skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We could also rely less on cars and more on the cheaper, more efficient, and much more scalable solution that is public transportation.
Can you name a car for the price of the model 3 that you think is better than the model 3? I was a huge fan of BMWs and was ready to get one, and then I drove a Tesla, and really nothing in the price range compared.

The tesla is far from perfect, its suspension isn't as tight or tuned as most sport package BMWs, but everything else is much better for the price imo.

For ~45k can you get an electric car that has similar acceleration, over the air updates, autopilot like capabilities, ease of charging and comfort?
What concerns me, as a non-Canadian not living in Canada, is that if a separate cause (i.e. global recession) makes housing prices drop in Canada during this period, NIMBYs everywhere will use that as evidence that "it works", and will try to replicate elsewhere.
Curious what is your storage story? Where DB is actually stored? Some NAS?
Thanks for identifying that 'point' means percentage point. But we still have 10 points can mean anything from 11% to 1% or 90% to 80% which still leaves out needed information to infer the significance.
I've stopped buying IoT devices. At first I thought, "wow, how neat, I can turn lights on with my voice." But really, switches work fine. They cost $5, don't really fail, and have filled their role since the ~1880s. I'd rather spent my mental energy coding or building more interesting things than futzing around with IoT.
I’m surprised that Apple doesn’t have a desire to play this role. They don’t sell ads so there’s no cannibalism and they have painted themselves (and advertised themselves) publicly as a company that cares about privacy and security. It seems like a natural avenue to win users in a world where the Windows alternative has more analytics and spyware than ever.

A man can dream.
Heads up: I work at Brave. As such, I encourage you to check my claims, verify my sources, and don't take anything I say for granted. Always happy to provide more context as needed :)

Firefox literally sends your keystrokes to Google, right out of the box. Brave, however, was found to be the most private popular browser by reputable researchers: https://www.scss.tcd.ie/Doug.Leith/pubs/browser_privacy.pdf.

Brave [never] hijacked links either. Affiliate Links were offered among suggested sites for relevant search input. So if you searched "Binance," the browser would offer (among other suggestions), an affiliate link for the site. Users could then choose to browse to the property with the affiliate link, and in so doing support the development of Brave. No impact to privacy or security at all.

The mistake here was with input handling. Built to handle search input, this feature also mistakenly handled fully-qualified domains. While we intended the app to offer affiliate links (when relevant) to something like "what is binance?", it was also offering them for "binance.us". The latter case was corrected quickly (and the feature itself was disabled out of the box).

More about that on our blog: https://brave.com/referral-codes-in-suggested-sites/.

To your second point, about setting up crypto wallets and soliciting donations on behalf of non-participating publishers, you're mistaken there as well.

To prime the support-system in Brave (called Brave Payments at the time), we staked Brave users with tokens, inviting them to direct those tokens to creators they would like to support. More clearly, Brave gave Brave users say over where Brave ought to direct its own tokens.

Unfortunately, our UI/UX wasn't very clear about which creators were verified, and which were not (we followed the Twitter approach, marking verified creators with a checkmark, but doing nothing for others). This resulted in some confusion at the end of 2018, where users were directing Brave's tokens to non-participating creators (most notably Tom Scott).

We received considerably helpful feedback about how the system could be improved (both from a UI/UX side, and operationally). Frankly, I don't think I've ever seen our team work so hard, and churn out such a monumental update in so little time. We had made massive changes within 48 hours IIRC. Creators were explicitly marked as verified or unverified in all cases, the BAT that Brave stakes with users would remain in the local wallet until it could be received by a verified creator. And BAT that sat pending for 90 days would be unlocked again for the user to direct elsewhere.

Tom Scott was kind enough to review our changes, and explicitly gave us his approval soon-thereafter. What is now 'Brave Rewards' wouldn't be doing so well today were it not for Tom and so many other incredible users helping us find the best path forward.

