skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Low interest rates and help to buy schemes (some of which have ended, some of which aren't that helpful) you'd think would help...

All these do is allow people to borrow more which increases the demand for housing, pushing prices up further. As a home owner you want the government to past more help to buy schemes because these schemes will always inadvertently raise the price of your home because of supply & demand dynamics.

> except that house prices have increased so severely (15% since before pandemic), and you have a generation particularly concerned by debt already due to student loans etc, not earning any more money than they were before, now suddenly faced with taking on a 95% mortage

The reason house prices are up is because the government have been helping people to buy while pumping money into the economy to ensure people and businesses don’t have to bare the economic consequences of the recession. This is while we had another 300,000 migrants arrive who also need to be homed. If you want house prices to fall you basically need to do the exact opposite. If governments didn’t intervene people wouldn’t be able to afford to pay more for housing and might instead be forced to sell their home like you would expect to see in a recession. And as I touched on before, if governments didn’t import people to prop up GDP growth, housing demand would crash. Btw, I’m not making a political judgement about whether this is good or bad. Recessions suck, but historically they have been good equalisers because those with nothing to lose, lose nothing, while those with homes and businesses lose greatly.

Also to your point on affordability, everyone with kids under the age of forty in my family live in social housing and those who own their own homes and have good jobs are the ones who are childless. I don’t think this is a coincident — these groups clearly have different priorities. This anecdote is also supported by evidence that educational achievement is negatively correlated with birth rates.
Robust long-term data storage technology uses tiny drops of dye
Nature is now obviously promoting the pharma theory.
Razer is even worse than a mandatory account. When you connect a Razer device (including changing the port it's plugged into), Windows will try to execute the Razer software installer. It's really annoying.
Even engineers do this. A couple of years ago I watched a colleague - a very talented software engineer - do a Google search.

He typed "google" into the search/URL bar and hit Enter.

This took him to a search results page, with Google as the first entry.

He clicked on Google.

This took him to the Google home page.

He entered his search query into the search box on the Google home page, and hit Enter.

Now he had the search results he wanted!
Picture the inverse. Would you really email an old boss from 2 years ago asking for $50 so you can buy yourself a new job?

I would not, nor would I want coworkers asking me for money. Imagine if someone asks you and for whatever reason you don't want to bet on them - how will that conversation go? How will that affect your professional relationship with that person?

This is more or less a proposal for nepotism-based gambling.
"South Pole posts most severe cold season on record"
-- https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2021/10/01/south-pole...
Yeah maybe the current system is an emalgamation of 20 such cheap solutions accrued over decades. If they are not i a crisis, they should do ot properly
Writing SQL and drawing diagrams for enterprise systems inside of a huge company is not what the highly-compensated senior engineers tend to be doing. If you want to make more money, move out of being an “architect” and into being a principal engineer at a tech company (one whose business is making software; not a company that just happens to employ software developers).
"I would like there to at least be clarity "

It's clear if you want it to be.

The reason it's sometimes not clear, is because companies want to go right up to the line of 'crypto' without it actually being a security, in order to defraud people.

'Insider Trading' isn't always perfectly clear either, but it's really clear if you want to steer clear of it.
> something like this ever caught on

things can only catch on if it is truly beneficial in some way, and the people doing it is finding it useful to continue.
You can use a CoL converter to see if you're getting paid what you're worth in the Bay.

But if you're content, you're content. I wouldn't worry about it too much if that's the case.
I’d say, I almost got tempted to download the app to later realize that I have to commit a 7 day trial before even trying the app. Would be ideal to just buy the app for $$ price rather than upfront cost.
You think the appearance of secure elections functions any differently in the US?

Whether or not election security is an actual problem, one side saying “just trust the process” is not going to be credible. That’s true in America, and that’s true in Taiwan. Hence the elaborate process in Taiwan.
Just for comparison, I'm a staff ~ level engineer not at FAANG, not in California, similar experience to yours and this year I will make about $400k.
This makes a lot of sense. When you are high enough you are so far away from the trenches that the only responsibilities are: 1) Making decisions and 2) Taking blames for whatever reason. That's why you get the big bucks.

