skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's just what we Australians like you to think. Drop bears are actually not very common.
At my last job there was a chatbot with a !fire command. That would track how many times it had been used on a given subject. 'chatbot fires printers for the fifth time!'

It was incredibly toxic when applied to humans.
Why is decentralized planning impossible? Why can't areas of importance be picked by democratic vote?

It seems like a possible option.
Code is for humans, not for computers.

Choose:

AddElement(object, true, false);
AddElement(object, true, true);
AddElement(object, false, false);
AddElement(object, false, true);

or

AddElement(object, visible::on, deletable::off);
AddElement(object, visible::on, deletable::on);
AddElement(object, visible::off, deletable::off);
AddElement(object, visible::off, deletable::on);

The latter is more readable, you can spot bugs easier, you don't need to remember which parameter was for visibility, and which was for indicating deletable. And it doesn't take much more to write this than a confusing boolean. It doesn't scale.
Show HN: 40k Book Recommendations on HN Extracted Using Deep Learning
Apple bough a port of UniSoft SYSVr2 to the Apple platoform and dubbed it A/UX. Version 2 onward were technically significant as ToolBox and Finder had been ported to Unix and allowed MacOS apps to run on top of Unix. They didn't offer process virtualization so they could all crash eachother out.
100% this. Interview use is often just a default thing to do to fill time when one is bored.
Nice, thanks for sharing. Since you mentioned SSH - make sure you use MOSH. If using an iPad https://blink.sh/ is an absolute gem.
Choosing a database model for a hierarchical content
Indeed. Maybe the part that's most depressing to me is that the long prison sentence clearly isn't enough of a disincentive against robbing another working-class person. How fucked up and bleak would your world have to be in order to do such a thing?
> The legal foundation is already there, the new eIDAS Regulation is designed to _enforce_ login using the upcoming EU digital passport for all of Big Tech. So Open Source EU Metaverse, connecting all Big Tech protocols into a single repo and identity management solution with true privacy protection..

Legally mandating a single user-identity system seems like the worst possible scenario I ever could have imagined for cyberspace. Imagining trusting such a system is enormously difficult. But more so, to let the mold set on cyerspace, to create a single way the internet has to work, & deny new frontiers, new possibilities, new creativities... that seems monstrous. Beyond imagining.

I do like the idea of the possibility of interop.
I think people often underestimate the role trust plays in humor (with both kids and adults). This explains why some pretty awful jokes can be funny when coming from someone you know intimately but not from a stranger, and why your kids find it funny when you suggest xyz as a consequence, but someone else's is horrified.
Worth noting that since this article was written Apple has begun prompting users to delete a subscription when deleting an app.
If you have gigawatt-sized gaps to fill in non-fossil generation, then it doesn't matter that something doesn't scale down, it's a problem if something doesn't scale up. It doesn't matter how much a single wind turbine costs, it matters how much a gigawatt of wind turbines costs and where you will place all of them.
And they haven't undergone huge growth to make Flow possible, so I don't think there's any reason to believe they'll be less viable now than they have historically been.
Affordability is limited by lending requirements.

Start with home price of $250k for example. If you can manage a 5% down payment (arguable) then the loan is for $237.5k.

With a 30 year loan at 3.5%, the principal and interest is $1,066.48 per month. Gross this up by 0.7 for taxes and insurance to get $1,523.54/month.

Lenders will typically allow your payment to be as much as 28.0% of your gross income. This get us to income of $5,441.23/month or $65,294.76/year.

The multiple now if $65.3k income to $250.0k of house or roughly 3.83X.
Probably need a 3rd time series that takes interest rates into account to provide a monthly-cost view.

Given sufficient savings, the price range for home shoppers is controlled by the monthly outlay which is driven by interest rates.

Sub-3% interest rates in 2021 means that the same monthly cost drives the headline house price a lot higher than 6%+ pre-2008.
Silicon Valley is solving the problem of not having enough Silicon Valley middlemen in your everyday life.
I’m confused, what does the “(ft)” mean? Did they just forget to put a number there?
He started off with "It's always strange to read these reports from American cities..."

It's strange because it's exaggerated, and it's exaggerated because it has to be - otherwise nobody would care to read the article (and then nobody would pay for this poor reporter's salary who has to hit certain monthly pageview targets, etc).

If you read something in the news and it sounds really strange, don't take it at face value.
Thank you, I've been corrected.
what is the point of an API for static data like this? storage is cheap... why not just download the entire Quran, Bible, Torah, whatever to your local hard drive... why incur network latency for this task?
Are property rights freedom-preserving? One of the most infuriating bits of my visit to the US West coast was driving up from LA to SF and a lot of the really nice bits of coast not being accessible to the public. There's compromises like germanic Jedermansrecht [0], but overall I think limiting property rights is often a net gain of freedom.

