skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for the question, soorajchandran. We appreciate to see more open source tools in this space and believe that Chatwoot is a great choice when you are primarily looking for a cost efficient alternative to Intercom, Zendesk or basic contact center software with a UI for customer support agents.

What you get with Airy is enterprise-scale conversational infrastructure that can power millions of conversations simultaneously by ingesting messaging events in Apache Kafka, running in a dedicated Kubernetes cluster to stream and process conversational data for a variety of use cases, such as integrating with Conversational AI platforms or storing all your conversations in a data lake to run conversational analytics or train machine learning models based on actual conversations.

In that sense what we do is more like "Segment" for conversational data.

In our approach, we would rather like to integrate with for example live chat plugins provided by Intercom instead of replacing them at companies that already chose Intercom to serve their customers with a live chat plugin on their website or in their mobile apps. Airy also comes with a fully customizable open source live chat plugin and an Inbox UI for human agents, but it's not at the core of what we do.

We believe there is much more value to be gained from utilizing conversational data and we therefore like to integrate and play well with other solutions in the space as we believe that companies should have the freedom to choose the tech stack that best suits their requirements and budget restrictions.
Only if its a variable rate loan
I really wish there will be a Subprime 2.0 and this time without bailouts.
That's a broken calendar is right once a year situation.
California is overrated, and now people are seeing it. Things that were easy to turn a blind eye to before are now becoming more and more difficult to deal with: homelessness, drug addiction, forest fires, droughts, wealth disparity, rent, commutes, taxes. I've never found california outstanding or attractive, and the issues that people are starting to point out now have existed for ages. Even in 80s/90s media you can already see a lot of the issues that we're disussing. Whatever the reason, I hope people continue sticking their head in the sand and moving to CA to leave the rest of the country open for people who don't like the californian mentality
Wrong.
It’s like saying a certain venture capital firm is a waste because they have a decades long history of making disastrous choices.
For whatever it's worth, the US government has shown itself to be spectacularly bad at keeping secrets (proof left as an exercise for the reader).
It's less to do with appeal to people on the other side of economic divides, and more to do with the impossibility of selling "the great thing is that it incentivises your next door neighbour to build a high rise" and "sure, your parents will have to downsize because their pension won't cover the tax burden of the house they spent their lifetime saving for, but on the other hand it's great how many investors and companies don't have to pay any tax at all" to the average voter, who cares a lot more about such concrete matters than handwavy claims about efficiency or equity.
After all the adjustable rate issues from the last housing crisis, I believe most mortgages since them have been fixed rate. I don't care what interest rates do, my mortgage rate is never going up.

This touches on another point. For home owners like myself, inflation is a good thing as it makes my highest monthly expense relatively cheaper.
Sure, but why not write simply "it is the only ocean to completely embrace a continent rather than being embraced by them", and leave out the first qualification?

It's always possible to add more qualifications, like "it is the only penguin-containing ocean completely south of the Equator to touch three others and to completely embrace a continent rather than being embraced by them.
Someone who owns a house in cali is a milionaire. I am not sure it applies to immigrant who just moved to California.
Twitter is an awful blogging format when your message takes more than one tweet. It makes you blend in as well, making it easier for fake news to spread - you aren’t that different from a billion other accounts all saying striking things. At least with a blog, you have a more recognizable identity and the ability to write more than a few words at a time
Midair plane refuels done by a drone for the first time
Who said I wrote this as if it's a contrarian opinion? It's just good advice.

I don't know why everyone here seems to be focusing on the negative side of this and responding to this as if those with terrible bosses and bad working conditions should just always put up with it and do whatever it takes to keep the boss happy. That wasn't the point of this post at all.
I have some choices in front of me. What do I do?

Stop smuggling drugs.

Stop murdering people.

Stop being a lackey to street gangs.

Or, I know! Latest fad I know nothing about!!!!!!!!
We're waiting
I was going to say, people need to learn how to make a point and leave out extraneous claims since those extraneous claims usually attack the credibility of their legitimate points ...

... but the urge to ignore my own advice is too strong since the extraneous claim is a huge head-scratcher. Doesn't this person realize the person who lost the election is a real estate developer? I realize this isn't the same thing as an investor, but it is close enough in this case.
"by just carefully writing the allocator code such that it's not doing any allocations in the allocator itself"

The tautology you've inadvertently described there isn't actually an allocator. Isn't that fascinating? I can't tell if you were trying to be clever or if you just didn't see what you were doing.

What's actually going on is that T is sat on top of an entire operating system (often a Unix) which provides it with an allocator. It then uses garbage collection so that the lay user needn't worry about, like many high level languages.
I see many people have problem with that in the comments here. However I don’t find that to be an issue. Passing properties (as opposed to attributes) allows complex types and many popular frameworks have a handy shorthand for it (e.g. in lit-html you write `<my-component .prop=${[1, 2, 3]}>`).

