skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't think many people outside of academia truly understand how much scientific research has degraded over the years.

150 years ago we had phlogiston alongside Maxwell on electromagnetism. Science is always a mixture of more and less wrong stuff. It's people doing work, for good reasons and bad reasons. Some of them are crazy, some are corrupt, and many are doing their best in good faith.

Unless you think we had a special good period in, say, the twentieth century that we've retreated from. It did seem to be an acceleration.

But there's at least some pretty amazing biotech going on this century.

I think most every activity sector has the phenomenon that 80-90% of the people/companies in it are a pointless waste of time and money. It's the price we pay for the 10-20% treasure.
Your comment does not negate the claim that it is expensive to be poor.
Not at this time, but our jobs do pay out in USD.
There is only one way to fix chess and it's called Go.

Of course, this isn't exactly chess anymore but like any design decision there are no perf-

Wait a minute, Go is perfect. If we forget about ko rules.
A "beefy CPU" will sit twiddling its thumbs forwarding traffic between 2.5g interfaces. Any CPU on the market can do that in between naps.
I rented for 9 years in Beijing. An apartment that was technically worth $1 million for sale was renting for $1200/month, buying didn’t make sense at all in that market. Given the American market where rents are much closer to a mortgage payment, it makes much more sense to buy.
Samsung has TVs with the "smartness" in a separate box outside the TV and the display is just a display with one connector. Something like this should be a standard.
Sounds like the beginning of several zombie movies from the 80s. Only a few minutes after driving past, a canister would roll off the truck bed. Kids would later find it.

And so it goes.
That doesn't make any sense. Higher inflation won't keep the Medicare program solvent. The usual approach has been to cut the fees paid to healthcare providers. That's why Medicare beneficiaries in many areas have trouble finding doctors willing to take them on as new patients.
AWS has a product called Security Hub. There's a rule which will alert for any RDS instances open to the internet:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/securityhub/latest/userguide/sec...
There's got to be a catch, right? Otherwise people would be buying these homes and renting them out
Sellers care about down payments in so much as they can gauge how serious you are about closing successfully. Everything else being equal (if the bids are the same, if not it doesn’t matter).
You had to pay in honeybuns in jail :p
> There was a popular internet sentiment ~10 years ago where everyone was convinced renting was superior to buying. "Invest the extra cash in an index fund!"

I think you're stating the sentiment wrong, as someone who did and still does to some extent sympathize with it. The default view in American personal financial discourse has been that you need to buy a house. The heterodox view to which you're referring was that renting and investing is not obviously worse than buying a house. I don't recall any widespread view that you would come out way ahead by renting.

And, to be fair to that viewpoint, compared to buying a house outright, you would have been better off keeping your money in the market and renting over the last five years! S&P is up 91% over that period, and that's not even the total return index! Housing is up quite a bit, but in most places it is not up 91%. I sold a house in the Bay Area around five years ago for around $2.4M, and Zillow is telling me that it's now worth a little over $3M. Zillow could be off by a few hundred thousand in any direction, but I doubt it's off by $1.5M.

What the viewpoint fails to consider is the availability of extremely cheap leverage for houses. If housing does go up, and you have a 4:1 debt to equity ratio, then your appreciation is 4x the asset appreciation if you're at the beginning of your mortgage. If you're the person who bought my house, your $700k of appreciation on a downpayment of $500k is a 140% return (before transaction costs). Of course, if housing ever goes down . . . well, we all remember that well enough.

All in all, I'm not sure the case is closed on the rent and invest vs buy issue. Things look very favorable for buy over the last five to ten years! There is no question about that. However, I personally am not sure how to adjust for the risk associated with the increased leverage you use when you buy. I don't think it's an apples to apples comparison.
I’d assume a number of these would be due to the good old “docker punching a hole through UFW”, which still hasn’t been fixed.
Average utilities accross the US are $170 a month.

