skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have several hundreds thousands of disposable money. Good quality appartement in a nice city looks like a very solid investment choice:

- I get to buy a touchable, physical, valuable assets. If something happens to me, I can use that asset for myself.

- It looks like the assets is going to increase in value in the foreseeable future

- Regular, predictable additional income when I rent it

- I cannot "spend" the house, unless I pull the plug and sell it - which is a big commitment. I cannot enter a spiral that leads to me slowly but surely waste that money.

- Assets value is not easy to evaluate, as opposed to stocks/bond which evolve on a daily basis. I currently have stocks, and I end up checking their value almost daily. I believe it actually adds stress in my life and that stuff is addictive. I am not sure I like it that much.

It certainly is not the absolute best placement I can make, but I am not looking to maximize my ROI at all cost, I just want to optimize my happiness and use that money to enjoy life a bit more.

Real estate looks like a great way to store that money, hedge against inflation/stock market crash, protect this money from myself, and reduct my potential anxiety when it comes to managing it.
Tesla had a similar system, and

> physically altering the system (like hanging a weight from the wheel maybe?)

was exactly what people were doing. But it's also possible to be physically present, applying force, but being "zoned out", even without malicious intent.
Marketing also leverages network effect: when all your colleagues buy into the hyped tool of the year you also have to use it.
Glad the regulators are looking into this. It bothers me that now Tesla seems to have no liability at all for the system not working, since it's always the driver's fault for not paying enough attention.

As Teslas get better at driving the drivers will be paying less attention inevitably, Tesla needs to start being responsible at some point
I was intrigued by the concept of granular gas, so I looked it up and found this old interesting Syxty-Symbols video about it : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKvc5yDhy_4
1996!
I think people just assume Tesla's Autopilot is more capable than it really is.

My car has adaptive cruise control and lane keep assist, but I'm not relying on either for anything more complex than sipping a drink while on the highway.
The phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs also seems highly relevant: https://www.strike.coop/bullshit-jobs/

If software causes soft cost savings (reducing the number of required people) the savings may not actually be realized. The internal feudalism of large enterprises protected by monopolistic moats means people resist headcount reductions. And since these large enterprises still employ the majority of people, they are over represented in the statistics.
> There's huge demand for EUV machines but they are lower margin products for the company that makes them.

ASML, a Dutch company, is at the core of TSMCs success. But the machines are only one part of the ecosystem... the buildings to house them are incredibly expensive because you need the cleanest of clean rooms you can get, and then you need expert staff to operate these, and since there isn't much of a domestic chip industry any more in the Western countries, that knowledge has long ago moved off to Taiwan and South Korea.

And on top of that, Western wages are extremely high and environmental regulations are extremely strict after half of Silicon Valley became a superfund site from all the stuff that leeched into the soil from decades of chipmaking.
Would love to see a link to that announcement. I'm sure Apple engineers appreciate the skills that go into this, but they have little to no say in Apple's strategic direction which is ever tighter control of the platform. Don't get me wrong, I would love Apple to publicly endorse running arbitrary kernels on M1 hardware.
Because productivity doesn’t care about how people value their time.

Is it more productive that I can watch 20 hours of high-quality TV every week?
My mistake, I misread it. Although, if you're going fast enough to push a bus (an extra-long, bendy bus at that) off the road, it still seems like you were going rather fast for in town?
The design is fine, it's all the users who are idiots.

P.S. /s. Obviously, Mr. Poe.
Gaddafi stated publicly that he was going to Benghazi to kill civilians, something which he had done in the past. He had a few battalions heading through the desert to do that.

He was already causing great harm, or rather, the war was causing great harm. Choosing to tilt the game board to one side over the other is definitely something to ponder, and there's definitely a lot of information to dig up and report on, but it's not a 'fake news' story.

Gaddaffi's life is actually stranger than fiction, he did kidnap young women and put them into his Harem. That's not made up. In fact, it's odd that you don't hear more 'fake news' about some world leaders who continue to have these practices because there's so much material to work with.
...go on?
Ask HN: How can I use the scientific method to write better code?
Highly enjoyed this previous post on empirical evidence available for dev practices (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28178257)

This made me start thinking about my own practices, and what processes I could adopt to improve. What suggestions do you have where I can adopt the scientific method to my daily coding, research and software architecting work?
I'd hazard to say that Nokia 3210 changed the world more. Affordable, reliable, simple, it had everything to make cell phones the norm of everyone's pedestrian, daily life.
NAT still provides some layer of protection, especially if you don’t trust the firewall software.

This is going to open up a can of worms once everybody gets global addresses and can’t figure out how to configure their firewall.
Not sure about Chromium, but in Firefox Vim plugins only work if a page is loaded in the current tab. It doesn't work while the site is loading(e.g. to switch tabs), it doesn't work if the page failed to load, it doesn't work in an empty tab, ...

