skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> land value goes up even with no input of the land owner.

but this happens to other rare objects as well (value goes up without input from the owners), why is land so targeted?

My take is that _everything_ should be ownable, and owned. For example, if someone owned the air you breath, then you would have to pay to breath it. But it would also give incentive for this owner to stop pollution of the air - after all, you would not pay to breath polluted air! So the problem of air pollution is solvable this way.
Soooo VBA? https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/vba/api/overview/exc...
I actually really like apple's screen time limit capabilities. Being able to limit my time on twitch/youtube has been really helpful for me. However, one thing I would like to see is limiting the number of times I can open an app. Even if I limit email to 3 minutes, I can still open it 15 times a day :D
As a developer, I got some valuable insights from the book Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willinck. I think particularly the principles of "leading up the chain" is crucial when you're a developer with managers who don't have the necessary context of understanding to make optimal decisions on their own. Perhaps not as easily applied in all company cultures. But in my case, it gave me the confidence to voice my opinion on a few critical issues of strategic importance over the past few years. This year I was promoted to "system responsible" (basically lead dev with technical responsibility for the system) and I think that was in part an acknowledgment of my ability to take ownership of a situation and helping to make sure sound a sound strategy is in place.
Brain certainly has regions that are structurally different. The logic of differentiation certainly does not correspond to microprocessor, but differentiation is there as a fact.
> Nobody speaks it in the EU

English is one of the two official languages of Ireland.

Either way, I think everything you've said is basically beside the point because English is the primary international language of the business and science worlds. That's why virtually all airports everywhere in the world have English signage and announcements, that's why many international university lectures are in English. It's very practical.

For better or for worse, that's how it is, and choosing another language based on some principle of neutrality (which certainly won't really be neutral, because anyone's definition of neutrality will be biased) is going against the flow. Something like Esperanto would actually be an especially terrible choice given that there's almost no one who speaks it and virtually no entertainment media that uses it, which makes it far more difficult to learn.

Learning languages is hard enough as it is. As someone who lived in Tokyo and studied Japanese full time, it's something you really need to be motivated for to make it work.
I am right handed and wear apple watch on the right wrist from the day 1. :) But yeah, it's rare.

Also, I really tried to find any technical details on how close Apple Watch should be for this feature to work, but with no success.
Wow, excellent!
Now imagine being on call for someone else's code! That's ops.

Unless your company has a very strong relationship between ops and devs, the ops side gets stuck supporting whatever the developer side creates and the developer side is incentivized to jam as many features into code as quickly as possible.

It's very expensive and customer impactful when you find issues in production versus prevent them in the first place with code that's a little more "runnable" (like testable code, I'm also convinced there's "runnable" or "operable" code)
Wow there is something weird:

I always assumed that the NeuraLink allowed to output from the brain to external interfaces, not to input into the brain.

I have seen the public presentations of NeuraLink by Elon Musk, and the focus was always to extract info from the brain, not the other way around.

Do you have some info related to your interpretation?
Tell Facebook: Stop Silencing Palestine
In fact, you can see how this plays out in the computer market.

While binning goes on with desktop and commodity server processors, by and large manufacturers can't play too many games with building in unused capacity.

However, at the high-end, especially mainframes, you absolutely have features like capacity on demand and pricing by workload and there was even more of this sort of thing in the past.
This is important.

From the original description, my suspicion is it’s the regular (i.e. not advanced beta) “full self driving“ package, which I have on my model 3.

Truth is, it’s pretty limited, and you’ve got to learn the types of situations where it will and won’t cope. Through town, situations with parked cars, or weird lane markings, it will struggle.

However, the flipside is that on longer journeys – with mostly open roads, it does very well indeed. I recently did a three+ hour drive and the car drove for probably 80% of that time, and without any issues at all. Once you get used to its foibles and therefore understand when you can trust it, it really is a relaxing experience.
Show HN: A Data Wrapper for Managing Dynamic JSON-Like Objects in Go
The inspiration of this project comes from a little pain point I met while I was writing a web app(with Go web server). There are too many configurations on it so that I can not require all users to upload config files that contain all configuration fields. And even some files may contain fields that is not preset in this system. So I had to use a dynamic data structure to receive and process them.

In Go, this is not very easy. So I created this project(rightly say, a library) to solve the problem I found in the operating of dynamic JSON-like Objects.

