skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You are right that there is no normal. The US in the 1900s, especially western US, was probably a right place in the right time event where the parameters of the environment allowed for that number of humans to live at a certain quality of life, and the parameters have changed now that there are billions of more people in the world, and probably tens or maybe even a hundred million more competitors.

There is a normal, and it is to allow housing to be constructed as desired. The whole number of people on the planet is not relevant. For example, if the same regulations had existed for centuries before, there would be no metropolises today, because all construction has been constricted, to include the formation of a new metropolis.

Take a look at some place like New York city in Google Maps, then look at San Jose, California. notice that San Jose has somewhere close to 1000 square miles of undeveloped land surrounding it. In fact, if you drive to San Jose going north on 101, the "Entering San Jose" sign is in the middle of nowhere and IIRC, you can't see anything resembling civilization other than the eroded star-thistle-saturated brown hills (they claim this is for "preservation" as if that is what things looked like before being settled).

I have been through this issue for myself many times in considering where I live, because I was always just behind the curve in Silicon Valley, so I left, as the minimum wage to live what I consider a normal American life is now $150k in that region, with housing ownership starting salary at $250k, which is ludicrous.

You have to work this back completely: at some point, there were no people. Then someone arrived and decided they would like to construct shelter for themselves in the form of a house atop some soil. Then more people arrived, and they decided to do the same thing. We arrive at the 1990s, and many people have this: shelter atop some soil. Philosophically, you cannot justify someone who has shelter atop soil being granted the privilege of owning the shelter over someone who would like to construct shelter atop their soil, other than to say they have greater rights than the other, which presents a rather different picture: the establishment of a caste system which also works to enrich those who already own shelter. Thus, the scenario today is the older generations directly profiting from the impoverishment of the younger generations.

I call this a great moral conundrum, and what is difficult about it is the older generations are in no way motivated to ever address this conundrum. They can live out their entire lives profiting from this highly immoral scenario, and not even think about it. It is why I believe that land owners in California and elsewhere with similar policies are among the most immoral people in modern history.
I assume carriers limit only the _bandwidth_, and count on streaming apps to react by automatically degrading the resolution.
Let me make sure I understood this correctly: having a CS degree will turn you into a cartoon stereotype of a technical nerd, but getting any other kind of degree in the world will enable you to be a well rounded person and still learn CS skills. Somebody should really look into the damage being done by CS diplomas.
I get it. If you already have internet, then Starlink is not for you. There are lots of questionable design choices (particularly in version 2), it's picky about placement, etc. etc.

But if your other choice is HughesNet or its competitors, that throttles you after 15 GB (2 days of non-streaming usage for me), or 50 GB, the Starlink "shortcomings" are irrelevant. With Starlink, if you can get it, and if you can site it without blockages, you have "real" internet. Reasonable speeds and no caps/throttling.

The massive over-subscription (presumably by people who have no functional alternative) suggests it serves a need.

Just not a need for people who have a non-DSL wired alternative, like Jeff Geerling.
Thank you for the feedback!

What would be great for us to do is to create a feed of recipes (both vegan and non-vegan recipes) that need minimal (may be just cream or milk) to no replacements. This way people could discover a variety of recipes from across the globe than to be confined to a few recipe blogs.
Whether they are just or not just they usually affect the rioters more than the people who the rioters blame for their problems.

The Jan 6th riots are a counterexample to that because they are a rare example of people driving long distances to participate in in a riot.

It boggles my mind that the common view is so devoid of history and context. Look at most countries, say France or Egypt, it seems the most common cause of a riot is that the cost of fuel goes up. In the U.S., on the other hand, the main cause of riots since at least the 1960s has been the perception (and reality) of police misconduct on the part of blacks.

People today, with a myopic viewpoint, like to imagine that the murder of George Floyd or some other recent event is a decisive turning point but if you stop to think about it there were the Watts riots, riots over the beating of Rodney King, etc. Go read the words of outstanding black men in the past like Booker T. Washington and you find many of them were resentful of how they were treated by the cops.

It's a chronic problem and the most certain way to make sure it persists is to treat it as if it was an acute problem.
Thanks Will for creating Rich. I'm also a big fan of Rich.

Are there any plans to make it easy to generate the Rich tables from the command line? Such as from CSV, TSV, JSON/L, or even SQLite databases?
Wait until you’ve experienced the bliss of UK FPS. It’s completely free for consumers, and so fast that if I transfer money between two banks with push notifications for tx, I often get the receive notification before the sent one.
So there's a mechanism for asking a user for a rating from inside the app. Apple locks this down so you can only ask the user 2 times per year but how it usually works is. Occasionally a window will pop up asking if you like the app. Press yes and you are prompted to rate it with this popup window, press no and you get directed to send feedback.

