skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was a similar situation in the Netherlands. Normally stamp tax is 2%, but for a few months this year it was 0% for people buying their first apartment.

Today I talked to agent that helped me buy my place and I asked him whether the prices finally plateaued since that tax incentive is gone now. He said they didn't, the demand is still so high that prices keep growing, even in Amsterdam where they're already very high.
The effects of the CDC’s new mask guidance on Covid cases and vaccinations
CSS Grid was not released until many years later.
Elon's agenda:

1. Bitcoin bad

2. Bitcoin not green enough

3. Miners buy SolarRoof and Tesla Batteries, else Tesla will use it's billions to manipulate markets
They're one of the main contributors of Kafka. They offer closed-source software directly related to Kafka, Kafka SaaS and support/training.
I suspect house prices rise easier than they fall, because people will not willingly sell in to a negative equity position
the best metric would be power to cost ratio. If you're compiling faster than the M1, how much more or less is your build in comparison?
> It seemed to me to be at least in part due to the bizarre contractual setup

> Of course we bought at the top of that cycle, and a year later or house was worth only 70% of what we paid for it.

Had the contractual setup changed over that period?
Brahmin Left versus Merchant Right: changing political cleavages, 1948-2020
I've just built a basic basic overhead 'rostrum' type rig using some wood, screws, and an older Android phone.

The phone's camera points down at a height of about 20cm/8" and can see an area on the base plate big enough for the object I'm capturing (in this case, 3.5" floppy disks).

I use an app called IP Camera (it's on the Play store for free) to serve the image via http. I then remotely grab it, process/crop it and store it. The project is in it's early stages, but is working quite well so far.
Solid-state batteries are poised to emerge in the coming years
What if Twitter has an outage...

Reminds me of the time when Twitter had an outage, because an FB outage made people go on Twitter to ask whether FB is down
I don’t think Depop did anything special per-se. It’s a combination of luck and the right investors bankrolling it for ages.

It is a very marketing-heavy operation, as the platform itself doesn’t offer that great of a deal to sellers - they charge a 10% commission plus payment processing fees (PayPal takes 2%, though now I believe there’s an option to use a different processor), so high-volume sellers are unlikely to use it. I wouldn’t be surprised if up until this day they were spending more on marketing that they would’ve made back from most customers.

The business itself is quite low-margin (support & fraud/scams cuts into that), has decent competition (Mercari, StockX) and can be trivially replicated by the likes of Facebook (Depop is basically an Instagram but where you can buy & sell - something FB can trivially replicate if they wanted to).

It makes sense for Etsy to buy it for access to the userbase and to integrate it into their existing business, but as a stand-alone business it's not that great IMO because of the aforementioned points.
He’s also a guy that lives in a relatively fancy area of probably the most desirable city in the world.
Hand grinders are quite nice return of investment, for the same quality of grind you can pay a lot less, because there is no engine etc. Also hand grinders have much less of a problem with retention.
I wonder how much Andrew Lee paid Fosshost to pull this dirty stunt.
Petabytes on a Budget: How to Build Cheap Cloud Storage (2009)
I personally use minikube[0] to have local deployments and production deployments to be very similar.

Minikube is your personal kubernetes, and it's very to use, and is very close to the production kubernetes, but on a single node.

I don't see enough praise for minikube on HN, but I think it's deserved.

Albeit, you cannot do a "docker-compose up --build", but instead "docker-compose build && kub apply -f <template.yaml>", which is equally fast IMO.

[0]: https://minikube.sigs.k8s.io/docs/
The hosted runners are, the backend and core isn't
After WWII, due to only the lack of war destruction and spinning up their economy on war manufacturing, USA chose to assume the role of world's hegemon which was completely new invention in previously multilateral world.

Russia took offence with that. USA insisted on being hegemon, phrasing simple conflict of interest as good vs evil situation, escalating the whole thing to the point where we were just one guy's decision away from being bombed back into the stone age.

