skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bedding can be the difference between good quality sleep and a sleepless night. It also can be the difference between textiles that last a long time and those that deteriorate quickly. Some fabrics are easy to take care of and some take effort. Some are easy on those who have allergies, and others not as much. In short, not all fibers and fabrics are created equal – there are bedding fabrics for everyone. All in all, fiber and fabric types are one of the most important elements for a comfortable, restful sleep.

To make it easier to pick suitable rest and sleep products for your home, we have created a product guide to assist you. Below you will find an overview of fabric types, advantages and disadvantages, considerations in relation to, for example, seasons, and recommended products for customers in the US and Canada.
Cotton: Bedsure Cotton Waffle Weave Duvet Cover Set + Bedsure Egyptian Cotton Sheet Set

The all-rounder: Soft, breathable, durable and affordable
Cotton features and benefits
Coming from the Arabic word “Katan”, cotton has been called the king of fibers because of its many characteristics and benefits, including:
There are many fabric products available that have blended fibers, including Bedsure sheets and Bedsure blankets. For those who sleep hot or live in a warm climate all-year round, Bedsure’s Cooling Blanket can do just the trick. Made of a nylon rayon and PE blended yarn, this Jersey knit fabric features a cooling effect that will last for about 30 mins each time you put it over you – just when you feel warmest. This Bedsure blanket is incredibly soft, smooth and lightweight, yet also has durable double needle stitched hems. Not only does this blended fabric blanket feel comfortable and cozy, it is also available in 2 sizes and 3 colors, including blue, gray and khaki.
Yeah, the people who could appreciate me, the developers and developer management, were ultimately less influential than an administrative staff member. And this was a software business, writing software for clients. Not a software division of some larger entity. One grudge is far more powerful than a chord of appreciation.
If you tax the land at a rate greater than a 100% LVT, the market price of the building will be less than the improvement value, and therefore there will not be a good reason for builders to build. This will create distortions that are harmful and you will ultimately see less tax money.
Show HN: Some WebGL Shader Action
Repo: https://github.com/mapehe/web-shader-test
The thing I think people are missing is that the response from Google indicates that this isn't a Pixel issue. This is a "all android phones on Android 10+" issue.

Without full cooperation from manufacturers, there's really not a lot that can be done outside of blacklisting all dialer apps on the Play store and even that would do little for anything already installed.
My Pixel 3aXL called 911 on me last week out of nowhere while I was browsing the web. I have no explanation, it just started doing weird, random, frustrating p things after I upgraded to Android 12.

I hung up immediately, but they called back. I apologized profusely and explained my phone had done it, the guy sounded skeptical but let me go. Sigh.
You mean like domain names?
I'm a simple man: I see Dracula mentioned, I upvote.
If you're familiar enough with programming to learn C in a day, you can learn assembly in a couple hours. It's really not that complicated. You can copy to/from memory addresses to local temp variable containers that are various sizes of bits (registers), you can do various math operations on those bits in those registers, you can compare those registers and test that comparison, and you can jump from the current point in the code to any other point by label or address (go-to). Sometimes operations will result in other registers you can check to see if something happened (overflow). The OS will provide some interrupts to do some base things as interrupts such as IO.

If you didn't know how to code in assembly already, you now know enough to do everything C can do with a simple reference sheet. All the extra boilerplate (such as program segments and where to store costants such as what the 'strings' program sees in a binary) you can read two to three pages to explain what you need for whatever OS you're on.

Assembly isn't hard, it's just tedious.
Nothing wrong with good old LAMP. Best kept secret is how good PHP has become over the years
WOW. Catastrophically bad. The details really don't matter; when it comes to something like this - literally the single most important function of the device - Google as the platform owner has sole, final, non-negotiable responsibility. SVP+ level heads should roll for a fuck-up of this magnitude
Loss leading the mom and pops into the ground is so Walmart.
If only they did crash. It is the undetected corruptions that are far more dangerous than the crashes.
Instead of random comment post why not share link to that list and content beneath?

Where is this list of big ideas?
Ideally in low-value areas like Detroit, the land tax would be low as well. A "negative rent yield" situation should generally "only" occur where, for an extreme example, you could put a skyscraper to house 4,000 people on the land, but instead put a brownstone to house 4. There you might be taxed at the same land rate as the skyscraper next door, if skyscrapers were ubiquitous in that neighborhood.

If you were fabulously wealthy, you could choose to maintain your single-family brownstone there and simply pay the millions in annual taxes. The local school district wouldn't notice a difference. But most landowners would decide to partner with a developer and build a skyscraper so that they can earn more than the LVT, which should lower rents for the laborers in that city.

> Could home-owners now somehow be stuck in situations where they are forced into debt by holding a property that just sucks money out? Especially if implemented too suddenly?

