skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
DHH has one of the most annoying Twitter feeds. He picks a hobby horse every few months and tweets incessantly about it, until something else grabs his attention. Surely they shouldn't have been surprised that many of the people they chose to hire would be likewise strongly opinionated, and not take kindly to those policy changes.
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As fun as your comment is, it literally doesn’t add anything to the conversation. The question is why buy at all.. your argument is that the parts are worth more than the whole. Is that all the thesis is?
California is not unique in capping property tax increases in that way. Other states do it. California has a uniquely bad law though since the capped prices can be passed on to family. I agree that LVT is not the only way to fix those issues but LVT has some other benefits as well (such as discouraging empty lots).
Isn't it already possible for free? I mean, you can always install a mod rooted Android and use if as you wish
I don't think life would be that normal on a 99.96% light-speed travelling shattered nebula plasma star thing...
You are right. AI will not replace good writing. AI will replace typical writing – seo spam, news reports, ads, coding tutorials, etc

Good writing has insight. AI can’t do that yet. Most writing is filler lettuce. AI is great.
$200 is what a single high quality plugin costs. Complete DAW packages with many bundled plugins like Ableton or Cubase are at least 3x that price.
Not specific to programming, but I've seen the thought terminating cliche "mansplaining" used more and more in the industry to completely dismiss a man's point of view.
There is no death penalty in most counties and in the ones that have it there are many counties with very small populations and a small handful with mega cities like Dallas Texas in them.
One of my pet peeves is that Coursera uses .org domain. A YC-backed billion-dollar-valuation public company.
And hey if you did you were just early on inventing airtable :)
Thank you. I could not agree more strongly.

I am loyal to myself as an employee unless my equity is so significant that I am required to consider myself an owner.
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Sure, anyone can strong-arm you, including the government, but they'll generally have to go through the law to do it and it doesn't guarantee they'll succeed. If you have multi-sig set up, your benefactors could just take over and continue using it with impunity.
No, it was on the west coast... but I bet a lot of places were running similar setups. Network admins at the time (at least the good ones) were likely receiving the same periodicals and reading the same books.
Everybody knows that type of content is associated with the christmas islands. Not .org.
Not at all. Small towns and cities have been pedestrianizing a few key blocks for years.

In the case of Denver or some place like it, do a few blocks around the light rail stations. The car owners won't really notice (yet), but the small businessmen will complain. Ignore the small businesses, they are wrong about their own situation: Foot traffic will more than make up for any lost parking.

In fact there is a name, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tactical_urbanism, for this sort of bootstrapping, to build a loyal constituency over people defending their new car free privileges rather than merely imagining an alternative future.
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Life-changing would be living in nicer arrangements, consuming more stuff, doing less work, being more secure.

That’s not what’s going on here.
So we just get congress to name Twitter the Ministry of Truth, formally, and be done with it.

"Brawndo: it's got what plants crave!"
And like attention it can go a very long way if you leverage it (by building multi-tenant buildings and other infrastructure) or you can let it rot and have it go nowhere.
Hear you, but not knowing the exact timeline of events here...and seeing how this is a disaster on so many other levels...I find there is value in showing him grace for being...sick. (There is already so much bad, that his absence/presence is a moot point)

But totally hear what you're saying and appreciate your skepticism!
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Anyone who thinks that "bash" is modern should read my POSIX critique.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26178257
The further back in time you go the more ignorance and skepticism of Wikipedia you find. When I was in college in the early 2000s the professors would say “don’t use Wikipedia, anyone can edit it so you can’t trust anything it says”
It makes sense the same way a horoscope or a Myers-Briggs test makes sense — the reader adds their own meaning.
Alternatively, they could use one of their beloved bleach cures for whatever ails them.
Having politicians tell us what the truth is? Sure, what could go wrong?
It seems the FUD regarding this is very similar to anti-vax FUD. Yes, if you are not careful vaccines can cause massive problems.

In addition, theoretical downsides that have been considered and deemed unlikely by the scientific community (like making it seem that disease carrying mosquitos are an irreplaceable food source) are trotted out again and again.

In addition, just like with vaccines, the risk of doing nothing (kids die from measles, etc in the case of vaccines, and kids die from malaria and Zika, etc in the case of mosquito control).
> which is a surprisingly deep statement

People used to say the same thing about Markov chains, and then the hype died down it took 20 years for another hypetrain to pull into the station. The same will happen with GPT-n.

> says very uncomfortable things about the skill of humans in recognizing genuine creative significance.

Indeed. People see pictures in clouds and omnipotent beings in the stars. Humans are uncomfortably good at finding meaning in nothings.
Brings back memories of my friend borrowing the lab computers over the weekend to do some long running Monte Carlo simulation runs (so trivially parallel). Except he had a bug that implicitly gave all the runs the same RNG seed. Took a bit of head scratching to work out what the hell had happened.
This all reminds me of the poetry and intentionally over-used analogies and similes of junior high.

People who look for meaning in it will find it, but it's mostly nonsense.

