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He is being a little hyperbolic there. If you are a member of an HOA, and the HOA votes in a rule governing the height of your grass, then the HOA can enforce the rule with fines. If you don’t pay the fines, the HOA can put a lien on your house. It would be quite odd for the police to be involved at any point.

A lien just means that the house cannot be sold without paying the lien holder. Liens are actually quite common; any house bought with a mortgage also has a lien put on it for the balance of the loan. This forces you to pay off the loan if you sell the house.

If the house is put up for auction due to a foreclosure, I think a lien holder could recover their money from the sale price, or even gain ownership of the property. At that point the police might be involved in order to evict the former owner. But the HOA’s lien cannot cause a foreclosure, I think. That requires either defaulting on your mortgage, or a tax lien put on it by a municipality, state, etc.

Honestly, a town or city could make ridiculous rules about the length of your grass as well, and you would have just as much trouble or more. There are certainly enough horror stories told about HOAs to make a person wary of them. If all they do is manage property owned in common by the residents, then they’re usually fine. When properly run they are the most boring type of government ever invented. All they have to do is clean the pool regularly, mow the grass from time to time, or save up enough to buy a new roof for the building every couple of decades.

Meanwhile the city you live in probably sold hundreds of millions of dollars in bonds to buy a new football stadium, which earns hundreds of millions in yearly revenue. Naturally, they gave the owner of the stadium all that money and a tax break to boot, just to attract them to the area. Sales taxes went up a bit because of the increased tourism, but not enough to cover the bond payments, so your property taxes probably went up too. The mayor’s cousin’s construction company made a pretty penny building parts of the stadium, and his wife earned a bundle as a motivational speaker giving talks at conventions funded by the company that sells the concessions. Which is worse?

Certainly you always need to keep on top of what your HOA is doing, but you can’t ignore what your town is doing either.
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As an IT Consultant/Web Developer I am getting my contracts via recruitment agencies, which is not optimal.
I believe "Ask HN: Who is hiring?" thread is a clever and simple method to get a job or hire a hacker.
I like Gmail's UI/UX, so I've built a similar UI for latest HN jobs.

Can you tell me please one feature - a single one - you'd really want me to build? All feedback is much appreciated!
We have two internal tools for communications and operations. Me and the team spend nearly all day signed into those. And Mattermost.

The custom apps are reasonably well tuned. And we also use custom NTP in browser to make all the "first access" problems go away.
It tries to smear left-wing people with some public visibility, in several cases showing pictures their houses, complete with a description of the location, just short of the actual address. They've also left stickers near these houses saying "location under observation". It's political intimidation.
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Operator-overloading has seemed like a weird debate to me ever since I realized operators are only different from functions because:

1) They are infix (often in languages where functions cannot be)

2) They can use one of a handful of special characters in their name

3) In languages with methods - which you could argue are called infix - they lack the extra ceremony of .()

These are all pretty much syntax concerns, and it seems like they could be solved at a fairly superficial level. I don't see much reason why operators need special treatment under the hood.

Edit: Now that I think about it, they're also polymorphic in some languages that lack polymorphic functions. But that's somewhat of an edge-case if you count methods.
New low-end iPads are pretty cheap. As are refurbished older higher-end models.

Either would be a better solution for your use-case, unless you actively want to do an experiment in how much pain can you endure while trying to make this thing work.
Would using a separate service email accounts help mitigate issues? seng-baking@gmail.com, then seng-banking+icici@gmail.com, seng-banking+axis@gmail.com, etc? That way my primary email would stay private and will used only for email, not for identity.
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Out of curiosity, I ran both versions of the site against Google Lighthouse (hosted on https://OnlineOrNot.com):

SpaceJam 1996:

- Largest Contentful Paint: 2763ms

- Total Page Size: 131 KiB

- Third-party resources size: 71 KiB

New SpaceJam:

- Largest Contentful Paint: 9340ms

- Total Page Size: 1.4 MiB

- Third-party resources size: 100 KiB
When did I say I didn't care about protecting children? I said I didn't care about a hosting company throwing DMCA complaints in the trash, and I refuse to give into any bullying that says supporting free speech is the same thing as hurting children.
That position is too naive to be honest.
Any electric heater, even those decades ago, was 100% efficient. They turn electricity watts into heat watts. Where is the energy loss? Light? That also becomes heat. Air movement? Also heat. Loss due to heat allong the cord to the heater? Thats heat too. Unless they are emitting large numbers of neutrinos, all electric heaters are simply resistors that perfectly turn electricity into heat.