I do agree on the problem of NYMBYism though. There's a funny-if-not-so-sad dispute here in Berlin at the moment, where the leftist state government is desperately trying to build public housing while the leftist local government in the district of Lichtenberg is blocking a major developing due to local concern. Sadly I can't find an article in English, but I am sure there are dozens if not hundreds of examples for that.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_to_roam
This article is light in details.

> It works by merging the vector and metadata indexes into a single index

Speculating here: they are using bitmap indexes alongside the vector indexing?
Great analysis! Thank for sharing that link.

> 2. houses have gotten much better since a few decades ago.

I'm sometimes reminded of this when I see old footage of shows like "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous". Many mansions from the 1980's kind of look like dumps.
Copyright Law and Machine Learning for AI: Where Are We and Where Are We Going?
Relatively few "regular" people walk across that bridge. It's mostly car traffic. And it connects two areas that have been historically "rough".
PDF:
https://www.niskanencenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Un...
NYT crossword puzzle no longer works in third-party apps, crosses puzzle solvers
Those propellers may hurt the bird. These flying automated monstrosities should be well regulated with we want to do ahead with them.
Teams is garbage. Teams for linux is garbage to the 10th degree.
Do they have $300+ billion in real estate assets?

In this case the risk of contagion of the whole sector is not negligible..

If they are flooding the real estate market with properties, the value of a building decreases for everyone.
What’s Leaving Hulu in September 2021
I see the builder pattern as a way to manage lack of keyword arguments. I see very little difference between your example and the actual fetch API that takes an object as JS's version of keyword arguments.

Languages with good support for named/keyword arguments have more features such as required arguments and preventing duplicate arguments. With builder patterns your only real option is to make the builder constructor have required arguments (or throw a runtime error upon finalizing the builder).
People 40 years ago were no less smart than ourselves, but the machines they had in their disposal were much, much less mighty. Coding discoverability features into them was often very hard, especially with relatively slow terminals of the day. They relied on manuals instead.

Now we have inherited these technologies, but there is often no reasonable way to modernize their UX in the discoverability department, because of key assumptions made decades ago. All we can use now is still manuals; `man bash`, search for the READLINE section, and read the extensive explanation of the riches hiding there. You can search by regexp, so ^READLINE will bring you right to the section, but again there is no affordance to show you that a regexp is acceptable.

And yes, I think nobody thought through the terms kill / yank; their authors just picked some metaphors 40 or more years ago, because they were building a tool for themselves and their colleagues in a computer department of a university, all engineers used to weird abstractions.

The world is very different by now.
True. Although…you could also potentially use reflected URLs or cookies to pull off some kind of XSS attack.
For whoever else missed the early news:

>Clearview assembled its gargantuan of faces by scraping photos from Facebook profiles, which Facebook considers a violation of its terms of service.
The number of bugs in teams is incredible.
You only need their Comcast Business modem if you have static IP's because they route them using RIP with a password that is set inside the cable modem with their custom software.

If you don't have a static IP with Comcast Business it makes it awfully hard to run a mail server, but then you can indeed use your own cable modem.
This jibes with my experience of buying a house about 6 months ago.

My reasoning was that we were experiencing rapid asset inflation fueled by low interest rates and COVID stimulus, and our cash was losing its value relative to housing by the month. I figured that this propping up of asset prices is likely to continue, as any administration that lets housing / 401k values collapse will get massacred in elections.
You should be all business at work. It is your job after all. Work parties then become hilarious because all the humor is saved for special occasions.
just from reading the article, it sounds like speedify does a lot of packet inspection to prioritize traffic. Wouldn't a VPN negate that?
For letters "p" and "z", this strikes me as likely related to print and undo functions.
Coinbase Drops Plan for Crypto Lending Program After SEC Balks
If the energy is basically free which under certain circumstances (lots of wind) could happen, does it matter how inefficient it is?
Virgin used to just use the mac address with their old modems, you could flash the firmware and change the mac so you could buy their cheapest package and flash the mac of a modem with unlimited gbit internet. They craked down on that a few years ago tho so I don't think this is possible anymore.
Does your enjoyment of the campsite require everyone to be enjoying it the same way you are?

Why do you care if some person is coding away while your walk by their campsite?
>“The way the publishing industry is functioning is unethical. Though what Alexandra Elbakyan is doing is illegal she is countering an industry that is working unethically,”

100% agree with this; Though i would dispute that what she is doing is "illegal". When the deck is completely stacked against you, going outside the rules is not "illegal".

