skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do blogspot blogs and the interface is brilliant in terms of letting anyone of any skill level interact with it. They have precoded templates you can just click on. They have the option to "customize" where you can click on different colors or whatever without knowing any coding.

You can also use your own hex codes to change colors to exactly what you want. You can add custom CSS snippets safely without digging around in the code.

If you are a serious coder, you can access the code and edit. I do everything but that last because I know some HTML and CSS (and UX etc) but I don't have the programming experience to figure out how to go into the guts of the code.

I spent hours and hours learning my way around the blogspot interface. Yes, anyone can just click a template and swap out background photos or whatever but if you don't already have prior experience with their backend and some basic design knowledge and UX knowledge, good luck making it do what you want while looking good and yadda.

I spent some time thinking I could sell my skills as a blogspot expert but there doesn't seem to be a market for it. People with money and ambition and so forth don't use blogspot. People who use it don't pay for help with it. They do it themselves.

So I have some idea of how much background knowledge someone needs to have to "do X in minutes" though I'm not a serious coder. I'm the computer geek in some circles I hang in though I would never identify that way on HN, just like I don't generally try to tell HN that I'm some mathy person.

I am often the "mathy" person in other settings. Just not here.

Anyway, thanks to anyone who suggested some entry level options for me.
> Foreign ownership of houses comprises only small % of the housing mark

So a key part of the picture this kind of argument misses out is that price appreciation is primarily an effect of *marginal* demand and supply, not inventory. To put it another way as long as there's even a little bit of demand exceeding supply, prices will go up till sufficient marginal buyers drop out of the market. A very small imbalance is enough to push prices up. To begin appreciating how and why this happens, you may want to analyze a granular item level time series dataset of a market or auction (I once looked deep into a course auction at my alma matter) - it's quite eye opening.

In this case, there's presumably fairly price in-elastic foreign buyers and/or corporate structures like REITs buying into the residential buying market. Note that at any time, the entire market is never at play as most families wouldn't want to sell and move or change their lives - personal risk plays a factor - if we sell now & prices keep rising, how will we afford a house in the future etc. So prices keep rising.

Note that interestingly housing market is asymmetric in the sense that prices don't fall quite as much when marginal supply out-strips demand. Potential sellers who occupy their own houses generally prefer to stay in their homes and simply go out of the market. That's why prices drop in a big way only during major economic crises when people lose jobs, are unable to fund their mortgage and are forced to sell or let the banks foreclose.

In terms of fixes, creating additional supply by easing restrictions will definitely help. An additional way would be to disallow or disincentivize non-resident ownership. Eg. By banning price inelastic absentee overseas owners and investment companies from residential properties, taxing second and third home purchases by individuals with high duties etc but the key thing is to codify regulation at the "intent" level rather than at execution level so parties exploiting loopholes can be prosecuted and enforcing them.
The US had a huge amount of help from France overthrowing the British. Including full support of the French navy and large amounts of French professional soldiers. An inconvenient fact that Americans try hard to forget.
try running snap inside a docker container and see the gateway to hell it opens
Newsblur has been absolutely fantastic.

Funny enough, it has the exact opposite feature of this submission and I love it. Email newsletters via rss reader.

I use email basically as a todo list, so emails that aren't very important (e.g. newsletters) get pushed out of my inbox quickly. This always have me an uneasy feeling, as I frequently felt rushed to read newsletters when I got them, which I never loved.

Now I can just check newsblur every few days/once a week, and I can read newsletters and whatever else when I'm in the mood!
You think it would be pragmatic for them to turn away from USA, UK, other EU and Anglosphere states, Japan, etc., and instead start forming military alliances with a genocidal communist dictatorship?

Interesting strategy.
Subarus are weird.

They focus on and serve a few niche markets, so some models are always in tight supply and rarely have incentives.
> I quoted directly from the article.

You did, but your quote comes directly after he said:

"Once you’ve finally tested enough hypotheses to have more confidence about your product viability, then go to the next steps:"

The MVP is the next step and it distinctly different from what he calls an MTP.

An MTP is not a useable product, it doesn't have a login, stack or maybe any code at all.
An earlier comment was talking about cars damaged by flooding from hurricanes in the south / east coast.
Today, you have much higher chance to be hit with a blunt object to the back of your head in LA back alleys, than be killed in Islamabad.
There is a big difference: The US Government will never leave the US. However everybody (including the Taliban) knew that it was just a question of time before the US would exit Afghanistan.
Never thought I'd see Trudeau go for the cheap easy "Canada first" policy, but here we are. I guess four years of Trump did something to him.
> liability insurance is compulsory in the US, but it's really painful to be hit by someone who's illegally uninsured

In Europe this is covered and very rare currently. After the first four years the car need to pass an official exam each six or twelve months. No insurance means that you can't even start the test nor move the car from there except in a tow truck (paid for you). Driving with the test outdated means a fine and after some months your car can be deregistered automatically. It does not worth the trouble.
As an economist, I would strongly object to the idea that data isn't needed to prove points. I've heard about the particular case of the Vancouver market being popular with overseas buyers, but that doesn't absolve anyone from quantifying it.

