skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recently started the process of moving from my high cost of living California home to a low cost of living, but still on the coast city. Three years ago you'd see homes in this city for $300k. Almost all of them are now approaching $600k. The areas which used to be considered low cost are now unaffordable to everyone currently living there as well as a large swath of people not making huge total comp at FAANG. Other costs are still less expensive but housing is nuts everywhere I've looked.

The only homes I've seen for $200k need to basically be torn down and are too small for a family.
You can also take pictures that make you look taller, with certain angles, poses etc (hint, women know and use all of these tricks).
The Bay Area in particular is something of an outlier in that it's pretty hard to reasonably drive out of the expensive area in, say, an hour.

That's much less true of most metros. Even a fairly expensive city like Boston, while there are expensive suburban towns, an hour drive gets you to some small cities, exurbs, and other suburbs where housing prices are--if not cheap--pretty reasonable (e.g. $300-400K for midrange houses--though prices may have risen). And a lot of the professional jobs are well outside the city anyway.
What is your point exactly?

That typical OTC doses for a common antihistamine ARE probably equivalent in impairment to being legally drunk for most people is mine?
There is nothing missing from this timer, it's very impressive! You might be calculating larger averages slightly incorrectly? Convention is discarding best and worst `ceil(0.05 * len(n))` times. I've seen a lot of timers come and go what will be different about the longevity of cubedesk?
I like that story, and wish the author luck.

I never thought of myself as a "niche programmer," but, as it turns out, I sort of, am.

I write native UIKit applications, using Swift. No PWAs, no hybrid systems (like React, Electron, or Ionic). I'm pretty good at it. I've been writing Swift, every day, since it was announced in 2014. It's no longer an "edge" language; it is now the baseline, mainstream, native development language for Apple systems, and I'm a fluent speaker.

It means that the apps I write are really small, really secure, really fast, accessible, highly usable, use very few system resources, leverage the latest Apple tech, have almost no external dependencies, work extremely well, and I write them very, very quickly. Also, because they are UIKit, I can get pretty ambitious, as UIKit is a very mature, ship-oriented system. I am looking forward to using SwiftUI, but am yet to be convinced that it is suitable for really ambitious projects.

It's really difficult to find other native Swift developers that work the way that I do. Part of that, I hate to admit, is probably because I'm 60, and I got really sick of sitting in meetups, with a circle of avoidance around me. I have come to understand that I have "cooties." I won't go where I'm not welcome.

But I have also come to realize that an awful lot of apps for Apple systems are written using hybrid systems, and that many folks are unaware that there are Apple app development languages, other than JavaScript.
Significant part of the work is massaging data and R sucks at that compared to Python.

"if you want to do more than statistics, let’s say deployment and reproducibility, Python is a better choice."
https://www.guru99.com/r-vs-python.html
It seems like you are knowledgeable about religion. Let me add this. The Talmud is not a book which is studied like others and mishanyot were not supposed to be written. One could think of the Talmud as an aide memoir to guide one’s study but actually knowledge is passed from master to student, since the time of Sinai. So citing the Talmud and trying to find interpretations, positive or negative in your light, is by definition wrong. So one can’t say that one “interprets the Talmud” but one should “recover the knowledge of the oral tradition which is hinted at by the Talmud.”
This doesn't happen between corporations because they are powerful and savvy. All the terms of a contract are reviewed in detail by the lawyers. Objectionable terms are negotiated and changed. The same is true for wealthy directors and actors.

But how much power does an individual have when signing a contract with a media giant? The contracts are probably "take it or leave it". You may not be able to afford a lawyer to review the contract in detail and if you do and they flag something, you cannot make Disney change the term.
Please refresh on the HN guidelines - your comments on this page break almost every one of the guidelines in the first half dozen paragraphs of the "In comments" section. Thanks. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Incidentally, that exact confusion is why he made the third transaction for $9,975. The refund on his second transaction will either be for $25 or $10,000, so his third transaction will either be refunded in full or not at all.
Yeah, it's terrible what smart phones have done to computing. They're such incapable, weak computers with such bad networking and user interface that all software is being dumbed down and gimped to act as a crutch for their users.

Random round trip time combined with the energy storage limitations of the radio modem mean tcp back-off and inability to actually hold open a port (if they even have a routable ipv4!). But somehow that's everyone else's problem, not the smart phone's.
Does HN think nix is niche? And would the pay also be higher, as described in the article?
i clicked to upvote you and now I'm writing this text.

thanks for nothing.
I hear great things about Nim and also Zig. I'd say check what the market is like for those (ie supply and demand) and go wild!
> You can probably imagine my astonishment when I realised that in some communities there is a widely accepted list of "the next problems to work upon".