Every rational, educated person on this planet should support free access to Knowledge if we are to achieve a fairer, egalitarian society.

More power to Sci-Hub, LibGen and their brethren !
I've got an idea for a GUI App that I want to run on both Mac and Windows. I've been researching cross platform GUI Frameworks, but Electron seems to be the best option that I've found.
The heat is waste. The problem is how to make profit from it to finance the project, not to make moral judgements about the use of electricity. You could build energy-intensive data centers too, if that makes you feel better.
iOS and iPadOS 15: The MacStories Review
I forget which version it starts in, but in newer python’s you can have keyword only arguments (they can’t be positional like in your example)

def calc_formula(first, second, *, is_gain=False):
…
Yup. My bonder virtual machine is running Ubuntu + Speedify.
> In the future, I intend to sell internet access via the UniFi Captive Portal

I'm pretty sure Telstra, Optus, Vodafone disallow reselling.
So, has anyone gotten this to run in a Mac emulator on the Amiga?
Offen: User-auditable, open-source and GDPR-compliant web analytics
wich one??
"Congress should update current Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) rules on federal matching for Medicaid GME, granting states greater freedom to strategically target the financing." The financing will just end up in someone else's pocket. When states can steal money, they do.
The 2-cycle vs 4-cycle engine distinction applies to gasoline engines used for a wide variety of applications.
-I've tried both, and by a wide margin the worst was firing someone. (Doubly so as I was a low-level manager in a very hierarchical organisation, so I had little to no sway on who got the boot and not - I was basically handed a list over the employees who were to be fired and told to get on with it.

That was the hardest bit - I wasn't even able to tell them WHY they had been selected over others as I had no idea.

Then a few weeks later, they came for me, too.
> not sure if it's safe to remove

That's a symptom of companies spending all their money on building new features without also spending money on regression testing.

If you build a feature to work around a third party then surely you have that third party on-hand to build automated tests against and ensure that something didn't break and/or is still needed? If not then you're not writing new features; you're writing hacks. And you are perpetuating the same problem on other people.
If you were intrigued by the headline and ultimately let down by this post (like me) then I highly recommend reading “Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets” by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. I think Taleb can be polarizing but I find his style approachable and interesting. I also laugh out loud frequently when reading his works, which is decidedly not the case for other books that cover similar topics (trading, probability, etc).

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38315
>avoiding a ruling that could torpedo its business model, and another case is currently in arbitration.

The real innovation is in skirting labor laws and shifting risks/costs to workers.
You're right, it doesn't have to apply to everyone, but some acknowledgement by the OP that his story is but one sliver of experience would be a good idea. After all, he's selling a book and an app/extension.
We still have the 2GB per month free tier with no registration. It's available everywhere but Linux... unfortunately, without us doing anything really creepy (which we won't do), it was just too common for Linux users to trick us into endlessly starting the 2GB over. I think there was a script for automating it making the rounds on some sites.
How does Tailscale's MagicDNS work?
If Starlink gets their lasers working, it may be better than 5G in some areas, since it depends on the backhaul.
Calico Enterprise 3.9 Brings Live Packet Troubleshooting
Fascinating to see some of the research put toward inward-looking events like supervolcanoes. Part of me wonders why bother since the Yellowstone one has such a low chance of erupting, but then again, same can be said about an asteroid impact, and that seems like it has slightly higher awareness in the public sphere.

Also, is there a reason why this is an effort from NASA, and not, say, the USGS?
Maybe things like "felony manslaughter" also complicate classification.
Yikes. I was with you until this comment. It may be worth it but you're not likely to get a lot of support with that level of... hutzpah.
In theory yes. But for hot inner loops you will probably get it optimized away. (This is a common pattern so optimizer try to find it and undo it. Furthermore hidden classes for objects are common and when you destructure directly in the argument list escape analysis is pretty easy) It probably does hurt your performance for warm and cold code but that likely isn't too significant.

So yes, if performance is critical you should probably profile and consider avoiding this pattern, but for most cases the performance impact is very minor.
Exactly. The article’s advice applies just as well if you’re a senior IC talking to a junior IC.
Hallicinations of the expressed wishes of divine figures do that, too.

Still doesn't make those figures, or their wishes, real. Beliefs about fair prices exist, fair prices themselves do not.
The whole point of email is to send to and receive from unknown parties.

Wouldn't it be much better if email would allow me to choose to communicate in a way that I prefer?

For example, is there any good reason why I can't just setup a private address where only selected addresses can send to me? In other words, a 100% guaranteed spam filter.

I know email doesn't traditionally work this way --- but tradition and spam is no reason as to why it couldn't.
Yes. :)

It seems to be easier and less prone to flame wars than asking:

* how easy is it for a newcomer to discover content on the privacy overlay?

