skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are various sources for the first line, hence the 6-14x. You can choose whichever you like.

But think about it - have you heard of even one single case of someone recovering from Covid and then spreading it? The CDC haven't - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29201823

Contrast with vaccines. Contrast with the rhetoric. This shit is bananas.

For the second line, again, the CDC have said it themselves, albeit with caveats:

> For people infected with the Delta variant, similar amounts of viral genetic material have been found among both unvaccinated and fully vaccinated people

- https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/variants/delta-var...

Think about how wild it is that with all our communication capabilities you need to hear this from a random dude on HN. There is very sophisticated and coordinated fear-mongering at play.
I didn't mean that students would be tested on something they memorized years ago -- I was instead saying that this "memorization + testing => grades" methodology is forced on students for many years. I don't think it's a straw man because, at least in the US, this has been the standard model in the majority of public schools for the past several decades. The article that we are discussing specifically mentions pushing back on that paradigm. The parent commenter called the ethics of applying this "unproven fad" into question, so I think it makes sense to compare this to the ethics of the standard model.
Solo founder here.

Pros: you answer only to yourself.

Cons: you answer only to yourself.

When you’re flying solo you get to make all the decisions, but there’s no check and balance. Nobody to push you or keep you accountable.

On the other hand, there’s nobody to argue with and nobody to get in your way. You can build what you want.

Truthfully, I think it’s hard to gauge pros and cons because the personalities of the cofounders matter a lot. For example, Apple wouldn’t be Apple if it started with two Wozniaks or two Jobs. The specific combination of both is what brought the company to life.
>It'll also give the government the ability to add conditions to your money

Some of China’s experiments with digital RMB have already done this where the money they handed out had an expiration date. Japan as well with the GoToTravel/GoToEat stimulus campaigns where the money equivalent could only be used at certain hotels/restaurants.
There are exceptions. In a blue state: you have San Clemente and Newport Beach (Orange County), Huntington Beach (Los Angeles County). In red states: Bismarck, North Dakota (2nd largest city in ND); Provo, Utah; and Cape Coral, Florida. and if you dissect further you'll find red neighborhoods in blue cities like University Park in Dallas.
There's a tradition of Jewish mysticism that says the Universe was created out of letters and numbers, by combining them and permuting them. E.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sefer_Yetzirah.

Gospel of John also starts with the Word, which by and through all things were made.
Lutron Caseta. I personally like ZWave/ZigBee stuff more because it's more configurable and open, Lutron cannot be broken, even if you try.
We’ve come a long way since CD-R; I said this earlier but I guess it’s worth copy-and-pasting here:

> There are Blu-ray Discs specifically engineered for long-term archiving and have BER guarantees (anomalous bit read per gb of data stored per year archived or something).

Now these are obviously simulated numbers (the tech isn’t even old enough to test) but it’s a start: it means people are at least considering the right questions.

I wouldn’t write sensitive to a Blu-ray directly unless it was the kind of data where a bit-flip is not a huge deal (eg a backup of users’ profile images where there are many small files, a bit flip affects the content but doesn’t compromise the overall data, errors aren’t cascading, etc). There’s already bit error correction baked into the analog <-> digital transition layer but it’s not great - but fortunately efficient bit error correction at the file level has been a thing since before binaries on Usenet. Stick some PAR2 files on the Blu-ray or even serve your backup as a Blu-ray Disc plus a DVD-R stuffed to the brim with PAR2 data for the former (I prefer the first approach).
I don’t think the fault is in Home Assistant. Ultimately, if the smart home device doesn’t cooperate by providing a standards-compliant local interface such as MQTT or similar there’s not much you can do. HA tries to do its best with integrations that reverse-engineer proprietary APIs but obviously the reliability is variable.

When it comes to devices that do cooperate I’ve found Home Assistant to be extremely reliable. Every update I’ve applied has gone through flawlessly, but the truth is that once something is set up you don’t really need to update. I’ve set one up for friends with only local devices (WIFI switches and relays) and it’s been rock-solid for a couple years now. It’s probably severely outdated now but it works fine and being behind a firewall means outside security threats aren’t an issue.

It’s been working perfectly. They don’t even know nor care how it works behind the scenes, from their perspective light switches will toggle their corresponding light, some basic automations like turning off lights after 10 minutes in common areas such as the hallway and the heating will pause in any room that has windows open.
Yes, the same Josh Jones.

He also created bitcoinbuilder.com, which among other things, brokered the sale of people holding Mt. Gox bitcoin after it collapsed. If you held bitcoin on Mt. Gox, you could sell it to him and he then resold those rights.

Now that it looks like there is a settlement coming next year, he is still sitting on a mountain of coin.

