skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think banning airbnb outright is not a good idea. They should limit the number of days per year a place can be rented, simple. Then you only rent if it's really your home and you're not there, because otherwise it's not worth it. Might be a pain to control across multiple renting platforms, but it's possible and if you catch a couple of persons and condemn them to high fines, this will make the rounds and other short term renters will stop.
> Big cities are by nature cosmopolitan

but most rich tech workers, especially from US, especially from SV, are not.

It's time to accept it.

We don't want them.

Not at this rate, not at these (their) conditions.

They only bring problems.

One thing is immigrants coming to work, another thing entirely is people that go somewhere because "it's cheap" or "it's beautiful" but work and pay taxes elsewhere.

They also have the habit of paying more than the average prices, so housing becomes more expensive, activities have to pay higher rents to survive or adapt to the kind of entertainment that the "new people" like, which is more often than not not what they wanted to do, people that used to live near their workplace had to move elsewhere because they could not afford to live in the district anymore, they end up closing shops and move their activities elsewhere (people like to have a life, besides work and commute) disrupting the life of many other that used to go there.
So when these people start buying drugs, dealers compete for their money and criminality rate increase.

Last but not least, not being part of the community makes them detached.

This[1] had never happened before Americans invaded Trastevere.

Of course this is in general, individually people are perfectly fine, but this trend is killing the fabric of cities with centuries of history, for nothing.

Cosmpolitan it's not synonym for "colony".

[1] https://www.thelocal.it/20220210/us-tourists-serving-life-fo...
Ask HN: CLI Tool for File Encryption?
I recently came across sigtool[1] which on the surface looks like a slightly more well defined tool/format for encryption than age[2].

And they both attempt to be simpler, more modern than gnupg[3] and easier to use than eg: openssl[4].

Which tool do you use/recommend for encrypting files, and why?

My primary use case is for backups - but interested in other use-cases as well.

[1] https://github.com/opencoff/sigtool

[2] https://github.com/FiloSottile/age

[3] https://gnupg.org/

[4] https://wiki.openssl.org/index.php/Enc
The self-quotes really threw me off once I realized they were self-quotes. Most of them seem like self-comments, which would feel better if added as some sort of sidebar instead of interrupting the content.
Smart Farming Technology and Benefits
That seems wild to have different ages calculated differently applied to different things. At some points age would seem to diverge greatly between two people who are the "same" age.
They are also useful for reducing SMS cost

EDIT: also for vanity "rememberable" urls
The top five developers in my area have seen their market value rise over 30% in the last five years. Most of the development in my area is one of the top five. I’d like a better source for saying developers aren’t making money in big markets where land value goes up quickly.
The FDA is proposing a ban on menthol cigarettes
Pretty much every metal band I discover, nowadays, is on bandcamp. I’m at 75 albums* and growing :) I really hope Epic won’t ruin it.

*: Mostly albums, some few are EPs or single tracks
There are a lot of problems that decentralization do not solve. For instance decentralizing currency exchange systems don’t solve anything that the centralized systems haven’t already solved and solved much better.

But one thing decentralization does solve is that it avoids legal repercussions.

If you run a Ponzi scheme you end up in jail. If you launch a system that facilitates a diatributed ponzu scheme operated by thousands, then neither you nor them end up in jail.
> This would serve as an effective frontier, like that which the United States used to have, giving families a failsafe in case of hardship. This implicit safety net for new or recovering families naturally favors a distributist small-owner model of business.

This is probably the weakest part of the article. The frontier is not a safety net. You do not go to the frontier because you are in the poorhouse, you leave the frontier for the poorhouse after you have failed at a nearly insurmountable task. Even today this plays out again and again, people imagine that they can start their life over on a farm and earn a living with their hands, very few succeed. The biggest cost of starting a homestead is not the land but the sheer amount of labour and money that goes into improving that land to the point where it can provide for you. Even the basics of clean water, sanitation, power/heat and shelter would be beyond anyone in need of a failsafe. Add to this the insult of the available land being that which is so marginal that already established businesses cannot make it productive and you have a complete non-starter.

If you think that the marginal periphery will consist of abandoned homes instead and that all one would have to do is move in then I'd invite you to visit a few of the existing abandoned homes in your area. Mind you, not unoccupied homes which generally still have an owner that does at least the basic upkeep necessary to avoid fines. Visit a truly abandoned home where the owner has simply walked away. Unless you're coming in hot on their heals, it's going to be a disaster. Cold weather alone will ruin an unheated structure built to modern standards not to mention the toll that wildlife, plants, and vandals can take. Modern, draft free buildings will also develop a significant mold problem if their power is disconnected since no heat and no air circulation mean that temperature changes will produce condensation.
Function calls sadly are also very slow due to heavy overhead
High karma users of HN can choose to see posts of shadow banned users, and when they do they often help the user get unshadowbanned or in the case of some users it's very clear why this person was shadow banned.
There's always RISKS digest: https://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/
I've seen a student required to show a bank balance and withdraw sufficient money before being granted a tourist visa for a different country. (He was in front of me in the queue.)