* what metadata gets leaked when someone searches, downloads, or hosts content?

* how does the privacy overlay perform compared to the regular old web/internet?

* what's the user experience like (e.g., do the devs even care whether non-technical people use their software or not)

* what happens when some mildly interested party attacks the network

* probably other bullets I'm forgetting

It's way easier to just know if Sci-hub is there. Because if it is then a) they've solved the most important problems of a privacy overlay and b) they are probably actively being attacked so nobody has to speculate about their defenses.
Gleam v0.17
Ask HN: Experience managing volunteer software developers?
I've gotten myself into a leadership position at a non-profit helping to build out their tech (simple web app frontend+backend). Since the organization has only a small amount of funding, they cannot yet afford to hire a full time developer. Therefore I am hoping to move forward with the help of volunteers. I'm wondering if anyone here has ever managed volunteers, and if so do you have any tips? In particular:

1. How did you find volunteers?

2. Did you do anything special to make it a more valuable experience for them?

3. Did you do anything to make do with the smaller amount of hours they could give?

4. What management software/system did you use?

Any other insights or stories are much appreciated!
The work of submerging air at atmospheric pressure vastly exceeds the potential energy value extractable from the oxygen in terms of ATP. He's using it to float.
Yes, meant to add that if folks are misunderstanding, perhaps you could clarify. (But I was not yet awake.)

From the text however, its not clear how often the kids are around. Maybe they could benefit from some downtime, maybe not. Maybe it is their link to school and would therefore be even... crucial. In absence of info people tend to speculate. ;-)

Also, I have a stash of important movies that I keep for posterity. Even at a normal home with reliable internet. I don't want to pay for rental every single time, or have them go off streaming at random as they so often do. You'd be surprised what can fit on an SD card or micro usb flash these days.
I think it's less that there are no viable alternatives and the very bleak consequences if food or power get screwed up. There's the saying "Nine meals between mankind and anarchy" that applies here. If you are messing with the food supply, you are playing with fire if things go sideways. People die, people starve, people riot.

So things have a strong incentive towards "if it aint broke don't fix it". You can argue a lot of it is in fact broken on some fundamental levels and the side effects of those two industries are massive but, at the moment, we have power and we have food (speaking for the US, not globally where that isn't the case).

The risk tolerance is very, very low. An unwillingness to accept any potential failure, regardless of impact, is frequently the single greatest problem for any change or reform.
>Security teams have way more visibility than you seem to be aware of.

I imagine in the real world, this varies greatly. I've worked in many large, non-tech, companies, and saw a lot of false bravado. They watched some things, but not much. Big companies with zero "deep packet inspection", for example, do exist.

>My advice to you and others is to always ask yourself, "Is this really worth losing my job over?", when considering any sort of security control circumvention.

Good advice, but I wasn't wondering for the sake of trying it. I was wondering in the context of this vulnerability.
If more people had to rely on rentals for those types of projects the demand would be higher and the rental costs/delivery fees cheaper. It's a different but related tragedy of the commons that many "common services" such as delivery services from hardware stores got worse as more people did it themselves.

Obviously everyone's needs are different and everyone thinks their own needs are special, so there's not an easy immediate fix and it would need to be a culture change.
Along the lines of this advice, I've been trying to find an article I read at some point in the past with advice that sounded like:

> On day 1 of a new hire's employment, I explain what it will look like if and when I come to fire them. I explain that I will be negotiating their severance and here's how it will look...

Does this ring any bells with anyone? I have this article lodged in my brain as being a great conversation to have with someone on day 1, but have since never been able to find the article again.
"deposit card" -> "debit card" :|
Theft is indeed a concern. It's not something I talk publically about but if you look closely at the header image you'll see some clues about one of the mitigations. Footage is backed up offsite.
FBI says seized fortune was criminals’ loot—owners say: Where’s the proof?
The creation of the hydrogen is only a portion of the overall system cost, which may total cheaper than alternatives.
Or maybe they want to hang the Greens specifically because they are less popular in Eastern Germany than Die Linke, so that they don't alienate the large number of previous Linke voters. (And on a less strategic level, the subtitle of the poster suggests that it is about hanging green posters everywhere, because green is also the Third Way's party color. That 'pun' wouldn't have worked with other parties.)

I also wonder if parties like The Third Way or the far-left ones aren't partially ops to split the vote on the ends of the spectrum.
Might be, but in total Germany is a net exporter of electricity.
Supporting state-sanctioned conservatism here means not censoring Trump's Facebook posts. Pity the headline editor that had to come up with this.