The Vancouver specific reaction has been the "Empty Homes Tax" https://vancouver.ca/home-property-development/empty-homes-t...

And according to Vancouver again, while the tax did cause a drop in empty houses declared, in every neighborhood except West End they represent less than 1% of total housing supply )https://vancouver.ca/news-calendar/more-vancouver-homes-occu...) and in most cases less than 0.5% of housing supply.

So while this may be an issue, it doesn't appear to be the issue and it seems that the basic economics here suggest that the issue in Vancouver was not limited to foreign investment. It would appear that in the Vancouver case, this ban on foreign homes would in fact be ineffective since it represents such a small share of housing.
At one point I prototyped a wasm framework inspired by Solid[1]. The results were very promising—an implementation of js-framework-benchmark was 41KB (18KB gzipped), and perforrmance was close to vanillajs. The developer ergonomics were definitely lacking, though.

Benchmark results (look for "cope")[2][3]

I definitely think whatever happens over the next few years, VDOMs are on their way out.

[1]: https://github.com/whatisaphone/cope/blob/master/crates/js-f...

[2]: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/751355413701591120/77...

[3]: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/751355413701591120/77...
AI Takeovers in Popular Culture
What? YouTube has both of these features? Are you just using it without logging in?
Bases in West Australia where US assets will be deployed are 1/2 distance from to maritime choke points vs Hawaii. Opens up more options.
I buy 6-7 years old around with around 100k miles. A car that was $40k will sell for $15k of less. Saves so much money that I can easily put new interior, upgraded entertainment, new wheels etc and still come out way ahead.

Cars made in the last 2 decades by most manufacturers tend to be very reliable, even well past the 200k miles mark.

As for maintenance, just find a trustworthy Indy mechanic and never go back to a dealer again. Compared to family that always leases a new car, there really isn't much difference in repair downtime. New cars tend to have a lot of bugs to work out that have already been addressed in a well used car.
> So the supply of new cars dried up, and won't untwist until the entire chain is back up and running at capacity again.

I really enjoyed the use of "untwist" here. It's a metaphor that helped me visualize everything that was happening really well.
they appear to be right behind it right now.
I've been using Nebula for personal use and it's really great. I have a free Oracle Cloud vm as my "lighthouse."

The advantage of Nebula is that it's dead simple. Generate a keypair, copy it over, copy the config file, and go. It can do mesh routing for the vpn and traverse nat magically. You can delegate dns to the lighthouse and name resolution just works too.

That simplicity is awesome for personal use, and maybe it's good enough for a small operation, but I'm guessing it doesn't have all the bells and whistles you'd want for medium or larger companies.
I'm not sure why people support Gitlab when the user experience is so much worse. It's a complete mess of a product with so many bugs as to be nigh unusable.
Absolutely, but if your technical solution was so definitely brilliant then it would have solved the problems you purport it magically solved.

Generally its great, but not a panacea, and while it would have been improvements it would have suffered fun new problems.

Source: been the young guy who thought if only they listened, and then they did.
I took a look at the statistics on Wikipedia and they're pretty staggering... per-capita road accidents are roughly 1.5x the US, but per-vehicle is almost 10x.

From a US perspective it would be truly insane to drive one of these on a Chinese highway but you go there and see little three wheeled trucks hauling a dining table zipping alongside 18-wheelers. Truly a different standard.
Well considering that the article says that they plan on allowing SHOPS to sell produce in pounds and ounces, I think we're okay. Unless there's an emergency need for someone to do some banana thermodynamics, in which case we're doomed.
Demand drivers:
Regular fleet replacement of crashed/old cars
+ cars for people who used to take public transport
+ cars for people moving from city to suburbs/ country
+ strong economy/household wealth increasing demand

Supply:
- production curtailments (early COVID)
- limited production (supply chain issues / chip shortage)

= demand exceeding supply
‘forced’ is an interesting verb.
Deming’s First Theorem:

“Nobody gives a hoot about profit”.
How long would it take the sun to burn Manhattan?
May I suggest changing:

> WebAssembly is newer with less support. Browser compatibility is at 92.9%.

To something a little less wasm-optimistic? Maybe something like:

Requires WebAssembly. Inherently bloated, slow and only works in some major browsers.

Edit for downvoters: Do you think it's factually incorrect, or just an inconvenient truth?
I expected this to be about CSAM when I opened the link, but I guess it's stuff that has been brewing even longer than that.

Dealing with highly paid, and highly desirable employees that can get a job at the drop of a hat, and which have ample savings to let them glide in any case, means that they have a lot of leverage. You need them just as much as they need you.

