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I have more of a problem with who they laid off than the fact that they laid people off. I'm probably biased as an engineer, but IMO the people who actually create your products should be the last ones to be laid off, not the first. And if the company is struggling, highly paid execs should take a pay cut before you start laying off lower-paid engineers.
"...because foreign home ownership was "only" in the 5-10% range..."

Such a weird rationalization.

Even very non-economist me "knows" that small changes in supply (<1%) leads to big changes in price. Either up or down. More so when factoring demand.

Some things add friction to efficient price discovery, like rent control and landlords servicing debts. But the first order factor is supply and demand.

Right?
We kind of have that... property taxes are deductible from your federal taxes if the home is your primary residence... although they put a cap on the amount a few years ago, and it isn't nearly as valuable anymore.
Mourning My Father by Open Sourcing Our Code
"Embedded systems & Robotics Generalist" sounds pretty badass to me. Technically you can even say "Embedded Systems & Robotics _Specialist_". since thats where your specializing, _not_ in web, not in angular/react, not in node/django/rails etc...
That's exactly it. For some reason, developers really want to just write code, even though it's for a web service and that web service doesn't exist in a perfect vacuum. (Yes, I do ops, and yes, I'm bitter and jaded.)
fibonacci retracements are used heavily in trading, i wonder how prices/averages line up so nicely around those points
Great, maybe next they can explain why kids' motivation to learn declines when they go to school.
I really love how easy it is to use. How did you guys go about finding early adopters?
> willing to take a loss on an asset

Is nothing like "desire to take the greatest loss on an asset."

> A launderer prefers transactions that are least likely to generate attention from the authorities.

Seems opposed to a desire to pay far too much for a thing.

The desire for people exfiltrating money from their home countries to buy real estate is because they are buying something that will never crash to nothing. Like you said, they don't really care too much if it's overvalued - the one thing that overvalued property always is, by definition, is widely available right now.

A nice side benefit is that you can park your kids in it, now, with the excuse of going to university, while you either continue to embezzle money and stay as quiet as possible to avoid discovery or arrest, or play revolution push-your-luck as a courtier to a dictator.
>Investors from overseas can fuck off and buy something else. People who live in a city need housing, and it is completely within the rights of the city to restrict housing purchases to those who live there, or at least heavily dis incentivize it.

You completely ignored the point I made. How is an investor from China buying real estate in Vancouver purely for investment purposes with no intention of having anyone live there any different than someone from Toronto doing it? Why is the former punished harsher than the latter?
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@Borkdude I love your project & the name! I work on a similar tool (https://github.com/returntocorp/semgrep), we've recently switched to using tree-sitter under the hood so that we can add new languages faster. Since Semgrep tries to support many languages, we can't use the native language parsers, so I was interested in https://github.com/sogaiu/tree-sitter-clojure. How mature vs buggy would you say the tree-sitter-clojure implementation is? We've found the quality of tree-sitter implementations can vary wildly across languages.
Granted, it depends on how it turns out. But my first impression is that authoritative reference documents of MDN are going to become cluttered with comments and disagreements.
Folks rent these condos at a high price, and folks working in that area buy condos at these market prices.

It is not like high priced art.
I think that's covered by the CoC free case too. If there is or isn't a CoC and you convince the organizer that someone assaulted you, the organizer can and should ban them.
It's worth pointing out MarkoJS it was basically made for this case for eBay's eCommerce solution. It predates the Next.js of the world but offers similar experience except it's MPA first mentality with seamless isomorphic experience and full working partial hydration for years.

https://medium.com/@mlrawlings/maybe-you-dont-need-that-spa-...
The remains of the astronaut Vladimir Komarov, a man who fell from space, 1967
> When societies start to contract people start trying to get control of as much of the shrinking pie as possible and the people least able or with the least power struggle the least.

As right as you are, contraction is inevitable. Even if colonize space, it is not going to happen in any significant scale the next 100 years.

So, maybe we are doomed because people in power will always want more power and that creates a downwards spiral for non-growing societies. Maybe that is the "great filter" that await for us.

I believe that societies will accommodate for the new situation. Not only Americans, but humans, always do the right thing after trying everything else.
Explicit rules that create and escalate conflict is worse than implicit rules that assumes good faith and gives benefit of the doubt. Not all explicit rules are good and not all implicit ones are bad, and it depend a great lot of how enforcement is made.

Good formalized set of rules and rule enforcement focus on conflict resolution and deescalation, assumes good faith and give benefit of the doubt. Most legal system does this, but also community rules like Wikipedia.

