skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Correct, and be aware that pricing generally has momentum. Increases on prices put pressure on buyers to bid higher, and sellers to hold out for more.

Sudden decreases put pressure on buyers to hold off (it will be cheaper next year), and sellers to either hold off on selling (we’ll wait for the next boom), or in rare cases panic sell ASAP if they need to liquidate due to some weird life circumstance (divorce, death, unexpected emergency move and can’t afford to keep it, etc).

So price decreases are likely to have two different types of effects depending on the ‘part of town’ you’re looking at.

The rich part can wait out boom/bust cycles (generally), so inventory will dry up and prices will stay high because no one will be forced to sell and take a loss - but most potential buyers will also be less willing to buy as the prices are even more ridiculous (relatively) than they were before.

The poor part of town will have significant inventory increases and major price drops, as people have to sell more often due to job changes, financial hits, etc.

Overall sales volume will drop across the board, as financing is harder to get - which it being easier is really what caused the boom, and it being harder is causing these overall shifts too.

Modulo local market factors of course.
Contrary to all the legends of "German quality/engineering" (of which there is certainly in certain industries) I've heard that German cars were shit during the 90s.

Japan OTOH seems to be very aware of how these newfangled tech can screw your reputation.
This library will actually check DNS records to validate domains, so any TLD the server can reach will work with this library.

It also has a thresholding system to allow you to pick how quirky the email addresses (and therefore, how full of typos) that you accept can be. You can set it up to accept RFC5322 addresses and tolerate up to certain levels of errors.

The default is just "valid syntax", but DNS lookups and domains that violate the SMTP spec are tolerated if you use the (demonstrated) ISEMAIL_THRESHOLD check.

I think this is the best email address validator I've seen. It sticks to the standards, at least those relevant when the software was last maintained, and doesn't do anything silly like regex checking.

Validating through a mail server that just tries to send an email and hopes nobody made a typo is a burden on most users (typos are easy to make and weird email addresses should show a warning, though only completely invalid addresses should show an error) and can even lead to IP reputation damage for the mail server.
In my kids’ public schools (one ends at grade 5, the other at grade 8), electronic devices found during the school day are confiscated.

Not sure about other public schools in our area, but I suspect this type of enforcement is only possible if the majority of families are on board.
I guess you are correct, but I was too busy enjoying the night sky.
I've almost never found freelance opportunities that weren't in one of these two categories (or both):

- Bargain bin stuff that won't pay the bills unless you're completely debt-free living in an extremely LCOL area and situation (this is the stuff I started my career on, while still living with my mom)

- Full time employment redisguised as "freelancing" for tax and/or department budgeting purposes, with expected working hours/availability, expected tools (Slack or Jira or whatever), and basically everything else that would classify the arrangement as employment.

My dream would be 2-3 days a week of client work, and the rest of my time free to live life or work on patron-funded endeavors of my own imagination's creation. Alas, the market demands ruthless efficiency, so even finding 4-day FTE roles (I've now worked two of them, and would hate to go back but see the writing on the wall about it struggling to catch on) is a challenge, let alone part-time stuff.

(Disclaimer: this all comes from a US perspective. I hear in EU, and particularly in NL from some friends, that part time employment as well as part time contracts, are both much more common, but then, workers' experiences in EU almost universally seem to be better than in the US in all categories except pay, so I'm not surprised)
When you look at those darkness maps where I live is about as dark as the darkest places in the USA. For us the moon is the real light pollution. Accidentally look at the moon directly and your night vision is shot for a few minutes.
I assume they just want all the juicy data.
Very nice. Where do you find a study partner?
Do Prostitution Laws Affect Rape Rates? Evidence from Europe
Of course they are, the issue is that their side-effects aren't easy to track in pure quantitative terms and even less in the short/medium-term.

Layoffs affect morale, in R&D you see that directly on engineers' productivity and how product managers start to behave. PMs either get risk-averse (don't rock the boat, don't mess with profit-making schemes) which stifles innovation, or they get afraid on being on the next round of layoffs if they don't make an impact quickly, they start to push teams to deliver into their reactionary mode, catering more for short-term impact rather than long-term strategic value.

It's a complete mess that you won't see in pure financial terms, it will have long ripple effects into the company, some companies bounce back, others get crippled by those ripples. Employees that aren't engaged and don't trust their employers won't do their best work, employees motivated by anxiety and fear won't produce their best work. They will produce whatever they need to keep employed, that's not the best thing for a company.
My own experience of transitioning from homeschooling throughout high school to a university degree in Mathematics/CS with honours was quite positive. I arrived at university with the personal drive to direct my own education and the wherewithal to orchestrate my own finances.

Admittedly, I was somewhat socially awkward until I met my wife, but it’s not clear that the social pressures of public school would have improved this. My interest in computers made me an outlier everywhere I went.

