skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There were subsidies provided by multiple levels of government[1][2], down the city level where I live. Apparently there was at least (if not more than) the usual level of misappropriation of those subsidies, so complaints from landlords abound.

[1] https://dfpi.ca.gov/2021/03/15/covid19/

[2] https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/coronavirus/assistan...
Be honest, were you inspired by Drawful?
> Many people have pride in their work regardless.

On my experience, the only reason the world works is because many people has pride in their jobs and go beyond their pay grade to make things work. And rarely are the better paid as they are more worried about good results that better pay for themselves. When I find people like that I try to help them as a sign of gratitude.
The employee can do as they please, in fact I'm not even saying I disagree with the employee. I'm saying to call it win-win is patently false if it's being kept a secret, they cannot know it's win-win while also lie about it. Everyone else is using my comment as a way to make a dig a capitalism, fine, no problem... but as the system is structure, what the redditor said is not true, it is not necessary win win.
The move to an electron client was a clear indication they intend to add lots of features. If they were more or less feature complete they would have not bothered with an electron rewrite.
Couldn't it just be that media from those times were less fragmented, and everyone who watches modern stuff just happens to watch different things?
I said more about that in the thread already.
The below post conversation illustrates what is wrong with Git,
and what is right with Git.

I dont know much about cars.
I drive a car that is boring.
Automatic, ABS, whatever else.
It does not spend much time at the shop.

It starts, I drive it to where I need to go, turn if off.
repeat.

My car cannot pull a boat, it can't go off road, it can't go 0 - 60 in 3s,
I cant mount a snow plow on it, i cant transport most furniture in it,
It is not bullet proof, I could never race it, it does not impress the ladies,
it is not very hackable, and so on and so on.

A lot of people want a boring versioning system.
That does not need much care,
much effort,
nor a careful study of its internals.
and certainly not the ability to remember sequences of obscure commands and
switches to get things done.

Git is not a good fit as a boring versioning system.

I have a couple of friends who love tinkering with their trucks or cars.
They have cool cars that can do the stuff above in some combination (not bullet proof)
They are fun. It is cool to get a ride. It is great to feel their passion.
They want to optimize them for their needs and usually that involves making them
go faster or pull more stuff, or do even bigger sand dunes and river crossings
snow storms etc etc.

Git is a good fit as an amazing versioning system that will be there
for you when your tasks get complicated.
It will allow you to perform far more use cases.
The need to put in the time to learn it well is fully worth it.

The problem is that Git is sold as the best versioning for all things.
The vast majority have no need for its complexity.
The vast majority dont care that it is distributed, or even wish it was not.
They dont want 5 gig of repository history since the beginning of time.

Most people treat GitHub as the server and their computer as the only client
and would do just as well with SVN.

In a good deal of the projects, I have worked on, I think locked files would be
an easier and better solution, than merging hell.
(I know that it is a wildly unpopular view)

junon
Am I the only one that actually likes git? Everyone here says it's a hodgepodge of broken
things but I really struggle to see how.

TobTobXX
What made it really click for me is understanding the internals and how git works. Then all
the terms like head, branch, parent, commit, tree, etc. made sense for me and the way git
commands work is intuitive.
I still have to look up the order of arguments for commands like git rebase, but overall, it
makes complete sense.

I can really recommend "Pro Git" by Chacon and Straub. I got a printed version, but it is
also available under the CC-NC-SA here: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2
This is a good comment. What I would add is that the system feels hopeless for a lot of people right now. The things that used to be possible for people not wanting to rent aren't an option any more. I know someone who literally lived in a hole in the ground as he slowly built his home around it. Every now and then a couple of his friends from church would come by and help him with this or that and it slowly came together.

He's retired now. Built a small time, local only 1-800-GOT-JUNK style business. He's a millionaire now. I'd be surprised if he'd finished high school.

At least where I live, you can't really do that these days. Property is way too expensive and well-meaning building codes make basic things essentially out of reach. I'm not talking about things like circuit breakers or child-safing banisters and railings, I'm talking about the long tail of regulations that don't really help anyone.

The rich and the poor keep getting more and more disconnected and I understand the raw rage coming from the other end of the income spectrum. We need to help them.
Couldn't he have bought Apple stock with the proceeds?
> assess this on a case-by-case basis and pay the rent for people in genuine need

I'm not sure you've fully thought through how complex this would be. There are 40 million rental households in the US. Even if only 1% (400,000) decided to be a part of this program and you could close every case in 1 hour (which is probably wildly low) that's 45 man-years of effort.
This is a great share John!
I still use Konqueror as a file browser. There was a day I used it for web browsing + file managing (back in KDE 3 days), but there's very few updates being made to KHTML these days and it has stagnated.
ksql exports "ksql_exec", while sqlbox exports "sqlbox_exec" -- both of those allow execution of arbitrary SQL.

