skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am a firm believer that you can get too hi-fi. Listening on B&W cans as we speak and they are undeniably hi-fi but not what you call meaty for drum & bass.
There is no such thing as the sound of an electric guitar; the pick-ups amp and choice of speaker and cab are what makes it rock.
Ortofon recently made this mistake with a full new range of carts and needles with higher range, volume and spec all round. Nobody likes them with their existing records because they don't sound "fat". Maybe new records will be produced that presume new needles but I ain't sure that any of this is progress over hitting your favourite tree trunk with your favourite stick.
I have different speakers for different music, until B&W give these cabs out free to the yoot in Brixton there aint gonna be any good music to play one them. They will always be adequate speakers for the fabulously rich.
I think there are two effects at play right now that both feed on each other. One of them is mentioned in the article, there aren't many properties actually on the market at the moment so it doesn't take many transactions or many buyers with the resources to drive up prices.

The other factor is that some people did very well during the lockdown. Overall yes a lot of people suffered, but if you had a well paid job that you could do from home, and didn't need to pay for a season ticket to go to work, buy lunch, haven't spent on a big holiday, haven't been out to the theatre or restaurants, then you may well have expanded your savings quite significantly. With the low number of houses on the market, there doesn't have to be huge numbers of people in that position for them to move house prices.
Gerrymandering is only a problem (with respect to climate change) if around half of the voters don't care about climate change.

As you said, there are good politicians. Its us that do not vote for them.

In Germany, it was always the same: in between elections, the Green party have really nice results in polls. However, when it comes to the election, people prefer reducing (or not increasing) taxes and stuff over fixing the climate.

People DO know about climate change. There IS good information available online. Its not that people have no idea what's happening. They just don't care to do something themselves - there's enough other people to fix it. Its like an email with lots of recipients, no one feels responsible to reply.

> But feel free to support them.

I never said I support them. I said we could easily get rid of them, of we only wanted to. The problem is (half of) the people around you, not the elites put in power by them.
You don't need to travel physically when you can do it instantly with your conscience.
People generally don't want new houses here either. They have a reputation for bad quality and soullessness. Obviously there's literally no way to increase stock of 1930s houses, so the shortage is impossible to fix!
>I am of the opinion that many people have experienced childhood trauma in one form or another

Especially in the irrelevant overblown form, nobody 50 years ago would even stoop down to mention as trauma...
I agree that people should definitely be careful with drugs.

You know how the ABS of your car gives you more control? If you lock the brakes, you run the risk of sliding out of control. Much better to let up on the brakes a bit and try to keep the wheels turning.

Same for laws on things like drugs. Better to have things legal but controlled, rather than illegal and untrackable/uncontrollable.
Honestly cache reuse was never as high as anyone hoped. There were so many versions of jQuery and so many different CDNs that very few first time visitors already had the one you wanted.
Depop is very much the opposite of flying under the radar. They are a key player in fashion and love nothing but flashy promotions, they’d love to be associated to any big brand. They are not as big as Farfetch (disclaimer: where I worked) but both companies are pillars of fashion-tech scene in London.

Their marketing and social media presence is as large as they can get it (I know their former Head of Social media and VP Product). Being successful there is a first step to becoming an influencer. As a second-hand market, they’ve been carried by the environmental trend lately, deservingly so. Their audience is younger, more female and fashion-forward and in that very seeked-after demographic, they have incredible numbers. There are American companies, like Vestiaire Collective, that offer a similar service but Depop is making strides around the world.

There might not be a lot of overlap with your interest, or those of many people in Hacker News — and that’s fine. But, to fin equivalents, saying that TikTok or Tampax are "under the radar" brands says more about your curiosity than it says about a product used by half of the population.
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True. The Nextcloud docs suggest at least 2GB of RAM.

On the other hand, mine is running at 400MB right now.

I guess it also depends on the frequency and how it is used. We mostly use the apps on the phone and file app integrations (Ubuntu lets you access the files from the Files app).

It is true that it is somewhat slow when loading the website.
I beg to differ. I have, in a vanilla firefox UI, about 100 tabs, in a single window.
I group them (loosely) by their themes, in the bar. It's... manageable.
Also, middle class people are saving tons of money on everything from daycare to restaurants. I frequent personalfinancecanada and have spoken to a few co-workers about this.

Plenty had 3000 a month daycare bills. Not anymore. Plenty spent 1500 a month on restaurants. Not anymore. In Canada at least, we got to the point where 30% of income was being saved.

> The savings rate in the second quarter of 2020 surged to 28.2 per cent, up from 3.6 per cent before the COVID-19 pandemic struck. [0]

[0] https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/household-savings-in-...
I do want to fight radical socialists
> It might be more effective to stop giving people money and use it instead to create programs to provide better jobs and skill training.