Homeschooling doesn’t have to mean social isolation. My own grade school children are confident speaking to senior citizens, adults, teens and other children alike, because they regularly socialize across their age groups. Being surrounded by people roughly your own age in school is an artificial construct that mostly doesn’t repeat thereafter.
It's just like dating - have you tried it lately? Dating Apps has made the issue even worse - so "better" hiring platform is not a viable solution either.

The quickest hires IMHO are via referrals - but this is sort like arranged marriages/dates and it comes with it's own set of issues (nepotism etc).

I think companies need to have dedicated HR / Recruiters (or hire headhunters) to cut down on such frustrations. But the problem is tech hires, unlike construction / temp hires require high touch interviews with department heads etc. Add flood of resumes (now that WFH is a thing) and it's so difficult to speed up the process since it's costly to hire the wrong candidate.
It's not a bad heuristic that the "lit" (up) side is where the radar is coming from. That's the "delay" coordinate, so the top means small delay which means close to observer.

But the other (left/right) coordinate is doppler, which does not map 1:1 to a physical location -- doppler will depend on the rotation and geometry of the asteroid.

The radar beam is not "scanning" across the object. The asteroid is too small to focus the beam on a part of it -- the beam illuminates the whole object. We get lucky that the object is spinning, so that different surfaces on the asteroid cast energy into different doppler offsets.

Anyway, the returned signal is then binned into (delay, doppler) coordinates. This is repeated for many separate pings to beat down the receiver noise.

During the observation window (series of pings), you have to compensate for the relative motion of the earth and the centroid of the target, because the relative velocity (zero-point of the doppler coordinate) is changing the whole time.
A lot of people will (wisely) wait to see how this pans out before getting a car with this software in it.

The car industry is full of manufacturers who decided to build their own software and failed miserably -- this continues to this day. With the exception of Tesla, very little car software matches anything like CarPlay or Android Auto and that's basically a medium sized feature of your phone.
Who Cries for the Robot?
His DSLs fail because he doesn't know how to use DSLs. There must be one for each level of abstraction for each little problem, all built on top of a single host language so that they can be intermingled and COMPOSED.
> most people just don’t care about at all as long as it’s fast enough

People care about speed. Even non-technical people. Every non-technical person I know that has bought a new computer even though they already had one was because of performance. People care about performance so much that they are replacing their whole device! That costs a significant amount of money and comes with a real hassle of transferring their data.

I think people use VSCode over Sublime because of its features, not because they don't care about the speed. It's certainly what got me to migrate from Sublime to VSCode. Sublime is so much faster, but it just doesn't do the things that I want my editor to do. I would instantly switch away from VSCode to a faster alternative if it actually had the subset of VSCode features I care about.
I am also in this situation and it basically makes no sense to move. So I'm stuck here until something changes. I think 30 year mortgage rates need to be below 4% before anything makes sense for me.
And lower food prices is a way to subsidize those who can afford food?
Yaay, I can't wait to have more battery life on my "professional" laptop that has no/poor support for anything I use (games, containers, etc)! /sarcasm

All that extra screen time will help me wait for the day that Linux is stable on the platform!
Right, which at heart is the primary reason why it's so utterly broken.
Yeah I don't know about ECG but I checked my (non apple) watch with a real finger-clip SpO2 from the doctor and while it's pretty accurate under highly controlled situations (sitting still and positioned perfectly) it's really lousy under real-world conditions, moving around etc.

And I didn't just check the bog standard 98% measurement but also tried to hold my breath etc.
Degeneracy pressure comes from the Pauli exclusion principle.

There is no limit to how high this pressure can go, as there are always higher energy states to occupy. (Except that for electrons at a high enough energy state, they will disappear by fusing with protons.)

For neutrons, there is no such disappearing effect, so the degeneracy pressure can keep on increasing. So how can this pressure ever be "overcome by gravity"?

Apparently at some point the degeneracy pressure itself starts to contribute significantly to spacetime curvature. This increases gravitational pressure, which compresses the neutrons, which increases the degeneracy pressure, which increases curvature, etc. No balance is possible anymore and collapse happens.

Presumably this process of ever increasing neutron degeneracy pressure continues within the black hole until unknown physics come into play.
I doubt Reagan even knew of the rescue attempt. And he absolutely did not conjure a sand storm causing a copter crash.
He’s done good work here but implying he’ll be bored for 4 years of college is preposterous.

He could go to any big college where he can take very difficult classes right away, and if he’s somehow still bored he can do research.
It depends, some companies have a history of yearly layoffs. Back when he was running GE, Jack Welch famously argued that leaders should fire the bottom 10 percent of their workforce each year, as part of an orderly continuous improvement process.

