skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is buying a house the most sensible option for someone sitting on enough cash for down payment? Or should they rent and invest the cash somewhere? Especially if they are risk-averse and not familiar to hands-on investing?
Serverless means infrastructure as code and you're in as much control of the system as they want, which can be near 0, and they'll tell you it's for your benefit to have no control. Why use a bank vault when you can have a crypto wallet.
The most at-risk buildings in SF are so-called "soft story" buildings, low-rise multifamily dwellings built on top of a parking garage or commercial space, especially those constructed
before increased regulation (I believe in the 70s or 80s): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_story_building
On your logger idea, many microcontrollers have watchdog timers that can trigger a “wake up and do this” routine. You could have the controller wake up once every couple of seconds and check an LDR. Then go back to sleep. With well written code, you could easily get a year out of a coin-cell battery
Thanks for the sage advice. I have some homework to do.
> Which is why certifications, audits, and minimum mandated standards are critically important.

Not sure about that. All the security standards want me to run software written in an unsafe language as root on every device, intentionally parsing malicious inputs continuously.

That’s not making anything safer.
It's a good exercise, and one of those experiences that helps to take the magic out of things (which for many people is an intimidating barrier preventing further understanding and growth). Like writing a compiler, various network protocols, file parsers, operating system, or directly writing assembler (especially if you've always used higher level languages before).
ARPANET probably was the last time there was high trust in Internet
Speaking of comedy: the only people to whom being uncomfortable isn't acceptable in 2021 is...cis het white men.

There's a difference between feeling uncomfortable because someone is being misogynistic & feeling uncomfortable because of the realisation that--regardless of specifics of personal situation--anyone in that demographic benefits from systems of oppression.

You're reading this in part because not everyone in your life told you that you should seek an interest outside of technology & entrepreneurship to which you would be "better suited".

Disclaimer: Have stood on a stage with a microphone and made a paying audience laugh.
When you and your friends get emails every day about how you're getting fired for not taking a drug that you're not going to take, you're going to have very little faith in the economy.
I'm not sure what from my comment makes you feel I don't understand this is the premise of the episode?

My criticism would be that a scene where the main character of a show makes a series of demeaning remarks about someone's race to the point where they are so offended that they leave the apartment isn't funny. The fact that Jerry is trying to get laid and blows his chances is beside the point.

The Winona character is humiliated and the episode gives this no weight at all. The only consequences for Jerry and Kramer's racism is that Jerry doesn't get into a relationship with Winona.

Looking back on this from 2021, it hasn't aged well for me.
> I do have a clearance as well and yes sorry I didn't let us get locked into Pivotal like you did and cost taxpayer millions.

Probably not cleared any more.
It's pretty rare to have a house, or a building, build on bedrock in the Bay Area.

As a contractor with a foundation that settled it's nerve racking.

That said, very few foundations that settle need to be repaired. The average homeowner thinks the opposite though.

I stopped my settling by draining mine, and the neighbor's roof downspouts to the street.

Even without that fix, I doubt my house would have settled further.

It's true that most buildings/houses settle.
Make real estate purchasing decisions based on your own life situation, not whether or not you think you can successfully time the market.
People who work for intelligence agencies generally do not randomly tell complete strangers on their vacation that they work for intelligence agencies.

I don't know what you do for work, but he might have been trying to manipulate you. It's a common trick to disclose a 'secret' to someone to get them to trust you.
It's part of having high immigration rates combined with our zoning laws.
> Violence without consequence is worse than gory violence, because it teaches the viewers that it's ok.

On the other hand, I would assume that it desensitizes viewers to violence. I'm not sure how or if that translates in any way to real life violence. I wonder if there are any studies out there on the subject?
> What makes nuclear power an attractive prospect to us is the long period of time a ship can remain at sea without the need to return to port. This is important to our resident communities at Storylines, as they see that if something like the Covid-19 pandemic were to happen again, they could remain safely at sea and potentially avoid it.