Extrapolated from that, I kinda understand why many senior employees do NOT want to climb the pole but instead staying closer to the trenches.
Correct. That's why SV startups are billionaire's playgound.

And billionaires are much more scarce outside of US (and those who exist have better chances investing in other fields).

That's why SV salaries for developers are so crazy.
For one thing, aspiring journalists would want to contribute to it to "build their brand". This motivates lots of contributors to Open Source, Wikipedia, and Stackoverflow.

There are many tells for fake news. One, for example, is citing anonymous sources. Another is inventing a trend out of a single data point. One tell I use is when the journalist uses hyperbolic words, and clearly opinionated words like "bad".

> isn't a compelling argument.

Of course. Until somebody does it anyway. My entire career is based off of doing things everyone told me would never work.
Meat and mental health: Meat eaters suffer less depression, anxiety
I had the chance to do that in 2009 and my wife (then fiancé) and I decided to stay close to family. I often wonder if that was a mistake...
You probably didn't blink when MS Office was made mandatory at a high school near you. That's obvious, all the tools you need in the world of business. Obviously, that's all you need ...

I used to teach National Vocational Qualification (NVQ) level 1, 2 and a bit more, in IT, in the UK, back in the mid 1990s. The ones I worked with were RSA based which means that they were basically typewriter type exercises that were slightly sexed up to deal with word processors etc.

We had 12 modules to cover. Each student needed three pieces of "evidence" per module. So a module might be word processing or spreadsheet or database. We also had to cover fax (office equipment) and email (as was).

A folder of evidence would end up with roughly 50 sheets of paper, a few letters and prose, some spreadsheets and simple database reports. A few emails and so on.

You were allowed three mistakes. Yes three, across a lot of docs/body of evidence. An example of a mistake is a speling mistake. Another mistake would be not exactly two spaces after a full stop (period). It was awful and generally ended up with quite a lot of the trainers "truing up evidence".

On the other hand, I have an eye for noticing mistakes that is close to legendary.

Soz, waffled on a bit.

If your child was taught rudimentary Blender in school, I hope you'd be pleased.
Well, it's not comparable, you wanted different use case
there's kdeconnect-cli
kdeconnect seems daemon like enough to me since it's entirely detached from its myriad UIs
> People can barely get the house to put the kid in. That’s the first milestone and if you can’t do that, you pretty much back off from all other shit.

If you think buying a house is a prerequisite to having children, you don't know much about any past or current society.
haha funny also when the crypto goes belly up or a deal goes sideways they run straight to "the king" for help
>Apple in general has a poor track record of paying out bug bounties

What is this based on? My understanding is that Apple pays out 99% of the reported bug bounties and that's only because they include multiple submissions in the totals but not in the payouts (they only payout the first discovery or root discovery).
Not everyone has a mailing address. Some sensible states don't bother with ID at the time of voting. You provide proof of identity when registering and your signature goes into a book. You sign in on voting day and any challenger can compare against the registered copy.
I have. Planning is different from execution.
Autodesk continues to hurt itself in it's confusion. When I was in HS it was super easy to officially get their software as apart of a school. Now they require you to show student id's that many schools don't have, or give scanned documents of your attendance there. You know what students do? Pirate. Or just use blender. Nobody wants to use products they don't know, and by Autodesk being managed by old stupid people they hurt their future business. Same with Adobe. Fire yourselves and replace with engineers.
We now require proof of vaccination to eat in a restaurant, but requiring an ID to vote is unreasonable and can only be because you want to stop people from voting. Which may be true (anything is possible), but the sheer irony here is almost too much.
Yeah I just tried it out and holy shit it's light years better than the default camera app when it come to letting you adjust manual focus and what not. I signed up for the trial. The yearly fee is only $11.99. How did you spend $80?
But it would be much better to support a company that isn't horrible over costing the evil company an amount of money they won't even notice.
What's the pharma theory?
GitHub wouldn’t sell for only $7.5b today though, it would probably be in the $25b or higher place. The explosion in valuations, especially in enterprise SaaS stuff over the last few years has been remarkable. I don’t know if that is sustainable or not, but in three years, the metrics have changed significantly.
I saw one in the flesh (a friend had one) and it was surprisingly good, I expected the screen to be crap but it was not. You could legitimately get a big screen on a device that fit in your pocket. It also has a screen on the “outside” so you can use it without opening it — as a convenience or to reduce the number of flexes of the screen?

