skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alternative: lock down a non-minimalistic phones. Disable notifications, limit usage to certain times of the day, disallow adding apps, etc.

A few of these can be behind a password check, so if you don’t trust yourself undoing such settings, ask a friend (or ask a stranger on the street) to set a password for changing settings.
Yes, that was my reasoning. If the book was adequate but neither good nor bad I wouldn't bother writing a review about it. Much in the same way I wouldn't review an uneventful fast food dining experience.
Other problem is ownership transfer isn't even necessarily the bottleneck to liquidity of real estate. Most real estate is still occupied by people using the property for some reason, either for a place of business or because the live there. Moving their business or family to a new piece of land and someone else onto theirs requires changing school districts, updating bank records, work records, canceling utilities, physically moving all of the objects, packing, unpacking. All of that is much more cumbersome than transferring the legal ownership rights to the lot. Housing stock will never have high liquidity regardless of how you record ownership. If you want liquidity while exposing yourself to real estate as an investment vehicle, that's why REITs, MBSs, and CDOs exist. You don't want to trade physical houses.
The fact they are using this phrase implies they may scan or read it for other purposes, for example I'm sure they use it to train their neural networks. What else? I don't exactly know and that's a problem.
I don't respect it, either.
This will stop being a problem when/if all distros start using symbol servers
Ah you're right, I forgot about the 13" without touch bar.
What upgrades do you think should be added? I miss the environment of IRC 25 years ago. Its something that no messenging application has really been able to replicate for me.
I would be suprised if the most valuable collection of Pokémon cards was worth only $10M.

I personally know multiple people with card collections in excess of $10M. They are using it as a form of investment and it’s been their best performing asset class in the last several years.

While those collections are not of Pokémon cards, I’m sure that there must exist people who see Pokémon cards as an investment too and are similarly wealthy.
Agree wholeheartedly. As far as I am concerned the whole repo/package manager model is the root cause of most of the reasons the Linux Desktop experience is as awful as it is.
Can we just retire the entire Windows operating system already?

I recently started working on a new project that's running on Windows Server 2019 and the experience so far has been absolutely terrible. One Windows related headache after another.
The benefit of self-help can be like escapist fiction, except the protagonist isn't Luke Skywalker or Frodo but you, yourself.
What's the advantage of using HTTP?
In an AD environment, you can push out a centralized list that is easy to update. We've found that IE Mode unfortunately works very well. I wish it didn't work so well because it allows us to keep these IE sites around indefinitely.
Not everything has to run on top of HTTP or use json.

IRCv3 gets a lot more right than wrong.
In your case was the patio set sold to another customer or was it a logistics issue at the supplier etc or is there no way to know what the problem was? I think those are all separate problems that may have various solutions, and the only one that blockchain to my knowledge would even be remotely useful for is knowing where in the chain those sets not being in the store happened at.
I thought Oakland was worse
It always struck me as odd that a culture so interested in the internet and data and disrupting existing cash flows would itself dictate a system in which so, so much cash flows from VCs to paychecks to landowners in one single metro.
well also most password managers disable the native autofill, i.e. 1password x disables native autofill in chrome/firefox
Same, I was expecting some 3D printing, maybe some experimentation about how much spacing is needed between pins for insulation and how large the contact surfaces should be etc.

I was excited.
> For almost as long as we’ve been tracking the COVID-19 pandemic, sf.citi has been closely monitoring the San Francisco tech exodus

They say 63 percent of tech companies surveyed have already downsized or plan to downsize their office space in the San Francisco Bay Area. This is to be expected in a work-from-home situation like the ongoing pandemic. I don't see anything about the percentage of it being permanent rather than temporary.
You need it for google docs, etc to intercept paste events and do the right thing from the perspective of a document editor.

But this also illustrates the fact that "useful" browser features can be trivially abused.
https://www.tapwithus.com/
tapstrap2
The New Productivity Revolution
The price of cryptocurrencies you mean.

Value != Price
New Zealand too, and it really is as good as it sounds. Transacting property can be done very quickly, safely and cheaply, and no title insurance is required.

The register is of course just a normal relational database.

One key to the success, though, is a large and mature body of legislation and processes to ensure that the register really is always correct.
I get the point of the quote, but it's not entirely true today. setting aside the existence of "premium colas", there is a higher tier of coca cola: the one that has actual cane sugar and is imported from mexico. if you order a coke at a nice restaurant, you will likely be served one of these. the imported version isn't prohibitively expensive, but it is uncommon to see poor people pay a premium for soda.
I guess only if they know about it though
There is also weechat.el, and weechat has a matrix plugin.
Solve the same problem with less code?
All of the cities you mention have progressive leadership and that's not likely to change. Most non-progressives have decamped to the suburbs (or "depressing suburbia" as you call it) decades ago.
It takes a particular kind of person to buy an expensive NFT. It's just not for you it sounds like. But yeah, you get the bragging rights and you own the asset through your private key. A lot of the "crypto OGs" own some of the more expensive NFTs like the cryptopunks and they use these assets to show off essentially.
I love how everyone skips the part that freenode's democratically elected former leader was the one who simply sold something they shouldn't have been able to - blame should first be directed at them.
Soooo, Chia farming. If I read the article right, you're not actually storing anything useful, like copies of the Library of Congress or SciHub or, say, anything that might be useful to humanity in the long run.