That's a false dichotomy. There's no actual lever for "provide better jobs and skill training."

In reality, it's either more money directed at the poors, or more directed towards the rich. And that's how people vote.

"Better jobs and skill training" means "give it to the rich so they can make the poors think they're doing something for them."
What is 'super slow'? Takes milliseconds for me.
Cool technique!

Wondering if there’s a low-bullshit reusable coffee filter medium to remove some of the oils.

What I want to get sorted most right now is water. I use tap water, but I need to filter it because it’s really, really calcareous. Most filters are made of plastic, or at least plastic cartridges with the filter medium. I was thinking about using glass or metal instead and somehow machine a container for the filter medium and buy that stuff in bulk. I really don‘t want to buy bottled water to make coffee.

Any thoughts?
Ok boomer. Nobody uses websites anymore. For the proper shopping experience you must install the app. Your precise browsing history and phone location will be used to tailor a bespoke peer-to-peer shopping experience. Don't like a shopping app running 24/7 in your pocket? You just don't get modern fashion.
I want to point out that overtaking oil doesn't mean displacing it. History described in this chart predicts that the best we can hope for is that oil usage will very slowly decline like biomass or coal.

I point this out not because I think this history must be our destiny, but instead to raise awareness that much more must be done to avoid that destiny.
>>Why should everyone be in the same position? They didn't put in the same effort.

For a simple reason - because we know, empirically, through decades of studies(some of which were done by the very US of A!), that it produces better results for the entire society. I've learnt long ago that it doesn't matter how I feel about benefits system personally - yeah I hate that some people get money for doing nothing. But it's literally irrelevant - we know through hard data that it works and produces good results. So the whole question of "how much effort has someone put in" is amusing to debate online, but it should be worth exactly zero when deciding policy.

>>The freedom to excel comes with the freedom to do poorly at the game.

Is it freedom though? How many of Americans can't get into these best education programs because they can't afford it? Yes, I am aware that there are grants and funds available if you really are poor - but you still have to apply. What if the chances were really equal - all higher education completely free to attend like it is in some other countries? Both the best university in the country and the worst both have the exact same cost of admission = zero. Isn't that what freedom is?
Thanks for sharing! Going to read it this weekend.
Thanks for the opt-out link. Weirdly, step 3 is missing, there's no Amazon Sidewalk link in my app.
Too many predictions with too many assumptions and too little data.
I am not using CDC data. Texas has not changed its reporting methodology.
If recovery is critical, store some parity bits too. par2 or something like that.
> Or perhaps we could allow obtaining of some carbon credits through carbon capture / sequestration,

Except companies will go for the cheapest possible solution that “counts” for carbon credits, which is probably entirely fraudulent.
I would explore whether the Ultimate-64 FPGA-based C64 clone board would work for you, as that would give you long term confidence on keeping the platform running.
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> it's just not sold to people who want to live in them

A vast number of UK retirement villages would like to disagree with you.
I think perhaps it implies that the person hasn’t viewed the property in person, over having just viewed the photographs provided on the listing.

Someone who has viewed only the photos could be argued to have seen the property, yet still remain sight unseen of the property
VSCode is fine, not great. Nice scrollbar. Still rather mouse dependent, not enough keyboard navigation (e.g. for git, AFAICT), and tabbed layouts don't use large monitors well. I like many files visible at once to see context.

Re:extensions: great when they work well. But they tend to move fast, and come and go fast. That makes combinations of them brittle. If they're conveniences, that's no problem. But if they're necessary parts of my workflow, then life can suck.
Your assertions don't fit with the data you shared. The Y axis shows strictness and Norway has peaks that are higher and therefore stricter. I suspect you know this given you tried to double-down on it immediately.

If we are playing "No true Scotsman" with the lockdowns and dragging Sweden in, how would you explain Greece vs Sweden?

Excess Deaths per 100k [0]

Sweden: 102
Greece: 38

There is simply no compelling evidence that “lockdowns doing more harm than good” from an excess mortality point of view.

Excess Mortality source:

[0] https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/coronavirus-excess-...

Your favoured metric of lockdown severity:

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/covid-stringency-index?ta...
I currently work for the University I study at in the (biomedical) library. I scan lots of old journal articles and periodicals for academics who need it for their research. A typical job might be scanning an article from 1960 on Potato Research for an agriculturalist, or a graph of human energy expenditure, or an analysis of fibres for forensic medicine. We get researchers from all around the world requesting articles on all sorts of topics from our archives. It's a Sandstone university, so we have some very old collections that are definitely getting crumby!

