skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Landlords don't generally evict people because they want their properties to be empty. Evicting a tenant and taking in a different one has no effect on the number of people with housing.

If you actually want to reduce crowding, build more housing.
Yes its way easier in browser on front-end.

But you need API for the things that happens off browser. Like if you want to create images inside your code.
This is a very cynical way of looking at things. And maybe rightly so given your experience. Every job I've ever had though there's never been a shortage of work - the few examples that I can recall of whenever one of my engineers frees up a significant amount of time I gave them harder things to do and a recommended a raise (Im a lead not a people manager) to go along with it.
They bought Motorola for the patents IIRC. Those weren't transferred when they sold it to Lenovo.
It can be done, but this is already done, so you can just pay with money instead of dev time.
Is this book still relevant considering that it has been written in 2001 and updated in 2008?
I'd like sources for that, a cursory google didn't find anything. With my baseline knowledge, I'd say that it's possible to be a marginally worse shape. But plastic as a rule doesn't get eaten - it gets buried. The number of animals that were saved by such regulation is very likely minuscule. The opportunity cost of not tacking anything else related to whatever your goal of choice is - that's not minuscule. Even if you ignore the effort to get there, a legislature can pass only a finite number of regulations per time interval.

Context and opportunity costs matter.
Indeed, I have been putting off migrating, but this surely is a great motivator to finally get off gsuite.
I imagine that interest in being a nurse during a pandemic might also be contributing, especially with constant news about how bad healthcare workers have it right now. I don't think "nursing enrollment" is a useful, solitary, metric.
I also think companies pay to have their totally-not-astroturfed subreddit featured on the frontpage such as /r/tinder
Neat! And makes sense, given railroad property is by nature multi-jurisdictional.

Among other rail oddities, when looking into a rail industry job, it turns out rail employees have the only federally -administered and -funded private pension system, created by the Railroad Retirement Act (1935, same year as social security). In modern specifics, it's basically Social Security by another name.

https://www.rrb.gov/Resources/LegalInformation/PartitionofRR...

It's easy to forget how central rail was to this country for a century+ (and still today, if more behind the scenes).
> What's the point of farming karma on a throwaway account ?

reddit accounts are built up and then sold[0][1], and then used for who knows what. Helps to have an "established" account with high karma and a post history.

In more popular subreddits (like /r/funny), you'll see frequent re-postings of content from 5+ years ago just for the "karma whoring" as it's called.

[0] https://www.soar.sh/service/buy-reddit-accounts/
[1] https://quantummarketer.com/buy-reddit-accounts/
Eviction is a very good book on this.

America has a very very high eviction rate compared to other countries. I went through 2 evictions by 19 and their the worst things you can experience.

In this country you can lose your job on Monday, lose your health insurance Tuesday. Which, even if you have manageable conditions will make it much harder to work.

Then without a job you'll be evicted in another month or so. Somehow other countries don't work like this.
As someone who spends < 7 minutes per day on YouTube (average)... What sort of things do you watch for 7 hours per day? I honestly can't imagine finding that much interesting content on YouTube
The part I agree with is many companies are throwing huge amounts of money at original content creation and some of these will get burned. The poster child for this (IMHO) is Netflix who has spent so much on this that they've had to raise prices to untenable levels, which is hurting retention in the US and Canada in particular.

I disagree with your claim about people are primarily watching old content (source?). Just looking at one list for Netflix [1], it's all fairly recent shows with the notable exception of Seinfeld. It's actually astounding what a money-making machine Seinfeld is 25 years after being on the air. Even before streaming, Seinfeld reruns would get >1m viewers on cable. It's crazy.

I actually believe the last 20 years have been (and seemingly continue to be) the golden age of television. Technology finally made practical heavily serialized content and TV enables types of content not possible in movies. Movies are just limited to ~3 hours in length (director's cuts of Dances with Wolves notwithstanding). Movies are for short stories. TV is for books.

This is a structural change in the industry and despite the Big Brother-esque mediocrity we've also seen over this period, it's undeniable that we've seen some of the greatest entertainment ever to grace a screen in the last 20 years.

[1]: https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/tv-ratings-seinfeld-you-squ...
not to mention it’s a _stimulus_. the whole point is to spend it within the economy. really the only negative outcome for the government would be to dump it in a savings account.
Took a peek, looks really nice, might have to give it a spin!

