skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That usually means there’s something worse going on with the property but fixing it, if it’s even fixable (location, for example, isn’t unless the local situation changes) is even more expensive on whatever timeframe is being used to evaluate that.
Nubank is one of the biggest Clojure companies.
> _Once you get used to two panes, it's hard to go back._

Just as a data point, I tried that and I never could figure out how to populate the left pane and the right pane in such a way that it was helpful. (I.e. that copy and move did the right thing.) It just felt pointless to me.

I've used vifm a few times, but only after figuring out how to turn off the two-pane split :-)

De gustibus non disputandem, I guess.
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This is why I'm generally supportive of contemporary efforts to call out that kind of behavior as unacceptable.

I think on some level, everyone who finds someone else attractive has at least some instinctual desire to touch them or hug them or kiss them, etc. It's the definition of sexual attraction. If all you've been told and all of your experience says "hey, go for it! It's not a big deal and occasionally they'll reciprocate," why would you refrain?

It's important for people to learn and understand at a very basic level that it's inappropriate, unacceptable, and degrading to the person on the receiving end. When I was in my mid 20's I used to work with a lot of young guys who would catcall and pester women all the time. I'd shake my head and ask them why they did that. Didn't they know it annoyed the hell out of the women (at the very least)?

Their response was usually along similar lines to the one quoted in the article: "well, some of them like it and occasionally it might work!" Without a real understanding of how flawed this logic was, these dudes had been taught that the ideal approach was just to proposition as many women as possible in the hopes that one might respond positively.

Without understanding the flip side, they just didn't consider or grasp the harm it caused to the vast majority of their "targets".
PWAs use the (very efficient) system webview implementation rather than bundling a full browser runtime like Electron apps do.
Wow! Glad to be part of your journey in discovering linux.

I have been amazed by linux since my teenager years and it still has so much more to offer.

May we be blessed to be amazed for the eternities of our mortal lives.
Everyone wants the amenities and economic securities of an urban, densely populated city with the comforts and space of a suburban home including a vehicle and socioeconomically segregated schools. And everyone wants a to be part of the wealthy and not re-distribute their own wealth to the poor/mentally disabled/etc.

So this is what we get.
Had to remove background to read the article :D
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> Complexity needs to exist somewhere, and using an abstraction to hide them is something natural.

Yes but designing the right abstraction is an artform, and I suppose that these tools haven't yet found it.
Both; there is so much venture capital sloshing about that is in search of a "home", an investment with a positive return. This results in all sorts of weird things getting funded - but only weird things. It's much better to lose money on Juicero than it is to lose money on opening a restaurant. And of course it also alludes to the homeless humans sleeping outside the empty buildings.
I don't know where you get the idea from that France had bad institutions, but I can not disagree more. They have a long track record of stellar institutions, most of the continental law tradition was modelled after the French 'code civil' implemented at the beginning of the 19th century. The grand Ecoles produced excellent scholars and administrators as is also evident from the scientific output in the 19th century, only rivalled (surpasses) by England and Germany.

It was well understood also that any European bureaucracy would be dominated by Frenchmen, because they simply were the best.
Author here. Thanks for reading, everyone!

It's a surprise to see this on here because I mainly write the retrospectives as an exercise for myself and don't expect others to find them very interesting.

I'm glad there were lessons I learned in this one that people found useful or fun. I'm running around today, but I'll be back on later tonight to respond to comments.
Were you then able to understand the book you'd been fighting with for 10 years?
Parent is probably comparing the cost of on prem to running VMs 24x7. Most IT departments are running software they did not write and don’t have the luxury of even getting access to the source code. If these customers want to do cloud they have to do it ‘wrong’
Paraphrasing someone below, if you as a property owner had the option to sign a 5y lease at $1,000/mo. with a local business that could fail, or hold out a year or two to sign a 10y lease at $2,500/mo. with a national bank that will pay on time forever, which would you do?
Wait, how did they know that sort of thing though? Why would you show them?
Yup, though we don't consider it a problem, that's just the simple math. Our solution tunnels down 1 mile deep and excavates an underground reservoir. While this may sound extreme, it's entirely feasible and cost-effective. We can say that with confidence because we're basing our analysis on research from the U.S. Department of energy. We link to that research on our website if you're interested.
> fighting change vs just not trusting someone who didn't come from where they came from

Maybe they just did a sensible assessment of the options.

