skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That would work only slightly better than the top level salary cap being the lowest salary - dodged via a nesting doll of layered corporations as contractors or using actual ones. In that case they would have a top level entity with C-levels and elite lawyers which just so happens to own the rights and assume legal responsibility for the lower corporation.

In which case just save everyone the hassle and pass a law requiring proportionality to the degree of defined max lawyers per lawsuit of size defined in some workable metric so it doesn't take decades just to go through every mortgage in a AAA bank with solo lawyers on each side. It would limit the use of lawyer armies but it may lose a constitutional challenge on grounds of right to petition the government for redress.
I don't have any particular antipathy towards HFT, so I will just note that organized crime does all of the above (though it notoriously under-reports its economic activity, and consequently underpays taxes on it.)
For lots of applications it doesn't matter how many bytes are in a character, because characters don't matter. Even within a particular application, it's common for characters to only matter in a few particular locations. It would still have been a win for python, to make such applications easier to write and maintain.
I feel like I am an official promoter for this book on HN but I most certainly am not. The book, Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer is one of the most interesting books I had read. I read many books after that but nothing left me with same sense of joy and knowledge and hope. Please consider taking a look at the book. It is amazing.
I'm sure it depends on how much the company values you, and how precarious your employment is, but assuming you are valuable to them at your current (well, previous) salary, you should be able to negotiate.

"You aren't paying me for where I live. It's actually quite irrelevant! You pay me for the value I generate. Continue paying me for the value I generate. Done!"

Of course, I've mostly worked for small companies that shit bricks when I leave. I imagine large companies have stupid cough, sorry... inflexible? policies in place that they can't find themselves troubled to work around.
This is so overblown. We bring in folks regularly with no experience in our language much less the ecosystem and invariably they’re totally productive in a month or so
> For instance, Javascript's hidden class optimizations are disabled as soon as someone "breaks" the assumption by doing something like accessing a variable using a dynamic array index rather than dot notation.

This is definitely not true.

> For instance, if you use an assumed "int" in a string-like way the runtime re-assigns the tagged type. And it's hard to know whether you (or the library you're using) does so.

Also not true - if you assign an integer to a string the engine will still use optimized code - the caveat is different and in megamorphic functions - if your function can accept lots of types that's problematic.

> On most of those benchmarks the fastest JS framework is ~5X slower than the fastest Java framework.

All of those benchmarks are dependent on the underlying library and not the language at all.

> And yeah the array optimizations are related to what we both mentioned above, but again the optimization is not durable. It only works sometimes, and incurs its own overhead.

That's not really how a JIT works and Java is also a JITd language on some runtimes (and the same person wrote both JITs originally - Lars Bak). The overhead is constant and low for the optimizations. The Java JIT compiler does a ton of such assumptions and bailouts as well to elide creating and allocating objects.
There are a lot of really great suggestions here. I would recommend putting all of them aside and read Deep Work by Cal Newport and then re assess.
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Note that in Japan, where people are allowed to build what they want, there are tons of detached houses with no yards or small gardens. http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4113/4983103056_ec5b955217_b.j...

http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2143/2206169789_71e4f452b3_b.j...
I'm guessing they're still there, but they're being crowded out by extroverts. The programming field is a lot larger now than it was in the 80s.
How is arguing against zoning regulation socialist?
Only a matter of time before your phone will transfer your order over when you walked in.
> Once they’ve download teams, workplaces will be hooked into the Microsoft 365 suite.

One of my absolute favourite comments ever on HN was by basch in 2017-04-20:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14160809

It's a beautiful, heartfelt, almost entirely lowercase, description of the state of affairs of Microsoft's 'naming of things' (remember, there's only two hard things in computer science).

This year I've had to fully (re)embrace the challenges of Microsoft's (re)naming, (re)branding, and (re)invigorating of some of their old products. Oh my.
Reading your comment suddenly made me remember about the "Voyage to India" by Gonçalo M. Tavares; maybe you would enjoy this recent book written in verses. Unfortunately I couldn't find any link to some good review online
This was published yesterday (title says 2012).
Yeah, I am looking forward to clients who want the "open" data files can't open them on their ipad."But it runs full photoshop now clearly you did something wrong."
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For the land of the free, some US rules are a shock to me.

Like how in many places you are not allowed to have a brown lawn, or one with taller weeds instead of grass.

> Grass or weeds taller than 8 inches is in violation of Minneapolis ordinance. If grass or weeds are taller than 8", an inspector may issue an order to the property owner giving them at least 3 days to cut it. If the violation is not corrected, inspectors may authorize a contractor to cut the grass and assess the costs and administrative fees to the owner.
> Personally, I’m imagining a future where you don’t need a USB drive to move files between devices. Dropbox, Creative Cloud, Universal AirDrop.

