skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well if we're talking about loaning 100k for the house, you can always execute your lien holder privileges to take back the house if they don't pay. Mortgage insurance providers a like service to the mortgage provider to minimize losses.

I'd much rather be in position backing mortgage on 100k house, backed by mortgage insurance, than risking someone I don't trust with that same 100k having full custody of my house worth 700k.
Yet it's still fairly popular, even with that mentioned popular opinion. According to CDC, 63.8% of under 17yo got it, and 48.4% over 18yo (season 2019-2020). These are numbers with little pressure.
The face identification software in the Apple Photo software was able to correctly identify pictures of my cousins when they were 5 & 7 years old even though all the other photos I have of them in Photos are in their 50s or later. I have no doubt that there are some failed matches (false negatives/positives), but it generally does pretty well, even with my identical-twin brothers. Given that this is consumer-grade stuff and Apple isn't usually considered best of class, presumably the system run for the IRS is better.
Thank you for the belly laugh!
Maintenance work is a job, owning real estate is an investment. Sometimes done by the same people, sometimes not.
Weren't they available to free users, too? I remember watching them and I never paid for premium.
Some of those "legal processes" involve secret kangaroo "security courts". It's not really any different from CCP in that regard.
What tax changes?
I do a lot of landscape astrophotography which involves a TON of signal processing to get rid of various sources of noise.

https://instagram.com/dheeranet

People ask to buy prints from time to time. Not quite $500/month just yet but getting there.

Then there's this web-based function plotter I made in 2007:

http://fooplot.com/

It once made upto $900/month but since then, mobile apps have gotten better, and today it makes about $100-150/month in ad revenue.
I'm taking a leap of logic here and guessing you're suggesting a blockchain solution to national identity would have solved this problem?
They certainly won't. They used every trick in the book to get those of us who bought their standalone, one-time fee software to subscribe.
Same here. What side-effects such migration would have? Would I lose all the files in my Google Drive? Sure my email@customdomain.com email will still exist as a Google, YouTube account, right? It just won't use Gmail as my email provider?
So you would effectively have 2 passwords reused across all sites?

1. If any of that site is compromised, 50% of your sites will be quickly owned due to password reuse with same username.

2. If someone will get hold of two of your unencrypted strings, they own 100% of your accounts.

- You may solve #1 by creating new password for each site.

- You may solve #2 by encrypting the file.

Voila, you just created your own password manager.
I really like how they present themselves - with Pros/Cons link in main top nav - with first link being to the drawbacks.

"No bulk messaging
You cannot use Migadu to send mails fast. These attempts are monitored and will be quickly sanctioned.

We do not approve of or accept bulk mailing, even if it is not spam. Please use dedicated services for that."

I wonder if CC'ing or BCC'ing a list of 100 or 1,000 people every 3-6 months is included in this - if so that's probably the biggest turnoff so far.
I also kickstarted the original Rift, but have the opposite perspective. It took a while, but VR in the Quest 2 is taking up more and more of my gaming time these days - especially playing Demeo.

What was the last headset you picked up? I can see this critique being valid for early headsets, but a lot of the issues you mentioned are less pronounced/eliminated in recent headsets.
> where is the rest going?

Have you owned a normal-sized house? Repairs, insurance, inspections, et cetera. Also staging, advertising, pursuing delinquencies.

Rental yields in most cities are in the low single digits. Where that isn’t true, it’s because local politicians protect the landlords by restricting development, often in cahoots with grandfathered-in renters.
Be serious. Everything ML/AI at Google post-dates 2010, including 4 generations of TPUs. You have made the common mistake of believing that Google's products are the things in the hamburger menu, but Google's actual product is dirt-cheap computing.
>payoff if the show ends up being a huge hit

They get to charge more (or determine if it even exists) for season 2+ if it is a huge hit.

Also for a lot of Netflix's original content it is licensing streaming rights, not full ownership. I have seen news reports that they own 10% or less of their "Netflix Originals". So merchandising rights remain with the original owners\creators of the content.
> This mom and pop rentier idea is specious

I'm not sure that word means what you think it means. >40% of all rentals are owned by individuals, and if you take large multi-unit apartments out of the equation that rises to >72% - that's your "mom and pop" rentals, which by most judgements would take it from the realm of specious and put it smack dab in the realm of the common.

It's quite common for retirees to own outright or invest in rental property - evenly grandfather, who never made more than $10/hr working at a lumberyard for his entire life owned some rentals in his retirement.

