skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a very extreme example of someone at the top comparing themselves to someone even higher. What if you are neither of those people though? The key there is that Elon's roommate is still incredibly successful at what he does. What if you aren't successful at what you do at all?

If we put aside startups and business success and take a look at software engineers - there is a distribution of success. What if you're at the low end of the distribution and can't move from there? It's cool to hear about working at the big tech companies or the most successful startups, getting multiple competing offers for hundreds of thousands of dollars in compensation, contributing to big and well-known projects etc. But what if that isn't you? What if you aren't even close to being average? What if you went to a bad college, didn't do well, got a job at one of the worst companies on the market (someone did) and now you're stuck doing boring work for a bad manager, you're getting a salary in the bottom 5% of software salaries and you're getting rejected every time you apply for anything better?

Hopefully, there's a better answer to this than just finding someone who is doing even worse than you in another field or somewhere else in the world and comparing yourself to them.
Important to note here is that while the Mietendeckel (rent cap) has been overturned, the Mietpreisebremse (rental price control) is still active. This is a very interesting development though.
I like high profit margins. It makes possible (but doesn’t guarantee) better design, better working conditions, smaller volumes, healthy second hand market etc. I love OP-1 but in the end it’s going to be waste. We are in huge trouble optimizing for ever cheaper everything on this planet. If we would be talking about healthcare, food, housing, education I would be more on consumers side, but teenage engineering makes toys for people who have maslows lower levels covered.
The Role of Mobile Applications in Different Global Industries
I came up with trivial examples because no one forgets about non-trivial resources. In my opinion, if you decrease some instance count from 18 to 3, you'd rather waste 1 minute deleting 15 instances than dealing with all the problems a state management brings to the table.
You can store files/documents within SQLite dbs as well.
Housing situation in Germany for anyone born after 1980 is so fucked.
But why do you care? Is it because suddenly US market has to play by any rules?
I don't entirely understand how burning some people to death and torturing others was supposed to encourage the rest to behave in a more civilised way.
I have an ASUS Zenscreen MB16A. It's very portable, has a battery, touchscreen, speakers, input from either micro HDMI or USB C. The only disadvantage is that the battery will only last a few hours unless you have it plugged into usb-c charger, and I haven't worked out a way of charging it and giving it a usb-c signal at the same time yet (so when I'm using it at my desk I use the micro HDMI input).
Well, it's not like new people will find affordable housing now...
Famously in "huntin', shootin', and fishin'." But I'm not sure it's the upper classes emulating the lower. It seems to be parallel evolution from different forms of Old English [0]. Which makes sense; it's unlikely an upper-class English person of the 1920s would be motivated to copy lower-class speech patterns. Bertie Wooster wouldn't want to sound like his scullery maid.

[0]: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=YMS3AwAAQBAJ&pg=PT26&lpg...
You can be using a system that doesn't have a memory allocator (so no heap memory), like in many embedded systems.
I'm not sure I understand why PostgreSQL would be "overkill" for something? It's very easy to set up and operate, almost anyone in the industry either knows it or they should be willing to learn it as it's the de facto standard for almost any modern company using an SQL database.

Also it's very easy to buy PostgreSQL from various DBaaS providers.
There's a docker one liner to set it up on any development machine and you need to run it just once.

Sure, SQLite is a little bit easier but it's so much less powerful as a database. Why not just go to Postgres directly and leave SQLite for what it's intended: embedded programming like mobile apps or in-car entertainment systems etc.
It's not, rent caps are a great idea in principle but in reality it just massively constrains the supply which means that yeah, if you find a place to rent you will pay a "reasonable" rate, but there's 200 people willing to rent any place so when landlords aren't allowed to compete on price they compete on everything else. It leads to insanities like landlords requiring 6+ months of rent upfront, very long contracts, very strict(boardering on abusive) rental terms.......since the demand FAR outstrips the supply as a landlord you can get away with pretty much anything because there are always more people willing to rent.

For those downvoting - look at literally any city that has implemented rent caps and tell me that they are a good idea. Where the standard became asking for 6 months upfront and signing a 3-year-no-exit-clause contracts because the demand is so huge it allows landlords to do that. Is that really a net benefit to people renting?
I am happy about it, since I live in Prague (capital of one of their neighbors) and the local green/left was kinda waiting for this to go through.
Can you elaborate/other (maybe lesser known?)/best practices related to this?
Cockatoos are remarkably cheeky. When I was in high school a girlfriend I had at the time had parents who owned one. That Cockatoo would scream her name at the top of its lungs in her mom's voice. It was like the bird knew exactly what would get her attention.
That's true, pitch bend was 14 bits from the beginning, but that's a special case.

I'm not terribly optimistic about MIDI 2.0; it has a lot of things to like, but I'm expecting the major synth manufacturers to be pretty slow about actually making MIDI 2.0 products, and even then they may just implement the parts they care about, leaving us with an incompatible mess.