Isn't that the paradigm we're currently in? Local file management is terrible on iOS. For professional photography (one the markets that Photoshop targets) cloud storage is not up to the task. The raw files from my work camera are 85MB each. I average about 1500 shots per shoot. That's a lot of time waiting for files to upload.

Personally I'm imagining a future where my files are not in the hands of the surveillance capitalists.
Counties/municipalities are already free to zone however they wish, and homeowners and prospective homeowners are free to choose the county/municipality that has zoning laws that are agreeable.

Massive revamps of zoning laws would require voter approval or the politicians in question risk political suicide. What voters are going to approve a huge potential downgrade of their largest investment?
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Sketch on iPad would be amazing.
For the same reason any other submissions concerning political philosophy, economics, etc. are.

Quite many of those "off-topic" submissions climbed up to the top; probably because people here were interested enough in them. :)

If anyone is interested, and have any questions regarding the topic, feel free to ask! I am sure many people would love to join and be of help as well.
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There is a project. Mobile (iOS) software using native technologies. The app is actually a common project serving 10 different flavors (differences boil down mostly colors, copy, back ends but sometimes features too). How does one talk with business about not developing features fast enough without making them learn Swift?
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iPads are used a lot by myself and musicians I know; there are a lot of cheap apps that cover virtual synths, drum machines, song learning, DJing, even full DAWs. They are amazing machines that 'just work' for many musical situations.
The reason I said "for tourists" is because a local will learn the layout eventually regardless of what it is. I don't think my experiences in, say, Birmingham where I lived for a decade are comparable to my experiences in Philly, which I have visited once for a few days.
Possibly true. Then again, when the Mini was imported to the US as the Mini Cooper, it had to be bulked up so that the American version is much less-mini than the UK, removing some of its appeal.

I'm sure Chinese companies can produce EV sedans that pass US crash tests, obviously, but can they do so while they remain cheap? We won't know unless and until they try.
How do we contribute?
> Do you not want a large, detached house?

Not in the sense that that is somehow the only way to define 'success' in living arrangements.

Personally I value community and amenities to a vastly higher degree than I do the house itself.

Totting it up so far I think I've lived in 9 different houses in 3 different countries. Some house were large and detached, some were semi-detached, one was end terrace. If the house was large enough to live in and put my things in it became essentially a utility that performed a function.

The most important thing was who lived next to or near me, what services and amenities were around and how easy access was to them and what were schools like for kids.

Perhaps that's because I didn't own them but rented them, but I do own a house that I haven't lived in yet and I feel no more attachment to it than the rest. Instead choosing the area and community over the bricks and mortar themselves.
As technology improves, fewer people are required to work in offices. I predict people moving back to smaller towns with cheaper towns, while working remotely and achieving a much better quality of life for a given salary.
Yes, but Americans like that, because they all like having giant SUVs to drive everywhere and they don't like walking. Of course, this results in them all being morbidly obese, but they don't seem to mind that either, and talk about things like "fat acceptance", "big is beautiful", etc.

Source: I'm American, and I see this stuff every day.
> he's still at it at 88.

Actually IIRC he retired ;)

Something I didn't even knew writers did...
My ideal is a 5 bedroom house on about 1/2 acre of lawn right smack in the middle of Manhattan.
Interesting. It seems like there should be a cool name for this (ala pump and dump) where you take a short position and then bad mouth a company until it self fulfills and then flip your shares. Maybe clip and flip?
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What reasonably large metro in the US has no available townhouse-style housing?

edit: responses below are moving the goalposts. I didn't ask what major metros are missing culturally vibrant dense communities with a great mix of walkable amenities, I asked what metros didn't have townhouse-style developments (small house, no yard).

The answer is obvious if you spend ten minutes in redfin - every major metro has plenty
Depends on the town. As a counterpoint El Hornillo, Gran Canaria is one place where many people still live in caves - literally - and they have higher speed and cheaper internet than I can get in most US major cities. According to wikipedia the population is 390 people.
Extracting value is not at all the same as contributing value.
Contributed value cannot be measured by people's bank accounts.
There's tons of this stuff in the northern Virginia/DC metro area too.
'V' here means 'verb', and 'N' means noun.

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> As technology improves, fewer people are required to work on farms. [...] I see something dramatic happening in the next 15 years

I'm perplexed reading this. The number of people required to work on farms is already very low. Is there something particularly revolutionary happening with farming technology right now that would lower it dramatically again?
> This article sounds somewhat socialist and left leaning

The only hint of anything socialist in this report is that Japanese zoning is based on centrally planned guidelines. However, the author reports a key downside of this: that there are fewer possibilities for experimentation- so I don't get that this is left-leaning.

