skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From Poland, situation may be different elsewhere: plenty of offers go through real-estate agent adding 3% or sometimes 5% fee.

But it is also possible to buy directly from owners who just post their offers.

> discovering homes

Done via websites. Some with paid access for contact detail, but price minuscule compared to a real estate cost or fee taken by a real estate agent.

Websites are also funded by paying for positioning of ad by seller.

> securing loans

Can be done via going to a bank (and in Poland real-estate agent is usually not doing it anyway).

> touring the place, inspection, sending offers

Done by seller and buyer

> closing and signing the deed

Done at notary, also would be done at notary in case of a real-estate agent
A crash would save energy for China and everyone else. Miner revenue from block rewards is proportional to market price. The cost of electricity can’t exceed that or it will be unprofitable for miners.
> I didn't have an alternative job offer at the time of quitting, and shortly after my last day at work the pandemic started

What happened after that? If I can ask
> Currencies have to be less valuable over time, otherwise no one would ever spend the currency

I'm not deeply steeped in macro-economics. Is this a theory, or an historical observation? Where can I find more about this?
Thank you, perhaps setting laws or policies and then seeing what happens isn't a bad game loop. Goals could work too. I will hack on it a bit today and see what comes out :)
> You know, managment will become accustomed to that.

Eh, I'm sure they can, but I think I wasn't communicating that it isn't all people and it isn't all the time. It's not the same people always staying late. It's sometimes that someone stays to finish that last bit or to stop at a good point, but people also take off early routinely to counter that, and feel free to run errands in the middle of the day as needed. It's less that management is getting extra time out of a lot of people than it is that people feel flexible with their time, and willing to give a little here and take a little there, to make sure other people aren't left in the lurch, and neither are they.
What's stopping the forked projects from creating a new fork of youtube-dl and then reintegrating their old changes?
We know how to deal with this in the technical domain - we break things on purpose in a controlled way so that people don't rely on an SLO that is there by mere chance.

Maybe companies should do "bonus tolerance breaks" for the same purpose.
> Germany on a mobile phone, and that's literally it

Yes, and _that's it_! Just by getting someone to click on a site they find trustworthy, you are now able to extract country, device, browser, OS, time of access, and to some degree other pages visited on the website. This in itself may not be PII, but together with previously known data points may be enough to assemble PII.

> Plausible literally provides a toggle to make it public in their UI: https://plausible.io/docs/visibility

Yeah, and I don't think that's a good idea that they do without any warning of the implications. If they make it easy to expose data publicly, there should at least be some measures to ensure anonymity like e.g. differential privacy based querying.

For a product that markets themselves as GDPR compliant and without cross-site tracking (which this technique enables to a certain degree), that's not really a great look.

> You were able to verify what level of information my site is collecting because it is public.

I mean kinda, but not really. I have no assurance the "all the data you are showing me" == "all the data you have about me". In the end I still have to trust you that you don't collect more data and that you won't sell that data to someone else.

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All in all, I really appreciate what you are trying to do here in terms of transparency, and I'd like to see that spread. However I think there is still a lot of room for tools to improve to provide a similar level of transparency while also insuring users privacy.
There are e-mail and mailing lists for issues, PRs and releases, there is Web for wikis. What ties us to GitHub is convenience.
Got any refs you can point me to on these links?
> Bitcoin may be a bubble

Also, what is not a bubble nowadays. Just look at the gold price, the housing price, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspan_put#Everything_Bubbl...
My concern was less about hospitability to pathogens (indeed, half the point of cooking is to render things safe to eat), and more about the fact that neither polymerised fat nor carbonised food is good for you in terms of free radicals. It’s essentially burnt oil stuck to the pan, that is not a good thing to eat even in trace quantities.

I do realise that polymerisation is conversion of burnt oil into polymer at which point it is largely inert, but it’s very hard to get an oil to fully polymerise 100% outside of lab conditions.
Yep, agreed - and in particular, my understanding from the USCEAR report [1] is the majority of the cancers expected were thyroid cancer. That's the one, if you have to get cancer, you hope to get since it's over 99% curable. I went with 4000 (per UNSCEAR) because it's an up-hill battle to get folks to even hear you out if you suggest even that.

It's worth emphasizing the point that coal plants produce large quantities of radioactive waste dispersed over a wide area. Nuclear reactors simply do not do this. Coal ash is more radioactive than nuclear waste [2].

[1] https://www.unscear.org/unscear/en/chernobyl.html

[2] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more-...
Might I suggest the name:

Spud-U-Light?
Gitlab has protected variables which are only made available to protected branches (i.e. the ones that would have deploy stages).