It would be nice if there was some curated list of problems to work on, where the items on the list are obtained and sorted through some consensus mechanism. I know HN is secretly obsessed with To-do lists, so perhaps this "Super To-do list" is something someone finds interesting to build.

Related question: where do startup ideas come from?
Read the article maybe?
I have a lot of experience but didn't hob hop along with my peers so my current pay is well below market levels.

I would happily consider an offer that matches my experience and aspirations from a job role perspective even if the pay doesn't match the currently overheated market.
Have you seen Unihertz Titan Pocket? Keyboard - check, IR blaster - check, 3.5mm jack - check, SD card - check. Removable battery though is gone.
To fix it, you need a mix of first principle thinking and best practices. Almost every startup I've seen has a bias and does one but not the other.

You need best practices because countless other startups have faced some variation of what you are facing. Whether it's hiring, marketing, product, engineering. Collectively, these problems have been solved before. Learn from others.

You need first principle thinking because your situation is still somewhat unique, and best practices may not be best for you. Also, the best practices you hear or read about are riddled in all sorts of biases.

So the first thing I ask a startup I'm advising is around trying to identify where their bias is and help them fix it.
This is not entirely fair - there are loads of very functional independent Matrix client implementations today already (Element, FluffyChat, Nheko, Hydrogen, Fractal-next, Neochat etc), and a growing number of independent server impls too (Synapse, Dendrite, Conduit, Polyjuice…).

It’s true to compare Matrix with WHATWG though - we used the model of WHATWG’s pragmatism as a direct inspiration for Matrix as an implementation-first approach, where we’d then write an open governance spec (having proven it worked) as per https://spec.matrix.org and eventually merge it into an established standards body like W3C or IETF when stable.
> I am ardent supporter of individual rights.

The smallest, most oppressed minority of them all is the individual. Individual rights are minority rights.
Let’s face it, a lot of computer programmers are on the autism spectrum. Not shocking information but noteworthy in the context of dating.
Domesticated cats are an artificial phenomena. Birds may adapt eventually, or maybe all that will be left are hawks.
Ah yes, the Great White Savior trope.
Agreed. Was mostly referring to both the artificial light(of any kind) and the distractions on those devices are awful for sleep routine.
Thanks for sharing. I totally get it those days making someone download an app is a huge ask .

However the asynchronous part you mentioned is interesting and maybe something to think about, I always imagined it as a live thing where you discuss and learn together real time…
So, do you want to own the water or the power dam? Buffett's point is that people are buying water (i.e. bitcoin) at exhorbitant prices.

The distributed ledger technology is great, but it needs to be harnessed into a repeatable per-transaction money-maker to be useful. Anyone can over-pay for a bitcoin and hope they can sell it to someone fearing that they're missing out. The problem is that the FOMO crowd is thinning out.
Your point doesnt refute OPs argument. Your final statement "you can say the latter is more likely random" is not the same as "you can say this sequence is not random". I think lots of people (especially programmers) who know about true RNG vs expectations of RNG might intentionally put in strings of same numbers, or not include the full set, because we know its what often happens during plain RNG. It isnt clear what the goal of the sequence is, hence the confusion in the comments.
Guess you've never heard about the Comanches that would rape a woman, gut her then put burning coals in the gut cavity while they were still alive.

In addition plenty of really barbaric tortures done by the Aztecs documented.
The legal term of art for this is "fraudulent conveyance". "We strip off all assets and then declare bankruptcy" has been a known failure mode for like 500 years.

cf, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraudulent_Conveyances_Act_157...
Were the Stimulus Checks a Mistake?
> There are billions of women out there

Most of those are in other countries though, so you'd have to be willing to date internationally ("mail order brides"?) to meet them. And if you're American, a large number of foreigners may pretend to love you only to divorce you the moment they get a green card out of you.
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Is there also a "conspiracy" against overweight women? Black women? Women with disabilities? These groups also get lower than average messages and responses.
Eevee wrote about the industry mimicking Apple, and the downsides of that. It’s a great read if you haven’t seen it. https://eev.ee/blog/2016/04/12/apple-did-not-invent-emoji/
That’s kinda interesting. I’ve only ever heard of DPH and Doxylamine (which I’ll on occasion use as a terrible sleep aid). I knew other antihistamines exist, but was never curious about their effects.
Thorn isn't archaic in Icelandic. þink of the Alþing.
Thanks for sharing. Funny enough before Covid we did something similar, I think that’s how the idea ended up on my list.

I remember also having “date nights” with my gf (now wife) when we lived on different continents.

We would cook the same meal and walk through the steps while chat about it. Like I just did this, r u ready etc.
We had the same experience.
Because that's not at all what a false flag is. A false flag is a manufactured pretext to attack i.e. a way to paint an attack as a defense. People who are actually doing these things probably need to be precise.
I guess I'm also sort of a niche developer specialising in web scraping/data extraction. I've been getting some gigs on upwork but been meaning to get off that platform. Does anyone in a similar position have advice on finding clients?
Getting Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable
They are studying this

https://www.quantamagazine.org/elegant-six-page-proof-reveal...
> The US gov't so far has enough credibility that they won't manipulate the inflation figures or change the law under you to cheat you of your money.

