skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It’s a case of saying that Portugal has been constantly for sale. If in the recent past, large public companies were sold off to Chinese managers who now do whatever they want — like Energias de Portugal (EDP), the main electricity company, which, after making an exorbitant profit in the first semester of the year, they’re now saying that energy prices are going to go up again — now are private assets which are being bought out

What a fucking disaster. Selling off national assets to foreign investment groups.

>China Three Gorges Corporation, a SOE, won in December 2011 the bidding for the Portuguese government's 21.35% interest in the company. The transaction is expected to be concluded by April 2012. As of February 2014, just under 45% of the ownership of EDP was controlled by five institutional shareholders. Amongst the others were the Qatar Investment Authority and BlackRock.

Qatar, China, BlackRock. Can't find a better bunch.
And make it socially acceptable to destroy any phone you see in such a setting.
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Before leaving a Meetup.com group, change the name to "DEFUNCT" or "CLOSED". This should signal to people not to join the group.

I've always felt Meetup needs a competitor, as the cost is rather high, and the UI is not great.
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Doesn’t the browser do this for you?
Reading this article as a straight man is like listening to a rich friend complain about how they have too many rooms to decorate in their mansion whilst I struggle to make rent in a single bedroom apartment. Particularly this bit

>She recommends that app users stop scrolling and talking to other matches once they have found nine people they feel some level of connection with, and dedicate their time to really trying to get to know those people first.

Oh, stop at nine? Well I'll let you know when I eventually hit nine concurrent matches. Hasn't happened yet, eight years and counting. I'm sure I'll be able to stop scrolling any year now. It's like reading about a different planet.
If you don't bring your political opinions to work someone else will. It isn't politically neutral to build AI systems for the Israeli defense forces. So someone, somewhere in Google clearly is bringing their politics to work. So to thn point at the person being fired for disagreeing and saying "Well you shouldn't bring your politics to work" is disingenuous. The only thing that your approach does is allow the political decisions that do get made, to go unchallenged.
Happy paying customer here, and agreed. Their cost per search feels very high to me, but I don't know enough about the search space to know what is normal.
The article seems odd and is all over the place.

> The government has taken desirable measures for foreigners, making it easier for them to get golden visas if someone invests a certain amount of money. My husband, who works in real estate, tells me countless stories of flats left uninhabited by some rich person who arrived at the building, bought two flats so that he could get a visa, and doesn’t even live there.

There are a bunch of restrictions on where and what types of properties qualify. You can no longer buy property in large cities and get the 'golden visa'.

I do not think that is the main driver in large cities. IF these price hikes are indeed driven by foreigners, it's probably other European Union residents.

> Nowadays, flats are being rented in Lisbon for four thousand euros

Yeap. Rented. So why did they bring up the visa thing? You can't qualify if you rent.

Also, housing prices have been increasing all around the globe at the same time economies are screwed up and inflation is rampant everywhere. Blaming foreigners seem... xenophobic? I didn't know Portugal was like that.

For starters, is there enough new construction to satisfy demand? If not, there's the answer.

> (...) And if Brazilians, who must be the largest source of Portuguese immigration, move here

Wait. I thought the problem was rich foreigners? There are rich people in Brazil sure, but I seriously doubt their numbers would even move the needle. The overwhelming majority of expats are _not_ millionaires. If you are that rich, you can have a pretty great quality of life and would only look to live in Portugal if you were really into Europe or something like that. Rich brazilians are more likely to want to have property in Miami.

> The Portuguese are becoming, nothing more and nothing less, the servants of big foreign millionaires

Back to the foreign millionaire thing.

Way back in 2012 I had the opportunity to live and work in Europe. I considered Portugal, but while the country is amazing and the food is good, the salaries were utterly terrible compared to the neighboring countries. It seems that things have not changed.
You know you're awake because reality has continuity and makes sense.

Conversely, dreams are fragmented and implausible. You can train yourself to check this to lucid dream (become aware that you are dreaming).
Combining increased demand with reduced supply has caused a huge "pig in a snake" scenario, which is going to readjust suddenly (arguably it already has around here) where built supply is starting to outstrip demand.
so funny that what are now mainstream left of center parties in europe are labeled as 'radicals'
Are they particularly good at telling the difference between wet neural nets and dry ones?
I have no issue with that type of support request, that's the job of support. It is when the question is something that can be answered by typing the question into Google, clicking on the first link, and following the steps. We're talking about things like amending a time sheet in a particular system, changing a customer or supplier address, resetting their password etc. Non technical questions. I genuinely don't understand why people find this so hard to do as a first step. It would actually save them time. It's like some people have absolutely no problem solving abilities, which is worrying when a lot of them are devs!
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You can, however, use email parsing + heuristics as a way to detect people who are trying to register accounts that look like they ever could be part of a set of "related" addresses — and just reject even the first member in that set. (I.e. just reject registrations with a + in the username part in the first place.)