And general rule of thumb for maintenance (which includes budgeting for only occasional but large expenses like roofs, furnances, water heathers...) are between 1% of 4% of the purchase price per year. At the very low end, that's at least $300 bucks a month, at the high end that's $1200 or more per month.

So you'd be looking at $1600 + (somewhere between $500 and $1300).
Austria's constitutional court asks for exact justification for corona measures
Facebook has an O365 license; managers definitely use Outlook e-mail & calendar to its full extent. ICs rarely check their e-mails.
That's a common misconception. It stopped being more effecient when we stopped dipping pens or quills in ink. Lifting the pen from the paper tended to cause splattering too so you wanted to keep the pen on the paper rather than lifting it for every letter.
I wasn't aware of the issues described in the linked post about MobileIron exploits. Really interesting to hear about vulnerabilities in such a big MDM.

https://blog.orange.tw/2020/09/how-i-hacked-facebook-again-m...
> To be clear, secondhand smoke has absolutely been scientifically proven to kill people.

News to me. If that's true, why do conversations about secondhand smoke involve so much rhetoric and so little science?

> People aren’t banning smoking because it’s sometimes risky. People are banning smoking because it’s always risky, and non-smokers don’t always have control over their exposure levels. The outdoor exposure levels might be considerably lower than indoor exposure, but why should you tolerate any exposure at all? If you can smell it, you’re breathing additional pollution and toxins. You haven’t given any reasons at all that we should accept and tolerate lower-than-indoor levels of risk and damage just because they’re lower. Some people prefer none, and isn’t that a right they should have in public places?

If they should have that kind of right, they should have that right in respect to other sources of air pollution like cars or wood fires too. If it's about risk, we should set a safe level and ban the biggest contributors to it. If it's about cost/benefit, we should do an honest assessment of how much benefit is required to justify how much pollution, and set a corresponding tax level on all sources of air pollution, or a cost/benefit level for which kind of sources we'll allow and which we'll ban. Maybe the missing reason here is that we're quietly putting a higher value on the pleasures of cars (i.e. of upper/middle class people) than the pleasures of smoking (i.e. of lower-class people)?

> Would you tolerate a small amount of tastable but moderately low risk poop from your neighbors in your drinking water, given a choice?

I think the fact that you go for a disgust-based argument is pretty telling: this isn't about the health risks of secondhand smoke, it's about a cultural disgust of smoking and smokers.

I hate smoking and smokers as much as anyone, but this thread has really made me think about public officials' eagerness to ban it.
puts on tin foil hat

This might be a "feature": make cars so confusing to manually drive that humans become worse at driving, so that Tesla doesn't need to improve its driving software.

I don't actually believe this, of course, but it seems we're headed in that trajectory.
It would be one thing if Musk were as much of a genius as they all believe; instead he's e.g. arguing that Tesla should ONLY have cameras for self-driving, no sensors or LIDAR.

"For several years, Autopilot incorporated radar, and for a time Tesla worked on developing its own radar technology. But three people who worked on the project said Mr. Musk had repeatedly told members of the Autopilot team that humans could drive with only two eyes and that this meant cars should be able to drive with cameras alone.

They said he saw this as “returning to first principles” — a term Mr. Musk and others in the technology industry have long used to refer to sweeping aside standard practices and rethinking problems from scratch. In May of this year, Mr. Musk said on Twitter that Tesla was no longer putting radar on new cars. He said the company had tested the safety implications of not using radar but provided no details."

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/06/technology/tesla-autopilo...
Of course, they go where they can make a good return. But they’re new to this market and increase the demand side of things. They can move much faster than individual home buyers. Real estate is constrained by regulations and it does get I the way of supply. I’m pretty sure My building couldn’t be built in our “historic district” today
As other commenters have pointed out, there are a bunch of simple GUI builders out there that embed button code "inside" the button, including GUI builders for the web, but none of them are popular.