Is that the kind of work environment you want to be in?
Enlisted can't say "Eh, I'm done, kthxbye" like Officers can. This will just give those that want out an easy path to discharge rather than the preventative warning it was supposed to be.
That's fair. Our only really dangerous snake is a cottonmouth. Even our rattlers and copperheads are mostly nonlethal and nonaggressive.

I was limbing a tree in the pasture, looked down after dropping a limb and a copperhead was just sitting next to my foot. Wasn't ready to strike, just watching me like dudes come out with chainsaws and cut trees next to him on the daily.
People aren't abstract mathematical concepts.

No two people are identical, and the range of difference between the two most extreme men almost certainly exceeds the range of difference between the most woman-like men and the most man-like women. Given the obvious differences between humans, nobody expects that every single person will contribute identical value, or should be valued identically.

However, there is a very, very, very long history of the inverse. In nearly every area of life, the activities and contributions most commonly fulfilled by women are under-valued, while the activities and contributions most commonly fulfilled by men are over-valued. This can be seen historically, as the primary occupants of careers shifted from one sex to the other. The early computer programmers (women) were treated as doing secretarial work, while modern computer programmers (mostly men) are compensated like rock stars. Conversely, early school teachers were highly respected and well-compensated when they were mostly men, and respect and compensation both dropped relative to other careers as teachers became more likely to be women.

These are systemic biases so ingrained that we don't think about them. People are lining up to respond to this comment to helpfully explain to me that those earlier programmers weren't the same, or that modern teachers are every bit as respected and well-compensated as they should be, or whatever.

The Venn diagram of all men and all women is not a circle, because of course there are differences. But there is much overlap between the two circles, and women are mostly not valued equally where the circles overlap, and the non-overlapping areas of each circle are valued completely differently as well.

When you see it, it's clear as day. When you don't or won't, it sounds silly. Feel free to dig in to the truth of it, or dismiss it as folklore.
How to Be Different
That sounds aweful. I didn't think there were still shops that don't even have source control and just edit code in prod.
Enabling Suppressed Functionality in SFTP
European has had a case about selection process from a data capture effort result in a valid claim to copyright. Note that they have been careful in highlighting that this applies to data capture and not data generation. Data generation is covered by various case law, including attempts to claim copyright to all non copyrighted combinations of musical notes trough generative process.
https://archive.is/QmkvH
I wonder if you could build a service that ingests self taught students’ notes, uses ML to investigate their displayed level of mastery, and upon decision associates with a university that will give them credit for a course, or even a full on degree.
Honestly, that sounds exactly like most parents I know these days (just doing what other parents are doing).
You could already replace the stereo in a car if you didn't like it, but you still bought the car.
First blood has been drawn
> design patents do not protect pictures, images, graphic designs, patterns or any other 2-dimensional visual imagery in the abstract. A patented design must be tied to an article of manufacture. In fact, the patent examination manual known as the MPEP requires that each design patent application specify the article of manufacture in the title and claim.
> You can’t bury patents, a patent is a public record.

There are some exceptions to that, at least in the US:

https://slate.com/technology/2018/05/the-thousands-of-secret...
Sounds like bad codebase compounded by a toxic team. A lethal combo.
lots of writing pre-modernity used to be satire, and with serious underlying warnings weaved throughout it hyperbole

why must every piece of shared information be viewed through the lens of conspiracies and mental instability?

i feel the tireless, never ending scroll has taken away peoples creative interpretations above all else
PDF here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3984596
> A system of distributed, hidden, state-sanctioned jammers

I don't see how a system that likely would need to be larger that the Duga-1 "Russian Woodpecker" can be hidden, and the Duga-1 wasn't even particularly powerful enough at jamming radio stations - well, it was a over-the-horizon radar, not a jammer, but the power and size requirements for an actual effective jammer are still there.
Not OP, but for me I reverse proxy things behind public IPs in an effort to trade a little bit of security and digital footprint for a lot of ease.
> There have been instances of law enforcement trafficking arms to the cartels

They didn't traffic arms.

They "purposely allowed licensed firearms dealers to sell weapons to illegal straw buyers, hoping to track the guns to Mexican drug cartel leaders and arrest them".

Strategy that is a corner stone of law enforcement so it's surprising the
outrage at it being applied in this situation.
The philosophy being pretty... weird, to say the least! Some serious transhumanism, towards sentient being capable of living directly in cosmos.
You're correct.

Most people have variable-rate home loans. In the past few years, fixed five-year loans have become more common. Basically you're on a fixed rate for the first five years, and then after that you're onto a normal variable rate.

Most economists here predict house prices will fall further as people sell due to mortgage stress. At the moment it looks like most people are hanging on. Historically speaking, interest rates are still pretty low. And I think people are reluctant to sell due to fear they won't get a decent price, and that if they wait a few years house prices will be back up.
I've lived in Vietnam for the last five years and I read lots of reports like this. The local joke is always "sharks" biting the undersea cables, where the sharks are the Chinese I guess.