But yeah in general secrets management is a trainwreck.
We love animals – so why do we treat them so badly?
check this thread out! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8486515
BTC also could be useful as a hedge against other assets, for example the stock market or the currency you save in. I view it as a possible hedge against the Euro. This is the currency I daily use, but I definitely keep the Greek Debt Crisis in mind.
What do you think of git-bug?
The article is a review of the memoir - not only is it linked in the first paragraph, but the article even states near its end that "there's of course a lot more than the above anecdotes in the book."
If new service would be cheaper and provide the same service then it would be highly beneficial.

If you disagree - please pay me 2% of things you buy for providing no useful service.
Neil Sloane on Numberphile
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt5AfwLFPxWJXQqPe_llzWmTH...
I just wanted to point out that the parent and grandparent comments are absurd.

The specific events they mention (Kent State, etc.) happened more than 50 years ago (ie. half a century.)

The US also has habeas corpus, so anybody in jail can appeal, and almost all will be released.

If you want to criticize the US, it's more constructive to talk about recent history, for example after 2000.

Also, stop being relativist. Situations can always be improved, but perfect is the enemy of the good. People immigrate to the US, not to China, N. Vietnam, Russia, etc.

Blacks are only 13% of the US population - the world doesn't revolve around them, so stop pretending otherwise. Black leaders will tell you that their #1 problem is the failure of black families, so listen to them. (Denzel Washington has some good Youtube interviews on the topic.)

America is not evil. It's not perfect either, but engaging in internal conflict just makes it easier for external enemies like the CCP to obtain advantage over us. There's only one reason the CCP has more military ships than the US and it's to engage in war.

You two should grow up instead of wallowing in SJW self-pity.
Gonna push back on this analogy. Ripping out features that cause more trouble than they're worth is like moving a dozer, back hoe, fertilizer spreader, etc off your property.

Average users appreciate all the extra real estate of their back yard! So much time to do the thing they enjoy, gardening.

Power users hate you, they used those power tools every day! They felt in control! Their backyard garden was meticulously crafted!

Ideally when you take their dozer, back hoe, etc, you put them into an easy to access shed out of sight from most users. Of course it's an engineering/design challenge to 1) create a shed (segment these features without adding complexity), 2) make it easy to use for power users ("wahh, I gotta click through 4 more options!"). They might be able to pull out their auger tractor, but it just isn't as easy as starting the auger tractor right where they left off.

Even with an analogy, it's hard to say: "1% of our users use this feature, tear it out." Even when it imposes > 1% of work on all future features/releases/testing.
It's a fine line but ....

I've just bought an e-book online which is essentially about promoting your content online (so broadly aligned with what you're talking about). The book was relatively expensive but I'd say definitely worth it - contents are really well thought out and comes with a lot of supporting material. It also seems to have been pretty successful for the author.

But the irony is that if this wasn't something that had been promoted successfully online then I'm not sure that the author would have had the credibility to be able to sell a product of this type. Why should I believe you if you're not doing it yourself?
You can pay for options with some of your options, at least in the UK.
I think you’ve read me out of context. Of course I understand why Optionals can be null, I was just pointing out - literally in defence of Java - something I don’t like.

I don’t really get your other arguments. I think the problem has been solved better in other languages including Swift, Kotlin and Rust, and Java could have learned from them, but didn’t. I can’t see why direct language support couldn’t have been added to solve this “billion dollar problem”. Even the Elvis operator would have helped.
Algorand.
Yeah I was commenting on the things you listed as causing your bias.
Ask HN: Is there an accounting platform for a crypto first company?
For people who set up a crypto first company e.g. a crypto game, or an exchange that takes fee in crypto - they probably pay salaries and other fees/expenses to defi platforms in crypto. Is there a product that does accounting like recognising sales, expenses, funding etc. in a crypto first format - and offer secondary FIAT reporting statements?

Or rather the question is that is there a need for this? My thought process was - if the functional currency of an entity is primarily crypto - it would be easier to create crypto first statements and then have a second set of derived statements for reporting (if any).
Good on you.

Certainly the player can just be one more player in the economy against/among the AI. This is basically the premise of Rise of Industry. And more actively, less realistically, Offworld Trading Company.

Running one business is sort of the premise of the tycoon genre.

Generally, trouble is fun (Losing is Fun), so you may want to put pressure on the player to make the thing work. Maybe it naturally runs to ruin or is fragile to balance properly. (In Dwarf Fortress, danger follows growth and success.) There could be adversaries. Or the world could be dangerous.

They could be in charge of the macro economy or a town or a business. There could be pickles that the player has to work their way out of. Recessions and Depressions. Think about how towns collapse, businesses fail, people lose jobs. Businesses also cheat, wreck the commons, avoid taxes, break the law, exert monopoly power, form cartels, fight for dominance. There is a lot of trouble here for the player to cause, or to struggle against.
Same here. My brothers and me could name all the Caribbean islands, we tried to sail to Europe from Bermuda and I remember my Dad sinking a half our galleons in the span of minutes we let him play on our Commodore64.

