skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I largely agree with the conclusion / sentiment of the article, but honestly it wasn't very good, to the point where it reads more like a D-level school essay than an opinion piece. It starts with an unsupported assertion about shortages that doesn't match most reader's experience (there actually are shortages - the root cause is another matter - they could have pointed to). They then abruptly and with feeble logic jump to conclusion about the cause that they rail on at length so as to make it clear that's what they really want to talk about. Which could have been ok if it was reasoned and had a new point to offer, but instead just gets rammed in, disjointed from the segue.

This kind of poorly reasoned writing makes it easy to dismiss the actual good points that might underlie it. I think it should have been ignored rather than flagged, but i also think upvoting it just helps build a strawman for proponents of what's going on to knock down.
Per the article: "No coding was involved"
There's a reason that Wacom tracks what application is running - it can change the functionality of the pad based on the program in the foreground. They probably want the information so they know what programs are most popular with their customers. That doesn't make it right, but it's part of the reason.
Did they count only paper books? I read on average one book each month, but all are digital.

Overall I agree with the idea, people for sure haven't stopped reading books. But I'm not that sure about the paper ones.
There are also various chemical solutions that you can put on the pumpkin to make it last longer. However those are not recommended if wildlife is around. Moose, in particular, love pumpkins. I suspect deer are the same.
You replace your “init” command with some VIMming of your nginx configuration.

The next on the line is that PHP doesn’t even need anything like version control because you can just copy files over SFTP.

PS: if your project is simple enough to fit in a single file I would argue that most of the time you may use absolutely anything (including a Google Sheet) and you would be equally happy with the results.
"and they must be directly targeted"

Woof, so I change my position from 'just have him apologize' - to - he definitely losses his job over this, and may face criminal charges (although I don't think people should be charged for loose statements they make, if he formed an organization and made this an 'organizing principle' i.e. 'Jews must be targeted' - well, that would be 'hate speech', and I'm the last person to think that kind of thing applies, but I mean, this is bad.)

Academic freedom gives you a lot of room to make statements that you think are true.

Academic freedom does not give you the right to rally and politically organize, under the guise of said academic freedom, and then to directly promote the 'targeting' of minority groups.

And I say this as someone who views many Israeli state and foreign policy actions as being highly suspect.
It's much better when the company focuses on the hardware and doesn't have the aspirations to turn into a spyware-driven "cloud-first" megacorp.
> It's also probably worth financially supporting Oracle if you make substantial money from Java-based software. Oracle is by and large responsible for the platform that you are using.

Mmm... That's an interesting theory, but one does not really know if the money will be spent on tightening down the Java platform and legal attacks or technical improvements[1]. In practice it probably does not matter either way as that company is not cash-constrained in any shape or form.

[1]: https://www.globalnerdy.com/2011/07/03/org-charts-of-the-big...
That analogy doesn’t even fit his question.
Sorry, what? You think Chinese manufacturing businesses aren't making a profit?
It sounds like you are doing DI without a framework. DI/IoC the pattern seems to be working for you fine if I'm reading your comment right.

Manually doing DI becomes interesting/challenging when not all of the injected objects are singletons (i.e., they are tied to a certain context) or when they have a lifecycle.
There most certainly is a world of options between "all open source" and "aggressively litigious jerks".

https://www.theregister.com/2019/10/04/oracle_virtualbox_mer...
One day I noticed nearly all of my food comes from Italy. They are also famous for clothes, and that seems to hold true as well - my best jacket is italian.

Here's a visualization of Italy's exports:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/It...
I'm utterly baffled that this worked. Ignoring an entire border of pins? Voltage levels from the chipset? Bios recognition? IO timing diagrams?

I kinda don't believe this, but I'm too lazy to look up old datasheets.
Everyone becomes an investor, in part because everyone must become an investor
Most apps just use a framework, and those frameworks more than likely already have a wayland backend, so you just automatically have a wayland-native app with proper hdpi, multi-monitor, etc support!
Volume Lock: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uglyguy.volume... It's useful also if you have small children that like to use the tablet with the sound turn up to eleven.