From the article I don't see any attempt of conflict resolution between Joel Grus and Jeremy Howard. I don't see any process by NumFOCUS towards deescalation and refocusing towards a common goal. The process seem to have been opaque, the accusation hidden, purpose unclear. The authorities (the Code of Conduct committee) not held accountable. As a result it seems that their explicit rules did not serve a purpose of creating a professional environment.
So just for the record. By now there's photos, and the blade looks long but not very broad. Looks like a filet knife I would say.
Ad backed music streaming has become an unexpected major source of income from music labels. That's also true for indies. I don't make money off youtube directly however my distributor claims videos using my music and I make money off ads on youtube indirectly. The payout isn't big, but it's not insignificant either.

I imagine a lot of major artists make good money off youtube too. They don't if someone just downloads their videos. In times where musicians can't make money off concert, it's even more meaningful. Google does work directly with all these music labels (VEVO and co...).
> economic damage

> nor the intellectual are educated in economics

> the actual tacit knowledge that drives economic activity

> Almost always, it is the same crowds who babble on about equality and wealth distribution too

That whole reply pretty much sums up what most right-wing climate scepticism is about; a deep fear of equality and perceived threats to their privileged position in society. Hence, going down with the ship (a good economy & status quo) seem more rational than changing course.
This is how I do it as well.
I appreciate the humor, but I think that was a bit of a disservice for her. Because even though you have a cheeky definition, the term does get used fairly frequently in the industry, and it would've been helpful to explain how it's commonly used, even if you don't agree with it.
Thanks! What you’ve done with Vercel has been a great inspiration for us.

We got lots of customers using Nhost for the backend, and Vercel for the frontend. Great combo!
We had the same experience with GH once(and never again as we canceled). The food arrived and was completely inedible. The restaurant sent out a vindaloo that was the most unnatural red color, like they had dumped a bin full of chili flake in it.

Grubhub pointed the finger at the local restaurant, and the local restaurant pointed the finger at GH for not specifying the level of spiciness. In the end the only way to resolve the problem was to do a chargeback because neither merchant would take responsibility. We didn't have the business relationship with the restaurant. So I'll never use GH for anything because when something goes wrong they absolve themselves of responsibility.

And I'm skeptical of any other company that acts as a base middleman like they do.
Semgrep looks really interesting!

I know the owner of that repo and I'll refer him to your question since he can answer this better than I can.
An alternate possibility is that you don't understand what people mean when they say they feel unsafe.

That is a possibility, but it’s unreasonable to expect that a person can redefine a common word in their own mind and expect everyone else to telepathically know what they “mean”. Especially in a primarily text based medium.
Guidelines != CoC. People break the HN guidelines all the time and it is fine, they are there to help make people become better contributors and not to punish people.
FWIW, Postmates has been doing these "Place & Pay" orders since ~2012. A courier for Postmates was more akin to someone taking orders from an app like Favor/TaskRabbit than a purpose-built restaurant delivery service.
Renting property comes with significant liabilities, and may not be worth it if rents aren’t high enough.
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Hey - Good news! We are currently serving customers in Spanish. With the caveat that the sign up process via our website is currently in English. That said, interviews are 100% in Spanish.

If you have any specific questions, please reach out to us at contact@heyartifact.com. If not, head on over to the website, sign up, and we can get going whenever you're ready.

Also, thanks for the sentiments about what we're up to!
Depends on gig length. I tend to work on longer contracts, so should have called that out.

If you're doing short-job, multiple-contract work, definitely salt active effort to taste.
Can we get an improvement to VBA now? It hasn't changed in 20 years.
SpaceX can also be highly profitable which generates tons of tax revenue and jobs (which were otherwise going to Russia or simply not launching into space at all due to cost). It also offers cheaper ways for all governments to launch satellites and other research/national defense, freeing up capital for other social things.

And as you've mentioned it helps create new technology opportunities which also generate efficiency/value/taxes like space internet and in the longer term mining without destroying our planet.

There are plenty of benefits to society. Although there will always be a contingent who thinks everything not an altruistic social giveout = bad use of excess capital.
The language was never directed at their staff. It was directed towards the communication I got from them, and how I believe it makes the org look themselves(note). The tagging was to alert them that it was going on. Attacking individuals is completely unwarranted.

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For the sake of conversion: What counts as harassment- is the org an individual? Does exclaiming frustration for a situation and getting the attention of someone count as an attack on the individuals notified?

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Note: I believe that if an org can't communicate what's going on and why you may be seeing erroneous emails from a third party, what is going on with their virtual currency that is traded for real world value. Why should I trust that org with $30k a year for a dev server?
No, that is already true under existing law. Presenting yourself falsely as an agent of a company, and profiting from that, is fraudulent misrepresentation.
"The market" doesn't have opinions any more than "the environment" does.

Market participants all care for different reasons.