Yes. As could large commercial real-estate holders. The reason is simple: if you raise taxes, the resale value of the land will be lower. A graduated implementation could help a bit, but the final "price" will still get instantly priced in with a bit of a time discount.

Proponents of Georgian LVT are generally comfortable with lowering the resale prices of real-estate. They may underestimate the degree of the change, or misjudge the wider effects of most properties suddenly being worth less. However, proponents generally don't like the idea of people earning their retirement just by holding land. So the first-order effects on resale prices of land are more of a feature than a bug.

I'm not entirely convinced that second- and third- order effects wouldn't be potentially devastating. I believe if the nation had been founded with a Georgian LVT things would have worked out much for the better! But I'm afraid of how much of our economy we have precariously perched on infinitely rising land prices.
> politicians are by and large the lowest, sleaziest, most power-hungry and amoral creatures that can still perhaps be called human

Just like you and me, then, and the rest of humanity. But we also have good in us, don't we?
Under the hood I would expect it to still be hooked into the dialer system api that google exposes. Likely this was where the undefined behavior showed up.
> Which is why I'm a huge fan of GraphQL and related completely free open source libraries

I don't understand this comparison. Apollo raised $130M this past summer -- doesn't seem that different to TFA. Is that also nuts to you?

The Protocol Buffers and gRPC ecosystem are also completely free open source libraries. Replace GraphQL with Protobuf and your post is still correct.
That would require calling Facebook and Google by the names Meta and Alphabet, which I refuse to do on principle.
> The issue is that if the small outlier leads to the product being less than 1, the degree of the root doesn't matter because the largest value possible of the n-th root approaches 1, which may be below whatever meaningful thresholds are relevant here.

That is true, but I don't see the relevance given the context. If the geometric mean approaches 1 (i.e. after the n-th root), then you have too much lead. If all your samples have lead levels well below tolerance, then the n-th root of the product will not approach 1, but will be significantly smaller. Example: If all 10 samples are 0.01, the geometric mean is 0.01.
If you mean the Find My Device app it only asks for foreground location permission so I would assume the actual device "beacon" is part of the system not that app.
No modern RPC system attempts to transparently emulate a local procedure call. Everyone who is seriously using these systems understands that an RPC is not equivalent to a local call. Everyone understands that the network introduces a host of new failure modes that must be considered, as well as latency and concurrency. RPC systems are used to simplify protocol development but it is understood that these are still protocols and they don't magically solve everything.

> that is exactly what ONC RPC does, and that is exactly what ASN.1 does, and that is exactly what DCS does.

Simply put, Protobuf and gRPC do it better. The developer experience is much better. The tooling is much better. The implementation is better-optimized. It's not a new concept, it's just a better implementation. That's all there is to it.

But anyway, Buf is not re-inventing this wheel, it's just building on Protobuf and gRPC. It seems like your beef is with Protobuf and gRPC, not Buf.
Don't forget the keycaps: https://omnitype.com/products/gmk-dracula
> When deals like this are made, it makes it less likely China will do things to piss off the US, and vice-versa. The last thing we need are more tensions.

Eh, no. That's sounds like a version of the "Golden Arches Theory of Conflict Prevention" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lexus_and_the_Olive_Tree#G...), and it's bunk. China's leaders are nationalists, and it's likely they're looking to strengthen themselves to the point where they can do what they want without caring if the US is pissed off or not, and their actual behavior supports this view. They've actually shown themselves to be quite adept at exploiting sentiments like yours while they play a different game.

> Do you really want to hold people in other countries back from ever achieving the standards of living that you enjoy?

It's not that simple, obviously. Do you want knock people in your own country down (and have them stay down) so that can happen? We're not just talking about standards of living, either. How do you feel about assisting the ascent of an ideologically-incompatible competitor regime (https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/20/world/asia/chinas-new-lea...)?
I once sent this https://ibb.co/XpwGwrK to Satya, but never got a response.

It was absolutely a racket that you couldnt connect Windows Pro Defender to the cloud to track threats without renting Win E5.

Everyone in this thread is very defensive, but putting the security features all at the top of the licensing chain is exactly the behavior the author is accusing them of. The author however wrote a puff piece that was nearly devoid of any useful information. You could have deleted the entire article and kept just: "So, with one hand, the company ships vulnerabilities and hosts malware, and with the other, it charges to “protect” users from those same vulnerabilities and threats."

What the article did not do, was make a convincing argument that a third party alternative was a better threat protector. They could do a worse job while also having a lesser conflict of interest.
"healthy democracies" lol
Yup, I'm the author.

- As far as I know, yes, LVT would definitely incentivize multi-family housing over single-family housing.