It reminds me of the early face generation ... The eyes nose etc were all in the right place, but it was mimicking the appearance not the structure.

I'm more interested in a convincing paragraph than sentence.
The west Texes disaster comes from the same state and is considered one of the worst industrial disasters in US history because people built housing right up against heavy industry.
We’re a desert/Mesa compound, a tactical nuke, an extraction team and a cyberdeck away from being the plot-line for Count Zero.
> COVID-19 drove a mass social experiment in working from home (WFH). We survey more than 30,000 Americans over multiple waves to investigate whether WFH will stick, and why. Our data say that 20 percent of full workdays will be supplied from home after the pandemic ends, compared with just 5 percent before. We develop evidence on five reasons for this large shift: better-than-expected WFH experiences, new investments in physical and human capital that enable WFH, greatly diminished stigma associated with WFH, lingering concerns about crowds and contagion risks, and a pandemic-driven surge in technological innovations that support WFH. We also use our survey data to project three consequences: First, employees will enjoy large benefits from greater remote work, especially those with higher earnings. Second, the shift to WFH will directly reduce spending in major city centers by at least 5-10 percent relative to the pre-pandemic situation. Third, our data on employer plans and the relative productivity of WFH imply a 5 percent productivity boost in the post-pandemic economy due to re-optimized working arrangements. Only one-fifth of this productivity gain will show up in conventional productivity measures, because they do not capture the time savings from less commuting.
> you will incur into a slightly performance cost because of the bash/zsh/fish shell you need to spawn before running your code

While Volta does have a shim, it’s written in a sensible systems language (Rust)[0], so it does not spawn a shell. It only determines the correct process and arguments to run and launches it as a subprocess. There will be overhead to read from disk and determine which version of node/npm to run and a syscall to actually launch the subprocess, but that should be very minimal and nowhere near the cost of initializing a shell.

The result is that Volta feels faster than similar tools that are written in scripting/shell languages. It also enables better Windows support since there’s no reliance on a system having a POSIX shell.

[0] https://github.com/volta-cli/volta/blob/main/src/volta-shim....
> “When something new and revolutionary comes along, the immediate reaction of a lot of people is to say: ‘Wait.’,”

I don't think novelty is the problem here. Humans have a genuinely terrible track record of ecosystem engineering. Unintended consequences are pretty common.
I know nothing of VCV community beyond what I read in this article, so - grain of salt.

But I will agree with the author in one point, banning/squelching on dissenting views isn't a good way to deal with problems.

> "Public challenges to moderator decisions may result in a ban/suspension." [0]

When communities start controlling narratives through deletes, shadow banning, banning - clamping down on public dissent, it's the signs of toxic culture. Largely hiding behind the guise of safe space, it allows festering of same speak.

Again, not saying it is happening 100% in VCV (not connected), but if it is happening like the author says, it pushes away contributors who are closely related to the space.

[0] https://vcvrack.com/rules
Right. It is a species native to Africa (as are we), which is basically an invasive species elsewhere in the world.

If anything, it should make the environment better for the native species of mosquitos (of which there are many), due to decreased competition from the invasive species.
I'm also reminded of the famous line from You've Got Mail where the older lady bought Intel at $6.

https://smithhousedesign.com/18-years-later-10-ironic-things...

“I am very rich. I bought Intel at $6.”

Lots of gems in that whole article.
Why has HN become the forum via which people aire/settle their personal disagreements in the tech community?

Why do we allow and highlight blog posts doing things that we wouldn't allow between users in the comments?

I swear like twice a week there's an "X was mean to Y" thread naming names and companies. We've developed an appetite for personal drama and it isn't healthy. This is like our version of a gossip column.

Edit: How do we not have better standards than 4chan, where the immediate response would be "Not Your Personal Army" and move on?
Houstonians by and large don't drive into city centers for work. Workplaces are distributed throughout the area.
I live where I live so I can walk to the office (It kind of feels like I wasted my money last year but I'm afraid to move in case the WFH thing collapses, there's no way I could handle driving in such a dense place.) The fact that there's a bunch of stuff around here to do and decent public transit is a huge plus but I wouldn't have moved here for it.
Absolutely, because GPT-3 is a super hot rod text prediction algorithm but has strictly zero consciousness or concept of what it's writing about. It's merely using statistics to do more complex versions of stuff like, when words a, b, c, d, and e are used together, words f, g, h, and j are typically used as well. Take this simple kind of idea and push it to the current max et voilà, GPT-3.
Albeit in Clojure/Script, the Emacs + Cider experience is quite good, and I'm never using the REPL directly from CLI, I'm editing a file and sending forms to REPL that get eval'd inline. I wrote that sentence really backwards, sorry, I'm tired.
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Ah yes I've been waiting for the Ministry of Truth
This would actually get me back to using Yahoo. I hope someone that can do it is reading this.
Except this isn't like vaccines. Vaccines are tried and true over decades. They also can't proliferate on their own and become self sustaining.