This way they ensure that only users that are already satisfied with the app rate it and don't "waste" the popup on unsatisfied users.
I’m fine with that.

Donation drives aren’t misleading. Donation drives don’t use shadow profiles. Donation drives don’t impact content. Donation drives don’t convince my grandma that she needs to send the IRS Target gift cards.
This reads like a poorly put together smear attempt.
Is this the WETH thing?
That's not correct. I haven't quite got all the way through the article, but yeah - not correct. It has wifi that you use to manage it, but it also has an ethernet port that you can use. I have it as one of 3 internet devices at my home in rural Arkansas. I would turn off the wifi entirely, if they allowed me, for less interference.

The cable is kind of a bummer, but at least it's super high quality. I wasn't too happy about having to use a giant step bit to drill holes, as I wasn't about to cut the ethernet jack off the end of it when I ran the cable in the attic.
This is my issue with much of the crypto movement. The answer to all questions seems to be re-creating existing infrastructure (in this case, we are trying to recreate the price of USD). The promise of crypto was a world without this type of centralization and institutionalization. As it's grown in popularity, it appears to be re-creating all the existing centralization. Even wall street market-makers like Citadel are getting into the game [1].

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-11/citadel-s...
That didn't explain anything, it's essentially "RTFM" but with phone book sized manuals.

Look, you're the evangelist for the technology here. If you can't explain to people why they should give a damn, that's on you. As far as I can tell, you're just promoting a scam on too-good-to-be-true promises and FOMO.
They had to be forced. But it’s a fantastic milestone for sure.
Beautifully made, full-screen, curses version of Wordle as "SSH Toy".
$ ssh clidle.ddns.net -p 3000
I think it’s a generational thing… and there is no reason to think the Republicans who have demonstrated they’re much better at politics (much to my personal dismay now that the Republicans are no longer low-tax, small govt) won’t just say “hey we are for legalizing it too” as young republicans tend to not care about it being legal or not. The most accurate poll you could do is just “should marijuana be legalized” and then capture the age groups. That’ll tell you all you need to know.
I think becoming a more adventurous eater and becoming a more plant-based eater are orthogonal life choices.

Nowadays it's perfectly reasonable for people to eat more plant-based dishes without giving up too many of the flavors and textures and general structures of the meals that they were used to. That's a good thing, not a bad thing, assuming you agree with the philosophy that getting people to eat more plants is better for the environment.

Challenging people to eat dishes that are very different from what they grew up with - not just in the ingredients, but in the textures and flavors and preparations - that's a different discussion altogether. In my experience a lot of people are not very interested in trying dishes from unfamiliar cuisines, even if there is a chance they might like them. That's true whether we're talking plant-based or not.

I think for a lot of people it's easier to get them to eat more plant-based versions of the dishes they already like than to get them to experiment with dishes they're unfamiliar with.
Bypass link: https://archive.fo/tEz7P
Currency exchange up to some amount is generally free if you're using services/neobanks like Revolut or TransferWise.
The dialog box that randomly pops up is “Rate Podcasts?” and a star widget.
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The title is "playing with", but the article is just a gallery of EXISTING stylesheets. At the bottom is a blurb about how to make your own custom one by simply copying one that exists. There's almost zero content here other than "stylesheets exist".
Related release news from Mozilla https://twitter.com/mozillareality/status/148924010351593062...

and Igalia
https://twitter.com/igalia/status/1489238493981253642
Do I get equity for submitting this?
Apple doesn’t have a surveillance advertising business, let alone a booming one. This seems to be a common new falsehood around here.
Not true at all. Look at Apple.
lol classic
I wonder how much is blowback on current societal trends around family and marriage. There’s been divorce lawyers blowing the whistle on how awful divorce court is, for instance. Then there’s the hell of dating sites for men.
Here's an actual CSS-only implementation of a chat app that I happened to stumble across yesterday while tinkering: https://github.com/kkuchta/css-only-chat
5. Be amazed when you realise it costs a lot to actually run your code and when you do a hard to spot bug means you lose all your money anyway.
Bypass link: https://archive.fo/dPXby
Yeah that is my gut feeling too.