Hypercard became popular because it hit a sweet spot of supply and demand that can't be reproduced today.

When Hypercard launched, it came with every Mac, it was free, and there was nothing else like it available on the Mac. On the Mac, the alternative to Hypercard was to layout UI widgets in code, with no GUI builder at all, or eventually to pay $$$ for a professional-grade IDE like CodeWarrior. As an entry-level user with no budget, if you wanted a GUI builder for the Mac, you got Hypercard, or nothing. This created a community of Hypercard enthusiasts.

Furthermore, when Hypercard launched, Macs had a standard screen resolution. Every Mac sold had a screen resolution of 512x342 pixels, so you could know for sure how your cards would look on any Mac. Supporting resizable GUIs is one of the hardest things to do in any GUI builder. (How should the buttons layout when the screen gets very small, like a phone? Or very wide, like a 16:9 monitor?) Today, Xcode uses a sophisticated constraint solver / theorem prover to allow developers to build resizable UIs in a GUI; it works pretty well, I think, but it's never going to be as easy to learn as "drag the button onto the screen and it's going to look exactly like that everywhere."

The last issue is the real killer for modern Hypercard wannabes: it's a small step from a web GUI builder to raw HTML/CSS. You don't have to pay big bucks to have access to professional-grade HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Sure, they're not that easy to learn, but you can teach a kid to write interactive web pages, no problem.

As a result, the demand for a simple GUI builder is lower than it was for Hypercard, and even when you do capture a user, they tend to outgrow your product, and there are a zillion competitors, so none of them can build a community with real traction.
Oh, here we go! Just a week ago, thousands of unsecured databases on AWS!

https://infosecwriteups.com/how-i-discovered-thousands-of-op...
Context. I might try something like “Frontpage is to MS Paint as writing code is to Adobe Illustrator. I’m not trying to teach you a child’s toy so you need to stick it out long enough to gain some perspective on this.” I’ve had success convincing people that the terminal isn’t “for hackers” by showing them the command line is really where everything happens like double clicking an icon is the same as running `open ~/Applications/Adobe/Creative \Cloud/Photoshop.app` and other normal operations performed with commands. It also helps to differentiate between things we’re doing just to operate/navigate vs. steps taken in the actual writing of code/building something. You can tell how much they understand by how literal they follow directions. I usually start with a whole lesson on using the command line so when we get to the actual meat of building they’ve seen many of the common commands before. It also helps if they’re on the clock and getting paid to learn vs. trying to pick a new skill on nights and weekends.
No one is asking Young to acknowledge Rogan's existence, much less engage with him. He is refusing to associate himself with an entity because they are not censoring his idealogical adversaries.

If Neil Young pulled his music from Spotify on a whim, sure, he "refused to participate". That's not what happened. Neil Young leveraged his art to limit the someone else's basic right to self-expression. If someone refused to put music on Spotify because Spotify has Jewish musicians on their platform, would we call them an antisemite, or would we say, "there's no obligation to put your music anywhere, so that's fine"?
Have they tried just not being poor? /s
They're not much smaller when one factors in the extreme taxes we have to pay in Europe. 49% of a salary for a senior SRE position vaporizes in taxes before it reaches me. That's a salary that would be decent but not great for the same title in the US subject to US taxes. And my union told me they've never seen such a high salary with that title before when I sought their counsel during negotiations.
> The correct strategy is not to rent, but to buy on credit at a fixed rate, then let inflation take care of it for you.

The problem is getting access to the credit in the first place and being able to afford the legal fees.

To buy my flat. I had to put down a payment of £15,000. I bought the property about £30,000 cheaper than it probably should have been. So I would have had to put £20+k as a deposit. Not many people can afford it. Then on top of that I paid about £2-3k in legal work.

I earn decent money in the UK and it wasn't straight forward to me. I can only imagine the trouble people who are less well off.

