skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A major problem I read is insurance companies trying to find excuses to not pay or condition not being covered.
The problem is the unsubstantiated claim that all of the items seized were ill-gotten, not even that "ill-gotten items must have been stolen". If all it takes is one bad apple with a safe-deposit box to taint all of the boxes, regardless of owner, this is by definition guilt by (loose) association.

I have zero problem with FBI, or whatever police, seizing a specific deposit box for which they have a valid warrant. But, I have tons of problems with this. It's a huge unwarranted governmental overreach, depriving people of their property without due process. That "they" have done a procedural end around by calling it "civil" instead of "criminal" and somehow gotten the courts to go along with it so far is abhorrent.

The 4th Amendment: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

No where does the 4th amendment proscribe an exemption for civil asset forfeiture. CAF may be a complex mechanism, but the prohibition of such acts is not. It's almost like the foundering fathers saw this behavior from a different tyrannical government before...
Yes it only finds you crap results. Not sure why they have the most naive search algorithm out there. Maybe good search needs more AI and CPU power than we think.

Maybe this is something google should take on. A search plugin for Confluence where google crawlers logs in from time to time for internal crawling to enable non-public teach request on that data. That boost knowledge workers efficiency a lot. I hope somebody from Google reads this and takes on the challenge. I'm sure companies would pay a lot for this.
It's worth noting that Apple also sometimes releases security updates for devices that no longer support the latest iOS. For example, Apple released security update iOS 12.5.4[1] on June 14, 2021 for the iPhone 5s and iPhone 6.

[1]: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212548
I think the parent is saying that the jpeg will need to be stored uncompressed in ram - likely in exactly the same format as the bmp is stored in memory - for the graphics system to actually render it out to screen. Not that any "extra" cost of a BMP would be trivial.

So, after they're loaded and (possibly) scaled to fit the screen, I'd expect every background image to use exactly the same memory amount.
I’d agree but from a different perspective. I never used RSS and didn’t care about following any particular blogger. However, blogs were a constant top hits for successfully getting answers/info on things I was searching for. I would see the same blog as my search on a topic expanded. Eg, I recall learning rails back around v0.7 and there was not many docs around and only a few bloggers. I didn’t care about the rest of their blogs, but when I saw theirblog.com in my search results, I knew they had authority on the matter.

The platform effect means there’s just less quality content and it’s more difficult to surface.
House price is inversely correlated to interest rates BECAUSE most buyers are getting a mortgage. So the price of the house "will drop" (hard and fast estimate here not a law) if interest rates rise because people are paying for house+interest = total_cost_able_to_pay.

I watched this play out in real time as I purchased my home. Rates dropped, prices went up to fill the gap. Owner got a bit more money vs the bank instead.

Basically I gave my money to a different person, but the "all in" was about the same.
This is just incorrect. Value is added to the economy every day. Take the home you're living in. That probably did not exist 100 years ago (and if it did, it certainly wasn't as nice as it is today). That's new value, and having money in circulation to correspond to that value makes perfect sense.
Is it really any better to sit in a grand lecture hall while the same tired professor slogs through a years old PowerPoint in person?
>This does not apply to monotheistic faiths. The first problem is that they claim that their god is the only god. The second problem is that they prescribe punishments (death, eternal hellfire etc) for those who do not accept their god.

No, your "second problem" does not apply to all monotheistic faiths.
Not only are the houses much bigger but families are also much smaller.

It also ignores interest rates. Unless you're paying cash, the price of a home doesn't really matter -- what matters is your monthly payment. If you bought a house in the 80s, a huge chunk of change every month went to bankers, not to principle. So the fact that you got a "cheap" house doesn't really matter, because you were still paying an arm-and-a-leg for it.
It will never do so - they will simply increase prices, and not by 3x.

I'm not gaslighting you. There are many ways to make a grocery store for produce where people can't shoplift. Good luck stealing potatoes from a farmer's market. And they're not more expensive either.

I live in such a neighborhood and I can see it.
Last time I checked several weeks ago, 2016 SE looks like it wasn't going to get it. This is great.
> your typical modern-day "reddit lawyers."

Somewhat a tangent to your point, but your point may be more spot on than you imagined: r/legaladvice is moderated almost exclusively by police. They routinely give factually incorrect and personally detrimental "cop folk law", and regularly ban actual attorneys giving reasonable, citation supported, general advice.
High genetic barrier to SARS-CoV-2 polyclonal neutralizing antibody escape
the democrats have had the votes, but chose not to use them.

it isn't that the democrats are for it and the republicans are against it. both parties are against it. the democrats want to run on it though.
Their version is essentially my Symbol approach, but only in the type system. This does work, but it has the disadvantage that the type and runtime don't match. It’s certainly better than most Brand types which tend to rely on strings, but I prefer not to expose public properties which don’t exist.

