skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are good reasons why Houston stays cheap. (I lived there for a couple of years.)

It's a huge metro area with no zoning. That dissuades people from building a castle when a toxic waste dump (or refinery) could go in upwind without warning.

The city's large size and the ever-expanding radius to growing exurbs tends to dilute the value of existing homes which slows their appreciation. And the land in the region has no natural beauty. It's scrub. So creating a synthetic upscale suburb would be hard to sell economically. So neighborhood trendiness tends to arise organically, mostly from proximity to central neighborhoods (like University Village near Rice or Memorial in the museum district).

Low home prices in Houston wasn't the result of an engineered or government-driven initiative. Like all economic change in Texas, it happened on its own.

It's the same phenomena that have restrained home price inflation in Las Vegas. There's a lot of surrounding desert there and not much natural beauty to motivate gentrification in upscaleing the homes/suburb near a natural hot spot.
Watch a commercial for the iPad. It is not marketed as a computing device, to do CLI programming or spreadsheets on. It's selling points are stuff like Procreate and Lightroom...both 'work' apps but for the 'creative economy'.

That being said, an executive at my company swears by the iPad Pro and he only ever uses it as a remote desktop device to log into his Citrix Windows environment.
I'm sure you'll be able to buy Airtag holders on Aliexpress for $1.

Then you just have to wait 6 weeks for shipping
I'm a computer nerd at heart, and I've _never_ wanted to pull a repository or compile a project with a phone. Ever.

(Ok, there was this one time with a Nokia N900, but it was just a phase =) )
The citizenry support this stance. The cult of personality around people like Trump on the right, even center-left has a catch phrase "<center/left politician> doesn't owe you anything!" -- uh no, they do: they are public servants!
Doesn't .net have pretty good C FFI support, what would make it harder than a Rust lib?
From "Baruch Vainshelboim", an exercice physiologist in "Med Hypotheses": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_Hypotheses
( https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/apr/16/diamond-an...)
That's fair, arbitrary wasn't the right word. They were chosen for the use case of a smart phone, not a general purpose computer. People pretending that they are reasonable for a general purpose computer are missing the boat IMO.

But some things are arbitrary. For example, only allowing one web browser engine is 100% arbitrary (or worse, an abuse of monopoly power).
Unlike the Soviet Union they could care less about other countries except for Taiwan , protecting the dominance of the CCP and being able to trade without interference.
All they need is a "look at your TV" step. User looks at TV, ATV saves AirPod gyro orientation and you are done. The iPhone/iPad need their orientation because the screen can move at any point...TV's usually don't.
The kids are using Guilded and dropping Discord these days, from what I hear.
I don't believe the iMac is the de facto Apple workstation. I would bet the Macbook Pros sell an order of magnitude more.
> a company like AWS offering TimescaleDB purely as a DBaaS offering (not allowed).

That restriction makes the license not Open Source. Open Source licenses MUST allow anyone to run the software, for any reason, by definition. Even "as-a-Service". It's a perfectly fine restriction to have, but it shouldn't be called an Open Source license.
> The study, which used data from 2007 to 2018, focused on finding the suicide rates among nurses when compared to the general population. It found that suicides were more common among the former at 23.8 per 100,000 people when compared with the latter where the number was 20.1 per 100,000 people

I suspect these numbers are going to increase for both after this last year. Rising suicide rates might not be nurse specific, though they do have a higher average than normal.

(some research later...)

Here's a CDC suicide-per-industry report: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6903a1.htm

Teachers have the least, at around 9.4 per 100k. Veterans are around 124 per 100k. Men have significantly higher rates across the board (including healthcare).

Strangely enough, nurses are at the bottom of the list of "above average suicide rate" industries... which I didn't expect at all. But perhaps this article means to imply that healthcare has gone up a few in that list? Unsure.
No lawyer wants to be the first one to adopt licenses with novel clauses because the legal system runs on precedent, so using something that is untested in court is higher risk.