Put nearly any electrical device in a box, anything from a television to a cement mixer, and it will raise the temperature of the air in that box by exactly the same amount as the watts it draws from the power source. A 500w television puts out exactly as much heat as a 500w heater.
Lots of countries have banned incandescent bulbs due to their abysmal energy efficiency.

Maybe the cryptocurrency industry needs some environmental regulation thrown at it?
On the other hand, just two days ago I had to implement my own string.split method to split on some delimiter. Lua is tiny and fast, but that's not without its downsides.
That's super interesting to me. I live in the middle of the US. There's a grocery store about 2 blocks from me, but that's by far the closest I've ever lived to one. 40 minute drive to work. 10 minutes by car to Target. 20 minutes to the nearest shopping center. Public transportation isn't really a thing in my town. There isn't a bus. The city I live on the outskirts of has a bus system, but no one uses it. No one is going to the same place at the same time. Everything is just too scattered.
Exactly why to never turn on upnp
Yes to terraform. We use it at our work to setup some dynamodb tables for testing locally. We mount the .terraform folder.
I'd go a step farther (or maybe less far).

All the US creditors demand their money back. The US prints new $ to pay them.

What is the impact? People now have a bunch of $ sitting under their mattress instead of treasuries. However, those treasuries were already effectively as good as $, since the market for them is highly liquid. If someone wasn't going to spend their wealth when it was in the form of treasuries, their not going to suddenly decide to spend it just because it is in the form of $.

The real risk in this scenario is not that people are cashing in their debt; but rather the reason they are doing so.

If they are cashing in on their debt because they want to get out of USD all together, the US will have a major problem. But that problem is people moving out of USD; the cashing in of the debt is just a symptom.

They could also be doing it because they have stuff they want to spend USD on. Generally speaking, we like it when people spend USD, as that is a sign of a healthy economy. But if people suddenly decided to spend all of the wealth they had been saving in US debt, we would be in a very market. But, again, the problem hear is the overheated market; it doesn't matter that the mechanism is people cashing in on their US debt instead of other savings vehicles.

For all practical purposes, the effect of the debt occurs when the government re-spends the money they got as a result of issueing the debt. In exactly the same way fractional reserve banking increases the money supply by issuing debt and having the debtors spend it; treasuries increase the money supply by issuing debt and having the debtor (US government) spend it. The only difference is the debtor has the option just increasing the money supply any way.

As a practical matter, US bonds play an important role in the financial system, and it is not clear what would replace them if people suddenly stopped using them.
Hypermind [1] is an interesting prediction market which avoids many of these pitfalls, by 1) using play money instead of real money, and 2) requiring an application for new users.

I've been playing on it for a few years, and the predictions are usually pretty good.

[1]: https://predict.hypermind.com
In the current tax code. Wouldn’t some of the proposals to consider more capital gains as income change that?
Are they gold-plated, oxygen-free cables?

Do they include the requisite analog tube amplifiers at both ends?

Where do they hide their flux capacitors?

Because there’s an easy mark born every minute....
The link between the production of child porn and child protection is crystal clear.

The link between hosting child porn and child protection is much more subject to argument. I'd suggest it is banned because enough people suspect the link to be there, not because of any certainty.

It is unfortunately common for terrible ideas to be shepherded in under the pretence of thinking about the children. There needs to be debate about costs and benefits of this stuff beyond the crystal clear parts. It isn't reasonable to just assume someone doesn't care about protecting children just because they're willing to host anything. Although in this case they are being rather disrespectful to the people who use the form and that doesn't sit well with me.
I've deleted my Facebook last year, after being on Facebook for 10+ years. I guess I am not affected.

update: oh no, "...the data was scraped due to a vulnerability that the company patched in 2019."
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> One GPU is required for the Linux host OS and one GPU is required for the Windows virtual machine.
Pieseł had been first used and popularized by Michnikowski in cabaret first in 60-ties. At the time there was still enough people in Poland who were either speaking Yiddish or familiar with the language from before the war.

