skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The purpose of the medallions, in theory, is to improve the chances that the average cab driver can make a living wage

The problem with that is that there is a supply of cab drivers and demand for cabs that drives the price. If you put in a medallion system, the price of the medallion will be bid up such that the cab driver's wage is in line with the market wage. You can't just wave a magic wand and set prices without unintended consequences. So what happened was cab drivers had to take out massive debt to finance these medallions or work for some middle man that is essentially a financing arm. And when the price collapsed, they were stuck with this debt and some even got bailed out by taxpayers.

I wish Uber was around when I was younger. I had a car and a lot of spare time. I would have gladly accepted a low wage if I had a few hours to kill. No other job affords that flexibility which is probably why its so popular.
I totally disagree with the premise of this article, unless I don't get the authors definition of "self help book"

> there is an entire book industry that is focused on the premise that you are merely one good idea away from the future

Many famous people started out with one good idea

> The entire business-focused self-help industry is built on the fallacy that successful people read a lot of books

Many famous successful people promote the face that they read a lot of books, such as Bill Gates and Barack Obama. It's not a fallacy.

There's a lot of junk self help books to wade through, but I have found some jewels among the trash and by jewels I mean they were just right for the situation and age I was at.

Edit: I put together a list off the top of my head of self help books I found useful (again, at the age I was at)

I'm OK – You're OK, guide to transactional analysis by Thomas Harris

Games People Play: The Psychology of Human Relationships by Eric Berne

Trances We Live by Stephen Wolinsky

Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

Zen and the Art of Leadership by Thomas Cleary
That's not me, but I can kinda relate conceptually. Constantly pumping anything into your body seems bad; to use your deadly sin adage, I'd call it gluttonous. Even a daily pot smoker, would likely not be smoking a bowl every ten minutes all day long. Sure those people exist, but they probably aren't looking down on nicotine users.
What disproportionate influence or dangerous concentration of power does Elon represent other than the power he has to motivate his employees to build rockets and cars?
Ugh. What a nightmare.

I am a huge supporter of trans rights (and frequently get myself downvoted to oblivion for it). Women are women, regardless of the gender they were assigned at birth. Androgen blockers dramatically suppress the effects of testosterone.

And yet... I have to think about the reasons we have women's sports in the first place. There's more than one reason, and I think they're in conflict. Some of it is social, acknowledging the community of women, much as the Olympics itself brings the world as a community even though not every competitor stands a realistic chance of coming in first.

Trans athletes are women, and should be treated as women... but maybe sports is an exception. Going through male puberty brings advantages, and it doesn't really represent the female community to compete on that basis.

My heart breaks for it. I'm not even exactly sure why they would want to be in such a competition. If they just want to play as women, as a way of bonding with other women as women, they absolutely should. But when there is money on the line (scholarships, endorsements, the draw of a medal in future coaching jobs)... maybe that's where they should acknowledge the natural disadvantages that conflict with the competitive nature of women's sports.

I'm not comfortable with that conclusion. I don't think there is a comfortable conclusion, not when so much is on the line. The line being drawn between high-testosterone assigned-female-at-birth athletes and low-testosterone assigned-male-at-birth athletes is not sharp and is always going to be somewhat arbitrary, and people will get hurt by that.
A quick google says it took 2.90652E11 joules ~= 80MWh to get Saturn V to the moon. That seems like it'd actually be quite doable to do with renewables if you didn't need to fly too often.
Eurocontrol already has fees for ATC usage. This fuel tax is presumably in addition to that.
I think it was DHH who had a great line about this: Don't care about product, care about process.

For developers, the process of delivering value IS the excitement, it doesn't matter how awesome or boring the product itself is, it's the process of writing good code to solve customer problems that excites us.
> Minimalist design, tasty flavors, colorful ads, and using social media does not equate to targeting kids.

Well, we clearly just agree to disagree. That article I think shows well how the early Juul marketing followed the cigarette marketing so closely, and there is voluminous evidence that cigarette marketers know you need to target young people because hardly anyone starts smoking after their early twenties.
Why did you pay him on willy nilly days instead of just setting up a recurring standing order and being done with it?
I can't speak to the topics addressed in the article itself, but the thing I find most annoying is that _most_ of the people who publish these books (and guides on YouTube, blogs, for-pay video series, etc.) seem to have made their fortunes through the works that are intended to teach people how to build up their own wealth/lifestyle/happiness.

Slightly related are people who serially interview successful people and try to weasel out words of advice or quotables, but never reveal things of greater depth that has more impact on the viewers/listeners/readers (few interviewers do, IMO).
A few things:

1. I'm not sure what "if you hit rock" means there.

In general, you want to hit rock, and should hopefully hit it very quickly (40-50ft), because rock generally has much better thermal conductivity than stuff like clay.