> just because there is an open area available, should we really develop everything

The author makes the point that whitelist-based zoning results in urban sprawl. So, IMO, if you are going to develop an area, make it dense, convenient, and creative. And then you can leave the rest undeveloped. I don't know about the zoning laws in Seattle, but it's pretty dense with residential towers, pretty mixed use downtown and in Capitol Hill, but hikes and waterfalls are like a 20 minute drive away.
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Shorting a stock involves first borrowing it from someone, and them immediately selling it. Everyone who is short stock does not own it!

Naked shorting is selling stock you have not even borrowed to create a short position. The scenario you describe did not require naked shorting in order to exist.

To keep things simple, imagine a corporation that has 100 outstanding shares on the public market. Bob owns them all. Mark wants to short them, so he borrows all 100 from Bob and sells them to Mary.

At this point, Bob is "owed" stock from Mark, and Mark owes Bob stock. Mary owns all 100 shares of stock. No one shorted anything naked.

Now say that Craig wants to short this company as well. He borrows 100 shares from Mary, and sells them to Sally.

At this point, in addition to the above positions of Bob and Mark, Craig is short 100 shares of stock, which he owes to Mary. Sally owns all 100 shares of stock.

Looking from the perspective of any one person, they are not short more shares than there exist in the company. No one shorted anything naked. And yet, on the macro level, there are 200 short positions, and one person owns the 100 shares of the company.

No one shorted anything naked. And yet, the situation you described arose.

Should the need arise for Craig and Mark to return the stock they borrowed (someone calls in their shorts), they will probably need to pay a lot to convince the people who own the actual stock to sell to them, especially if the owners are aware of the macro situation.
>A low risk strategy might give you a comfortable life with high probability, but almost certainly won't make you a millionaire.

If you invest $5k per year and earn a 7% annual return with a mix of stock and bond index funds, you'll be a millionaire in 40 years. If you don't like my 7% number, then invest $16,500 at 2% (short term government bond type rates), and you'll still get there in about 40 years.

For a sufficiently frugal person on an engineer's salary, getting to a >$1 million net worth is easy, but it takes a while. It's worth noting, however, that $1 million isn't a particularly lavish retirement anymore (and will be much more modest in 40 years).

The easiest way to become a millionaire is to have boring financial habits.
They’re all silly (often racist). In Annapolis, there is opposition to redeveloping City Dock, which is old and gross, for “historical preservation.”
Push back by saying "No, you find me valuable at this rate, and that doesn't depend on where I live since I'm remote already". You may even have to find another remote job.
> Do you not want a large, detached house? :) I think part of it has to do with the fact that that is what people want

If people truly wanted this, we wouldn't need a large zoning law apparatus to legally enforce it, now would we?

Historically these laws came about due to White Flight and wanting to keep the "other" people out.

My hypothesis is these laws persist due to effectively creating legally enforced housing cartel, pushing up house prices. Throw in some rent control to turn some poor folks against new housing, and you've got a recipe for ever increasing house prices, falling fertility rates, and the squeezing of the middle class.
The most remarkable city I’ve ever visited is Seville, Spain. It has a labyrinth of tiny streets and apparently no grid. As a pedestrian, I felt like I could get “lost” while never really being truly lost. In fact, I think I could still get around in Seville without a map if you dropped me into a random spot.

On the other hand, I live 90 minutes from Charlotte and have been there a dozen times and have absolutely no clue how to navigate that city. It’s a mess.
That's funny. The course I've been doing (dominochinese.com) has approached Chinese from a different angle and it's ridiculously accessible. I remembered and understood more Chinese in a week, than I ever understood of another language (I have attempted learning German, Russian, and Japanese -- in many different learning styles).

The perspective given by the course shows to me that Chinese is one of the most sensible languages on earth. And the fact that we can trace the lineage of the language back to the Bronze age is one hell of a bonus!

Of course traditional learning methods (by rote, etc.) are not going to work for a pictographic language, but mnemonic learning is greatly aided by the story and history of the symbols therein.
As a European I guess this explains why Sim City's zoning never made much sense to me.
The original blog [1] that much of the content was culled from goes into some more detail here.

> Despite the national guidelines, cities aren't completely powerless. They can identify zones where certain rules will be waived to allow higher densities, or alternately, establish certain criteria like a minimum quantity of green spaces on each lot, minimum setbacks, etc... But the basic rules of zoning are still defined by the national government.