(You don't have to be petty about it; no need to send them to a "you're an attacker" page or anything. Just redline the form-field, explain the problem clearly, and let them modify the address until it's less duplicable.)

Yes, this doesn't stop people from manually registering multiple times, since, as you say, people can have multiple addresses; or even email service from multiple providers. But it does stop low-effort automated bulk-registration attacks. And some services — those with any sort of free-tier especially — get a lot of those!
US blocks Nvidia AI chip exports to China
The onboard sound chips became good enough, and for those for whom they weren't good enough the noise reduction bonus of an external DAC was worth it anyway. Computers are generally bad for analog signals within a few inches of the case.

I think another factor is MP3 players and phone audio; people stopped using their computer as the (interface to) media source when other things took that function over for them.
In August 2019, ~1600 places were up for rent in Dublin. In August 2020, it was double that. Mostly from tourist hotspots with AirBnB people trying to shift to long term lets. They're back on AirBnB now, and housing is even shittier than it was before. Yes, there's other issues, but AirBnB has been a known problem in Ireland since at least 2016 when I was first looking at places to rent in the country.

The government has said they're going to start tackling the issue of short term lets this month. I'll believe it when I see it.
I miss the days when it was considered polite to ask before taking someone's photo.
If you try and tell inexperienced employees this in an interview for a job when you have well over a decade or more of experience—you’re not getting the job.

I agree with you, but there’s some sort of complexity agreement in corporate environments, because people aren’t willing to accept that you don’t need a large build process, or any at all these days, maybe outside of a build pass for JSX.
I think the Western pattern of a 'rules based' international order worked fairly well for the last 70-80 years. As the world order migrates into a new system, be that whatever it shapes up to be, our grandchildren will be best positioned to learn if its an improvement. I don't think the transition will be orderly. It'll be dirty, violent and probably a major bummer to a lot of poor people.
Well, if you already pay, they basically give you all meetups you're part of and none other will continue, for free.

I have 300 meetups at home.
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> only a football stadium

To be fair, Sanford Stadium seats almost 93,000 (9th largest in US). ;-) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._stadiums_by_cap...

PS: Game day parking and traffic sucked, as someone who lived there.
Can you please explain why are you faking the signup popups? They repeat every few minutes with the same names and cities (e.g. I saw the popup for "Sg from Hamden, Conneticut signed up for Boostly" at least 3 times now). This looks very sketchy to me.

And a second, more technical question. Why are you loading "font-awesome.min.css" (Cloudflare) and the IBM Plex font (font.google.com) every time you show the popup?
I'll be an anecdote: I literally only came back because of CSS3 and jQuery. Managing layout with tables and all hover effects with javascript did not sound like a fun career choice when I first started. And now I've fully embraced flexbox and grid and styled components - I rarely have to think about classes anymore. New tools have been making my job a lot more fun over the years.
The rules have changed so you can no longer qualify if you buy property at large cities. Now, you have to buy property in smaller communities. There's a special incentive if you buy an old property with the intent to restore it.
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I wonder though, what kind of distribution heterosexual men would provide if scrolling through registered as a woman. My guess? Pretty similar. A lot of guys, especially younger guys, just don't have a good idea of self presentation, chasing images that are very unappealing to a lot of women. Either lacking self confidence or just filling their profile with red flags.
This is fantastic, and I hope it can be a sustainable practice whether it's them or other larger companies. Transparency is positive when they're the little guy with a nerd audience, but most companies depend on information asymmetry to mess with our sense of value.
Because that is not something so important and polarizing to the point of creating tribes?
Hey but at the same time Germans got the 9€ Ticket — a monthly pass for all transit, including regional rail, in all of Germany.

The neoliberal coalition partner blocked its extension though, so now ppl are back to paying 60-150€ per month for transit.
It's not just takeout, it's hospital services, repair, dentists, big specialty stores, cinemas, concert venues, day care & after-school activities and so on.
Definitely the same sentiment in Dublin and Galway from my experiences over here in Ireland too. Though mostly AirBnB rather than golden visas.
The Principal Agent Problem
Probably there was a long history of people proposing fixes to this particular problem. While a specific technical issue was obvious to him, the problem was not understood at that level by those in charge. Those in charge also had far more to lose than he did by accepting the input of yet another expert on faith.