2. You hopefully got a loop design report that has real details on the load of your house and the design of the loop and how it meets them. The loop design should hopefully tell you they are mostly drilling in rock :)

Hopefully it all does not look like nonsense (I'm happy to look at it if you like, as are the folks over at forums like geoexchange)

3. The only units you should consider are waterfurnace, climatemaster, and maybe bosch.

Trane, for years, was using rebadged waterfurnace units
At least browsing, it looks like they still are.

In any case, you want someone who does this for real, and Trane ain't it.

Bosch is an okay unit, but they are newer at this, and not obviously better in any meaningful way.

4. The price for single family residential drilling is high in part because it's not what the drillers want to be doing.

The rig setup takes them quite a while, the actual drilling is not that bad.

For multi-family residential (or commercial), where they are drilling 100 holes, it's much more cost effective.

So you are right in that sense - the current way of drilling is not going to bring the cost down.

On top of that, keep in mind you are probably paying significant markup on the drilling because it's being subcontracted.
See the cousin discussion below on multidimensional arrays in Haskell.
Didn't they require some closed logic between your stuff and all of the I/O?
Unfortunately, due to the topology, it wouldn't be very viable. I don't want to cut down the hardwood (white oak, maple, walnut, and cherry) forest around the home just to install hvac when there are alternative options.

The real killer was knowing full well the house sits on or around a ton of limestone and the best quote I got told me it would cost a lot more if they hit rock.
Serious question: in the past 10 or so years, have their been any successful community-driven forks/projects?

Many (most?) of the successful ones are driven by muti-billion/multi-million dollar companies. Some of the "leftovers" from previous eras are more often than not also driven by these companies (just look at contributions to Linux for example).
It's a decentralized site using ENS so you'd need to run an ETH node and IPFS to view it. Cloudflare was generous enough to do the hard part and host those and serve the sites though the .link TLD to support casual browsing.
I have a cat that unfortunately has caught a couple birds. They get unusually close to it while tweeting loudly. It is almost like they are trying to taunt it away.
It doesn't need to be perfect nor does it need to kill to be effective. You can negatively impact the fertility rate just by diminishing the quality of life.
Simple. Both Carlson and Maddow are claiming they aren't journalists reporting for news programs as a legal defense for failing journalistic standards. My point was on air, Tucker Carlson is represented as a journalist on a supposedly non-partisan news network. Rachel Maddow has made no such claims.
I don't view this a bad thing; just a sign of recognition for the teams that did the job. Using "we" may come off as if the management is taking credit for the job. Or at least, that's how I see it.
Hope they provide a grant to the numerous open source projects they piggy-backed on.
That might make sense if you're in town, I rent out a house of mine that's far away from where I live most of the year and this seems like it might be worth a shot in that type of case.
The last thing I am going to do is be attached to a piece of code. Most of the code that you wrote in your life? That's gone. A complete rewrite by some punk who did not want to understand it, the company no longer there, or just a failed product.

If I am going to get invested, I want to be, you know, invested.
Getting a ride _from_ the airport is 100% easier and more predictable by just hitting the taxi line. Ordering an Uber in a crowded place is so much less efficent.
In the video associated with the original study they say (and demonstrate) that the resistive training is just for inhaling. Exhaling is normal.

Lowering Blood Pressure in 5 Minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KueabH8B8M
if terrorists want to inflict as much damage and terror as possible wouldn’t they just blow up a (typically huge) line before the security? I think they actually did just that in Moscow airport once.
If you generalise the libertarian principle to all large organisations and powerful individuals rather than just governments then it starts to make a whole lot more sense.
Which constellation is that in the logo with behind, the implied TR-3B
I worked for Atlassian for 3 years. They are a VERY engineering-focused organisation. Both of the CEOs have engineering backgrounds and the whole company is organised around engineering teams. I think you're looking too deeply into some off-handed phrasing there.
DoorDash leverages DAG pipeline design pattern to scale and improve its recommendation system.
A few years back, I was refinancing my house, and they wanted me to sign something and fax it back to them. I asked them what millennium they thought it was. They looked a bit surprised, but they said "Well, you can email it to us..."

I think that many places have their workflow that they want to keep using, because it's more convenient to them. But as a customer, I don't care. I'm paying you; you can use a workflow that's convenient for me, even if it's less convenient for you.
American Therapists Are Like Cops
how is this better than clicking on Day in google calendar and using a meeting notes template in notion?
Igloohome: OTP for Home Locks
an ivory tower style structure like that of the EU can only end up on fascism, communism or an equivalently authoritarian system
Fuel costs are a large component of private jet ownership costs. I found a great chart that breaks it all down: https://www.libertyjet.com/jet-ownership-costs.aspx?jetType=...
Why does this matter if all parties involved were satisfied with the arrangement?
"Estate agent asked for 6 months bank statements, "

WTF.