It wasn't that long ago that no large company would touch the GPL with a 10 foot pole.
Are you sure about that? Currently it is consistent with the Youtube title, which is the HN etiquette ( don't editorialize titles ).
Is that not how it works?
also dell bios screen, on android!
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New 24“ iMac are actually 23.5” according to specs
It does feel that way. I missed the section on self reflection. Now the article sounds like he’s blaming the world/employer for his dissatisfaction.
CLion is capable of adding missing includes, I'm not sure if it tells you about unused ones. They have a free trial, may be worth a try.
YouTube certainly allows for a heck of a lot of expression that could reach a lot of people...

As for industry awards I worked at a company that were members of a number of industry award groups. When we were acquired by another company maybe half a floor of people were left in what was a five floor building.

I and some others gathered up all the awards scattered across the building (there were a lot) and decorated our desks with them. To their credit when the acquiring company's CEO showed up, he thought it was pretty hilarious.

For the record, as long as I worked there I held the record for the most "President's Club" awards held by any given employee... at least if you count the trophies at my desk.
Not mentioned is that you can count to 12 on one hand using your thumb to point to finger joints/segments and still have a zero state. So you can actually pretty compactly represent up to 144 on your hands!
I worked with a member of the Dozenal Society of America. He taught me that pandas have 6 digits on each paw, which is why the panda is their mascot and why almost all panda merchandise is wrong.
What I'd like to do is to use a pencil to draw on my 27" monitor when screen-sharing/presenting. That's the one use case for "touch" I'm really missing. You can sort-of simulate it by screen-mirroring, but it's cumbersome.
I, for one, would prefer it this way. One less cable floating on my desk
I think that by putting your software under AGPL the only effect you'll see is that it will be used less.
Elastic made a massive blunder by open-sourcing Kibana. SumoLogic just took it and builtnon that. You open-source the underlying technology - not the product built on top of it.
thanks for saying the AGPL is nice; we think it strikes the right balance.

but, i'm curious to understand your perspective here.

do you mean to say that you'd never contribute to an apache licensed project?

anything that is apache licensed can be relicensed by the project, even if there isn't a CLA

[note: am co-founder/ceo at grafana labs]
If this incremental step led to a better world already, I would maybe agree... but I think it makes the whole ecosystem worse and worse, until some far-away tipping point is reached where almost everything is AGPL and can reuse each other again. And even then I'm not sure I'd be happy with the *GPL, as now you can't back out of it again in case you later discovered that it was the wrong decision, without getting the permission by all copyright holders.
Market share/mindshare is almost an inverse measure of quality at this point!

If you only compare things above a certain quality threshold, That's true of any creative endeavor. Not too many people will say that Mcdonald's has the best burgers, or the pop singer of the week is their absolute favorite.
Their treatment of Linux is pretty terrible, where they block you from even launching the app after a minor update until you go download and install the new .deb file. I've had many times where I went to jump onto a quick Discord chat only to have to stop and jump through those hoops.
Pulumi 3.0
I don't think so. If the school is forced to store their records outside in a cardboard box should they be liable when it is stolen? Because that's what we are essentially doing by under funding, under training, and not even providing secure software to begin with.
Ibraheem, I hang my head in shame after seeing all these sexy home pages. With your permission I will let you know at the email address in your profile after I revise mine because I have been massively humbled by some of these masterpieces.
Or better yet, tax the daylights out of oil so oil producers don't have incentive to produce? But as others mentioned, we can also pull carbon out of the atmosphere.
Yup wasm is the way to go as you can just distribute the wasm binary over npm and don't have to worry about further compile steps on the consumer side, but it's not always possible to use wasm.
Why does Microsoft Azure still forces me to regularly change my password?
I am sorry that logic and reason is painful to you
You do have me wondering now how long it takes to compare large strings. DDR4-3200 has a peak transfer rate of 25.6 GB/s. So if you were editing a ridiculously large 1 GB text file, you could only make that comparison ~12.8 times per second, and that's assuming the CPU could compare data that fast.
Rust doesn't guarantee timing, but there are crates that carefully construct constant-time primitives that should work with current Rust, such as https://crates.io/crates/subtle-ng .