A Vim-based browser doesn't have any of those issues because the whole UI is focused on those controls.
The crash in the city of Woodlands, Texas, was pretty terrifying. After hitting a tree, the car caught on fire. The driver was found in the back seat, presumably because he couldn't figure out how to open the door to get out.
I got your back: Shortcuts. Shortcuts on iOS lets you create (even location based automated!) actions. Also a single button on your home screen to disable your BT and / or WiFi.

BTW the Bluetooth button USED to turn BT off (same for WiFi) but it was changed to "do not connect to all visible BT devices for one hour" since so many people forgot to re enable their BT / WiFi and complained. So for you and me it is unwanted behaviour, for plenty of others it is now more what they expect.
It will not be cost free.

It's like working for your salary or just living off your inheritance and leaving nothing to your kids.
It probably has helped some companies avoiding competition but I don’t think it has helped innovation. The patents I have encountered felt like patenting math and building up roadblocks.
I had an N900- for me one of the main downsides of it was the touchscreen, it was fine but with my colleagues all using the HTC hero it was frustrating to set their devices up for them and see how much nicer the experience was with multitouch.

Very solid device otherwise- i went from an Xperia X1 to the N900.
If only we knew how the brain worked…
I still think that software in general does show up in productivity trends. Take a look at nineties on the chart in the article, this productivity surge can easily be attributed to spreadsheets, text processor and other software innovations that became ubiquitous in that period of time. It’s also true that niche software is hard to make right, but then again, take a look at Amazon — its crazy efficient logistics is based on the custom software and it seems to work fine for them.
Not necessarily - look at how early Mossad prosecuted the guilty sheltering in countries that were not willing to cooperate. Sure, they had to break some eggs - letter bombs are not necessarily precise - but the collateral damage was minimal and the whole scheme worried just fine.
Luckily today you can side step many of these issues. You can compile a copy of python + modules + pex into a single file with some open source tooling and get a flat file you just need to copy to your hosts.
Many countries have a "formula" (legal definition) for a "contract", which include fair exchange of something for something else, e.g. time and labor for money. If Google forces their developers to work for free (labor for nothing), then it fails to meet legal definition of the contract.

IMHO, such "forced labor for free" is a form of slavery. Slavery is forbidden by law.

If a developer want to publish his project under Google brand, then exchange may be considered as fair (project code for Google branding).
I drive a lot across Europe: as in, really a lot, long trip across several countries, several times a year. I drive enough on the highways to know a few scary situations, like the truck driver in a big curve slightly deviating out of his lane and "pushing" me dangerously close to the median strip for example.

To me driving requires paying constant attention to the road and being always ready to act swiftly: I just don't understand how you can have a "self driving car but you must but be ready to put your hands back on the steering wheel and your foot on the pedal(s)".

I have nothing against many "recent" safety features, like the steering wheel shaking a bit if the car detects you're getting out of your lane without having activated your blinker. Or the car beginning to brake if it detects an obstacle. Or the car giving you a warning if there's a risk when you change lane, etc.

But how can you react promptly if you're not ready? I just don't get this.

Unless it's a fully self-driving car, without even a steering wheel, a car should help you focus more, not less.
You don't have to, but people don't know any better. In the U.S., you can get a prepaid number without giving out your real name.
Your assessment of "valuable ideas" being these is more bias, showing you are maybe in the NYT target demographic, so I am not surprised that you are finding coverage reasonable.

> what words should be used instead - 'marriages' would seem incorrect, not limiting it to heterosexual relationships would seem confusing.

Marriages probably the choice in other parts of the country, maybe "romantic relationships". Specify "heterosexual" is only left-wing thing, most others realize that gays are only small part and so do not bother to make mention. Saying "emotional labor often falls to the woman" would be most elegant though because it make implicit the normal man-woman scenario and avoid extra words.

> Must everything be politicized

Not in necessity but it does show significant bias on NYT. Also this is not all so much political as cultural.

> liberalism seeks change and improvement, while conservatism seeks to keep things as they are or were

You make a conflation between change and improvement, liberalism seeks the former and sometimes gets the latter. Some liberalism good and represent progress, some pointless and only change for change's sake. Example being push to use "nice words" for things every so many years. Idiot become retard become mentally handicapped become learning disabled... point here is that not every change is good change.
Key differences between SREs and Developers
I like the 3blue1brown youtube series for explaining mathematical problem solving, like this example explaining a difficult problem from the Putnam:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkmNXy7er84

"And those of you who follow the channel know that rather than just jumping straight to the solution, which in this case will be surprisingly short, when possible I prefer to take the time to walk through how you might stumble upon the solution yourself. That is, make the video more about the problem-solving process than the particular problem used to exemplify it."