As far as assuming the business identities of "non participating" restaurants, that sort of thing has a long history - it is a favorite of various organized crime rings.

So in that sense, it does seem a natural fit for GH.
hey, firing people is hard work.
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Downloading a game without DRM (versus one with steam's DRM) doesn't mean you have the right to copy and redistribute that game all you want - with GOG you still only get a license to play the game and can't redistribute or sell it to anyone else.
Thanks, very spicy. You should see how much time my gf has to evaluate law startup apps within her firm...
You know something that could be cool, record + playback: the demo could be recorded once with voice over and played back for future reference within the org: "This is the playback that demonstrates importing raw docs from X, tagging and saving it to Y" , and you could record it using dummy info so there wouldn't be a risk of pollution.
Reading between the lines, it seems obvious that Mozilla wishes to stop funding localization.

Translations aren't even that expensive, especially relative to the cost of producing the docs in the first place. It hurts me to see MDN so starved of resources that they can't pay for even that small piece.

MDN has been key to so many people's technical education. High-quality web documentation is an essential resource for those looking to elevate themselves into a technical career these days.

Much of the world (20%, according to their own research) is set to lose access to this vital body of knowledge.
> Evolution has geared us for this world. We might be able to cobble together a survival elsewhere, but I doubt we could ever thrive.

People on Earth thrived in the Arctic, which is incredibly far from the savannas of Africa, and did this with the technology of 10,000 years ago. Saying that people with the technology of 1000 years from now can't possibly thrive on an airless rock is a little pessimistic to me.

And that's ignoring space habitats, which would plausibly be better tuned to our human needs than Earth is.
The TL;DR Summary is that in the past, insurance providers have negotiated rates with in-network providers. Basically, the $$ they'll pay for a specific procedure or service.

In many cases, those rates were not available to the public, or even to providers.

When I was working to setup a private medical practice a while back, a billing company we worked with gave us the advice, "If you ever get paid 100% of what you bill for a procedure, you need to raise your price for that procedure."

So, as an example, imagine that you were, say, a GP billing to remove a skin tag in your office.

You can look up Medicare's "allowable" for the procedure, which is about $45 (though can be different based on a while host of other factors. The "rule of thumb" for simple provider billing is to add 15% to the Medicare Allowable. So, you'd set your fee schedule at ~$52.

A patient comes in with commercial insurance, and you bill $52, and typically you'd get paid somewhere between $45 and $52 for that procedure. However, if a commercial insurance ever paid the full $52, you know that their actual rate is higher than $52, so you'd be smart to raise your fees to make sure you capture that provider's whole allowable.

So, you maybe raise your rate to $62 - and the next time you have a patient who needs the same procedure and is covered by that provider - you see if they pay the full $62 or a portion of it.

This is basically the "why" behind a good portion of inflated medical billing. Medical providers are required to have a fixed fee schedule and essentially bill every patient the same amount for every procedure, regardless of who that patient is covered by.

Of course, most providers have a "cash" rate for patients who are uninsured as well.

You can see how at the very least, opaque pricing leads to inefficiencies in the system. This is an absolute step in the right direction that I expect insurance companies to fight against tooth and nail.
> I don't know any developers who have left the profession because of a lack of employability.

I feel like this is only true because there's such huge demand recently if you have a pulse and can code fizz buzz you can get hired - but I know 3 guys of the top of my head who went to school with me, finished 5 years (local uni, I dropped out but kept in touch) and then went in to IT or sales because they weren't good enough to get hired as devs - this was 10 years ago.
No. Not that the title or article have anything in common anyway.
From what i can tell there was no punishment, he opted out of the process before the "next steps" phase. Or in other words, the process itself was the punishment-- being called in front of a tribunal and scolded by strangers.
Can this work on the Remarkable Tablet? And other EInk Screens? I'm not sure how exactly I can get this to compile for an armV7 Architecture.

I believe the only way to build apps for Remarkable is using QT: https://github.com/canselcik/libremarkable
There are loads of what you could call "classical" sysadmins/application administrator type people around that never started to do automation, cause sometimes there's no need or willingness to do so.
Especially in the small-to-medium sized companies, where the business is bread-and-butter type and not anything hightech - they might have some infrastructure and processess for years, can't see the reason to move to cloud, they had the same "IT guy" doing desktops and servers since ever, stuff just works and we don't want changes, etc..

