skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the UK the 1980 banking act introduced formerly excluded commercial banks to housing loans and simultaneously increased the statutory maximum loan value from 3* single wage earners salary to 5* combined household income of married couples. Previously only mutual savings and loan member societies aka building societies could lend private housing loans. Not only now was the public forced into paying for profit margins, but access to capital enjoyed by commercial banks vastly outgunned the much more regulated thrifts who eg couldn't easily raise their offer rates above long term deposit bases. Disastrous in the up rate eighties. Louis Ranieri of Solomon Brothers fame opened The Mortgage Corporation in London and shipped in top trading talent but the thrifts not only knew nothing about their books but weren't persuaded to unload like the accidental priming of the US mortgage market. Although profit seeking it seemed only Ranieri ever gave a damn to do anything that might have saved UK S&Ls. Nothing contributed to the dissolution of the family more than this legislative enforcement of the necessity for one of any separating couple to forgo the ability to afford a home.

P.S. Increasing the lending limit naturally turbocharged inflation. Adjusting your books to manage changing rates environment requires at least functional treasury and cash desks. Into this century several household name UK mutuals turned into banks didn't have their own CHAPS terminal. (Clearing House Automated Payments. Entry level facility for a even a token treasury function. Edit: for that matter even for a small company such as ours.)

Edit: added about the rates market and the abysmal neglect of UK capital economic underpinnings. Things were so desperate and freewheeling the largest UK thrift only was persuaded to return the six billion it's actuaries deemed in excess of pension fund requirements at the time of demutualization in 2018. No carry paid. Edit2: only Ranieri.. have / gave a damn. Ed3 Louis' name correctly.
The amount of money you could spend on your daughter on a Disney trip...they have an incredible amount of princess-related add-ons.
Wait, when people (mainly Americans) say "Mediterranean diet" do they think it's mainly a vegetarian one? That would be so wrong in so many levels, I am from a coastal really Mediterranean city and we def eat meat and fish (both traditionally and currently).

The main differences I'd say from growing up with local food compared now with other international food is the extra use of olive oil (vs other oils or butter), that normally in our food it's easier to tell where the ingredients came from vs some other more processed diets, extra bread/wheat use, and that even when we eat meat, it's not a "meat fest" like American bbq, it's normally accompanied with other food. And of course the use of local ingredients, which is particular to our diet but I'd guess most "regional diets" have this in common (with their particular ingredients).
Russia is either specifically targeting civilian infrastructure, or their weapons are not as good as you're implying.

Which one is it?

Hello from Kyiv.
sorry but you sound like a wumao
Larry Ellison mentions one of the most startling things they found was that Sun's sales org was literally selling the company to bankruptcy. Those nice sales people had commission based on sales contract value, with no requirement for profitability. That meant they would just keep selling contracts that lost Sun money, hand over fist.
For those wondering what Nutanix is and does: Nutanix is an app that teaches you how to be a castrato and preserve a high pitched singing voice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGQfzl1KZmM
They are discussing the difference between engineers that have to toil with the rules of the universe, and engineers who have to toil with rules that they make themselves.

Software does exactly what you tell it. Hardware does what you tell it, but it always listens to mother nature first.
I'm simply repeating the mantra of the disciples of Kang and Kodos. If you have a problem I suggest you take it up with them.
They're just doing what other continents did hundreds or thousands of years ago. If you want to save the forests, make them economically more valuable than converting them into other uses.

If there's 100M iphones in the world that retail for around $1000 each, that's $100B dollars. We could have invested that money into building some kind of park that welcomes visitors. No, instead we chose as a society to take pretty photos for instagram for fake internet points.
> all the stuff girls expect

The fact that someone is expecting someone else to be paying for dates in 2022 is just crazy.
That could actually make sense to me; drivers tend to be vendor specific, so I wouldn't feel too bad about giving credit for whoever does the most in the shared parts.
Most soybeans are used as animal fed. Also, the feeding animal 10KG to get 1KG looks rather wasteful? Lastly, you missed the methane pollution, water usage, ethics etc..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feed_conversion_ratio
Missile defense systems seem able to defend against normal rockets.

Hypersonics beat the defense by flying faster.

To defend against a hypersonic missile, you yourself need to build a hypersonic air defense missile.

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I still don't know if it's a practical weapon though. It seems like normal missiles / rockets are working vs Russia (Moskova and these ammo dumps this past week).

Maybe Chinas air defense is a worthy adversary. But it's clear we ain't building these for Russia...
I've found that there is a mindset issue with designers that needs to be addressed if they are working closely with software development teams.

If you come from an agency background then you are conditioned to only show perfect/close-to-perfect stuff to your clients because you don't want to leave poor first impressions. It's why there are multiple reviews and approvals before you show anything to the client. You want repeat business and a "failed" design would be treated as a strike against you.