Pretty amazing that he got hacked. He is super technical. In other words, it can happen to the best of us.
The main issue for me is I wouldn't let my kids use a website with these terms "We may, at any time, and at our sole discretion, modify these Terms of Use, including our Privacy Policy, with or without notice to the User. Any such modification will be effective immediately upon public posting. Your continued use of codeguppy.com account following any such modification constitutes your acceptance of these modified Terms." Some of your current policies (such as "not offering any discussion boards, forums or social media like sharing features") are wonderful and are exactly what many parents prefer! So, I need to know if you decide to move in a different direction.
...but it will almost certainly hurt the taxpayers as a whole.
I'll save you, and everybody else, the time, and just say that Mullvad is the best VPN currently available, and the day they get inevitably bought out will be a sad day. But until then, they beat all the competition hands down easily.
How is "marijuana" racist?
Most of Texas is very remote and hard to attract talent or investment to. Certainly cheaper to put the plant in Uvalde or something, but harder to recruit hard tech talent there.
In this context we're referring specifically to decentralized finance, currency, etc.
The format in question specifies this though.
Oh hey, Lutron! I interviewed there coming out of college, some 10 years ago. I think I drove down from Rochester, iirc. Of all the places I interviewed at the time, it's one of the only ones where I remember a specific interviewing session because it was somewhat unique:

The interview sat across from me and role-played a customer calling to complain about a vague issue happening in their home. I then had to roleplay asking the customer and various internal teams (all played by the interviewer) questions, forming hypotheses, running imaginary tests (the interviewer would tell me the outcome), and so on. I started from "The lights in this room don't work right", then clarified and trouble-shot through to the underlying issue, and finally to a root cause.

At the time it seemed super weird, but looking back on it years later, it was a clear exercise in troubleshooting skill - something that remains invaluable in engineering. It's one of the only times before or since that I can recall being tested on that specifically, even though it comes up all the time in my day-to-day job.

From what you describe, this challenges sounds like that was emblematic of the culture there. :)
>"The land is a finite resource, thus it can only appreciate in value."

This is a non-sequitur; lots of things are limited, but often collapse in value. As a former Saudi energy minister once said: 'the stone age ended, but not for lack of stones'.
Trying to find an angle to discredit Archive.org is a pretty low-brow move. As long as they continue to host works by George Lincoln Rockwell and his ilk, they will stand their ground for you and me.
I’d love to find a SWE position.

My non-traditional background in IT/SWE always seems to dissuade people in the end and I’m passed up for better candidates. 4-8 hours of interviewing for each eventual rejection is so soul crushing.
Do you want to become famous?
From the '80s to I think around 2002, real interest rates were positive and you earned money from a savings account faster than inflation.
The concept of overengineering is good on paper, but in practice it's being overused and not understood precisely.

I see devs freaking out when you use the word abstraction now...

Suggest extracting business logic from a React component and you don't know anymore if someone is gonna raise the "overengineering" flag.

If you start a new project, do you not use any library or framework at the beginning?

Obviously you take decisions according to how much the project/feature is expected to scale.

If your estimation was too low, you might cripple your development at some point, and need a rewrite or at least some significant refactoring.

If it was too high, I guess you overengineered.

What matters is asking yourself the question, and of course as engineers we like to challenge ourselves into building the best possible solution, but we equally need to consider how likely it is that such a solution is never needed.
Mikrotik is another good budget option. And of course if you have the hardware for it (a old PC with two or more network cards) then OpenWRT (or PfSense, though never used it so can’t vouch for it) will work just as well and last virtually forever.
>faster economic growth, driven by new technologies like AI, quantum computing, cheap sustainable energy, and space exploration.

It always blows my mind a bit when people talk about the productivity gains of the future coming from cutting-edge "sci-fi" technology.

I've seen with my own eyes the insane productivity gains some knowledge workers can get simply through the use of hacky-but-effective domain-specific Python scripts. We're talking one person producing more benefit than an entire team by an order of magnitude.

I'm sure there are other tried-and-true technologies that simply aren't rolled out widely enough and constitute a massive amount of economic low-hanging fruit (especially in the developing world).

I'd push for them before I look to the stars for the next miracle technology.
The Bay Area had something like 20x as much VC investment as Austin as of 2017 [0]. This article [1] indicates that the trend is probably in Austin's favor, as I'd expect, but it also shows that Austin isn't even in the top 10 nationally (unless they lump it in with San Antonio?) by deal count as of 2020.

[0] https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/the-bay-area-beyond-rank...

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/14/silicon-valleys-share-of-ven...
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What is one supposed to do with that consideration, not build more housing? Because that's already happening, and it's not going well.
When people say “investing” in real estate they generally mean buying existing houses, not investing in construction projects.

And “throughout the ages” is nonsensical, slavery is as old as civilization and yet abolishing it led to wealthier and happier societies.