The UK requires some visitors to show bank statements when applying for a visa.
Especially reading and understanding the "moderately" optimized Python version is a lot harder than reading the C version.

Also I really dislike python optimization tricks like `output = stdout.buffer.write`.
But you can't post a video to Peertube or start a thread on Lemmy. There's a level of interoperability that was envisioned for the fediverse that we're missing right now. If you post a video, Peertube users won't see it despite being the fediverse's main video software. If you post a link with your commentary, Lemmy users won't see it despite being link sharing software.

The microblogging platforms ingest most types of posts from the other activitypub softwares, but the other platforms don't ingest posts from the (micro)blogging platforms. With the client-to-server API, the other platforms would just be clients on top of your Friendica account.
I use searx.be daily but not very happily - I get way too many results in dutch or russian and I speak none of these languages.
Heh sounds like what Socrates said - it’s better to be corrected than to be correct.
Can behavioral interventions be too salient? Evidence from traffic safety signs
I think kids are so varied that it's hard to find universal advice for how to punish kids, except when it is sufficiently broad.
There is a large body of research around this phenomenon. I think looking up "conspiratorial thinking" will get you started in the right direction. A major part of the "scientific skepticism" community is studying this kind of thinking, and trying to discover how to treat or prevent people from falling into that kind of trap.
Redox has pretty low resource requirements.
Yeah, I've moved back from being full on Spotify in the last 2-3 years, largely because of music being taken away. But I never cared much for the physical aspect of physical media, so it's drm free music from itunes/qobuz for me.

Doing similar with movies/tv but more slowly. Partly because the only legal option is ripping blurays/uhds (Need to clarify I'm not in the US), which is more hassle and also they're bulkier to store and finally there's less tv/movie content I'm inclined to rewatch. But movies/tv have the plaftform fragmentation/content going away problem even worse, and the streaming services love to try serve low bitrate content, or even refuse higher resolutions altogether if you're not using a locked down enough setup, so that's been picking up steam for me
I think a present should be personal to the receiver as well as the giver. So they should have given her some weapons or hand grenades.
My favorite band is Queen, so only counting their studio albums, that already gives me more than a dozen LPs I will listen to all the way through over and over again. Then there's their live albums, the band members' solo albums, singles/45s...

I also think listening to one side of an LP and then switching to a different one isn't that much more work than flipping it over, so it's OK if only one side is flawless. I will listen to Arlo Guthrie's "Alice's Restaurant" anytime, even though the songs on the other side are not as iconic/necessary.

Finally, I think you may not know ahead of time which albums become beloved and worthy of the ceremony upon repeated listening. I bought my partner "songs" by Adrianne Lenker (of Big Thief) because she loved "anything" from that album, and now that double album is one of our favorite albums that we're currently wearing out. I think it's worth taking a risk sometimes, and if you don't love it, you could sell it to a used record shop for someone else to love.
Many people block link shorteners
I think what people are really looking for is expandable memory so that you can buy a base version, and then add cheaper 3rd party RAM.
That's probably doable, but the problem is this information needs to be available upstream.

Say you search for "seafood" and there are 50,000,000 results from 100,000 domains because everyone just loves making websites about clams and sushi; it's not really feasible to send you all of those results, your query would take 15 minutes and that's not a nice experience. The tricky part in search is finding the needles in the haystack.

So the crux is each of the index shards needs to know the ranking to be able to send you just the most relevant results.
Yeah Gmail doesn't care about UCE-PROTECT level 3, but Outlook.com extremely does
I think the same goes the other way around. Establishing an US entity is scary in terms of privacy cause then you automatically need to comply to the CLOUD Act (which creates an entirely different legal kerfuffle in regards to GDPR compliance). And even if not established within the US, a global company is still subject to US's export laws (which applies to goods, and services, including software).

The US has a tighter track record on political/economical pressure, even in EU. All the copyright acts and regulation that almost succeed all the time in EU, and happily thus far got rejected, didn't come from within EU, but from the EU-US trade partnership.

My opinion is that it's better to just check of compliance marks on a list, and move on with ones life. Politics are **, either way.
My favourite is NATURAL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADABAS#Natural_(4GL)
It looks a bit like COBOL, but makes it much more fun to code on a mainframe. Ah, I miss those days ...
Haha, hmm... I'm not sure really. Way too many variables anyways. Have I been drinking? How's my sleep? Am I happy? How'm I eating? Etc, etc.
I have nothing against "owned" short URLs, without external dependencies.