It uses an `Object` struct to manage and control all of data. And uses `keyStr` to locate elements in the data. For example, a `keyStr` "A.B.[0].C" means to find the `C` in:

```

{

A: {

B: [

{

C:"I'm here!"

}

]

}

}

```

For more information, see the git repository.
> In most companies, management is actually to blame for deliberately isolating engineers from discovering the customer's needs. News flash! Developers actually like the idea of figuring out and fulfilling needs with epic software solutions and are fairly neutral-to-downright-annoyed at spending their time creating something that no customer wants.

I agree with the first statement but disagree with the second. Yes, management is often at fault for not involving or engaging developers. That said, I've seen many really solid developers be motivated by solving complex technical challenges instead of work that actually creates business/product value. Of course, it's management's responsibility to harness that energy and align it with creating value... But just saying, a lot of really smart people are driven more by intellectual challenges than product impact.
They hired the staff/volunteers from the original reddit gift exchange app to work on integrating it into reddit core, then (assuming here), laid them off and killed the project.
I ran into the same thing. It turns out that if you turn on the "auto-expand media previews" option in your user preferences, the content shows up as expected.

I reported this as a bug about a year ago and never got a response.
I have worked on exactly that sort of code base. I've also worked on codebases which did super test coverage.

And honestly, the 0 test coverage base was actually easier to deal with.

Tests are good, but like all code they can be implemented poorly.
For me the following works best: Superposition is like transparency blending of two images together. For 0.5 each you still can see both images, but of course information can be lost. And a superposition of 1% and 99% gives essentially only one picture even though it is a slightly mixed state. A measurement is then the amount of a single picture in the superposition. And quantum gates are just linear operators on the mixed (superposed) image.
> Document your knowledge. Every time someone asks you a question, they are highlighting a gap in the documentation. Take the chance to write the answer down (in a document, bug, code comment—wherever) so that the next person doesn’t need YOU.

This and many more of his advice are very good for companies but suck for the individual.

I would say not to follow the authors advice because it will make no one reliant on you. It is also incredible time consuming and will only weaken your position.

This article is basically saying not to drive you car so much or else it won't be fresh for the next owner. This is corporate simping.
Do you think these scientists are stupid?
It surprises me that lobbying even exists. Looks like legalized bribery/corruption to me.
See also:

Had COVID? You’ll probably make antibodies for a lifetime
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01442-9
Probably the biggest safety improvement for the dry bulk sector in recent years has been Indonesia's protectionist ban on nickel ore exports.
In late 2019 (last time I physically went to a tech conference/trade show; in this case ELCE), I actually saw a company seriously advertising "AIoT Blockchain".

I have no clue what the company really did, but I clearly remember the sales person there showing me a flow chart printed on a pillow.
PDL also has support for many of those distributions beyond the common ones. All the GSL ones in fact. Except Wishart didn't get a binding because that was just added to GSL in 2018. So thanks! I'll add the one line needed to bind that to PDL now and check if others are missing.
Charge them with a significantly higher base pay if they are willing to include on-call into your list of responsibilites, or make sure your contract mentions exemption from on-call activities when you change an employer next time. In other words, make them see on-calls in salary budgets.
You've pretty much described what a blockchain is aside from the massive crypto bubble. The tokens are fees people pay for a computation and rewarded to those devices contributing to the network to offset electrical and physical costs.
This made me reflect on a recent experience when I got stuck as a single SW developer maintaining a (more than) mature project. If I had been more friendly and supportive to junior developers and contractors, polished documentation, updated build system, I could probably have left this project much earlier while looking like a better person.
For 1. (for me) I think the ever present feeling of having no time to read documentation stems from being in a desktop support role and an ops role. If the phone's not ringing - it has a good chance of ringing any moment. There's also monitoring all the things I'm expected to monitor. Those build in a kind of moment to moment thinking that outright stops deeper thinking.
Ask HN: How do developers deal with BeyondCorp
With everything being passed through authorization services (web), how do you do the development, how do you have access to the infrastructure needed for development and debugging, like DB connections etc.

Do you still use VPN for that, or are there solutions to authenticate without using web apps?
I use offlineimap* which allows you to optionally sync in one direction.

I'm not sure what happens if the remote emails are overwritten though.

* https://github.com/samhh/dotfiles/blob/master/home/.config/o...
> It doesn’t even appear that the underlying distributed computer network has anything to do with blockchain.

I think the blockchain acts a transparency ledger among a distributed set of distrusting participants. Think: if PirateBay could pay you to seed magnet-links all the while knowing for sure you've not tampered with the the amount of bandwidth you've claimed to have lent, and the network then rewarding (paying) you the equivalent amount that you're owed for your troubles. "Blockchain" enables that.

