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Because landlording is an investment, having shelter is a necessity. The landlords should carry the risk of tenants failing to pay.

If we stopped relief to everyone, tenants would stop paying, rents would crater, and landlord would be ruined much moreso than tenants, it's just the nature of investment.
If you can borrow from the central bank, the buck stops at you. Seems fair
I think this is the exciting thing, even if it turns out to be some abiotic process on Venus, there's will need to be new studies leading to improved understanding of planet-scale chemistry, in addition to new studies of life here on Earth. All of which will help refine the search for potential biosignatures on other planets.
God no. They've been sitting on empty buildings for years. It's time for them to default on the underwater loans and let people actually put the wasted space to use.

Every city in the US has a similar issue including the one near where I grew up and it's the weirdest most broken thing. I remember many times walking down streets flanked by empty buildings with homeless people sleeping outside.
Safe and Secure Software (2015) [pdf]
You don't get anything out of burning out. You just burn out. And that time is not coming back. This post seems like an apologist talking.

Production support alone is not that much of a problem. What the author skipped (conveniently? or forgot to mention?) is - it's really the "on call" phenomenon that's the problem.

The "typical" on-call - where when you are on-call you are magically on-call 24x7. Yes, during your sleeping hours as well; as if that's less important and the company can avoid spending money to hire dedicated support for those hours and instead make you suffer (yes, it's just that - there's no other name for it like "satisfaction", "learning", "growing" or any of those buzzwords).

You want engineers to do production support? Well, let them do it during normal office hours and only few times a month. Or heck, let them do it for weeks but let them punch in and punch out normal office hours. Let them choose to do only one half of the day and have someone else willing to do the another half.

There's no excuse for burning out engineers (esp. unsuspecting youngsters) by pushing them into ungodly hours of work ruining their health among other things while trying to constantly tell them - "do you even realise what a service to humanity you are doing!".

It's just exploitation.
Many commercial property mortgages already contain clauses allowing the borrower to defer payments if they don't have a tenant. For those that don't, well they should have negotiated better terms before taking out the loan.
That was my big problem with Fallout 3, it felt like an Oblivion total conversion... I had difficulty enjoying it because it still "felt" like Oblivion in so many ways, to me :(
Personally speaking I'd like to see a dead simple to self-host CMS that has built-in comments and RSS, making it trivially easy for people to spin up a simple website or blog or even a webpage, and connect it to a domain they have purchased (or even get one from within the CMS).

And by dead simple, I mean something grandpa can do. All they should need is enough skills to install an app, click through a welcome wizard, and start writing on its WYSIWYG editor.
Singapore has <15 murders per year. Their police force is a joke.
Yah, those numbers just cover rent. If you want to cover payroll as well those numbers are going to skyrocket.

If you think that's a good use of money, well, make your argument. But please include a cost while doing that. You can't just say "bail them out" and not say how much that will cost.

Maybe it's affordable, maybe it's not - but be upfront with your numbers.
We are not talking about investment losses here. We are talking about breach of contract. A renter signs a contract promising to pay rent.

The value of the building, whether it drops or increases, is the investment component of being a landlord. That is not in dispute here. If a building drops in value the landlord just has to deal with it. But until now, if someone promised to pay rent and did not do it, a landlord could sue them, or evict them, because the landlord would be the victim of a breach of contract that has nothing to do with investment value.

What is in dispute here is that people who promised to pay rent are being allowed to stop paying, but landlords who promised to pay their mortgages are not allowed to stop paying. That's not fair.

It's not good for the economy either, because most businesses can't afford to buy property and need to rent from landlords, and we are now making it very unattractive to be a landlord.
That's because Snowflake happens to charge relatively little for backing storage at the moment. As I recall it's about the same as object storage. Virtual data warehouses on the other hand are quite expensive, especially if they have a lot of compute.
I kept grumbling about the `Copy` limitations on iterators for years, but at the end of the day, someone has to write the lint for "iterating on a copy of a variable" and I don't think that has happened yet.

But unlike the other complaints this one is still fixable, with zero backwards incompatibilities.

All we'd need is someone to implement that lint (in, say, clippy). What it'd need to do is look for `IntoIterator::into_iter(x)` calls expanded from `for` loops, where `x` is a variable of a `Copy` type. And maybe look for mentions of the same `x` after the loop.

EDIT: left a comment on the GitHub thread, I might be misremembering https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/2848#issuecomment-6....
"There is no way to bulk export your existing user licenses, so you need to have your users help with this part of the migration."

I don't mind that Google has decided to stop running a payment/subscription/licensing service for web extensions. Even though it's basically just an API to their services that run the Android Play Store (or should be).

