skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have been renting for a long time and I have finally saved enough money to put a deposit for an apartment in Sydney, Australia (houses are out of my price range).

I ran through several simulations to try project my financial position in 5 and 10 years if I buy when compared to renting and investing in a fund.

I came to the baffling conclusion that ownership is not worth it.

That said, one of the permutations I ran was using an interest only loan to essentially rent an apartment but from the bank rather than a landlord. This strategy would actually have been more cost effective than renting if it weren't for the additional fees associated with selling.

I am surprised there isn't a bank product designed to disrupt the owner-renter model and offer people to buy a property and pay the lower interest rate rather than the inflated rental price sold by owners.
You'll need to jump to my conclusion that under 18 shouldn't be vaxxed. That's an easily supported position.

https://datavisualizations.heritage.org/public-health/covid-...

170 deaths under 14. That's statistically no different than 0 given the way Covid deaths are counted.

Now take VAERs, 12-17 years, which is the youngest so far.

This week’s data for 12- to 17-year-olds show:

13,385 total adverse events, including 801 rated as serious and 14 reported deaths among 12- to 17-year-olds. Two of the nine deaths were suicides.
The most recent reported death includes a 13-year-old boy (VAERS I.D. 1431289) with a previous history of COVID who suffered cardiac arrest and died 17 days after vaccination with Pfizer.Other reports include a 13-year-old boy (VAERS I.D. 1406840) who died two days after receiving a Pfizer vaccine, three 15-year-olds (VAERS I.D. 1187918, 1382906 and 1242573), four 16-year-olds (VAERS I.D. 1420630, 1426828, 1225942 and 1386841) and three 17-year-olds (VAERS I.D. 1199455, 1388042 and 1420762).
1,934 reports of anaphylaxis among 12- to 17-year-olds with 99% of cases
attributed to Pfizer’s vaccine, 1.1% to Moderna and 0.2% (or four cases) to J&J.
347 reports of myocarditis and pericarditis (heart inflammation) with 343 attributed to Pfizer’s vaccine.
57 reports of blood clotting disorders, 56 attributed to Pfizer and 1 attributed to Moderna.

Most of the difference is explainable by the method of counting.

Kids shouldn't be getting vaccines.
when you use Micro$oft products, all you can do is beg for the features you want.
> Aisles upon aisles of homeopathic "drugs" that do nothing and cost nothing to produce.

Homeopathics only reliably do nothing (different from whatever inert carrier is provided) if they are real homeopathic dilutions, which thanks to the absence of regulation and testing in the homeopathic market, they often are not, which has led to homeopathics with dangerous levels of ingredients that would be < 1 molecule per package if the stated dilutions were accurate.

Which, I guess, doesn't contradict your point.
An example of the kinds of quality issues you run into with so many GCP products: https://github.com/googleapis/cloud-trace-nodejs/issues/1272

Basically, their Cloud Tracing product is broken for modern Node/Postgres (in terms of showing PG queries and whatnot in traces), users have found the issue (and a seemingly super simple fix), but it’s been over a year and Google still haven’t fixed it. Google’s response is “yeah, we know pretty core functionality of this product is broken, but we’re not fixing it in the near future.” Or maybe ever? Many of their products feel semi-abandoned like this, especially in their observably stack - major bugs and/or performance issues that they never fix, and extremely limited features.

Cloud SQL isn’t terrible, but at least the Postgres version is one of the weaker managed Postgres offerings out there. And their whole observability stack (Logging/Monitoring/Tracing/Error Reporting) is legit terrible compared to competing products. Compared to other products I’ve used in the space, Cloud Logging is unbelievably worse than Sumo Logic, Cloud Metrics soooo much worse than Grafana+Prometheus, Cloud Tracing way worse than offerings from Datadog or New Relic, Cloud Error Reporting is ridiculously far behind Sentry, etc.

The GCP options are often quite cheap, but it shows in their extremely limited features, poor performance and plentiful bugs. Go with GCP for the things they do well, but don’t bother adopting their solution for everything simply to stick with one platform, as so many of their products are just so poor compared to competitors.
Are you arguing that vioxx should not have been banned? Iirc the FDA did not ban vioxx, it was a voluntary withdrawal.
I just turned 27 yesterday, time to look at these answers and use the best one :)
I should have been more specific - what I meant is that the ads that instagram chooses to show you can be thought of as points in ad-space. So when you click on ads and instagram chooses to show you different ads as a result, you have traveled around in this space. I say the space is metric because it is meaningful to say that two ads are more or less similar. I assume the "click all ads" mapping is contractive because if you take two different people with different histories of clicking ads and therefore different flavors of ads shown to them, and they both just start clicking on all ads regardless of content, the ads they both see after doing this should be more similar, or closer in ad-space. So iterating this should just get to a point where they see the same ads (or at least ads that are progressively similar)
That is actually not a bad idea... but it does go to show the utter failure of Google's extension store that a community-run system would be necessary to police their platform.
I work for a major power company in the US and about 50% of our power comes from coal. The next one is natural gas coming it at 30%. It's because there is so much red tape around nuclear and damming rivers that it's really the only option.