Chalking this up to pointless bureaucracy is in a sense the inverse of the “build it like that but six inches to the left” class of requests from non-technical stakeholders.
It's a combination of things really.

Lack of building when the population is still growing.

Encouraging single lifestyle, both by kicking out kids early and shacking up later.

Cases where sitting on an empty property is risk free.

Infrastructure increases taking valuable space.

Giving early birds great deals compared to today, making them sit on huge housing for a pittance and making moving out a terrible deal.

And politically, there simply is no immediate incentive to solve things when the current population of homeowners does not contain enough people to vote in favor of those that don't own homes.
Yeah, right. I've looked again since these posts and if I hadn't seen the videos I'd have had difficulty in believing that so many people can be so damn stupid (there now seems so many more since when I last looked a while back).

Perhaps I'm just naïve and need more education in the matter of the human condition.
> There are good arguments that foreigners should only be allowed to own real estate only in specific places

In the context of receiving visas, that's exactly what already happens in Portugal.
https://xkcd.com/1053/

The truth is that "great" is subjective, and any given developer blogger could be a proper resource for any number of people depending on where they are in their journey.

If it were otherwise you could say to any aspiring developer, "Read The Art of Programming by Knuth and just derive everything else from first principles"

A truly mediocre programmer could teach a great deal to a beginner. A master could skirt over various complexities and disappear up their own butt in abstractions.
> For people not following JS these might all seem like constantly reinventing past lessons, but there is a logical evolution happening here towards desktop-style performance

Funny, my desktop itself is already written in JS, and supports/integrates with apps written that way, too, (and also that aren't), and that's been the case for a while now. And the same has been true of apps from the Mozilla platform lineage for even longer; Firefox has been an Electron-style app for 100+% of its lifetime, for example. Talk to any self-styled JS programmer for any length of time, though, and it's like these things don't even exist—like the latter was actually invented by the Electron folks, and the only thing that made JS development viable generally as a serious applications programming language is the trio of NPM+Webpack+React/React-alikes.

It's overall not worth taking their opinions at face value. They tend to be the ones who are "not following JS". They're worshipping some weird toolchain cult and calling it JS. Indeed, judging by the compulsion to try to work around ostensible deficiencies in the language and deal in cargo cult advice (esp. e.g. concerning things like `==`/`===` and `this`, and insisting on NodeJS-isms like its non-standard `requires`) it's evident that they actually hate JS, despite what they're likely to say to the contrary.
Maybe, could be a chinese knock off brand posing as Wera, you'll never know until it's shipped.

edit: looks like Wera tools specifically are sold by a bunch of different people on Amazon, NEMobile, and BCFasteners are a couple that I've seen, so really no idea what you're getting.
That's actually the goal, though. To define anything not appropriately leftist as not a "real" museum
I don’t think interstellar travel necessarily implies much better tech than we currently have. I mean, Project Orion style nuke-powered spaceships can get you there in a lifetime but unless you wanna nuke your colony whenever someone needs to leave you still might be stuck on the surface.
I lived in northern calif. most of my life so thats probably why I didn't hear much of it. And it is a man made disaster, toxic agriculture runoff from imperial valley is primary the cause of why the lake is so toxic, not the salinity.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/06/californias-salton-sea-spewi...
Orion looked (and still looks) amazing but when I tried it a few months ago 1Password refused to work with it (and any non-authorized browsers). This is 1Password's choice and entirely their fault, but I haven't found an alternative (though at the current rate of decline other options will become better by default soon).

Does Orion work yet with 1Password, or are there any workarounds yet?

Edit: found the thread on the 1Password forums and sounds like Orion has tried to reach out but are getting completely ignored by 1Password.
> Anyway, at $10/mo I can't quite put my money where my mouth is. $5/mo would be much more attractive, and I would guess they'd have better profit at that price. How much does each user cost them?

Not really. Between free and paid users, TFA says they average roughly 27 searches per user per day; 1000 searches costs them $12.50. If each user (TFA says roughly 10% of searches come from the free tier) is averaging 810 searches in a month, that puts their bare cost at close to $10.13 per user per month, not including salaries and other operating costs.

I'm one of roughly 2.6k paid users at the moment; they estimate the need for 25k users to be sustainable. There's so much about google and most of its current alternatives that legitimately disgusts me- voting with my wallet is the only option I really have.
Its a global problem that interest rates have been too low for too long. Most Americans dont realize that in most countries, house prices continued to go up through the 08-10 recession, so haven't gone down since the early 90s. Property needs a big global crash.