Thanks for the memories :)
Reducing Rust Incremental Compilation Times on macOS
Tangential, but here goes.

I enjoy miniature wargaming. Sid Meier's 'Gettysburg' is one of my all-time favourite computer wargames. Thanks for creating it!
> but anything outside of a salary for compensation is just a bad idea.

In the hedge fund industry, you can't be a successful firm without a bonus compensation model.

- The profit is usual attributable exactly to specific people. If they don't get paid their share of what they brought in, they'll quit and go elsewhere where they can be paid their share, and you'll be left with all the worst people.

- Some years are successful, and others aren't, meaning you can't have a stable high salary, since that will risk bankruptcy in unsuccessful years. You could adjust salary up and down each year, but that's no different to having a bonus.

In a "normal" company where revenue is stable over time and each person's contribution isn't so easily quantifiable, I can see your point.
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If you start from scratch, I'd suggest to use MSIX [0] instead. It makes auto update trivial to implement with PackageManager.UpdatePackage(url_to_your_msix)[1] or plain execute via "ms-appinstaller:?source=url_to_your_msix". It'll do diffs properly and you also get package reflection for free via WinRT apis (such as where app is installed, appdata location, app version, etc).

[0] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/msix/overview

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/uwp/api/windows.management....
Yeah, I think that is the best approach especially if the price difference is like tenfold for the high quality product.

However there are some exceptions to the rule, for example I would never buy a low quality notebook or a low quality car.

If the price of the high quality product is too high for me, then I don't try to look for a cheaper model immediately, but try to go second hand first.
> Because once you get one once, you feel entitled to it in the future, and it feels like a loss when you don't get it.

That seems to be the risk of any company that tries to convince you that you have to do your absolute best as an employee (also known more succinctly as "any company").
Thanks for posting it. Your comment provides some more context as to who he is.

I don't know who downvoted you!
What a load of corporate-speak bullcrap in a geek-attractive wrapper!..
I'm not defending potato batteries, I'm just pointing out that the article already explains all of this.
> finding this remote job took months

It can be that hard to find remote jobs? (I never tried.)

Can I ask how much work experience (eg years) did you have at the time?

I'm glad you could get away from there eventually. (Hmm you found another remote job?)
Even of you clear it away, you can still get plant matter from upstream.
Yehhh... yehhh.. naaahhh...

Rich people dont work so much... They just make so much money sitting around with other rich people they might as well call it work...

If you work in wall-mart your lunch is not paid. If you are the CEO of wall-mart you can expense a 2000 USD lunch and call it a buissness meeting.

If your job is number collection (realestate, banking, etc ) it is an addiction just like hoarding, the more you do it the more bigger number you want.

We should start shaming people for hoarding money just like we shame the poor for collecting toilet paper.

Working 12 hours as a CEO is not comparable to 12 hours shift in the factory.
> Mathemaics: Its content, methods and meaning.

Seconded.

This[1] is a fabulous book that teaches history of mathematics and explains the meaning of mathematics that goes beyond the superficial.

https://www.maa.org/press/maa-reviews/mathematics-its-conten...
Man, your world must be really screwed up if you "love" corporations
Germany mix is still very dirty compared to some neighbors[0], it’s a fact that they chose politics over CO2 reduction (choosing to close all nuclear power plants overnight as a reaction to fukushima when the renewable capacity was not there and rely on coal until 2038). Wether you are pro nuclear or not it’s an environmental catastrophe.

[0]https://www.electricitymap.org/map
At a certain multinational company that Anon(a close friend) is currently employed at had this way of distributing bonuses when the pandemic hit.

Context: the company is chasing a $100mn y-o-y growth at this point.

- All employees in the US offices get a hefty bonus for the profits they contributed to

- All employees in the India office were to not receive bonuses/increments because we wanted to cut costs (not to forget, Indian salaries are 20% of their US counterparts)

- All employees in the US were to get reimbursements for stylish/modern/gaming chair while working from home($300 a piece)

- All employees in India had to get their $40 chair approved from the manager (request denied in most cases, "unnecessarily too costly", he said)

- No more bonuses for India offices for the next year or so because we spent all the money on the US employees and the managers bonuses

- Indian new hires are getting offered the salary that someone with 5 years exp is already working at in the company

<puts on tin-foil hat>: distribution of bonus/increments seem to have an upper limit. the less you distribute as a manager = the more you have for yourself and your favorite juniors

<anecdote>: ^^ one of the favorites from above actually quit the next day after getting the bonus. it's common to put in your papers right after the increment letter.

edit: formatting
It is a potato battery—that's what it's called when you use a potato as the electrolyte for a battery.
It tends to crash when idle, and the machine is such an enormous improvement over anything Intel have made that I'm happy overall.