Since we're farther north, solar is nothing but a tax write off if there is a loss. Wind is very unreliable and touchy. If it's too windy, we gotta stop them or their velocity gets so fast it pulls the fiberglass apart. Too little and it can barely generate power worthwhile. We're trying what we can but not only to shareholders, but to people who buy power from us, we can't exactly tell them "yeah we're gonna institute brown outs because we want more green energy." I mean we'd have numerous states breathing down our necks and nobody would look upon us favorably during rate increase time.

Coal is here to stay for a solid hundred years and I don't care what anybody says. Unless we hit a power storage revolution to that of computers, we will not be escaping fossil fuels. They are still far too abundant, cheap, and reliable.
Having built simple pneumatic and hydraulic systems using relays, sensors and SoCs, this would he an excellent and fun project. It is actually one of my ultimate goals in life to automate a closed system of food production.

But one thing, externalizing a lot of the automation to already automated processes i.e. the natural environment is quite useful. You have a general pattern of predictability and the trade off is that it is not granularly predictable but there are less catastrophic failure modes. All in all, if you're on earth it makes the most sense to just grow things outside, or in a passive greenhouse if temperature is a concern. Also to be considered is the more active automation complexity you add, the more narrow the scope will be, so if you're tightly controlling nutrients for example, you're restricted on what variety you can have. If you consider the plants active participants in the system as opposed to subjects to or of the system you can devise a much easier system to construct, a la permaculture.
Advertising is mental pollution. Reacting against it isn’t the same thing as being influenced to consume what they’re hocking.
Have you thought about using weak acid cation ion exchange resins to control pH?
$20k for 20kW is a levelized cost of like 2c/kWh.
i saw a youtube video on that kind of system within the last few years so yeah it's definitely something. you just need to make sure the fish are happy
Regardless of prevalence I don't understand how people put so much value in diamonds. As far as I know they're not heavily used for anything productive.
Despite the slow uptake of features such like this, vscode is still an amazing product.
It would very much be worth it to dump GMail and purchase a privacy-focused email service with IMAP/POP3
But still cheaper than supporting the utility’s transmission and distribution infrastructure with $150/kWh storage.
It’s especially true of me when I’m making a purchase where I don’t already have a favorite brand. I know I gravitate towards the most familiar thing, which may be the deodorant brand I saw a friend using (true story).
You've clearly never been in the situation then.

It's fine for the first couple of weeks. Maybe even the first few months. But when one third of your life or more is spent with absolutely no meaning what so ever, when you hands feel tied behind your back due to certain obligations / job prospects / whatever, it wears you down. It did for me. It drove me to the point of wanting to end it all.

I really hope you're never properly bored at work.
This is classic trademark violation, right?

Freenode is using the Libera brand to advertise their services by registering a Libera branded domain — purposefully to re-route customers looking for Libera properties.

Since Freenode is in the same industry and provides the same services, and is using the Libera brand to direct to their services, it seems particularly egregious.
The source of this article is Liberty Fund: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Fund
Judaism has a specific list of what counts as creation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/39_Melachot
I wish we could engineer a way to use all the heat from nuclear reactors for this purpose.
Uh, we get 60kWh a day in AZ with our 10kW system.
What did you move into?
I've been following this for a few months now and I still, after all the time, cannot discern a financial motive. Is all of this really just schoolyard ego stuff? There was no substantial monetary value in Freenode, right? And if there was, there certainly isn't now? I mean, it looks like the group that took it over just set it on fire?
Even that seems to suggest that 8 to abolition wishes to start by defunding police (but not abolishing! Those are clearly different: defunding is a step to abolishing, but 0 police funding would pretty clearly be abolished), perhaps with a long-term aim to reduce that funding to zero. But the way they use "defund" appears to mean decrease, not remove entirely, at least not yet.
Yes - Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) is in development – this is almost ready and will be released soon.

No server errors have been reported like what you’ve experienced at other services. A few people received an error trying to log in without completing the second step in the signup process, but we resolved this immediately and now prevent people from logging in without completing the two-step registration.