The class/private approach has the advantage of hiding the extra property from everything except the type checker.
Related: I tried calling [insert virtualization company] support because I had issues with the website, and of course the issues only started after paying for the product. When I press 1 for technical questions, it refers me to the website's ticketing system and hangs up. (The sales line had me queueing for 3 hours 11 minutes then went to voicemail.)

You're doing it too! The person is having issues reaching the site and you're referring them to the site :D
So this is a very relevant question and I have been trying to figure out if I need to migrate off timescaledb asap coincidentally over the last 2 weeks (We're pre-production anyway, so it's the time to do so!). Doing so has been super low priority, but since you're here .... :)

If I have a table that records timeseries data and then another table that has a customer-provided extensible set of metadata where a customer can define columns and other related tabular data, would that violate the license? The customer doesn't have a direct, like, psql level of access but the API intentionally provides a very similar level of interaction.

Does this qualify as providing Data Definition Interfaces? If none of those additional columns and such appear on tables set up as timescale tables does that make any difference?
does being laid off count? i got laid off relatively early in my career and it worked out well for me. big severance for a nice month long vacation, found a new job in a few weeks and realized how underpaid i was, and learned to be jaded and cynical in all my interactions with a company from that point forward
That's not what they are saying.
For #2, there are services OP could use, that will automatically switch links to the right country store, e.g. https://geniuslink.com/how-it-works/for-affiliates
Scaling is also hard... Turns out you need more than "trickle" overproduction to make reliable amounts of green hydrogen for energy storage.
I played this a few times. While it does vaguely work, it seems to follow a pretty consistent route and benefits from the fact that philosophy is preceded by "idea", which seems like the more proper root of the epistemological tree.
To many, the point of "a calorie is a calorie" is not that you can't get free energy from nowhere, it's that that diet / food selection is meaningless as food containing one calorie of potential will always evolve to one calorie's worth of metabolic energy through some metabolic process or another - as in the abstract, that two "isocaloric" diets will always produce the same results. The idea of the paper is to dispel this notion.
The advice I give is pretty much: treat people like the professionals that they are. If they don't live up to your standards, then correct that through training, dismissal, whatever. But always treat them like the professionals they are.
Mining produces blocks, and miners are rewarded with bitcoin, which have a certain positive value because people want to buy them. The operation generates more value than it consumes, and therefore it is economical.
Are you saying that if the housing market has 10 million homes and 7 million people live there, prices will continue to appreciate to stratospheric levels because someone will magically appear to buy the excess 3 million properties and leave them without tenants? That's what it sounds like to me.
The wholesale inflation adjusted price of electric has been falling in the US over the last 40 years. https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/electricity-... Prices are spiking vs 2020, but are still down inflation adjusted from 2019.

Which is in part an outgrowth of bringing cheaper wind and solar electricity sources online combined with inexpensive natural gas. The headline ultra low wind and solar prices hide the fact they are still profitable to bring online meaning it’s selling enough energy at positive prices to add more. It is also profitable to add batteries to the electric grid in California which should offset other peaking sources like natural gas. The question of what becomes of nuclear may simply be it’s largely phased out with some being kept around as a combination of energy source and useful isotope generator.
I think it's a bit of a stretch to say that "anything that has to do with recursive structures" is too tedious to implement with without pattern matching. I've written my share of recursion in Python, and have written a number of recursive parsers and language interpreters in Go (which also doesn't have pattern matching). I didn't find it bad at all.

That said, I think your overall point is interesting. Will this new feature in Python mean that Python is used for certain domains it wasn't previously? I have my doubts, partly because it's a fairly slow byte-code interpreted language, and that limits its usefulness (I've seen a number of compilers written in OCaml, for example, which has pattern matching, but is also fast).
A15 in iPad Mini 6 Has Underclocked CPU; Beaten by A14 in Several Tests
I guess this is like saying "A Joule is a Joule" regarding different types of energy (gravitational potential, nuclear, etc). It may be true in an abstract sense, but the conversion efficiency makes a large impact in a practical sense.
The article refers to the usage in nutrition science: CICO - "calories in equal calories out". We are learning that this is not the whole truth.
The switcharoo is really common with smaller franchised brands. A few years on the original contract, then do a quick brand change overnight or contract with a similar competitor. I see it all the time around where I live it’s kind of hilarious.