Those are the people who are actually hurt by eviction moratoriums.
Cue the emergence of "This taxpayer does not exist."
Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/303/

Truth be told I'm a sucker for an enterprise software position with long compile time.
What's New in Bazel 5.0
When i setup my kid to do DDOS -- first things first, you need good fiber.
We've had a couple repeat requests, but through the app not outside. We're not "dog walkers" so maybe that's the difference as most of our customers are on vacation, or are going on vacation which doesn't happen on a regular basis.
Correct take. California has almost always been driven by immigration going all the way back to the gold rush.
I have a Linux NAS with 6 7200RPM HDDs in a raidz2 ZFS pool, and the local fs read speed on large files is 7 times faster than GbE, about ~930 MB/s. So while this wouldn't saturate a 10GbE link, it would still be greatly beneficial to multiply the network read speed by 7-fold by upgrading from GbE to 10GbE.
On the other side: the business can clearly afford it, so the value he brings is entirely justified from a commercial perspective. The fact that they can find cheaper alternatives on the IT market is a different issue.

You can buy a new branded car for $$$ and be sure it will work for years with minimal maintenance, or you can shop around and buy a passable 15-year-old car; in both cases it will likely get you from A to B for a while, but the chance of having problems is lower with the new "whip". This guy, to the business, is the equivalent of leasing a new car every year: they can afford it and brings no risk as far as they can see.

The obsession with capital efficiency can often turn into a disease. Why should we drive down our own wages, when the market is willing to pay more?
We needed to know because, when we brought our twins home from the hospital, the smallest was under 5 lbs. It was incredibly important for/to us to understand, as accurately as we could how much was going in and how much was coming out from both of them because of how small they were. We probably could've stopped after 4-6 months but we kept it up, my wife liked knowing. We maintain a similar spreadsheet today for our infant but I suspect we'll stop around 6 months with this one.
thx, I'll fix that.
But it’s all about personal freedoms. It’s not important there’s a planet wide climate emergency, that there’s a massive decline in wildlife population - all these things don’t matter as long as we’re all free to dick around and do what ever we want without the spooky regulators with guns telling us what to do.
Which is differentially harmful to the poor and the elderly.

You have to provide old-fashioned alternatives to all the new whiz-bang high-tech shinyness.
Who knows if it actually requires a "mobile device", that might just be their way of saying "device with a camera" seeing how all phones (or any I've ever seen) have a front-facing camera. Lowest common denominator and all that...
There used to be another company called Trellix.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trellix

And that page has been updated to mention the new company using the same name.

And yes, the FireEye page now says "FireEye (now Trellix)."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FireEye

Love how fast Wikipedians hop on this.
A tiny API for embedding weather forecasts as an image: https://weatherembed.com/

Makes around $500/month from various subscriptions through RapidAPI. Built on a whim during the pandemic. Uses Google Cloud Run + NodeJS.
I completely understand the frustration, and I think I agree that there likely aren't simple solutions. But can I ask - do you have any positive suggestions for what could be done differently that would lead to a better overall result? Is your assertion that it would be better to make it easier for both legitimate claims and fraudsters? What sort of legit/fraud claims ratio should we agree upon as a society, and is there any way for us to influence that number, or is this just an impossibly hard problem?

I know that's a lot of questions, but all of them are sincere. I'm legitimately unsure what I should think about this, as well as unsure what you would specifically propose.
Yeah... I thought you used to be able to buy a particular class, but that option seems gone now.
I run a B2B lead generation SaaS for the UK market.

It provides up-to-date data from Companies House, but also allows you to sort and filter businesses by:

- where they are located

- when they registered

- what SIC (standard industrial classification) code they use

- their operational status

- their accounts category

Businesses typically use this to find new businesses to try and market/sell their services to.

It’s written in Haskell and Elm, and it’s been running for about five years now. Several businesses have been happily paying to use the service every month.

https://newbusinessmonitor.co.uk/

If you’d like to sell your services to UK businesses then do write to me; I’d love to hear from you :)
>Too few of these shows last long enough for them to generate future value via syndication.

Forgive my ignorance, but is syndication even relevant to many of these shows/networks anymore, now that you can just drop something onto a streaming service and leave it there in perpetuity?
I really like the look of this, and just played around with it. Thanks for listening to my feedback as well Matt, looking forward to see how Taskable evolves.
Americans abroad don't have a USA verifiable cell phone/landline so they're stuck...
Cool. I predict (hope) specialized jobs boards will become more the norm.
Yes, I agree that owning real estate is an investment - renting it out is a job.
That's another issue.

Domains like .io, .ly and .tv are also used for vanity URL. That was not something originally expected with these.
Has anyone here speculated they might intend to use such a substantial piggy bank for some radical new aspect to their product [line]?

