skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Candid question but you’ll have to trust that I’m asking it in good faith -

What considerations are you making about your neighbors’ privacy, both about flying drones overhead, and then also ID’ing their use of solar?

That video looks like 30+ homes now exposed as owning Solar and open to whatever marketing comes their way now.

I can never get an answer out of drone operators about this. Since home owners can’t control who flies over head, the onus is on the pilot for
thinking about it. I can’t tell if pilots ever do, but if they do, what conclusions do they come to?

Edit - I get the laws haha, to the point of my comment, what do pilots feel is right to do vs what’s legal? This is what I mean by rarely getting a straight answer.
ZenTube: Cross-browser plugin to remove addictive features on YouTube
Insurers force change on police departments long resistant to it
Looks like a typical GNU style C codebase with a few CVEs over the years.

https://ubuntu.com/security/cves?q=&package=gnupg

Not sure what's the grumbling about UX. Common tasks signing/verifying/encrypting are simple. Key export/import is also straightforward. So for common tasks you learn a few (~6) CLI --options by osmosis.

Web of trust/key management stuff is mostly done via interactive UI where you're prompted for what's needed after you invoke some action. Not too bad I guess. Certainly easier to be prompted for what's needed than remembering a ton of random CLI options or fishing through manpages, for tasks that you'll do very infrequently.
Sometimes do, sometimes don't.

It all depends on politics. Some people have opinions on how much court "activism" should be allowed, but they reliably flip the script when one of their pet topics shows up.

People used to insist Antonin Scalia was a sort of "strict constructionist", himself among them. But the moment he got a case where he had a personal opinion that contradicted his "strict" claims, his true colors came out. Then it turned out his strictness really did just mean corporations always win and individuals always lose, as his record had always suggested and his critics had long asserted.

(Never guessed I would have cause to miss him... He was not, anyway, Bork.)
If the filter is in every participant’s individual hands, then:

1. if a person I am interesting in delivery to blocks me by mistake - I have an option to ask him to unblock me by other communication means.

2. if my opponent in a public discussion blocks me, other people can still see my arguments.

Both these benefits are absent in a centralized blocking system, no? And I do not see any drawbacks, are there some?
Their “yearly plan, billed monthly” with early termination fees is blatantly anti-consumer.
No, because there is no relation between transaction volume and block production times, and this is a protocol level constraint. The network aims to produce a constant number of blocks per hour, which happens no matter how many transactions are available to be included in that block.

Here's an example: If, say, the maximum block size was doubled so they could hold twice as many transactions, this would cut your energy usage figure in half, but actual energy consumption by miners would barely change at all. Similarly, if the maximum block size was halved, your figure would double, but the energy consumed would not. If there were no such thing as a maximum block size, your value then scales linearly with the amount of transactions that can be crammed into 10-ish minutes of time.
Havent used Java for ages but are ints amd double for example really objects? Iirc they are primitives
My laptop bag used to be a purse and just now i realized other people could attribute a gender performance meaning to it. I did never ever spent a thought about it and was happy with it, and then you came. You just caused the problem you are describing.
Technically 8% inflation and 6% interest rates should be a great time to load up on debt and buy hard assets. Affordability seems to drive everything though which is why I've been wrong for 20 years about this. Who knows what'll happen next.
Fuck yes. The government is there for everyone. I want to not be abused as a consumer by for instance having a single ISP, phone manufacturer, etc. etc. price gouging me and everyone else, and i practice what i preach.

In a similar vein, i don't want trash on the ground, so i inconvenience myself by collecting my trash and throwing it at the appropriate places. You know, normal "sacrifices" one does as the cost of participating in a society.
“This is the time for us to show resolve, not appeasement,” said von der Leyen, who was set to travel to Kyiv later on Wednesday to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. “We are in it for the long haul.”
> Suddenly, I'm typing a memo into Finder's password field to unlock the drive. Just. Stop. It.

Normally I would lol at your misfortune but I actually got bitten by this too.

I restarted after a macOS update (remember when they used to update in the background and now every one requires a restart like Windows?) and 1Password needed my master password to unlock in the browser but apparently Messages app took a few seconds to load and when I saw the notification to enter my 1Pass master password I started typing and at that moment Messages took focus and I typed my master password into a message and hit enter to send.

Thankfully it was to my girlfriend, but still wtf.
Oh noooooooooooo!!!! They're going to bloat it up, make it slow, roll it into Creative Cloud, and add obnoxious DRM :( :( :(

Boooooooooooo.
Email is a different beast though, as it is set up to replicate snail mail. You need to be able to receive mail from anyone at any time.

For private, personal use at least, you don’t need this for a service that competes with discord. I’m not allowing random strangers into my chats, having an allowlist basically makes spam a non issue.