There is a massive amount of IT work being done - work that you, me or any other denizen of HN would probably rate as terrible and smelling of middle ages. But it gets the job done, even if it's being done manually. And some people just don't know any better.
Weavy Collaboration Hack 2020 sees great first round
A total of 542 developers joined the free-form Weavy Collaboration Hackathon, to create new ways of collaboration and implementation of the framework. After a massive submission of ideas and prototypes 7 teams made it to the final. Winners will be presented on Monday the 2nd of November 2020.
The Laptev Sea hasn't frozen
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> You just deploy a smart contract that helps people simplify a more complex task and your code takes a few percentage points

Could you list some examples? I didn't realize there were practical use cases for Ethereum yet
"they say there's a fine line between a numerator and a denominator" --?

another one of those maths jokes that makes me smile and confuses a lot of other people of why i'm laughing
It's more the clear mismanagement of their finances on ill-considered products outside of their core offering that never go anywhere. Some of them appear to be nothing more than vanity projects that subsequently disappear having got no traction at all.
Ok, let's go beyond general principles about mailing lists and be more concrete in thinking and see if a truly censorship proof dev & distribute architecture is possible.

Let's work backwards from this desired command line:

youtube-dl -U

That command automatically downloads latest version. (Important because Youtube, Vimeo, etc changes constantly and breaks old youtube-dl versions.)

We have 2 main areas to implement:

1) the code artifacts: a source code repo (and binary releases for download) ; for Linux kernel, I think this is "www.kernel.org"[1]

2) the workflow: the issues / bug reports / pull requests ; for Linux kernel collaboration, a popular mailing list is "majordomo@vger.kernel.org"[2]

If youtube-dl switches from github to mailing lists, how would the "-U" command work? Would somebody need to setup a SMTP server (or at minimum, a SMTP email account) dedicated to youtube-dl? Would youtube-dl then use SMTP protocol to scan the mailing list for which server has the latest code artifacts?

Does making youtube-dl act as a pseudo email-client make it RIAA proof? Are SMTP servers beyond the legal reach of RIAA?

EDIT to reply: This article is about the developer workflow, not about what the end-user software should do.

I understand that but I think it's productive to go beyond that and think out loud what a realistic implementation could be to help end users. Besides, many end users are also the code contributors.

[1] https://www.kernel.org/

[2] http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#linux-kernel
Vancouver where I live had fairly cheap rent compared to ownership for awhile, maybe back in 2010's. Mortgage + maintenance fee back then for a condo could be like $2800/month but would rent for as low as ~$1000-$1500. It is still like this but the spread is a bit less because of cheap money, and weaker condo prices cause of covid. You can get 1.79% 5 year fixed on a 25 year amortized mortgage rn. Our housing market bubble is humming through covid.

We have very low to no property taxes. All of our taxes are based on income. So a condo could have annual property taxes of like $1800-$2000... So what is the point of renting it out if it is increasing in value 10% a year and you are going to use it maybe 2 months a year. The west side of Vancouver were all the mansions are, and had a the greatest new concentration of rich foreign buyers actually paid the lowest taxes in the province.

We also have very big immigration influx in Canada, foreign student population and a 10 year visa program with China. These all started shooting up rents. But also caused what is known as satellite families which drop of their kids and caretaker, use the public schools, health care etc but make all their money back in their country of origin not claiming income tax here. We had University students with their names on $30million houses. House wife seemed to be the most lucrative job going in real estate.

We got a new provincial government a few years ago who brought in the "speculation tax". Basically if you don't pay income tax here but own a house you have to pay a tax of 2% of the properties value. This is compounded on top of an empty homes tax the city put in place of 1% if it is not rented out. There was also some new laws/procedures put in place with data sharing across province/city/real estate board that is helping clearing up some malfeasance as well.
> You might want to read the EULA

And you might want to read EuGH Rs. C-128/11.

Nowhere does it allow reselling used software that is still activated. It only concerns the right to make copies for personal use (well, duh), and reselling non-activated keys as well as software packages associated with it.

The license terms concerning the use (e.g. activation) are NOT subject of the ruling. Why is that so hard to understand? Copying software and the license to USE said software legally are two different issues.

It's akin to the difference between property and possession. Being in possession of and selling a (digital) copy of a piece of software doesn't imply ownership of said software and the license involved.

But please feel free to provide me with a ruling that says otherwise.
Also if your an immigrant who is resident in Canada, your not subject to these taxes! It's a 'you gotta live here' tax.
If you register officiallegostore.com, put the Lego logo front and center, and start selling Lego, used or otherwise, I can assure you that you will get in trouble.
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This article is about the developer workflow, not about what the end-user software should do.
Or maybe I'm completely right and you're just making ad hominem attacks because you can't deal with the fact that there are people who rightfully fear that the basic underpinnings of life are being threatened? Can i ask how old you are? Because in my experience, age correlates strongly with a tendency to look inward towards oneself rather than outwards towards the problems in the world.

You seem threatened by pessimism. I see it as a tool.