Imagine if instead of real estate speculation that capital went into creating new technologies and businesses.
Oh god let's please not add any for-profit subsidies to a broken pharma and healthcare system. It's a plague. I hope the drug price negotiation becomes law and actually saves as much as CBO score projects. I am less hopeful we'll ever be able to get a better healthcare system in the US

I'm 100% for clean energy though. But probably not going to happen; Manchin said specifically he doesn't want to subsidize 'what the companies are already doing.' Yet he's good with a bunch of coal and coal employee subsidies...

In a lot of circumstances I'd probably agree with his position but this is a crisis. It's like saying we shouldn't have invested in helping develop Covid vaccines because PHARMA is already doing it on their own.

There is a greater survival and health risk to think of. If money can help we should spend it.
So what happens when Prince Andrew asks Google to forget the pedophile allegations, and links to Epstein?
Its not resulting in housing being built, its resulting in existing stock getting bought and flipped.
The difference will be painfully clear once you try to walk a junior developer through installing and linking new files to a large project in Visual Studio, vs "copy this .h file here and include it".

Whether or not a "good build system" should handle it, the fact that single-file libraries are much preferred these days should demonstrate most people don't have such a build system
A curious fact mentioned in the article: the popularity of the accordion in norteño music is apparently ultimately thanks to the presence in Texas of German immigrants.
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This may or may not be the case here, but generally speaking…

Pretty high for any parity-based multi-disk system. The remaining disks get stress tested when a disk fails and you need to copy everything over to the replacement. It’s why RAID5 is no longer sufficient with today’s disk sizes and why a RAID10 (which can only lose any one disk plus a specific other disk) is actually real-world safer than RAID6 (which can lose _any_ two disks).
> there's a class of landowners who intentionally reject rezoning to artificially restrict the supply of homes

I don't understand this, where I live rezoning means your land becomes 3x more valuable overnight and every house landowner dream of it. Opposition is either sentimental or for environmental concerns (which can be justified).
I think you can spot when your phone has been hacked, for example the mobile phone carriers can spot the traffic and slow down the communication making it obvious things are not working properly. Take using the AirBnB app, you put in a criteria, the results come back then the spooky hackers wipe the results and give you a list of their "safehouse" Airbnb locations meaning all you can do is book into one of their safe houses. The fact you see the AirBnB results get wiped and then slowly other results not really matching your criteria appearing should tell you, you could be booking into a safe house.

Dating apps/websites is another way to get into a relationship with "undercover" investigators and I dont think most people are aware that any crime ever committed since birth can be prosecuted so as no one can predict what legislation might be hitting the books in the future, it might be hard to keep your nose clean.

I think most people are aware of dodgy text messages which tends to be the start of malware entering your phone.
The point of public school is to educate the society. I still get a return on my investment (taxes) when some kid invents the new Google. I also do if that kid just works at McDonald's. The problem is treating everyone like they are the same and not as individuals.

Let's also mention that education is one of the best ways to climb the socioeconomic ladder. Advanced and higher education shouldn't only be available to those that are wealthy and/or have time to send their kids to extra schooling. Ensuring a high quality education in disenfranchised neighborhoods is one of the best tools we have for helping those people.

No matter how you frame it, I want children getting the best education that they can get. So if they're ready to achieve more, give it to them. We all, as a society, benefit.
Many Orthodox Jewish communities outrightly refused vaccines and implementing the mandates. These communities saw the largest outbreaks, nonetheless there could never be. forced vaccination mandate in Israel
>If a photographer is to make money off of my appearance, I want to make sure it's done with consent.

US law is more specific than just whether it makes money. You can't control how your likeness is used in fine art, or for editorial or education purposes with limited exceptions for things like defamation. But you can control and entirely prevent your image from being used commercially, generally to advertise a product. And commercial use is more about the relationship implied than just about making money.

Like a newspaper can use your photo in an article about a newsworthy event that you were part of, even though the newspaper makes money selling newspapers. Or a street photographer can sell a limited number of prints in a gallery for tens of thousands of dollars as in Nussenzweig v. DiCorcia. But it would be commercial use and an infringement of your personality rights to print your face on t shirts or mugs even if they are a non profit giving them away.
I've really enjoyed every moment of setting it all up. It's like Legos, but useful when you're done. I don't really get any joy out of walking around to every wall and flipping switches. I don't mind it, but I don't enjoy it like you do. We just enjoy different things I guess. Nothing wrong with that though!
But all the savvier investors will sell the inflated assets at higher prices before the dip/fall and go on to use their increased capital to over-inflate the next hot asset class to the detriment of the average Joe.
The clamps remind me of a few times in the past when I did the same thing while binding ad-hoc books out of some printed materials. I clamped a little bit away from the edge to allow for glue penetration.