How disappointing (and dystopian). I thought it would have more to do with the terrible amount of pollution that shipping spews out.

They’ll need to pull into port or connect with a supply vessel eventually for food and other such consumables. Just like submarines and aircraft carriers. (Jets don’t run on electricity nor do all of the escort ships.)
I just read through it, and realized that I had read it before. To be honest, it's very poorly written and the story isn't particular believable.
I personally do not mind the state of web browsers anymore, to be a web browser today is quite akin to the operating itself now (Let's not talk about Chromebooks), It's a very complex, resource heavy monster that abstracts away hardware differences from the software, and I love it. Web today is a mess, What we thought a browser will do, read HTML and render it on the screen, has been well offloaded to well, "web apps", and web browser just is a tool that runs them, quite similar to what the OS does.

What I like about web is how "safer" it is compared to well running binaries on the OS, me visiting a site would not give it access to all my private photos, and potentially allow it to add itself to startup everytime I open the OS without my permission.
Heavy Metals in Cooking Spices
There is so little quality on Netflix it's laughable. Anything that gets a slight following has a mediocre at best season 2 followed by 2-4 seasons of garbage. Very little is critically watched on the network because an entire 8-12 hour season is dumped on one day.
<<Some people would be better off unemployed on government help, than employed full time at minimum wage in a city where housing is unaffordable and inflation is at 5%.

I mean it is true. It is virtually impossible to categorize the statement as false. And yet it is wrong in the context of existing society without some additional qualifications.
Advanced city is not where the poor have cars, but the rich use public transport
They payback failing _graduates_. While this seems fine and dandy: how many fail before graduation? -- just call it "gaming the onus".
They were going to burn it for heat anyway. This produces less CO2 than getting it from a tank.
>I intensely dislike the need to define a rigid type to serialize / deserialize.

You can deserialize to a map, without having to define rigid types upfront. But for me, it's more painful to use, because instead of writing something simple like "person.Address.City" with "rigid types", I have to retrieve values by key and cast them to target types.

But pretty much all JSON I have dealt with had an implicit schema, so I see no problem with defining a schema using Go's type system. For me, it's a plus, and defining a type takes, like, 30 seconds? There's also the handy json.RawMessage which you can use to skip certain parts, or defer parsing to a later time.

>And go's libraries and syntax for dealing with dynamic json are pretty painful.

I don't remember having to deal with "dynamic JSON" in an API, can you give an example?
He's the guy who made Lobsters[1]!

[1] https://lobste.rs/
I'm going to have to be a bit pedantic here. The ISS is at an altitude where the air pressure is 10^-9 Torr, or about one ten-millionth as dense than the atmosphere at the surface of the earth.

In laboratory terms, that's an ultra high vacuum which only specialized facilities on earth can achieve. I think that calling it Vacuum is perfectly reasonable, unless your standard for vacuum is deep interstellar space?
Trojan Source and Python
> Any company that accepts or disburses money (in a “currency”) as a component of its DeFi can be regulated.

That’s the point. If you run a business and take custody of customer funds you’re on the hook. With real decentralized solutions this is obsolete and legacy.

AFAIK, simply accepting payment in cryptocurrency for goods and services does not make you a VASP under currently proposed legislation.

It’s going to be interesting to see and decisive where different countries draw the line of what constitutes a VASP.

> If decentralized means outside the ability of regulators to regulate, then is also needs to be “detached” in the sense that no money can exchange in or out

I don’t see how that follows. You will have regulated VASPs requiring KYC/AML from their customers (much like banks etc In traditional finance).

Then you have individuals doing peer-to-peer transactions. Those who transact between assets and yield profit will have to pay capital gains tax on that.

