skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Speaking from a survey design point of view, he's more correct here. Especially with topics like this, the self selection effect and subsequent sampling bias can be very strong.

The evidence here is sufficiently poor to provide minimal value. Poorly collected data can often be worse than no data, as it can mislead you.
In my case we were on the surface. Still a bad day, but we had more signs something potentially bad was about to happen. :(
When I play online chess I load up a grandmaster AI and input my opponents moves
maybe, I am not a big specialist in patent field
The first-ever virtual Google for Africa
Yes, it works. Try Breez wallet for example https://breez.technology and spend on https://yalls.org
Another strange phenomenon is that the supply of tether never seems to decrease. It only ever increases or stays stable. Maybe the odd 0.1% decrease here and there.
Yes, most of them. I think the risk by using strike is much less and you do not have to be online to accept payments.

Which is not a good sign for general LN adoption.
Prices will only go down in Texas when people quit moving here because they think the RE is cheap. Construction never stops here and prices still go up.
Every other crypto investment seems to be run by someone with past criminal convictions, accusations of sexual misconduct, or shady past. I have somehow been able to avoid all of this in my own career without much effort.

It speaks volumes that this is the kind of characters interested in this space.
I disagree: BTCPayServer is pretty smooth these days.
The reason everyone says drill tactics is because the tactical motifs become a building block of several moves that you can see as one object; so if you can see that motif arise two moves away and the motif is three-move combination its the same as seeing five moves ahead but you didn't have to brute-force calculate every line five moves deep to find it, you recognized the pattern at a depth of two.
Is it only me or the video cannot load due to HN front page?
Linguistics is hard.

Bob Laughlin, creator of the amazing Tzotzil dictionary, did some fun experiments about the use of native-speaker informants, by testing American undergraduates’ knowledge of breakfast cereals. There were some respondents who mixed up the cereals. Some who put them in a few categories (something like "cheerios", "flakes", and "cereal"). Some who left most of the questions blank. One respondent identified all of the cereals as “shit”, “shit”, “shit”, ... The best informant correctly identified 5/8 cereals. One of the presented cereals was actually toucan food, which was identified by various informants as “raisin bran”, “grape nuts”, “grapenuts flakes”, “fertilizer scented breakfast food”.

https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/1360 (see the introduction, pp. 9–12)
apple would never become the google of our time, they know what they are doing. also, microsoft is not playing catch up. how is that office product coming along? does it work yet?
I used https://electrum.org/ for accepting btc payments and it worked fine.

The bigger issues I had that I am skeptical any self-hosted options have is protecting your wallets from being poisoned by 'black' bitcoin. Coinbase (and maybe others?) keeps a blacklist of banned wallets (stolen or associated with crime or gambling[0]). If a customer pays you from a black address, you may end up poisoning your entire crypto wallet and get flagged when you try to cash out.

[0] - https://www.reddit.com/r/onlinegambling/comments/kpel7x/so_i...
Water? You mean like in the toilet? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YZnORoAWkA
Brian X. Chen makes a few good points, notably about the obliteration of trust by numerous VPN operators.

But he also commits a few errors, largely of omission:

- ISPs, broadband, and mobile Internet providers are all increasingly tracking and selling their subscriber's traffic patterns. Even where content is protected by SSL/TLS, the sites visited and timing of visits is visible through metadata. And as the CIA admits, "we kill people based on metadata".

- A cloud-based personally-operated VPN instance ... still relies on the cloud provider themselves. Both bare-metal and (far more likely) virtualised hosting are subject to monitoring and interception. Ironically, sharing that instance with a few others might at least provide plausible deniability over who is responsible for what traffic.

- VPNs are still useful for getting past geo-gated content. Content streamers and users of Samizdat publishers such as Sci-Hub, LibGen, and ZLibrary will be aware.

- Tor remains an option, though it is somewhat slower than direct Internet access (performance has improved massively), protection afforded remains limited (though surveillance costs are greatly increased), and many sites will limit or deny traffic (Captchas from Google and Cloudfront, Craigslist still blocks traffic entirely AFAIU).