The ICOs are akin to companies filing for IPOs. The ICOs don't strictly need speculation (because the utility of their network ideally would have an inherent, demonstrable value that dictates the price of the network's coin), but they do need the market to trade their coins, because that's how anyone participating in the network would be able to convert their rewards into fiat. (note: at this point, we're essentially reinventing Ehtereum, the super computer, as originally envisioned...)

You could aruge that many of these networks could avoid doing ICOs and simply use one of the existing cross-chain coins from Cosmos, Algorand, Polkadot (or even stable coins like USDC, Diem, Celo, BUSD, DAI etc), but it is the summer of crypto, and everyone's got to do an ICO.
Glad to see that I'm not the only one thinking this way.
That means we need to stop using ((((free))))) services and start paying for them. Unless its literal charity, I have no reason to believe that any of these free company isn't trying to manipulating me in some other ways.

One of these is Youtube. Hosting petabytes of on-demand videos is an extremely daunting feat. Why are you surprised that you are hit with ads? What were they supposed to do? For whatever reason, no one wants to pay for premium to remove these ads. Instead, we just have this back and forth with people coming up with extensions and Google coming up with ways to circumvent these. Both sides are going to get crazier if this goes on.
The progress we have made is great but there are still plenty of places that it may not be viable due to lack of sunshine, good weather, considerable wind.

Energy production with out long-term, long-duration energy storage doesn't solve our current problems.

Q. Has longer-duration energy storage been solved with out my awareness?
I assume it's used to pay people for offering their computational power onto the network
Wait a sec. I can rent a whole car for less than €8.50 per hour. I sure as heck am not going to pay an extra €8.50 an hour for a car I already bought and paid for.
I don't disagree, but I think we're talking about a couple different issues here.

One question is whether a low income but educated and dedicated parent can find a way to acquire some hackable device for a highly motivated kid. I think the answer is probably yes, with some exceptions in extremely poor countries.

But that's not the most likely scenario. A far more likely scenario is a kid that wants to modify the device they're actually using on a daily basis to make it do something slightly different. There are no parents involved, and it would be utterly pointless to hack some completely different device like a Raspberry Pi just because it's more hackable.

So I worry that widespread use of locked down devices and locked down distribution channels makes the path from consumer to power user to hacker to software engineer to entrepreneur far less smooth. Some people who could have been interested in being more than mere consumers are going to be left behind.

You are absolutely right that access to all sorts of devices is hugely easier and cheaper than back in the 70s, 80s and 90s. It's definitely not all bleak. It was a decidedly rich country upper/middle class affair at the time. But we're also having to live with restrictions that would've been unimaginable back then.

Just imagine Microsoft in 1995 attempting to restrict what software people were allowed to install on their PCs. Imagine what regulators would have said if Microsoft had tried to charge 30% on all software and content loaded onto PCs. Or what if Microsoft had been able to issue no-recourse lifetime bans on using any of their software and platforms?

The objection that Microsoft was a monopolist isn't really convicing given that they were replaced by a hugely more powerful and ubiquitous oligopoly that now runs the actual economy, not some tiny niche called "The New Economy".
Swiss here. Many if not most not actually speak two languages (we have 4 btw) or at least not enough to have actual conversations. I even know people who live in split cities (also that's a thing, one river side German and one french) who basically avoid the French side and barely speak it either.

There are many exceptions to this for sure, after all German part has french for like 4 years at school. And older people more likely actually learned the language to the point of speaking it, younger people are usually much more skilled in English as their second language whatever they are French, German.
It's not "traditional". It's common sense. You can't let an X company be run by someone without any affinity of X.

Would you let a painter do surgery on you?
I like SwipePages — a simple way to create good looking SAAS landing pages. Happy user.
A mostly forgotten these days aspect of Office is that you can access pretty much everything in it using COM - including both extending and embedding Excel, where you get full control over the data inside the spreadsheet.

And even with just VBA, I've seen some impressive spreadsheet applications (in fact, some even were versioned and had official SDLC process in some companies).
Well there's a 'may' in that title. So likely just something put out by pro-veg or animal rights group. So another case of trying to scare people in to doing something. It would have been more believable if it had been something like 'less meat in your diet may lower ...'
For me, living in an ex-urban area, I'm entirely car dependent so these services don't really matter when I'm at home. But I know a couple who moved to SF and gave up their cars and their lifestyle clearly wouldn't be possible without Uber and Zipcar.
"sure, but I'll eat it from my own plate" aka developers get to choose the tooling they will use and ops have no objections to it.
Crappy management begets crappy managers. Agreed.

