DIMM on Amazon. Everything I try results in dozens of listings for non-ECC DIMMs. Even searching for " ECC" doesn't work all that well. It's sad that in these days of advanced neural networks, we can't get a simple binary attribute matched correctly in search results.
What can you expect from an exceptionally incompetent government.
Today the Johnson vaccine was approved by the Swiss "FDA", but the government actually forgot to this day to order any doses of that vaccine...
Instead they ordered Novavax & Curevac which didn't even apply for approval in Switzerland.
In the pre-modern-dentistry world, the mouth was a very different place to the modern one...I feel like garlic-breath would've been the least of one's worries...
Boldly going where Elon Musk will probably go before: NASA tests Moon rocket
Yes, it does. But your comment also misses the conclusion of the discussion: https://github.com/docker/roadmap/issues/183#issuecomment-80...

In the end, seems they are changing course after listening to user feedback. Clearly auto-updating works in some contexts, but not in others, and now we can all learn from it :)
It's interesting to me that so many people think the path to riches is paved with pinched pennies.

If some of my friends spent half as much time learning new skills as they do saving pennies - I think they'd be much better off. And especially because they don't even enjoy most of the ways they're saving money! Long commutes, cooking all their meals, doing all their dishes. Especially being overworked by a dead-end job they hate!

Spend your money, invest your time.

I know it's easier said than done.
You went from "open source products" to "open source projects" , and I'm confused about your point. Is Docker an example of both an open source project and product?

> If you make a product, please prioritize solving the user's problems and pain over your own.

I'm not sure I understand the context under which you want this prioritization. Just asking for clarification.
YOU GO, Stephen :D
I’ll add on to the other responses and tell you that for a lot of people getting old sucks and the thing that sucks worse than getting old is being old. Constant pain. Lipoma pressing against your spine means no matter how you sit or lay you feel uncomfortable. It hurts to take a shit, it’s hard to get all the piss out and even when you so you have to clean up the floor and toilet because it dribbled everywhere. You can’t remember the last time you jerked off and don’t care to try because it started hurting every time you ejaculate more than a decade ago. You can’t stand for more than an hour before your back is on fire forcing you back down to your sitting position which is “only” uncomfortable.

If you are reading this do yourself a favor and take your body’s health seriously right now before it’s too late. Exercise every day, get that 30 pounds of fat you jokingly call your dad bod off before it’s too late, go to the doctor and fucking do what they say instead of nodding and convincing yourself you know better and don’t really need to do that. Oh and brush and floss your damn teeth. The above story doesn’t have to be your story but if you sit at your computer all day everyday and don’t take care of yourself it very much can become your story.
> other countries are not exporting but the EU is supposed to.

People keep saying this, but the EU is not exporting. Companies with facilities in the EU are exporting. Those vaccines don't belong to the EU; they belong to whoever bought them. If the EU prevented their export,it doesn't mean they own more vaccines, unless the plan is to steal the property of other countries and companies.
The mainstream press were all conflating accidental leaks with bioweapons engineering. It went on for months.
Welcome to HN!

If you have a product that people can try out you might want to submit it as a "ShowHN". Or if you have some detailed technical write ups you could submit those, along with stories from other sources.

The FAQ and guidelines have some useful information.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff occasionally, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

Can I post a job ad?

> Please don't post job ads as submissions to HN.

> A regular "Who Is Hiring?" thread appears on the first weekday of each month (or Jan 2). Most job ads are welcome there. Only an account called whoishiring is allowed to submit the thread itself. This prevents a race to post it first.
This is essentially a scam and you'll find it anywhere that housing prices are on the rise. These people are looking for older / less clued in owners who are easily confused and in need of cash. They can trick these people into selling well below market rate by going directly to them.

Sadly it works. If you have an older relative who may be in cognitive decline try to make them aware of this trick!
They also face huge amounts of legal pressure to make GI less useful and stripping out features so that more people follow through to the site and see the adverts.
Another example where the "precautionary approach" turned out to be the wrong one - first doses first was self-evidently the way to go if you read the data that came out of the clinical trials.

Personally, as a (broadly) pro-european UK citizen - there's a _moral_ case that, sometime soon, we should make the case for exporting doses now we've covered off the most vulnerable in our own country. A dead person is a dead person.

And I'm _utterly dismayed_ that the EU's behaviour has obliterated any chance of that getting off square 1. Johnson is a populist - any move to restrict contractually-entitled exports by the EU will have the red-top press screaming blue murder and will back him into a corner. I'd fully expect a destructive spiral from there on out - starting with him blocking PZ precursor chemicals being shipped to the EU from Yorkshire. We should be shifting the conversation to "haven't we done well; now is the time to help our friends and neighbors".
Don't write this off as a solely as a symptom of education.

Being able to question the judgement of an authority figure / decision maker is a privilege. A squeaky wheel gets the grease but a raised nail gets the hammer. Engineers generally lean more nail than wheel in most orgs, and being a minority or otherwise less respected subset of that group makes you feel even more like a nail.