Now, that doesn’t fix the problem for public channels, but spam/trolling is always an issue on those anyways, and frankly, I don’t understand how people can use discord for that purpose in the first place.
What are alternatives to Figma?
> hunting down null pointer exceptions at runtime

That seems mostly a fault of the JVM, no?
Inflation numbers are an average, not a baseline.
Adobe is worth 10 times that and technically just makes "photo and video editors for PC."
Thats quite surprising to me as a german neighbour.
the salary gap in europe is usually small...

It would move from basically minimum wage up to the top 10% of earners if the wage multiplied by 3-4 within the last 10 yrs. (from 20k to 60-80k)

And 20k would be a _really_ low payment for a developer working fulltime, even in 2012.

What were the numbers you had in mind if I may ask?
This assumption promotes the behavior and at the same time assumes everyone in the room is playing for the same ultimate incentive.

The problem is a self-reinforcing positive feedback loop. It seems that only if you can avoid (or want) a tragedy of the commons should you solve that by introducing more self-reinforcing feedback loops.
You use a lot of words to say nothing. If you have a counter argument give it, rather than just saying "you're wrong because you can't consider how ""Bad Thing"-In-Quotes" could be good". You don't give examples of how ""Bad Thing"-In-Quotes" is good anywhere in this entire thread.

You're other argument is "you're brainwashed by the media to think that thing you saw with your own eyes is worse than it actually was".

It's all gaslighting 101 and the fact that you're doing it reveals exactly the kind of person you are and why you think all the ""Bad Thing"-In-Quotes"'s are good.
Must only be the website, the meeting I'm on have been going for the last hour and a half without any problems.
Like managing a team of diverse thinkers: "Do what works for you(r team)!"
If I understand correctly. JavaScript itself didn't even think '111,2' is a proper float number. Only decimal point is allowed. So by using it, your input already bugged out. The number input is just wild and it did not support transform the input to a proper number for you.
You're doing business with a corporation - it's a legal person after all. There are reporting requirements etc so you can check all you need about that corporation very precisely. You don't need to know the owners at all. It's not like you can know with US/EU corps - go check and see how many paper trails end in Virgin Islands numbered corporations ;-)
> It’s the biggest wealth producing opportunity of the next decade or two and HN doesn’t get it at all.

Help me understand where that wealth comes from. Because as far as I can see the only wealth that gets generated is from people who got in earlier selling their bags to people who got in later.
Finally a "MAJOR OUTAGE" on their status page - https://status.zoom.us/
"Tesla's fully autonomous self-driving cars will be available by the end of the year" Elon Musk 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
Oh no :( Unbelievably sad news.
The whole time we were on a zoom call and didn't notice anything.
They could go faster, but then they would be like the centralized Solana chain which is controlled by VCs. High throughput is easier using a centralized data center.

Decentralization is good and is challenging to scale. I see eth making the right moves to keep the chain decentralized and accesible to those running nodes at home.
What the Deaths of More Than 300 Reindeer Teach Us About the Circle of Life
I'm using it fine right now at work
Yes, I have used it with languages like Bluespec and Lean v4, which have very little data (FOSS code on GitHub) for the model to work with.

It's nowhere near as accurate as it is when using Rust or TypeScript but it's still mostly "autocomplete, on steroids", just with fewer "oh shit" moments.
Working fine for me..
Dup: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32853107
> Using a number input, these things are handled for you.

That's not my experience. I used a number input field for actual numbers (i.e. amounts of currency), but on some phones (specifically Samsung phones), it would show up with a full stop for decimal points (even though the locale was explicitly set to one with commas for decimal points), and users were unable to enter decimal numbers on Samsung phones.

Unfortunately, the handling of the number input field is extremely browser/OS dependent.

Eventually, I decided to go for text input, with numeric for inputmode, and simply interpret both "." and "," as decimal points (not permitting the user to use thousand separators, but few people would do that for input anyway). A bit awkward, but it worked.

Note: Using text and inputmode=numeric did not technically solve the issue of Samsung phones persistently showing the wrong keypad, but the JavaScript interpretation was the real solution to the problem.
A private company didn't 'build' the highways. (yes i'm sure a private company laid the asphalt, but at the direction of the government)
I think if you want to take part in discussions like this you should either inform yourself a bit beforehand, or enter them with an open mind. Otherwise you’re going to blunder in with clown shoes on and make yourself look like a conservative talk radio show caller
> how to do moderately complex things in ethereum/crypto properly/safely?

As far as I know it is not achievable.

Even doing it in normal banking system is quite tricky with BTC/ETH it is basically hopeless.
This just runs a request proxy that turns off after 10 seconds of no activity and starts it up (with a half second delay) when there is a new request. It runs SQLite with Prisma. Prisma is an API server that puts a GraphQL API in front of a DB.