- Is there a risk in being dependent on an SaaS business that may rise prices or go out of business? Yes, definitely

- Are sheet metal shops in a position for upfront investments in an asset that will be useful in the long term? Yes, definitely, and more so than an enterprise customer who'll just expend a 200$/mo charge on the company credit card

- Are sheet metal shops used to taking care of business-critical assets? Yes, definitely

Much of today's SaaS software is based on the premise that people can buy it without permission from the higher-ups because

- the monthly charge is low enough to escape scrutiny

- the function of the software is not business-critical enough that lock-in is a problem or it looks cool enough to the CEO and the alternative is something clearly inferior (nothing, or Excel Macros)

Once you move out of the enterprise/startup space into structures which function differently (and it's not that they are "fighting change", it's just that they're built on different foundations), you need to check these assumptions.
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Let me put your 'swimming pool' into the right context:

Q: In principle, using AECB's regulatory limits,
how many ''civilians'' can be overdosed
by 100 grams of plutonium?

0.1 micrograms can overdose one civilian

0.1 grams can overdose one million civilians

1 gram can overdose ten million civilians

100 grams can overdose one billion civilians

600 grams can overdose six billion civilians

Q: If there is a serious accident involving
120 grams of plutonium (in the form of MOX),
how many civilian overdoses could, in principle, result?

if NONE of the plutonium is safely contained there is a potential for one billion two hundred million civilian overdoses

if 90 percent of it is safely contained there is a potential for one hundred and twenty million civilian overdoses

if 99.9 percent of it is safely contained there is a potential for one hundred and twenty thousand civilian overdoses

if 99.999 percent of it is safely contained there is a potential for one thousand two hundred civilian overdoses

{1} http://www.ccnr.org/max_plute_aecb.html
Love Bike Thai Kitchen, around Cannonbury.
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I imagine that the "single women in <your town>" ads for that town are pretty accurate then ...
I started using an ipad with the Smart Keyboard and pencil to replace a lot of the things i usually use a laptop for (basic web surfing, reading). I could see this being useful if it had a keyboard cover and a Bluetooth stylus. I’m sure someone will get around to it in the next couple years.

A 17 in folding iPad Pro would be pretty cool.
That definitely exists. My laptop is an inch thick and lasts ten hours with a quad core CPU and a high resolution screen.
Hey, Dhruv! Good to hear from you again!

I wasn't being gracious at all. You had a lot to teach me! You were great at building a community and an engaged following in a way that I still haven't been able to replicate for my keto site. When I write ad copy now, I remember the good tip you shared with me about writing it as if to a single person.
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A "perforance-oriented" language without benchmark. That's something.
The problem for Amazon is that physical retail comes with higher costs and lower returns than its traditional business. Essentially Amazon is chasing diminishing returns and Walmart is chasing increasing returns. I'd put it this way, online sales increase Walmart's revenue per square foot and retail stores decrease Amazon's revenue per square foot because prime retail space is expensive. Even if Amazon builds out a retail store network, Walmart's basis will generally be much lower because it bought its real-estate long ago.

An anecdote to put Walmart's lead in perspective. In the early 1990's, I worked for a subcontractor on one of Walmart's distribution centers. More than a million square feet in a cow pasture strategically between Tampa, Orlando, and Ocala. Walmart probably acquired the land during the S&L crisis when commercial real-estate prices cratered. If Walmart floated a thirty year note, the title would be just about clear now. In the interim, the markets the distribution center could serve have grown massively. But the way real-estate works means that there aren't any better physical addresses than there were back then.
Yes they discuss her name. But if you recall Jessie liked her name and enjoyed the secret thrill of its salacious implication exactly because she is quite a square in real life. However Elijah one day reads the Bible and gives her the more correct interpretation of Jezebel's behaviour as that of a woman protecting her interests and not at all a harlot. This greatly upsets Jessie because it robs her of that secret thrill. She then never uses the full name again. Elijah often regrets this.

Despite its intricacies I found this particular part of their marital back story to be totally unconvincing and ineffective. Sorry Isaac.
It was a pretty unambiguous and clear reply to its parent asking for a "tl;dr on the concept", giving examples.
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This is a common story with breaches, you often don’t find out about it till they’ve finished with you. It’s pretty scary. If you don’t have someone good who’s attention is on this then you’re open to being blindsided.
The OP is pointing out that the property owner also has the ability and incentive to wait by deferring the unrented space as a loss which essentially distorts the "Free Market".
Boston is kind of a funny case because Boston itself is decently good about letting development happen so long as said development isn't politically incorrect (relative to local politics/beliefs) or can't be construed by the pearl clutchers as being unsafe, bad for the children or bad for some protected class. Yes I know you can drive a container ship through those exceptions but it's pretty darn pro-building as far as Eastern MA goes. By contrast everywhere around Boston is zoned and run like SF. This has the side effect of creating rising real estate prices, rent, etc. in Boston proper even though Boston is mostly sort of doing things right (with regard to zoning) because land is limited and Boston may as well be an island because it's the only place development can happen.
The issue seems to be whether gamers should be considered employees or independent contractors. I’m not sure how your statement follows.
Off topic: the URL ("jsonline.com") is short for "Journal Sentinal Online", not "JS Online" or "JSON line" as my brain insisted on parsing it.
I'm not sure taxpayers are covering all the costs. When I was a kid I used to golf at a golf course that was owned by the county. You still had to pay to play there. People that don't play golf pay very little for the course to exist, but they are still paying something.