Amazingly, you can do a half decent binding job just with copious amounts of white EVA glue holding all the pages together, followed by a simple cover for that spine, made of some stiff paper like non-corrugated boxboard (e.g. cereal box) or filing cabinet divider.
(I notice that you didn't answer the two questions I asked, an omission I deem discourteous.)

So evidently the main determinant of housing prices is "demand", not your hypothetical effect of houses getting cheaper because other houses are nearby.

What do you think produces "demand"? Why is there more demand for houses in Phoenix than for houses 200 km to the northwest? In some cases, of course, there are real differences in land quality: land that is close to waterways or railroads is more valuable for industry than land that isn't, land that's close to iron ore deposits is more valuable for automotive manufacturing, land that's frozen cold 9 months out of the year is less valuable for human habitation, and so on. But none of these explains the universally observed price premium for land in cities over land in the nearby countryside, which often amounts to three orders of magnitude.

It turns out that the main driver of demand for housing is being close to other housing. So building houses drives up the price of land nearby. Not down, as your theory predicts.
From outlier to harbinger.
It can be seen as a loss in an accounting sense, but it's not a loss in the sense it would be for you, me, or, say, Apple, because the federal government is the score keeper of the dollar.

I like to think of the "losses" which arise from propping up companies (if any, as pointed out it's not necessarily a loss) as subsidies of undesirable behaviour. In other words, they're a very bad thing, just for a different reason.
It looks red to me. And probably more contrast/color with actual eyes. That photo is during the day and bright behind it cameras aren't great at that.
S3 offers multi-region buckets that automatically read/write from one of n buckets in n regions. Cross-region replication rules give you eventual consistency (without conflict resolution) across all buckets, which is good enough for backup systems with unique file names/paths.
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You car probably doesn't have a switch for this. It detects that there is a leak in the tank when running an emission compression/vacuum test on the tank. And if this is the case, you can pull over safely and put it on. Your car doesn't crash.
HomeKit is terrible when it comes to handling your device’s network disconnecting/reconnecting.

When I arrive home it sometimes takes a few tries before HomeKit realises that I’m back on the network and starts working.

I’m frankly not sure WTF is going on, the bridge is on a static IP so it doesn’t even have to do the whole Bonjour/ZeroConf discovery and can just hit the latest IP it saw the bridge at.

Fortunately my main automation is via Home Assistant and HomeKit is only used as a UI, so if HomeKit craps out I just fire up the Home Assistant web interface or toggle the WiFi a couple times.

But if you were looking at HomeKit for a sign of quality I’m not sure it’s a good idea. The protocol is unnecessarily complex - it’s good in that it’s somewhat documented and open-source gateways such as Home Assistant can talk to it as a client (so instead of reverse-engineering a proprietary API they can just pretend to be a HomeKit client) but using it to connect directly to your control devices (phone, Mac, etc) is a recipe for disaster.

So if you have HomeKit devices, maybe look into using Home Assistant as a gateway. That way HA is talking to all your devices (so its network situation never changes and hopefully there won’t be problems) and then control your devices from HA or have it present itself as a HomeKit bridge as well - at least your client device will only have to figure out the whole network situation with one bridge instead of all of your devices separately.
I met a guy at a bar in San Jose who worked at a web startup in the early 2010's. He said they easily spent over one million in UI/UX resources just to animate form validation because the default browser validation wasn't cool enough for their brand.
> As if anyone would believe this woman with 3 children was not fully aware of the tradeoffs they were making in exchange for the higher pay.

I believe her. Life doesn't have an open enrollment period every year where you're presented multiple career and lifestyle options, and asked to choose one. Instead, one generally converges into a local optimum and breaking out can involve significant energy and risk.

From the perspective of remote work, the pandemic helped a lot of people break out of their local optimum.
I mean, there are certain lessons that each generation seems to have to learn anew.

It just that one would expect this to not be one of them.
Do it. Show me that Java can avoid allocating/collecting the Tree objects. Go has no indirection for the Tree objects, in this example. The Trees are contiguous in memory.

Measure the performance.

I have no garbage collection performance problems in the various large Go projects I have worked on. But I am also a competent programmer, so "your mileage may vary".
I see a factor of 2 in the closest benchmarks. A factor of 4-5 for the middlish ones, and a factor of 10 for the least close. But it's worth noting that a lot of the those C++ examples are making heavy use of SIMD.
This depends on where you live. In rural areas, and dying towns (most of america geographically), land prices have stayed about the same over the last decade or so. However, materials and labor have increased a lot. So there are certainly situations where the building itself inflates in value more than the land.
Homophobia and transphobia too.

https://ncac.org/resource/lgbtq-book-bans-and-challenges

https://wgntv.com/news/downers-grove-parents-students-clash-...