It's a nice blog post about gluing technology and I can see how this could be a really nice way to run some lower-cost databases in a non-demanding development environment. However, it is not a reliable way of operating a database. For me it isn't really serverless since it only scales between 0 and 1 instance whereas a serverless DB ideally would scale-out but should at least have some ability to scale to greater load in response to demand, along with higher reliability and availability, and backing up data to object storage.
The problem here is that applications can set a background colour, and that as an application you don't know what colours the user defined.

For example Angband just sets the background colour to black (not sure about Nethack), so if you defined colours that work well on a light background you're still going to have a bad time. Quite a few other terminal programs (especially those using ncurses or other interactive TUI interfaces) tend to set a background colour.

There isn't really a good way to deal with this using the default 16 colours other than never setting any background colours, which can be a bit limiting for interactive applications. The best solution is to have application support for this and using 256 or 24 bit "true" colours (256-colour support is pretty much universal, and 24 bit colour support is very wide-spread).
Walking is good. Walking faster is better. Walking even slightly faster? Slightly better. Running? Running is right out. However, walking EVEN faster than slightly faster? Guess what: even better.
...but...but... my avocado toast =/
Hm, what companies? Very much not my personal experience.
Hi HN, DFlex author here. I built DFlex because I couldn't find a comprehensive solution for interactive apps. All existing solutions depend heavily on HTML5 drag and drop to achieve interactivity despite the fact that the standard implementation is not designed to turn the apps into an interactive ones. So I started from scratch, built the transformation mechanism, and implement a custom reconciler built specifically to deal with DOM transformation. It also has a concurrent registration to prevent any blocking event and reduce initial loading. I also tried to take care of browser painting and scripting time. It's still in development mode but I'm glad it's shared here. Happy to take any questions you have and I'd love to get your feedback.
That's hardly a nontrivial thing to try, and indeed, I came up with this genius idea independently. Should have published it!

Do you have children of your own?
That money's not for the code...
Can confirm it has not. In SoCal, anyway.
Am I misreading it? How can I save more than 100% of my annual heating/cooling costs each year?
Theatre.js v0.5 – animation and 3D editor for the web
This is navel gazing along the lines of cocktail-fueled debates over a tree falling in a forest. Does light still have a color if no one is around to see it?

Fundamentally these words have lots of reasonable wiggle room to expand or narrow their definitions. Still, lots of technical domains would like to be explicit about what is meant, especially when reusing common words, which is why man invented the glossary.

Unfortunately this hasn't stopped endless argumentation over whether a tomato is a fruit or a vegetable. For whatever reason, it's often presumed that the definition of fruit used in botany has "won", even though botany has nothing to tell us about what a vegetable is or how to distinguish one from a fruit.
There's no foolproof way for them to ban you; something is leaking. Do you know any technical friends why may be able to test ideas?
What water do you drink? A lot of bottled water comes from tax supported municipal water sources through water rights loopholes, so you could be paying more just to drink similar water.

Unfortunately, I feel like this comment encapsulates the current state of the western world in a nutshell:

Let’s build a new complex system around bottling plastic, delivery trucks, with competing brands for sale at 10x the price instead of publicly maintained aqueducts and pipes that have been used successfully since Roman times, and advocating for rigorous standards and fixing issues at the source.

Bottling water doesn’t scale and has significantly more waste (C02 from trucking diesel exhaust and plastic)
I thought we were talking about games in this subthread. The artwork was not an accident.
So... based on the fear of a particular outcome, you want a situation where individuals and small groups must solve the problem for themselves or accept the consequences?

The language may be uncharitable but I remain comfortable calling that cowardice and user-blaming, yes. I stand where I stand on this.
I remember calling this Wikipedia Golf.
3.9e3 is equivalent to 3900 in the same way that 3,900 is equivalent to 3900.

So, Ruby’s number parsing is garbage I guess. Hopefully it at least does this properly for floats?
This thread loads and renders in 653ms for me.
A mini-roundabout is a centre circle painted (not curbed), plus the priority rules (give way to your right - would be your left in the US).

They don't take up any extra space, but they do probably require drivers to intuitively understand the concept and priorities before they can be introduced.

Here's a satellite view of a random one near me: https://goo.gl/maps/NJ2KpYdMP1reQA1u5

Its an upgrade of the American 4-way-stop with better defined priorities for entry.
Not you, HN intermittently dragging, more so on write vs read ops.
There's a 800 comment thread on the front page. Giant, active, threads tend to make the whole site sluggish.
Inline Tests
On the face of it, this makes no sense. Vacancy rates are incredibly low everywhere in the US, and what you're describing would push prices down as much as up.
> and re-selling it for a lot more OR renting it out for a lot

See, you're almost at the real problem: why is that a good investment in the first place? Because there isn't enough housing stock. If there was, investors wouldn't be able to leverage it like that.
I don't believe there's any evidence to the anal bead thing. It started as a joke tweet by Elon Musk.
I'll let you guess why (hard) asset prices have increased so much for the past 20 year.
Too much tourism, and the way it's funneled through designated channels, can negatively impact communities, indeed, as everything gets gentrified, and deployed for tourist duty.