I have a counter/supplementary theory that it is just as disruptive to assume a good developer will be a good leader or manager, too.

Rant time (aimed at no one in particular, especially not parent comment):

Managing is a very different skillset. There needs to be some significant knowledge of the industry at large, the specific domain that is relevant to your biz, and "generic" (for lack of a better phrase) management skills (i.e., communication and management of the squishy bits of your org that show signs of sentience and sometimes speak)

I've lost count the number of times I've heard colleagues say "They are such a bad (technical) manager, they'd never be able to do what I/we do." and have responded with "They don't need to. That's why they pay you."

I get very tired of this "debate" that it is management _versus_ IC/developer/engineer/worker. I also strongly believe a lot of what is perceived as "top-down" management is harbored by a "bottom-up" resentment - or just plain resisting authority.

You are a team, so work together.

I also hold the opinion that if your organisation has this mindset ("versus") within then you have a much bigger problem than what is presented at face value.
Substack Is Doomed to Fail
One critic of Substack has described America’s digital media ecosystem as a “feudal structure”. Here “highly charismatic knights” — like say, Matt Taibbi, who has an enormous Substack following — are the winners who take it all. An interesting idea, but it would be difficult to find a time when this wasn’t;’t true. Public taste in the 21st century is as unpredictable as it was in the 18th century. Then, as now, those who invested in writing and publishing looked for safe returns and backed pedigreed racers. At the top of the industry, whichever century you choose to look at, you will always find a blessed, golden circle of proven champs.
Regarding the vergangenheitsbewaltigung, keep in ming that it was instituted by the people who either actively committed crimes or elected the people who lead the holocaust or at least by people who stood by doing nothing. So personal guilt (sincere or insincere, mind you) was an important factor in this process.

My understanding is that the genocide in Namibia was perpetrated more than a 100 years ago. None of the Germans alive today, which for a non negligible portion, do not have their ancestors from Germany nor Namibia, participated in it.

Surely, this means that the same exact process cannot be replicated. For example, I don't think that the German administration is being manned by anti-herero functionaries. I don't think that we could have Nuremberg style trial of living criminals.

The rest of the vergangenheitsbewaltigung: monuments, museum, emphasis on this genocide in history class, remembrance day, etc. are not really "reparations", at least in my understanding of the term.

So when you talk about reparations, if it is not money, what do you have in mind precisely?
At $1.5M a year compensation somehow I don't think their resume is at the top of the priority list.
Part of science is questioning other peoples hypothesis, results, and analysis. This is how science works.
President Ronald Reagan Briefing
"starting to" "in an attempt to"

I see the submitted title has been altered anyway.
How Can I Extract and Export LinkedIn Search Results?
Most managers climb the corporate ladder by leaving the rubble behind for others to deal with. They usually never learned to actually solve problems, and just scale the same tactics organisation-wide. This creates a culture of helplessness and shifts problems downwards. So they add processes to "manage" problems they themselves are unable to solve! The processes are just a cover for depending on local heroes and informal tribal gatekeeping, though. And so it goes on and on.

You usually hear in such orgs, that they are like family, and in most cases you don't get hired unless someone knows you.
But dont forget, Bezos is a business guy. Here his original idea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWRbTnE1PEM
This is more about fighting the powers that be and them taking away the ability to own anything at a reasonable price, period. Great example is the WSJ story yesterday about asset managers and foreign investors snatching up every house on the market. Don't you want the ability to own something if you feel the desire to do so, or would you rather corporations buy it from out under you/rent it back to you and there be no other option?
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I find it best to try never to say anything negative online, and certainly not attack anyone. I have my own opinions, and I can share them with those close to me. There’s nothing to be gained from saying anything negative in public, no matter how you feel.
Excellent, thank you! I bought the impatient book, and I'll check out the TypeScript handbook too.

It's going to be a shock going from declarative DSLs like Puppet and Terraform to a real coding language! Most of my coding experience has been in shell scripting and some Perl/Ruby from ages ago.
Taking as a starting point that the police are basically healthy people wearing a costume - what do you expect them to do in this circumstance?

They can't even be certain from the outset that a crime has been committed - maybe there is some sort of complicated fraud afoot. There is a soft cap on how much they can spend on this of a bit less than $600k, which is not that massive given the skillsets needed to track this down.