The issues with the BIOS will be solved and I'm not an overclocker.
The magic is a problem in other ways as well, it confounds static analysis (Psalm has to have a separate plugin just to be able to profile it).

I'm not saying it's a fault of Laravel (yet) because the framework predates a lot of 7/8 stuff but they show absolutely no incentive towards making it better in that area.

Frankly, just pick symfony it's a better tool for longer lived projects, better documented (insanely better), better backwards compatibility.
It's not entirely unrelated: Nuclear plants make bad peakers, and I suspect the older plants probably also aren't too good at load-following. The French also not only get into trouble when demand is high in winter, but also when it's too hot ín the summer because they don't want to boil their rivers...
> A currency must earn interest

Taleb at it again. He's decided on his definition of a currency and, lo and behold, Bitcoin doesn't make the cut, much to the chagrin of the coin bros who will flock to its defense.

Normal currency is zero-sum from certain contexts. If I have a dollar and I give it to you then you won and I lost. The only reason that fiat currency earns interest is that the promise of payment tomorrow is almost as easily tradeable as the product itself which, given BC's volatility, is difficult.

Bitcoin is a currency in that it is a medium of transaction, no matter what Nicholas Taleb has to say about it. It is not failed at being a currency but it has failed at being a stable currency so far.
There's a Pirates! Gold version I bought a few years back. Same game, graphics/sounds revamped
Until you have a good real estate agent you don’t know their value. The barrier for entry for becoming a real estate agent is low so there’s a lot of crappy ones out there.
Because integration reduces the dimensionality of the integrand, it is can be seen as subtractive in the sense above.
Considering myself pretty tech-literate, using computers for 3/4 of my lifetime - yet, i've to pause AND think each time i've to answer a Microsoft Teams call which button is going to pick up the call...
I remember traveling exhibitions from Navkarnataka Publications which used to be fascinating. Mostly Russian books along with very nationalist (in the good sense) literature. Ukrainian Folk Tales and many Russian math books. I remember buying a book on astronomy - quite possibly of Soviet origin - at one of these exhibitions, which introduced me to the delights of the sky.
I really forget the warmer temperature (i think it is 160 F) but like someone mentioned on here if you wrap it in butcher paper, then wrap it up towels, then put it in a cooler (without ice of course) then it does the job. You do this after taking it out from the smoker when it is finished.

And definitely yes, keep it wrapped at all times when warming.
The probability that at least one tracker is compromised actually grows sub-linearly in the number of trackers.

Let n be the number of trackers, let p be the probability that an individual tracker is compromised, and assume compromises are independent. Then:
Prob(at least one comp.) = 1 - (1-p)^n ~~ np.
In other words, linear in n. This approximation is fine for small n*p. For large n*p, the probability has to be <= 1 of course, so the real probability is sublinear.
I thought the peer bonuses were like $175?

I have a story. The first year I was at Google, I was working on payments. I remember checking the internal version of the documentation for our to-be-announced-at-Google-IO product, and noticed that it has accidentally been made available publicly, spoiling the surprise of the launch. Our director was visiting and was roaming around the office, so I flagged him down and let him know. (Actually, I spent quite a while convincing him that it wasn't some quirk that allowed guest WiFi addresses to also view secret documentation.) The end result was that he said "I'd give you a peer bonus, but I've already given my quota of peer bonuses this quarter." It was so awkward. I didn't even want or expect a bonus. I just wanted the problem to get fixed. (I also found it weird that directors / VPs are running around giving out peer bonuses. Pretty sure they had other ways to reward direct reports.)
The treadmills at a nearby gym have a cord you clip to your chest. If you go off the back of the mill, it tugs on the cord and triggers the dead-man-switch.

Of course, I've never seen anyone attach the cord.
That sounds like a Democracy game rather than Civ
> . Docker doesn't have to create anything ‘from scratch’ to package for Debian, Ubuntu, etc.— it's already in Debian

But the version is fixed per Debian release, which means that by its EOL it will be obsolete ( it's Docker, not a database, having the latest and greatest is a huge bonus). The whole point of custom repositories is to ship independently of the OS release cycle.
As a seller you can do it all yourself in some countries (not sure about US). You don't need license or training, you just have to manage your time properly and book viewings after work hours.

At least from my very limited experience, the only aspect that's worth paying for are nice pictures for the ads, if you can't do it yourself. The rest is posting on real estate aggregators which at least in Europe are very popular, mostly free, and for sure not 3%.

Paying a percentage of the sale for what is effectively an assistant type work isn't something I recommend.
I'm a dev in Belgium, and I get both my "13th month" in December and double holiday pay in June. In fact, I've never seen anybody here who was traditionally employed (i.e., not contracting through a zelfstandig) who didn't get those perks.