Not sure what... eg. perhaps some server-facing & app-facing API that would log customers in more touchlessly in a bid to become the SSO nexus of the world.
Sounds like they need a sort of "Uber Black" section in the app to serve that market.
A future streaming service will pick up the good ones. The benefit to killing off traditional syndication is that it removes future losses from royalties.
AI Turned a Rembrandt Masterpiece into 5.6 Terabytes of Data
Aren't Evergreen notes effectively just the Zettelkasten?
Lets also ban computers for HFT usage. Also the electrocity used by investment banks!
This is us. We just love dogs. Building a business model off of people willing to sacrifice their time and money just to love on dogs is ... a little nuts.
Tip for the writer, you can use MarkdownExporter or HtmlExporter with BenchmarkDotNet. That way you don't have to take screenshots from the results.
Storage is not really the issue here. If you merely think about snapshots, all this is fine.

The problem come when you merge and rebase your snapshots, possibly solving conflicts in the process. Then none of this snapshot thinking makes sense.

And actually, Git knows that well, since its default merge algorithm diffs the tips of branches with the youngest common ancestor. And rebase "replays" diffs (how would you "replay" snapshots?).
I agree 100% - this happened to me yesterday in fact when we were looking at Paddle for payment/subscription processing and signing up/finding out the pricing required speaking with sales, so we decided to not keep looking into it.
Google Hires PayPal Vet to Reset Strategy After Its Banking Retreat
The scientific consensus, as summarised in this Nature article announcing the news, seems pretty clear on what was being looked at and that the trials focused on severe disease outcomes.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03166-8
wait did you use to work where I work? We fixed this, haha.
And in some cases, they probably can. But reliability, scalability and most importantly quality is harder.
The story is most likely made up and one of the last clarifications strongly hints at it:

> It can't be this simple / this is fake because you aren't doing blah blah. You're right, it's not this simple. There are more steps involved in the script and it performs functions I haven't discussed. [...] The core of the script, transfer and hash, is accurate

The person focuses on transfer and hash and keeps what looks like an absolutely critical part of the process as barely a mention: checking against a spreadsheet where the automation is most vulnerable. Tens of thousands of files means just as many opportunities for a typo in that spreadsheet. And yet the job is still 10 minutes per day.

Also with the popularity this gained, not being worried at all that the employers can guess who this is about just because they left out some parts of the job is a bit hilarious. Somehow I can buy that a mid-sized law firm never realized how easy it is to automate this task. But nobody ever suspecting they're the actors in the story despite the process being fairly unique? That I don't buy.

Everything sounds like a very inexperienced person telling a story they can only fantasize about.
Many European countries have public key encryption integrated into their national ID card system. No blockchain needed.
Ignorant question - but I assume this is not something that those of us stuck in "Enterprise IT / Big Corpo" can easily benefit from?

* I don't see Outlook/Exchange as part of Integrations (let alone more fun stuff like Lotus Notes etc :P)

* I assume it'd be essentially impossible to open ports, gain permission, pass security task list, bribe system administrators and security control officers etc for individual to integrate this into their enterprise email system
None of this is all that novel or useful. You can reduce lots of oxides with an element that has a higher affinity for oxygen. That’s how many “exotic” metals are refined.

All of these reactions just go “downhill”, and no amount of hand waving will make the uphill journey go away if you want to run any part of this in a loop — e.g.: to treat the gallium as a non consumable catalyst.

There is no infinite free supply of gallium, and there are no ski lifts in the electrochemical world.

Going uphill is the hard part. Any idiot can go downhill.
Even by this definition Google isn't the cheapest nor the most available in that time period. Even you're claiming Google's actual product is dirt cheap computing then they're failing by price, market capture percentage and breadth of offerings.
> I'm not talking about things like circuit breakers or child-safing banisters and railings

For example, in California, all new homes must have solar power, with the requirement that [1]:

> The solar panel system needs to be large enough to meet the annual electricity usage of the building

> builders can decrease the size requirement of a system on a property by incorporating battery storage ... <and> ... by incorporating energy efficiency measures or other demand-responsive measures

1. https://news.energysage.com/an-overview-of-the-california-so...
Absolutely.

On the other hand, the other side is just as cynically hypocritical, just in the opposite directions.
This is cool. What's the story behind taking the project over?
Theoretically, if you audit the source then you only really need to care about updates to the actual code. If it doesn't do silent updates then it can't change underneath you, even if it does some kind of network operations.

Its not fool proof, but it feels better than a black box that could be a different black box tomorrow or after the next acquisition or round of investment.
I think it's actually a bit more subtle than that. The post says the law firm "wanted [them] to be the only person with admin access to the Cloud, everyone else would be limited to view only". I wonder if their job is, more than anything else, to be the person who is legally on the hook if anything goes wrong, because they're the only one with write access.
> People getting evicted from a two bedroom apartment aren't going to a homeless shelter, they're going to a studio apartment that costs half as much.

Why are we certain that a family getting evicted from a 2 bedroom apartment can afford a studio? They're getting evicted, presumably for nonpayment e.g arising from joblessness, which would suggest they're likewise also unable to pay for a studio.