Maybe I'm wrong and we'll have a new era of expressive electronic instruments-that-aren't-piano-like. We'll see.
Berlin has less than 1% of empty rental apartments which is extremely low.

This means that the rents do actually reflect the real market.

And there is simply no right for a cheap apartment in the center of Berlin.
This part of pop culture is interesting in that it all started with vivid depictions of torture and murder mass printed by the protestant Dutch (the depictions were made up but taken as truth)

This cultural trait of the west has remained intact until today. Popular TV still reinforces these claims from time to time

Powerful propaganda, that was
"Since that data includes the redlining era, the AI will learn to make racist decisions."

This is a crude assumption.

AI researchers are well aware of these potentialities, and you'd (or the government) would have to provide evidence that these systems are racist before banning them.

The basic premise you're making is: "The world is unfair -> AI uses data from the real world -> the AI is racist".

Insurance fiduciaries already use an incredible amount of 'training data' in their work, and we don't have hugely material problems there.
> ... just build more housing instead.

Exactly. And the Mietendeckel caused new construction to essentially stop completely. Way to go!
No, this system is more like feudalism or serfdom. When I move in, you expect me to work on your land, so protected class does not have to work.

Young people and foreigners have to pay large taxes and rents, to subside older people.
> It is unconstitutional because it treats people unequally.

Wrong, it was declared unconstitutional because only the federal government is allowed to pass such a measure. Our federal construction minister "Voll-Horst" Seehofer is free to regulate rents any time he wants, but unfortunately all he has been doing for the last four years is to deny systemic issues in police all day.

> New people will not find any rentable properties, and will have to stay in hotels paying 10x more.

So what? Without rent control poor people are forced out of the homes they grew up in, this is certainly worse than tech hipsters having to pay for hotels.
In shipbuilding, it's not that unusual to rebuild an entire ship.

Of course, modern ships are modular.

I suppose with submarines, compartmentalization is a structural given anyway.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QirVr-pEVU4

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OEuHPE_cLSI
what about non-western news such as Al Jazeera, do you trust those? Or what about Asian news?

E.g., what's your opinion on this: https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2021/4/7/what-do-russians... ?
any idea how they are financed?
The Berlin rent cap is different from rent caps elsewhere, say SF. The Berlin rent cap includes new contracts, too.
There's a national pop festival here which is broadcast on TV; for years I've noticed there's always a high-end Moog synthesizer on the main stage, even when the act only plays guitars... it's just product placement.
I used to be quite stressed-out by job interviews, until I realised a small crucial thing... If you're interviewing while employed (which, to be fair, is not a luxury everyone has), the absolute WORST outcome of that interview is "I am given an offer".

Why worst? If you're not given an offer, nothing changes. You've spent somewhere between 45 minutes and a day, got some interview practice and all is basically status quo. But, if you're given an offer, you are now faced with having to weigh the pros and cons of accepting it.
Lots of people claim it isn't nice. What he's describing is sprawl. Ton's of land taken up by yards, (slow) roads and parking; most of it is unusable for anything else. Depressing.
Or perhaps more accurately (because most of that "wealth" is ephemeral market nonsense) from redistributing their control of the world's resources.
When you're doing this, please be careful to pick up the leftover peanuts. One of our neighbors does this and our property is constantly being invaded by rats who are attracted to her discarded peanuts.
I really wish there were more in depth articles and tutorials around this topic as it was a pretty big pain point when I started out. It’s been a little over a year now since we started using terraform for our aws infrastructure and here is how we set it up:

- /modules holds a bunch of common modules. As an example, we have an aws_application module to setup application configuration in system manager, and an ecr repository for the docker image.

And then we our workspace folder (does not actually use terraform’s concept if workspaces). This goes down in specificity and uses terraform_remote_state for values from the previous workspaces. Our CI runs terraform automatically in this order:

- /workspaces/aws sets up our main aws account. No applications actually run here, it’s just iam setup and some random configuration values.

- /workspaces/production sets up a lot of the backend. We aren’t a big company so we don’t have to deal with cross region databases or redis clusters. This is also where we would call the aws_application module and setup a ecr repo.

- /workspaces/production-us-east-2 is where we setup the ecs cluster, task definitions, load balancers, and dns routes. We’re small, so we only have one region, but the idea is we could copy this folder to another region and horizontally scale super easy.

Then we have the same folders for our staging setup, only with some scale values and configuration tweaked.

Overall I’m pretty happy with this solution. It keeps any issues from spreading far due to the different state files. Though this can get pretty ugly if you need to use some region information in the environment workspace (production-us-east-2 values in production). I also can’t comment on how well it scales out past what we have done so far.
But they won't. What does that tell you about the politicians promoting this rent control policy?
From wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_revision_of_the_Inq...