Whatever stabilizing influence having world hegemon might have is nullified by the fact that USA insisting on being the hegemon nearly wiped us all.

If Russia went to war with USA, cities in Poland were the targets for american warheads.

And that stabilizing influence is somewhat debatable too. USA discourages some wars while actively encouraging others. Last few years Europe suffered huge wave of political destabilization due to immigration crisis cause in huge part by US sponsored conflicts south.

China will definitely take offence if USA insists on staying world hegemon, just as it takes offence now with being treated like third class citizen by western countries that should know their place, so best thing USA could do for the world peace is to learn how to take a second place among many, behind economy that will soon become superior to theirs in all measures, not just growth.

USA is not unique. It's not good (except for some minor mishaps). It is just a country about as moral as average one that got lucky in WWII, then got to be central bank for world economy and is cutting coupons since then while getting slowly overtaken by nearly every other economy.
I'm not sure about that.
IMHO, one of the major reasons Germany (beyond party lines) went anti-nuclear after Fukushima was the sentiment that "something like Tschernobyl can only happen in countries like the Soviet Union / the eastern block", that was the political position of most parties (except Greens, of course) since the 80s. The West German nuclear plants were "always safe", something like Tschernobyl "could never happen here".
This sentiment was a major part of the reason why the East German nuclear plants were shut down immediately after the collapse of East Germany, even before the Unification. They were Soviet and unsafe.

But Fukushima is in Japan, and Japan and Germany feel much more similar, from a technological standpoint, than (West) Germany and the ex Soviet Union. Even though Fukushima was geographically much farther away than Tschernobyl, it somehow was "closer", politically.

"If it happens in Japan, it can happen here, too" - I know a few people that regularly vote / support the CDU (Merkels party) and most of them had this exact change of mind.
Well yeah, but the situation is simply that nobody wants to have nuclear waste in their own backyard. They don't even want it to move through their backyard (see the Castor protests).
You only get that multiple if you're publicly listed. Usually for M&A the price is discounted from that, but this also varies widely by industry. Never do a hardware startup, for instance :)
Nah, these aren’t obscure at all.

Covering a image with something (whether SVG or not) is very common, though most of the time the image’s size will be known, or at least known in one axis. We’re talking things like putting captions on top of images.

Needing hover effects to render on top of elements around is even more common—if you want a row of buttons that share borders, by far the easiest way involves this very situation. Example where `position:relative` does the magic:

data:text/html,<style>button{border:2px solid red}button:is(:hover,:focus,:active){border-color:lime;position:relative}button+button{margin-left:-2px}</style><button>ⅰ</button><button>ⅱ</button><button>ⅲ</button>
I use it to enable remote work, which pays my bills while letting me live where I want and gives me enough disposable income to enjoy life a bit.

I suspect you were looking for something more than that, but that is my core use case for my internet connection, and everything else is secondary.
Split-Brain: What We Know Now and Why This Is Important for Consciousness
Properties are being gobbled up for any price, sight unseen, by wealthy investors flush with cheap low-interest cash, based on their expected future cash flow from renting to tenants. This is especially prevalent in the single family home market.

Eventually only the super rich will be able to afford to own a home.

Is this what the world economic forum meant by "You will own nothing and be happy."?
The real reason behind this is most likely associate retention and the application:hire ratio. I doubt it has any political basis what-so-ever.
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I was doing the opposite of the previous commenter. There's of course a lot of options in the middle. The previous commenter just presented it like it's easy to just become your own boss. My point was that it isn't and yours does the same, just in a less depressing fashion.
Get that pseudoscience garbage out of here.

https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/critical-thinking-pseudosc...
I suspect it might be just writers being lazy and following the easy tropes.
I spent ten seconds thinking about the logistics of adding logging to the frontends, and...