That's a crazy practice. Paystub maybe, but bank statements? My gosh.
Unbound supports DoH since 1.12.0 released in 2020. [1]

[1]: https://blog.apnic.net/2020/12/14/dns-over-https-in-unbound/
That’s not true - he has outside investors already.
> I am almost certain that Uber is more likely to obey disability laws than "Joe's taxi" with a few cars.

Knowing the lawsuits from people who've been refused rides from a regular Uber because they have a service dog, or their wheelchair 'probably won't fit' (I think I can tell you whether the wheelchair I usually put in the trunk of a car is likely to fit in your trunk, thank you), I am not.

But there are also specific accessible taxis. How do I call an Uber that will take a powered wheelchair?
Yes, but this highlights a very tenant-unfriendly side effect of "the algorithm" that I noticed during a recent apartment hunt: monthly rent estimates vary, sometimes wildly, day to day. It's really silly to me that selecting a move in date for next Friday results in a monthly rent $100/month cheaper than a move in date the following week. I mean, I understand some of the variables: length of vacancy, estimated market conditions at the end of the lease, etc, etc, could all contribute to slightly different market conditions or costs to the landlord that they want to pass on to the tenant. But it strikes me as intentionally opaque and hostile to renters.
Why did the approach mentioned not work?
1) recognize all exception bodies.
2) recognize all exception bodies that use the ke variable and mark them as okay.

Anything left should be an exception body that didn't use the ke variable, right ?
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What makes you think that rich and powerful private enterprises don't cause exactly the same kind of problems as state governments? They have the same coercive power, albeit through different means.
Fort Lauderdale accepts proposal for Elon Musk's Tesla beach tunnel
> Snowden and Manning's leaks endangered the lives of US and foreign military and intelligence personnel, and a number of foreign intelligence personnel were killed after being identified in those leaks.

Nitpick, but wasn't that only true of Manning? Assange irresponsibly put Manning's cables out in unredacted form, which I believe revealed the names of sources who were put in danger. IIRC, Snowden only leaked to Greenwald and a few mainstream newspapers who were careful to make redactions on what they released to avoid such outcomes.
> concentration of which is eventually exactly the vehicle of oppression?

But concentration to this degree practically requires government force to survive. I believe even those on your side of the political spectrum believe that corruption is what prevents the people from properly benefiting from government intervention.

I believe both you and I want us to stop (or never have started) all the wars of the past 20 years. This is a very popular viewpoint, yet moneyed interests prevent this.

I believe you and I have like ideals, but I don't believe deference to authority can ever bring them about. Authority always ends up corrupt.

> This contradiction was actually pointed out by Marx, who predicted that end of capitalism (a revolution) will come out as a result of this process.

And yet the Soviet Union is the system that fell.
> and therefore the denser the stars are, so dodging gets harder.

Not sure this is true, since the stars also get "smaller" and therefore harder to hit. Also, while you have less time to dodge you also don't have to dodge "as much" since your vast speed means you move through any zone quite quickly and therefore don't have much time to heat up/get irradiated. You can probably pass by a star relatively closely as long as you are moving fast enough. (From a heat/radiation perspective, solar wind particles might still mess you up good)
By "hit rock" I mean the 3 hvac firms I spoke with didn't want to dig through rock, but couldn't nail down a cost if they hit it, which is basically a certainty.

Bosch as a general rule has pretty solid engineering. I've used their kitchen appliances for years and am quite happy with them. Unlike some of the korean vendors (I'm looking at you Samsung and LG, it is easy and fast to get parts when things break).

You're right that they're new at this, but all of the existing major appliances in the home are Bosch. If you buy more than three major Bosch appliances, they'll give you a fairly sizable discount.

When I said American Standard/Trane, I meant for the Central Heating and Air, not for the Geothermal. They're the same hardware and come off of the same assembly line with different stickers on them.
Brokers don't exist in most cities and it works just fine.

Maybe there is value, but not 10-15%.

Maybe Caretaker isn't the perfect solution either ... but brokers definitely are not.

It's definitely an activity that should be disrupted.
Witchcraft: Monads and other dark magic for Elixir
What?! Why?

How will settling Mars or any planet save the biosphere?

We have a few decades to not kill the planet. Settling another planet would take centuries.
The "free energe" is moving the heat from the hot rock to the atmosphere. The difference is that it's not doing that by oxidizing carbon to CO2.
US offers Julian Assange time in Australian prison
Show HN: Sepnia – Show your todo right in your calendar
So you just reject the field of economics entirely?