Again, the point that VPN providers themselves are often hostile adversaries is well taken. It's not the full story.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr70/nvsr70-09-508.pdf gives you leading causes of death for 2019 by age groups.

But the groups do not match perfectly so you have to recalculate some https://wonder.cdc.gov/ucd-icd10.html
Amazing how their is a currency who's been rising for 10 years that you actually have to 'solve' for how to spend it.
Does Anyone Using Quad9? Is More Good Than Free VPN
Some ppl debate dns QUAD 9 better than free vpn
Back in the day, Usenet servers were very difficult to setup. They came with a lot of demands and a lot of machines fell over under the load. Usenet servers also consumed a lot of bandwidth to stay synced. Another problem that crept up is a lot of file systems would fill up prematurely because when the file system was created the block sizes were too large.

In the end, Usenet really taxed the resources of an organization and I think many sys admins just decided all the time and energy required to keep the server up was not worth it.
Nix’s payoff is moving to use it for dev projects as well as your base OS config. I’ve been using it instead of the standard mix of brew/bundler/nvm/etc. everyone uses to setup their development environment for React native or instead of pip/venv and couldn’t be happier: no globally installed tools with conflicting versions, just a .envrc and a shell.nix in each project. (No one else on the team uses nix this way, but, in a year or so, I’ve not run into any issues)
Sorry, champ. Your news doesn't mean what you think it means.

Californians pay lower average property tax rates, but California's ridiculous housing prices mean that they pay more in property taxes. Median home value in California is $554,886, average property tax is 0.7%, for a (rough) average property tax bill of $3,884. Median home value in Texas is $207,301 with an average property value of 1.6%, for a (rough) average property tax rate of 3,316.

Californians also have a higher sales tax rate and an income tax, while Texas has no income tax.

So yeah, I mean taxes.

[0]https://taxfoundation.org/high-state-property-taxes-2021/
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_median_...
looks like they got an answer to it
Oh I would easily take a 20% paycut to have Fridays off forever.
So nothing changed with the source code or its licensing, only the location on github? That seems a bit inconsequential, tbh. Are there strings attached to the new location? If no, then move on.
Yes. You can get cheaper further out, but traffic can make commuting pretty bad. https://www.redfin.com/city/1387/WA/Bellevue/housing-market

Basically FIRE approach doesn't work in the really expensive parts of the country. You need to be putting a large portion of $$$ income into housing which is not a diversified asset. We are getting 18% YOY growth now, but will not get it for the next 30 years.
Most of the cryptocurrency enthusiasts I have ever met only care about price increases and speculation. Which is why they don't like nasty Tether news getting any views.
I can see the utility of using Nix for managing dependencies of software you're developing, because that can be horrific to deal with and Nix makes it fairly elegant to do, depending on what ecosystems it's being used with.

Using NixOS to manage your whole system, on the other hand, I don't think I'll ever get behind. Maintaining reproducible builds of my system, while being nice to have, doesn't really solve any problem that I actually have. On the other hand, it introduced a myriad of problems that plagued me on a regular basis before I switched away from it.

The first problem I had was that it added steps to a number of tasks I had on a regular basis. For example, updating or adding new extensions to VS code. Because NixOS is immutable, you don't get to benefit from just running a single update or install command within VS code like you would on a normal system. It becomes an annoying series of steps you have to carry out for each operation, all in the name of being convenient to hypothetically down the line. Multiply this by all the tools you use and it gets tiresome.

The other issue is that you raise the barrier of entry for every new piece of technology you want to experiment with. Now, in addition to learning how to use any tooling involved with the ecosystem, you have to figure out how to get it to play nicely with Nix. This works very well for some ecosystems, like Haskell, and not well at all for others. I was just getting started with Android development at the time, and just when I thought I had it working nicely with Nix, I would run into a new problem that would need investigation and band-aids.