Well, obviously I can't say for sure they don't have any. I didn't look it up, and if I had I wouldn't be able to tell you. But since I didn't, I can tell you that the concept seems completely infeasible. There's too much traffic, and nowhere to put them.

Besides that, not everything is legal to log. The frontends don't know what they're seeing, though; they're generic reverse proxies. So...
I heard there are more realtors in the US than listings.

That'll do it.
Customer need different set of Integrated IoT Apps
How Philosophers Think
Freedom creates inequality. The freedom to excel comes with the freedom to do poorly at the game. Why should everyone be in the same position? They didn't put in the same effort.

We do give away a lot of welfare to people who are doing poorly. It might be more effective to stop giving people money and use it instead to create programs to provide better jobs and skill training.
Climate Change and Drought = More People and Water-Intensive Factories?
How would you propose enforcing the fulfillment of (freely entered and completely voluntary) contracts?
> You can't produce value around content without artificial scarcity.

Patronage or crowdfunding can work even if the content is released publically.
> Most people think it (Etherium) will replace bitcoin

Sorry for going full meta and I hope this doesn't come across as mean but, coin speculation is something I hope to see less on HN. There's enough of this on Twitter and everywhere else.
Ask HN: Experience with Harness.io?
We are in the process of evaluating CD services. Currently we use Github Actions for CI and kubectl CLI for manual deployments. Harness came up but doesn't seem popular in developer community. Has anyone used it?
GitHub were pretty open about having issues with Bitcoin mining abusing the free compute available via Actions. I think it's an ongoing battle and one which is having a wider platform impact
I'm building Github for robotics maps - a platform for robotics software engineers to manage, share, and edit maps in the cloud. https://airbotics.io

It's very much in the Alpha stage and I'm currently working on a demo video that shows the basic functionality of the platform.
When I first moved to the UK I rented a room literally across the road from Marble Arch and Hyde Park, I've since moved progressively further out. Despite 20 years of price increases, my mortgage on a 3 bedroom house with a garden in Croydon costs me about the same as that first room did... It'd take a seismic house price crash to consider moving back in even with a commute.

It's expensive here too, but the differential is staggering given East Croydon is a 15 minute train ride from both London Victoria and London Bridge.
Wow! I'd love to see an updated version of this.
But there is no a priori assumption that there was any consideration, whereas with the employment contract there is quite obviously, as standard, quite significant remuneration.

So, sorry, but I think anyone will have a hard time arguing against "How could you think you had that left to give away to Party X, when you already took / are taking the money for selling it to Party Y?"
WTF, XR382CQK bmijqphuzx is really the model of an Acer monitor?
IPv6 Adoption Graph
> If you (somehow) tie the bailouts to limiting short-distance flights, (...)

I think that's what France did?

> Using this reasoning for example will make flight subsidies anti-environmentally friendly and not neutral

We have to reduce CO2 emissions by 7% a year (Germany, according to the IPCC). So besides laws and regulation, I'd argue that a crisis and the subsequently necessary bailouts are a good chance to force companies to do more. Before going bankrupt, they'd probably agree to the deal.
Figuring out how to play (or download) a video from a website URL is exactly what youtube-dl does.
Hey, I worked on the specification for this as a fresh out of school test engineer! Ah, the memories. It didn't take over the world, and in hindsight it should have worked a little differently, but I still think it's pretty neat. I haven't used it in a few years now but it is really easy to transform or extract data from an xml doc using Rhino and E4X.
I have always wondered if results against the MNIST digits are generic. One might think it would work if you put in some other digits such as 一, 二, 三, 四 would they cluster the same with tSNE?
Check this out:

https://superuser.com/questions/168114/how-much-memory-can-a...

There’s no reason to actually support 64 bit lines.
> It's a very popular piece of fiction, too: paint one side as "the ordinary people", the underdog, morally superior, and thus taken advantage of. And the other side is, obviously, the devil.