Other than locating the books, by far the most tedious aspect is the scanning. We only have a terrible flatbed scanner, that is completely unforgiving - it only has a 25 page email limit, otherwise you have to split it into separate emails. And if you mis-scan a page accidentally (some of the book margins are super tight), then you have to restart the entire scan - there's no delete page button!
The establishment and vested interest groups in the industry make me disgusting. The young people in the industry have no chance to be forced to compete inwardly by the so-called rules that have been formed.

The winner is complacent, and the loser is desperate.

You know, the VC industry used to have no so-called rules and processes. What you see now is set by your bosses, masters, and masters to play with you.

The VCs turned out to be leather bag companies: fighting alone, able to call money, no office, shuttled in Silicon Valley garages with leather bags, find someone, call for money, give him the money, and then make a fortune.

Having said so much before, what I want to say most is that our industry has recently become less and less cool, and more and more boring.

What should VCs do? We should support some products and business models that might not have existed without us.

Once we invested in a company that made chips and the future of mankind from sand, once we invested in a company that moved computers to the desks of thousands of households, and once we invested in companies that were able to make various skins of all countries in the world Companies that can communicate with each other in real time.

What are we doing lately?

Are we investing in a carton of milk, a bottle of soy sauce, a wife's cake shop, and a bag of instant noodles?

Come on, the world won't get better with one more bag of instant noodles, not even ten more, you'll never convince me. You will never convince me.

I didn't enter the VC industry because of these things.
> replace bitcoin

Replace Bitcoin as a speculative asset? Because I don't really see Bitcoin as anything else. Just to clarify why, according to Coinmarketcap, trade volume for june 1st was about $35B. The transaction volume on the actual Blockchain was about $5B, according to Blockchain explorer.

So yesterday, 85% of Bitcoin transactions wasn't even on the blockchain. They were trades within markets that use the same old technology that banks do. They (often) have the same KYC that banks do. And have no direct connection to the blockchain. I doubt most people who 'own crypto' actually own any crypto and they just have the right to crypto that is stored in the wallets of their markets.

I realize this rant went a bit off topic, but I really wonder what 'replace bitcoin' means in this context.

Edit: I realized that coinmarketcap and blockhain explorer numbers are probably cumulative, so it'd be more like 87,5% of transactions off blockchain. Doesn't really change anything about my point, just thought it was worth an edit.
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> "due to the correlation between population size and landmass, it is therefore unlikely any country is more than 20% larger than mine" there is a 98% chance they are not Russian and therefore incorrect

Your mistake was to stop using statistics to refer to groups forming a distribution, and referring to ONE particular country, Russia.

The argument only works when you keep things in the realm of statistical distributions. An argument that works should be:

"due to the correlation between population size and landmass, it is unlikely most other countries are more than 20% larger than mine".

You would be right almost every time! Yes, it's a weaker argument but still extremely interesting.
I would assume the phrase originates from "sight" as a noun.
Theres gerrit and reviewboard, both of which I would consider quite nice.

I dont know reviewable so it might have more sauce than the recommendations
I have replied to your assertions in the other comment thread.
I've planted a large variety of vegetables and clovers, buckwheat and things that wasps and bees love for several years. In the last two years of crop alone, I had absolutely no horn worms on any of my tomatoes or related Solanaceae family, no white moths able to lay eggs and destroy my kale, broccolis, or other greens and this is something if you're familiar with farming is unheard of without pesticides. I welcome so many yellow jackets and red wasps, hornets into our backyard that they just annihilate all those pests. The only thing I've had a tiny issue with is clusters of aphids in my tomatoes late season and I can just spray them down with a mild nicotine tea or mint family oils. If you get the ecosystem into balance, there is no need for chemical pesticides. Needing them is a sign of a total out of whack ecosystem in the first place. Mid summer season, it's fun to just sit back and watch 4-5 yellow jackets climbing up and down heirloom kale plants hunting. Without them, the kale would just about be leaf veins left propped up on stalks, as the greedy little worms will absolutely destroy all the leaf if left to their own devices. Don't spray wasps! They are just as crucial as honey bees.
Audio Deck - https://avdeck.co

It's a clean music player with cloud storage and sharing, geared toward musicians and producers (i.e., me).

After years of native SDK development, I've switched to React Native and not looking back!
Same in the Netherlands. People couldn't spend their savings on an expensive holiday, interest is super low, demand is super high, supply is very low.

So now when a house is presented online, sometimes within a day it says: Please don't respond anymore, our firm can't handle the amount of emails and phone calls. We invited 30 people/couples and then will assess.

Sometimes you can engage in the bidding war without reviewing the property, of course the chance of getting it is highest if you forego any rights you may have to step away from the deal should you run into financing issues. This presents a high risk because couples opt for loaning the maximum amount they can by both working full time. 10 years ago all my friends said: "we're sticking to a property we can afford on 1 salary, for safety and if we run into trouble."