Like, lets say that the government adds a 20$ tax/fee on fast food, per burger sold. Clearly McDonalds would no longer be able to sell burgers for 4 dollars.

Thus price would increase. Or supply of burgers would go down (thereby only leaving higher priced burgers in the market).
It is completely different.

Western governments are not controlled by a single party with an lifetime ruler and no democratic mechanisms at all for expressing dissent, let alone moderating power.

It’s not a matter of degree. Doing bad stuff is not the same as totalitarianism.
Similarly, glioblastoma (a brain cancer) is still a death sentence. My dad died of it a little over 5 years ago, lasting about a year and a half from initial diagnosis.

Maybe a year later, John McCain came down with the same thing. In a weird way it was comforting to know that all the money and power in the world didn't make any difference in the outcome.
I recently set up peertube on a $5 VPS using yunohost and it was very easy. definitely would need more work if I got more than 10 little views a day.
> You may not care if your current employer considers you a bad hire or not, and that's fine. In our industry, in this market, you can get away with that. Some of us hold ourselves to a higher standard.

This is just silly. Your argument is that you would care if your employer developed ridiculous and contrived metrics and then assessed your value based on them? I don't really think your holier-than-thou statement makes much sense in that capacity.

As I said, equity drives investment. If you don't own a percentage of the success, you're trading time for money. This is neither new nor controversial. Any suggestions otherwise are, again, hustle culture propaganda.
Normally I'd agree, but in this case, BobbyJo absolutely asked for it. It would have taken ten seconds to find a huge amount of material on Uber's law-breaking, and to pretend that one never even heard of such a thing and that Uber is totally law-abiding? Bullshit; it's like asking for citations that water is wet. BobbyJo even came back to snark about downvotes. BobbyJo chose to be a passive-aggressive dickhead, and deserved to get exactly the same back.

You'll note I did actually then provide some actual references.

In conclusion, BobbyJo deserved it and it was a right thing to do. Disrespectful? Yes, that's the point.
I was renting about 5 years ago and even back then the agency asked me for about 6-12months of bank statements checking the payment dates and probably checking if I could afford it
This is exactly the type of thing I was thinking of, and seems quite fully featured - thank you!
It might be. It depends.
Full title: US offers Julian Assange time in Australian prison instead of American supermax if he loses London extradition fight
I'm not sure I understand why a schematic would violate a patent. As far as I'm aware, patents do not exist to make information secret, but to provide a temporary exclusive legal right in exchange for making the information public.
So if a foreign company pilfers the source code to Windows, can they add it to a training set and then 'prompt' the machine learning algorithm to spit out a new 'copyright free' Windows, just by transforming the variable names?
Because for certain professions income is reliable but not set to a 14 day pay cycle.

Could be that OP is a freelance author and is paid depending on when stories are picked up, or is contracting for multiple employers and has an irregular payment schedule depending on their invoicing.

Not everyone conforms to the same set of employment/fiscal assumptions we (here meaning "educated white collar US tech workers") may have.
I don't remember ever getting interest rates quite that high. I got 5% at times, but the numbers you cite are all well above that.

I do think I overstated the case, though. The connection is clearer between interest and mortgage rates. Inflation rates should roughly track mortgage rates, which were often over 10% during the time period you're tracking, until everything crashed after the dotcom boom.

I'm not sure what was keeping inflation comparatively low at that time. It shouldn't have been so much lower than the mortgage rates.
The way it works is that just as this software says, the original tenant remains responsible for the rent through end of lease term.

In San Francisco, once all original tenants have left, landlord can reset the rent to market rate.

So you can sublet through end of your lease (which is what most people want to do). After that, you don't care.
Cheers! And yeah I started around the same sort of time in my life, about 17 years old. When I was at uni me and my mates bought vapes because around the time they hadn't been banned by most pubs yet so we could use them inside, West Wales is a bastard of a place to be a smoker in the winter! I was the only smoker at my current job when I started though, so I went on just the vape as not to be the only one reeking of cigarettes. Once the social aspect of smoking was gone it just became a bit of a shackle rather than a break for me so I decided to taper down and quit by the start of 2020 which turned out to be an outstanding move!
>a book that tells you stuff like “remember people’s names” and “make them feel important,” which seems benign, but should only seem surprising to a child, and should not be something you have to unnaturally force your body to do.

there is much good in pointing out the scamminess of the self-help industry, but this is a good example of making exactly the sort of assumptions the author is railing against. Many basic life lessons that 'should be unsurprising' are extremely important for people who grew up in contexts of emotional neglect.