So much stuff can happen on a phone that the brain can't relax and focus on a single task.
You missed some steps at the end there:

5. ???
6. Free high interest!
7. Oh no, a bug!
8. The code is the contract, sorry.
9. Coins lost forever.
Happily giving $10/mo. for this important Internet resource. That goes for Wikipedia too. If we want nice things those of us that can afford it should contribute. imho.
How does this compare to tekton, I'm currently exploring projects in this "k8s native pipeline" space
belle weather -> Bellwether

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellwether
I'm no accountant, but I trust Bloomberg knows about these things:

> Binance generated at least $20 billion of revenue last year, according to a Bloomberg analysis of its trading volume and fees.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-01-09/binance-c...

> Also if so much real money is generated then where are the billionaires

Same article:

> With $96 billion, Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao is closing in on tech titans including Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Google’s Larry Page and Sergey Brin.
Why? If someone wants to use a phone number for their identifier, fine. But make it optional. If I join Signal with another alias (free-form string perhaps) then they could just add me via that. Not really harder than using my phone number.
Contention happens in many places in the pipe, it can happen because of the path or because of a fault. It can happen inside the streaming providers infrastructure or in the egress. The delivery system adapts to the bandwidth that is available and chooses all sorts of ways to deal with this.
WhatsApp is subsidized by Facebook.

Threema is a better comparison. They offer a commercial, ad-free product with E2E for a one-time fee of 3.99€ in the iOS app store. They also don't sell your address book or other data. They don't even have your phone number.
Although this does seem like product promotion, we don't provide affiliate links (just takes you to Google). We don't at this point make money off product purchases.

Having said that - I also don't like this perception of the product. We will be adding more natural substitutes such as jackfruit or mushroom, so you're not driven away by what may seem too promotional.
Just going on a tangent from crypto bullshit.

There's a thin, but opaque difference between "transfers" - what you're doing - and "payments" which Stripe or Paypal are doing.
That's how the first version router was (the one I have). The new 2nd gen router has WiFi (ac), but Ethernet is not built in. You have to buy an extra dongle that costs $20 and goes inline to the dish.

The new router does have a bypass mode, so you can get around using it at all (though it still needs to be plugged in as it's the PoE source through the proprietary cable). The reset method is a bit weird, since it doesn't seem there's a button. I think you have to plug and unplug it three times within a certain time period.
Important to remember that Brian Acton recently took over from Moxie as CEO of Signal, and he was pushing for a user-funded financial model back at WhatsApp. Signal has had a donation system for a while, but it wasnt exactly explicit and I imagine had a very low conversion rate.

I think it's fair enough that Acton would want some return to his $100 million(?) Loan to Signal. But I think more than that this is about creating a business model where users sustain Signal's development and maintenance, rather than Signal sustaining itself through ad tech, just as WhatsApp should have done.

In other words, Acton is creating the app WhatsApp should have been. And that's to be applauded
> Maybe you used to be a pre-school teacher, and you'll be the go-to person for communicating the engineering team's needs to the marketing team in a way that makes sense to them.

I usually don't go in for piling onto defenseless groups of people, but having worked in marketing and development, I applaud this (likely unintended) sick burn.
I'll give you 5% off the bat and +1% for every 30 minutes the post stays at the top. Congrats on being sqlcss.xyz's new CMO.
Ok, could be. Predicting the future is difficult, though. On most real-estate forums I followed in early 2020 the prediction was that Covid would cause real-estate prices to nosedive and the exact opposite ultimately occurred.
Starlink is a game changer if you don't have decent wired broadband. We had about 1 Mbps download and were the last house on the road who could get it. Then we didn't even have that. Verizon hotspot was "ok" but data was expensive so you had to watch your usage. Starlink isn't perfect--had a couple of days downtime over Christmas--but basically it works fine with 20+ Mbps bandwidth.

With the prior DSL, I couldn't have worked from the house in a meaningful way. (My AT&T wireless is also very marginal.) Now I mostly could.
as a rails dev, I agree with this, instead of app->{models/views/controllers}->resource, I would prefer app->resource->{models/views/controllers}
While it's true that you can query "a DB" using (not only, but also) CSS, "the database" which the author of the tweet (or "the recruiters") mean is probably running on the server. Challenge accepted (of course without using a backend that provides access to the DB, that would be too easy)?
There is a central authority though, the people who write and maintain the code and make decisions regarding the protocol. How are they accountable?
Yup, has been for a while:

http://mother3.fobby.net/

You'll need a copy of the rom to patch. Also I'm pretty sure you can play it on an actual GBA if you have a flash cart. If you play it on an emulator make sure frame skipping is off because the rhythm aspect of combat is almost impossible otherwise.
"Bounded Turing complete" or more accurately a "linear bounded automaton" is usually considered a practical enough form of Turing equivalency. No real-world computer is actually a universal Turing machine.
I've heard about the order issues over and over with Apple podcasts, I'm shocked that they haven't been able to figure it out, they have the resources and shops with much fewer folks can make a better podcast app, I guess it's just priorities.