I wish NixOS was more convenient to use than it was in my experience, because it's nice when it works well. But in my case it created more problems than it solved.
zero fucks given
https://archive.is/Olb8h
Yup, you see the problem
They can use any LN wallet to pay, but most people use the official government app which is called Chivo.
I was able to load it. Here's is a direct link to the video that is embedded on the page: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQL25_hoQ1k
so is he paying CA salaries in TX?
I haven't used dwm. Where does a minimal window manager need unicode support?
There’s special equipment/procedures for surfacing in the Arctic. That’s another really dangerous place to operate. (Default action in a submarine emergency is to get to the surface. That’s… NOT easy when there’s ice above you that’s potentially too thick to punch through)
> The monthly mortgage payment for a $900k in Austin is probably comparable to a $1.2-1.3M home in CA.

Are you talking about paying property taxes via an escrow account that your mortgage lender takes care of for you? That's not your "mortgage payment", which is a function of your loan size, interest rate, and term, and nothing more. The monthly mortgage payment (assuming same term and interest rate) is the same in CA and TX for the same amount of loan.

(I guess we could also talk about things like PMI, but that won't raise your payment by all that much.)

Property taxes might be quite a bit higher in TX, but I'm not convinced a $900k home in TX is the equivalent to a $1.2-1.3M home in CA. I would expect that's closer to $1.7-2M, and then the property tax amounts end up being not that different.
This is clever! I wish I could get unique and creative ideas like this.
What’s really disappointing is that we as a society chose to accept commercial prevarication. The fine print exception is sheer bullshit. Dishonest marketing should be treated the same as dishonest weights and measures.
https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/worst-traffic-cities-americ...

According to this, Austin Texas is #10 on this chart.

#1, LA
#2, NYC
#3, San Fran
#4, San Jose (near San Fran)
#5, Seattle
#6, Miami
#7, DC
#8, Chicago
#9, Honolulu
#10, Austin

*two* of the top 5 worst traffic areas in the US are in the Greater San Francisco area.
Stripe used to have Bitcoin payments. Bitcoin payments fell out of fashion when fees started to rise. Let's see if they re-enable it with Lightning.

https://stripe.com/blog/ending-bitcoin-support
Demo 1: Towards an Elastic Storage Engine
BTCPayServer is probably the one with most surface area as it supports a few Bitcoin derivate coins.
Alternative upcoming solutions like PayWithTerra[1] which is only a middleman watching the blockchain for you is interesting, but a bit out in the fringes.

1. https://paywithterra.com/
I betcha Tesla’s gunning for some of that government action.
I code in PHP very frequently (thanks to Laravel), I’m not declaring it dead by any stretch of the imagination. I just don’t think it’s in daily use on the assembly line. It’s all PLC. And where you do see a Raspberry Pi on the floor, it’s Python, C/C++ or C# before it’s PHP.
5 years in. No regret so far. How long before you had regrets?
Much of Europe is now at 0.05.

In unrelated news, driving deaths per inhabitant or per km are also substantially lower in Europe (2x, 5x, etc, depends on country and metric - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r...). Not only due to blood alcohol limits of course, but those changes are symptomatic of an effort to change the rules to actually affect road accident deaths.
Closest I can think of is the days of yore where .NET Component licensing was a thing that was encountered frequently enough it was mentioned more prominently in books. This was useful for a lot of 3rd party developers that wanted to provide either tooling or runtime libraries to IT Shops. UI Toolkits and other 'specialized' libraries would use this mechanism as a way to keep some level of IP Protection.

I ran into this scheme in the wild with Devart's DotConnect for Oracle; at the time it was worlds better than the free 1st party providers, and came with some interesting T4 templates for generating models for either EF or their special adaptation of L2S, and MVC CRUD HTML generation. Fairly cheap for an unlimited site license too.
> Well here's another issue with .net I ran into... really unclear guidance from numerous sources who all really wanted you to use THEIR stack and thus end up paying THEM.