This is why political policy has been to keep away from full employment, and keep a continuous percentage of people unemployed at all times: power over labor. Without labor, capital and land are useless.
>I wish more people would self host their instance in the fediverse.

I wish that too. And I even upvoted you for that.

Unfortunately, there are significant hurdles/barriers to entry for most folks.

First among those are asymmetric internet links. It's great that I can stream HD video while pulling down well-seeded torrents, while I apply updates to a dozen VMs without an issue.

But I can't support (and I don't have the static IPs) more than a few connections to my systems.

That's an important, and often overlooked, driver towards greater centralization.

My current plan gives me (based on speed test data) ~225Mb/s download and ~12Mb/s upload.

Obviously (multi)Gb/sec symmetric connections would be ideal, as well as easily supported by FTTP.

If enough folks have those, there's no shortage of federated, self-hosted alternatives out there -- as you helpfully pointed out.

An easily installed, self-hosted platform, combined with the requisite consumer bandwidth could certainly provide enough leverage to move folks off Facebook, et al.

Sadly, I won't hold my breath.
There won’t be a Goddamn creator economy if we don’t invest directly in creators
Nowadays it seems to mostly be a way for "ethical" fund managers to justify the higher fees compared to simpler index funds.
I agree with you that that first bit is a problem. Though I don't know how to balance that with the desire for privacy / the desire to avoid publishing what amounts to a personal attack on the person, which can follow them into other communities, which is a penalty significantly beyond banning from a single community. In the case where the person was working in good faith but just had a spell of poor judgment, it seems ethical to allow them the "right to be forgotten," which implies not putting information anywhere that a search engine can index. And in the case where they're actually working in bad faith, they probably are going to be more than happy to make legal threats against everyone involved, which is a chilling effect on the submitter and the moderators. Even if they're correct and confident in everything they say, proving it in court is an unpleasant process.

Maybe a compromise is to say that complaints are private provided the person on the receiving end also agrees to keep the details private, and if they start to litigate it in public, it's permissible to publish the complaint. I'm not sure that helps you with the bad-faith participant, though, but in this case it seems like it's a good-faith contributor who just exercised a whole lot of bad judgment (and perhaps the implicit encouragement to not have this saga Googleable by future employers would have been good for everyone involved).

The other option is to have a strong community norm of contributing with pseudonyms, as e.g. Wikipedia does, and then your "right to be forgotten" is your right to pick a new pseudonym, and the whole moderation process can happen in public. But for something like Go, it's a norm to contribute with your real name as known to employers.

To your second point, the way I read it is not that they made an ex-post-facto change to the code of conduct for this incident, it's that this was already in the works (especially given his comment that he was involved in writing the CoC). If I'm misinterpreting that, then yes, I agree that it's a problem. I'm of the opinion that communities also need to state who can change the code of conduct and what process they'll use, and changing it in a way that surprises the community is bad.

(That said, as long as you specify it up front, I'm totally okay with the BDFL model for that, and I think it's the right model in most cases. A CoC is only as good or bad as the people who enforce it; its value is in setting expectations clearly.)
How do you know if the building is structurally safe? I’m all for DIY in general, but with respect to a house, my biggest concern would be having the second story of the house collapsing into the cellar :)

And yes, my grandparents in Europe also build their house like you say. Not being involved in the process (nor other family that I know of), I’m afraid that such knowledge isn’t being passed down.
That’s a long-winded way of saying “try to test a new business hypothesis before building anything”.

None of this kind of testing that VCs love and founders do is real testing, statistically speaking. Just because you can sell a bunch of lemonade at the street corner on a hot summer’s day doesn’t mean that you should be going into the lemonade business…

Conversely, Jeff Bezos may have put up a pseudo website when he started Amazon to “test” whether ppl wanna buy books online. After three months maybe a few ppl would’ve bought a few books, but that would’ve told him nothing about whether it’s a good idea.

Yes, lots of startups come out with crap products that no one needs, but I’d argue that much of it isn’t as “testable” as articles like this (which are written ‘from hindsight’) make it seem.

There are plenty of large companies that test extensively and then demand is either spurious or not sustainable. Other products “grow” on ppl, or some celeb makes them fashionable if otherwise, they would’ve died a quiet death.

At the end of the day, these “tests” are just a good persuasion technique for when you need to raise money, but they lack scientific basis, and they won’t “derisk” much. But they make things sound salient and rational like all persuasion techniques, and for that, they certainly have their place.

I just don’t think this needs a 5-page blog post that is abstracting and “frameworkizing” something pretty basic, obvious, and not that interesting.

Oh, and I still don’t know wth a “cohort based course” is supposed to be. Sounds to me it’s just a regular real-time class taking place online?
100% you should direct your energies on working out, perfecting your hygiene, and eating quality foods/natural supplements.