It's already annoying if you have a house to sell for a ridiculous price but imagine what it's like when you are looking for your first property. Hopeless.

I'm glad I live in an acceptable house, but if we were in the market of 10 years ago (when realtors would only negotiate with one person/couple at a time) I would have moved on by now, to something more rural, bigger and with more land.

I feel stuck, it's crazy how different the situation is from 10 years ago.

I think we just needs start building, a lot, and fast. In stead we seem to be stuck on the amount of fixed nitrogen we produces, putting a break on everything (including construction) [0].

[0] https://www.politico.eu/article/netherlands-nitrogen-headach...
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Croydon isn't as nice an area as Hyde Park.
Location: Boston
Remote: Remote or in-office
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: Android, APIs, Agile
Résumé/CV: See the CV link at zigurd.com
Email: zigurd.mednieks@gmail.com

My new book The Agile Idea is now in pre-release at manning.com. The book teaches how to practice Agile without jargon, and how to keep it close to management objectives and the needs of software developers. https://www.manning.com/books/the-agile-idea

I would like to find a project that would benefit from this perspective on managing software development.
There are thousands of years worth of people claiming personal experiences with various gods, aliens, animal spirits and so on. None of these have ever led to any kind of verifiable results, so I think it's about time we entirely stop listening to such stories, whatever the reason they are being told.

Your position on the other hand could be used as well to believe in God (YHWH), Lord Vishnu, kami, aliens or anything else that someone has ever claimed to see.

You are also treating pretty well understood physical limits (the speed of light, E=(mv^2)/2 etc.) as mere technological problems that someone could "figure out". And all this to justify listening to a few disparate people who can offer no more proof than their own story telling.

As a side note, please refrain from calling people you are directly talking to "lazy and deluded crackpot nutcases", especially for relatively simple logical inferences.
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I have the same feeling. Elon despises the SEC and he might have found a way to mess with them by playing with a mostly unregulated market.

Edit: Also, his name was used a lot by crypto scammers on Twitter and nothing was ever done about those. That might also have pissed him off even more.
and ~improve~ transaction latency
And that's fine; CDN benefits are minimal, given how many versions of dependencies are out in the wild, and how the total payload of a website can be reduced by clever packaging and modern data transfer mechanisms. The JS standard library also improved since then, with things like CSS selectors, the Fetch API, and CSS animations being part of the standard library nowadays.

I'd argue there's few 'shared' dependencies on websites nowadays.
I don't know if Arrival has a book, and if it does I didn't read it. But the movie seems pretty solidly in what you're describing as "sci-fi" here. Takes a single premise and then builds the world around that "what-if". Same with Contact and Jurassic Park, with touches of drama and action / horror, respectively.
Why do you suppose that under conditions of perfect fairness we would see perfect equality? That's just not the case. Human talent is not sprinkled in the proportion in each person. You can achieve equality only through Harrison Bergeron measures. I'd rather have freedom.
Depop is an excellent example of using lots of domain expertise in an area that investors etc would write off as a “lifestyle business” or “not likely to achieve a high ROI” to create what is now a billion-dollar exit.

The founders of Depop have been in the fashion, and fashion retail, business for a long time. They started Retrosuperfuture, which was a cult hit in the sunglasses business (they probably did a lot more, but I never really bothered investigating). The knowledge and expertise they got from that cult hit — along with the credibility and the network among fashion’s “cool kids,” particularly in Milan — gave them a bit of an “unfair advantage” when they went after the at-that-time-already-getting-crowded used clothes business. They also executed pretty well in building exactly what their users wanted.

If you don’t get this business, how it is worth this much money, who they are, etc — no, you’re not some sort of genius humble-bragging that you’re blissfully unaware of such petty little things. You’re just demonstrating that you feel compelled to comment on things you don’t understand and dismiss them because they don’t fit into your myopic worldview of “what’s important.” Fashion is an industry, and one of the largest in the world; anyone who cares about global commerce / the environment / etc should be paying attention to that industry, and to the “circular” trend that remains in its infancy.

I hope the combined company continues to innovate, and that this isn’t just some sort of depressing market consolidation play. This space has a LOT of room for growth.
The user being able to verify things isn't the issue, the issue is somebody else being able to verify things, perhaps even requiring verification. This can even be extended (and already has been) to where binaries can be supplied in encrypted form and run on a processor that never reveals the unencrypted code to its user.
The solution is to change the default keybindings for new users (bonus if there is an option to get the old presets for new installs) while not messing with the setup for existing users and let them change their settings when *they* want to.