skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not everyone wants to be a homeowner. A lot of people enjoy the flexibility of being able to just pay the monthly rent and not worry about anything else, and being free to move on a whim when they need to. You expect the owner of the property to do the upkeep work for free in that scenario?
That's not even close to true. The opposite is closer to true.

You may be falling prey to the notice-dislike bias (you're more likely to notice and put weight on the things you dislike), which leads to false feelings of generality.

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I think that if companies expect a day of your time to do some kind of coding challenge and another day for an in-person interview then they should pay the going consulting rate with a 2.5 multiplier.
> Freedom, privacy, and security are not optional.

This is exactly my stance. Appreciate the bit of motivation to keep using Matrix for the conference!
My opinion is simply: You should understand the environment your code runs in. Be it bare metal, Kubernetes, or anything in-between. How that environment works determines how your code works - or doesn’t work.

Despite our best efforts, we have yet to abstract away the runtime environment. Despite Java’s best efforts.
Except that retail is a service you pay for.

Modern landlords are mostly government subsidized (tax abetements, low financing rates for "business", etc).

There are definitely landlords that provide a valuable service, but there's a reason why profiteering landlords are almost universally disliked.

PS: Remember where we get the term "landlord" - the feudal lord that collected tax(aka rent) while providing a very specific service to the peasants on the land plot that was grated to him by the superior nobleman.

It's nothing like that today... Even the losses in their income get socialized - how do you think Donald paid only $750 in federal taxes? The whole system is setup to protect "landlords".
Yay, more trucks on the road, delivering batteries to charge batteries.
It is happening to me too, starting about a week ago.
Clearly you don't either otherwise you'd know that's what the first two are and you're just grandstanding.
I often use repl.it or codesandbox to explore the seed of an idea but will soon switch over to local dev if I decide to work on it further.
Have you ever ran the numbers for a rental property? I have — after interest on the mortgage, taxes, repairs, insurance, HOA fees (if applicable), management costs, etc., margins wear thin to non-existent in most areas. Plus you’re taking on risk in the case of being unable to find renters / rent / home depreciation.
Running rental properties is largely a commodity business like any other, which means competition drives down margins (all else equal, I understand there are local idiosyncrasies that might make this not the case).
For sure it can be lucrative if you’re smart, and prudent, and lucky, and manage to keep your head above water on a 30 year loan or few, and I imagine there are big players that can command lower interest rates and those sorts of thing; but there’s plenty of Joe Schmoe landlords who are running small businesses, and they’ve been forced arbitrarily to take the brunt of the economic downturn on the chin in order to protect their tenants. Why should they be forced to disproportionately pay for this?
I can assure you with high confidence—since I'm the person making these calls—that this has nothing to do with how we moderate HN.

I mean, it's possible that you know more about my unconscious than I do - but I think the odds are low. I'm pretty sure we're just trying to have an internet forum that doesn't suck and don't give a shit about the "globalist game".

Re "I don't doubt that there are bots or Chinese nationals that also downvote/flag these posts as well" - would you mind reviewing the site guidelines, which specifically ask you not to post like that?
Definitely will give it a go when I have some free time!

Also, I can’t edit it right now, but would like to apologize for saying it’s “insanely hard to read”. That was rather harsh and uncalled for.
> the current policy of "protecting" the isolated tribes in the Amazon from human contact by categorically shutting them off is quite horrible and uncharitable

I dunno. If you make contact with them, most of them will die of diseases to which they have no immunity. This happens over and over. Amazon tribes. Pacific islands. On a huge scale in the Americas. For those that do survive, the event may be so traumatic that they develop a very understandable hostility to outsiders.
me too, and even more mind-boggling is important emails send right to "Trash." I have caught actually important, personal emails that were sent directly to my Trash bin. It's infuriating.
(We've since changed the title - see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28647742.)
> So, if there are some limits, why not understand those in terms of what that very section explicitly lists?

Because the list ends with "and other measures, as in his judgment may be necessary.", and the text forces you believe that either a) the federal government intended to express a belief (in the same bill that officially gives the federal government quarantine authority) that disease could be contained via sanitation and pest control, or that b) they intended to give the Surgeon General a lot of latitude.
I find that hard to believe. Between the chip shortage and the supply chain issues, new car supply has been constrained and the used car market has gone gangbusters.
> I was also stumped by simple questions about which direction one of the cars was going.