There are a few similar apps. I think we are using that.
It's impossible to prove that something is culturally impossible, though. So my point stands: premise #1 in the comment above, when interpreted as "culturally impossible", is a statement without support. When interpreted as "technically impossible", it's a false premise.
> In fact, I'm not sure that video games are actually good vehicles for plots. Video games are interactive, but all good plots require careful pacing and timing in order to be successful. It's possible to force this in a game, but the more you do, the more the game becomes an interactive movie.

I'm in the opposite camp. Movies are not good vehicles for plots, because the right pacing and timing is subjective. They almost always fail at storytelling, because they proceed at the same pace for everyone. The best you can do is to watch the movie alone at home. Then you can at least pause the film when you need time to think, or jump back to rewatch a section.

Cutscenes between gameplay sequences tend to make the game and the story worse. Both because they break the pacing, and because they are often used to show things that would not be possible in the game itself. The game already tells one story through gameplay, dialogue, and player choices. That story should take priority. The gameplay should be expressive enough that the writers can tell the story they want within the framework, instead of resorting to cutscenes that break the logic of the game.
> The average renter doesn't understand supply and demand?

You don't understand that making operating rentals harder and more expensive will cause rents to go up. So yes, there is a very large group of people who don't understand supply and demand and you are part of that group.

> Hell, I'd like to hear a great debate on the ethics of renting-without-equity, period.

If you force people to receive $500 in equity for every moment they rent, then rents will go up by $500 / month. This is bad for the people who cannot afford to pay that $500, or for people who would rather invest that $500 in the stock market or whatever. If you wave the regulatory wand and demand that X must happen, then what you are really demanding is that everyone must pay for X, whether or not they want to. Not that everybody will magically get X for free.
Yep, do this OP... don't try to hack in some automated script that now has a race condition with device setup. udev has a ton of hooks for enabling, disabling and doing anything when device state changes.
They got an Android lawsuit against Google over Android.
You have to add quotes in bash if the filename contains a space. Variables should also be quoted for the same reason, because their values might contain spaces. "${var}"
They are, in a sense. You do not receive the capital gains tax exemption if you do not reside in the house for something like 2 of the last 5 years before the sale. You also pay a different tax level if the sale occurs within a year.

I'm not sure how a 1031 exchange impacts these companies though. They're probably reinvesting the money in other real estate.
> scraping the barrel of revenue

I believe the idea behind capitalism is exchanging value for value (private property and the ability to exchange it).

Someone sitting back and skimming a tax off the top of others property, without providing value, doesn’t seem to be compatible with the philosophy.
I wonder if they'd also make their own crypto for this metaverse.
I still use it. Unfortunately, apps that don't respect the system proxy settings are common. (And now we have browsers that don't respect system DNS, but that's another rant...)
Hmm interesting, does the "move phone around" message ever go away? I'm working on tuning it still, but you might have to walk around and pan the camera around the area a bit more (looking into optimizing this more in coming updates). It's currently setup so ARKit can calibrate itself during that time, and that message should disappear once it's done calibrating. Once it's ready, a message like "Tap on the wall to see your artwork" should show up
here is an excellent archive of his works, including hypertext and diagrams of his logical system

Hegel by HyperText:

https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/index.htm

Visualiation of the Science of Logic:

http://autio.github.io/projects/scienceoflogic/
Right, but the GP-linked study disagrees with your assertion:

“ We now have results for over 1500 RCTs on Vitamin D supplementation. Some of the largest and most significant trials are listed and summarized at the end of this article. When tested on its ability to prevent disease, Vitamin D has failed to live up to expectations."