? That's not what I mean at all. Think of Uber; the drivers don't have much control over when they work, if they want to afford to live in a building. The people in charge of Uber, however, do have control over when the drivers work.

In a school, the teachers have more power than the children – but oftentimes when that power is exercised, it's in dealing with bullying or classroom disruption.

Acknowledging that some people have more power than others is not the same thing as declaring the powerful evil.

> "The people" are often not much of an underdog, as are "the workers".

But in this particular instance, they are.
The French press is the reason. Switch to paper filters.
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The map also supports that story.
A common metric is the ACE test. Consider how many ACEs a child has experienced, over what time periods they occurred, and how their family responded to them. A child with many ACEs and a family that didn’t, couldn’t, or wouldn’t respond to these experiences is worse off than a kid whose family immediately took corrective action, generally.

>Abuse includes physical, sexual, and emotional abuse in childhood. Household dysfunction includes growing up with domestic violence, substance abuse or mental illness in the home, parental divorce or separation, and incarceration.

https://www.health.state.mn.us/docs/communities/ace/acerepor... (PDF)
The advice I was given when handling some of the books at the university of toronto's rare book collection was to simply not directly touch the parts that matter if it can be avoided. Turn pages via their margins.
The celebrity podcast boom is overrated
Would you say that cooperatives are better than unions?
Reminds me of Terry Gilliam's "Brazil". Highly recommended film.
There are different answers to this, depending on what "without the internet" means. Pre-internet it was phone or fax, but early internet it was intermittent/dial-up internet, meaning you could do offline work that you upload later. Even during ADSL neither I or any service on the internet relied on always-online assumptions. Think git (but before actual git).
It's not clear to me from the README whether harbormaster will keep up to date with docker images in docker repositories as well. How does this work? Meaning to say, when there is a change to the repository, where do the new docker images come from?

Use case is when a repository requires compilation to build the docker image, and I don't want that happening on the production server.
> sight unseen

This is a weird phrase when you think about it. Doesn't unseen imply sight? What does 'sight unseen' mean over 'unseen'?
There was a crash in house prices in the UK in the early nineties, which may be what OP is referring to. The govt increased interest rates up to 15% in '92 in an attempt to protect the value of sterling, causing mortgages to default and house prices to fall.
a) I have EU nationality so I'm here to stay.

b) Like it or not, the US military still guarantees European security. An EU-wide military force could change that dynamic.

c) Have you not watched Europe as a whole completely shoot themselves in the foot with an artillery rifle during this pandemic?

The continent completely closed in on itself, falling back to national borders while the EU flubbed response after response.

It took months to get a bloc-wide recovery bill which still hasn't been deployed (meanwhile the US have done three rounds, including one within weeks of the pandemic starting).

The vaccine roll-out has been a debacle, starting with Brussels' decision to make group-wide purchases then waste months haggling over a few billion EUR.

We're in June and there still isn't a common policy on inter-EU travel. This vaccine passport might roll out in a month, but even then there's no guarantee it will work.

In many ways, Europe's inability to effectively govern got the worst of both worlds of the pandemic. We had strict lockdowns like in parts of APAC but w/o the contact tracing (didn't want to sacrifice GDPR for that), while at the same time, it didn't invest seriously in vaccines.

The result? All of the deaths of the United States, with the economic carnage of strict lockdowns, while still lagging other parts of the developed world.

There's a large disconnect here with many people trying to still hold onto an outdated and nationalistic way of thinking. That mentality conflicts with the modern reality of a global world where capital and innovation flows freely and competitively with little regard towards nationalist quirks.

The only response to American tech superiority is to "tax and regulate it," yet policymakers here are still stunned as to why the continents most talented people and startups flock to the United States.

I really hope this continent gets it together because there is too much potential and pressing issues to continue on the current trajectory.
Here we go again. If we do not fix the demand side of the problem, the supply will be there for us, regardless of how much we try to penalize the western oil companies.