Regarding your last comment, for our customers we deliver Removals Status Updates indicating the number of removals that have been completed, are pending, or are in process. The Removals Status Updates are configurable in account settings for delivery weekly, monthly (default), or never. The dashboard also has up-to-date status indicators for removals pending, in progress, not found, etc. Additionally, for our paying customers, we send Removals Reports approximately quarterly summarizing visually all the places customers have been removed and/or cannot be found.
Not at all, you'd still be violating all the non-gpl licenses. Just because GPL is more restrictive doesn't mean it somehow supercedes all other licenses!
That's very interesting. I've never heard of subpixels being used to make fonts extremely small.
Wow man, so fast! 20 minute turnaround? Killin' it
Yeah, you're absolutely right, I wasn't able to really think of another way to implement it. [2] was meant to be implemented with Flask, which is optional, so the files can directly be written to templates/ and static/. We're actually changing this. Can you give a few suggestions on how it must be implemented? We want to work on this
I don't think you can say this in general. I really, really dislike ads, but they _do_ sponsor a lot of content creators which could otherwise not focus on their content creation and they help companies to get their product known to you - which does not need to be a negative. If they sell you a product which genuinely improves your life, it's a win-win-win for you, the producer and the person advertising.

The current ecosystem is overly focused on manipulation and there are simply to many ads, yes, but I have found really good products via ads and I don't think companies should be generally demonized just for playing the game. It's not all bad.
> OSM on its own is basically a database, and an ecosystem with some apps of varying quality built on top.

MapOut is very good, paid but worth it. I tried many others before.
Medicare can make a determination on reimbursement. They can choose not to reimburse or reimburse for a limited group.

https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Coverage/DeterminationProcess
NMN is not approved yet but you can buy them online from reputed sellers. Check their 3rd party testing. Dont buy from Amazon/Ebay, some of independent tests came up with 0% NMN (so what are they?)

Vitamin B3 also increases NMN level and is a precursor to NMN.
It's probably better to just take nicacin (B3) as its safer until NMN is proven to be safe for human in longer doses. NMN is too large molecule to enter cells so anyway its broken down before it can be absorbed.
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If I Were You
Probably best to buy from official raspi reseller - form at bottom of <https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-4-model-b/> with links given specs
Super neat idea!

Here's my feedback

- we use Zulip, so it would be neat to see an integration

- this strikes me more as a feature than as an add-on per-user. The value of this is it makes it easier to expand the scope of decision making because of facilitating a process. Yet the pricing disincentives adding each additional decision maker and limiting the users to the core team. That seems in conflict. I would rather pay a flat fee per month.

- the above may indicate a lower revenue ceiling, but also I could easily see slack themselves adding something like this, or a FOSS version for polling, so I think it would make sense to keep the pricing affordable for everyone
An ICANN trademark dispute might seize the domain registration, but first... Libera's principals should consult an attorney. Maybe approach the EFF, or ask a law school free legal clinic.

If the attorneys say they can't help within budget, then a Libera principal can contact their state AG's office. If the AG's office can't help directly, they might know which business regulatory authority to ask.

(I should note: The `whois` info doesn't indicate whether this is the doing of Freenode officials, or of some other party. So keep the pitchforks in storage, and don't let facts get clouded.)
Which PEPs are a must read?
Well said, good job OP.
I wonder who is manufacturing these items? Are they able to design and manufacture these items profitably with the volume?
Thanks so much, this clears up a lot of vernacular I haven't needed to know before - I really appreciate it. Will keep your service in mind for my immediate + future work!
> A complainant in a UDRP proceeding must establish three elements to succeed:

The domain name is identical or confusingly similar to a trademark or service mark
in which the complainant has rights;
The registrant does not have any rights or legitimate interests in the domain name; and
The domain name has been registered and the domain name is being used in "bad faith".

Libera could probably get the domain transferred into their control. Especially if they set up their trademarks right as another comment mentioned.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Domain-Name_Dispute-Re...
Yup and using a service like WIPO arbitration is actually cheap. 1-5 domains is $1500
We can do better than 65-70%. Here in San Mateo County, CA, 86.6% of the population over 12 has been vaccinated. Local authorities are pushing to get that higher, because there are still some cases.

"Our on-the-ground experience is that we have a steady flow of positive cases – 22 new cases since yesterday, people requiring hospitalization (7 today) and supports to quarantine and isolate (6 in hotel rooms) – and that the majority of these are members of our remaining unvaccinated population ages 12+." - San Mateo County health officer.

1 death in the county this week.