Like my father who spoke good German but also had daily contact with Yiddish on the street [4] before the WW2 as a (Polish) kid in Wola. This type of pieseł jokes and many other Michnikowski performances had its public in Warsaw at the time.[1] [3]

Szmonces [1]

[1] https://sztetl.org.pl/en/tradycja-i-kultura-zydowska/tradycj...

[3] https://youtu.be/wucOMe1w7s8

[4] My father had been 10 years old in 1939. In Wola - workers district (read poor) Jews and Polish lived together mixed and only Kiercelak (large open air market with many Jewish merchants and tradesmen) separated Wola from Nalewki (nominaly Jewish district). It is all walking distance especially for 10 years old so you have heard Yiddish (and Yiddish mixed with Polish) every day.
I stand by your SSN only for social security point.

But the rest sounds plain wrong to me.

Your phone might get stolen, your name might change due to marriage, your address might change because you moved/got evicted. What now?
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I used to live in Scottsdale, AZ. They can fine you up to $3,000 a day if your yard isn't up to code. They say debris could be hidden in the yard and someone could get hurt. I don't know if the police would get involved though.
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I really would like to see a Modula-2/Oberon/Component Pascal frontend for LLVM.
Perhaps look at some of the Odroid Homecloud solutions? They have some limitations, but are cheap and easy to use.
Seer on the Windows Store is an alternative which works pretty well for the default file types (images, text files, PDFs). However, I don't think it works in the open/save dialog boxes.
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Interesting, I've noticed for a while if I have a late night the next day I'll often be extremely energetic and more social than normal. The crash comes the day after.
You know you've fucked up when you have to remove features from the spec (which they did in YAML 1.2).
I don’t think it’s either of those. Steve cared first and foremost about the user experience and the only way to understand that is to use the device.

As for perfectionism I think that’s overblown. I’ve read or listened to many people who worked with him and yes he was demanding but almost all oft gem had huge respect for him personally and professionally.

The thing is Jobs hired the absolute best engineers he could get, and worked with the best for his whole career. That was just the standard he was used to and expected.
Perhaps, people interested in the subject (and in music!) will enjoy creative work and talent of Olga Avigail Mieleszczuk - a singer, accordion player and researcher of Eastern European musical folklore (especially Yiddish and Polish): http://www.olgamieleszczuk.com.pl. Also see her YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/Olginiam. Though, some of her performances can be found outside of that channel, e.g., https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpA524dufFk and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsarcWZAB98.
> Leaf is 5-10k€

Those are pretty wide error bars, last time I looked at used Leaf's they were selling for somewhere in that range. Admittedly first gen leafs with the 24KWh battery.
"The Barbarian Invasions" Great Canadian film from Quebec.
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Yes, Rust lacks a runtime-sized array.

I think the rest of these replies are presenting a false dichotomy; having a compile-time sized array doesn't change that.

Rust could easily have all three (compile-time-sized, runtime-sized, and Vec) but they chose not to. Probably because Vec is mostly good enough (albeit wasting a bit of memory).
Agreed. I can't remember ever feeling great or well rested upon waking. It's depressing. Or depression, as it were.
Isn't it what Pirsig wrote, mainly in "Lila"?
There are ISP's out there which disallow the use of gateways other than theirs to enter their WAN. That means you are stuck with whatever config it allows.

I have root access to mine, so I can configure it to my liking, but the device is _not_ blinking out in quality, needing to be reset at least once every 14 days, otherwise it starts chocking when I need to transmit my radio stations over the NET

These type of ISP's make a lot of cash, selling bulk purchased cheap hardware, esp mine, which still sells services over copper using VDSL & ADSL2. Their FTTH speeds are also inconveniently capped on VDSL speeds
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Gustavo is cancer within that company. His toxic attitude is responsible for the departure of hundreds of excellent engineers over the last decade.
They also have arrays which size is not known at compiler time (`[T]` instead of `[T; SIZE]`).

It's just that you (for now(1)) can't put dynamic sized types (DST) on the stack, but you can coerce a `&[T; SIZE]` to a `&[T]`. The later has the size encoded in the pointer. Which combined with rusts system to compiler time enforce proper aliasing and RAII allows nice sub-slicing like e.g the `split` at method which allows splitting a `&[T]` into two non-overlapping `&[T]`'s.