The thing is, android tablets suck (I know, and it appears the market does too) so the experience of the larger screen is meh. I’m happy with a small phone when walking around and an iPad (or hell just a laptop) when I’m at home.
I confess I assumed this is how all sickness work
The problem is that they can’t find jobs as IC to make $200-250K a year. Unless they go to management, but that’s another career track they need to learn and move to. I think software engineering is one of the highest paid job as IC other than maybe doctors.
> with the explanation that hardware is just so worthless anyway compared to online software sales, there was no other choice.

This is especially strange since Apple makes tons of money off online software sales tied to their hardware. I believe several other companies (like all the console manufacturers in the game space that Valve is in) do to.

It's fundamentally a very bad call.
To glorify God.

That's the standard Sunday School answer. It doesn't work for everybody, of course. But for the right kind of believer, it answers the question.
Just as a reminder, 2100 is closer to us than 1940. The future is rushing at us fast.

As for the Amazon becoming a barren wasteland, an epiphany moment for me was to realize that the rainforest isn't a rainforest because it just happens to be where it rains a lot, it rains a lot because of the dense biomass of trees that repeatedly pump the rainwater out of the ground, fueling a huge biosphere from which it escapes as vapor, where it condenses again as rain, not far away. The Amazon continually recycles its water. Without that rainforest that rain will just end going underground, into the watertable or into the Amazon river, likely taking the topsoil with it.

The evidence that this can happen isn't all that far away. Many regions of Africa have geologic evidence of shifting multiple times from being desert, to being forest, grassland, savannah, rainforest, and back. The cycles might be over hundreds of thousands or millions of years. Mankind's release of massive CO2, plus our deforestation habit, might indeed cause a catastrophic cascade of this region in mere centuries.
Nine years later, bug which breaks bookmarklets still unfixed in Firefox
About 50% of Apple’s profits are from the App Store by my calculations[1], although Apple makes it hard to split out App Store profits versus handset profits[2].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28638939

[2] https://www.marketwatch.com/story/how-profitable-is-apples-a...
Population is almost certainly going to shrink, largely because most people don’t really want to have a ton of kids once they’re given the option to. The more resources people have, the fewer children they tend to have in fact.
Recognizing "classes" in society is so XIX century, we should move away from that.

Re: the original concern - that website's methodology is very vague and intermixes a number of very distinct criteria. That's why their overall result looks bogus and they even have a page to yell at the critics preventively [1].

[1] https://fsi.taxjustice.net/en/introduction/method-and-concep...
Why China Can't Keep the Lights On
For anyone seeking a workaround, it is to disable CSP:

security.csp.enable = false

All I want is to clip text selection to my notes.
Sure, but who is benefiting?

It could catch on because companies and bosses like it, but it could harm workers for all kinds of reasons. Thus, workers need to loudly voice their concerns, so that companies will be discouraged from adopting it.
Zuckerberg election spending was orchestrated to influence 2020 vote
And where do the employees who get laid off work? That solution doesn’t scale.
"Liquid metal proven to be cheap and efficient CO2 converter"

In their paper, the research team show a 92 percent efficiency in converting a ton of CO2 as described, using just 230kWh of energy. They estimate this equates to a cost of around $100 per ton of CO2.

Source: https://phys.org/news/2021-10-liquid-metal-proven-cheap-effi...

