skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We have 1) inflation

Sorry, my criteria for discussing economics is that someone knows what the term "real" means in that context.

Most local community colleges offer economic courses for not too much.

> For some reason nobody wants to move to the rust belt where houses are nice and cheap. People don't want houses, they want the BEST houses.

I would just like to live in the same neighborhood that I grew up in.

This pricing out hasn't always been the case and it's not like these "best" houses became considerably better - it's been the last 10-15 years.
GLENN GREENWALD: It's the classic false flag operation and it was spread all day by the very same people who claim constantly that misinformation, disinformation, and fake news are such great benefits that you need to give them the power to censor the internet to stop it.
He's talking about the perception of trust, like in an interview. They won't have a history with you to see how trustworthy you are at that point.
I sort of see where you are coming from but as somebody that used PHP in the past and has left I can’t really get myself to look there.

Now when it comes to Python and Django I’m not so sure. I’ve read a couple of articles where some of the Django users where annoyed that in their opinion there isn’t enough development/new stuff in the Django.

Personally I think the biggest problem is that none of the MVC frameworks in other languages are all that bad and Rails has the problem that it is not better enough for you to have an incentive to learn the language JUST for Rails anymore.

I personally currently see the type of progress I want to see in a backend framework in Rails and in Phoenix (elixir) and I don’t think the changes that are coming are big enough to entice people away from another language just for the framework.

But for me learning Ruby was unexpectedly fun. I come from a Python background, but back then there weren't any Python or Django jobs where I lived at so I did PHP instead. I also learned quickly that JavaScript would be huge so I deep dived into that. When I got fed up with PHP (T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM) I did find a job with Ruby on Rails and Ruby clicked hard, in a way it never had before.

So yea, I don’t think we will win anything based on the Rails framework, but Ruby is fun and the community is a bit weird and that is majorly attractive, especially after you’ve been working as programmer for a couple of years and it becomes important again to Squeeze all the fun out of the job you can.
> Eventually, it will come down to common sense

People have been saying this for a long time in Canada, but there is no indication that things will change. People who waited and saved have simply seen that the price increases have far outpaced their saving rate.

When it's in a government's interests to keep prices rising, then they're going to do things that keep those prices rising.

Another outcome could simply be that actual ownership of a house in some areas becomes so expensive as to be the exclusive domain of the wealthy, and everyone else just rents. More middlemen raising the costs, more renting and less ownership per capita, as is the trend of more and more industries these days.
Yes, the ending returning to the start was beautiful ,in a heart breaking sort of way
Proton is not even six months old, surely you must remember.
I started my life as a carpenter. I loved it and would go back to it if money wasn't a factor. I'd love to be comfortable enough one day to flip/lease one house a year and do all of the work myself.
I suppose all the billionaire investors would just retire and not start 70 shell companies to own 100 units each. /s
mosh + {emacs,vim} work pretty well on less-than-perfect links.

One thing that I might miss with a local buffer is good syntax checking support (I use "flycheck" in emacs) -- it requires the server's software, and so composing local editing with server-based syntax checking sounds pretty hard to get working well.
Assuming 20% down and good credit, the bank will make a loan to someone earning $61,000 a year for that. This is hardly “tech sector” level income, but yeah it also isn’t affordable to the bottom third of millennials either.
I've always wondered, how certain is our understanding of Akkadian? Could the dirge singer have been a tap dancer?

My very small awareness of the history made it sound fairly speculative.
Sure!

- Use the workflow_dispatch type so it can be manually triggered. Or schedule if you want it to run periodically.
- Install dependencies like automake/cmake and libraries using brew (I cheat here a bit)
- Clone the repository
- Perform the steps for building a static build
- Use actions/upload-artifact@v2 to upload the executable.

It's simple, although to get it right with some programs. The advantage is that with one click you can download it, put in your path, and it won't need special paths.