It isn't a matter of credibility at this point, it is one of political realities. There hasn't been a plausible outcome where the debt principle gets paid back since the 1970s, but that turned out to be OK because they can keep rolling that over with new debt. Alright. Well now we're approaching debt levels where even paying back market interest rates is coming under pressure and probably going to give.

The risks here, much like the debt to GDP ratio, are starting to move off the charts. Lending the US government money can't possible be safe under these conditions. Someone here is obviously going to get screwed, some of these promises have to be broken. It could just as easily be these bonds as anything else.
Should the future of Clojure be ClojureScript? (2020)
There's a nice objective comparison of Bitcoin and Monero at https://phyro.github.io/grinvestigation/why_grin.html , just ignore the 3rd column.
I suppose that depends on how you evaluate the success or failure of capitalism. The richest person in the world would probably say that capitalism is a great success. As far as the coasts, all life choices involve trade offs.
"he/she should not be able to tell" isn't the same as "he/she should not be able to make a statistically-probable guess".
> Thats a direct contradiction

No, if free will is an illision, then even "choosing" to believe in it and "choosing" to let things go is an illusion. It would apply to every "choice" we make.
Land of the free?
So I was working at this place...at one point the boss asked my why I'm leaving right on time every single time. Very direct. Meaning why I don't let him steal from me. Not basically, literally.

I said, "I show up on time, so I leave on time too."

I was the only person in the company who arrived before the clock, without fail, including the boss, including everybody. It was a weird thing, I got a ride and that meant I showed up early, saved time. So I just stood there waiting for the work to start in any capacity, for the second person to arrive. On standby. And I did in fact allow a little wage theft, don't even consider it in those terms, the standby and in addition the ten minutes before the shift started where I'd already be helping the business start its day, unlocking places and readying stuff, undeniably still work.

A little unpaid overtime before is different than after.

But when the shift ends, the boss might get an extra 30 seconds today, or 10 seconds less tomorrow, but there is no mercy. If the boss starts a fire to try to get me to stay I will call the fire department on my way home.

The clock is the boss's boss.
> The only realistically important optimization is bring you big O down. That and understanding when big O doesn't matter for your problem size.

Of course, understanding big O is still very important and being able to apply it to real-world problems instead of just online code puzzles is even more important.

But I think it's importance is a bit exaggerated in the coding community, when there are arguably much more important skills for engineers such as building good relationships with your colleagues, knowing when to cut corners to get work done on a deadline, and knowing how to negotiate salary and promotions.
They also fought on the side of the North, helping to kill their kin to end slavery (as did plenty of their donors, since we're bringing donors into this), and helped spread vaccines (which Benjamin Waterhouse tested on his own family) and anesthetics, which massively benefited people of color as well. I wonder if that earns them a discount?

If not, do we have any reason to believe these $100 million will earn them any credit in the future, or will the repentance have to be perpetual?
If they refund the entirety of the second transaction, logic follows a third transaction of $9,975 would be correct if you actually wanted to buy $10k.

I suspect that's not what's going to happen though. OP will get a refund of $25 + $9,975.
First principle thinking does not solve anything in practice. It is just a philosophy. You can make an argument that it can increase your chances of success but it does not guarantee anything.
> Instead, custom on-screen keyboards are attempts to thwart keyloggers.

Commercial malware doesn't work this way. The term "keylogger" is a misnomer.

"Keylogging" without context provides an unintelligible stream of garbage that might have well be from a random number generator. Most malware that I've seen either directly target the browser or the operating system, but in both cases they're looking for an unencrypted HTTPS stream, that they can re-package, upload, and store. With the goal to sell batches of credentials for specific websites.

Many people have this unusual belief that a user's stream of keys would look like e.g. www.example.com(13)username(9)password(13). But that isn't how users typically interact with their browsers, MOST websites are accessed via a search engine or favorites/bookmarks, and users often won't use the keystrokes to navigate between input elements.

Again, CONTEXT is everything with "keylogging," since most of the value is generated from WHERE not just WHAT. "Targeted credential theft" is a better way to describe it since they're stealing structured HTTP form data, not raw keyboard input (and even if they were steaming keycode inputs, they'd likely still be using the browser's context to do so).