The reality doesn't match though, except for during huge storms there's rarely connection issues. The fastest speed five years ago was about 100mb, I now get 300mb for the same price. I'm still getting that speed right now (testing on speedtest.net to Singapore).
Sounds like some form of collective action could go a long way here to the point of being imperative. Get like minded parents and teachers and administrators together on this and work together to preview and encourage alternatives.

Tangentially, I’m curious if smoking went through a phase similar to this, where all the parents were doing it but there was still some recognition that children/teens shouldn’t and some parenting struggles against the ubiquity of cigarettes.

If so, what were the factors of success or failure? Did any progress in protecting kids from smoking have to wait until underage smoking was illegal or even the public push against adults smoking?

It really does feel to me like the smart phone and social media are the cigarettes of the millennial generation.
Since 2006, my Gmail has hardly ever contained spam. Hotmail, however, receives over 600 each month.
I might go one step further and say that platforms with children users should not get 230 protections. Or maybe not under some conditions.
Yep! Pretty much this! Even I've leveraged old world clan networks professionally (helps to get introduced to VCs, Execs, and Politicians in US, Canada, Australia, and the UK). For some reason, Western Europeans, Canadians, and Americans don't have these kinds of tightly knit networks anymore, but hey, us immigrants and children of immigrants need some kind of upper hand when trying to eck out a new life.

A similar story is happening in Netherlands+Belgium with the Mocro Maffia - a big reason they were able to be successful in the XTC game was because Moroccan Jews are a big player in XTC manufacturing in Israel and there was a diaspora of both Muslim and Jewish Moroccans in Belgium, Netherlands, and France that organized crime groups were able to leverage.

And like you said about the Lebanese, same story with a subset of the Shia Lebanese diaspora in South America (Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Colombia) helping enable Hezbollah.
Dragging nets thru the ocean floor. Throwing anchor.
She sees them at school every day?
> ... the image be recovered out of Doppler and timing info...

Yes, that's right: they are using doppler shift of the rotating asteroid, and the delay of the propagating signal, to form the "image". See my other comment nearby.
Have written a bit about self hosting email[0].

I personally run:
- Proton Mail (not self Hosted but for some addresses)
- Haraka
- Maddy

For people new to self hosting email I recommend maddy over the usual postfix + dovecot

[0]: https://vadosware.io/post/its-never-been-easier-or-harder-to...
Could be interesting to use for random world-lore generation to write a story on top of.
There is no plastic in the cable?
I never thought I'd see the day where buildings become sentient and rise up against their overlords.
You're thinking about this the wrong way.

You could potentially attack a forum by posting verboten content on it then turn around an petition the government/state to sue the forum out of existence. A new form of SLAPP.
Why not? How is this rule any different than any of the others in a religion?
You’re right and sorry, I wasn’t trying to rage bait. Tweets obviously don’t have headlines like articles do, so I tried to compose the best headline using the tweet’s own words. Found it interesting because this topic was recently discussed on the front page.
What does Atlassian do perfectly? And please don't use the J word.
the "mixup" happened because someone was an idiot and then started a fire.

If I get drunk, drive, and cause property damage, would you feel the same way?

People have a responsibility to not drive drunk and not to start forest fires. We can do a 5 whys activity but that doesn't negate the culpability of the individual.
I was accepted to one of those elite universities as an undergrad, but my family couldn't afford to send me there.

You need money to make money.
if ($email =~ /@/) { ... }
To be fair, this was written seven years ago and IPv6 has grown quite significantly since then. Even today IPv6-only mail hosts probably miss a lot of important email.

However, ISEMAIL_DNSWARN_NO_RECORD is defined as 6, still lower than the ISEMAIL_THRESHOLD (16) used to indicate a warning rather than an error.
We now have to do a formal expense report for friday drinks in the office.

They've also taken away the company credit card so that all employees must go through the dreaded Finance hurdle to have any fun.
For your first figure to work out, as there being more than enough housing, requires that any one unit of housing is equivalent to any other one and does not account for what an acceptable vacancy rate to facilitate moves would be in specific markets. An available unit in Kansas does not help the family in California.
Good move by Apple. People aren't nice enough these days. Pricks can use another brand.
I don't see any documentation about an API here at all. It's just yeah we support these sources for our transfer tool and contact our team for them.

From the outside it's a lot closer to the storage transfer job stuff I've seen on GCP and yet also kind of far as it's gated behind those infernal "talk to our team" for access gates.
I'm in central Vietnam now, speed is exactly the same as yesterday. 300mb/s. I tested on speedtest.net to a Singapore server. Ping is 58ms though, I don't know if that's gone up.