(1): There is ongoing work to allow DST on the stack in some limited circumstances which would help with some things, but I'm not the biggest fan of it. For example because this is in many but not all cases incompatible with `async/await` and the not yet existing generators.
I know that exact feeling. In 2010 I went from pretty crippling depression to a higher-functioning (lol) depression/anhedonia. It involved a nonstop drive from eastern Washington to south Texas. Never thought about it but it might have been the sleep deprivation and adrenaline.
KYC laws and governments desire to have silent complete financial surveillance stops banks from acting that way too.
> The philosophy of python is there should be only one pythonic way of doing things.

That ship has sailed more than a decade ago.

(And if we're on a crusade to make Python pythonic again, let's start with the bigger fish - like the sync/async function distinction. Somehow Python managed to fall into the red/blue function trap the hardest.)
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> But the answer is not to stop having laws.

Why?

Serious question. When are laws too many? (According to some history, 10 laws were too many and most people were ignoring them.)

Are a trillion laws too many? A billion? A million? A thousand? What if we had a thousand laws, but each law had a million pages?

(I'm pretty sure we're at over a billion pages of laws if we take into account all the laws in the world - as multinational companies are supposed to do.)

When, exactly, should we say "this is excessive"?
What are you saying? That criminal gangs are rampant in Switzerland or that the Swiss do incredibly well in fighting corruption?
Is it possible for you to have something already planned the previous day?
There's also https://www.metaculus.com/ (which does not require an application)
I used Km0 for giving the electric a chance.
There's a floor but it's not just price of raw materials. It includes performance of same raw materials just used better. So a battery today with X amount of raw materials puts out Y power. A battery in 10 years with the same amount of X raw materials puts out Y^4 power. At least according to E=MC^2 it's a long way before we reach the floor.
> She got all the morphine she wanted, and various other comfort measures.

Something I don't understand: why don't they start with that? Why wait until you're near death? I'm assuming there's a good reason but I'd also hope we have the technology and chemical engineering know how to create pain killers they can be used for long term care effectively.

If anyone has any links/expertise I'd love to understand this component.
> Using nuclear for baseload doesn't work economically. Nuclear plant economics are such that you want to run them 100% all the time.

That's what baseload is.

> Renewables sometimes produce pretty close to 0 energy.

Which is why they need storage, and storage is expensive. If you do half nuclear and half renewables, you only need half as much storage.

Less than half, because you can use pricing to shift demand.

Suppose you have 50 GW of nominal demand, but solar generation is at 10% of normal because it's overcast. You can get demand down to 40GW through price incentives. If you had 50 GW of solar which is down to 5 GW, you would need to cover 35 GW from storage. If you had 25 GW of solar which is down to 2.5 GW, and 25 GW of nuclear, you only have to cover 12.5 GW from storage. Less than half as much.
> Letting employees trade off equity versus cash comp at their discretion via a formula seems fair to me

It's an incredibly unfair way to compensate.

If you've come from a less privileged background you don't have family support, likely won't inherit anything, probably don't own a house. Your priorities will be to shore up some basics in the short term, like breaking a hand to mouth existence or possibly working towards a mortgage.

But focusing on your needs, due to the lack of wealth in your family and history, means that you must give up hope of future wealth, foregoing the same value and benefit that those who can afford through their privilege to take... Far more share options, the lottery tickets.

I find the idea so repulsive that when I was offered roles twice at Monzo I refused both purely because of this.

If it isn't already an unequal workplace that is biased towards those who started out with more then this guarantees it will become that. The only people who benefit from this are those that started with the privilege of wealth... Likely the white middle class male.
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But since |BP| is both 1 and 2 it means Bertrand Russell is both the Pope, and not the Pope.
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For the gas station ones? Absolutely, that's a risky business. For a whole-ass bank that can reload the machine from behind? I don't really see it
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Haha, a link to a Grey Faction post by Lucien Greaves. "For infernal use only" indeed.
The Facebook leak is available at RaidForums, and I assume many other leaks get posted there as well.
Can you not just put something behind their gateway?
Yes, and it really hit home with me. As a cloud engineer and someone who really likes AWS, that article made me take a step back and think. I'm not saying I'm ditching AWS tomorrow, but it's really the first time I've really considered other solutions. And it's over something as simple as lying. Not features or even bugs, simple dishonesty.
What happens when it's your opinions that are unpopular?