- I'm not sure exactly where the threshold would be. Under current market conditions where landlords can collect land rents, it'd be any place where the property is so bad that the rent is less than you'd be able to collect if it were, say, a parking lot. This might still be a good investment for the slumlord because the presence of the teardown property has negative value and makes it cheaper to buy than if it were just an empty lot, and then they just refuse to fix anything and collect the land rents.

- Not 100% sure what you're asking but maybe I can answer it this way -- So locational value comes from the activity of your neighbors. That's why "location, location, location" is a thing. If you're in a good neighborhood, your land value goes up because it's a nice place to be and people will pay more for that privilege. If there's, say, a crackhouse next door that will depress your land value for obvious reasons.
> it's unfair to change the rules in the middle of the game

This has already happened many times, and is happening now. Two examples:

- abolition of slavery

- taxing of carbon, and anti climate change measures in general

Should we stop trying to reduce climate change because it changes the rules on oil companies and those dependent on cheap oil?
LinkedIn's 29 Big Ideas that will change or world in 2022
For me, it is "Pale Fire"[1] with semantic highlighting in VS Code.

> [1] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=matklad....
More than 100% over how long?
I don't know what high horse bubble you live in, but in my almost 40 years on this planet I've only met one single person who has ever had a flu shot and he's younger than me. Granted I have to live in another kind of bubble. My currently 70+ year old parents and aunt, as well as my 80+ old mother-in-law, have never had a flu shot (until my aunt this winter).

It definitely has nothing to do with "not caring about others". What a malicious human being you seem to be. The vast majority of people just aren't that worried about the flu. It's a natural part of life for most people. For old people and immunocompromised it's relevant, and for them it's obviously their choice to defend against it - and I've started recommending elders in my community to get flu shots (if they want!), even though it only has around 40% efficacy.

Vaccinating kids or young people? Wow. I was sacked for 2 days both with my first and second jab. Next one I'm just gonna let my immune system ride it out. Arrogant people like you convince me.
It doesn't really matter what economists think about it if the general public and politicians are against/unaware of it.
Income tax persists because it avoids the problem of valuation. These ideas are largely moot with a robust mechanism for value discovery.

One such possibility is the open auction. In a value tax system, somebody puts money into an escrow bond as a bid on the property, and the owner has a choice of either paying the tax for the duration of the escrow, or exchanging the property for the escrow. The escrow bonds themselves would have to take some portion of the tax revenue as interest. This has some interesting equilibrium properties because it aligns interests of all parties: owners, bidders, and government.

Likewise, negative valuation in Pigouvian taxation is also very difficult. There could be, for instance, a way of matching the tax required to continue an activity, with a multiple of the amount raised to stop it.
I think you miss the point here. Security updates for phones need to be longer than 3 years -- for that reason.

The pixel 2 is already EOL'd 4 years after it's release, but it can still make 911 calls. I believe there are people that still depend upon that phone to make phone calls -- and therefore need 911 when they need it.
To be clear, Google still offers multiple products (including their primary one, Ads) in the Chinese market and has several offices there.
Makes sense. I would envision a whole bunch of logistical issues associated with holding accountability. As well as complications from potential privacy implications.
No, Teams is about as invasive an app as there is, and Microsoft may have had a much better chance of knowing that they were doing something with a great chance of destabilizing the system than Google ever did.

If Teams were any other app and simply playing nice this would have never happened. I'll bet you when the fix is released Google is going to drop one or more API calls that Teams hooked into.

Of course it should have never been possible for an App to do this to something that even the dumbest of dumb phones is required to be able to do. But Teams is a special kind of evil and it wants access well over and beyond what it needs to function.
Don’t confuse with Darcula.
Would like to second Rabby, been trialing it for about a month now and I love it.
>That's not ideal but it doesn't seem catastrophic.

>If a piece of land is underdeveloped and they charge a little too much, the person just surrenders that land to the government which auctions it off.

I would say a situation where I surrender my land to the government is catastrophic. Feels like it would easily turn into forced sales.
I am not sure what do you want to say.

> Lets meet as friends in Tiananmen square - you wear a t-shirt saying ‘what happened here in 1989?’

I think the Tankman incident is a silver light in the whole event, i.e., the individual stand against the tank, and the tank decide to go different route; and eventually the confrontation was dissolved by bystanders.

If you emphasize the confrontation, you'll use the t-shirt you mentioned.

For me, I'll wear a t-shirt stating: remember the tragedy.

And what's the point of this to do with altering the perception on China? If you just narrow your viewpoint onto Tankman, that's going to miss so much of other things happening in China.

It's like focusing on Gorge Floyd, and ignoring all the other things happening in US.

What's the point of such narrow view?

> I’ll come dressed as Winnie the Pooh.

If you cut all the implication to Xi, I see no danger whatsoever of wearing that on Tiananmen, or anywhere in China.