Meaning no offense, but it’s hard to see how you ended up so far off the mark. The .Net frameworks and runtimes (.Net Framework, .Net Core, and mono) have always been free. Likewise for the Asp.Net web framework you would have been using for web applications. I’ve been in the .Net ecosystem for over 10 years and I’m not aware of _any_ paid web stacks that would align with the quote above. Not to say that they don’t exist somewhere out there to extract money from foolish enterprise IT departments, but they aren’t even close to mainstream. If you did this experiment within the last 5 years it would have been extraordinarily hard for you to miss out on .Net Core, especially considering it was built to do exactly what you want - microservices with Linux as a first class citizen.
Well, you can use multiple monitors and still focus on a single task. You have more real estate and stop spending time switching between your browser, IDE and terminal.
Bay Area homes are like that too. I implore you to check some Zillow in Mountain View and compare. Not in the same ballpark even.
I might be excited about a Samsung phone if it didn’t have a lame version of Android on it.
Why Blameless Post-Mortems?
McDonalds is using OpenNode here in El Salvador: https://twitter.com/robertcurrie/status/1443055854056525831
Why is it that only those making my argument must go into great detail, but those pretending you can print endlessly with no inflation do not?
San Francisco jury
Seems there is? https://www.kidneyx.org/

But given the scale of spending, I wonder if the prize is big enough
Docs for Developers
the only thing the .net foundation will live on in memory for is the breaking of tpm modules
rent is nearly the same as the bay area
Why do we keep using it?! It’s so unscientific that it embarrasses me that intelligent people even talk about it.
Even so, you should just upgrade to a secure version anyways. Wanting to stick to an old version with vulnerabilities in it seems like something you shouldn't want to do.

If anything you should be promoting easier upgrades for the packages affected by these security problems.
> I run SwayWM on NixOS and using Linux any other way feels archaic now.

I just use Mac OS X and don't spend hours configuring my machine / talking about it... lol
This is why microsoft loves open-source. Free code from others that they can point to while trying to sell their licenses.
You're correct. First, I find your analysis very well balanced. While I'm going to continue using Edge, you're "not wrong". I for one love my choices being criticized because that's how I've improved myself and my decision making through my life. I love informed people with a rational stance. Allow me to respond though with my reasons why I use it anyway.

My main reason for using it anyway is that I'm neck deep in Google's world, who I'm most worried about, and view perfect privacy as unattainable so I try to view most things as a larger effect overtaking a smaller effect. I need to get off my Google Account first, which applies to Maps, Youtube, Gmail and search. I use all of those. I view Google as having the most intimate view of who I am given they know where I go, watch, type, and look for. I'm making efforts. I'm moving to another email provider once I sort out how to transfer all my emails over. That'll go a long ways. That doesn't excuse privacy intrusions anywhere else, but Google is definitely my biggest issue. And the least trustworthy of all actors that I do business with.

For the browser itself, I balance privacy with other factors. I want a browser from a large vendor, capable of proper support over the longterm. Microsoft fits the bill there. Being my native browser doesn't hurt at all, it was Mozilla's development articles that opened my eyes to all the advantage that native browsers have over 3rd party. I also want performance if Firefox doesn't suit my uses any longer, the move to Chromium solved that. I agree with your assessment, I think it may be the best browser out now, discounting privacy.

I do keep Tor installed for any sensitive searches, which I do none of, but I keep it on my machine and phone (Onion Browser on iOS) just to remind me of how insecure most browsing is. Tor would be a good idea even for Firefox users. I do agree with the idea that the best privacy by default is a good idea, it's just not enough of a concern to overrule where Firefox and Edge are respectively today.

And lastly, I think there's room for improvement for everyone. I hope Edge continues to get better on the privacy front. I don't think any of them are cemented in their position, especially Edge as it feels unfinished in many ways on basic levels still.
Just write a stateless app tier. Doesn't matter what language you use at that point if you need to scale it out.

It doesn't require any extra work either. Just requires knowing what you're doing.
> Uber had a woman complain about not getting a jacket in her size

You have a curiously selective memory if that's what you took away from Fowler's post.

Her manager propositions her for sex on her first day. HR gives the manager a pass because he's a high performer and they claim it's his first offense.