(To put this price into perspective, according to the EPA, a single passenger vehicle emits 4.6 metric tons of CO2 per year. Source: https://www.epa.gov/greenvehicles/greenhouse-gas-emissions-t...)

And if that's not your jam, check out Prometheus Fuels, which produces synthetic fuels from captured carbon: https://www.prometheusfuels.com
> I'm not sure Microsoft could be a better actor than Facebook if they wanted to (remember it all came down on us way after the devices were sold).

Huh?
Usually companies get a new budget/headcount allocation. I doubt it will be relevant to FAANG as much as larger companies that don't have as advanced of a pipeline, but for the non FAANG companies winter is the worst time to find a job.
> for reporting

Fake news. The progressive crook wanted for exploiting and disclosing the data, not for reporting.

Actually, Krebs-on-security should know where a line drawn.
In 1895 Lord Kelvin stated that “heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible”

1900's gave us first flight on a plane made of wood, by 1960's we had spaceflight and nuclear power.

'Intuition and knowledge' would suggest that today, as another 60 years passed, we should have fusion power and cities on Mars, but the world is still powered by coal and instead we got the iPhone.
ADOP: The most impressive thing I have ever seen in computer vision
Because it is, and anyone who passed high school biology should know it.
> The belief that one's deity chose to assume the physical form of a man: isn't that about as anthropomorphic as you can get?

In my opinion, no.

Anthropomorphism (as commonly understood) means to ascribe human characteristics to things not human; we don't talk about anthropomorphizing your grandma, but we do talk about anthropomorphizing a constellation.

Now if you believe, like the Rawlsians suggest, that there are pre-incarnate spirits floating around and these then decide to inhabit specific bodies according to a lottery, then this is also not an anthropomorphism, but is rather a creation account of how humans come to exist.

You may not believe it's accurate, but it's still a creation account. It is no more an anthropomorphism than saying that man was molded into being from a piece of clay into which God blew his breath. That is not an attempt to anthropomorphize clay.

Finally if you believe that God literally became a man, then this is yet another origin account of a specific man. It's only if you don't believe that he became a literal man that you can speak of anthropomorphizing. Suppose he was an angel that only looked like a man, but wasn't really a man. Then anthropomorphism would be correct. But if he really was a man, and not just like a man, then it's not anthropomorphizing.

So the miracle of incarnation describes a creation account of one specific man, much like the creation of Adam from dust is a creation account of another man. If you are extending the label of "anthropomorphizing" to one, then you should also extend it to the other, at which point you've left the commonly understood meaning.
and what happens when you and I both register the same keyword pairs? or some large corp registers every single keyword pair they can imagine?

your also now tying search into a social platform by using "friends" or "peers". i want to find something regardless of what anybody else is doing or has done. if i wanted what my friends were doing, i would already know about it from talking with my friends.

i'm so sick of everything trying to be relevant to what others are doing i could vomit.
Okay, now picture a world where all high end tractors have this functionality.

Companies have determined that's what they're going to offer the customer and they'll brick any attempts at modifying the hardware. They're making money refining their AI and selling off customer data, so why not?

You need the high end tractors because they're the only machines that meet the requirements of what you're doing.

This is what the legislation folks want to stave off. It's in a similar vein to the right to repair movement (which is dealing with similar restrictions right now, in the real world - see John Deere tractors).
Ok now but I definitely paid a price to get here. No free lunch.
If things are working so well in Europe, why hasn't most of Europe seen any economic growth in two or three decades? That sure sounds like it's severely broken to me.

The GDP of Germany and France are both below where they were in 1995 inflation adjusted (and that was true even before Covid hit). Britain's economy is where it was in 1998. Italy is far below where it was 30 years ago ($2.1t today; $1.32t in 1992, which is $2.58t inflation adjusted). Spain is where it was in 1992. Russia's economy hasn't expanded in 13 years; the Netherlands is in the same boat as Russia, no expansion since 2007-2008. Belgium's economy hasn't moved since 1995. Sweden's economy has grown by about 10% in nearly 30 years (not per year, total; $284b in 1992, which is $564b inflation adjusted; their present GDP is $625b). Austria has similarly seen economic stagnation for nearly a generation. Finland was at $141b in 1990 ($303b adjusted), they're at $300b now. And so on.