To fix the demand side we need technological advances and help from regulation. BUT. Regulation itself cannot solve the problem. That is the elephant in the room. Regulations come and go, and they are bound by borders, but once a technology has been discovered there is no going back.

Tesla's 250 mile car and charging network in 2010 was the reason that gasoline will die in the US, not the 7k tax incentive on a 60k car.
Honestly, these days drives are so large compared to even FLAC that it's not worth worrying about if an MP3 would be just as good, IMHO.
I like using PyQt5 for the GUI and PyQtGraph for interactive plots. Using matplotlib as a Qt widget is also possible, but it is quite slow and tends to leak memory when dynamically updating the data. On Windows I use the NI VISA library with pyvisa for most hardware access. There are open source alternatives for Linux such as pyvisa-py and linux-gpib that work quite well for most devices connected with Ethernet, USB, and GPIB.
If you think this hobby is about the most precise
listening experience you would be wrong in my eyes.
It's more about the presence/power you get from a system
that can saturate a 20A circuit with transients.

Both things are true and the best systems nail both.

The research done by Floyd Toole and Sean Olive and others tells us that all other things being equal, listeners prefer speakers that accurately reproduce the input signal.

https://www.amazon.com/Sound-Reproduction-Psychoacoustics-Lo...

But, I also agree 100% that gobs of power and accurate reproduction of those transients is also key to listener enjoyment and that this is something that is currently (no pun intended) undervalued by the objective audiophile world.

In a modestly sized room one can have their cake and eat it too, with regards to studio monitors. My den music room is about 200 ft^2 / 19 m^2. In this room I have studio monitors crossed over to a pair of subwoofers and it's able to push some very satisfying output levels.
After clicking on "Vintage t-shirts", I got no products available.

After scrolling a bit more down, I've noticed I can click on what I'm assuming is individual sellers, but that returns 500 internal server error.

And this thing is being sold for a billion dollars.
Malaysia accuses China of breaching airspace
That's nothing to do with gazumping, which is still allowed in contracts. It's due to differences in the way law sees verbal and written contracts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gazumping#England_and_Wales
So your setup is:

outer.example
userN.inner.example
shared.example/resource

Since, as you say, outer.example could load the shared resources and postMessage them into userN.inner.example, it does seem to me like there should be a way for outer.example and userN.inner.example to opt into letting userN.inner.example use the outer.example cache partition.

Have you considered raising a spec issue?
It's not clear how that would explain that UK house prices are soaring.
I think it does because legal codes mostly do not evolve organically in every small town, they are just copied from elswehere, though enforcement which requires human discretion is more local of course.
An Autonomous Weaponized Drone “Hunted Down” Humans Without Command First Time
Isn't Tesla still holding most of the bitcoin it bought?
> It's unfortunate you are being downvoted because you have a lot valid points.

that tends to happen around here. valid points don't matter, only group think get upvoted
I've always felt one of the fallacies of the startup culture that we surround ourselves in is that winning involves "taking over the world".

There are so many "niche" businesses out there - that will be enough to bring in millions in revenue - simply because there is such a variety in what people want and need. And we'll never hear of them unless our interests happen to coincide with that particular niche.

Case in point - I've just started working for a company that is an upstart small player in the area of document management for construction companies. You'd think document management was a solved problem and there wouldn't be room for specialists in that area - but no, there are several multi-million dollar businesses that do nothing but. And there's still room for small companies like ours to grow into.
It's not just the headline, the article mentions a "SpaceX plane"...
Modern 8bit Computer as an Art
I Joined the Cult
I have a stainless steel french press to after breaking one too many glass ones.
> If you think of a table as a discrete coordinate system then it's fairly obvious.

Unfortunately tables did not work like a coordinate system, since cells would grow to accommodate their content. Combined with spacer gifs, tables could be used to generate whitespace padding and aligning content, but it was very tricky to use tables for exact positioning.