More about that on our blog: https://brave.com/rewards-update/
I grew up in the UK. When I was a kid, 'billion' was ambiguous: it might mean 10^12 or 10^9. If the source was American you could be sure they meant 10^9.
You don't even need Home Assistant. Many compliant devices just speak UPNP and have MDNS so you can just use UPNP clients. There's even a nice GTK UPNP IOT GUI for Linux.
> Forgive non-professional philosophers their casual misuse of terms like faith, belief, and knowledge.

I think that's good general advice...

> Even so, you know very well what these placard brandishing plebes meant, despite your pedantry.

... but I don't think it's pedantry in this case but a stupendously important point: I think both me and the GP think "Believe the Science" does very often correspond to some sort of belief in the importance of sources of knowledge or the need to shield ideas from criticism. "The Science" seems often very much "The" with a capital T.

Why stupendously important? If all problems are caused by lack of knowledge, and all knowledge is conjectural, then damaging traditions of criticism is maybe the worst thing anybody can do.
Why Crossplane Is so (2021)
I don't trust Brave's implementation in the first place. You have a direct conflict of interest with protecting user privacy since you also make money off of the ads you serve users (because of how you skim BAT revenue). Furthermore, your scummy behavior of holding site operators ad revenue hostage is pretty disgusting, and doesn't provide much of a moral compass for us to base your actions off of. I'd trust stock Chromium before I'd install Brave on any of my machines.
Second Brain Week: A Free Workshop Series (2020)
> Considering the companies they are talking about here, wouldn't it just be better to work towards a more goal driven work agreement? Show up, do what is required and then the time is yours?

People with the liberty to have goal driven work are generally exempt (there is also a pay threshold, but the freedom of goal-driven work usually only comes with sufficient pay to meet it), and not the workers impacted by this bill. Giving people the freedom of goal driven work and the minimum salary for exempt status is a way for employers to not have to worry about this requirement, which does push people to that by making it more expensive not to do it.
By bike and by foot, Americans discover their country – and themselves (2021)
Show HN: Jaeger Quick Start
I de-AMP'd by switching my default mobile search to DDG.
I used to work on a company that had MongoDB as the main database. Leaving a lot of criticism aside, the replicaset model for Mongo made the upgrades much easier than the ones in other type of databses.
Stereotypes are a legitimate shortcut to critical judgment. But they are only shortcuts. Forming a conclusion of causation based on stereotypes is the epitome of sloppy, bigoted logic. And it happens a lot.
> mainly as a weapon against rising cloud deployment costs.

Cloud Functions is literally code you're running in the cloud. And the moment you approach their limit(ation)s, you will see the same "rising cloud deployment costs"

> Running a WASM engine on the cloud means ... a fraction of the overhead of a container or nodejs environment

You do realise that there are other languages than javascript in nodejs? That there other environments than cloud functions? And that you can skip that overhead entirely by running with a different language in a different environment? Or even run Rust in AWS Lambda if you so wish?

> so there’s no lock-in with the language that the Serverless provider mandates.

And at the same time you're advertising for a runtime lock in. This doesn't compute.

> Web pages that are as ancient as the early 90s are perfectly rendered even today... Basically, it means a WASM binary is future proof by default.

It's not future proof.

Web Pages from the 90s are not actually rendered perfectly today because browsers didn't agree on a standard rendering until late 2000s, and many web pages from the 90s and 2000s were targeting a specific browser's feature set and rendering quirks. Web Pages from the 90s are rendered good enough (and they had few things to render to begin with).

As web's standards approach runaway asymptotical complexity, their "future-proofness" is also also questionable. Chrome broke audio [1], browsers are planning to remove alert/confirm/prompt [2], some specs are deprecated after barely seeing the light of day [3], some specs are just shitty and require backtracking or multiple additional specs on top to fix the most glaring holes, etc.

> I've published my (ranty) notes on why Serverless will eventually replace Kubernetes as the dominant software deployment technique

"Let's replace somewhat unlimited code with severely limited, resource constrained code running in a slow VM in a shared instance" is not a good take.