Inquisitions were ecclesiastical investigations conducted either directly by the Catholic Church or by secular authorities with the support of the Church. These investigations were undertaken at varying times in varying regions under the authority of the local bishop and his designates or under the sponsorship of papal-appointed legates. The purpose of each inquisition was specific to the outstanding circumstances of the region in which it was held. Investigations usually involved a legal process...

"Until recently, Protestant-inspired literature on the Inquisition tended to be hostile to the Catholic Church per se, while Catholic literature tended to be narrowly apologetic and justificatory."[2] For Protestant scholars of the nineteenth century such as William H. Prescott and John Lothrop Motley the Spanish Inquisition represented "the archsymbol of religious intolerance and ecclesiastical power".[3]
Henry Charles Lea wrote both A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages (1888) and A History of the Inquisition of Spain (1906). A History of the Inquisition of Spain was considered both groundbreaking and polemical. His studies were criticized for having both an anti-Catholic[4] and an anti-Spanish bias. Lea saw the Inquisition as theocratic absolutism that weakened Spain to an extent that undermined its overseas empire and ultimately contributed to its defeat during the Spanish–American War of 1898.[3] However both Juan Antonio Llorente's in his Histoire critique de l'Inquisition espagnole (1817) and Lea had access to original documents.

For a long time, the Spanish Inquisition had been associated principally with persecution of Protestants. Nineteenth-century historian José Amador de los Ríos brought a focus to bear on the situation of Spain's large converso population.[3]

Iarocci, Michael P. (1 March 2006). Properties of Modernity. Vanderbilt University Press. p. 218. ISBN 0-8265-1522-3.
Hove, Brian S.J., "The Inquisitions of History: The Mythology and the Reality", Ignatian Insight, January 2012
Kagan, Richard L., "A Kinder, Gentler Inquisition", The New York Times (book review), 19 April 1998

While I do not know about the exact aspect of the inquisition you want to demystify yourself about. The truth is that a lot of it was anglo revisionism as tensions rose between the British crown and the Catholic Church, here above and after is one of many links that have sources in them, both links and books that will dispel many of the myths you might believe about the holy inquisition.

https://www.ru.nl/theology/society/imagining-the-inquisition...

https://www.ru.nl/theology/society/imagining-the-inquisition...
My speed varies greatly depending on my mental state. I've read anywhere between 0 and 200 books in a year. Nowadays it is very slow, maybe a book a month. I read whatever I can get my hands on, except self-help kind of stuff. Mostly for entertainment.
Then we agree to disagree. SpaceX is private funding, Ariane Space and others government contracts. Which SpaceX is also getting, by the way. To me, Starlink is for SpaceX what self-driving taxis are for Tesla.

And whether Starlink is actually profitable, after SpaceX moved that question on to them, can be further pushed out by raising VC money for Starlink.

This plays on so many levels, every VC pumped start-up plays this with so many markets and competitors. Maybe money really is to cheap and plenty full in general since 2008.
That sounds exactly like ‘infringing’ to me. In what way is it not?
Berlin has enough space and I guess the pressure on properties outside the ring (e.g. Marzahn/Marienfeld) is less. However if everyone wants to move to Mitte/kreuzölln, then this creates lots of competition.
This is utterly wrong. https://taz.de/Mehr-Baugenehmigungen-in-Berlin/!5706294/
It's not necessarily good news for a lot of people. It's only good for people who like to speculate with real estate. So why are you happy about this?
Please don't limit lifetimes of other people's children.

Please read and apply advice from "How to Win Friends and Influence People" by Dale Carnegie, it will improve your life.

O&O.
It's even worse on Zoom.

A simple experiment: let your counter party put a metronome next to their microphone, and enjoy the time distortion.
> Wrong, it was declared unconstitutional because only the federal government is allowed to pass such a measure.

That's wrong. States may do it, but only if the federal level hasn't acted in that field (here: social protection for renters)
Which particular medications are keeping these people destitute? Which producers of important goods in poor countries are enforcing IP restrictions? In practice, I don't think IP laws are keeping developing countries poor or harming their economic growth, causes of such issues are much more macro
Not if you stay months in hotel or Airbnb. And that is only available option.
True, but the great thinkers and revolutionaries (and artists, architects, etc) don't just happen to flourish in one age on random, they're the result and a part of a massive change in society that provides the right environment in the right moment for a "golden age" to happen. Gutenberg's invention of press was probably one of the biggest triggers of civilization change since the invention of farming, all of the sudden knowledge and information became available and started to flow freely between millions of common people, and between different countries which was super important as traveling was hard and slow and unsafe back then. It was like the Internet of that time.
That's already happening with two Edeka markets in my neighbourhood, they teared down the old markets, and replace(d) them with new buildings with the market on the bottom floor, and flats on top. Drop in the bucket though I think.