(Unless by “money”/“currency” here you’re referring to fiat currency and not cryptocurrency? In that case yeah. But we have stablecoins. My argument is that the regulation and enforcement actually serves to accelerate the adoption, since touching fiat or working as a traditional
company is becoming increasingly encumbered with red tape)
I’ve been using R as essentially a command line driven spreadsheet. It’s very good at ad hoc analysis in this case.
I'm building a webrtc video based dungeons and dragons app so my sister can DM for my kids and I instead of using Skype/hangouts/discord etc.. which all suck because she's in . So all that to just say I did it in Electron and it was a cinch and I'm doing mobile versions with Ionic. Both are web dev without exactly using browsers, but still using browser engines. Could be fun.
Also a truly astonishingly beautiful babbage engine. I came from the UK to CA to see it.
Ask HN: How do I fix what I didn't learn during undergrad?
Hey everyone,

I'm a 31 year-old back-end developer. I've worked as this job for about 6 years and I learned everything on the job. I got my bachelor's in Software Engineering at 22 but I started working as a developer way later (at 25).

After moving to a new country I realized that going to a terrible college and not learning anything during my undergrad was a huge mistake.

I know a lot about complex, data-intensive systems because I was lucky enough to work at a start-up that hit it big. My resume is impressive in the eyes of the recruiters but goddamn, I am literally clueless about algorithms, data structures, and everything else they teach you about during undergrad so I cannot pass any coding interviews.

Nobody cares about real-world skills and they're all asking me to implement data structures that are just names to me at this point.

How do I unscrew this situation?
Get a masters and possibly a specialization? Go to coding bootcamps? Pivot into another job?

I'm pretty good with systems administration too but I feel like I won't have many career options after that.

I'm not looking for a magic fix. I wanna fix this once and for all.

Any help or suggestion is appreciated.

Thanks in advance.
Thank you for your well-thought-out response!

I don't think hopepunk or its variants, solarpunk, etc, provide solace, but moreso act as reference points to help people say, "Our society could be more like that. What can we do to make that happen?"

As you alluded to in your comment, fiction can be a powerful way for people to explore and shape the future.
A Technical Deep Dive on How HicEtNunc Was Recovered
It is disgusting. Even more so because at least for part of that time the prosecutors knew that there was no evidence against her.
You mean "Jumanjers"?
To be honest, it's very poorly written and the story isn't particular believable.

I kind of agree with that assessment, but I still found some interesting ideas in it.
Haven’t gone through the article yet but wanted to ask the reason behind removing the first part of the title? Article does seem related to Linux in some way so you could have added the linux bit while still improving the original title (assuming it wasn’t clear in itself).
Just ask Japan.
This is where I strongly disagree with the adage, "if everyone around you is an asshole, you're the asshole." Because not necessarily; some places are just full of them.
Most useless rewrite in rust project ever.
That's a CBSA region making its own decision to use their discretion and ignore enforcement.
> Do you consult arxiv every time you jaywalk?

What am I supposed to take from that? That you're for the use of scientific research here?

> Reminds of the droning crowds who claimed in March 2020 that masks don't work "because there is no supporting research".

Since you brought it up, maybe if you supported looking into the research more often you'd be aware of how little supporting evidence there is - not research, there's been research but it has failed to find the evidence you seem to believe exists.

From[1]:

> This recent crop of trials added 9,112 participants to the total randomised denominator of 13,259 and showed that masks alone have no significant effect in interrupting the spread of ILI or influenza in the general population, nor in healthcare workers.

> It would appear that despite two decades of pandemic preparedness, there is considerable uncertainty as to the value of wearing masks.

From[2]:

> Evidence from 14 trials on the use of masks vs. no masks was disappointing: it showed no effect in either healthcare workers or in community settings. We could also find no evidence of a difference between the N95 and other types of masks but the trials comparing the two had not been carried in aerosol-generating procedures.

> But what of the folk walking down the road, going to the supermarket or watching the ducks in the pond?

> The answer is simple: we do not know.

From[3]:

> Unlike other studies looking at masks, the Danmask study was a randomised controlled trial – making it the highest quality scientific evidence.