Presumably lawyers are very good at finding exactly the right questions to ask to exploit the weaknesses of human memory and make a witness look unreliable.
If you have an E2E testing platform, and a bug is found in production, can you reproduce the issue with the E2E testing platform? How easy is it?
Swastika, a millinea old symbol of well being?
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I've been thinking about stuff like this lately. Since the State and corporations alike wont give up on surveillance and ever growing control over people's lives, I might as well start to use/engineer things that sabotage/neutralize/destroy their surveillance apparatus. There could be also stuff in software we write: killswitches, backdoors, open-source software licenses that are hostile to surveillance use, etc. I welcome any criticism (still developing the ideia).
The point is that this is evidence that scholar(s) on the other side of Europe, centuries after the Norse voyages, had heard of the lands they had discovered (Markland).
They(the landlord) has agreed to take on a risk to profit on someone else’s need. I’m not going to _ever_ feel bad if that risk played out unfavorably for them. That’s insane.
>> I know little of Haskell and Racket, and I think I'd enjoy doing more of those in a professional capacity. But then again, the job market for those kinds of things is next to nil here. A career at Jane Street interests me more than a career at Google, but I don't think I'm great enough for them to move me to one of their offices abroad (they don't have offices in India).

Just wanted to comment on this - Hasura is one of those rare venture funded startups whose stack is in Haskell and iirc they hire a lot of Haskell devs in Bangalore, India
like what, revolutionary land reform?

the eviction moratorium was implemented because the alternative was a good fraction of the population getting evicted on a very short timescale. the legal and police infrastructure to carry it out simply did not exist, and any attempt would have been overwhelmed with refusal and defensive organizing.

any solution would have been problematic and disruptive to property rights. the CDC exceeding their authority just provided some realpolitik deniability for elected officials, and prevented open revolt.
No, GP heard some folsky etymology. Lǎowài does not mean ancient foreigner. One of 老 lǎo's meanings is an honorific like "old / venerable." 老伯 lǎobó uncle, 老闆 lǎobǎn boss, 老師 lǎoshī teacher, are all honorifics that don't mean really mean "old" (except for uncle, which you can use to address a man older than yourself, but doesn't mean he's from ancient times). 老人 lǎorén does mean "old people" but just regular old, not ancient old. 老外 lǎowài just means outsider.

古 gǔ means ancient, like 古人 gǔrén is ancient people. You could construct phrases to mean ancient foreigners, modern immigrants, modern foreign people, etc. but I don't know of any that would carry more special meaning than equivalent phrases in English.
Understanding EGL, GLX and friends in the Linux and X graphics stack
GNU Coreutils-9.0 Released
Can't say about the breeds, but the cheap supermarket victims of Henschwitz taste pretty bad compared to actual free range hens most likely because the latter move around instead of being stuck in a cage.
Landlord will settle for less than 100%. Much less than 100%, in California.
That must have been such a serendipitous moment :)
As I understand it, there's two possible breakages. The first is https://www.hyrumslaw.com/ breakages, of the sort described in the article - currently, it is possible to distinguish Europe/Oslo and Europe/Berlin, even though they behave the same post-1970. In the planned release it will not be; they will be aliases for each other. This is semver-incompatible in the strictest sense (in much the same way that, say, changing the toString of some object or the formatting of some CLI tool could theoretically break downstream code).

The second is that, if you're actually processing dates before 1970 and you actually care about historic time zones, your code will break unless you go out of your way to load the "backzone" data file.

Probably there is not very much code that is actively processing pre-1970 timestamps (most applications are handling current or relatively recent data) and handling them in localized format instead of having turned them to UTC already and actually doing computations on them (instead of just treating them as strings for display purposes) and working with any of the affected time zones.
Earth has been around at least for billions of years. Our modern existence is only of about few hundred years. It'd be over estimating ourselves to think that a civilization like us never existed on Earth let alone other planets. As the technology keeps on miniaturizing, there'll be a point at which the verbose existence of technology would largely be no longer there. In that state, if the civilization is reset due to some cosmic incident, a tech civilization like us in far future will think about themselves in the same way. We do read about Atlantis like legend and consider them a myth similarly, we'd be a myth for such future civilization.
I think renting is great. I’ve done it many a time. I’ve also been screwed over once or twice. That’s not really the issue.

The people who are landlords agree to the risk of owning a property and renting it out to someone. Why should I feel bad when the risk comes to fruition? Why should anyone?

Should you be able to just profit endlessly on housing risk free for no dang reason other than you had money before someone else? I don’t know. I don’t really care. I have a feeling these landlords will be just fine.
> Pro-tip: Ikea sells a more flexible hose that works great LILLREVET.