Are there any solutions for .kdbx files on Windows that have a nice UI? My memories of KeePass are not great.
Ask HN: What is the best DAST/web app scanner for single page web apps?
#AskHN What is the best DAST/web app scanner for single page/dynamic/super-modern web apps? Apps totally written in javascript. And WHY? Specifically what about it makes it best? Most of them are "not great", I want to know which ones are really good. Thanks!
Just because the number is insane doesn’t mean it’s big.
American here

"perhaps better known as the online identity verification service that many states now use to help staunch the loss of billions of dollars in unemployment insurance and pandemic assistance stolen each year by identity thieves"

In the great State of California, billions in unemployment benefits were sent to the wrong people.. because their internal systems were designed to delay, deny and deprive, I say. Actual people with real jobs were repeatedly refused, while insiders who knew how to fill out paperwork, and apparently knew where the blind spots were, filed hundreds of claims in the early pandemic days. A newly appointed Director (young, tech savvy woman) soon stopped making public statements, and the situation nearly two years later, is not resolved. This is at a time when California has record income to the State.

Now, some people may jump on this and say "well, you see how photo ID would have helped that" and, with incomplete knowledge and personal opinion, I say no, it would not solve it. You see, people with real jobs, with every real paper filed, were denied benefits, while insiders were pulling checks with both hands, using certain kinds of identities that would slip through. How would ever more restriction, requirement and verification, have helped here?

I am deeply against the collective government making ever more demands on citizens for "papers, please" enrollment to massive money social services (edit e.g. govt unemployment benefits). It is not going to have the desired effect, despite superficial evidence otherwise. Additionally this represents a slippery slope where the ability to interact as an individual will be eroded, and opportunity for insider graft will increase.
> the latter is probably just a blip on some giant vendor's radar.

As the person who has been woken up at 3am by a "giant vendor" (read: my employer, who was not giant, but would be considered a "giant vendor" by a 15 year old), it pretty much ruined my week when it happened to me.
Depends how shady the firm is :-)

Also for probably any litigation that is IT related you could probably get away with a lot more
There's a "Pokerbots" class/competition at MIT (during January aka Independent Activities Period), along with a robotics competition and a real time strategy video game bot competition. I did both the robotics and poker ones, which were a ton of fun!
Dude, calm down and go for a run. Remember, you're just as awesome as you think you are!
What does the current administration have to do with any of this?

Greedy corporations are the problem and they’ve been doing since before the current Pres.
Sure it can, and I'd say it's much cheaper to do it in JS than using API (with quite small quota, even for paid plans)
I was a landlord. I preferred to receive the rent late from someone that didn't want to be evicted.

The maximum profit is renting to someone that can barely afford to pay, but also desperately doesn't want to leave. In total, I probably made a 13th months rent each year in fees. You are leaving money on the table renting to people that can afford to pay on time.
Isn't it required that they support login.gov? Everything in other departments has been switched to login.gov over the last couple of years.
This is probably not the right thread for this, but I'm very interested in "modify without distribution" that you mention:

> it's not copyright infringement to hit F12 and edit a paragraph. You're not distributing a derivative copy. You're just modifying the reproduction you were implicitly licensed by the web server delivering it to you.

In particular, my understanding (IANAL) is that modifying a copyrighted work, _even without distribution_, is still an infringement. At least, that's the way the Copyright Alliance frames it[0]. I think this has no practical effect because it's unenforceable (how can you detect the derivative work if it wasn't distributed?) But it does open the door to the related question: what if I distribute a program that modifies copyrighted works for others?

This case tested that in Germany, but it seems to be far-from-straightforward based on my 5 minutes of searching around about it. Most copyright sites don't deal with this case at all (copyright.gov, harvard.edu, etc.) but I did find a related question[1] on Quora that seems to have thoughtful answers, but it's hard for me to read through them and feel like I really understand the risks.

[0]: https://copyrightalliance.org/faqs/what-rights-copyright-own...
[1]: https://www.quora.com/Is-distributing-a-file-that-modifies-a...
I wonder why people think being a landlord is not a job.
I'm unfamiliar with one of the language logos in the meme graph at the bottom: what's the red swooshy thing beside zig?
That's fair, but his boss would almost gladly ask him what else could be automated. It would be a winning prop for both.
As a small business creator I've been cancelled by a robot without any recourse or moderators insight.

My goal is that this never happens to you or anyone else. Wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy.

Here is the video breakdown if you aren't a reader:
https://youtu.be/pxP8S54scdY

This story is bizarre as reaching human interaction for such a large behemoth has been near impossible. From blog posts, videos on TikTok, Facebook, Twitter and even the Google forums, google emails have been dead end with article automation responses.

There was no warning just a termination email and our content is clean if you want to see the podcasts you can visit www.moneybru.com .

This all started with a disgruntled employee who created supposedly multiple accounts and flagged our MoneyBru channel which triggered YouTubes Ai termination process.