“Welcome to Totally A Different Hot Dog Joint! The menu is 99% the same!”
No, but at least people are now realizing the absurdity of the whole situation. Plus there were at least other benefits of college outside of lecture halls that are no longer available.
ooc, where does Google Firestore fall short?
It never hurts to ask. It also never hurts to learn the appropriate way to phrase questions that are genuine. For some reason, a pattern develops in some people where they think there is value is just asking why all the time. It is best to stop and think before firing of your "Why didn't you just use solution X". This rarely leads to constructive dialog and instead generates a low-value conversation a lot like job interview situations where poor interviewers are trying to set up a candidate with why questions just so they can unload some ego boosting bit of advice.
Yeah, back when I was a kid I couldn't come beaming to my dad and expect praise for "Dad! Dad! I dug four holes today and then filled them up again, haven't I done good work?!" I'd have got not only a "That's not 'work', you idiot! Work is useful -- that was wasted effort!", but most probably a clip around the ear, too. And those are the norms I've internalised, so that's how my semantics swing: This whole crypto shit is inherently morally repugnant to me, because it's based on proof of waste.
Host Identity Based Authorization for SSH
Please write up how you did this! It may seem easy or straightforward, but I assure you it's black magic to a lot of people.
I wonder if how this can be corrected for the different timing of the numerator and denominator. I assume housing prices are closer to real time while median incomes are lagging by a year.
Hoping this will allow (some?) firefox extensions as well (considering how firefox on ios actually works). My single biggest gripe with the phone is no ublock with firefox.
> [...] what would be the use of credentials issued by a university thousands of miles away that still taught PHP for web development? Would success in the far more complex task of building startups from the ground up not be credential enough? [...]

I'm reminded of the recent post about the 22 year old who said they had failed: "Your mistake was thinking you could go into, say, a CS degree and have nothing to learn."[0]

Of course, dropping out and starting a career at FB (or similar) is hardly a bad move. Who can say if it's the right thing to do or not? It's hard to discern a positive motive, though, when 95% of the reasoning is why college isn't great, and the bit about Facebook or throwing startup ideas at the wall to see what sticks barely passes as a footnote. Generally the best decisions don't come from focussing on what you don't want to do.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28575317
Yeah, in my experience a lot of 'general' book reviews are super critical and don't really try to hook you. Going through several reviews, you just come away with the collected gripes and nitpicks of what is otherwise a good book.

I find that I get sold on a lot more when it is just a random single comment on some thread somewhere that focuses on a single aspect of a book.

If you can find a hyper specific subreddit/forum/etc. for a sub-genre you like, then you will spend more time reading books than reviews...
> Are property rights freedom-preserving?

You’ll find that historically speaking “freedom” and “property rights” are treated as synonymous for some political theorists, including the ones that founded the United States. This is one of the foundational aspects[0] of liberalism that has come to rule the western world; the idea that property rights are sacred and must have an exceptionally high bar for the collective to intercede on.

Whether or not that equivalence is true is a debatable matter. One of the unfortunate outcomes is the ability for the individual to withdraw their property from public use, often to the detriment of the whole (such as the beach example you provided).

Also, the fact that the founding thinkers of liberalism and America itself tended to own slaves or trade in them doesn’t necessarily disprove the basic argument, but it’s a pretty strong counter point at least.

0 - There are of course other tenants to liberalism that I’ve not included here, due to their irrelevance for the subject at hand.
Busses don't let you transport a new TV set or six bags of groceries. And they add an hour to the trip. That ice cream is going to be wasted.

Sure, folks use cars mostly to move just their body around. But on the occasions its more than that, a bus or bike is a very different proposition, an order of magnitude more onerous than a car.

And btw using the Netherlands as a bicycle-nirvana doesn't translate. That's about the flattest nation on earth. Anywhere else, and hauling 200lbs of cargo is not the same joyful experience.
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While I don't consider the 40k books on par with the better science fiction out there, I do enjoy that they bring a bit of scale and what it means to space. It's a different take from the rosy, post-scarcity, future of space. Bad things are really bad. Unattended good things turn bad on their own just from drift.

Then there is there is the unashamed embrace of over-the-top in so many different ways.
Interesting, but that chart appears to end in 2016?
It's also blocked on my Pi-Hole install network-wide apparently.
A positive working environment where people can interact as humans do is the grease on the skids of productivity and creativity.

You can certainly have too much "party" in the office. But you can also not have enough.
Inflation may not be out of control yet, but certainly things like insurance, parts and labor for repairs and maintenance, and HOA dues are already increasing more than 5%/year. And property taxes alone are guaranteed to increase 2%/year in California. Not saying we should feel sorry for landlords, but when some parts of a market have price controls and other parts don't, distortions are inevitable.
Giles Yeo is a great source of popular information along the lines of this topic. I recommend his books, but here is a recent youtube from his talk at The Royal Institution https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQJ0Z0DRumg
Thank you! Looking forward for a blog post. We need more references for comparison to optimize ClickHouse performance.
This is what I think my father must have meant when he said, "I hope you never visit SF because if you do you'll never leave."