You're just storing a pile of randomish numbers?

Bitcoin, et. al., sounds like a scam to me, but Chia farming sounds like next-level stupid.
I haven't been able to find any evidence supporting this claim.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/14/science/china-mars.html says, for example:

> Days after the touchdown, the rover will roll off the lander. Like Spirit and Opportunity, Zhurong will be powered by solar panels, which are retractable so that it can periodically shake off any accumulated dust.

I'd love to learn more.
Douglas Adams was a humorist first and philosopher second, quoting him literally is borderline naive.

For starters, not everything invented when you are 15-35 is good. Take reality shows: they were indeed new and revolutionary (exciting idk), but they didn't pass the test of time. Stupid stuff is invented all the time, regardless of people's ages.
Good. I have never, not once, seen autocomplete=off where it actually made sense, except in the minds of a developer who erroneously thinks it's a good idea to block password managers.

I can imagine legitimate hypothetical use cases for it. I've just never seen a legitimate actual use case.

Edit: NIST says (in https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-FAQ/#q-b12):

> In SP 800-63B, NIST has not explicitly recommended the use of password managers, but recommends that verifiers permit the use of “paste” functionality so that the subscriber can use a password manager if desired.

I'll take their word over some rando app developer who doesn't want users to have a working 1Password setup.
Ask HN: Tips on transitioning to starting a business from being a hacker
I am a self taught programmer working in companies / open source for over 10 yrs. I am fairly proficient.

I have also tried to start a business for over a good year now but have failed every single time due to having no clear mentors / environment I can learn from.

So I have a question for all fellow hackers who have successfully made a transition to running a business: are there some books / courses which helped you to make the switch?

I keep trying and I keep giving up and I feel so dejected and down now because I feel like I will never ever get it.
Because it's a slippery slope in terms of user freedom. The comment I was replying to basically says "well that's what you get for renting, if you want the freedom to do what you want buy your hardware", which is starting to become false. The right to repair is a follow up to that: if you can't do what you want when you rent, and can't do what you when you buy, where does this leave other user freedom initiatives?
Yes, it was an unintentional leak. That was obvious.

What was more interesting - as is usually the case - was the HN discussion, from which I learned a lot.
Your pretending to care about creators but giving them nothing. If you stopped visiting youtube but used other platforms and gave sure.. but it doesn't sound like that is happening.
Many modern IRCDs expose a websocket connection, if that's HTTP enough
I can reverse proxy it, I can dockerize it, I don't have to modify my firewall, I can TLS-SNI vhost it, I can decouple the TLS keys from the daemon process by terminating TLS on a different container, I can connect to it from weird LANs that filter non-HTTP, I can drop the TCP connections from my mobile device without dropping my whole login session, et c.
Yeah, basically this. Quite ad-hoc.

The mechanism that Elixir used for providing different configuration values for dev, test, and prod (via dev.exs, test.exs, and prod.exs files), did not work well with environment variables, since those configuration files were evaluated at build time, which wouldn't work if you built, e.g., a single prod app and wanted to run it with different ENV vars in staging and prod.

Meanwhile, as of Elixir 1.10, there was a file called releases.exs which you could use to configure your release (basically a compiled artifact that included the BEAM VM runtime system that you could drop on your server to run, the preferred way of deploying production apps). However, those values didn't affect running the app not as a release, which is common when developing locally.

In the end, our organization kind of standardized on an approach of reading the ENV vars in the app start up, at the top of the supervision tree, which kind of worked in all scenarios.

But then in Elixir 1.11 there's finally a great (IMO) way of configuring: a new file called runtime.exs which is the best of all worlds. Like the old dev/test/prod files, it's evaluated when you run a mix project, so it's used during local development, and has access to Mix.env, so you can set variables based on environment. But it instead of being evaluated at build time, it's evaluated at run time, so you can refer to environment variables, too. And, it's used by releases!

So now there's a very slick standard way to configure your app, that works in all situations.
When you have young kids 'depressing suburbia' can be a feature not a bug.
Isn't it already well established SF has far more space allocated to jobs than housing for the workers?