We honestly had about 20 active public content videos and about 150 training internal videos we created for www.danieljamesmedia.com on this channel. We have about 20% of this backed up that wasn't livestreamed.

Our employees are in the dark with strategy training, accounting training and project training options. This is nuts.

We are yet to recover the channel and have been pushing this article as well as making videos to create awareness. This seems to never happen to the larger creators as they have invested interest in keeping them active.

The protocol for larger channels must be more protective.

Comon YouTube where is the customer support or even reasoning? They claim we had content that was bullying, threatening or harassing.

Our fans all deny this and this can be seen with videos summitted on the blog.

Sincerely my hope is you read this respond get the word out and share your experience with something like this.
Bitwarden's free plan does have end-to-end encrypted cloud sync with no device limit. The free plan lacks TOTP support, but Bitwarden's $10/year plan does include TOTP support and is cheaper than 1Password's $35.88/year plan. Bitwarden is also open source, while 1Password is not.
There is also https://wordle.louan.me/ FWIW.
> a) they can be conscripted to work in dangerous conditions

I have lots family that left direct patient care because of how terrible the job had become (pre-pandemic) and I constantly worry, if the crisis gets any worse, that they will be drafted/conscripted back into service.
Going along with the original story, I could go either way on this. On the one hand, paying someone $40k to do it, probably involves more supervision and turnover, and a chance of someone making a mistake. And then you get to tell your million dollar client: "We lost our case because our semi-skilled clerk misplaced a file and we have no IT department."

On the other hand, what would you pay an outside developer to automate the process and guarantee accuracy, maintenance, and uptime? Could you even do this with no GUI, no dashboard, no management fanfare, and no brainstorming of unnecessary features?

$90k may be somewhere in between.
My guess is that a great many of these stories are true. I've seen more than one instance at large companies where a job either was, or easily could be, mostly replaced by a series of Excel Macros.
Is anyone else disturbed by this?
I can't vouch for the other options but I have been using Keepass2Android (with Google Drive sync) for years now and it does the job hassle-free.
Can you provide any government doing a better job? In Germany it's basically the same system for ID confirmation it's called postident over here.
> Is that something which is practical?

Not really.

Determining the angle of a microwave signal requires a pretty big receiver dish (or an array of receivers, at least).

The wavelength of the GPS L1 band is 19cm, you'd need (roughly) something of at least 10x that size to get a good sense of where a signal is coming from, so on the order of 2m.

A single good antenna and sensitive amplifier gets you a fix on more satellites, which provides good accuracy with less space and hardware used.
Personal attacks are not warranted here.

Also, it's quite common in the US for retired people to have a lot of their retirement savings invested in rental property.
> Stadia - If they're serious about this they should pay 10B for Valve and make it so anyone can play any computer game available on Steam via Stadia.

Valve does not own the rights to every video game on Steam.
Noted. Thanks for taking time to reply.
That bothers me, too. On the other hand, I haven’t found a good Free replacement for it, and there’s zero lock-in: its database is just a folder of Markdown files. If it stopped working tomorrow, I’d still have all of my content in a convenient format, ready to start using with another app.
I launched www.rtljobs.com in October and had my first month of $500 in revenue in December.

It's a job board that caters to a very specific subset of electrical engineers - specifically, ones that work with FPGAs and logic design for chips.

Need help hiring FPGA or RTL engineers? Let's talk. fpga.rtl.jobs@gmail.com
> If the government didn't want people evicted due to pandemic circumstances, what they should do is assess this on a case-by-case basis and pay the rent for people in genuine need.

The question is, did the government have the manpower to do a case-by-case assessment. One of the issues faced in Canada was getting employment insurance money out to people in a timely manner. Their approach was very much loosen the criteria and take claims at near face value until they had time to sort things out. Fortunately, the government can sort-of do that in that scenario. Unfortunately for evictions, things have to be sorted out before a person ends up homeless.

As for "f*ck landlords", I never quite understood it. Then again, I've always dealt with small landlords and usually had some form of reference for them before signing the lease.
No, the data from the first clinical trials for the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines showed 95% efficacy against symptomatic infection. You had Fauci, Birx and countless other talking heads in the media implying or stating outright that the vaccines conferred sterilizing immunity.

Of course, we know now that the variants have evolved some degree of immune escape, that the vaccines no longer prevent infection while still being effective against severe disease, but that's not what the "experts" originally claimed. It's disappointing to see the Hacker News crowd buying into the gaslighting that vaccines are only ever meant to prevent hospitalization. That was not the scientific consensus 2 years ago, and still isn't.
Can’t you accomplish this by just making calendar events? What am I missing?
I think the best structure is dependent on what you are trying to accomplish and the level of resourcing you have. Do you have clarity on what success will look like for this role? That's where I'd start and work backwards.
It is an issue.