When working closely with teams there is no need for that and you can bring in low fidelity artifacts like sketches for feedback without fear of the whole design group being judged. This is a big change to how designers generally work when they're employed by agencies. Unlike agencies, this is a safer environment (all things being equal) where imperfection might be rewarded by engineers, but unfortunately, the agency mindset is retained.

There definitely are ways to improve how we work together by playing some games, doing activities like assumption busting, diverge-converge design sketches etc. but the organization has to prioritize this mindset shift. The chance of it happening organically is limited.

There are issues the other way as well: developers are often conditioned to expect perfect designs for fear of "re-work". I find good software design, solid testing practices and EMs with an eye to ways of working (not just technical stuff) can help address that.
While I understand the purpose, and the intrigue of the things discussed in this article, the title itself is inaccurate. My experience growing up in MT is that we did none of these things, nor did my peers. Most of the things we did were free and still are....like going for a walk, a hike, a bike ride, plinking, etc as a family.
As someone born in Brazil, I'm tired of this condescending bullshit.

There are several economically viable solutions, but Brazilian government should be interested in pursuing them, rather than only pursuing things that only benefits the current friends of the government (such as deforestation).

US/EU/etc forcing Brazil to get its shit together would be BETTER for the population. We don't need the deforestation to progress. Quite the opposite.

If Brazil were to wage a war on another country, would it be fine just because Europe/US also did it in the past?
It's a tricky problem one can only have when one chooses to give one's work away with zero strings attached :)
The issue is the data practices and propaganda capability. TikTok is supposedly a threat because Chicoms, but Facebook has no problem selling access to Russian influence operations.

Maybe the issue is abusive social networks hoovering up data with no controls and no regulation.
I am very skeptical of how they calculated the baseball numbers.

Yes of course if you buy a whole bunch of stadium food it is expensive, but one of the entire gimmicks of the baseball stadium is that they make most of the money on beer and food. The thing is, food is optional! This is a form of progressive pricing that allows the team to charge people who are price insensitive more while still being affordable.

Most baseball stadiums also have constant or frequent promotions for seating in the outfield berm, or standing room only, or last-minute walk ups, etc, which are very cheap. I recall walking up to the Astros stadium and getting $8 tickets just as the game was starting. So if you really want to go to a game but you don’t have very much money, there are usually ways that you can get in for very cheap.

Parking is weird to include because it varies a LOT depending on the setting. Much like the airport, there are usually unofficial parking options just a bit further from the stadium that are much cheaper than the official parking - though this is less true for the suburban stadiums.

One last thing is to note that the experience at the stadium has changed enormously. Stadiums in the 60s were basically a bigger version of high school bleachers. Now they’re luxury palaces.

What has really happened is the stadium experience used to be much more equal, and now it reflects and capitalizes on increased economic inequality - offering wealthy fans a super-premium experience for a ridiculous price.

I think that’s the actual problem. What used to be an extremely “democratic” past time is now an extremely unequal experience. And while I don’t think that is baseball’s fault, I think it’s a negative reflection of the broader economic changes since the 1950s.
"regime change is bad except when it's for a reason i like"
https://ds26gte.github.io/tyscheme/index-Z-H-2.html#TAG:__te...
Fair enough, but you should tell mobile users that. Also, while not the live demo, per major site on the home page, for mobile, you could just have a loom (that is resizable) that makes it clear on desktop your able to see the tool live, but offer a pre-recorded walk through for mobile users.

As is, given you’re pitching detecting resizing bugs, you should not have any on your sight that are not addressed; one thing not to acknowledge there’s content of functionality missing, another to not even acknowledge users are missing them by being on a given device.
Why should we also not point fingers? Deforestation fell dramatically under Lula while inequality fell and the economy grew quickly.

What "we" did in the past means environmental protection should be subsidised by the west, but our history doesn't let Brazil's government off the hook.
Hidden Bar
If an industry has proven repeatedly they can't be trusted not to stalk people and lie about it followed by being recklessly irresponsible with data and lying about breaches, then it's the bare minimum that should be enforced.

It would also encourage the innovation that you're so keen on because users wouldn't be trapped and you couldn't sit on one feature forever. You'd have to have an ongoing value proposition like every other vocation in all of history.
As a father to a daughter... you seem to have gone through the experience as well! ;)
I love the website especially the "Try it yourself on this page button". The product is uber cool.

The website has a really nice feel to it overall.

Congratulations!
China is owned by a murderous, oppressive, genocidal regime.

There is no equivalence with western governments.
Sure, but can it be done in software, or will it require a scanning tunneling microscope?
"Good"companies will continue having positive reviews.

I'd argue that "bad" companies with predominantly positive reviews, were the negative reviews were all effectively sued away, presumably hurt Glassdoor's model more than they help it, so it's in their best interests to flag "bad" companies using other means.