Moderna is adding more production lines.
The README and description should not assume the reader knows what `cut` is or what it's used for. Maybe reference it and then ELI5
Free (es)ketamine!
What you want is a growth chamber.
I mean, it's a valid signal. The same way you may ask your friends for a dentist recommendation.
The data broker sites sell information about consumers, that’s primarily how they make their money. It is true that some data broker sites will attempt to charge you for removing your information, but everyone can make these removal requests for free, so paying them is not necessary (and highly discouraged!)

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https://www.optery.com/privacy-policy/

We are a third party service, un-affiliated with any data broker, providing visibility to consumers for free on what private information data brokers are posting about them online. We then have free do-it-yourself tools consumers can use to submit opt outs themselves, or paid plans where we submit the opt outs for our customers.

There are misconceptions, and one of them is about what happens if a customer subsequently cancels our service. If that happens, over time, data brokers may start adding you back. For example, the California Consumer Privacy Act (the most strict privacy law in the U.S.) actually permits data brokers to stop honoring an opt out request after 1 year. Some data brokers honor opt outs indefinitely, but others require annual effort to ensure your name and personal info stays removed. However, under no circumstance will Optery ever re-send information to any data brokers for any kind of re-population effort. The only information we send to data brokers are opt out requests.
PDF is also well documented by that measure, i.e. the complexity of said specification does matter.
quite literally - download a data export and see you'll see every story you've ever posted.
I've done this, and it led to a lot of ads for shoes.
Surely there will be a tipping point when human drivers are considered riskier than AI drivers. It seems far in the future, but it's probably not when you consider all of the human errors made every day.

Not that anyone cares about that, of course, because agency is preferred over outcome.

Also, it's super annoying that now I need multiple addons (bypass-paywalls-clean, ublock origin, and 'i don't care about cookies') just to browse basic blogs these days without jumping through hoops.
I get great ads on Instagram. Generally, they’re niche products related to my interests from small companies I’ve never heard of before.

Yes, there’s a few misses, but it’s way better than the absolute scum-sucking garbage I see elsewhere on the internet from other ad networks. “Doctor shares one weird trick for emptying your bowels every morning”, “Alan Greenspan tells you what to buy instead of Litecoin”, and similar.

However, I don’t really use Instagram to connect with people I know. I follow a bunch of accounts related to my hobbies and interests. That probably primes the ad-targeting pump a lot better than if I was just following my friends and family on there.
What does the Chinese military want with your unborn baby’s genetic data?
Hi mdaniel - just to clarify the blog post says that Confluent / Kafka follows an open core model. It doesn't claim that Kafka has a source available license. A few notable switches to source available licenses have been named in another part of the blog post though. Hope that makes it clearer.
I clicked all the conservative sites, I clicked all liberal ads,all Chinese ads, all Spanish ads, all rich people ads. I'm a Mexican drug cartel Trump supporter who speaks Chinese according to IG.
It helps to put a small amount of solder on the tip of the iron before you touch the pad - it improves the heat transfer. The main amount is added into the part/pad interface, as you saw on YouTube.

I’m thinking that, when you first learned to solder, you remembered the first step but not the second one, and thus got off on the wrong foot.
https://web.archive.org/web/20151003080252/http://news.disco... Please note this page is about a decade old, many links do not work; mentions making a solar array with the area of Arizona for bootstrapping, but a Starshot approach with 3 satellites around the "natural" black hole for the first ergosphere superradiant scattering pump would be less work assuming a candidate is relatively close.
Credits: https://blackholes.stardate.org/popculture/pop-imperial-eart...
Also, mighty thanks for actually taking the time out to check out the codebase. This is my first proper project, and I really appreciate this
We’re fixing a “bug” in our app that it stops Grammarly working properly, such is their hold on things now!
Aren't diamonds heavily used to improve cutting tools? I know they are not worth as much in that context, but it's still a productive use case.
I don’t mind what people are marketing or that they’re marketing and I occasionally buy things I learned about from ads, but I do mind that’s it’s a keystone of the modern internet.

These things are difficult to separate these days. I don’t blame the people who want to sell their goods though. It’s scary to try competing without using online ads in many industries.
That makes total sense now
As has been mentioned elsewhere here, how exactly would it work otherwise? i.e. how do you suggest someone opts out of a data broker, without providing PII?

Opting out presents a catch-22 where in order to opt out, you have to tell them who you are, i.e. provide PII.

If you have a method for opting out of people search data brokers without providing PII, I’d love to hear how that works.
What is wish.com? Comes up in a lot of search’s, shows me an absurdly cheap price for a product and then I can’t buy it, it’s out of stock or something went wrong