In my opinion the bad ergonomics is actually when authoring the components (not consuming it). Many of the faults have been excellently pointed out previously[1]. The most glaring the boilerplate you have to write if you want your attributes to reflect a property.

This has an easy fix though, which is that you simply don’t write your web components by hand. You either use a library (like lit-element[2]) or a compiler (like stencil[3]). I’m personally waiting for a less opinionated compiler with a smaller runtime then stencil (preferably no runtime; perhaps that is Svelte with a web component target, I haven’t tried it).

There is also a proposal for a declarative shadow DOM[4], which aims to tackle some of the bad dev experience we have with web components. However I’m personally a little skeptic that it is a good proposal, or that it will fix what most web component devs are concerned about.

1: https://dev.to/richharris/why-i-don-t-use-web-components-2ci...

2: https://github.com/lit/lit-element

3: https://stenciljs.com/

4: https://github.com/whatwg/dom/issues/831
Data for 2019 [0]:

> NHE grew 4.6% to $3.8 trillion in 2019, or $11,582 per person, and accounted for 17.7% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

> Prescription drug spending increased 5.7% to $369.7 billion in 2019, faster than the 3.8% growth in 2018.

So that is around 10%. Still a pretty high amount of money.

[0] https://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Sta...
This is a false mental model because there is no singular calendar. If you are actually exposed to a variety of ideas there is no obvious, universal set of narratives you can point to as having a clean bisection between one or two 'calendars.' Tribalism does cause things to increasingly cut that way, but the mental model is still a false one.
I think an objective case can be made that Covid has irrevocably changed the economy in way that has created new winners and losers, without it being part of a grand conspiracy.
Here's why this matters to you. When the Fed funds rate is at 10%, the mortgage rate is 13% or so. That says that the risk that you have is 3% above the risk free rate.

When the Fed funds rate is 0%, your mortgage rate is 3%, that same difference in the Fed Funds rate.

But wait, think of that like we think of absorption. If I have a capacity to absorb of 1L and can absorb 50% of a liquid, then I will break when 2L is poured. If I bring my absorption rate to 98%, then I now break at 50L. If the government can absorb at 99.99% rates and you absorb at 97% rates, they can absorb 10000L while you can only absorb 33L.

If you want the government to control every decision regarding money in the future, you want the interest rate to be as low as possible. If you want people to use free markets to decide where money flows, you want high interest rates. Why is politics so contentious? Interest rates are dropping.
And? Honestly, these are pretty damn tame. I don't understand the point you're trying to make.

While I personally disagree with at least one of the statements you quoted and some other ideas held by the author, many of the ideas presented in the posted Twitter thread still stand. Ad hominem attacks are worthless in a discussion of ideas.
If that guy’s views are typical of the class, that says more about the class than anyone judging the guy.
I appreciate the offer, but I honestly don't know where the RAW is anymore. I've been quite the slacker about taking photos the last couple of years.
They were already used as a tool, and so can't be used further (due to irrational fears of nominally negative interest rates). Printing money is effectively equivalent to lowering rates.
I had to go look for how people might be able to hijack the SMS system. This led to [0], which was discussed on HN about three months ago [1].

Interesting, yet an attacker would have to spend some amount of money per attempt. Unless they are targeting high value individuals this does not seem a likely threat for the average person.

Other methods exist, such as SIM-jacking [2]. I wish the article included a list of phones that might be vulnerable to this attack. Are iPhone's vulnerable?

And yet, while "free" this still requires a massive automated net to be deployed in order to gain some information and then socially engineer your way into gaining access to sites and services that might be of value.

I guess my question is: How common are these attacks? What's the scale of the activity? I have never heard of anyone in my immediate and even extended circles having any such issues. OK, I have indoctrinated most of my family into not clicking links in SMS messages and most of my extended circles are technically savvy. What does this look like in the general population?

[0] https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3g8wb/hacker-got-my-texts-1...
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26468892
[2] https://medium.com/auedbaki/how-hackers-hack-phone-using-sms...
Now that duplexes are allowed, how long does it take to get one approved?
Sweden’s Northvolt raises $2.8B to supercharge EV battery output
While I don't know what the tweeter understands by 'The Great Reset', it actually is a thing [0]. What's your understanding of it?

[0] https://www.weforum.org/great-reset/
How to Add a Success Message to Your Online Forms
In real-world FP programs there will be some impure code. But that impure code should be in thin outer layers. The core needs to be pure. Why? Because otherwise it defeats the purpose of FP. The purpose of FP is easy verification and ease of reasoning about code. That's only possible if most of the code is pure functions.