Also, "good" vs "bad" is an oversimplification. In reality the most likely outcome is that this badge will become another point for companies to game. But if the result of that it acts as a disincentive to suing employees that leave bad reviews, to me that's presumably a good outcome.
Do you have a cite or know the specific technology? If they do this using 4G it wouldn't be too accurate. Are they somehow turning on Bluetooth or something?
Wow I didn't realize so many teams were that new.
It wouldn’t really be a (useful) revocation of the license if they were not legally notified.
Maybe countries criticising Brazil should raise down their suburbs and plants even more trees there.
Or the industries are moving up-market. You have to go where the money is, and as the years go by there's less and less of it in the traditional "middle class".

I also wonder if easy access to credit pays a roll. Credit cards were simply harder to get back in the day (partially tied to interest rates), which means a lot more enforced savings. Nowadays even someone with marginal credit can get a $1000 limit, blow out the card and pay 20+%/month on a baseball game they couldn't afford in the first place. But the ball park/team won't care, they got their money.
*Public transport existing
Better? You leave a metropolitan area in the states and you are SOL without your own means. Or you could sell all the "extra" organs you have and buy a train ticket.
There is also incentive to lie about meat consumption as it is frequently evidence of status.
one possible explanation: if you open source all your data and code you likely reveal the secrets that aren't in your paper that give you a competitive research edge. Writing papers so that you are telling enough to get a good publication while obfuscating the details that give you an edge in your research fiefdom is a bit of a dark art in academia. I think it should be discussed more.
Interesting comments below. Just some food for thought.

Fertilized, less land is required to grow equivalent quantities of crops.

Petroleum products, especially natural gas is a raw material as well as fuel for nitrogen fertilizer production.

Higher petroleum prices mean higher fertilizer prices. Higher fertilizer prices mean higher food prices.

Scarcity increases prices. Worldwide food production is down for many reasons: weather, war, disease, lack of workers, inflation, and cost to fertilize. Expect prices to rise, significantly more than they have.
Romero is going to "make you his bitch”, at last.
> Consider the case of embedding (composition is better than inheritance) data defined by a second schema inside a first schema.

How, exactly, is JSON with JSON Schema inadequate for that?
>> Someone growing up in the 1930s wasn't able to hop on the interstate and go 300 miles away for the weekend. Those growing up in the 80s were more apt to do that sort of thing

You mean 1950's, not 80's
The difference is that we’ll probably be in a Cold War with China soon.
Are there any data to support this?
Not necessarily, ICBMs follow predictable ballistic flight paths. There's some space for weapons that are really hard to defend against due to unpredictable trajectories and really high speeds.
The ACLU was stupid for defending the KKK and I'm glad they've wised up.
i don’t come across many low margin indie hacker projects
Timber is a red herring. Beef is the real problem.
'The beginners guides to everything have already been written' -- strong disagree... there's always space to write for somebody who is getting into something for the first time. Any beginner's guide is someone's advanced topic, and vice-versa.
Anyone working on agency-led projects would benefit from this. Think pharma or other brand-focused companies where the same design elements need to be replicated across multiple, separate projects. Agencies throw over templates or prototypes and expect the rest of the company to be following along. Something like this would reduce the pain somewhat when a manager is asking you to replicate parts of the design.

Selling an enterprise license to Wipro or other giant integrator would benefit a lot of people, but reaching the buyers might be difficult. The buyers don't really care that much for the experience of their devs in those companies, but perhaps there is an efficiency angle.
Well, this is a common problem. Most of us don't care about each other if there are costs. We mostly care about self interest due to inner greed.
ScrapingBee sounds much more trustworthy. You can't trust fish.
US law could and should protect freedom of speech, even when it's not protected in other countries. If you sue a company in the US in an attempt to suppress speech that would be protected by the first amendment, US courts should reject that.
+1 to all of this. US has no standing with the people of a lot of the world.
Bacterial and fungal isolation from face masks under the Covid-19 pandemic
Why do governments not start an international reforestation / ecological fund and pay some of their GDP into it so that it would make economic sense for Brazil, Australia and others to preserve their forests, kelp, reefs etc. These carbon credit half measures are pitiful.

Western governments pay part of their GDP for NATO, but defending against ecological collapse might be higher priority.

Governments tax citizens by force all the time. If it’s going to be used for anything, it should FIRST AND FOREMOST be used to coordinate large scale activity to mitigate negative externalities. And there’s no bigger one than the ecosystem collapse we are starting to see around us.