It'd make more sense to get something actually designed for the task:

Nice for giving the concept a try: https://www.totousa.com/travel-washlet

For the more committed (requires a power hookup): https://www.totousa.com/products/washlet
This site is an extraordinary labor of expository love! I've encountered it a couple times over the last 8 years or so. Page after page of detailed summaries, explanations, arguments, graphs, pictures, diagrams. It just keeps going. It is at least a booksworth of material, and with book-style glosses and marginalia. I wonder why it's not already published as one.
brb, checking Facebook ...

nope, pretty much the same as June.
i always come back to the fact that "time travel" wasn't a notion until relatively recently; simply by the fact that so little changed on a centuries-long scale, and traveling through time would essentially place you in precisely the same spot, with the same set of experiences and technologies.

presently, we've the opposite problem: technology advances so quickly it's difficult / near impossible to accurately predict life in five hundred years. (making time travel VERY COMPELLING!)
Yeah, I'm always curious about this -- what would a good recommendation be to get a broad base of news while also relying on credible information?

E.g. I want to know the different reasonable perspectives on issues/events without entertaining every kooky idea. In this case, I feel like I lumped what seems a plausible concern in with kooky ideas, and so missed the entire non-kooky narrative.
Thank you, whenever these articles come out, people forget CO2 IS the lower energy state and while these catalysts can help, you still need energy to supply the H2...which requires you to burn coal/gas which makes CO2. It's not like there's a "CO2 always increases with every reaction" law like the 2nd law of thermo, but it isn't easy otherwise we'd all be doing that as it would be a hell lot easier to do that than the other things we need to do to combat climate change.

Burning organic anything makes water and CO2, amongst the most stable (read lower energy) chemicals in the world. If you want to break one of those up, you need to increase entropy some other way, and unless we're talking solar, wind, or nuclear energy, you're going to have to make more water and CO2 (burn more coal) to do it.
The current president was both the author of the notorious crime bill and the precursor to the patriot act. He did this in alliance with lawmakers from the nominally opposing party.
Wow. 5-15%? What role is this? Unheard of except on promotions
Sometimes you have to paraphrase the title due to the length limit.
I think you're conflating two events which are correlated with the pandemic and claiming

The "boom" in housing sales is more like that decade-old canard about the "shortage" of software engineers. Many of those sales aren't to the average joe moving to bottom-of-the-barrel low cost areas. Rather the to urban professionals (and a small but increasing part to financial firms) who wish to reside in an area cheaper than those in major metropolitan areas without being too distant from them. In other words it's a new suburban exodus and white it had begun a few years ago, it's been catapulted forward by state quarantining policies and WFH. In addition, greater individual access to market data has allowed for deals to be made across state (and even international) lines. The housing stock hasn't increased, just the options of where to live.

With regards to landlords, many don't have any guarantee that they'll have any new paying tenants, leave alone one that would subsidize the contractual violations of the previous tenants. As rent isn't infinitely elastic, landlords will likely have to sell their property to a financial holding company or a luxury property developer in order to recoup the losses sustained under the moratorium.
> I'm terribly disappointed that my favorite couch is missing, the Dromminge. Looks like this:

> https://offerup.com/item/detail/33576960

On a slightly different topic, it sucks that Ikea seems to delete the information about discontinued products. They really should keep it online (with manuals, etc).
Love this book it was the first time I came to here the story of St. Patrick
Because all of the major players, the Chinese Communist Party, the US government (DARPA & the NIH), and several universities and their IRB boards (UNC-Chapel Hill, WIV, and others), all had a hand in this, and the second they give legitimacy to this theory--that the hubris and recklessness of scientists and bureaucrats led to the deaths and suffering of millions--then they'll never be able to put the cat back in the bag.

They also know that if it was their fault, the CCP did a good enough job of scrubbing the evidence that we'll never meet the standard of evidence that would satisfy many of those who choose to take the authority at their word. We're seeing this first-hand in this thread.
The open WiFi thing I have yet to see any evidence of, as discussed elsewhere in this thread, and while HDMI has supported ethernet for years I legitimately have never seen a device claim to actually use it. You'd need both the TV and something it's connected to supporting it for it to become a risk.

The same wires are used for HDMI ARC, so any device supporting ARC (most TVs) inherently can't support ethernet on the same port.
You could track corporate donations.
You can look at it like that. But you could also realize that landlords in these areas have had government assistance for ages. They got tax abatements, low financing and protections against competition.

That's not even close to a free market. They benefited from that government interference, but now they are annoyed that their tenants are getting that support.
Yeah I read they’re going to have the solar cells print their own supports out of lignin.
We're talking about shaving megs here rofl

cmon now

terminal systems engineer brain is everywhere
SARS was first discovered in a major city too. This makes a lot of sense. If there is an outbreak in a rural village, the chances of it spreading worldwide are slim. It is quite possible that small outbreaks happen occasionally without anyone noticing. Who is going to test a few villagers that got pneumonia for novel coronaviruses?