Personally, I would love to see enhancements to Rust and LLVM that would make it possible to provide such guarantees in pure Rust.
That's unfortunately incorrect.

The first generation Intel Macs used Intel Yonah cores "Core Duo". Those were the ones released in january 2006. These models were discontinued in September 2006, and replaced by Intel Penryn cores "Core 2 Duo".

The main difference being that Intel Yonah cores only support SSE3, while the Penryn cores support SSSE3 and up to SSE4.1 (there is some variation here).

Lion required "Core 2 Duo" hardware, Leopard is the actual last OS that supported the early "Core Duo" macs, and received its last update in 2009. Back then, this was kind of frustrating, because Leopard was released in 2007, so basically those with the very first Intel-based macs only got 1 major OS upgrade. That is, the first generation Intel-based macs reached EOL at the same time as the last generation of PowerPC macs.

I guess the technically-correct thing to say is that the very first generation of Intel macs only got 3 years of support. This is in strong contrast with the Core 2 Duo macs released 6 months later, which got much longer support (some up to Mountain Lion... which had its last update in 2015, 9 years later).

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For this reason, I'm not buying M1 macs. Makes more sense to wait 1 year or so if you can stretch it and get M2s or M3s, chances are any of those will last you a decade.

I completely agree with you that Apple will kill Intel support ASAP. IIRC they guarantee ~2 year of support or so, so probably 2 years after they discontinue their last Intel model all support for Intel will be gone. Makes absolutely no sense to buy an Intel mac right now unless you get them for peanuts and only want it for the next 2 years or so.
One into which you have to opt in, yet.
Let me try to offset the cynicism here.

These are welcome news. Seems like a small company in short amount of time was able to develop and validate carbon removal. Stripe's commitment helped them do this, which is great. I wish them further successes in making the process cheaper and faster.
> Not really what I said. If richer people progressively pay more tax for the bottom 99% of the population, that's arguably still a progressive system.

Except that that isn't what happens for the people at the very top, i.e. the investment class. The capital gains rate (paid by billionaires) is lower than the top earned income rate (paid by millionaires) and billionaires and international corporations use tax avoidance strategies to reduce the amount of income they pay tax on to begin with.

A flat tax can't be avoided in the same ways.

> I don't think I believe that poor people pay the highest marginal income tax rates given that some poor people pay none and all rich people have the amt.

You're confusing marginal rates with effective rates.

Suppose you make $15,000/year and get $5000/year in government assistance. But the assistance programs phase out at various rates that add together to 80%. If you make an extra dollar, you lose $.25 of food assistance, $.30 of housing assistance and $.25 of childcare assistance, something like that. Because those benefits phase out. The government takes 80% of the marginal dollar. Even if your "income tax bracket" is 0%, your marginal tax rate is 80%. This is more than some higher income person paying a marginal rate of 25% or 35%.

Your effective tax rate is -33%, because you made $15,000 and then "paid" -$5000 to the government, i.e. received $5000 in assistance.

Now compare this with a UBI that has no phase out and a 30% flat tax rate. You make $15,000, receive $12,000 UBI, pay $4500 (30% of the $15,000) in tax, so you net $7500 from the government. Your marginal rate is 30%, your effective rate is -50%. This is more progressive than the status quo on both metrics, despite being a "flat tax."

Because all "flat tax" means is that everybody pays the same marginal rate, whereas any rational definition of "progressive" implies that lower income people are paying lower effective rates.
Andela announces global expansion, now accepting applications from South America
Can you please share the URL or the channel's name?
Poaching employees from a competitor is not economic espionage. It's extremely common.

And then here's the key line:

> No one knows who managed to hack Nortel or where that data went in China.