But to not provide a way to export the information is pathetic.
> but landlords who promised to pay their mortgages are not allowed to stop paying.

Why not provide them an extension during this time, as well?
It is now possible to educate even the poorest kids to become tech workers. Many leave their villages and move to cities. I can believe it. Tech has truly created massive upward mobility and raised so many people out of crushing poverty. It is actually remarkable and something that always amazes me..this power of education.
For my money, the issue isn't lack of cross-browser support. It's the process by which the PWA specs were designed in the first place.

There are more than a handful of cases across the past decade where a new "web standard" didn't emerge through the usual standardization process — proposal, discussion, experimental implementations, feedback, etc. Instead, these "standards" were developed directly in one of the browsers, shipped, and then promoted as a feature that developers should begin targeting, totally bypassing the usual process, with the tacit expectation that other browsers would be forced to follow. Apple did this with <canvas> and some aspects of CSS3 to help with their push away from Flash. Google did this with many the PWA APIs.

All along, as the PWA APIs have been released from the Chrome lab, there's been a certain contingent of developers who heap scorn upon the Safari team for not implementing these APIs too — as though the existence in Chrome (and, in some cases, Firefox, who tend to follow-fast as a survival instinct), plus the Chrome team dropping specs off at the W3C working groups, were cause enough for these APIs to be regarded as "standard". The error of these devs is confusing ubiquity and standard.

Most PWA features are, at current, about as standard as ActiveX was. They were designed by Google in private, to suit their own ecosystem goals. They might be good for the web, by providing an alternative to native apps — but they might also be bad for the web, by forcing browsers to serve as an app platform instead of a hypermedia user agent.

Sadly, we don't get to have that very important, very nuanced discussion. Instead, we're having the discussion Google wants us to have (quotes from this HN thread):

"Apple refuses to implement PWA features in Safari"

"There's a somewhat serious blocker for some apps in that iOS doesn't do push notification to PWAs"

"Apple purposely slowing down Safari development to make it an unappealing platoform for web devs"

"As I'm building a PWA, I'm finding certain Web APIs that were intended for PWAs to be incompatible on Firefox/Safari"

"the major problems are lack of Safari support"

Google won a dev-rel PR battle here. Apple have won similar battles with other "standards" (for instance, there's a similar split in opinion around Flash, but until recently the "Flash deserved to die" contingent have been dominant, which suits Apple just fine).

So why did PWAs fail to take off? I would argue that it's because they're a significant alteration of what the web is meant to be. They're a big step toward defining the web as a full-throated application runtime. I don't know that the rest of the web ecosystem is on board with that redefinition. At least not yet, and not merely because Google tried to will it into being. That change may come in time, perhaps under a different name, or perhaps not at all. But if it does come, I hope it does so through a process that reflects the interests of more than just Google.
Strawman argument. More surveillance is _not_ what I have proposed.

There is an argument that we could have signficantly /less/ regulation if regulation were taken seriously from the top down. This would encourage it to be taken seriously.
How does Android and ChromeOS being open source contribute to anyone wanting to create their competing platforms, and how much uptake have they gotten from mainstream users so far?
$60 billion is a drop in the bucket of corporate earnings that aren't being taxed.
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Fall Guys was "free" on PS4 at launch in the sense that it was included in PS+.

Among Us is just really cheap (free to play on its original mobile platforms, I believe, but that's not really the source of its current moment of popularity).
Ask HN: Clerky and Securities Exemptions
I have heard good things about Clerky, and of course many YC startups use it. A few minor queries -- let us assume all the security purchasers are in California: (1) most lawyers would say that founder stock issuance requires a CA 25012(f) filing. Does anyone know why Clerky does not provide this? (2) Clerky does provide a CA 25012(o) with stock option plans, but states that you don't have to file it until you actually issue options. I think most lawyers would disagree with this, any input? (3) I don't think Clerky provides securities paperwork related to Convertible Note / SAFE issuance. Anyone know why?
I'm at a loss for specific examples of Jobs not understanding a piece of hardware or software technology.

He made a lot of bets on the future and what he felt people would want to buy and use. Many worked out and some didn't.

But what are the examples of him allegedly not understanding specific bits of hardware or software technology?

For me, though I certainly didn't agree with all he did, it seemed he had a keen functional understanding of the underlying hardware and software. He couldn't sit down and write some code (which is fine) but he understood the pros and cons and was able to understand and shape where it was headed.
You can just open a word processor and save the files to /var/www/ in html format. You don't even need an installation wizard (although on most mainstream OSes you do have to push a button in a GUI somewhere to enable the webserver.) If (for some reason) your computer doesn't have a public address you can install TOR. People with normal browsers will be able to access the pages (even from search engines) via gateways.
How can we make this happen on the US as well ?
>> That's like saying I took out a million dollar loan and my bank account went up by a million so I saved a million.