If Europe weren't disastrously broken, they wouldn't be suffering such intense and widespread economic stagnation. How long can that stagnation continue before something very bad happens (eg the social safety nets start to melt, as costs climb with demographic aging and there's no economic growth to offset it; growth doesn't get easier as the worker demographics erode)?

While Europe has been asleep for 30 years, China went and became a superpower with an economy larger than the whole of the EU, starting from $426b circa 1992.
Two thoughts. First, consciousness may exist by itself, e.g. is a book that describes itself in a complex enough way conscious? It wouldn’t even require the flow of time or a reader, but once you read it, it’s clearly self-aware. That’s a hard notion of consciousness.

Second, the easy, down to earth answer to “what is conscious” (iow, where do “beings” end) is where a structured perception ends. Your hand is a part of you because of a broadband link to it. It ends at the skin and hair. Lack of signal and control separates you from everything else. Organized groups have much less bandwidth and while still “pan-“, that’s much lower level of consciousness. Sometimes they synchronize well enough, but that’s just a correlation.
typical reply of a guy who live in SF

> Predictions about what conditions look like in the year 2100 (let alone 2500!) are meaningless because they assume little to no improvement in technology or energy availability.

As meaningless as assuming there will be improvement in technology or energy availability

It's not profitable, therefore it is not the priority, at all

We have the tech to build super cheap housing for everyone, yet poverty and homelessness skyrocket

So to think we'll solve the issue we have with Earth's climate cycling through its natural cycles is mind blogging
Won't Oculus simply add some oculess detection code to their next developer release so that any future apps and updates to existing apps stop working all together if detected?
What's the alternative? You want soldiers that don't know how to reload their gun? Drivers that don't understand how to use the steering wheel? Writers that don't know what a pencil sharpener is for?
This company’s mistake was that they didn’t implement this pay-to-play setup as an Ethereum smart contract and create NFTs to represent the employees.

With that kind of scheme they’d ascend to the crypto parallel universe where they can raise millions and it doesn’t matter if nobody ever uses their platform for its intended purpose.
I was thinking as a conscious strategy that would impact the way all libraries are built. In my example I posted above, there are no dotnet APIs showing. Its all abstracted. Libraries should create new APIs that are just wrappers around the dotnet library.

Whereas, if you look at the examples in the Giraffe framework, you need to do a bunch of dotnet boilerplate. https://github.com/giraffe-fsharp/Giraffe#doing-it-manually

open System
open Microsoft.AspNetCore.Builder
open Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting
open Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting
open Microsoft.Extensions.Logging
open Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection
open Giraffe

let webApp =
choose [
route "/ping" >=> text "pong"
route "/" >=> htmlFile "/pages/index.html" ]

type Startup() =
member __.ConfigureServices (services : IServiceCollection) =
// Register default Giraffe dependencies
services.AddGiraffe() |> ignore

member __.Configure (app : IApplicationBuilder)
(env : IHostEnvironment)
(loggerFactory : ILoggerFactory) =
// Add Giraffe to the ASP.NET Core pipeline
app.UseGiraffe webApp

[<EntryPoint>]
let main _ =
Host.CreateDefaultBuilder()
.ConfigureWebHostDefaults(
fun webHostBuilder ->
webHostBuilder
.UseStartup<Startup>()
|> ignore)
.Build()
.Run()
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I have no data to back that up but I think you may be right. We always show salary as a normal distribution but maybe it is bimodal.
Ken Lay (Chairman, CEO) had a heart attack and died, not suicide. Jeffrey Skilling (CEO) was initially sentenced to 24 years, later reduced to 14, served 12. Andrew Fastow (CFO) was sentenced to 6 years, served 5.