Here's an example with jq: https://pastebin.com/gHu8dTgQ

Honestly the best option is asking maintainers of each program to add a static build to their projects in order to make their projects able to run without installing dependencies. Problem is, some maintainers are very anti-static-compiling.
Linus is known to have strong opinions and he can be often very wrong. Also, linux is not the epitome of security, so I don’t see how it applies here — I would much prefer if half of all computers wouldn’t turn into a giant bot net.
My experience with brilliant assholes is that it is combination of self sufficient prophecy and bullying effects. Some people think that being asshole is component of being brilliant and thus they assume you to be brilliant if you act like ass.

And the other component is that assholes often times end up dominating rooms and looking brilliant, because they effectively bully others into being silent. For most people, being silent is better then risking the asshole will target you.
I'm afraid the entire intro paragraph is wrong, it's one of those things "everyone knowns" but is in fact not true at all :-(

The best summary of why this is I've ever found is Prof. Devlin 2012's Stanford session on this very topic:

The Golden Ratio & Fibonacci Numbers: Fact versus Fiction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oyyXC5IzEE
I override this at a system level for some apps (e.g. Firefox, VS Code) by taking the following steps:

1. Open System Prefs and go to Keyboard > Shortcuts
2. Select "App Shortcuts", then press the + Button
3. Choose "Firefox" (or other relevant app) from the dropdown
4. Type *exactly* the name of the menu option that has the CMD + Q shortcut next to it, in this case "Quit Firefox"
5. Focus on the Keyboard Shortuct input and choose whatever new key combination you want to be used for quitting the app. I usually use CTRL + CMD + SHIFT + Q
6. Press the Add button

This video is older but also shows the general process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWbEBipLxKA
https://www.fastcompany.com/3044877/the-golden-ratio-designs...
> Except for marginal cases, it's not about how good you are at your job. You just have to be liked while being sufficiently good.

I think this is dangerous ground to thread. I don't like to work with assholes any more than the next guy and I'd certainly prefer working with people I personally like but that kind of thinking opens doors to all kinds of abuse; from favoritism (I like him, therefore he gets a pass when somebody else might not), through promotions (what does giving a promotion to somebody likeable over somebody more competent do to morale?) to plain fuckarounditis (playing career games rather than what's good for the business, wasting company resources on petty political games).

I mean, I get it - it's human nature. But something feels off when we're justifying our simian prejudices in an environment where we're supposed to prioritize somebody else's satisfaction (whoever is paying us) but instead we do what we feel is best for us personally, using a fairly emotional and error prone system of judgment (I don't care if this guy sucks, I like him because he's my friend).
Absolutely, it all depends. But I keep seeing close friends who are now home poor. They own their place, but that's it. They are done. They don't have any significant money for rainy days, they can't afford anything else because all their money go into their properties.

For me, that's not how I want to live my life. But as you said, everyone is different. So for them, perhaps that's ok. Not judging.
> These markets are nowhere near as flexible and liquid as regular fx

Love to hear this.
Ruby is dead, dont bring back the dead.
To clarify, "sufficiently good" doesn't imply "good" or even "competent".

In a toxic work environment "sufficiently good" may still be "incompetent".
I think there is a simple tip that can help anyone who does not feel motivated to be a writer:

Don't do it. Find something else you are motivated to do. If you feel like writing is something you should be doing -- or at least something you should want to do -- because somebody told you that, just get your advice from someone else.

Like me.
I am a fan of Peplink products.