[1] https://www.usgamer.net/articles/google-chromes-latest-updat...

[2] https://dev.to/richharris/stay-alert-d

[3] https://chromestatus.com/feature/4642138092470272 and https://www.w3.org/TR/html-imports/
I don’t think we disagree, if I understand you correctly, that’s more or less what I wanted to express.
Introduction to FinOps
Hmm, I guess it depends on the task and workflow. I find this easy if I have to send out the document via Gmail, WhatsApp etc.
After I open up the PDF document (which I have to, anyway), the remaining steps happen on my phone. I find picking the right scan filter convenient on the phone (relative to point-and-click on a laptop) - I guess this talks more to the UI of the scanner apps. Then "sharing" the final document via the right app (mail etc) right from the interface of the scanner app is also fast.

Overall, I have noticed this takes me 5-15s to "scan" and send, per page.
Isn't a bigotry a form of a stereotype? If so it's like conflating apples with fruit.
Compared to Plausible, we provide the same functionality + Swetrix browser extensions (soon the alerts will be added there), email reports, multiple languages and themes support and for sure a free tier.

Swetrix is fully open-source and you can selfhost it via Docker (Docker Compose is available too!).
See the instructions at https://github.com/swetrix/swetrix-api
why 10K when you could buy a $1.5K unit? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omivdhxdGv0
Really? What happens when google no longer indexes non amp pages as most of the web pages are on amp? Just a thought teaser. As it looks like there is not much people seeing further from their noses.
Platypub: Plans for building a blogging platform with Biff/Clojure
> Until we liberalize zoning, legalize building, and reject the idea that houses have to be appreciating assets, the issue will continue.

That’s it.

> reject the idea that houses have to be appreciating assets

Particularly this. This is the outlook in the UK and it so problematic because normal people want this "property empire". Its become a source of content creation on YouTube or boasting on social media platforms. So fustrating
Azov is not what you think it is.

It is like complaining that a general has access to any Ministry.
That wouldn't work.

You can always make more LLCs to dilute your numbers.

Ultimately we need to weaken corporate ownership of real estate
If you run Pi-Hole here's the RegEx to add to your blacklist

^(.+\.)?amp\..+\.com$

^(.+\.)?ampproject\.org$
>MYTH # 2: The office promotes connections

I just find this bit entirely unconvincing. I don't have data to back up my claim, but IME 1 in-person interaction is worth ~5-10 'virtual coffee' type interactions via Donut or one of the similar apps. Maybe others feel differently, but I haven't found any substitute for live, in-person get togethers for connecting with colleagues on a personal level.
I wish systemctl were 6 characters or less. Having to type it over and over and over again when doing some sysadmin-y task gets really annoying.
The zero-knowledge proof avoids true accusations of a particular type of cheating. However, the biggest problem is humans, not machines. An election system must be ELI5able, or we can expect a fair amount of instability regardless of truth.
To be fair, Brave doesn’t really have their own browser engine (it’s Chromium), but it is good to have browser choice, so I agree with the sentiment. (I am a Brave user.)
I doubt it - these things are cash cows for their producers and prevent tiny manufacturers from producing incandescent bulbs that actually last
> Apple takes QA very seriously and invests in high quality QA engineers

Willing to bet this is worth 80% of the value to the task, especially if your QA testers can write enough code to have good instincts about why something might break & control for a test environment / create novel test situations.
Also relevant (but satirical): https://www.thebeaverton.com/2022/04/canada-to-ban-foreign-h...
"Thought leadership"
> Go look at Buffer, Zapier, Automattic, GitLab, and more, who are Remote First companies with thriving cultures.

I really don't think pointing to a couple companies that are remote and have decent culture invalidates the point that offices foster collaboration and culture sharing. No, it's not impossible to do those things in a remote environment, but it is absolutely much harder. It's not that hard to understand some companies aren't willing to put in the work required to build strong collaborative cultures remotely.
Honestly? Grow up.
This sounds less like making money from open source alone and more about running a subscription video tutorial service.