So, in my opinion, most malware wouldn't even be aware or need specific support to bypass this virtual keyboard "security" because by the very nature of them they aren't operating at this layer anyway.
I’ve used doxylamine (similar antihistamine) as a sleep aid and I wouldn’t trust myself to do much. It was hard just getting ready for work because of the brain fog the next morning.
Surveillance Gone Viral
Especially when other languages got them right.
"Both are corporate lobbying against people & tech. It's a pattern,"

Right, the trouble is that our democracies really haven't proper ways of handling this type of monopoly. It seems to me that the problem will not be solved until individuals are no longer allowed to hide behind corporate walls and thus not able to be individually held accountable or liable for their actions.

Fear of public exposure and ridicule not to mention penalties imposed on them for their actions would stop most of this behaviour. The trouble is that large corporations have such a stranglehold on governments that it's proving very difficult to do anything about the problem.

It's one of the biggest problems facing our democracies, I only wish I knew how we could solve it.
> They say they will never make that compromise again

Not surprising to see this sentiment from a group whose marriages all failed. I expect the biggest prediction of long term marriage success is the willingness to compromise on much bigger things than this.
It's intuitive to you but I have always found R a real pain to deal with. I acknowledge all of Pandas' flaws but R is not for me, and I've used it a lot in the past. It's all subjective and dependent on the context and requirements of a project.
What does a data engineer do?
I haven’t tried this, but I am curious if they would allow you to build a garage or storage unit on the property. Is there anything they cannot legally block?
@BreakingCasting is really cool, congratulations. One suggestion which you are probably already aware: It would be nice if the bot can choose actors of proper age, depending on the difference between the years of the original and the remake. Warren Beatty is older than Harrison Ford, for example!
QED is very well tested for the handful of values that can be computed accurately (with great efforts).

These special values are too few to matter for practical applications and they apply only to exceedingly simple systems, e.g. a single free lepton or a single pair of interacting elementary particles.

The practical value of QED is null. By far the greatest success of QED is what you have mentioned, i.e. that it explains why g_e is not exactly 2, but it is slightly different. This fact could not be explained by the Dirac theory. However, we already knew the value of g_e through experiments. Having an explanation for our peace of mind is good, but this cannot help us design anything.

For example, it would have been enormously helpful if there would have existed any method to compute accurately the frequencies and various other properties of the spectral lines of the atoms and ions.

This would have allowed e.g. to find through computation optimal substances for applications like lasers and atomic clocks.

Because there exists no such method, the advances continue to be done only by discovering through experiments new better spectral transitions of certain atoms or ions.
> Comcast has attempted to dismantle net neutrality at least for the last 15 years, and it's arguable they have allies in government.

No, it's not merely arguable. Large portions of the Republican Party in government, including every Republican member of the FCC, are overtly their allies on this.
You need to build a service. Like extract data from e-commerce sites, and then provide a search engine with pricing information. Or track new products.

Generally speaking extracting data isn’t the hard part. The hard part is organizing it and presenting it in a meaningful manner.
Letting pet cats outdoors is a clearly anti-social behavior. Cats that are a natural part of the ecosystem are one thing -they belong there. But introducing predators into an ecosystem without thinking through the wide implications is the thing that is insane.

Prioritizing the feelings of "my cat" over "all the creatures that will be killed, all the neighbors who will have to clean up after my cat, and all the gardens and bird feeders that will suffer damage" is a mindset that is so selfish and myopic.

If you cannot give your cat a quality of life indoors that would not be cruel, you should not own a cat.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https:/...

Sketchy link to a PDF by UC Davis. I was looking for a reference on the average lifespan of an outdoor cat, which I always here quoted around 2.5 years. It's a little write-up on why it's maybe not so nice to let your cat outside.

Maybe it's different in the UK, but I've seen a number of drivers speed up and swerve in neighborhood streets to run cats over. It's fucked up, but it's a thing. I remember having classmates in high school that would brag about it.

Add every other danger, jumping into a backyard with the wrong dog, parasites, coyotes, and it's not exactly an idyllic stroll even for indoor/outdoor cats.

I'm sure dogs aren't allowed to wander the neighborhood in the UK. I would have no problem if they confined their cat to the yard or let her out while supervising.

Our two cats are quite fulfilled and pleased with their situation despite only going outside on leash.
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Humans do, because they have spent a lifetime looking at and riding bikes. They draw from memory just as much as DALL-E 2 does.
Alterations in microbiota of Covid patients: Potential mechanisms and therapies
You write a lot and yet explain your point so little
Given Intel's AVX extension could cause silent failures on servers (very high work load for prolonged time, compare to end user computers), I'm not sure it would be a big win for servers either: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2102.11245.pdf.
This is honestly one of the better interfaces for financial instruments and services.

:(
You can take the money out of an ibond with a small penalty after a relatively short time. So it's not a huge risk if you have enough short-term credit, etc, for an emergency before the time comes when you can cash the iBond.
Python is the worst language to script anything inside a markup language that does not need to be structured like Python (HTML). So yeah, a good experiment, but unfortunately it is doomed to fail.