I bailed out of math around calculus, and these videos helped me at least appreciate what I was missing.
> I replaced Spamassassin a few years ago by a handful of procmail rules, which reduces CPU usage a bit.

rspamd is worth checking out as an alternative to SA if you need something more advanced than procmail.
Rationality is quite the opposite of "suppressed or lacking emotional sphere". It's about being acutely aware of your emotions and how they affect your judgement.
Whenever I hear a idiom I cringe inside, but go along. I do judge people by their use of cliches, idioms, and bad similies.
Thanks! I think I can manage this with using email I've already set up, e.g. installing mutt and pointing to a different smtp server, so I'm not too worried about that, but it's good to know.
I agree with point 1.

My phone never connects to pre-paired devices when in low-power mode (Apple-off) though.

In fact, I use it to force it to disconnect from devices - sometimes I do that to disconnect the phone from the headphones so I can connect them to another device without powering them off.

BLE is mostly for beacons, to find and suggest hotspots, airdrop, etc.
I think it can be useful for initialising properties and fields, where you are not allowed to use `var` (for good reason, if you ask me). But of all the recent features it's the one that I would miss least if it were taken away.
It fought for the Confederacy, but in the first couple battles took such catastrophic losses that it was effectively out of the war.

From what I remember, it was different from other Southern states in that a large minority of settlers weren’t southerners and held the relatively new religious Northern idea that slavery was evil. Southern Democrats were still the majority and the Democrats were holding the threat of succession and violence against Republicans to force concessions about slavery (eg, the Missouri Compromise).
Quick Tech – Driftctl
As an American, I can tell you the fact that this comes from the GOP (and not an unbiased source) is a giant red flag.
Then continue with proxy wars, which take place anyway.
Shadow IT Discovery
> Not exactly.

Are you saying that my core point is wrong, that SPF and DKIM serve orthogonal purposes, and that it's incorrect that one is somehow "more robust" than the other?

I can't see what I said that you disagree with, except that somehow "DKIM and DMARC enforcement is the most reliable way to go". You've just said that you disagree, without providing much evidence.

You need DKIM if you want deliverability to (principally) GMail. You need SPF if you don't want your mailserver blacklisted. You don't need DMARC, really, unless you send so many emails that you need some kind of automated reporting infrastructure.
> I need to be touching the wheel and applying some force to it or it begins yelling at me and eventually brings me slowly to a stop.

> I’ve had it for a year now and I cannot perceive of a way, without physically altering the system (like hanging a weight from the wheel maybe?) that would allow me to stop being an active participant.

That's exactly what people were doing with the Tesla. Hanging a weight to ensure the safety system doesn't kick in. [0][1]

[0] https://edition.cnn.com/2021/04/28/cars/tesla-texas-crash-au...

[1] https://twitter.com/ItsKimJava/status/1388240600491859968/ph...
How many African countries can you identify?
The truth about lab-grown meat is hidden behind a dozen third party scripts and is in a video format. Guess I'll never find out.
>Right now, they can offer "identify theft protection" service where the consumer has to pay them instead. That doesn't give them incentive to be more diligent, and, quite possibly, has the opposite effect.

That's just good vertical integration.
It depends on how broadly you define 'functional'. Back in the day just having closures and anonymous functions was probably enough to qualify. But nowadays Javascript and any other number of scripting languages have those features too. I can't think of any respect in which Common Lisp encourages or requires a functional style to a greater extent than, say, Javascript.

It's also worth mentioning that the Common Lisp standard does not require implementations to implement tail call elimination. The pervasive use of a functional style in CL would therefore give rise to programs with performance characteristics that could, at least in principle, vary greatly between implementations. (I'm aware that most popular CL implementations do optimize away tail calls in practice.)
I'm curious, what draws you to thinking about this problem so much lately?
Yes! SQL for example, was invented for business people to allow them to pull their own reports iso having to bother programmers to do it for them. We all know what really happened.
Only somewhat related, are there any interesting reads about how idioms tend to come into being? This post includes the origin stories and some of them seem to start out as an inside joke of sorts. I guess I’m just curious whether anyone has spent any time looking into what it is that makes a joke or phrase “go viral” to the point that it becomes a widely used idiom. Or maybe the backstories are more apocryphal and part of the “story” to sell the idiom in the first place? Either way, I’d be interested to read more about the factors that allow a new idiom make its way into language.
FUD? Aping? Shilling? WTF??? – Crypto Slang Cheat Sheet
Show HN: Make Synth Sounds with ML
And it was running on a big SGI Challenge server, too :)
That, and companies shouldn't hold on to information they don't need.

I never give doctor offices my SSN or other extra information, and they never batt an eye. People are just conditioned that if they're asked for something, they have to give it.
American mobile phone subscriptions are all ridiculously expensive compared to Europe, so the baseline is different...