Dotting I's and crossing T's is exactly the kind of behavior one would expect from a person who is smart enough to recognize something is a stupid idea, knows that they lack the authority to make any changes, and will bear the bunt of the inevitable failure.
I find it hard to believe this works well in real life situations.

The mechanics of that idea (driving a smaller wheel from the rotation of a bicycle wheel, without the usb charging and capacitors) is old (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottle_dynamo)

It also is fairly unreliable in wet weather or when bicycle wheels aren’t perfect circles or bent a bit.

Because of that, it is being phased out on newer bicycles. Hub dynamos are popular in higher price segments, battery-powered lights in lower ones.

I don’t see why rolling over the wheel rim instead of over part of the tire would make this more reliable. I would guess it would be less reliable because of the tight tolerances to keep the dynamo lined up with the relatively small wheel rim and because of the smoother surface of the rim, compared to the tire.

When it works, it likely will be more efficient and less noisy, though. It might work well enough for those who keep their bikes in perfect working order.
That’s a fair point. Something we’re very interested in is exposing libraries written in Julia without the full runtime, ditching the JIT or the GC if you don’t need them. It would be easy to write a libm replacement in Julia, for example, without using either of those.

Regarding talent, it depends on the kind of talent you’re talking about. Yes, systems programmers like Rust. On the other hand, needing to deal with a strict borrow checker excludes a very large number of people with numerical computing, data science and machine learning expertise (not all, but definitely most). So it cuts both ways.
Something is really wrong, if he highly capable kids are checking off "JIRA tickets". Couldn't you find some college dropouts in Oklahoma instead?
Before any of THOSE questions can be asked, we first have to arrive at some sort of consensus concerning what constitutes a phenomena...
once you understand that Arianespace primarily exists as a means to funnel taxpayers money to the companies that produce components for the rockets then it all makes sense
I built my partner and I an app to help us find movies to watch together
I don't know about Substack, but when I wrote on Medium the vast majority of readers came from outside of Medium.

I don't remember the exact numbers, but I had a popular article with something like 170k reads of which only 15% came from Medium itself.
Perhaps, but I once had two hard drives die on me within the space of a few days (different brands), and since then I like to have a copy of my data in the cloud somewhere. Non-writeable doesn't help much if you can't read it either!
Science is about collecting data, verifying, collecting more, in a repeating never ending cycle. Stopping science (especially in areas of active present day research) in the belief that we know and are done with it, just isn't sound logic. Viruses are not yet solved.
For sure. Think about the damage that can be done to hardwood floors during move-out, for example. That's one easy way that a unit can be accidentally damaged, even by a tenant who is generally very careful.

Of course, you can still recover payment by suing, but that's obviously more difficult (especially if the former tenant has moved to another city/state).
Defenders of slavery used that same "private enterprise" line to assert their rights over people; as did restaurant owners 100 years after slavery was abolished to justify kicking out people with offensive skin color.

It was not an existing law, but the ideal "that all men are created equal" which abolishonists and civil rights leaders pointed to in their quest for equality.

Likewise it is the ideal of freedom of expression which we are pointing to now that should protect humans from being banned from the digital town square for expressing offensive ideas.
> In rust and zig this code will produce a runtime error if you screw up, but in c it's easy to forget to check the tag and then you get UB.

As pointed out elsewhere, somewhat surprisingly, this is not UB in C, though it is in C++. In C it is merely unspecified behavior, but perfectly safe if intended.
You mean the proxy states, lackeys, and funded warlords and dictators setup by EU in Africa, to safeguard the ex-colonial pocessions and make sure they continue to get their resources and control on the cheap?

Or the several Middle Easter/Asian/African countries bombed, invaded, toppled, etc by the US (3-4 of them in the last 20 years alone).
No, and it's very likely that Docker may never improve very much on MacOS. There was already no shortage of trouble on x86 MacOS, I doubt the switch to ARM (and ostensibly, Big Sur) will make things any easier.
Just checked Redfin, a condo in SF for $1M with a 30 year mortgage at a nice 3% interest rate and 20% downpayment would be:

- $3300 in principal + interest

- $1000 property tax

- $500+ HOA

- $200 homeowners insurance

That is $5000+ monthly and requires $200k upfront (and significant upfront cost as the brokers are paid off). How is that comparable in after-tax payments to renting a $3000 apartment?
Fast compilation times are one of the best things from the languages I love.

I’d really love to see OCaml get true parallelism, green threads, and a decent HTTP server story. Then, I don’t think I’d look anywhere else.
Razor blade economy, disaster capitalism Juicero. It will be forgotten as soon as nitric oxide spray knock-offs flood the market.
Really? Autoupdates are why we don’t have to code for Chrome 12 today. Autoupdates are awesome, just not for business, sometimes.
The FSF did matter. I was a member, I signed copyright papers and submitted a decent amount of patches to GCC, I went to see Stallman talk.