So no, the web apps cannot be made secure via OS support alone, because the OS security features are not adequate for high-level problems. Any sort of code exploit allows attacker to trivially access the entire database -- either to read anything, or to overwrite anything.

"pledge" and "unveil" can prevent new processes from being spawned, but they cannot prevent authentication bypass, database dumpling or database deletion.
Zimbabwe’s climate migration – “Soon people will fight ”
> But no rentals at all? So the only way to have somewhere to live is to buy a house? Really? How is that practical and not a recipe for massive homelessness?
As an aside, we do need to do something about hedge funds running around and buying up all the property, only building ultra-luxury property and the ultra-wealthy just parking money in real estate but none of those issues invalidates the need for a rental market to exist.

I suggest a ban on all SFH rentals. The reason why it seems unviable to have everybody buy a home is because there is so much demand created from people owning multiple homes and bidding up prices in the name of making a profit. If we eliminate at least SFH rentals it becomes much more viable. There are at least 16 million SFH rentals and that number is just growing.

This would solve two problems at once: reduce sprawl by encouraging the building of non-SFH for profit seekers, and reduce demand for SFH which is currently being driven up by profit seekers.
prashp, why are you spreading such rumors on the internet?

About 25% [1] of the population are foreigners, so it can't be that bad?

If you're not white, still move here (I've been living here since 2016, love it). If you work in IT you most likely end up in a bigger city anyway, and as in most big cities in western europe nobody cares about the color of your skin. Or what languages besides english you speak.

[1] https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/en/home/statistics/population/m...
The exact same pattern seen in Washington is seen in far right states. Try again.
Failures on Social Media, does that look bad?
So because you want it to be easier to start a business, you want users to have less privacy and less legal protection?

Google Analytics is free for businesses, but not because Google feel line they need to help small business get started.

Also consider that starting a business in countries like Denmark is easier that starting one in the US. Ease of doing business isn’t the only thing holding back EU startups.
I tried it and it sucks. In music I want high-quality audio, or at least the official music video. YouTube Music just throws anything at you.
I wrote my first web app in 2000 using C/mysql. It was Insanely fast but very awkward to implement. I used C because it was (and still is) the only language I knew well.

At least if you are going to use C, you (should) know to be extremely paranoid about how you process anything received from the user. That doesn't remove the risk but at least you are focused on it.
Maybe to you. “Autopilot” is a term I don’t think has an incredibly clear meaning. Planes are known to have autopilot, but I think of it like “we’ve reached cruising altitude, going to point this bird at LGA and let the autopilot keep us on the right route”. I don’t know what the analogy would be for cars. Maybe something like adaptive cruise control plus lane keeping and auto braking?
It goes beyond passwords. I use 1P to store documents, 2FA codes, IBANs, notes. You can also attach arbitrary metadata to each entry, and I don’t think there’s the ability to filter by category in the iCloud keychain.
I am completely unaware of that. Thanks for bringing it up! This may tilt my decision in choosing a note-taking platform.
Keyboard Maestro can do similar on the Mac with the "Find Image on Screen" and "Click on Found Image" actions. You can do some fairly sophisticated GUI automations with its image, OCR, button clicking, JavaScript, and menu actions.
If you look at the Irish famine crisis, a huge % of lives lost was because of landlords evicting people.

So, it prevents that. And it's an important thing to prevent.
It depends what you are interested in. My latest find from this week is the Introduction to Autonomous Robots open source book: https://github.com/Introduction-to-Autonomous-Robots/Introdu....

If you were looking for news then sUASnews is great for some catching up on drones. For robotics I often find articles on IEEE Spectrum and The Robot Report interesting.
I see a lot of people sleeping on the floor, outside, without any food. And, since you brought it up, also with mental disabilities.
Our prior dog died this summer and I considered doing some dogsitting for exactly this reason. When I looked into these easy, online/app-based services, it wasn't worth the coordination effort (with the humans) and was easier to just go interact with dogs and owners on the sidewalks and at the local dog parks when I needed my dog fix.
Hey fellow accordion busker! I find my busking income has diminished vastly with age, despite my skill rising. Everyone wants to toss a coin at the 10 year old playing decent accordion. Not so much the 30 year old playing good accordion.
> And fiber is less physically robust and not great for desktop connections

i buy armored multimode patch cables for, i dunno, 10 or 20% more per unit length, and they seem indestructible in my residential short-distance use cases.

> Gigabit Ethernet and wifi being “good enough”

i think this explains it all. when the average user prefers wireless to wired gigabit, we know how much bandwidth they actually need, and it isn't >=gigabit.
I bet its better than working as a consultant.
You forgot the rule that all covid modelling is complete BS because it ignores personal agency and ascribes all rates of change to government action. It also is one of the only academic studies that has a built in, purposeful, skewing of all data to make it look much worse than it is. (Prepare for the worse, hope for the best).