There is really no need shoehorn something that's not a good fit for FP into the FP paradigm. It is not like customers are going to pay more money if it is FP. So don't bother.
Daily no. But higher interest rates and high inflation absolutely leads to higher rents each year when your lease renews (unless of course your in some rent controlled environment).
Yes, although in hindsight it's easy to say that was poorly executed. It looks far too big and tried to be more than it should have been in my opinion. I'm thinking more along the lines of small neighborhoods on the edge of a city that can provide stronger logistical support.

Closer to Sun City Arizona.

> ... This caught the eye of the FTC, which said the advertising was deceptive and ordered the city’s developers to stop ...

This is also an interesting point in the article. Was it actually a scam or just overly ambitious and poorly executed?
Without knowing more, it sounds complicated: denser infill housing is good in so many ways. Mixed use, with commercial on the ground floor and housing above is even better in many situations, but not all developers do that kind of thing. So it kind of depends on what the alternatives are and what the housing situation is like where you live. There are places where "the perfect is the enemy of the good" in terms of what gets built.

Commercial is critical for '15 minute neighborhoods': https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2019/9/6/7-rules-for-cre... - but without the density to support local commerce, it's tough to justify it.

But I don't think 15 minute neighborhoods are likely what your angry neighbors had in mind, so most likely just NIMBYism.
How does this not play out like Archegos in the end?

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-04-08/archeg...
There was this in the FT [1] just over two weeks ago, "BlackRock bets on UK retirement housing", but it's about investing in building for defined sectors (retirement, student accommodation etc) and also shared ownership: Separately, BlackRock Real Assets is funding the £362m purchase of 3,000 shared-ownership homes by landlord Heylo Housing.

The article was archived shortly after publication [2].

I've not seen anything about buying up existing private homes at a big mark-up, though.

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/0d965c11-936e-4467-b98f-f4d34fae2...

[2] https://archive.is/AgiIg
Your language seems a bit elitist, even for me.

Nonetheless, the content of what you said seems reasonable and sound. Thank you for helping me understand this.
That's already a lot of control no? They can block any transaction. They can create and confirm fraudulent transactions.

In a world where BTC is on par with any other currency, where people are paid and save in BTC, what would it look like if they decide to rob someone and the network has to fork? In economic terms, it would be identical to previous cases of the currency being destroyed. For example, when El Salvador originally dollarized and people lost half their purchasing power overnight.
That may have been the case when Prop 13 was sold to the public, but at this point it's mostly being used to accumulate wealth, not keep people on fixed incomes in their lifelong homes. If that was the goal, there is a much better solution - let the elderly accumulate the tax bill against the value of the house, and collect from the estate when they pass.
Sure, if businesses collude to undertake user hostile actions, they could get this experiment to fail. Let's hope the incentives lead them to treat their customers better.
This seems ready made for government theft.
Wow...that was ... scary.

At least now I know its not just me having these issues.

Thanks!
Show HN: A local news app that looks and feels like social
>> but that function can be replaced by curation and validation by social media staff

I think that the curation and validation of EG the lab leak hypothesis by Facebook and other social media companies shows that they cannot be trusted.
Sounds like a great way to demonetize any content I disagree with /s
I don't think it's competing with lld as a general purpose linker. If you're interested in advances in those, I suggest looking at mold and the in-progress work in zig, which both seem to tackle link speed in different and interesting ways.
Nah, having views that divorced from reality is crazy, plain and simple. It's also dangerous, as the ongoing insurrection against the US government shows. It's not bigotry to call them out for how outlandish and insane their beliefs are.
The guy is a complete idiot, who cares? Why do people idolise him just because he is rich? China is going to be china.
Flack is a pejorative, and really speaks to spokespeople, which I'm not.

I write all the time about what my day job is, and I regularly disclose it whenever there is even an vague intersection with a story I'm writing. It's not a secret!

Lots of people drift between comms and public writing. When there's a perception of conflict, they disclose. As do I. Pretty routine.
Some tasks make computer less responsive. This way it is isolated.

And it is cheaper for the same price. I can have lightweight laptop, yet relatively beefy desktop cpu.
What conspiracy? “You’ll own nothing and you’ll be happy.” is something they said.
DTrace Network Probes
DTrace landed in FreeBSD 7.1 in 2009. It offers a view into the operation of programs, and is an excellent tool for debugging and performing analysis of complex software. It is a powerful tool for observing what the operating system is up to. Using the full power of FDT probes requires familiar knowledge with how things are implemented. SDT probes and specific providers like ip, tcp and udp offer insights into the internal behavior of the kernel without requiring a high level of knowledge of the underlying code. This is an interesting article on the subject.
>may have to re-patch after every browser update

I remember having some kind of flag on pacman, back when I was using Arch, to do that automagically.
My electricity uptime has never been as low as 99%. South coast UK for the first 18 years of my life, total downtime would’ve been at most half a day, in 30-60 minute fragments, ~99.992% uptime. Never once failed when I was back there for 7 months to help provide care for my mum. Likewise Sheffield for about a year, and that place had an annoying prepay electricity meter.