The guy from laracasts has lots of open source code on GitHub but it would be weird to say he's making money from open source. He's making money selling a subscription to a video tutorial website.

The author has just swapped out Stripe or another payment gateway for GitHub Sponsors.

I'm not sure how this is any different from Laracasts or any other tutorial site other than the fact that he does make some money directly from the open source, but it's not enough...
Well so the reason I asked this questions is that I did screw up a bit, and I think it could have been caught had I done sufficient testing - but I didn't because it doesn't seem to be part of the culture here, and neither are peer reviews.

So I _was_ trying to do only what was asked of me, just writing the code, but I guess I thought what I did at my previous job could have helped - which is keeping track of what was needed and then how I planned to accomplish and test.

But yeah, you've got me thinking about how or whether I should broach this topic; I think my lead is great, seems open to ideas, wants things to work well, so maybe I'll just ask what they think about how to avoid these kinds of mistakes.
How is unsafe Rust code used in practice?
Exactly the same process for us, also in healthcare and medical devices.
It kind of reminds me of the OOXML thing where Microsoft hijacked the standards process for its own benefit.
It is not the worst. It is just "one of them", how to get the monopoly over web content.
Putin signs decree to remove Russian stocks from overseas exchanges
Not that I'm downplaying your points, but please next time start a comment saying you're working for Brave ;)
TF2 servers that run on Windows give more metal than Linux [video]
Aye, the DOJ won't look favorably on anti-competitive practices.
People around here love to pile on Mozilla for every perceived slight or misstep but they rarely have any ideas on how Mozilla is supposed to fund itself.

Some of the ire is earned but I have yet to see how Mozilla is supposed to fund Firefox development without that google search bar.
>Now you are ready to believe all Russian polls if they help you demonize ordinary Russians.

I think you read intent into my post that isn't there. I don't demonize Russians now, didn't demonize them in 2014 and I very much did believe polls in 2014 because if you had any idea about Russia or Crimea you knew that the annexation would be celebrated and rally support and an intense amount of national pride.

55% and comparisons to Iraq seem about right, but that war had authentic support for many years, had entire schools of foreign policy backing it, and hawks exist along the entire spectrum, from coastal intellectuals to flyover country.

you actually did have the same discussions back then. "It's the deep state and MI-complex running everything, all Americans hate war!". Like, no lol. liberal twenty-something college students did, many others were on board.
Oh oh! Well, at least I'm one standard deviation older than the worst!
> Electricity is already much less expensive than gasoline.

How I'd phrase that is: "Electricity is currently much less expensive than gasoline "at the pump". What I think is likely to occur is that as we switch over to EVs (I own one btw if that helps here) there will be continued pure electricity demand which is going to cause prices to go up and up. Everything runs on electricity, and soon cars will too. So I think the kWh price is going to go up, and be measured and scrutinized much more (you can make an app to calculate this, not so much with gasoline easily) and it'll be more measurable. But gasoline costs just aren't "counted" in the same way. So eventually it'll cost, idk, $20 to go 300 miles and people will think that it's expensive because you could do it with gas much cheaper in the past, but the problem with that comparison is you wouldn't have accounted for the externalities so you're not really getting true costs. I hope that makes sense where I was going with that.

I agree $/mile is the right unit, I was just thinking about how to isolate true gas cost versus true kWh rate in some way. I personally pay closer to the $.05 kWh rate at home, but I see peak rates in California hitting $.4/kWh and all I see is the writing on the wall for the rest of the country.

If I had to summarize:

We live in an era of extremely cheap energy. It may go on for another 50-100 years, who knows. Maybe it goes on forever. But it won't be from fossil fuels. And if energy becomes much more expensive and we haven't designed cities and transit for optimizing cheap/efficient energy costs we're beyond screwed. Relating it back to housing, I think it makes sense the housing is getting much more expensive and that this phenomenon is more than just "living somewhere cool" and part of the reason that people want to live in these "cool" places is exactly because the implicit energy costs are less. You don't have to drive to a coffee shop. You walk.