If I were 21ish and had gotten this far, I absolutely would have made this choice, and it absolutely (for me) would have been the wrongest choice I could have made in that moment.

The credential matters, and is worth 10 fold the value of that checked box on interview applications. To the people whose opinion Simon likely cares about, it proves you can stick with something that's unpleasant long enough to see it through to completion. Completing college (or not, as it's something I haven't done) sticks with you in conversations, in social interactions, and in the minds of others.

If you ever want to do anything besides bootstrap your own startup all the way to product/market fit (not as easy as you possibly think right now), not finishing college will create a little nugget of, if not doubt, then "prove it now" mentality in the heads of the people whose opinions you care about (both professionally e.g. investors and personally e.g. friends).

If you're 20 or 21, your primary advantage is time. You do have the time to finish up college, and then do all of these things. You can do both, and pretending like you can't is just giving in to that underdeveloped prefrontal cortex.

Simon, I hope I'm wrong, but this is a mistake. You will regret this.
I too hearken for access to the Internet of ole.

When content was real content, and love was poured into every keystroke.

I spend the occasional free mental cycle pondering the reasons for the downfall of Internet quality. It's hard to put a finger on any one exact reason.

The tttthis.com article reminds us that blogging platforms which lowered the barrier to entry for Internet publishing helped usher in all sorts new interesting voices and ideas.

Perhaps it was the monetization of blogs which attracted the publishers of low quality. Once gold is found in the hills, more people come exploring.
I mainly use the Google Maps app on the iPhone.
Try gmail. More than a decade on and still no partial word match.
The notion "a calorie is a calorie", however, refers only to the "CI" part.
Or, in other words, they hire some battery services?
The DKIST, a 4m diffraction limited solar telescope on top of a mountain in hawaii
https://dkist.nso.edu/, comes online in science mode before the end of the year. It will be able to resolve tens of kilometer scale structures on the sun for the first time. There's still a lot left to be discovered on these small scales as the short timescale coherent radio emissions have indicated for decades. DKIST will give us our first images of whatever is making these very short radio burst... and whatever else is there we didn't predict.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_room_design
I don't hold a single share of public stock nor crypto and have never posted on any investing forums.

Evergrande could end up tanking the Chinese real estate market and a take bunch of banks down in the process unless the CCP steps in and nationalizes it.
I imagine creating cash to solve a liquidity trap is like continuously taking laxitives for a constipation problem... At some point you get a different problem!

On topic: my experience of housing prices in NZ is that people bid up house prices to the point that they can only just afford the mortgage payments.

Creating more housing doesn't "fix" the problem, because the more wealthy buy two or more houses, and are happy to leave one empty. I've left a house vacant in a tight rental market because the hassle of a tenant was not worth the risks for me (possible gain was a very small percentage of my income).

I am in New Zealand, and New Zealanders bid against each other in an almost zero-sum game for the properties that exist... We are borrowing from overseas to pay for it, so most New Zealanders gain nothing and global finance is the real financial winner.

Yet, politically the game is difficult to change... We have a left leaning party strongly in power, and they are struggling to create a more level playing field so that people can afford to get a home (rather than pay rent, which is more expensive than a mortgage).

Edit: also we can only lock in fixed interest rates for up to 5 years and most people only lock in for 1 or 2 years because short term rates are cheap - the 30 year mortgage system is completely foreign to us.
This is like saying "you can't really leverage Java well without knowing JVM bytecode." Which is to say: I also disagree with you :)
I started doing this ("picking up the phone") and you are 100% right in that in can work absolute wonders. Folks who have grown increasingly frustrated at a back-and-forth email exchange are just insanely delighted when I skip forward several rounds of mutual frustration and just unexpectedly call them.

"Hello, is this Marc? This is Trevor from Quail; email was taking too long, let's just figure this thing out together." is my go-to phrase, and I've lost count of how many customers I've converted from almost-churned into the best possible evangelists through the simple mantra of "just pick up the phone!"

Absolutely solid advice.
Said "fraction", for moderately modest needs and assuming just 24h window where it provides "baseload" can be as "low" as 1/3rd of total renewable capacity - assuming that renewables do 100% of peak whiel saving the excess..

Or so analysis from people I know in the industry, interested in decarbonising (not fossil lobby related), show.
What about the authenticity of the data?
Don't you have access to most of these similar improvements through updates to the respective Android apps (Photos, Messages, Translate, Camera, etc) rather than OS updates?