But for "vanity", the best vanity URL is a domain name. Buy it, own it.
> Big cities go through this constantly

No, they don't.

Ask someone from Rome, Barcelona, Madrid even Warsaw, if they are happy of this airbnb-ization of their cities. [1]

Anyway, cities are for citizens, not for freeloaders. [2]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/31/airbnb...

[2] The word city and the related civilization come from the Latin root civitas, originally meaning 'citizenship' or 'community member'
Was in a similar position. The way I coped was not to think of the past, life’s too short to do that. Be in the present and build your future.

Also some good advice: don’t kick yourself for your decision. It was YOU who decided it that way, if you were to rewind the clocks, the same person you were before would make the same decision. That was who you were before, so never beat yourself up over it
Great explanation, thank you. Looks like I will be moving back to vanilla Debian. Also need to look into the differences between that and Pop!_OS.
It definitely seems like we agree here; I was thrown off course by [perhaps my interpretation of?] your words: “I'm surprised to see you defending prejudice.”
Maybe I'm in the minority with this but I prefer the introductory text. It often provides a bit of explanation and context to recipes. A recipe itself is worth little by itself, it's the annotations and suggestions and so forth that are useful sometimes.

There are badly written blogs, or manipulatively structured websites, but writing introductions per se isn't bad.

To be honest, the "mommy blog" epithet comes across as sexist to me.

No one would level that label at Kenji Lopez Alt or David Lebowitz but they use the same format:

https://www.seriouseats.com/classic-smashed-burgers-recipe

https://www.davidlebovitz.com/quiche-lorraine-recipe-recette...

You might object and say those are different because they're well-written and informative, but then isn't that my point?

There's nothing wrong with a "just the recipes" website — to each their own, and some things are useful in the right context. But there's also nothing wrong with a website that explains the recipes and tells a story along the way. You might not be interested, or it might not be that well-written, but that's the way written communication has always worked for eons.
I don’t always know how fast will be fast enough when I start a project and the risk of needing a rewrite really puts me off Python.
There is no functional installer yet.
Thanks! It's my first project on R3F. So I was both learning and building. It took less than 2 months: I spent last 2 weeks mainly on performance optimization as it was super slow.
Related:

https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox

HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27842740
> making decisions based on how to make some product profitable

Who said anything about profit? How about paying devs & designers, awarding bug bounties, and user testing?
I read a bit about this yesterday and it's really annoying to me. On one hand I totally understand the idea--tobacco is super harmful and kills hundreds of thousands of Americans every year and menthol seems to be more of a 'gateway' into tobacco use than traditional tobacco but at the same time this feels highly paternalistic and condescending to black communities (who are one of the key populations referenced in admin/fda talks about the need for this bill). I'm much more of a fan of using pigouvian taxes to try to drive desired outcomes but let people who really want to engage in a behavior do so, as long as they pay the true cost of that behavior.
I put AWS Workspaces in place at a prior org for 8 users. It was expensive, but convenient.

Though it did feel peverse that most work was done in webapps. Chromebooks probably would have been better!
sigh

As far as I can tell, copymethat let me create an account with my email, but didn't actually confirm that I own the email. It's one of my pet peeves now.
There's no magical cutoff at 3-6 months, but the game theory is that the longer the relationship, the more of a repeated game there is, and the less socially destructive things you'll likely do.

If I'm going to live with a neighbor for ten years, in addition to purely friendly reasons, I'm going to say hi to her and get to know her. Whereas at a hotel I'm overnighting at, if I'm not in a chatty mood, I don't see the reason to oblige a neighbor's request for a 20 minute chat.
Svelte+mdsvex was my choice for my blog. Easy to setup, and you can just write markdown, with svelte templates.

I.e.
```
<script> var ip = "127.0.0.1" </script>
<input type="text" bind:value={ip}>

*Your select ip address is {ip}.*
```
Perhaps a contrarian voice, I really like the feature. For the most part I agree with the shadowban choices made on comments and accounts. There's only so much outrage and drama and shallow trolling that I want to see on HN pages.
I've been using a personal link shortening service (using the domain https://m8.fyi) for a few years now... e.g. https://m8.fyi/gitio. I use http://yourls.org if anyone's interested
Probably for the same reasons people use Java and Go instead of C. It's just more convenient sometimes. But sometimes not.

In terms of building a team at a company? In my experience it's been arbitrary. Manager / Lead has experience in language X, decides to hire people who also know it. Or all the other teams are already using language X. Or Manager / Lead has heard "X language is good at Y" and decides to go with that. Or there's simply 10x more engineers (and cheaper) available for language X than Y.

The times I've seen a language picked for a particular purpose:

- Perl/Python used for web apps. It's interpreted so you can just upload your source code and refresh your browser. Faster and simpler than having to compile/package it, lots of useful frameworks and modules, lots of developers.