For many governments that issue currency, particularly the US government, that is how it works. Not exactly the machinery, but close enough. To a first approximation, "debt" is just part of the money supply.

For you, it is not. It is a debt. Because: you are not a government. You do not issue currency. You are not immortal.

Cheers.
The engineers at the organization I just departed (at least the ones in the support rotation which did not include me) got paid in both money and extra time off for their time spent on support tasks.
Point to note: migrant workers from other states are needed to work in the southern farms. The missing farm labour force are invisibly employed elsewhere. I would wager that it is in the tech sector.
Being included as part of a paid service seems a like a liberal use of the word "free".
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Having skin in the game will make you a better engineer. You’ll get better at the non-sexy things: monitoring, alerting, testing, etc. You better believe a person who is pages for software at 3:00 am has an incentive to make that software more reliable.
We should! But for some reason, a lot of people think we shouldn't.
Looks like The Onion was right on with their reporting: "Study Finds Most Restaurants Fail Within First Year Of It Becoming Illegal To Go To Them"
It would be nice if it actually worked that way, but about 25% of US government spending are debt and not taxes in a normal year. So these bailouts doesn't come from your taxes, they are pure government debt that will crash the economy sometimes in the future when the government stops propping up the gdp via endless debt accumulation.

Imagine if they were honest instead and said "We pay these bailouts now and increase taxes from 30% to 50% for the next 10 years to make up for it", how many would be happy?
> Coconuts are...much easier to mechanically harvest than something like berries. The big difference is coconuts aren't produced in rich countries where labor is expensive.

To harvest berries or olives or apples, something in the vicinity of "put a tarp down and shake the tree really hard" is usually a fairly reliable method. Coconuts don't quite work that way, as anyone who grew up in a place with coconut palms and tropical storms can attest.

Not to mention that they're often 30 feet or more off the ground...
If Russia or China exposes some crime that my government hid from me I will thank those governments and act to remove the corrupt officials from my own government. You are implicitly arguing Americans should allow corrupt government officials be above the law.
You can read up to the bit about cutting up a beer can to make a shim, and stop. You will have extracted 90% of the value of the book.
Not if it's your only heuristic! c'mon

But staying out of the surveillance industry is table stakes for ethical employment.
Thanks a lot for sharing these details. I think they add a lot of context to this particular activity.
Over the course of a given rental, unless the property was purchased almost immediately before a real-estate crash or rental crisis, the amount of cashflow generated by a tenant will cover the majority of the volume required to generate equity in the property.

In certain cases, the financing for commercial real estate, for instance, will literally substitute the credit rating of tenants for those of the landlords - because ultimately that's where the money is coming from.

If a landlord is rendered insolvent, they aren't even rendered destitute; they sell or refinance the property to generate liquidity. If many landlords do the same thing, the volume of real estate on the market increases, the price of real estate drops, and the market is now on it's way to pricing in the effects of the shock which caused the crunch.

The fact that we've been spewing money at asset holders for over a decade is why real-estate metrics are so out of line from historical cycles.
Yes, it is an issue for sure.

But it's also a world where people have grown accustomed to doing this - automatic scaling in the cloud with re-use of IPs means that systems come up with the same IP frequently, so people have gotten used to doing this.

For the stuff I manage in the cloud I use their APIs to keep my known_hosts file up to date - if an IP got reused by an instance, I clear the entry in my known_hosts file. If it didn't, I would see the key change alert (verified by modifying the host key on the destination server)
And property taxes.
I think it really depends on where you're from. I've been hopelessly trying to teach my wife 'perfect' English pronunciation at her request, and the best advice I came up with is to talk with your throat and not your mouth. At least in the Southeast, this works almost perfectly. But we say 'loo' if anything at all, it's a pretty rare word.

From my experience, the more north you go the more you talk with your tongue/mouth. In my examples I was almost able to complete full sentences without moving my lips at all.
The investment component of being a landlord is the value of the property. The ability to enforce contracts, e.g. that when a tenant promises to pay they must pay, it not part of the investment component of being a landlord. That is not an investment, but rather a contract between two parties.

Rent is revenue. Investment is based on the value of the underlying asset. They are not the same thing.

Our society has always assumed that the investment has a risk element but the rent is ensured by law and there are remedies if it is not paid -- remedies which are now being suspended for tenants paying landlords, but not for landlords paying their mortgages.
I'm not even talking 24/7 pager work. But just tackling some support tickets as part of your job so you see where people are having issues with your product.