I don't think the city is giving out new building permits for this type of stuff, and many of those markets have either been there "forever", or have been built after the reunification (and in the 90's city planners were expecting that the city would shrink further, not grow).
Yes but the only thing keeping the prices halfway reasonable are the laws and regulations that apply in Berlin. Without those the situation would be much worse.
For every example like this, how many are there of people failing?
It makes sense.

If the problem really gets kicked up in the media and left unaddressed, then eventually politicians will be forced to add some real regulation to force companies to do right by their customers.

That'd be expensive. So instead, ignore customers who can't kick up social attention and quickly resolve those that can before it gets legs. No one cares about the unknown, disconnected hordes of betrayed customers who lost their access for unknown reasons.

And I'm sure no company is covertly doing this to their tiny, would be competitors, killing the baby in the crib so to speak.

In fact, if you're an employee that actually cares about your customers, you'd do well to not internally raise these issues. Let the PR hit the executives harder and make them squirm.
Berlin with its Red-Red-Green government is hardly a city governed by xenophobia. OTOH, the German left is even more pro-immigration and pro-multiculturalism than an average European leftist party.

This law was probably meant against big housing corporations like Deutsches Wohnen, which bought a lot of the housing stock during previous privatizations, and so have some power on the housing market.

IMHO Berlin (just like Prague) needs to lower bureaucratic hurdles on new construction, but maybe the locals do not want that. There was a chance to turn the former Tempelhof airfield into a new neighbourhood, but a local ballot turned it down.
I'm in France, possibly I don't use the localisation feature much.

(I actually do use it occasionally to find specialist retailers so I don't have to use Amazon, as it's easy to buy from any other EU country here. German based retailers for audio equipment, or France based retailers if I want to buy cooking equipment etc)
Good job! I am really impressed. Reminds me of XMMS as well of which I have great memories. Your blog post on the in-browser Eel-Wasm compiler sounds really interesting, will read!
Not true, just set state to absent and run your play again.
Need to use German names. That's what the `von' is for.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von
Because the road and other related infrastructure may not be ready for the increased FAR ratio yet?
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In science, you don't need to explain how/why something happens, only reproduce and prove THAT something happens.

We know that people die or are jailed. We can definitely see patterns that group those people together. Everything points to a single explanation, but regardless if that is proved or not, the effects are black on white.

I don't have to understand/prove weak forces or gravity to state that 100 of 100 apples dropped fall to the ground.
> I took their career choice questionnaire and was told to work as a well paid Software Engineer and to donate a percentage of my income

The good thing about earning to give is it works no matter how niche your skill sets are.

What's an efficient way to deploy an expert microchip designer, when so few global poverty NGOs need microchips designed?
>two things that aren't the same type can never be equal

Well, actually as long as they implement the right dundermethods, they can totally be.
Are these consumer apps?

Are you doing this in LocalStorage?
Compared to other capitals in Europe, they are doing it. It's of course a slow process, but it exists.
> I wish Berlin would just build more housing instead.

The problem is: Berlin can't. There is not much free space for new construction in Berlin proper, with the exception of "Nachverdichtung" such as you propose with apartments over parking lots - and these have the downside that they are horribly expensive, simply because it costs potential developers a lot of money to acquire the land!

The solution would be to build out internet connectivity and public transport in the suburbs in Brandenburg so that employers don't all concentrate in Berlin.
My impression of Berlin (living there for the last 2 years) is that there's plenty of space, plenty of new housing already built and plenty of new construction still going. SF, NY, Paris and London are way more crowded and under-housed in comparison. Shitty one-story supermarkets are really just a sign of abundance of space and not enough demand (yet). Among big European cities the rent seems low. You can buy an super-duper-lux apartment for ~$1M in the very center of the city that in the next 10 years can easily go for $5M if Berlin is to continue to grow the way it does.
It seems like covid will solve the Berlin housing problem. My building in Schillerkiez is slowly emptying out.
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Sounds like he'd have been better off just doing a "leak" to wired or some other tech blog with large following, then it'd be all over the news and basically destroy the company...seems like companies would rather THAT happen than an altruistic security researcher tell the company and ONLY the company: "Hey, um you have a few issues here and here..."
The Inquisition was the first attempt at having a fair trial in an age of summary, brutal executions

Only the church had the moral authority to step into the void used by kings and lords to have justice their way

Burning and torture did occur, but what is missing from pop culture is that it also happened in a greater scale in territories not controlled by the Inquisition
If the inevitable fate of all Mars landers is to succumb to power failure caused by mere dust, why is it still standard practice to rely on wind? Why not equip the solar panels with windshield wipers?
On the other hand, you probably don't want to have dictionaries with heterogeneous types as keys in the first place...