So no, it does not seem to work
All over southern/central NH and VT definitely shot up in the last 1.5 years.
I'd like to add that there are different flavours of both capitalism and socialism. The kind of disaster capitalism practiced in Russia and other former Soviet Union countries in the 90s certainly didn't lead to an improvement of living standards for quite a long time, if even.
China also presents a case of state capitalism where companies are strictly controlled by the government as evidenced by the recent set of regulations published a few weeks ago and many companies are owned by the children of party members.
For me, I want to play as technically perfect as I possibly can, so I guess the motivation is already built-in to my aims. For others, yeah this would be draining, especially for pieces that you're not actually interested in vs for me I just want to play whatever is in front if me regardless of genre
The quicker we can reach the tipping point of inequality, the better. I have no faith that anything will fundamentally change until things get bad enough that it explodes.

I hope we get to the point where the top 10% of individuals own 95% of wealth/assets in the next decade.
In 1984 the usage of works gets restricted by a totalitarian government, now in the real world written and spoken language evolves trough discourse even with people like yourself. I know you read the book... I said you didn't understand it.
I am shocked Realtors are not obsolete by now.

8 courses and a simple test, and if you're lucky they purchase Omissions & Error insurance.

I would like to see commissions capped at 1% nationwide.

(Oh yea, in CA you used to only need a 4 year degree in anything along with the 8 courses in order to get your Broker's license. Lobbiest from The Realtor's syndicate drew up a bill stating all brokers need to 4 years of work experience as a Salesman before sitting for the test. This durning Arnold's governorship. There was not one instance of a new Broker who got the license with the education exemption screwing up a sale. Arnold vetoed the bill. He said, "Since there are 0 problems, why make it more difficult to get a license. Gov. Brown ended up signing the bill though.)
Does the AI training dataset involve dropping a whale from great heights ?

"Ahhh! Woooh! What's happening? Who am I? Why am I here? What's my purpose in life? What do I mean by who am I?"

https://www.thecharacterquotes.com/the-whale
TIL - I expected that the chimpanzee sign language experiments would be a counterexample, but apparently the (IMHO surprising) lack of question usage was one of their outcomes.
Stock prices gravitate towards valuations in the long-term. This is an empirical fact, markets are fairly rational. And even if this wasn't the case, I can just collect the dividends and ignore what the market thinks.

A valuation is basically the total value of all future expected payments to investors. Each expected payment is discounted to account for time and risk, but let's use a discount rate of 0% for simplicity.

Let's say you have a farm, which is expected to pay $1B to investors over the next 10 years and then cease operation. The valuation is $10B. What if the market thinks this company is worth just $2B, is it such a big problem? No, if my valuation is correct, I can just wait 10 years and collect the $10B.
> I need to make a general remark to people who are evaluating (and/or) planning to introduce anti-bot software on their websites. Anti-bot software is nonsense. Its snake oil sold to people without technical knowledge for heavy bucks.

If this guy got to experience how systemically bad the credential stuffing problem is, he'd probably take down the whole repository.

None of these anti-bot providers give a shit about invading your privacy, tracking your every movements, or whatever other power fantasy that can be imagined. Nobody pays those vendors $10m/year to frustrate web crawler enthusiasts, they do it to stop credential stuffing.
In most markets (ie. not right now in a huge run-up), house flippers are generally good for a neighborhood. They buy run down, neglected, and under-market houses, fix them up to at-market condition, then sell them.

Oh, and they pay taxes on the profits.

If you choose to penalize this behavior, not only will it not occur in average and down markets, you’d lose out on the capital gains tax revenue that’s currently collected.
Today? Are they gone?
Similar guides exist for Russian encodings: http://vault.pmpc.ru/vf/16011417/6a7b205721142511253e4d581.p...