I recommend https://www.peplink.com/products/ap-one-ax/
kudos, guys
As percentage of the entire market, 1% is small. But prices are set on the margin: the currently active buyers and sellers. Only a small fraction of the entire housing stock churns over each year. So if institutional investors want to buy a few thousand homes, it's absolutely substantial on its impact to prices. Only 40,000 homes are sold annually in San Diego county, despite there being 1.4 million residents.
Turing team member here. You can also try the demo at the following link which operates at pixel level for images (no meta-data which is how similar systems like search engines work). Another cool thing is that the model does inherent OCR without explicit training or inference set-up for OCR.
https://turing.microsoft.com/bletchley

Happy to answer any questions.
A closer analogy would be to only support static images instead of animations and to only support cartesian pixel grids with only 2 dimensions.
The domain name is hilarious
On android, you can keep a copy of Firefox 68.1, ESR, ready to run. If you run in desktop mode, you can use all your favorite old plugins. Then use a Nightly version, for daily browsing, if you are worried about up to date security and features.
(ESR= extended service release.)
Avis stock more than doubles after strong earnings
You might be surprised how little of the "sticker bandwidth" on a residential connection you can actually use when you are sending UDP at a highish packet rate, perhaps to an international destination, and need low loss+latency+jitter.

The average experience of users would go down significantly as you start to multiply the bandwidth requirements, which is why P2P isn't typically used for more than 2 participants despite the potential bandwidth savings to the operator.
Modern laptops have absolutely no style, no cool factor. I'd pay huge sums of money for a Sony X505 with modern specs.
Microsoft’s Edge browser is now available on Linux
I've never seen anyone compare Gilgamesh to the the Restaurant at the end of the universe! :D :D
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If someone wants to make this argument, it is actually WebKit, not Gecko, that is currently the balancing act on the web. WebKit is about 18% and Gecko around 3% browser share (mostly thanks to iOS). Also WebKit is currently trending up (thanks to success of M1) and Gecko is trending lower.
In the book it took them eighty years of being metal-starved on Terminus to develop pocket reactors, with everyone else in the galaxy incredulous that it was possible.

Bulky power sources at this point in the timeline are entirely consistent with the book. What's wildly inconsistent is that Cleon has a personal force field that's supposed to be invented a hundred years later, on Terminus, isolated from the Empire.
Sure, but I feel the quote still stands. The hard reality is high school is more representative of life than we would like to believe. If everyone likes you, you probably don’t get laid off or fired, can still happen though (the other half of the business)
PC Engines ALIX platform is very robust, combined with open source routers from OpenWRT or opnsense
https://www.pcengines.ch/alix.htm

https://opnsense.org/

https://openwrt.org/

any flavor of linux imaginable can also be loaded onto the ALIX platform, if you want more granular control (router solicitations, nat subnetting, etc...)

2.4 and 5ghz can be added with mini pci cards or with inexpensive openWRT devices connected via traditional cat6, or even USB dongles if your priority for 2.4 is low.
I was a Servlet and JSP developer. I really miss it. I liked it. I was good at it.
What if Tether had rugpulled on 27 Aug?
Great perspective except anger doesn't need to be a part of life.
I love Mosh and use it every day. One area it's failed on me however, is that I always thought it was supposed to self-recover in connection failures.

In practice, it means that every time my laptop goes to sleep, or loses wifi for an extended period of time, I need to do an interrupt sequence and re-start it. Not the biggest deal, but things would be so much better if there was a way to configure it to re-try every so often instead.

> mosh: Last contact 9:45:19 ago. [To quit: Ctrl-^ .]

I'm not sure what the use of this message is -- surely you would think after 9 hours, trying again would be worth it.
The design doc looks promising. I like the limits set on the scope, as a contemporary DAW is a monstrous program and it's impossible to implement all the bits simultaneously.

I wish the project flourishes and attracts both users and developers. Reaper desperately needs a Free Software competitor, even an aspiring one!

- Are there any plans to have some user-facing API for plugins/scripting? Professional workflows vary widely and automation helps a lot.

- How flexible the UI is going to be? Multi-monitor setups of different configurations are very frequent in studios, free docks and/or floating windows are very important.