I guess one good thing about America is we have all of these navigable waterways so we won't have big food shortages as distribution costs can remain reasonable, at least in the mid west and the east.

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One startup idea I have is a way to truly measure your total energy expenditure. Right now I just get a bill in the mail and figure that it makes sense because it's sooooo cheap to run all of this stuff. What happens once energy becomes 5x more expensive? Well, I want to know how much it really costs me to run dual monitors. Maybe it's an extra $50/year I don't want to spend (just a contrived example).
Are you talking about our society or chimps in the wild? To me it’s all just a mating strategy. Wealthy people aren’t smart from my experience, neither are ambitious people.

Why is that? I think that if you’re smarter you would sit and think about what power actually gets you. Outside of some random people trying to bother you every day and some extra mating, that’s it. You’re stuck with the same chimp/monkey mentality you started with only now you have the added bonus of having annoyed/being annoying.
We have Word documents for requirements and (manual) test cases plus a self-written audit tools that checks the links between them, and converts them into hyperlinked and searchable HTML. It’s part of the dayly build. We are mostly happy with it. It is nice to know that we at any time can switch to a better tool (after all our requirements have an “API”), but we still have not found a better one.
You can always build more dense housing on land that is in high demand. In fact, doing that is the most obvious and effective way to keep prices low for desirable locales. Backed up by pretty much all the economic research on the subject in the last decade.
While that’s true, managed services on eg AWS provide hot replica’s as well, which you can use to upgrade the database and do a failover to the new version.

We actually migrated from vanilla Postgres to Aurora that way with minimal risk / downtime, it was a really smooth process.
Thanks! That's awesome to hear - it's been super fun working for them. I've only been here about a year, so that near native experience is likely the result of https://twitter.com/evanwallace 's early webasm work on it.

I work on the design system features (components / variants / libraries / etc). Hit me up if you have any feedback! Happy to route it to the right people.
> In a 1970 survey, The New York Times suggested a consensus definition of a minicomputer as a machine costing less than US$25,000 (equivalent to $174,000 in 2021), with an input-output device such as a teleprinter and at least four thousand words of memory, that is capable of running programs in a higher level language, such as Fortran or BASIC.

i think your regular off the shelf fitbit could fit this description... maybe you'd have to stretch the definition of input-output device, but otherwise it makes sense
Title was corrected to "French court fines Deliveroo thousands for abusing freelance status of workers".

The body still says "for abusing the freelance status of riders working for the British takeaway delivery platform." Perhaps it's a bad translation confusing 'riders' and 'drivers'.
> Why would you link to GDP PER CAPITA? Are you ignoring that population has grown since 2000?

1. using country level GDP gets you a 63% drop, hardly any better

2. The argument I was making was with respect to living standards (ie. there's no way that our income/living standards dropped 67% in 20 years). In that context it makes sense to use GDP per capita rather than GDP for the entire country. If US population grew 50% over some time period, and GDP only grew 25%, that's actually bad because that means the average person is actually worse off than before.
Effects of media on viewers’ beliefs: A field experiment with Fox News viewers
Brave's Ads are optional (off-by default in the case of Ad Notifications), and matched-on device (so no user data leaves the machine). There is no conflict of interest here; Brave doesn't harvest user data. The Brave Rewards/Ads model is centered around _attention_, not data.

Regards to the "holding site operators and ad revenue hostage," I'm not sure to what you're referring. Perhaps the UI/UX of Brave Rewards ("Payments" at the time) in late 2018? If so, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31086397 what, I hope, will be a helpful answer.
Gopher was a pretty brief blip in my career, but I remember being insanely excited about it for about three months of 1991.

Apple's OpenDoc was a pretty neat idea, until I actually tried it on an anemic Centris computer in 1996.

And I still have a few hundred MiniDiscs and a couple of players in storage. From 1997-2002 or so, those were in daily use on my subway commute, until the iPod came along.