This is all so vague, whereas the reasons for Huawei's growth and Nortel's demise are so much more concrete. For Huawei, the ability to capture a sizeable chunk of the market in China for cheap telephone switches, aided by its lower labor costs, better knowledge of the local market, and some level of protectionism. For Nortel, serious mismanagement and a financial scandal.

The thesis of the article, that economic espionage in the 2000s did in Nortel, is not plausible. It just looks like blame-shifting from a former Nortel employee, which Bloomberg decided to trumpet during a time (2000) when the US government was waging was a major anti-Huawei campaign.
The sampling rate and frequency range are tied together though. The Nyquist rate says the sampling rate must be 2x the bandwidth. If you sample at 96KHz, the most bandwidth you'd get is sound waves up to 48KHz and still be able to accurately reproduce them. However, if human hearing taps out at 28KHz, then you could sample up to 56KHz and still reliably reproduce the same sound.
Is there any paid podcast which is only $1.99 / month? They all seem to be at least $5 / month or more.
Ah, that is great :)
GE aims to develop a microchip that can detect the coronavirus
Cute, but it it failed on click #2. "Show Desktop" indeed miminizes all windows. But clicking it again should restore them to where they were when "Show Desktop" was last clicked. It instead does nothing.
They also tend to attract selfless people (usually women). And selfless people can get taken advantage of.
Then why is it called the "Do Nothing Congress"?
You mean they have the exact same processor/chipset/logic board.

They have a large performance advantage over the competition, it makes sense to have unified internals.
that is odd, in https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/imac it doesn't show the 16gb option.
More critical positions are:
- People working in energy and telecommunication
- Food and water
- Waste disposal

Without all three of those sectors modern societies would collapse.
I don't get the huge blind spot there, either, and it's pervasive on here every time the iPad comes up.

"I can't boot an OpenBSD VM on it so it must only be for watching YouTube, for sheeple consumers, not godlike 'creators' like me".

Meanwhile it's plainly great for all kinds of creation-oriented activities, especially where the real-world meets the digital. The sensors are great. Pencil is great. It's a really good companion-tool for all kinds of real-world work, better than a laptop (though actually iPhones often beat both iPads and "real" computers, in that regard, just because of the form factor) Plus it's got some damn good, often-interactive educational apps, some of which work better on a tablet than they would anywhere else. Much the hell better for several of those things than any laptop running a "real OS for Serious Work".

But no, it's just a Netflix console for drooling morons, because you can't easily HAX0R it to replace the lock screen with a port of DOOM, since if you can't do that then it must not be any use for creating things. Give me a break.
Round-the-world trips may be hard to manage, but people from developing countries can often still visit neighbouring developing countries visa-free. For example, Indians have visa-free access to much of South and Southeast Asia, while Moroccans can go to West Africa either visa-free or for a visa that is always granted. So, when people from these countries get into these forms of travel, they often do take advantage of this to explore the neighbours.
What excites me most about Node upgrades are the introduction of new native Javascript capabilities, because of the underlying V8 upgrade. You can figure out what those capabilities are on this website: https://node.green/.

You have to scroll down all the way to "Node.js ES2021 Support" to start seeing features that work in Node 16 but not Node 14 (the current LTS version). Of course, it's possible to use Babel to bring those features into Node 14, but I enjoy leaving it out of my toolchain when possible.
If a corporation is doing something good, shouldn't they have the right to show it off to the rest of the world?

It has been observed that this is a valid tactic to consolidate their reputation, and encourage others to follow in their footsteps.
https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/510/176/e33...
If you're the copyright holder you can relicense anytime you want. You're never stuck.
No one said life was easy my friend. We must all make sacrifices for the cause.
Wow! It's come a long way since I first heard about it and started messing around with it. I'll have to dig out the old source files I saved when I have some time. Good effort.
This one is not that bad. At least it takes AbortSignal, so it can be cancelled. Bonus points for that.