I would also argue that in the age of factory farming it is not so clear if more human-animal contact happens in rural areas or in big population centers. SARS was eventually traced back to palm civets which are farmed animals. In this industry wild animals, many of which are susceptible to SARS-like coronaviruses, are being bred in large numbers. To me this sounds like a perfect breeding ground for the viruses as well.
> I wonder why they never used that Ethernet-over-hdmi, which is a thing for many years now.

The same wires on the HDMI cable are used for HDMI ARC, which is far more useful to most TVs (as it allows smart TV apps to back-feed their audio to a soundbar or receiver "upstream" of the display.
> ~"1.07 billion colors" though? Ehhh, I can't deny that does feel like overkill, but I'm honestly not even sure if there's a way to fix the above problem with a smaller colorspace.

Given that we're starting with 24 bits / 16.7 million, we're just up 6 bits more.. or 2 more bits per color... so a purely red gradient would have 4x as many steps.

And we're using some of that space to get "whiter than white" -- so that the brightest white in photos/videos can be brighter than the normal value of white.
https://www.lifewire.com/how-apple-devices-show-hdr-brighter...
Really? I find it halfway interesting, as it is a discussion between someone who clearly understands the science and bureaucracy that surrounds that type of work, and someone who is chaining speculation and "what if's" like their life depended on it.
Once the charger is delivered you plug it into the grid so it can recharge its battery.
A lot of those scholars were not "Islamic" or "Muslim", just happened to live in the area. Many of them were christians (Church of the East), Sabians, Jews, or local hellenistic inspired cults. Also some of those translations were translated to other local languages (eg. Assyrian, Hebrew...) then to Arabic.

Of course, in todays world, one could say Arabic/Islam becoming the dominant culture/religion minimized the work and exposure others get.

Here are some of the more famous ones

Christians:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunayn_ibn_Ishaq
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishaq_ibn_Hunayn
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergius_of_Reshaina
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masawaiyh

Sabians:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinan_ibn_Thabit

Cult of Sin:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thābit_ibn_Qurra
Ditto. I remember thinking at $6+ it wasn't as appealing. Did the same thing with Tesla at about $70.
What's the issue with GPL here?
"She is great and not alone" - perhaps that's what you wanted to say?
This seems really neat, but I'm struggling to think of what I would use it for
The CDC is allowed to do what is authorized by Congress within the limits of the Constitution. If that does not include eviction moratoriums but it does include quarantines, then it does not follow that because the CDC may quarantine people it may also issue a nation-wide eviction moratorium.
i don't think it is necessary or sufficient for all individuals to have a deep understanding of the runtime environment. i agree that if the team needs to ship production code, it would be a good idea if at least one person in the team has a good understanding of how the code runs.

but there are other failure modes -- if everyone on the team is great at writing efficient production code, but no one understands the business context or the problem domain or understands if the problem they're attempting to solve is even vaguely feasible from some kind of theoretical perspective (maybe someone with a decent statistics background could demonstrate the entire premise of the project is flawed, and needs to be rethought, using a blackboard and no computers at all), maybe they'll spend months or years building and deploying a lot of fast, beautiful, completely worthless machinery.
A doco I watched a while back suggested they could have used seal blubber and oil lamps as a source of heat to melt ice for water.

The boat would be hauled onto the ice and turned upside down to form a shelter in remote spots.

Fishing and hunting for seals would have provided the food as they went.
Isn't the stated response from several countries that the response to something like that is nuclear?
Definitely. Because companies need both types of people to succeed. I’ve also been on both sides of the table. It’s easy to underestimate the what-iffer and to overestimate the established senior —- and vice versa.

Better than TV.
Baidu launches robotaxi test in Shanghai
It’s not Adam. Adam was “late” to Bitcoin. Saying it is Adam is a psyop from some anti-bitcoin types. I’ve read the code and Adam’s code and interacted with Adam a great deal and read everything Satoshi wrote.
We’ve legit left the planet and put people on the moon. The past hundred years has absolutely been something special in the history of the human race
Yes thanks. My bad for not putting up a link.
> Toybox's main goal is to make Android self-hosting by improving Android's command line utilities so it can build an installable Android Open Source Project image entirely from source under a stock Android system.

-- http://landley.net/toybox/about.html

Possibly also interesting: Toyboy vs. Busybox https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkJkyMuBm3g#t=1m18s
Better still: sublease but don’t pay the landlord! I know someone in New York who tried to buy their neighbor’s apartment. The deal fell through because the tenant was nearly a year behind on a rent and couldn’t be evicted. Except the tenant didn’t live there anymore. They subleased the apartment and pocketed the cash instead of paying the owner.

Obviously this is fraud and maybe this person could be prosecuted for it, maybe, but it seems like the kind of thing that just slips through the yawning cracks.