Modeling is broken because it doesn't even try to predict the future, its sole purpose is to influence the future.

And that works well for them. Overpredict, change behaviours, claim it was the predictions and actions that changed behaviours and made the model wrong, not the fact that the model was just dead wrong to begin with, and on purpose.

Look no further than every single failed prediction by Imperial college london and Niell Ferguson.
Pretty much. I can't remember the last time I opened Netflix and didn't struggle to find something to watch.

That said, I think more and more people are realizing this so I'm hopeful things would improve. For example, one of the most underrated streaming services IMO is HBO Max - they don't have a lot of content but the quality of of what they have is pretty good.
Preventing a short spike was the goal. The eviction moratorium was never intended as a long term fix to homelessness.
It's mega cheap if you use a VPN in somewhere third-world like India and sign up with a card that doesn't charge forex fees. You can then disable the VPN permanently.

I pay like 130 rupees a month (£1.30 GBP) for it. Worth it just for no ads on my phone and background playback.

Only 'gripe' is that YouTube Music sometimes pops up with random Bollywood/Indian tunes but once you train the alogrithm they disappear too (although I use Spotify anyway so it doesn't really matter).
The job market is good. But raising a family in Switzerland is expensive. Day care may be hard to find and extremely expensive. Swiss don't have many children and often rely on grand parents for day care. Oh, and if your child was born after July 31st, she won't be able to go to school before she is 5 (at least in Geneva and Vaud cantons).
On top of that, in some cantons at least, the tax system is almost punitive if the 2 parents work, even worst if one of the 2 works only few hours a week.
You can check some health insurance costs here: https://en.comparis.ch/krankenkassen/default
And taxes here:
https://en.comparis.ch/steuern/steuervergleich/default
this tbh. As someone who lived in Missouri for a couple years it was astounding how many things weren't automated.
Can anyone with context speak to as why ID.me was chosen instead of Login.gov? SSA made Login.gov its primary identity provider, so I'm curious what the backstory is on IRS' identity story.

EDIT: Follow up question: Is ID.me a shim until there's traction for the USPS to perform in person identity proofing [1] [2] [3] versus ID.me's remote proofing?

[1] https://about.usps.com/publications/pub364/ch12.html

[2] https://www.cfr.org/report/solving-identity-protection-post-...

[3] https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5a7b7a8490bade8a77c07...
Their solutions are unique but the problems they are solving are not, they are in direct overlap with where 1P is going.
Your dystopian future is already here. Kids spend countless hours grinding meaningless resources in games, or doing stupid actions to gain enough resources to unlock a new item in a fremium battle-pass-schemed game.
To be honest, I'm not sure how to best run comparisons on real-estate. Anything beyond "this place looks a lot more expensive than that place" is well above my pay grade.
Clickbait: The entire business is earning $100k+ in revenue.
There was that famous story of a guy who stop showing up to work and got caught years later for stealing from his company by not working and getting wages.

Its sort of similar situation.
In that vein, it might be worth noting that this thing is just a treadmill. There's this whole fancy computer attached probably via just a handful of very simple wires to the actual treadmill part that anyone cares about. If they get too obnoxious about the computer, you can just open the treadmill, yank the computer out, and replace it with something from China that costs $20

Of course, that'll then get attacked via the legal system for violating DRM.. ugh
I like to deal with machines, not people.
I am on FIOS 1G home fiber, how does one get 10G ? Do they have run a line from the node or street ?
This is what I never understood with these situations...like why is this guy the only person on earth that could possibly be CEO of Better.com.

I am 100% certain there are lots of fully qualified candidates who could start tomorrow (especially at CEO salaries)...why do we need to give this person a 2nd chance? Let him go be the CEO somewhere else...or a lowly VP for a few years or something...

When most people screw up at their job they are just fired, and they need to try again elsewhere.
This sounds a lot like the typical small town where they try to make up for lost tax revenue by aggressive policing. One town I'll remember to never go I guess, not that I'd probably ever go there anyways.

There was an old Rockford Files episode called Pastoria Prime Pick, where a small Calforinia town was growing economically by mixing small real and manufacturing/setting-up people with big crimes in order to either solicit bribes for lower crimes and take in huge fines.
> "The number of nurses that are willing to quit so they aren't required to get the vaccine is insane"

Can you point to some data on this?
One of my kids would organize DOS of particular teachers. The teacher had to use a Mac/PC to control the classroom projector. Everyone had "fing" on their phones or tablets. Some fraction of the class would use "fing" to ping the teacher's laptop, shutting down use of the projector. This was at least 7 years ago.

I'll also note that there was one kid who always knew the firewall's password, within a few days of it changing. Never did figure out how that kid knew it so rapidly.
As a landlord, I can tell you that the government does NOT replace ANY of the missed rent.