In other news, the sky is blue, and water is wet.
This should be an RFC.
We have a cat they we allow outside sometimes. She doesn't have a sense of humour, but the local birds certainly act differently when she's outside. They sit just out of reach and squawk loudly at her. It doesn't seem to be a fear response. It could be a defensive mechanism of actively and continually watching the potential threat. But in my mind they're taunting and laughing at her.
This is a low quality post; this linked bug appears to have thousands of comments, most of them are advocacy repetition, and I don’t know whether OP is trying to point out the technical workaround linked, advocating for this to be changed, or advocating against this being changed.

OP, I wish you’d written a blog post about what you see as relevant and interesting here, citing material from the bug and/or elsewhere — and then posted that to HN. (And, no, altering the post title wouldn’t help; your title is correct for the link you provided - thank you for adding Chrome!)
I agree, it would seem that Verizon may be using this as an excuse to close out many of the older plan types almost certainly not to the long term economic benefit of the plan holders. This may end up being one of those ideas that despite the best of intentions ends up hurting people in the long run. I hope not.
What's awful is asking rents have barely budged. Peaked at around $85/sf, now around $75/sf. The landlords can afford to just sit on inventory.
thank you for the informational pedantry :)

So what would the plural of Jesus be?

My name is Marcus, and I whenever I meet another Marcus, I wedge the "Marcii" joke in there somewhere. I would like to be able to refine this. What would two Marcuses (which sounds so wrong) be called?
My Bay Area anecdote: a lot of my colleagues left over the past year, some are staying away, most are returning/have already returned. Not nothing, not an exodus though.
>This entire premise is complete fucking bullshit

I'm over 50 and this does not match with my observations of the world. Older people, as a general trend, do in fact seem to be resistant to new ideas. There are exceptions, of course. The trend still stands in my experience.
Do you think there is no point to PayPal, or do you think your GitHub repo is an equivalent replacement? Is forwarding an email to a bunch of people equal to twitter?

Yes, and yes.

Paypal is superior to a github repo, but that doesn't mean they can't do the same job. Twitter is superior to an email chain, in most situations, but that doesn't mean it can't do the same job.

Concrete is superior to wood, that doesn't mean you cannot build houses out of wood. You could theoretically build a payments system on top of github, it might not be as efficient but it'll work.
> In a place like Russia, where rich people with global financial holdings call the shots

So, pretty much like any other place, then?
There are no universal solutions... Car ownership shouldn't be considered as the default option, either. I tend to think people overestimate the 'hardship' by not fully considering options to use money to overcome them. Also, daily cycling - even if not strenuous - has excellent health benefits.

For example, you can get a really nice cargo bike for a fraction of the yearly savings of not owning a car, which will last for decades and solves the 'hardship' of handling groceries. This won't work in every case (recall, no universal solutions), but it significantly shifts the decision boundaries.

My fleet consists of a 'fast' sporty bike, a folding bike (for day to day, connecting with transit, taking on train trips, etc), and an old xtra-cycle cargo bike. The bikes were built/bought 15, 5 and 12 years ago, respectively; basically free once amortized. And since I'm saving ~$5000/year by avoiding car ownership, I just try not to feel shy about using 'expensive' one off transit solutions when it's substantially more convenient.
Accept Credit Cards
what merchant account do you guys recommend for accepting credit cards on site/app?

I have read horror stories about Stripe. What else is out there?
I always wonder what the point of these comparisons is. Can you imagine cramming 8000 homeless people with hardcore drug addictions and untreated mental illness in a vacant office tower?
Surprise: the landlords are in charge of local government.
That's an interesting point. I could see the feature looking like:

- Allowing a page to intercept a paste.

- If the page doesn't modify the DOM in response, then override it and actually paste the content.
There is nothing that stops you from making the same NFT on multiple blockchains. Even within the same blockchain there is nothing that stops you from creating a new NFT with the same NFT payload. NFTs are only unique in the same blockchain within the same smart contract. Which is a very narrow definition of unique.
Potentially leaky vaccine:
https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/02/02/1017161/covid-va...

Leaky Vaccine + Time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marek%27s_disease#Prevention
First-Time Buyer Lorenz Curves (2020)
> Unless the people want representational democracy but are forced into direct democracy.

That's a category error; you're comparing a decision-making process to a decision. A totalitarian dictatorship is not more democratic than a body of elected representatives, even if the people voted to implement that dictatorship. It's like the XKCD comic which claims the number 4 is random, because it came up in a die roll.

> Or, in theory (and I can't stress that enough that this is theoretical), representational democracy could better represent people than they can represent for themselves

Sure, but what has that got to do with the relative level of democracy between those systems? "Democratic" isn't a synonym for "good" or "best". It's perfectly possible for a more democratic system of governance to produce outcomes which are "worse" (according to whatever measure we care about). The rest of your comment seems to be further conflation between "democratic" and "good".
As a long term customer, I think banning mining is reasonable.