(Printing more money btw will only accerate consumption. There is very little thought to sustainability in most human economic systems.)
Oh, I don't know. They've been like this for decades, at some point buying anything from Oracle, or believing anything they say, is just a laughable idea.
Or maybe there’s unequal wealth distribution. Someone might be willing to pay but can’t make that much. One example is software engineer vs mailman.
> we should offer economically viable solutions rather than pointing fingers

while i agree with you, i cant think of anything off the top of my head...any ideas?
I often feel this. Generally I come up with content worth spending writing, only so often. But then don't end up doing it because the idea loses its sexiness after a few days.

But more recently, I am worried that my ability to think coherently for more than 140 characters is gone. Whenever I think of something, I keep falling back to a tweet length content. My twitter is dead, so the concern is amplified.
Are they? Which companies are those?
Without humility, the context is likely to be distorted? What is this based on? Do you mean empathy? If only someone could have told Nabokov, he could have made something of himself…
>That metric probably doesn't factor in cost of living, cost of education, cost of healthcare, etc.

Ito does, it's PPP adjusted. Just look it up instead of projecting flaws to obtain a result you desire.

>My point was that there are many countries, including ones that are tiny in comparison (definitely not "top dog"), that enjoy a comparable standards of living.

I agree completely. All the top countries would be good places to live, with tradeoffs here and there.

But for most of the world, the US is a terrific alternative to where they are, at least if one wants to raise their standard of living.
Literally every company is a government controlled company.
The campground reservation system has caused me more issues than the price. I drove through a "full" campground a few weekends ago and half the spots were empty.

People are making reservations and not showing up.
And those countries really aren't making their own cities much much much denser and replanting trees in freed up space...
>> Bring in others as soon as you can.

But then you're no longer profitable. Barely any of these projects can sustain 1 person, let alone 2 people.
it’s likely mostly passive income if R&D slows to a minimum. that affords a lot of flexibility with one’s time vs comparing with wage labor where free time is never earned
Just anecdotally the nearby baseball parks are all well-served by trains in ways that they certainly were not 50 years ago. BART did not exist 50 years ago, now it serves (directly) the Oakland A's and within walking distance the SF Giants. Neither Amtrak Capitol Corridor nor Caltrain existed 50 years ago, now Capitol Corridor serves the Oakland A's directly and Caltrain serves the SF Giants directly.

Increasing car dependence in the last 50 years is not a trend I am personally observing.
This is fishy.
My trust in most academic papers is very low. Exceptions are made for certain well known groups and authors, but generally I’m not going slog through difficult to understand paper for results that can’t be reproduced - not even to mention recreated in a production setting.
Had exactly the same reaction, every one of these projects is probably life changing for the founder(s). It's hard work but those stats are still way better and much more satisfying than a lottery ticket.
CrowPi L Raspberry Pi 4 laptop review – Part 1: Unboxing and teardown
Is it really bad, or did they choose that name on purpose?
“OK boomer” isn’t just about the past. It’s about our apocalyptic future (2019)
the difference is visible cognitive load. The first has me looking at commas and underscores and colons and equals, for a map lookup.
> So it is hard to criticize. Even areas that are now heavily forested like Vermont were clear cut almost entirely by the turn of the century.

As someone born in Brazil, I don't see why it's hard. Please criticise away. My country should be learning from the mistakes of others, not repeating them in order to favour some higher political caste.

To quote flaviojuvenal below, "Brazil had no trouble to grow in 90s and 2000s while reducing Amazon deforestation.". https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32152630
I've worked at it very occasionally, off and on over the last couple of years and currently I'm on section 4/5.

If I were to do it consistently for an hour a day 4ish days a week I think I could have finished it all in 2-3 months.
two wrongs do not make a "right"
Same goes for Europe.

We love to point the finger at Brazil and other developing countries, while profiting for centuries from deforestation of our own territory.

Maybe we should simply plant 18 new trees per second in the West?
Interesting. My bike seems to have more torque than most ebikes, top speed of course is the same. What mode do you have on? It's indicated in the top right corner of the display https://photos.app.goo.gl/14c5ceRr2zNrdKj17 D on my bike.
The great irony is that actual privacy requires unique identifiers, like RealID or equiv.

GUIDs unlock the Translucent Databases achievement, actual per field encryption of PII data at rest. TLDR, clever applications of salting and hashing, just like with proper password storage. https://www.amazon.com/Translucent-Databases-Peter-Wayner/dp... http://wayner.org/node/46

I was utterly against RealID, until I figured this out. Much chagrin. Super embarrassing.

Source: Worked on both electronic medical records and protecting voter privacy. Did a translucent database POC for medical records, back in the day.

If there's another technical solution, I haven't found it.

But I think to your point, people generally don't want the sensitive data being collected in the first place. I don't have an answer for that.
That's why I cited median values - so your complaint does not apply, since by mathematical fact a tiny minority cannot change the median appreciably.
This is a thing and was used in this fantastic piece: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lR0nh-TdpVg

However the way they obtained these dumps is by going deep into debugger mode of the cpu which makes me doubt anything spooky would be going on.