Then they got extended to detect writing systems:
https://i.stack.imgur.com/ed1Co.png
Of course it is if Zuckerberg is going to be shaping the vision.
Nbb-lambda-adapter: run CLJS on AWS Lambda, edit and run
I'm generally against taxes on stuff that is not vastly limited (buildable area in a good location is very limited compared to other stuff), but progressive tax here would solve a lot of problems (eg, 0% on your first property and primary residence, 1% yearly on your second one, 2% on third, ...). This would basically make owning more than two or three properties very expensive, and owning hundreds or thousands of properties impossible.
Python pip: command not found
Do you think it's abusive of Linux to offer APIs beyond what is standardized in POSIX, breaking comparability with other nix-like OS such as FreeBSD? Or is it abusive that clang constantly adds features that gcc lacks, making programs that use clang no longer compile with gcc?
They already are. Mortgage interest deduction is only for the home you live in. Rental properties deduct depreciation, and there are huge differences in treatment of capital gains when you sell the property.

See

* https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/know-the-tax-facts-about-rentin...

* https://www.millionacres.com/taxes/capital-gains/how-capital...

Tax treatment is completely different for rental and owner-occupied properties -- you really need to get an accountant if you own rental property because it's quite complex. Most homeowners don't need an accountant if they are just wage earners who own their own home.
I suspect that the problem boils down to the following:

1) Zillow made a financial/ML model which would predict the sell price of a home in N months.

2) Zillow leveraged dirt cheap mortgage rates + VC money to outbid other sellers to be able to sell the home in N months

3) Zillow drove property developers and house flippers out of the market.

4) The homes Zillow is looking to sell within N months don't have the "improvements" to justify the increased price.

5) The Zillow financial model turns out to have been biased on historic trends.

As others have noted Zillow makes money on more than just the price delta, they are also deploying capital to acquire more of the market to collect fees from. They are also theoretically able to benefit from appreciating prices being much much higher than interest costs in 2021.

The con of all of this is that it's a rent seeking business model entering markets that are already full to the brim with rent seekers. If Zillow acquires enough of the "float" in the market they can effectively set prices to be whatever the demand will bear. Surprisingly housing is so constrained at this point that in a major city like Boston you could purchase all outstanding homes for <200 Million dollars.
He was moved to the healthcare unit at the end of those 9 months after repeated petitions.
A pumpkin is not airtight. Like most living things, plants breathe in O2 and breathe out CO2 (in addition to photosynthesis which does the opposite). So the air inside a pumpkin is most likely atmospheric air with less O2 and more CO2, maybe other gasses that participate in the pumpkin metabolism.
Its not just in hot markets. That is myth
A short demo: https://twitter.com/borkdude/status/1454836645279186946
looking at last 1000 commits to gcc, it seems like about 80-90% of emails are associated with "big corps". however, this doesn't tell the whole story. according to https://lwn.net/Articles/867540/, over 85% (100%-6.8%-5.0%-1.6%=86.6%) of Linux kernel changesets are supported by employers, but nobody sensible would claim that Linux is not community developed. whether it is because of historical project culture, or BDFL, or simply a large number of contributing organizations, there is clearly a substantial difference between Linux and OpenJDK development methodology.
It breaks the expectation of programmers that operators in PEMDAS (or whatever you call it) are evaluated how you expect. If I type:

d = a + b * c

I expect it to be evaluated as:

d = a + (b * c)

Maybe that’s just me, but I bet I’m not the only one that thinks that way.

For non math operators, you may have a point…
Knowledge lost and prior art put under patent.
I was doing public, student radio in the 1980s. Cost nothing but time and effort to do the work. We had a huge audience without advertising or gov't interference. The yearly fund raiser and student union sufficed. Community.
When I sold my last house, about seven years ago, we got a free consultation from Redfin. "Should we fix anything or stage it?" we asked. "Meh, don't bother, just put it up for $250K and we can sell it."

Just to be sure, we consulted the realtor who had helped us buy our new house, and she convinced us to do maybe $15K of remodels on the kitchen and bathroom (for which she sourced the contractors) then told us how to stage it and put some little shrubberies up front, etc. Final selling price was $350K.