Maybe this is "robbery" (which is not what that word means), but you still get the benefits of living near open space (no car-owners living there, trees turning CO2 into oxygen, bees pollinating your flowers), etc. All in all, it doesn't seem too bad. (It is $26 a round, btw.)

Research universities fill a similar role. They are good to have around, even if you can't monetize their research for free. There are other benefits.
+1; the documentation says fish is supported, but the shell command fails with "I found neither .bashrc nor .zshrc."

Also: might want to fall back to .profile if .bashrc isn't found...
> they get to claim the loss of income as a write off on their taxes.

This is not true.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/rentalreal-estate-loss-...
You think carbs cause cancer? Oh my, the anti-carb brainwashing is more powerful than I thought. If anything I predict there will be a future upsurge in some cancers (colon etc) if people keep avoiding carbs. We need fiber. Fiber comes from foods that contain carbs.
I love that you continue to double down on your responses that keep, repeatedly, missing the point.
Having functionality splattered all through the god-awful, inexplicably horizontally-scrolling interface is not my idea of “delightful”. Parts of it are URL-stateful, other parts aren’t, and there’s no rhyme or reason for the difference.

AWS might look “dated”, but I can’t imagine the mindset that cares about that. If a console is how you’re evaluating your cloud provider you are several steps behind where you need to be. And, great news: in addition to having a really dire console, Azure’s APIs are just no good, particularly if you have to step into the shitshow that is Azure AD (and paying even more for Microsoft Graph, which should just be included) or IAM, and they don’t step to either AWS or GCP to a degree that I just won’t work for an Azure company again. Trying to get anything done in those environments makes me feel stupid and personally bad for having the temerity to try, between inscrutable errors where the Microsoft support is barely English-literate even when you’re paying for it and the aforementioned API barf, and that’s a bad way to live one’s life.
That seems like a very weird solution

> who claim that they need the new rental rate

They don't claim that, they want it (greed)

If you want to prevent emptyness, it's better to directly fight that. E.g. say that the government will set a rental rate after 12 months of no renter. That will force property owners to set a fair rent that the market will bear or risk the government setting it at way lower rate.
Do you have a source for that? I've heard it before but not sure whether to believe it.
> Some might say this is all simply market Darwinism, just with more cold-pressed beet juice. But it’s interesting that the free market exists only on one side of the equation. Since California passed Proposition 13 in 1978, property tax rates for those San Franciscans who owned property back then have been severely capped. Owners may pay Nixon-era property tax rates, while renting out those spaces at rates that have exploded in the last 40 years. They, too, can afford to let buildings sit empty.

Tax policies play a big role in setting up market distortions like those happening in San Francisco. It's not just the rate, but the basis. Strong Towns has a discussion of the idea that taxing land, not improvements leads to better outcomes:

> A parking lot in a bustling downtown is the classic example of a property where nearly all of the value is in the land itself, not the asphalt on top of it. In a rising market, you can hold onto the land and watch its value go steadily up (thanks to all the things your neighbors are doing to make the place more productive and successful). You can collect enough in parking fees to cover the taxes, and cash out when you're ready to cash out. Your property tax bill will be relatively low, because it's based on the sum of land value and improvements. The land may be in a central, prized location, but the "improvements" on the property (that's tax-assessor speak for any sort of structure built on the land) are worth next to zero.

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2019/3/5/whats-with-that...

This line of thinking may also apply to empty shops in SF. As long as the overall property is covering expenses, why bother making the improvements needed to attract new tenants (and thereby adding the tax burden) when you can just sit back and watch real estate prices head to the moon.
I can't find anything online that would let commercial property owners do that:

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/rentalreal-estate-loss-...
what a rare treat on HN, some actual understanding of systemic causality rather than glib dismissals of the "obvious bad guy" in the scenario.
This looks pretty nice for one-off design work. But for those who want to maintain something like a knowledge base (and a desktop app), check out Scapple and iMapping. In particular check out 0:13 in this video (https://youtu.be/bTQWL5wmdZY?t=13)
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It's always a matter of some surprise to me just how much prime retail real estate banks fill up. As you say, it's not so much for the tellers any longer. But I guess it's to project an image for people getting loans or doing other types of more complex financial transactions. In general, they're likely profitable enough that even though the branches are inefficient in some sense, the fact that people will be more inclined to use financial institutions with local branches they can go into in person probably makes it a worthwhile tradeoff.
From the Reason article:

> "The majority of the building owners, and certainly retail brokers like myself, all are aggressively trying to fill these vacant spaces," wrote Hansson. "In almost all cases, the rent is not the stumbling block; it's the high cost of starting the business, strict government regulations, and the risk of ultimate success."