As it means that your service is interrupted.

Which in pandemic times can mean your teaching or tests might be interrupted.

Or just your ability to pass in your homework.

Or to know if your class is cancelled/shifted to remote.

Etc.
What happens if you don't have a smart phone? Can you just not log in?
My cynical lens says it's an image recognition data-gathering operation expanded to a state service.
Are you sure you are not judging by the standards of mass market broadcast production vs what these companies seem to be doing in terms of producing content for smaller, more targeted but still profitable target audiences?

In the broadcast world, the relevant "inventory" (ie. TV Network Channel time slot) is very limited and precious. Therefore only content with production quality that appeals to a large enough audience to attract advertisers gets greenlit.

In the past year, my family has binge watched "blown away" a glass blowing competition, 3 series about weird/exotic vacation rentals/hotels, 2 children's mysteries serises, standup comedy by specific comediens, a series about music production and composition styles of different artists and a series about design. All of these above ran multiple seasons, so clearly there's sufficient profitable viewership for multiple seasons to be made even though it's very likely NONE of them would make mainstream broadcast TV. We didn't see any of the "big/popular" shows.

The only reason we have cable TV connection at all now is when my parents or in-laws visit, they get very bored without their.regular TV channels.
Hey thanks for the feedback. We are certainly not trying to hide the pricing - as it happens we created a new landing page specifically for this new feature and I forgot to put the pricing on it (I'll do that now).

Our pricing currently has a free tier where you don't get any of the premium integrations, or a $5 tier where you do. However, we are changing it to a flat $10 per month pricing plan next week so you can get a bit of a deal for the next 6 months if you sign up now.
Indeed. This is like an article screeching that daytime temperatures have plummeted from 6 months ago, and are "approaching pre-summer levels in certain areas"

If a moratorium was placed on evictions, it was an obvious fact that once the moratorium were lifted, evictions would rise again. It would be unbelievably weird if that didn't happen, and the fact that they haven't rebounded (yet) to levels above "normal" is the real news here, right?
A hypothetical Google-Valve doesn't need to necessarily own all of the rights to every game in order to allow people to play the game via Stadia.
They're making a push into enterprise. More companies are using them. And they're beta testing a dev secrets setup like HashiCorp's Vault
Whatever, maybe they'll introduce some super discounted plan so I can finally switch over from LastPass before they also succumb to growth shittiness.
Even in a language like Java which pushes objects pretty hard the mental model that "a method is just a function where the first parameter is this" is pretty useful, particularly if you are trying to break out of the OO box and write Java code that looks like LISP, ML, COBOL, FORTRAN, etc. (Super Fun IMHO, particularly in JDK 17!)

The tricky thing with this model is "how do you implement polymorphism?" The most sublime methods dispatch not just on this but also on the other methods but you do get extra complexity just as you would with multiple inheritance, or the C++/C# polymorphism models other than Java's "all-virtual" approach, etc.
> Landlords don't evict people because they want their properties to be empty. Evicting a tenant and taking in a different one has no effect on the number of people with housing.

I'm not sure where I made the impression that landlords want empty properties. They're evicting so that they can bring in paying tenants, but those tenants are often housed elsewhere anyway, not coming out of unhoused or underhoused groups.

So the point stands: people who lost their means of paying are being evicted into the abyss in order to make room for people who never had a housing challenge.
> A liquidity crisis is at the heart of the growing catastrophe in Afghanistan. Following the pullout of U.S. forces last August, the country was isolated overnight. The U.S. seized assets from the Afghan central bank and ended transfers of U.S. currency. Companies in Poland and France contracted to print the afghani ended shipments. Almost immediately, the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, known as the SWIFT system, which underpins international financial transactions, suspended services in Afghanistan. Commercial banks couldn’t lend money, and retail customers couldn’t take their own money out of banks.

So that's why Afghans are starving. Most media omit US sanctions, and report only that "The Taliban took over, and now there's famine"
I'm saying that the term "ADHD" is a social construct. We humans have constructed in our mind a category of human behaviors and drawn some fuzzy lines and planted a flag down saying "this is ADHD." Certainly, as you mention, you can draw trends between the two categories (ADHD vs non-ADHD), just as if you were to move from South Africa to Egypt you might notice that most of the people look different. But that doesn't make "Egypt" or "South Africa" any less of a human construct.

The idea that ADHD is some abberant way of being that ought to be medicated into a teleological more ideal way of mental being is also, completely, a human construction - you can't get that conclusion just by looking at brain blood flow or anything like that.