Even then, $99 USD/month is about twice what you'd pay with a regular carrier.
The Battle for Wesnoth
If you run a mailing list, you probably need to look into ARC:

> Authenticated Received Chain (ARC) is an email authentication system designed to allow an intermediate mail server like a mailing list or forwarding service to sign an email's original authentication results. This allows a receiving service to validate an email when the email's SPF and DKIM records are rendered invalid by an intermediate server's processing.[1]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authenticated_Received_Chain
Only when they make it to HN, and a hard pass when I realize it's a retrospective post where they try to rationalize a switch to some new tech because their developers were bored and now they want everyone else to do the same so they aren't out there fielding the risk by themselves.
From what I gather Pakistan has never been a good ally to the US. Still they receive both military and humanitarian aid to the tune of billions each year.

And they were the ones sheltering Bin Laden and from what I can gather the ISI - Pakistani intelligence is the ones funding Taliban.

It strikes me as very strange that the US hasn't pressured Pakistan more over the years and that it has accepted this behavior all this time.
In comparison around 2000 people are bitten by redback spiders in Australia each year.

Bites were historically even more common when everyone had a dunny out the back.
Does this mean people don't know about the jargon file?

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/go01.html
Very cool. How do you figure out which subset of ROM bytes to include?
I think it creeped my parents out when I, at 14, had the sysop from one of the local BBSs come to my house to pick up cash for access.
Destroying dikes is part of the Dutch defense plan, actually.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nieuwe_Hollandse_Waterlinie

Of course, officially, "this plan is abandoned" nowadays. Nevertheless, I'd bring boots if I were invading...
> As long as the resulting package (flawed self driving system + the average driver) isn't significantly more dangerous than the average unassisted human driver...

Shouldn't that compared to "average driver + myriad of modern little safety features" instead of "average unassisted driver"? The one who has the means to drive a Tesla with the "full driving" mode certain has the means to buy, say, a Toyota full of assistance/safety features (lane change assist, unwanted lane change warning and whatnots).
> In fact, you spend 90% of your time building tools.

This is a ridiculous exaggeration with almost any wood worker. Making tools and jigs doesn't require much time and someone usually only does it after they have already done something without them at least once.

Programming tools are much more difficult to make. You need special skills and most tools aren't made to be easily extended.
Im a vegan but Ive noticed that most other vegans are not really looking forward to lab grown meat. I on the other hand am optimistic and hopeful. I still miss the taste, texture and nutritional benefits of meat and this will hopefully tick those boxes (with plenty of other bonuses as well). The biggest challenge it seems to me though, is once price parity is achieved, how do you convince meat eaters to choose this chicken nugget over the perceived 'healthier' flesh of a dead chicken. That to me, will be the watershed moment. Perhaps its just a case of removing subsidies on real meat or getting the price point of cultured meat to be even less than real meat so people dont have to make the decision in the first place - their wallets will make it for them
Let's count them: Monaco, Israel, Singapore, United States of America, also Hong Kong, Macau, Vatican City if you want to count those. Everyone else in red or orange on that map is not considered an industrialized/developed country.

4-7 is plenty now? Especially considering the size and situation of the others?
> Otto Schily instead, then interior minister of Germany, alledgedly was fearing for the security of his loved ones, caused by threats made against him.

I never heard of this. Do you have any sources for this?
Mergesort worst case is O(nlog(n)). If there's a downside to it, it's that you need to allocate memory.
DMZ it and firewall up the host.
Yes, it's called shilling and very popular due to its effectiveness.
This is off topic a bit since the article was really talking about something tangently different, and it's probably a really unpopular thing to say, but it's been in my mind for a while. If you look at the worlds population growth rate, you can see that it is beginning to level off. That world of 10 billion that we were all preparing for several years ago is probably not going to come.

If the population stabalizes, or even starts shrinking, how important is growth of productivity? Making "Stuff" is obviously important, but in a world with lowering demand, maybe quality and distribution are the metrics we should be concentrating on.

I have 2 kids, I am the only one with kids in both mine and my wifes family. My 2 kids are the only grandkids between 3 sets of grandparents (wife's parents got divorced and remarried). They are inudated with LOADS of stuff. So much so that it's a real problem. I tell my parents to stop buying them stuff. They think i'm joking. I'm not. IT'S TOO MUCH STUFF. I wish they would all go in, and just get my kids 1 good high quality thing. They just don't need all this cheap low quality stuff.

I bring this up, because thinking this way is a different paradigm. Agile is still very relavent to quality driven development. But scale less so.
Been beta testing this (full disclosure, angel invester) and i can honestly say i miss it when i'm not on my Big Sur machine.
Vim keybindings are such a win, and Sigma does it better than all previous attempts at a vim-like browser because it's properly modal. You hit i to Insert (interact) with a page and escape to go back to controlling the browser.
Or you can ignore all that and just use it as a tabs-on-the-sed browser.