I don't buy that argument fully. Why is the place vacant in the first place? Usually because the pervious, sometimes long-term business, could not afford the double, or triple rent increase. The question is, Did the owner of Sparky's really want to close, or were they not able to afford the rent increase? And now, we are suppose to believe that the place is empty only because a new business wants to pay that new amount and they're just waiting on permits?
> Not because the plants grow faster, because you can grow 3x as many of them.

This is against current consensus. The consensus is that plants do grow faster when you put fertilizer in the soil and the yield increase is because of that, not because of the "grass years".

There are plenty of studies on this, one example:

> Crop yields were increased by 19–41% (rice) and 61–76% (rapeseed) during the two years of rice-rapeseed rotation under NPK fertilization compared to PK fertilization across the study sites. Yield responses to fertilization were ranked NPK > NP > NK > PK, illustrating that N deficiency was the most limiting condition in a rice-rapeseed rotation, followed by P and K deficiencies.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-01412-0

Anyway, you are making my point. Notice how you say that crop rotation, soil quality are extremely important. So much for CO2.
That's not how income tax works. You can't claim "loss of income" as a tax write off. However maintenance expenses on a rental property can potentially be written off as a business expense whether it is rented or not.
One interesting bit for me was that German censorship during WWI make censored deaths in kids books. No deaths for you children, despite dads dying.
This is not correct: "Food is created by taking CO2, keeping the C and releasing the O2."

The resulting O2 actually comes from a pair of H2O.

Consider the reaction performed by purple sulfur bacteria, which are related by evolution but have a slightly different reaction. It is this:

CO2 + 2 H2S gives [CH2O] + H2O + 2 S

There, carbon dioxide reacts with hydrogen sulfide to give water, sulfur, and part of a carbohydrate.

Photosynthesis in plants is the same sort of reaction, but the situation is less obvious because there is H2O on both sides of the reaction. We've proven what happens by experiments with radioisotopes.

The entire photosynthesis reaction consumes 6 CO2 and 12 H2O to produce 6 H2O, 6 O2, and a sugar.

From the 12 H2O, half of the H goes to the sugar and the other half goes to producing new H2O.

From the 12 H2O, all of the O goes to producing O2.

From the 6 CO2, half of the O goes to the sugar and the other half goes to producing new H2O.

From the 6 CO2, all of the C goes to producing sugar.
I'm confused: how is dividing by zero an example of a leaky abstraction in mathematics?
If `echo $USER` works on MacOS, everybody can do `source /Users/$USER/Library/Preferences/org.dystroy.broot/launcher/bash/br`
> That would definitely create a lot of value ("fixing the problems"), but it needs not tank real estate values at all

The most basic, fundamental laws of economics are the relations between supply, demand and price.

If you keep demand relatively constant and dramatically increase supply, price will fall.

Indeed, because of the close substitutability of owing and renting, the only way to get rents lower is to also decrease property values.
Existing, but abandoned, mines also work as prospective sites. They usually have a large vertical drop, and they often have existing energy infrastructure "wiring" them into the grid.

I'd love to see some of the deepest mines in the world turned into gravity storage systems. Some of them are in areas that are amazing for solar, so you could hook the solar up to a motor to lift the weights, and then use the weight to power generators on the way back down.

Are there any motor designs that work close to equivalently as generators? If so then the system can be simple and self switching. If the energy from the solar is strong enough it lifts the weight, if it's not, it generates electricity.
I love that you keep saying I miss the point, without providing substance why I do. We clearly disagree, repeatedly, as you'd put it. What you do is, repeatedly, waving away my arguments as irrelevant, by ignoring them and saying I "miss the point". Like that is going to convince me?

FWIW, I never used the original iPhone for a long period of time, but I did use the iPod Touch, and I did have usability issues with it (not in hindsight). Something simple as blocking ads, for example, it could not do without jailbreaking. I call that a design issue. That Google does such, is to be expected as it is their main source of income. Apple? Not so much. Multitasking was also something to forget about.
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What about a long time family-owned pizza place that owns their space. Does it seem right to raise their property taxes?
Also: never override the pinch-zoom. This should be an automatic accessibility failure unless your site actually is a full-screen zoomable map or similar.