Politics in China is different. That's just a cultural thing.
Parents are also more authoritative, that's part of the cultural as well.
Mocking people public is considered an insult. Not just to Xi, to any normal Chinese citizen, that's considered inappropriate.

If you feel that your own culture is so superior that others should automatically accept; and if they don't like it, then you'll call them a lot of bad words, and try to force the narrative, then you are practicing fascism?

Good luck with that.
I'm not going to be the commenter that goes on and on about the negative impact Facebook is having across the world, as this is disruptive to genuine arguments.

To give a clear counterpoint to the idea of using Facebook groups - forums had anonymity. You could be a different version of yourself - for better or worse. It's not possible to do that on Facebook without accountability.
Two lines of CSS that will improve HN on mobile (IMO)
So why not tax gold or bitcoin or the Mona Lisa if the main difference between taxable assets and non-taxable assets is scarcity?
Isn't patching already possible through Play Services updates?
Many have done and still do. In fact its about the only alternative there is if you don't want to be another Chromium variant.
The State Department can get bent on this one.
Completely ignores the point of op and rebute with some random aisine point
Consider removing MFN trade status from China.
Back in 1993, Clinton and Pelosi supported MFN status for China. Just undo it.

https://china.usc.edu/statement-president-clinton-most-favor...
> The US has the most difficult-to-change constitution of any democracy

Well, still easier than changing 'constitution' (treaties) of EU - you would need parliaments of all member countries to ratify it and some countries would even organize referendums for it.
If a person is "slaloming," they are not the ones driving dangerously or illegally. Those in the passing lane who fail to give way to overtaking traffic are.
> for later

or for never :P

why not prove like... "this is the best. all other platforms/circumstances/situations are subpar"

if the performance differences are enough, i can picture people making excuses to avoid all of those other platforms (or just never using this... more likely)
What Is Real Estate CRM and How Is It Important in 2022?
A diplomatic boycott at the Olympics during a pandemic and sanction of a dozen or so people are meaningless virtue signals. The other actions align with American geopolitical interests. What is suggested upthread is that Apple ought to sacrifice interests in order to fight China.
can you take code that is blocking in nature and make it async (like an FFI dlsym call), or at a low level does that just boil down to lots of polling/timers?
Creativity is a process, not an event
That's the link. It works for users of the site mobile or not, app or browser is a choice. If you want to use old you can change the url or actually sign in and set it as preferences instead of being a lurking non-participant. People can choose what way they view it but that's the real link. If you're really concerned about comments or mobile interface or whatever maybe you should sign in and be a user of the site otherwise you're opinion doesn't really matter now does it. Point is don't force ppl to the old.reddit link.
The homepage shows a release from November.

Hopefully some current Easel devs chime in. I took a look at the docs, it has an interesting approach to userinterface event handling and there seems to be some special "Screen Scraping" facilities.
That will blow up the size of the index a lot. Need to be clever about this.
Cool idea of making it available across so many different applications, but I wish it was aesthetically pleasing. It just doesn't do it for me...
Some useful tips in here, but to be honest a better bash is to just install python and use that for scripting instead.
Depends on your setup and timing.

If your machines only PXE boot when doing system setup, pwning the image only pwns on next system setup. Which maybe is never for existing systems; when I ran prod systems, most of my prod servers never got resetup unless their root drive gave out, but that was rare, too. So only new machines would get pwnd in a setup like that.

If your machines always PXE boot, pwning the image pwns machines on next boot. Most of my prod machines got rebooted once or twice after they were setup, but if I had an always PXE boot setup, maybe I would run things differently and rebooting might happen more often. Then again, if everything is PXE booted, maybe we're running with a network filesystem for the root drive, and then you'd want to pwn that filesystem/file server to take over. Up to you to figure out if you can update the binary for something that's already running as root to take over, or if you have to wait for something new to spawn as root. On FreeBSD, you can edit a binary on disk while it's running and if you do it wrong (or maybe right), also edit the binary in memory, but if it's a networked filesystem, I dunno if that's still possible. Other systems may not be so capable.

A rogue DHCP server that's faster than the real one can also do nasty things to a PXE client.

There's some mentions of SecureBoot and PXE, so there's probably a way to get things aligned in a secure way, but somehow you've got to enroll your keys (and probably disenroll the default keys). Anyway, that's way outside my expertise.
Steve would have told CCP to fuck off.
> Nobody's going to pivot the Falcon 9 into being a washing machine next week.

I may have to borrow that.

An alternative explanation: we're so in a hurry that we don't want to take time out to decide what it is that we are going to build, and so we embrace the fact that we don't know what we are doing and put a sexy label on it, because hey, who doesn't want to be Agile? It sounds so much better than 'clueless'.
Yeah I stopped looking at case numbers a long time ago. They're completely irrelevant, with the amount of hysteria going around. Hospitalization is the only thing that matters at this point (and in fact has been since the beginning).