> In the end, there was no statistically significant difference between those who wore masks and those who did not when it came to being infected by Covid-19.

> When it comes to masks, it appears there is still little good evidence they prevent the spread of airborne diseases. The results of the Danmask-19 trial mirror other reviews into influenza-like illnesses.

> But overall, there is a troubling lack of robust evidence on face masks and Covid-19.

They go on but I think that's enough, even for someone who appears to abhor research as much as you. If that's not the case then I suggest making yourself clearer in future rather than trying to pass off the blame through straw man responses.

[1] https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/masking-lack-of-evidence-with-...

[2] https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/covid-19-masks-on-or-off/

[3] https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/do-masks-stop-the-spread...
I'm wondering how plumbing & grey/black water could possibly withstand inches of shear or compression stress without bursting leaks, let alone feet.
Let's call it pretty open... I couldn't find one either, years ago, so I kind of went with what works for me.

Note that plan files aren't exactly a micro-blogging platform like some people seem to refer it to as. To me anyway, it's a way to capture work and todos in a simple digital journal.

This is the standard I followed for myself...

This is a rolling plan file where things get moved on completion against a specific date (no backtracking, sliding tasks)

- is todo
* is done (for grepping)

bugs are tagged [bug]
other tags can be use as [tag]
~~is a cancelled~~ task or bug
// is a comment or thought
@next is upcoming work
@later is backlog

if it is not done, it's in next, later or ~~cancelled~~

date is YYYY-MM-DDD followed by a rough recorded timesheet
:0000-0000-XXm as in :start-end military time -minus XX mins of AFK.
timesheet that is parsable by another program to get time spent /week /month /total

For example...

### 2021-01-10-sun :0900-2100-50m

* ditched ~~passport~~ [wtf]
* auth via bcrypt and jwt tokens
* new vue app, trying water.css - nice [noteworthy]
* JSDoc is awesome, makes typescript a lot less needed [noteworthy]
* sign in with email / pass against db
* register against db (not in vue yet)
* validating jwt tokens properly
* clean up package.json

Note that none of this is a replacement for actually doing the work ;)

http://programming-motherfucker.com
Even if you're against vaccine mandates, that's closer to "little faith in government" than "little faith in economy".
Man, this takes me back. I had a .plan file that was an ever-growing list of quotations, often in dialogue with each other. The only one I still remember was one from a friend who said, "you should put more quotes in your finger file."
I didn’t realize there was so much religion in the military. Gun in one hand bible in the other is the dumbest thing I can think of. Do they actually think if heaven and god was real they would be invited? Ha! I would love to hear how a military man justifies going to war and then preaching the bible surely the two go against each other.
An investment in the millennium towers is definitely safe and effective, sad to see there is some misinformation spreading suggesting otherwise
Yes it's my car that I drive like 2000 miles a year, and not coal plants in third world countries, hexafluorine or whatever magical greenhouse gas we develop and use for 25 years before realizing our children will suffer.

No, it's my relatively new and aggressively emission controlled cars.
A lot of classified stuff that is not known to the public is an open secret among the Baddies (TM).

Bin Laden apparently always wore a large hat (a cowboy hat, I believe? Pretty crazy) because he knew the CIA / NRO had satellites good enough to identify him.

It feels like "classified" is often an excuse to shut down conversation and general public awareness about how much something costs, not to actually protect knowledge of our capabilities.
Torrential rain can replace water in underground aquifers. But there is only so much water that can be absorbed by the ground, much of it just rushes out to sea.
> My ISP doesn't [support IPv6]. We can't fix that with software upgrades.

But we can fix that by not taking measures to increase the supply of IPv4 addresses. Scarcity makes IPv4 expensive, which then creates market pressure to deploy IPv6 sooner.

For example, your ISP might notice that they hold valuable IPv4 assets, and migrate their network to IPv6+CGNATv4 in order to sell some of them off.
> If all you did was to change all your passwords to never expire, you'd be reducing security.