I've personally have been using Pocket Casts since it was the defacto podcast app on Android in like 2012, grandfathered into the premium plan since I purchased it way way back before NPR bought them. Thought I'm considering giving overcast a try. I've heard very good things about it but I'm not sure if it's worth switching over with the subscription.
Yeah, a magnolia (the state tree and flower). So much better!
What you're saying does make sense. But personally I cannot stand the taste of most substitutes I've used and I imagine many other cheese- and meat-heads would probably be as picky. My wife went vegan for a few years so I tried a number of cheeses and soy and egg things and I find them revolting, personally.

(That said, I'm becoming addicted to warm soy milk especially in the winter. It's just hard to find vendors that make homemade soy milk around here...)

BUT getting exposed to curries (I prefer Thai style rather than Indian) or paneer masala or the spicy paneer burgers in Indian McDonalds makes me feel I could easily give up meat if I was eating food this yummy.

And those spicy paneer burgers at Indian McDonalds, man they're good. I can't believe they haven't introduced them in the US. I think they'd be a massive hit. It tastes similar to spicy Chick-fil-a chicken but it's a type of cheese instead of meat.
They must be making a return on their investment, otherwise why would they do it? Maybe not 6-10x but it must be greater than 1x
Turing completeness is a mathematical concept, why try and extend it to physical devices? Ever computer I can think of corresponds to a finite state machine.
> Getting children used to your hardware and software is a major investment in the future.

I disagree. Apple tried this in the 1980's in the U.S. It was a disaster, no one bought Apple computers for home use and the company almost went under. Apple didn't come back to life until they came out with the iPod. It didn't hurt that they later got a booster when MS released the sh*tshow know as windows 8.
>> Acquisitions are a critical instrument for large corporations in terms of competition. TikTok's parent, ByteDance, is not restricted by such problems despite how massive they are, for example.

Don’t forget the US came perilously close to banning TikTok last year. As much as Facebook probably doesn’t have the US government on their side, it’s more on their side that TikTok’s.
That's a feature. I don't want my account to be recoverable without my password.
Why isn't this flagged? And why does this get upvotes? This a low-quality zero-content bait article. The same thing is right there in the matplotlib documentation [0]

[0] https://matplotlib.org/stable/gallery/style_sheets/style_she...
I don't use Apple TV much, but one of the things I like about it is how it lets me download the video file locally. The quality is so, so crisp. I pay for the more expensive version of Netflix, but it's not quite the same start to finish.
Most chess players play through chess games after the fact at their own pace, clicking one button to move ahead or another to move backwards. We've had this ability for hundreds of years: at one time using printed pages and wooden chessboards instead of computers, but the principle is the same.

But if you're really interested in the TCEC as a competitive sporting event, you might prefer to watch the drama in real time. How many people record the Superbowl and play it back at 100% speed the next day?
> All the banks care about is if the cost of the new mortgage is going to exceed your debt to income ratio.

Not exactly. The underwriting process is very different for full-time residences versus investment/rental properties. Rates are usually higher, debt/income ratio must be lower, and appraisals and cashflow analyses include rental market considerations.

Given this it's entirely reasonable to assume the rift between mortgage products for investment vs residence to widen. If congresspeople want to do something about perceived imbalance between residence and income real-estate, they could change federal subsidies or underwriting requirements for income properties making mortgages for income properties much more expensive and/or harder to get.

(Just realized a peer comment said something similar.)
I don't know about everyone else, but I usually bookmark to read later. I built a simple bookmarking webapp for this while in university over 10 years ago, pre-Pocket, even.

The thing is, I usually don't read it later.

Next time you bookmark something to read later, or send it to yourself, or whatever you do - maybe stop and ask: am I actually ever going to open this again?

Chances are you're reading articles to procrastinate, and if it's too long or not interesting enough to read even then, bookmarking it is just procrastinating on the procrastination.
Dropbox is never going to be popular. Anyone can trivially build the same system with SSH, FTP and curlftpfs, not to mention all of the problems caused by the fact that it's still in its early stages. [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
Do you get paid for overtime or is it a different type of scenario e.g. you own the company?
Your laptop is a machine to improve your life.

So run to make your life better and if the machine breaks replace it.

With another machine.

Laptops are fungible.

Good luck.
I’d like to find someone with more citations to back up this claim, but my hypothesis is that evolution favors the biggest, baddest, and most intelligent during stable times. In an unstable environment, small stupid generalists are what survive (thanks to their lower caloric needs).