That said, I'll probably spend more time searching the node docs for how to import/use it than just implementing it myself.

OTOH I use promisified timer in almost all of my web scraping scripts, to reduce the load on the server, so I'm glad I'll be able to drop this thing from my utility library.
>I can no longer use Grafana unless I also publish my SaaS under AGPLv3, right?

If you link to it directly from your code then yes, unless you're willing to pay Grafana for a commercial license (assuming they offer one or you can negotiate one with them). If you have Grafana running on your servers but you aren't using the code in your own applications then you're generally fine (the GPL is generally recognized as ending where a process ends). And that's the point of the GPL/AGPL, you get the code for free, with the only expectation being that you pass it on if you make any changes.
Some meritocracy, eh? It blows my mind how the idea that compensation has anything at all to do with how important a job is or the quality of character it requires has survived this long.
yes, this is true! We try to avoid the whole "comments on pages" model as it has not been sustainable, except in rare circumstances under heavy human moderation. https://blog.codinghorror.com/please-read-the-comments/
> Why do you need route?

Because it creates a left-recursive call that will eventually cause a stack overflow. If you want to try it out, there's Swish[0] - an online prolog editor and interpreter.

[0]: https://swish.swi-prolog.org/
Yep, already thinking about alternatives to Grafana in the long term now...
Lots is fundamentally wrong.

Have you been paying attention?
It works fine on mobile.

https://imgur.com/9PiRQTI.jpg
I wonder whether the near universal unpleasant experiences mentioned in this thread aren't caused by bad ports of MS Teams to Mac/Linux/Android. I use Teams solely on Windows, and the calls/video are flawless, recording just works, captions and audio transcripts are fairly accurate. The chat portion has minor warts, but it does get the job done. Markdown syntax works for most of the message formatting needs. Webhooks are easy to implement.
It's such a powerful tracking device that it has to be nerfed to be sold.

Because too many people's first thought is to stalk\track people secretly.

Technology isn't the problem, people are!
Independent wealth isn't a factor. Here's an example podcast that is deeply niche: https://newrustacean.com/ He found actual sponsors, and patreon donators.

Are you thinking along the lines of people who make the podcast their full time jobs? Do you think the likelyhood of accomplishing this will be easier or harder for a given aspiring podcaster once a middleman controls their revenue, ability to distribute, and context of listening?

And honestly, I don't know the answer to that, all I know that is my experience is going to end up massively worse if authors keep choosing centralization.
This must be some sort of objective measure of society entering into a new era.
There are a few ways to search by book cover.

The Internet Archive Open Library is good, and Z-library.

Also:

https://bigbooksearch.com/

http://bookcoverarchive.com/
My speakers accomplish the same feat by being separated from my head :)
Tile Unhappy with AirTag Launch, Plans to Tattle to Congress
Solving Application Cloud Waste Panel with Adrian Cockcroft
I mean, now your argument has changed from "most peripherals use bluetooth so it doesn't matter" to "most peripherals use USB-A, but many Apple users will nonetheless tolerate the lack of USB-A on their desktops". I can't really argue against that, and maybe it's correct.

EDIT: Just to respond to the "gamers and people who code are in a different class" thing: I went to a different store which is more general, went through the most sold keyboards, and skipped all "gaming" keyboards (so everything from Razer, everything branded Logitech G, everything with RGB), and counted to 14 bluetooth keyboards and 19 keyboards which require USB-A (7 wired, 12 with the USB receiver dongle). People just use USB-A peripherals a whole lot. (Store URL: https://www.elkjop.no/INTERSHOP/web/WFS/store-elkjop-Site/no...)
Came to say the same thing!
Am I reading this right, that these will max out on 8Gb memory, and not even receive the 16Gb of the MBP?
https://github.com/chadwickbureau/chadwick Totally qualifies as sexy. It gets right to the point, has the right install instructions, lays out the programming language requirements. I love it. Thank you.