- I see you mention sidechain routing, but it's unclear what are the plans on multichannel audio and, more importantly, the routing possibilities. I'd love to see some kind of node editor for this where you can visualize and manage complex routing schemes for your projects just dragging nodes and noodles.
This is more related to risk taking.
I know, my question still stands though, I get that its not a goal right now, just seems like something you should be thinking about from the beginning
Archived: https://archive.ph/zRjWa
According to Zillow the median price is $1.018 million in Alameda County. I probably should’ve been more specific in my post since “my county” could be anywhere.
Great. BTW how were you planning on updating the binaries of your project without this file?
Such dry humor is one of the best things about Jonathan Corbet's writing style.
Pipewire and wayland are not the default on Debian 11. You can use wayland on debian 11 fine, but pipewire is still not officially supported (https://wiki.debian.org/PipeWire).
It is horrible. And you could predict it was going to be horrible as soon as you saw the obvious distortions caused by Woke nonsense: gender swap of not one, but two of the central characters, the not so subtle hints at the horrible religious fanatic and climate change denying people who so oppressed poor Gaal, etc. Apple's Foundation follow the familiar Hollywood woke playbook: do not create new stories, because of course that would require actual creative talent, instead correct (maybe desecrate is a better term) old great stories to comply to SJW messaging. The new Dune is another example but Villeneuve actually has talent, and though he did pay the Woke vig, which is sad, he managed to appease the lunatics without impacting the story too much. I guess that is the best we can expect from Hollywood these days.
Is there a reason these gestures don't work? Like you have not gotten use to properly performing them?

I moved from a Pixel 2 to a Pixel 5 when I shattered my Pixel 2's screen and I am not a fan of gestures. It was damn right awkward and clunky at first but they work once you figure it out.
When you can't establish a direct connection (potentially with the help of STUN), you need to use TURN, which uses a server as a relay, so it's not really P2P any more (although a TURN server does less work than an SFU, so you can scale it up more cheaply).
IMO with any language one needs some sort of motivation that's media based, as just trying to go through courses is extremely tedious. It's the same for Korean, Japanese, German and just about every other language I've studied/dabbled in. I didn't find studying kanji particularly difficult, it's just some tedious work required upfront to get to the actual goal: communicating.

So for languages I would recommend pursuing native media and language exchanges. Discord servers are great for this as you can find native speakers and people to answer grammar questions, etc. For me, watching Korean variety shows motivates me to study vocabulary, and exchanges are great for making friends to commiserate with.

YMMV but actually being able to play music really deepened my connection with music. I understand and appreciate certain things now that would have been hard or impossible before.

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It's dawned on me just now that basically most of my hobbies have a social element to them. So it's not just limiting my computer time, but also getting me to go outside and make new friends. Having social groups that aren't just tech nerds is quite nice as well.

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Those are just some example hobbies, anyways. I'm sure there's a hobby for you.
Python has numpy and native bindings to Fortran. People often think of Fortran as archaic, but its math libraries are quite fast. With Python bindings, you don't need to write any Fortran in order to have access to those libraries.

Mind you, this is useless for web dev and a lot of other things, but that's still what has tipped the scales for many people.
Perhaps a tangent, but I found this exchange between Bradley Fitzgerald & Dewitt Clinton fascinating. Tailscale manages to not drop ssh connections even while the remote machine is being updated, with vanilla TCP.

https://twitter.com/dewitt/status/1329104663975587840

I too remember the era of ssh connections feeling strangely robust. I don't know enough about networking to fully understand how this works though.

But if that's possible at a networking level and all we need is a stable IP, then could an appropriately configured VPN solve these issues?
AT the end of the day even if a home is an asset, it is fundamentally a place to live for a lot of people, a lot of people would much rather rent than put all their savings into an over priced dump.
Does ssh require TCP transport? Wonder if you could do MPTCP... or if QUIC actually offered an un-encrypted mode, could be an option too.
I've been using Linux on a secondary machine since 2011, and as my daily driver since 2018. I've distrohopped quite a bit - Ubuntu (2011), Puppy Linux (2012), Manjaro (2013), LXLE (2014), Solus (2016), and then back to Manjaro (2018). I liked Manjaro because I could get newer packages in the repositories (when compared with Ubuntu) and because of access to the AUR.