Only it wasn't his first offense, multiple other women reported him for inappropriate behavior in the past.
Humans are not robots. If most people do 2 "work days" of work in 5 a 5-day week, it doesn't logically follow that people would accomplish 2 "work days" of work in a 2-day week.

If we could find a VC with too much money and a gambling problem, I'd be happy to simultaneously start competing companies in the same sector; my employees can work 4 days/week and yours can work 2 days and we'll see how each business does ;)
I wonder how effective Batman would be at fighting cybercrime.
This.

There are numerous accounts of illegal activity at hotels, hostels, government sanctioned housing, college rental properties, and any privately owned, leased property, but no one, ever has been held accountable for illegal behavior (like domestic violence, illicit drugs, underage drinking, etc), so why should a SaaS?
Just list on the particl marketplace [1] and accept payments in part directly.

They're working on a decentralised exchanged (DEX) to seemlessly accept payments in different currencies.

[1] https://particl.io/marketplace/sell/
Seattle traffic isn't so bad if you WFH.
At least this one has a use case. Ever go on /r/cryptocurrency or some of the even more bonkers subs? Someone will post a new coin and half the comments look like bots and shills loving the tech and the use cases. They never actually state what the use case is, of course.
That's a bit what Dave is working on with https://movablefeastmachine.org/ no?

See: https://www.cs.unm.edu/~ackley/#rh-is
We use terraform for our AWS infrastructure, but also for Datadog, PagerDuty, etc. That's where it starts to shine: consistent infrastructure as code across all your (provider-supported) vendors.
> But I rarely need the docs visible at the same time I’m writing code. I read the relevant doc, then code.

Interesting. This is by far my most frequent annoyance when using a single monitor as I keep needing to go back and forth to see whether what I have found fits my needs well.
It's a gigantic pain in the buttocks when you need someone to give you AWS credentials and you have to wait three days for them to be back in the office. Add in a few other people with multiple days off and you can spend an entire week waiting for a combined 10 minutes of labour to be done.

If there was some kind of common arrangement where employees could go to the beach or attend piano lessons or whatever, but check their phone once an hour and unblock everyone else, and always be in the office for the official meeting day, it would be a lot more palatable.
C#/.NET ecosystem was doing great lately!, Microsoft should not harm their reputation by these kind of actions.
.net7+ is basically .netcore + xamrain integrated into a single product. MS are evolving xamarin into a new UI framework called MAUI
> I miss is the arts, culture, and nightlife, but that was wiped out by government-enacted COVID restrictions so there are few redeeming reasons to stay.

Isn't that the case pretty much everywhere, though? These things will come back in CA just as they will everywhere else, barring catastrophic economic collapse.
The corporate hierarchical malarkey that gave Novotny the wherewithal and motivation to do this should be ripped out root and branch, as well as whatever specific job role that currently defines the executive directorship.

I'm not saying Novotny should be fired, simply that the Foundation has demonstrated a corporate behavior fundamentally at odds with its supposed reason for existence.

Respect for community and contributors was obviously not encoded into the design of the organization. That a board exists to rectify, rationalize, or abet mistakes isn't enough. They have to fix the root of the problem, which is that Novotny was able to do this at all. They need to make an explicit and ironclad promise to developers.

They allowed institutional structure to oppose their mission. That won't change with mere words and staffing shuffles.
I used to use xmonad but now use pop-shell. Only because of the great gnome integration. It's not as advanced as xmonad but gets me 80% of the way there.
Folks, I would strongly suggest getting a DNA test. There are mutations that are highly suggestive of susceptibility to kidney disease. Know your status and eat a kidney friendly diet and make sure you get frequent blood checks if you’re on drugs that may impact your kidneys (e.g. lithium, amphetamines, etc).
> As a developer, I write code on a daily basis. So I often read docs. But I rarely need the docs visible at the same time I’m writing code. I read the relevant doc, then code.

I am the opposite of this, especially using manpages or the api docs and when I jump around to new things.
You should read the post I was responding to and consider the context instead of taking mine in a vacuum. You completely missed the point.