I base this on personal experience: a few years ago, I rented a server with a GPU to run my own deep learning experiments. If my DL queue emptied, a script would run to start etherium mining. I monitored the GPU temperature and configured the mining software to only utilize about 75% of the GPU. I bet lots of people wouldn’t bother to do this.
> To be clear though, any such consensus _could_ theoretically be modeled using a smart contract between multiple parties

Sure, but it's only a model, in the same sense of "model" as a model train set.

If you want that blockchain's consensus model to actually do real things involving real humans, then the humans have to agree to act on that model, which itself requires consensus. So now you have two consensus systems.
Some birds preferentially nest in holes in rock vs holes in wood, similar to some species making exposed nests rather than wanting holes in objects.
Ha! My first job was effectively through a LUG as well. In the early 2000's, I moved to a new city and joined the LUG there. A few months go by and I'm chatting with someone in the room and they ask what I do. I replied that I was going to college but also looking for part-time work. The next day, another LUG member who owned a small consulting company called me up and said he overheard what I said and pretty much just offered me the job right over the phone.

In fact, looking back at my employment history, only one of my jobs was a direct result of someone seeing my resume before they even met me.
Oh ok. So NFTs aren't useless then?
Totally false. We saw many commercial units between $35-50/sf IG and just signed on one at $37/sf.
Meh. It's a private blockchain and the general principles stand.

The company I worked for was so incompetent that they wanted to have customers access the data directly through their APIs, and that the blockchain entities were all the same -- effectively making it a really slow and expensive K/V store.

I should write up the story of my time there -- it was insane. When I came aboard their system was a MySQL frontend with a ton of code to replicate it to the chain (because they couldn't figure out how to get more than one transaction per second, which was because they had no idea how Fabric actually worked).
Two-factor auth selecting focus and suddenly seeing a dropdown of old, worthless 6-digit numbers comes to mind.
I only skimmed the document but it seems to be a very technical specification for specific learning outcomes etc in a computer science curriculum. It was published in 2013 so we may want to add that to the title if it takes off.
I did a master's degree in a subject that really interested me (info security). I was very lucky; my employer helped pay for the course, and didn't have to pay them back as long as I didn't leave for three years afterwards. Then I did a succession of contracts to gain wider experience.

Took a long time I guess to fully transition over, but was totally worth it as far as I'm concerned, and I was learning and growing over the whole period. Probably could have done it faster, but wasn't an issue for me.

The main thing I think is to figure out what really interests you or what kind of change you want in your work.
Interesting. Do you know of anywhere that has screenshots of that native application, for curiosity's sake? When I first used Windows Update in Windows 9x, it was already a (very slow) ActiveX applet.
hell yes. But even worse are customers that want exactly this for "security reasons".

edit: on login pages, beside those are some legitimate usecases.
Is this the same Frontier given a pass by Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai and received " $283.4 million each year from the FCC's Connect America Fund (CAF)...financed by phone customers nationwide through universal service fees"?

If so, I think phone users will have an interest in justice.

[1]https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/05/ajit-pai-refuses...
Colonial Pipeline CEO Tells Why He Paid Hackers a $4.4M Ransom
still not aboard the php 3 hype train?

now it's time to sell it hard to management
YouTube Premium customers paid to get rid of ads placed by YouTube. A simple solution for channels that embed ads in their videos themselves (or have any other kind of content that you don't like for any reason) is to simply unsubscribe.
While it keeps existing IE11 compatible sites around indefinitely, it stops everyone else from having to support IE11 because that's the default and only browser IT allows on the machine.
Pretty clear what their priority is. It's not building a good game, it's making money off of suckers.

Yes, I get that feeling. They have a long, detailed story, but it gets vague around how things actually work.

There are useful metaverse design problems cryptosystems might address. You'd like to be able to move your avatar/furniture/vehicles/house from Roblox to Minecraft to Second Life to Facebook Horizon to Dual Universe or whatever comes next. Since much of that stuff is bought, the creators don't want you to be able to duplicate and resell it. Some kind of cryptosystem might be able to make virtual asset portability work.

You'd like to have a virtual world system that has multiple servers run by different organizations, yet can talk to each other. Like the Web.
The walled gardens need portals to other walled gardens. Many of the problems doing that require permission and asset storage with no central authority.

Asset storage separate from virtual world operators could work. Arweave could potentially help with that. Arweave is a scheme where you pay about $10/GB to have a file supposedly stored forever. It's paid for by a speculation in declining storage prices. But the terms and conditions are highly inconsistent with the hype. And there seems to be a central point of failure in the way files are looked up.

Nothing I've seen from the NFT crowd seems to be addressing those hard problems. It's all Make Money Fast.
And the OP was your father? That would have been a nice coincidence.