Too often I see BigCorp development teams seeming blatantly oblivious to where their pain points are, and it's because they aren't forcing their developers to do support. They're pushing code, but they aren't pushing code that solves real problems for people.
I see in my boomer parents a combination of unfulfilled aspiration and protectiveness of their useless goods which I have finally seen fit to start resolving, little by little, through gradual reorganization and compression of the items - first my own(because I have to teach myself some habits, given that they didn't), and then increasingly their stuff as I get a handle on it. For some reason they have spent their adult lives in a sea-of-crap state of things and can't bear to part with most of it. There is no point at which these items can be let go of, which of course means I will someday have to do the deed, and the more ordered a state I put it all in, the easier disposal will be on the day.

Of course, organizing things so that they are ergonomic to access instead of piled in a sea of boxes is a significant expense. I started small, with binders and bins to start managing small items, manuals, reciepts and warranty cards. This immediately cleared out over a cubic meter of gadget boxes.

Then I got book bins, over-door hooks and spice rack shelves, cable ties, and other miscellaneous things which have had similar small, incremental effects. I made a big leap forward in rediscovering the cafeteria tray - for a cost of about $2.70 each depending on size and brand, it's possible to quickly restructure most piles of small objects as a slide-to-access open drawer, and then further divide it with pencil bins. This has tamed most of the immediate stuff around me, but still leaves the piles of boxes. I realized that part of the problem of working on boxes is that you can stack them, and to access any one you have to unstack, which creates a friction to persistent ongoing effort: to actually organize instead of "shove around the pile" means paying attention to the ergonomics. So the next big leap will be in structuring the piles with additional shelving. The goal of these shelves is assistive - to eventually not need them because I have cleared out so much redundancy.

And spending on all this does come with the irony that I am a consumer who buys even more to ameliorate the effects of overconsuming. But it does so in a narratively palatable way, one which develops a new respect for each object as I create the place for it. And I think that's really the way forward for me - to extend the KonMari idea of "brings joy" and thanking the item towards some kind of mutual support where you improve access and therefore usage. In contrast my parents' generation mostly focused on presenting a clean uniformity for socializing while shoving any excess crap in the closet, holding out hope that it would one day find its use - a uniformity that was in fact quite specific to their generation.

My brother has a slightly different perspective on this since he has family and kids, and I have been there for the Christmas present unwrappings. They end up with far too many toys, but the relatives are all too eager to be seen doing something for the kids. It's a battle to overcome that and select a few favorite toys, and I can see my own difficulty as a "too many toys" kind of thing, too.
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> The fact that we've been spewing money at asset holders for over a decade is why real-estate metrics are historically crazy.

No, the reason is restrictions on building which have constrained supply.
The only other use for Erbium I know of is to dope optical fibers to make in-line amplifiers powered by light.
A wireguard zero day could in theory result in you getting owned in that situation. It also is just easier to manage if you have multiple servers.

I don't think it's particularly likely, but I don't think OpenSSH server zero days are particularly likely either.
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Good. I hope they lose these kinds of jobs to robots. Human beings shouldn’t be doing this kind of dirty and dangerous jobs.

Once upon a time they used slaves from Africa to pick cotton in the newly formed United States. I often wish I was around to see the mechanical cotton harvester for the first time ever. I KNOW it would have taken my breath away.

Consider this..there are 8 billion people in the world. Growing and doing manual labour for food, fodder, fuel and fiber is unimaginable and should be unimaginable...and we should strive to make all those jobs obsolete.
As a counter to this "it's not worth it because of overhead", Google already runs all of this payment/licensing infrastructure to support the Android Play Store, GSuite, GCP etc.

The overhead for the Chrome extension store would be similar but much lower volume than the Android Play store, given that the attack surface (and thus APIs to monitor) are sandboxed by the browser, and the number of extensions is at least an order of magnitude lower than the number of Android apps.

So at "Google scale" this is a rounding error in their payment/licensing space.
Another thing about tech debt to watch out for is reusing previous flags left before your time [0].

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight_Capital_Group#2012_stoc...
Monarchies vs. Republics: Impact on GDP per Captia
all I can say is that we have a 2 yr old and a 4.5 month old. I have no idea what we are going to do when my wife returns from mat leave to work. all options currently have high impact on both of our workable time. (we are > 13 hrs flight from any family)
Microsoft's Xbox+PC strategy is pretty much taken for granted now, "exclusivity" between Microsoft and Sony now means "just Xbox and PC" or "just Playstation (and sometimes PC)."
Any recommended PWAs, esp for iOS?
The Trump admin has such a gross third world dictatorial bent