Moreover, while many tenants have continued to pay their rent - MANY have gradually started realizing that I am unable to evict them, and have completely stopped paying rent. Moreover, they have started collaborating under the assumption that there is more protection if they do it together.

Like other landlords, I have lost a tremendous amount of money in this pandemic. My 12 unit complex represents my retirement, so this hit me very personally.

It's incredibly unfair that the most honest tenants continue to pay. The ones not paying are not paying because they know they can get away with it - not because they cannot pay - they are all still working.
Easier way - attend all the "allyship" and DEI meetings instead of doing your job. If confronted say "challenging white supremacy is everyones job!" and insist they should "do the work"

Join Zoom. Use a heart or snaps emoji in the first five minutes. Turn off camera. Leetcode.
Selling perpetual licenses for software that runs on your machine?! How quaint!
Ah, I can relate to that story. It reminded me of a position I held many years ago.

Realizing what a breeze the actual work was, I made the mistake of asking permission to run a side gig, only realizing later, after being told "no", that everyone else there already had a side gig going, including everyone up my leadership chain.

There were a bunch of different phases during my time there that were pretty funny though, like the "OK fine I'll slack off" phase, the "make every new and interesting hobby relevant to a work project so that I can do it at work" phase, the "nah let's locate and polish every turd in the office" phase (every line of the world's most boring HTML documentation passed W3C validation after that), the "exploring office gossip in encrypted chat with IT guy" phase, the "working my way through Project Gutenberg" phase, and the "excited to try everyone else's favorite lunch spot" phase.

I left for similar reasons, the future was coming and it seemed brighter in almost any other position. The skills I decided to develop were useful later, but it was a net negative for me.
How much of a cut do they take? I have used three Rover sitters and they all wanted to cut out the middleman after a few times.

In general my fear is that the gig economy will lead to high margin middlemen instead of super efficient facilitators.
> Government is always in a battle between good and evil:

Is it? It seems to me gov't is about enriching those that have found themselves in positions of gov't office and their cronnies. Long ago has gov't no longer been concerned with the well being of its citizens.
I often think about just how much more dominant iOS would have been had Samsung not come in to save Android. They introduced better cameras, capacitive pen-enabled phones, DEX desktop enviroments and now foldables.

Having owned several Nexus devices due to their rootability, it's remarkable how much better the comparable Samsung models were.
Nearly every state has a program to provide some rental payments back to the landlord.

It's going to be less and more delayed than rent payments, but that's expected during a crisis.

Renting isn't, and shouldn't be risk free.
My old outlook account receives log in attempt every ~5mins (!!) from all over the world. It's actually crazy that the attempts have not stopped after failing for so long, probably indicates it's from different attackers. The email has been on a couple of leaks but even then, the sheer amount of attempts is so crazy that I'd assume they are using a lot of password leaks that aren't publicly known yet.
But then no one knows which problem to solve.
I bought Lastpass when it was $12/year. Over the years and after being acquired, they tripled the price. I miss when technology used to decrease in price and provide better functionality.
I disagree. There are still massive and popular shows. Look at Marvel shows, Ted Lasso, The Crown, etc. But since the field is saturated, there's also a focus on niche content that appeal to a specific underserved population. Content that have a small but strong fanbase. Just because it doesn't appeal to you doesn't mean it's mediocre.
Agreed, I would have expected some sort of a backlog that landlords were looking to clear, since evictions were banned for almost 2 years.
Average rent for a 1Br in the US is north of $1000.

(edit) - typo
Well there is already .local, so I suppose what you are asking for is a simple way to do TLS with .local?

I’m not well enough versed in TLS and certs, I assume a wild card self cert for .local is a bad idea?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/.local
Yeah having to take drugs to game sounds like a problem IMHO. Oculus Quest 2: with included Dramamine subscription from FB marketplace. Yeah opt out pls
I have visited various embedded development shops and have only personally witnessed one using git exclusively. P4, clearcase, and svn are all quite common still.
A cross-platform fork of Sikuli is at http://www.sikulix.com/ using Java, Python and OpenCV for automation.

PyAutoGui is another nice option - https://pyautogui.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ - cross platform Python module for keyboard and mouse automation with some support for taking and analysing screenshots.
It's not at all hard to argue that illegal things should be publicly accessible. I find it impossible to argue that governments should be able to decide what information is publicly accessible. There is no relationship between legality and morality.
We built https://tadum.app, an online meeting agenda that rolls forward incomplete agenda items to the next agenda. This ends up creating a low effort paper trail, saves on meeting prep time, and keeps agendas consistently formatted/organized. It's intended for recurring weekly/monthly/quarterly meetings--we built it based on how we run meetings with our clients and are happy to see other teams jump in and have success with it.
It says "Optional" next to the username/password.