> So simply align your interests to the government interests, and manage your money just like they do: without a care in the world about the petty needs of say having a stable budget!

Which will lead you to ruin but has almost no repercussions at all for them. The game is fixed.
Do you by chance know the models?
What's wrong with ko rules? I think it's a simple rule and ko fights are an interesting part of go.
There's more than one way to address the problem of draw death besides bughousing captured pieces. Other win conditions are sometimes proposed - something like your king reaching the enemy king's starting square or back rank. Or count stalemate as either a win or some fraction between 0.5 and 1 for the side that inflicted it. Or do the same for draw by insufficient material (bishop or knight) for the superior side.

(I'm not advocating for any of these in particular. Although that's the problem - even if everyone agreed that we should add some kind of win or scoring condition, we'd never get a majority to agree on one solution.)
Looks like a similar situation to car sales in Eastern Europe in the 1980s. You had to wait for years to be able to buy a new one, even if it was the popular model of the day. Some people made money by registering to the queue and selling their spot.
They’ve seen what happens with malware and sideloading. We saw that with Cydia.

We continue to see that with the Enterprise App Store solutions, where malware authors buy or steal an Enterprise license, then develop their own malware App Store.

The only thing preventing this from happening to you is that the malware authors have to get you to install their Mobile Device Manager certificate, so that they can completely and totally own your device remotely.

That’s why I run my own MDM system, because on each device there can be only one. If I already have my own MDM certificate installed on the device, then no other MDM certificate can be installed. And then I am hopefully more secure against malware.

Don’t tell me that you don’t have any relatives who would blindly install whatever they’re told will give them access to their favorite game or their favorite political podcast or whatever. Because we all have such family who would or have already done that sort of stupidity.
Microsoft is an innovator that is very bad at execution. Tablets With Tablet PC, smarthones with windows ce.
But there's a democrat in the white house, which means it's time to wring our hands and gnash our teeth and wail about the national debt...
Plover

Xyzzy

Y2

Okay, I guess those were cheats too.

https://gist.github.com/peteristhegreat/d3256bfa444023855de3...

Funny, I did not see "Zorton" in the list above.

Wow, I really am an old fossil. I found a reference to Zorton here: http://forums.delphiforums.com/xyzzy/messages/283/2
Aren't they supposed to repo those big purchases?
I don’t understand his argument for having to create an account. Most of these apps allow logging in through Google or Facebook, or Email.
The original comment you made, which was downvoted (but I upvoted it) conveyed to me an emotion of angry refutation. (Which I'm not judging, so don't start about tone policing)

You seemed to be saying "don't pay attention to his quote because he's clueless about climate change", but the quote is about people who aren't, say, climate scientists, being gullible about the topic.

It's a self-referential quote. If you refuted it, does that mean that non climate scientists can judge climate science?

It seemed like an amusing paradox, and I guess I'm curious about your motivation.
Don’t let them outside. Done.
I sold a house last year in Washington and I saw the down payment amounts in the offers I received.
I can't tell if this is satire. Draws by insufficient material almost never occur in Grandmaster chess. I have not seen a single grandmaster game end this way in a year of watching top-level chess games daily. If you inspect all of the dozens of draws in this world's Tata Steel, which included ~300 GM-level games, you won't find a single that ends this way.
Is there a good way to use Beancount to handle inventory stock levels in/out?
The central banks of the major governments, especially Japan, own a huge percentage of their government debt. Quantitative easing, of which we've had a lot recently, prints money and buys debt. If the government pays down the debt, the payment goes to the central bank destroying the money (aka the opposite of printing it). So paying down the debt will be deflationary.
Property is probably a larger percentage of my portfolio than most people. You can get screwed on renting too - sure, you can always move, but moving sucks and I like stability. I have super-safe investments and insanely risky ones, and I'd put property much closer to the safe side than the risky side.