This is going to force your body and mind to rise to the occasion. You’ll feel the power start to build after forcing yourself a few times.

Next I would recommend a microdose of mushrooms before a walk on a trail on a Sunday morning. Get slightly out of your normal headspace and all these things that are conditioned on your psyche. You’ll feel clean mentally.

You both are and are not your thoughts at any point in time. Remember that.
https://archive.is/hwuvL
No I am not. If it was 113kWh net that would mean 25kWh (18%) is their buffer for a 138kWh battery. That Tesla battery has a 10kWh (9%) buffer for a 110kWh battery.

That 25kWh (18%) buffer seems way too big. Also, Rob Maurer was guesstimating that its battery capacity nets between 118kWh and 124kWh based on efficency and optimistically comparing it to Tesla. A 9% buffer would be 125.5kWh net.

One possible reason it could be that big is that it probably has doubled the number of batteries in series to get to their 900V versus Tesla. But that may mean they roughly doubled their battery failure rate (for each set of batteries in series). That would be ridiculous though.
GitHub enterprise on prem is an offering I thought? Sure it is not open source, or even source available. But they are still trying to compete against GitLab in that space.
I know you think you're a perfect programmer, but the fact is that most programmers aren't. Of the hundreds, possibly thousands, I've worked with, maybe one in twenty could be counted on to write non-trivial code without introducing new object-lifetime issues that every programmer on that project for ever after would have to keep in mind when interacting with that component. Yes, that includes quite a bit of C++ with RAII etc. but also with threads, callbacks, and ill-fated attempts to avoid copies by using references and move semantics. (C++ RAII is a hack BTW, less a resource management facility than a primitive you can use to build one, always with the sad side effect of forcing programmers to wrap their cleanup code in classes even when it's an ill fit conceptually.) So yes, in practice in real-life teams, manual memory management does lead to more work and more bugs. Only somebody who has never seriously tried to use more than a small fashionable subset of languages could claim otherwise, or that they're not using memory management at all when in fact that's only true for toy programs.
I wasn't questioning your numbers but thanks for the reference. I think they are being purposedly vague about this. Transferring weapons grade uranium would be a real threat to the NPT.
Mailbox.org - It’s cheap, does it’s job very well and is fully hosted in Germany.

https://mailbox.org/
Yes, the dealer contracted with Costco has to give you the price, but I believe the benefit is that the dealer will not yank you around with various options and up charges or last minute surprises. They should be able to email you an out the door price per whatever agreement they have with Costco and you should be able to shop that around at other dealers.

Of course, this may have changed due to recent circumstances.
By "dig into footers", you mean scroll to the bottom of the page where it shows the full name just like most corporatey sites do? What would be better? Spelling it out in the title where almost nobody visiting it would gain any value from it because why are they there if they don't even know what it is? What even is the use of knowing what the acronym stands for? It's barely any more meaningful than the 4-letter name.
Maybe rent a big vehicle when you need it and use a regular size on when you don't. I'm tired of being menaced by extremely clean and pristine pickups that never seem to be loaded with anything more challenging than laundry or groceries.

Now and again I spot an old style pickup (when they were a similar height to a sedan) and they're conspicuous by how petite they look relative to the current offerings (while still having abundant bed space).
The “delete tweet” dialogue has always struck me as hilariously dystopian. They could do it themselves, but it has to be a voluntary act of self censorship. You may be welcomed back to civilization and our good graces if you delete the wrongthink, brother.
As usual with these posts, I don't really find this convincing, that joke is not obvious to someone who doesn't know this person. The tweet can very easily be misinterpreted by someone who does not get the joke. Please keep in mind that this is not just a Twitter thing, many decentralized communities may also not want to host jokes about self-harm or suicide.
innernet[1] is another similar one

[1]: https://github.com/tonarino/innernet
That's a job for a regular engineer.
Sure, and then thousands of people pop up who's life story mysteriously matches the plot of some Netflix original. Hey, you settled with the chess grandmaster, why not me who's life exactly matches a character in some other show?

Let's not forget that movie companies are inundated with these frivolous cases, often people who suffer from mental health disorders. Infamously: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Noid
What kind of things have you hit? I think the last time I had an upgrade take more than a few minutes was around the 1.6-era.

(As a reminder that projects vary, I've had more times where I've had to spend time fixing React projects — usually not core but related plugins – so I think there's a heavy element of what you do and how the team works coloring impressions)
Will they try to choke Australia exports to China? Joke aside still don't see a lot of value add over Singapore in terms of blockade.

Unless we are talking about posturing?
Apple store all your email metadata for years on their servers (2018)
If I was Tim Cook I would immediately shutdown slack and mandate everyone go back to using email. It’s always a tiny minority of activists organizing on slack who are causing a lot of the unrest in tech companies.