To me, that's the difference between places like Redfin or Zillow vs. an agent.
And after that, Elon would be broke. Tesla would be sold to Apple. SpaceX would be terminated, not enough margin.

50 years forward: an unexpected comet hits earth, kills billions. But today, a few million get food.

My point is: if there wasn't extraordinary benefit for extraordinary people, we simple wouldn't enjoy what extraordinary people can deliver. Most of the time it's not worth that, but sometimes it is. And I think we're not in a position to not play that card.
> The average renter doesn't understand supply and demand?

Given the quality of debate and/or fantastical thinking that I see in a lot of online forums, I'd be forced to wager that a pretty wide swath of people who debate rent (or other economic) topics online appear to not understand supply and demand. Whether or not renters on average do or do not, I can't say.
Your definition of rural may not meet the official one. We're up 20% here in a rural area of TN.
That only covers the agent commissions. The mortgage industry also charges substantial fees with little to no benefit for the buyer. Origination fees, lenders title insurance, appraisals, etc...
> Authoritarian “people’s republic of X”-style didn’t provide good outcomes.

Except, you know, China.
That’s just bullshit. X is architecturally bad, which makes sense considering that it came from a time when there were no goddamn GPUs at all!

Wayland is closer to the hardware what we actually use, so an implementation can actually be more lightweight, and it cuts out all the legacy shit from X and starts from a sane abstraction.

As an actual X maintainer put it: “ You can only apply so much thrust to the pig before you question why you're trying to make it fly at all”
As I understand it, modern flat earth stuff borders on outright religious belief (with a dose of antisemitism and conspiracy theories - a lot of qanon is just flat earth rebranded), so convincing someone like that with physics is like trying to convince a religious person that god doesn’t exist because we flew to space and didn’t see him.

I think what definitely works is reducing exposure and minimizing the number of new susceptible people who become aware of this stuff.
> If they're able to produce value without invasive tracking

This is completely backwards, no? Businesses want invasive tracking aka attributed ad spend. Apple's new rules prevent Instagram/FB and Snap ads from tracking / attributing properly. So those businesses just go to Google (Web, Android) to buy invasive tracking.

The interesting followup question is whether businesses will need to start making budgets for non-invasive iOS FB/snap ads to be able to reach people, or whether Search/Chrome history tracking on iOS is good enough.
I'll take that!
Good grief. It's a game for kids. Nobody needs updates. They could even take the weekend off.
Don’t forget that Oracle was guilty of shipping the AskBar as part of the JRE for the general public. That’s right, a malware which uploaded your browser history and redirected any 404 to a commercial advertising page, wrecking the web and the understanding of it for everyone.

Oracle is not to be trusted.
Interview with Charles Bigelow (2013) [pdf]
Oracle has been doing amazing work for OpenJDK and Java, it’s just that Oracle’s JDK isn’t a great business model. Glad that they realized that too and I hope it doesn’t stop them from putting resources behind it.
Nassim Taleb’s Barbell strategy has really changed my thinking on this. In a nutshell, you put 85-90% of your portfolio in super conservative low-risk investments that at least beat inflation, 10-15% in aggressive speculation with very high potential payoffs (like WSB short squeezes), and nothing in the middle!

Why? Black Swans. Taleb says:

"If you know that you are vulnerable to prediction errors, and accept that most risk measures are flawed, then your strategy is to be as hyper-conservative and hyper-aggressive as you can be, instead of being mildly aggressive or conservative."

The "moderate middle" isn't as safe as you think it is, thus, it's not compensating you enough for the risk. The conservative side of the barbell will protect you from a negative black swan, and the aggressive side will expose you to positive ones.
Staging is actually counterproductive

Anyone can take pictures

Most people already have the printout via some website

The network connections is a myth. If it's on MLS everyone that counts is already seeing it
Downtime is expensive. You could just bypass your infra and manually get it working so that you can fix your infra while production is up instead of when it's down.