- Erlang/OTP for telecom. Kind of on the nose, but there you are.

- C and C++ for embedded applications.
DNS solved vanity memorable URLs, and continues to do so if someone is not looking for a .com

URL shorteners offering vanity urls solved people not needing to deal with the hassle of purchasing a vanity domain via a registrar, setting up DNS records, and waiting for propagation.
Yeah, that’s not shilling, but it is in direct opposition to what they stated in their comment here about not participating in any discussions about Heroku.

I’m calling attention to my inability to trust this person and their company’s marketing tactics.
Some countries do not perform hemicorporectomy, since they think survival would not be worth it.
Both you and borkdude are productivity beasts (of the kindest variety) in my mind :)
One problem with the data is that they have distinct entries for United Kingdom and Northern Ireland, yet the latter is part of the former.

So does United Kingdom as used in the table actually mean Great Britain, or are the NI figures actually also included in the UK figures?

If they were/are distinct, non sub-setted, data sets, then they'd possibly make a useful comparison, but without that extra info it is impossible to interpret those numbers.
5 is totally different from 2. At that age they aren't even usually fully able to engage in a verbal discussion, which can be frustrating for them.

I find patience and a tiered approach of punishments helps. Too many people jump to harsher punishment or longer timeouts and it's just punishing themselves because they have to miss that playdate or hold that kid in timeout.

Start small and work your way up.
There is a finite but variable amount of money in the pot.

It is not a zero sum game.
More like it will hurt people tied to the most expensive areas SV/ New York rather than cheaper areas around the US
There is no shortage of opportunities to go into management. Good managers are hard to come by. So any time you can demonstrate that you have the skills and willingness to be a manager, most employers would welcome that. You can try to find management roles in other smaller companies who might be more open to your lack of management experience. Please don't mind but it seems to me that you are being jealous of your former colleague. It seems you were OK being an IC for 25 years and now that you have seen a peer succeed in management role you hate being an IC. Do not base your happiness on what others have. Know what makes you happy and try to get that regardless of what other people are getting / have gotten. If it helps, I have been an IC for 18 years and plan to be until I retire because I don't like management and I am quite happy with that. I know I'll never make executive salaries but I am ok with that. I optimize for happiness and less stress instead of money.
tl;dr

> I finally have some confidence that I understand how methane lifetimes work, and that for my purposes it can be summarized as:

Methane emissions decay gradually, with an average lifetime of about 12 years (“perturbation lifetime”, which is what matters for climate purposes).

This will increase by roughly 35% if methane concentrations double, or decrease roughly 25% if concentrations return to pre-industrial levels.
An Operating System mostly written in the Rust programming language.
I'm not crazy about it. I put snap onto a Debian server recently because of certbot. There are other ways to handle SSL cert renewal, but that seemed to be the path of least resistance.
> Yesterday I saw my former colleague who grabbed the manager role, got promoted to a director. I was hard working and intelligent than him. I could’ve played my card right and be in that place.

The key to happiness is not to compare yourself to others.

My friend tried to convince me to mine bitcoin. I was worried my GPU would die, so I didn’t. He’s a millionaire now, and works a lot less than I do. If I played my cards right, we’d be on a boat together.

But I’ll be on a boat next week, because a fat paycheck has some benefits. Like yours.

I suggest a long vacation, followed by a dramatic reduction in the number of hours you’re putting in. Forget about work entirely while you’re there. When you’re back, spend every day job hunting.

I have to believe that ageism doesn’t exist, and that you can always change careers. Unfortunately I know it does exist, and that it’s not so easy. But if you fail, your next best option is to embrace the mentality of “do less.” You’re putting in more than your job requires; stop that.
A lot of the people have significantly less experience than you so heed with caution.
It found such a correlation only sometimes, and at any rate such a correlation is either irrelevant or harmful to the actual claim of interest (that mask mandates have a negative effect on COVID). The correlation between masking and reduction of COVID is zero.

It certainly doesn't imply the existence of a confounder that takes real effectiveness and reduces it somehow past zero. Once you try to explain the (inconsistent) positive correlation between masks and COVID you're back in the territory where "correlation != causation" is a valid counter argument. As you note, such a correlation could be driven entirely by the false perception of effectiveness, without any actual effectiveness. But it can also be for other reasons e.g. places that were tougher about enforcing mask mandates had generically less competent governments that were more likely to do harmful things like flushing hospital patients into care homes.

More likely: such correlations are spurious and there's no real causality there at all. The fact it doesn't show up consistently would certainly imply that. Also possible that the IHME mask usage data is bogus in some countries, or potentially lots of other things. We have no evidence that can support any explanation over any other.
Does anyone have any personal experience in applying mypyc on type-hinted, but otherwise not specially optimized python code? I'm especially interested in what kind of performance speed-ups could be achieved.