Too many factories? An absolute blessing, no doubt. lol.
Seriously, they completely warp and devastate rural communities, which are left with only old people. You can argue that everyone is getting richer etc, but that's not really true. Land prices increase dramatically as foreign 'investment' comes in, forcing people out of the countryside, and into factories just to afford food, which previously they could grow themselves, share, or just forage.

Having a few rich foreign workers around could well be the catalyst for them to realize they're getting screwed and should raise their prices, collectively, and those connections could also be the means to do so.

I also think the 'cost of living' is misunderstood.

In many poorer countries, the cost of living is much lower, because the standard of living is much lower.

To live a western level family existence is often more expensive in poorer countries than in rich countries (probably excl. US), once you factor in security, education, health, imports, etc, etc.
I live in the UK which is primarily manual cars. Trust me that plenty of people race between speed bumps and pointlessly go at max speed to a visible red light hardly any distance away. I doubt the gear box is making much difference to whether people want to be selfish and discourteous or not.
nginx error for me
DoorDash is terrible at this too. Notice that when you turn notifications off on these apps then every time you open them to use them, you get popups "please enable notifications to keep up to date on your orders!!" and the options are always "Yes enable notifications!" or "Remind me later" Excuse me, I disabled notifications for a reason, don't make me disable usage of your app completely.
I suppose I just don’t understand you original point then?

> What would the alternative be? There will always come a day when founders and investors want to move on.

Going public means you can move on and sell your shares at any time on the open market, they never needed Adobe to buy them out except to get a higher valuation.

Your original comment implied that if companies like Adobe weren’t able to buy out smaller competitors, the products would just die, which, obviously isn’t even the case here.
In some sense that's true, but missing the point. The amount of energy worth buying to mine crypto is exactly equal to the value of the crypto mined. What we should expect to see[1] is that the value of "Proof-of-Work ETH" (which is still a functioning blockchain[2], just like Ethereum Classic is) will drop as attention is focused on PoS ETH. And so energy devoted to it will drop in tandem.

It's also true that there are second order effects, like for example all the mining hardware dedicated to ETH needs to find a new home, which will depress prices for new mining hardware for "chains that are hardware-compatible with old ETH", and thus probably support their prices a bit.

[1] And do, I think. IIRC there was a stat rolling around a few months back showing electrical grid usage dropping due to the crypto crash, but can't remember where it was or how reliable the source seemed.

[2] Though AFAICT no one is tracking exchange rates for it yet, so your guess is as good as mine as to its value.
It's actually 25% ads (same on IG): https://www.callmefred.com/25-of-the-content-on-facebook-and...
if you join via a link, it routes through their website but it seems to work fine via the app.
You're locking in 6% for 30 years, inflation is going to vary.
No chance whatsoever, they legitimately don't have a flow for unbanning people outside of knowing an employee.
Same here. I've been on the housing market for the past year, though my local market is the Monterey Bay Area, with parts of the Bay Area and the Central Valley as backup options. Interest rates were considerably lower last year, but the market was an absolute frenzy, with homes receiving multiple offers at prices considerably above asking. At a budget of only $550,000, it was highly discouraging; there were few listings that met my price range to begin with, and all of them ended up selling well above asking. Once the 2022 interest rate hikes began, it's been less frentic; not only are there fewer above-asking bids, but homes are sitting on the market longer, and many sellers have made modest 5-10% cuts in their asking prices. However, a mortgage on a $525,000 home at 6% interest is still larger than a mortgage on a $550,000 home at 3.5%.

Even though 6% interest is still low by historical standards, today's home prices in my areas of interest are the highest they've ever been. However, I'm still interested in purchasing now because I don't believe prices are going to drop substantially in my area. There needs to be more housing in order to meet the demand, but Santa Cruz and Monterey counties (less so San Benito County due to the growth of Hollister) have historically not been keen on large-scale development. Thus, supply hasn't increased very much, while demand has been increasing, especially when the pandemic started when the prospect of working from home made commuting to Silicon Valley less of an issue.
> What would the alternative be?

Your imagination can't be this limited?

Are you really not able to come up with any other scenario than "bought up by your biggest competitor"?

Like...they could go public, or sell to a new owner that isn't already the biggest in the field, etc.
Sanitation. Childcare. Primary education. Fire departments. Groceries.

If your city doesn't have those, it stops being a livable place pretty quickly.
I think Firefox extensions are just archives. So with that license it should be allowed to simply download the extension, unpack it and throw it on Github.
How would anti trust apply here?
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