And in general it sounds like the types of zones is nationally mandated, but which areas are assigned which zones are a local decision, unless I'm not understanding the idea here.

[1] http://urbankchoze.blogspot.com/2014/04/japanese-zoning.html
>Americans all seemed to own large, detatched houses

That's only really true for the suburbs and rural areas. Most Americans live in cities, where rowhomes and apartment complexes are more popular.
I mean, there is a pretty good chance that something dramatic will happen within a 15 year timespan given any time. Just depends on what you define as dramatic (9/11? WWI? WWII?). So, it is kind of an obtuse statement.
> Blockbuster was brick and mortar, and 'on demand from home at $10 a month' is going to kill that business on the basic fundamentals.

That doesn't explain why Redbox managed to thrive though.
We use terraform to create our new projects, but with them not supporting kubernetes deployments it would be very difficult for us to continue to use them after standup. (I then script kubectl commands to create our deployments, etc.)

Their own github repo issue list said they wouldn't support deployments when it was in beta (hashicorp won't do anything that is in beta, another problem with google cloud and its long, stable betas).. Kuberenetes deployments have been out of Beta for at least 6 months, and no movement on the kubernetes provider
So you are surprised that a randomly chosen hardware has problems with a GNU/Linux while the hardware specifically designed for MacOS works flawlessly with the latter?

Of course one has to choose the hardware to be sure the drivers are compatible... You are asking something impossible from GNU/Linux developers.
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This is an excellent point and agrees with my experience and which is why I like my condo with extensive green walkways, pool, tennis courts and the exorbitant fee that pays for a management company to take care of all of this.

I think countryside living would be attractive to a lot of people (it would to me) if I could get a "limited maintenance" setup. Either something that takes <30min / day to do myself or something that I can outsource relatively cheaply.

I wonder if technology could help. Current setup for most houses in the country needs a hacker: someone who is comfortable tinkering with everything from plumbing to roofing (or at least can competently assess those). Could a low maintenance setup be bought / developed, even if its sticker price is higher? Basically, instead of an old custom truck I am looking for a Toyota Corolla: expected trouble-free operation for a long time with basic maintenance. If the answer is yes there may be a significant number of buyers.
It will fail because building laptops isn't a profitable business as you think.

The margins kind of sucks and the equipment in order to make it is very expensive. I don't believe Dell or those companies that make it, make the whole thing. They generally don't even assembly it. It makes no f. sense as companies are able to work in limited scope, otherwise they start to become very ineffective.

Companies that make money with it probably make it due to having a large scale and being able to negotiate a good price for the hardware it gets in.

If I would try to do so something, I would try to understand well the business and see what makes it expensive. For example, is it physically feasible to make the bodies cheaper in a 10x scale? If yes, then maybe open a company that sells only that part that you figured out and after you try to get into that market.

It's a very, very, very tough market. If you think it is a good business, buy those companies stock. I wouldn't though.
It's interesting that they mention lines and line coverage so much and not statement coverage. I would think that statement coverage would be a much more effective measure of what should be mutated if the metric is available for the instrumenting tool being used, otherwise it's often just going to be testing which covered lines contain uncovered statements. In other words, it's doing the coverage tool's job.

In any case, it seems like it could be a useful tool if developers know how to use it. It seems like this is ideal for catching tests which fail to actually test statements despite covering them. Like the post below mentions, it will probably result in tests that just detect change if developers are not trained on the tool and testing strategies.
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As interesting as the article is why is it titled North America vs Japan? Not USA vs Japan or North America vs Asia? There are 23 countries and almost two dozen dependencies in North America.
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Putting interactive analytics (dashboards) on this thing would be really cool for meetings.
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Slightly off-topic but if the "history of science" is a subject that interests, I can recommend "The Cambridge Illustrated History of Science". It's an expensive book but I was able to borrow a copy from a library near where I live and I thoroughly enjoyed reading it.
Replacing local rules with Federal rules would probably not be what most voters consider an upgrade in governance.

Local homeowners in most cities and towns can get one-on-one facetime with decision makers. In our town I am on a first-name basis with the mayor as are most residents. Who is going to replace this with a Federal Zoning Board?
Complete side note to the actual discussion, but I really like your description workflow, it sounds like you got yourself set up very nicely. What camera are you shooting with?
toxicity is bad in all forms.

discussing different opinions doesn't need to become toxic however, so a civil discourse is possible even on polarizing topics. But having said discourse be civil is important, as otherwise both sides of the argument just get frustrated with no real progress in sight.
This works both ways.

Your short position depresses prices below "value", which means that for example an eco-friendly sovereign fund could move in and buy the shorted stock with a discount, if they believe that it's unfairly targeted.