Rural Wales for 3.5 years? 30 minutes of downtime total, ~99.998% uptime. Similar total downtime in Cambridge, but I was there 8.5 years, so 99.9993% uptime. I don’t think it’s ever failed me here in Berlin.

That in particular is why I’m saying here that American infrastructure looks bad. It’s not the only way, TBH, but it is so in a new and relevant way I wasn’t previously expecting.
"Vizualf*ck"? So just porn then?
Nobody human or corporation has custody of tokens deposited to Uniswap. It has no admin keys, just an autonomous script running on chain.

I guess you could try to go after the guy who wrote Uniswap's code but that has First Amendment issues according to US vs. Bernstein:

> the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that software source code was speech protected by the First Amendment and that the government's regulations preventing its publication were unconstitutional.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernstein_v._United_States
This isn't phishing. These people are giving out full access to their account on purpose.

They would give out the 2FA seed if that was a requirement.
Campbell's Law
The old person would have sold the house a long time ago because of the rise of their property tax. They wouldn’t be millionaires. They would have to sell their home for a small gain and then rent for the rest of their lives. And since they are old they have no income so they need to keep moving to cheaper and cheaper apartments.

Sounds like a great way to live a life, just because younger people feel like they deserve to live in their house.
This is one of the best explanations of what's actually going on there.

The level of condescension elsewhere in this thread combined with total ignorance of the actual events taking place is stunning.
Low interest rates actually do increase preferences (and hence value) for cash-generating assets. The competition (keeping the money in risk-free assets, usually expressed as T-bills) becomes less valuable, which means that other assets become relatively more valuable. There are a bunch of results from both behavioral economics and psychology that suggest humans can't actually determine absolute value, and can only determine relative value, comparing two alternatives against each other.

This also gets at the paradox behind a lot of our intuitive notions of "value creation". If a person buys high and sells low, taking a loss, they've lost value. Or have they? At the time they made the first transaction, they valued the new asset higher; at the time they made the second one, they valued it lower. As my therapist used to say, "The past and the future don't actually exist; there is only the present."

I've seen writers try to resolve the paradox by introducing the idea of "time preferences" or "future selves". You, right now, are not the same person you will be in the future. You can express compassion for your future self by taking action - like delaying gratification, investing in personal development, or saving money - that benefits your future self. The degree to which people preference their future self over their present self is culturally dependent, which is why certain ethnic groups and social classes tend to amass large amounts of wealth while others are perpetually living on the edge of subsistence. The rate of interest is a quantitative measure of how much people preference their future self over their present.
No, but in 20 years you’ll be paying rent with expensive 2041 dollars while the 30 year fixed rate mortgage is still being paid in cheap 2021 dollars.
Yup, post-covid is just like pre-coivd. Private equaity, investors buying up homes, and home prices keep going up. Nothing changed except higher prices and less supply. It goes to show how the media, who since 2012 have been calling housing a bubble and imploring people to sell, have been wrong. I remember someone sold their home in 2012 in the Bay Area for what at the time was a lot ($1.2 million). I bet he regrets it now.
ha yeah, seems to a trend more this year to launch a full on dedicated domain about these vulnerabilities
> The digital US dollars at my bank are not directly exchangable with the digital US dollars at your bank. You need to settle up with an ACH transaction, which takes at least a day to transact as it has to run in a central batch job.

FedNow will reduce that latency from days to minutes. US is slow in that game, but RTP is widely deployed in UK, France, etc.

For international transactions, one can use SWIFT (days) or TransferWise (minutes) or Western Union (under one hour).
Tiny alternative:

Groff+Mom.

You can create profesional books with just a 486/Pentium.

https://www.schaffter.ca/mom/mom-01.html
let's not put the cart before the horse? you can't solve the trickiest problem in a day. This news, is a major development and is going to open many, many doors, eventually solving this problem, too
Would you rather a change 1) depend on two people doing a series of precarious steps and recovery which could possibly lead to a large amount of downtime, or 2) depend on one person doing a series of predictable small steps through automation which won't lead to any downtime? I prefer #2. Also I don't want to stay late.
I would argue exactly the opposite.
Well, to be fair, there was a self-decribed cabal of sorts that worked to change election laws, curtail protests, and pressure social media companies leading up to the 2020 election.

Whether what they did was in any way illicit or undermines the integrity of U.S. elections is of course up for debate, but the fact that a secret coordinated effort of powerful people "conspired" (if you will) to influence the outcome of the election is I think well established.

https://time.com/5936036/secret-2020-election-campaign/