> People getting evicted from a studio apartment aren't getting replaced by Jeff Bezos, they're getting replaced by someone else who can only afford a studio apartment and might have otherwise been homeless.

And where are the people getting evicted from a studio going?

> Increasing the number of units on the market will tend to reduce rents and allow more people to afford housing.

City/NIMBY bottlenecks are preventing this from happening, and though I agree with the premise, joblessness won't help when it comes to people looking for housing that needs payment.
Thanks for trying it out and sharing feedback! We love to hear from users, particularly about things we can improve on so appreciate you taking the time.
I created a free account many years ago for my family. We've all been using it ever since for everything. So I have a lot of purchases and history in there. All of my YouTube stuff, all of my Android purchases. Everything to do with Google.

And now they're going to start charging me $70 per family member or delete all of their purchases for the last decade or so.

To say I'm aghast is putting it mildly.
How does this make money? I don't see any pricing info on the site.
I haven't used this app. I had to make my own similar tool.

Anyways, timeblocking changed my life. It was a slog at first. I started off by logging what I actually did.

"Sit on couch - 12:15 - 4:30"
"Walk dog - 4:30 - 4:45"
"Sit on couch - 4:45 - 7:00"

Seeing the patterns I had fallen into was like looking into some sort of chronographic mirror. My fourth dimensional beer belly had gotten pretty big.

Put my ballot in the "What gets measured gets managed" box.
>> The government saying you can't evict someone is basically telling people they don't have to pay rent anymore

If this were true, then you would expect an explosion of evictions now that you can do it. I think that avoiding eviction is an important reason to pay rent but there are other, particularly not going into debt, not wrecking your credit score, and keeping your rental in the long term.

I don't disagree that this was dumb as a blanket policy but this was also an emergency no one expected and no one knew how serious it would be in terms of health and impact on the economy.
Not just selfies, AI face model. Vendor is Id.me. Already required as of about a month ago for me (my IRS.gov credentials were disabled). Abusive onboarding too, which makes you enter lots of stuff before telling you there will be selfies. I bailed.
> IRS Will Soon Require Selfies for *Online Access*

Surely the subset of people who want "Online" access and don't have a mobile phone and don't have a webcam is tiny. Those people can use the "Offline" access, whatever that is but I assume there is some system that predates the internet that allows people to get access to their IRS info.
They're bringing their "block user" functionality to be in line with how blocking works on other platforms and thus what users expect out of the feature. If I blocked someone on reddit before, I would have been very surprised to find that they can still see what I post.

Previous behaviour would be more akin to what on twitter/instagram/whatever is referred to as "muting."

Also as Drakim said: it doesn't need to be bulletproof. It's for mitigation and adding hurdles to abusive users; escalation to reporting-to-admins still exists.
I'm always shocked by the lack of ambition from my friends who land "low-effort" office jobs where they aren't doing much.

Personally, I would:

1. Work on personal projects to build skills for something I actually care about

2. Study until I get a new non-boring job.

I would lose my mind if I had to do nothing but play video games all day. I struggle to fill the hours AFTER work! I can't imagine doing nothing.
And that's why I have a vive tracker on a bucket at all times. It's my VR bucket, for when I throw up
The problem is that ID access is far from equitable and the burden it raises is way out of proportion to the claimed problem (if you think about it, in-person voter fraud has a huge risk component and a tiny reward). Voting is the most fundamental right in a democracy so restricting that needs to be well justified.

Most people on the left would happily accept a free universal federal ID program (with appropriate safeguards to ensure equity of access) but conservatives oppose this.
As a small scale landlord I haven’t had a single tenant abuse the moratorium. I believe another factor is rents have been on the rise, so if you do get evicted good luck finding a similar place.
This is the same country whose prime minister tried to ban encryption because "the laws of mathematics are very commendable" but should nevertheless be subservient to the laws of Australia
I don't believe it's infeasible because we already do it to a large degree.

At the Federal level there is a Section 8 housing.

At the state level there are various rent assistance programs.

Most people are also W2 employees so their income is tied to their SSN so a lot of this can be automated by simply looking at your actual monthly income.

The fact that you'd need to apply for this would also discourage some people from abusing the system.

Lastly, I don't really care if the system isn't perfect and some people get assistance they don't need. It doesn't have to be perfect. It just has to be "good enough". At an ethical level, I'd rather give people the benefit of the doubt and not make them homeless than worry about them abusing welfare some of the time.

> People have long abused welfare in the US who don't actually need it

I'm always skeptical of claims like this because they're used as a political tool to attack poor people for being poor. OMB's estimate [1] put this at "5.6 to 7.2%". In a country that spends a trillion dollars a year on the military, that's a literal rounding error that I don't care about at all.

[1]: https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/briefing-room/2021/12/30/upda....
3rd edition is 2020
Israeli vaccine chief: “We have made mistakes”