Based on what I've read this sounds safe but that is not a fair analogy and given our pretty crappy track record of screwing up local ecosystems by trying to introduce balancing species, I'd say this warrants caution and wouldn't fault people their discomfort.
Also: beanie babies.
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I assume you mean to imply that population alone explains the title of the post? My guess is the argument goes:

(1) Crime scales with population.

(2) Death sentences scale with crime.

(3) Therefore, death sentences should scale with population.

(4) The U.S.'s geographic distribution results in very dense clustering such that only a handful of counties have a lot of population.

(5) Therefore, we would expect to see only a handful of counties account for the majority of death sentences.

However, this line from the abstract seems to make (2) unlikely:

> The number of death sentences in a given county in a given year is better predicted by that county’s previous experience in imposing death than by the number of homicides.

Thus, their argument is that something much deeper is going on than just population-level trends.
One can protest something without going scorched-earth. The act of leaving, which deprives Google of his talent and experience, may have been protest enough.
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The thing about Wikipedia is not so much that it's "unreliable", it's that, for any topic that is at all disputed, in order to know if what you're reading on Wikipedia is reliable, you have to already be knowledgeable about the topic, in which case you don't need to find out about it on Wikipedia.
That's exactly what I meant in my comment about "muddying the waters" by conflating pensions and health insurance.

It was misleading of Bishop to bring up pensions in your linked politifact article[1]

Take the case where every company in the USA (including the post office) is required to do X and Y, but only the USPS is required to do Z. It's a true statement to say that "only the post office has to do Z". It's also a true statement to say "Only the post office has to do all 3 of X, Y, and Z". But the latter statement is abusing boolean logic to make it sound like X and Y only apply to the post office.

[1]: It's also misleading to say they "must fund 100% of the costs in advance" when the actual requirement is that the pension plan be "fully funded". If you're fully funding your pension plan, compound interest is probably covering at least 50% of the costs.
Deep statements are deep because the communicate feeling, if the machine never felt anything but tripped over meaning like this (and it's pretty obvious it's just gluing things together) it really dulls the effect.
”A death sentencing system based on racial dynamics and then amplified by self-referential dynamics is inconsistent with equal protection of the law, but this describes the United States system well.”
The swipe is so awkward they made a mini-game out of it in Among Us (not sure if this is true but the experience is the same, too fast, too slow, etc.)

RFID solutions are just vastly superior. Go to Tokyo and ride around the trains there. You can hover your card over the reader, tap your phone, your watch, whatever, and it reads it reliably 99.9% of the time (another made up fact but yeah, it's reliable).
Yes, there's a few tax jurisdictions where the per taxpayer debt burden is a few standard deviations from the norm.

https://www.truthinaccounting.org/news/detail/financial-stat...

NJ/CT/IL have $50k debt per taxpayer, and the next highest state is HI at $31k per taxpayer. And I assume those are understated amounts due to lack of laws requiring governments to perform proper calculation of present value of liabilities for deferred compensation.

Some of the cities are way out of the norm too:

https://www.truthinaccounting.org/news/detail/financial-stat...

NYC: $68k
Chicago: $41k

The only way that works out for the average individual is if the economic growth in those places outpaces the alternatives to make up for all that debt, but I think there's a slim chance of that.
tl;dr "This model shows that the cumulative number of death sentences previously imposed in the same county is a strong predictor of the number imposed in a given year. Results raise troubling substantive implications: The number of death sentences in a given county in a given year is better predicted by that county’s previous experience in imposing death than by the number of homicides."
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i’d vote enthusiastically for a superlinearly-escalating tax on impervious surface area as a percentage of lot size to counteract runoff and groundwater issues, as well as flood control. we have entirely too much concrete and entirely too little permeable ground with trees and plants in cities like houston and LA.
Yahoo does tie in through those platforms now to do sports gambling. And it's a top property for fantasy leagues, especially to those of us in dynasty leagues. (They did blow a lot of their lead though)
Well i dont think its a reasonable worry here, where precisely do you think mules come from?
> But then it turned out collapsing ecosystems was bad and it also nearly drove the Peregrine Falcon to extinction because it would accumulate in their bodies and damaged their eggs.

I would argue, that the benefit of cutting down endemic malaria and yellow fever in the United States and the lives said and the people who did not get sick was worth the risk to the Peregrine Falcon.

In nature, everything is connected. But to believe that it is too connected for humans to be able to successfully manipulate the environment for our benefit is anti-science.

Growing more food, curing disease, increasing human longevity does have follow-on effects for nature, but I would argue that manipulation of Nature for human’s benefit is something we as humans can and should do.

Yes, we should be aware of unintended side effects, but we cannot let ourselves be paralyzed by fear.
Hmmmm African killer bees...

On the other hand, these are males whose female offspring are designed to die. If they were regular male mosquitoes their female offspring would have the same survival rate as males.

So the bad scenario is the female offspring survive as normal. The super bad scenario is they only beget female mosquitoes I guess. Yes that would be worse.