It became clear to me that while I agreed with many of Stallman's aims, I disagreed with how he treated people, particularly women. Also, he actively made decisions that, in my opinion, seriously hurt GCC. So I left.
The original claim regarding the EU dragging its feet over signing the contract was made by the AstraZeneca CEO, not the UK government. And the UK's contract is not entirely the same as the EU's. For example, the EU waived its right to sue AstraZeneca for delivery failures, something the UK did not. This article by Politico does a good job of going beyond the rather reductive coverage (both pro-UK and pro-EU) in most of the press coverage of this affair, and digging more deeply into the facts:

https://www.politico.eu/article/the-key-differences-between-...

The conclusion, at least as I interpret it, is that both the UK and the EU can reasonably claim to have priority, based on their respective contracts, but that the UK did a better job than the EU in making theirs enforceable. Hence, AstraZeneca has prioritised them, while the EU has been forced to resort to political rather than legal measures to attempt redress (publishing the contract, export controls, etc.). And the UK's closer ties to the AstraZeneca vaccine project likely did mean they started work on the UK supply chain somewhat earlier than in the EU, even although the final contracts were signed essentially simultaneously (one day apart).

I honestly don't really see this as an affair with clear good guys and bad guys, but it seems like most people are determined to do so, and inevitably along the lines of their pre-existing sympathies.
I don’t know what you consider academics but I went to a university in your list and they definitely had plenty of things other than what I’d consider academics to select on. Firstly they had basic biographical information (eg your name, which school you went to, I think your age). Secondly they had interviews where they could use whatever impression they liked. Thirdly they had discretion in the offer they made to you (ie “we’ll give you a place if you get these grades”) and discretion in which of the students not meeting their offers they chose to accept (“you didn’t meet your offer but we deliberately give out too many too-difficult offers and we’ve decided we prefer you out of the candidates who didn’t make it”).

Obviously the people involved in the process were generally ethically minded but if this thread shows anything, it’s that two people may do quite different things while each trying to act ethically.
> Python itself is an extremely simple language

Unfortunately that’s not true at all - Python is far from simple. Sure, it’s no C++, but it’s very complex compared to languages like C, Go, Lua, even JavaScript.
Many European countries have better health insurance and higher deaths per capita than the USA. They also had severe lockdowns, and are now entering a third wave while being way behind the USA on the vaccine rollout.
> middle class kids are rarely trained from a young age to be involved in extra-curricular activities

I almost can't think of something more middle-class than an aggressive dedication to as many extra-curricular activities as possible. SUVs full of children being driven from baseball to ballet to swimming? Seems a common part of culture for the middle-class?
~ 52% to 48%. The cursed numbers!

For those unfamiliar with the pareidolia / Baader–Meinhof phenomenon regarding that ratio, let me provide a few examples, from earliest to most recent:

https://m.facebook.com/13312631635/posts/the-cursed-52-48-ra...

https://old.reddit.com/r/LabourUK/comments/l6cgha/french_pre...

https://old.reddit.com/r/ukpolitics/comments/lzcfo9/breaking...
1. There is no such thing as a safe or unsafe language. Safety is relative and impossible to guarantee. Even "memory safety" often just means "memory tradeoffs".

2. Inline assembly is often a necessary evil to create implementations of crypto libraries in C... not using it would be worse.

3. It's all machine code under the covers. Whether one developer poorly juggles chainsaws or your high-level language poorly juggles chainsaws is not a question of better or worse, but taste.

4. It's X.509. It sucks in every language.

5. Just because it's in C doesn't mean it sucks. There are alternative libraries that intentionally avoid sucky design. (https://nacl.cr.yp.to/internals.html)

6. Show me another language that's as portable and powerful as C, and cryptographers will probably start using it.
I don't think you can argue that the UK's process was random. There is a process, it went faster, and achieved the same result. Maybe in some other universe it would have missed something and the longer process would have had a different result but that's not the world we live in, in which some not-insignificant number of people didn't die of covid in those 3 months.
On average, updates make stuff better. Getting them automatically and quickly is, on average, a good thing.

Only when that becomes untrue for a sustained period of time should you turn off updates, but at that point, you're just sticking to a single pinned version until you're able to switch to a competitor.

Vendors who just keep pushing user-hostile shit should lose customers, not (just) updaters.
Prosperity IMHO means a growth in per-capita wealth. On the other hands, "the elites" may prefer a growth in total wealth (since part of that growth accumulates to them) through a population increase even if it comes at the cost of decrease in per-capita wealth for the actual society.
Would be jawdropping pleasantly surprised if feedback came back positive, but I'm not hopeful. I do understand that miracles happen though.

I completely, utterly, bombed my Microsoft phone screen - as in, I could not even get a basic brute force algo down. Yet I got invited to the onsite because the interviewer liked me for some non-technical reason.
You try to minimize all risks, not only in business but in all aspects of life. That has always been the case. The caricature you presented has never existed.
This is also the reason why some of us enjoy futzing with Raspberry Pis (And a
Arduinos and ESPs et al.)

But yeah, I understand your pain, and recognise that it’s not a hobby everybody wants...
It might be meritocratic by some definitions, but it's hardly egalitarian or humanistic.
I hadn't heard of Crystal before reading the OP, but I agree that Nim seems like the most apt comparison as far as new-ish languages go.