The bottom line is, in a truly free market I think housing would be a way less-good mechanism for investment. In our subsidized, zoning-restricted, NIMBY world housing can be a very good investment.
Oh, I should introspect because you're too narrow minded to think it's possible, so you got to pretend it's "wrong" and "deluded" but you're "correct" in seeing this thing that you have no knowledge of at all, but I deeply know my way around, and you're going to tell me how it is?

> also, in no way did i suggest you are a lesser or inferior person, you are just wrong....that you are not delusional... should maybe be the thing to introspect on...

But I'm not your lesser, and I'm not inferior to you, right, you just know so much more than me about my own thing? Oh, I see. I see, sure. Well you're the crazy one then, if you think you know so much about something you know nothing about, and you think you can talk down to someone about their thing, when you know nothing about it and you're just scared, you can't understand, and you hate not understanding stuff don't you. Because then everyone's gonna pretend you're little weak and crazy. Without your knowledge, you're nothing, right? So you just gotta keep study study study...but all that work--you're still so narrow-minded that you see something new and you just want to pretend you already know it's impossible.

Well I don't know how you're gonna get around that arrogance that's stopping you seeing the reality. I feel sorry for you, man. But when you pretend you're right and try to hurt people with that surety, it's going to come crashing back on you, like now.

Thanks for showing yourself so clearly. At least you don't hide behind anonymity like others who same the same. I got another prediction for you: in the future in a moment of rare introspection, you will deeply regret you made this comment, and feel shame for how it reflected upon you.
That should be in the listing. Pros: immediate painless surprise death in case of nuclear war. Cons: damp, bit of a fixer upper.
I think people would be surprised how often it's entirely deliberate. I've had to get told "this is why we used the cloud... so dinosaur sysadmins like you wouldn't slow us down" by many different companies where I've raised this, and I've had this debate in startup communities where "just open everything up" gets defended as "agile" and "modern devops".
Built with perl6! (Now called raku)
You must have never had to!
What’s wrong with renting?

Aside from having to move if the owner sells, it’s pretty nice not have to think about maintaining the house.

Here in the sf bay (Marin sfh with two kids) our landlords just decided to sell. It’s been stressful, but we found a place that we like better for about the same rent.

The owners offered the place to us at a reasonable price, but our monthly payments would have been about double what we pay now, and we would have had to put 20% down. Prices have gone up 40% since we last moved three years ago but rents haven’t budged.
I don't want it to be about one specific game because it happens in lots of games. There's always someone who will make horribly bad tactical decisions to ignore game winning objectives and blame that on "lag" or something ridiculous.

And the ones I have in mind are such that people do start with the same resources every time.

Though if you want to discuss P2W games, those where actual skill is involved not infrequently have no-skill whales lose to skilled players. In those it depends on the scale of the P2W and how much skill plays into the actual contest, though.

Finally, to your edit, yes, many people play MMOs and even join ones where other players have already maxed everything before they created their first character. Not everyone feels the need to be #1 or even cares if someone has more than they do, because obsessing about that stuff is a sure way to hurt your own mental health.
FHA loans are less attractive to a seller than an equal conventional loan because they have stricter inspection and appraisal requirements.
> Not everyone can just get a half million dollar loan.

You are still optimist, in some part of the world, it is way other one million.

And this is the core of the problem: We are making the poorest even more poor by excluding them of the housing market and making them renters for life.

It can only finish tragically on the long term: constant growing social instability or 2008-style housing crisis. Choose your weapon.
they could, of course, just give this dude a new phone.
Hint: you’ll burn out some of the pixels on the video sensor in your camera.
Why should people be allowed to make a profit simply on buying property as a speculative investment?
Disclaimer: I have no assets or vested interest in cryotocurrency.

The author doesn't like cryptocurrencies and is articulate in describing why.

The author is free to support and use alternate payment methods.

Others seem to like cryptocurrencies. There are harms in its use, as with many actions. Does the author refuse to use airplanes too?