Not necessarily. Except in cases of gross negligence, such as storing passwords in plain text, the human is always the weak point in a security system. If you make people less likely to leave their passwords on sticky notes, perhaps by removing password rotation, then you have improved the weakest link of the system, and improved the security of the system as a whole.
Article is paywalled and cannot be read.
My advice is typically just to join a tech-based startup. They won't (shouldn't) care about anything but whether you can deliver results. Coding is hardly a cost center. Breaking its own policies? There aren't any policies to speak of (yet). This is a bit of overstatement but close to the truth.
So the chandelier looking thing is a dilution fridge and is just used to make the processor cold. The processor is usually pretty small, not that different from your CPU. That part is indeed iterated on but the fridges aren’t changed much. The wiring is sometimes switched out, but the fridges get used forever. I’m using one now that’s maybe 30 years old. The dilution units are very hard to make, and there’s a very small academic family to which everyone who can make one traces back to.

They mostly hang like that since most dil units are designed so the coldest part is usually the lowest, and they’re generally orientation sensitive. You want easy access to the bottom part, so you just put the plates in descending order of temperature and you hang the thing from the ceiling.
Because Spotify is basically looking to monopolise the podcast industry. If you want to listen to Joe Rogan, probably the most popular podcaster in the world right now, you have to go to Spotify.
Yes in that you can access web3 sites “authenticated” by your wallet, but you couldn’t transact on them.
> Why, how, is it even possible to play music that isn't downloaded when not on WiFi and the option to download over mobile data is deselected?!

Are you playing content you've listened to before/recently? If so, the local cache will often work to play content even without connectivity.
Inflation was under control in 2009. The reasons people are worried about today’s economy are very different than 2009.
Ignoring tree shaking for a second.

If I have a library that needs to handle a bunch of general cases, but I only need 1 or 2 of them - it's probably less code to just write out those cases myself.

As a trite example, look at the source code for `is-even`. It imports the is-odd package, and the is-odd package has a bunch of error checking (and imports a library "is-number" to check errors too!) before it returns `n % 2 === 1` to is-even just to be negated.

Now blow this insanity up to all your packages of various sizes and you have a tonne of useless code that nobody needs.
Brady from Practical Engineering writes the script/article for every video first and then reads it word for word as narration. It’s a nice consistent format and I appreciate that he shares the script/article in concert with the video.
"Hopium" is the antithesis of punk.
The ongoing deforestation of the Amazon Basin is probably just as much of a long term threat.
vscode + typescript seems to only surface errors in the current file. If a change breaks something in another file it isn't apparent (in my experience at least). I added tsc to a pre-commit hook to catch these issues.
For what it's worth, I found the emulator way easier than the codegen step for the compiler, and it's probably easier than the AST generation too. Can't say enough good things about banging out a crappy emulator sometime when you're bored. It's not a huge commitment!
The root problem is no stdlib and a language design riddled with edge case foot guns that are easy to miss in what should be trivial code.
I can’t help but feel like this article (and a lot of articles written these days) feel like they’re building up to something but end up finishing abruptly and not really going anywhere. Kind of like a TV show that wants to hook viewers, but the writers don’t know where to take it after season 1.
Point taken, but i suppose i don’t see it as incredibly unreasonable. They think the outlook is worse now than when we were basically at rock bottom. March 2009 is about when i threw all my money into stocks and purchased a home. When you’re at rock bottom is when your expectations should actually be higher.

When the economy is cooking and we have all these artificial props keeping us up with insane healthcare spending and inflation on the rise, is when I’m more likely to have lower outlook.

Unless I’m mistaken it’s a measure of where you’re trending not where you are in a point in time.
I cancelled Netflix almost 2 years ago and now watch mostly independent content creators. Most of the time I don't feel like I'm missing much.

Originally, my intention was to join friends to watch Netflix together and spend the money on snacks to share, but Covid...