I made the switch to Fedora 34 a few months ago from Manjaro. It has newer packages than Ubuntu, has more software than Solus, is more modern than LXLE/Puppy Linux, and is more stable than Manjaro in my experience. I got tired of running `pacman -Syu`, rebooting, and having my machine not turn on due to some new kernel change or some video driver change, or something else. I never had a smooth update with Manjaro, which led to me delaying updates for months until I would have time to debug and fix my laptop after the update. Bit of a security issue, especially with how often browsers update.

Fedora has been rock solid, and I haven't had any issues with my machine crashing or not booting into a desktop environment after an update. Congratulations to the team, looking forward to (smoothly) updating my laptop today!
Outside of the day job I've been tinkering with (too) many micromobility projects. I've been working on a series of weight-sensing-controlled skateboards, and this summer started working on an ebike project (https://metromotive.com/blog/2021/06/18/inertial-electric-as...) and a OneWheel-style vehicle (but with two wheels).

This winter I'm hoping to design a new PCB layout for an open-source motor controller, but it's been a nightmare getting parts even in quantities of one or two.

Coding-wise, I've got a bunch of projects that I'm kind of purposely not pursuing because the above is more fun and less like my day job:

- A connected "open" sign app for small businesses (connect a TV or use an old iPad, or an IoT plug switch). Collect and sell real-time data.

- Nutrition info for meals that aren't in a database (e.g. independent restaurants, modified recipes, box lunches), encoded in a URL-like format/QR code (https://nut.codes)

- A white noise app that tells time (https://www.halfbakery.com/idea/White_20Noise_20Clock)
Because it’s a bad take and conveys a shallow, simplistic understanding of literature as either fact or myth. Viewing literary artifacts in such a way is too black and white, overly modern and just not very useful when it comes to serious study.
Nortel is not even the only company Huawei plundered with abandon.

They did this with practically every one of their partners back in the 00s.
I think, the point where this logic misses is when somebody, with such christian belief, actively goes out and tries to vilify and fight against those who get married in a way that they disagree with.
That's what I do, but even this ESR isn't supported anymore.
The nice thing is that you can do both! You can up your savings while taking on a bigger than ever mortgage. A real example for someone who earns 50k per year would be to have 20k in a savings account while getting a 500k mortgage. You’d be taking advantage of the system and making more money with your debt than with your savings. That’s assuming inflation on the price of your house at 4-5% while paying 1-2% interest rate.
Arguably, the departure of Gene Roddenberry was what made TNG what it was after the 2nd season. Giving more spotlight to Klingons and Romulans, violating the prime directive, made for a more interesting show. Later DS9 improved on these concepts, by showing a Federation that is willing to bend the rules when desperate times, using deception (forging evidence to disrupt the Dominion-Romulan alliance), covert operations (Section 31) and even planning a genocide (infecting Odo with a disease to spread the disease to other Founders, also Hugh in Star Trek TNG).
So, from a 30,000 ft level, Microsoft built a clone of Notion.so?
Interesting, I had kind of the opposite takeaway. You can afford to pick friends followed by the best for pickup teams, where winning doesn’t matter too much. But when the stakes are high you need to be pick folks you can work with for months or years, even if it means their tech skills aren’t as solid as a candidate that is otherwise unfriendly or untrustworthy.
> ownership of a house in some areas becomes so expensive as to be the exclusive domain of the wealthy

I agree. In fact, I live in an expensive area, but planning on moving in few years when I will be retired. Then I will buy a mansion for little money. And still gonna have plenty of savings and investments to pass onto my kids.

I don't understand the ownership at all cost. You need to run some numbers and understand if buy is financially more convenient than renting. If not, it is ok to rent.
But some people are just obsessed with ownership. Even if is not financially sound.